Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦
222 subscribers
1.54K photos
234 videos
132 links
Professor of Economics, Board Member, Founding
Rector of American University Kyiv
Download Telegram
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Video of trials of Ukraine’s long-range missile “Flamingo.” Launched with a rocket booster, the missile has a range of up to 3,000 km and carries a 1,150 kg warhead.
“The only way Russian aggression doesn't happen again is if it's defeated in Ukraine.”

Garry Kasparov, russian dissident and former world chess champion
Nobody saw this coming: “Trump's Ukraine peace push stalled out in four days. Recent optimism has faded, and Trump is looking for new answers.”
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Trump keeps lying, and MAGA keeps buying.

Question: “How long will you give Putin?”

Trump: “A couple of weeks. We’re going to figure this out. It takes two to tango… In the meantime, people continue to die.”

Each time, it’s the same empty promise: two more weeks.
Trump believes Ukraine will have to accept a deal largely on Russia’s terms to end the war, a senior administration official told Politico.
Trump congratulated Ukrainians on Independence Day:

“On behalf of the American people, I extend my congratulations and warmest wishes to you and the courageous people of Ukraine as you celebrate 34 years of independence.

The people of Ukraine have an unbreakable spirit, and your country's courage inspires many. As you mark this important day, know the United States respects your fight, honors your sacrifices, and believes in your future as an independent nation.

Now is the moment to bring an end to the senseless killing. The United States supports a negotiated settlement that leads to a durable, lasting peace that ends the bloodshed and safeguards Ukraine's sovereignty and dignity.

God bless Ukraine.”
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Keith Kellogg received the Order of Merit, 1st Class.

Mark Burns, Trump’s spiritual advisor, just received the Order of Merit, 2nd Class.

For what exactly? Great valor? Courage? Personal sacrifice? Or was it for selfies with politicians and prayers on Zoom?

And Trump — did he get one too, or is that still on the way?

I’m sorry, but after Alaska and everything that has happened over the past eight months, this looks less like honor and more like a circus.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Kyiv for an official visit.

This is his first trip to Ukraine as Prime Minister.

In his Independence Day greeting, Carney recalled that Canada was among the first countries to recognize Ukraine’s independence, and that more than one million Ukrainians now live in Canada.

Source: Live Ukraine
Former mayor of Kherson, Volodymyr Mykolayenko, after his release from russian captivity. The photo shows him before captivity and after release. It’s hard to imagine what this man has endured.
Ukraine’s true allies continue stepping up support:

🇳🇴 Norway is allocating 7 billion kroner ($687M) to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense.

🇩🇪 Together with Germany, they will provide two Patriot systems with missiles, modern TRML-4D radars, and Typhon-2 short-range systems.

🇩🇰 A major project under President Zelenskyy’s Build with Ukraine initiative will soon launch in Denmark, scaling up production of Ukrainian weapons.

🇨🇦 Canada will contribute over $1B for drones, ammunition, and armored vehicles, PM Carney announced.

Thank you to all who stand with Ukraine in this difficult historic moment. Ukraine doesn’t need vague “security guarantees” or empty promises — but real commitments and strategic investments like these.

Defending Ukraine means defending Europe — and global security.
Today, the Eiffel Tower was lit up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag to celebrate Ukraine’s Independence Day.
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
How did we end up with such incompetent leaders?

This is VP of US claiming that “every major conflict in human history,” including “WWII,” ended with “negotiation.”

Anyone who went to school knows that WWII ended with Germany and Japan unconditional surrender - not negotiation.
Everything Trump’s administration has done so far has only strengthened russia’s position.

“Blocking Ukraine from long-range strikes on russia” is especially hypocritical given Trump’s own words.

Trump recently wrote on Truth Social: “It’s very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking the aggressor country. It’s like a great sports team with a fantastic defense that isn’t allowed to play offense. There’s no chance of winning! The same goes for Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND.”

MAGA supporters rushed to praise him for this “change in tone”, forgetting that back in December, when Biden’s administration actually authorized Ukraine to strike deep inside russia, Trump opposed it — saying it “escalates the conflict and makes things worse.”

And now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Trump’s administration has been blocking Ukraine from long-range strikes for months.

So by his own logic, Trump has diagnosed himself as “crooked and grossly incompetent.”

Meanwhile, MAGA supporters continue to swallow his lies and contradictions without question.
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Perfect illustration of the Trump–Putin meeting in Alaska.

As the video concludes, it was nothing more than a “summit legitimizing a criminal.” A failure and embarrassment for the United States. A victory for russia.
The Republican Party is morphing into the new Communist Party.

Trump is openly bragging that the U.S. government has nationalized part of a major private company and that they will be making similar deals “all day long” — and Republicans are cheering.

Think about it: the party that once prided itself on being pro-capitalist and anti-communist is now applauding state control over private business. That’s not “conservatism.” That’s literally the definition of socialism — the government owning and controlling the means of production.

This is the same authoritarian playbook russia and China use to keep their people in line. And now America’s so-called “conservative party” embraces it?

What in the world is wrong with them? The Republican Party isn’t just lost. It’s dead and gone.
Woody Allen joined the Moscow Film Festival — a Kremlin-linked event featuring pro-war directors and russian propagandists.

The 89-year-old filmmaker said he has “always loved russian cinema.” His “discussion” was moderated by actor Fyodor Bondarchuk, a United Russia party member and outspoken supporter of Putin.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry responded: Allen’s appearance is “a disgrace and an insult to the memory of Ukrainian actors and filmmakers killed or injured by russian war crimes.”

Culture should not be a tool to whitewash aggression. When artists lend legitimacy to Moscow’s propaganda, they dishonor not only Ukraine’s victims but the very idea of art as truth. Okay