Borys Kormych

Borys Kormych

@kormych.bsky.social

🇺🇦 Prof., Head of Maritime & Customs Law Department, Odessa Law Academy; Editor-in-Chief Lex Portus Black Sea security, trade & shipping

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In 1994, Ukraine surrendered the world's 3rd-largest nuclear arsenal under the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security assurances. Today, it suffers from the Russian aggression despite the assurances provided by the signatories.

Even Musk admits that Trump & Hegseth did that.

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Things are even worse: restrictions were imposed on the Starshield, a special military-grade system for which Ukraine has separate contracts. The Starshield is under the control of the US Department of War.

Things are even worse: restrictions were imposed on the Starshield, a special military-grade system for which Ukraine has separate contracts. The Starshield is under the control of the US Department of War.

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It looks like Trump and his administration have made a desperate attempt to pressure Ukraine into a capitulation. They: 1) halted any transfers of intelligence; 2) limited Starlink operations. What next? Intelligence for Russia?

It looks like Trump and his administration have made a desperate attempt to pressure Ukraine into a capitulation. They: 1) halted any transfers of intelligence; 2) limited Starlink operations. What next? Intelligence for Russia?

If any jerk would tell you about the superiority of Russian science or culture, always remember what they do to the science and culture of neighboring nations. They have been getting it bombed, executed, or having it perish in Siberia for centuries.

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🚨 UPD: A woman was killed and at least three others were injured after Russian forces struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv.

To understand the scale, Uman's pre-war population was approximately 82.000, and this year, over 45.000 Hasidic pilgrims have come to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.

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⚡️ Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews have gathered in Uman, Ukraine, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Why do Russians do such things? Because they can.

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🚨 EVIDENT WAR CRIME. Russian forces published horrifying FPV drone footage showing the deliberate tracking and striking of an unarmed civilian riding a bicycle near Kramatorsk. This is direct, documented proof of Russia’s intentional terror against innocent Ukrainian civilians.

In Truskavets, Ukraine, a memorial plaque now marks the villa where Menachem Begin (future Israeli PM) married Aliza Arnold on May 29, 1939. Ze'ev Jabotinsky served as best man. In 3 months, WWII began. The villa was identified by the photo on the stairs. Begin's granddaughters are posing with it.

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🤬 On Aug. 13, Russians once again targeted an ordinary passenger train in Odesa Oblast, striking its locomotive with a jet-powered drone, President Zelenskyy said. There were 340 passengers on board. Every day, Russia attacks ordinary civilian life simply to spread terror. 📹 Zelenskyy on Telegram

This isn't a scandal, but rather a clear disregard for their own military doctrines: First, use precision-guided munitions to "Kick-Down-the-Door," then engage in sustained combat with legacy munitions.

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Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.

Our research on why residents of occupied Ukrainian territories pursue Russian citizenship. Just out in Ethnopolitics. The sample includes those who: live in occupied territories; relocated to Russia; IDPs and refugees in the EU visiting these areas doi.org/10.1080/1744... Free link in 1st comment

Honestly, nothing is happening. Poland is just returning to its ‘factory settings’. It has always been like this, perhaps except for a short period in the 1990s.

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The only uncertainty is whether Trump is doing this because of his obsession with dictators or because he is bribed every time.

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If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.

1. They halted aid. 2. They pressured Ukraine to surrender. 3. They increased oil prices due to the Iran war. 4. They lifted sanctions on Russian oil. 5. They demand Ukraine not to target Russian oil exports. [we are here]

It appears the Russian population has a particular sensitivity. They are indifferent to the hundreds of thousands of KIA and WIA, but if their slippers or underwear stocks catch fire, it becomes a tragedy.

Poland today. A random Pole assaults a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl. One can imagine what a Nazi hellhole Poland was in the 1930s. That is exactly what Ukrainian insurgents were fighting against.

To clarify, the Polish ex-Chief of the General Staff used towards Ukrainians the wording ‘strategic chamstwo’ (from biblical Curse of Ham), which in Polish refers to medieval serfs (chłop, bydło) Literally a racist comment

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Yet another thousand-year Reich just emerged 🤡

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JD Vance urging the Ukrainians to be defensive is peak pro-Putin lobbying by the Trump administration. Now that Ukraine is doing better than they ever imagined, they want Ukraine to back off and take a deal Putin would go for. Nothing has changed. The US is with Russia.

The list of targets of Russian ballistic missiles in Kyiv last night (4 Zircons, 25 Iskander) 3 high-rise buildings Ambulance station 7 Residential buildings agricultural company school district police station intersection household appliance warehouses district court private house