Yaroslav Trofimov

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Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of WSJ. Author of 📚No Country for Love 📚 and 📕Our Enemies Will Vanish📕 and 📘Siege of Mecca 📘Insta @yarotrof

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1Sep 18, '23Bonkers Russian Army recruitment commercial, in which soldiers under fire in a trench discuss Ukrainian real estate investments. (One wants to buy an apartment in Kyiv’s tony Peche81.4×4.2M6.2k1.5k881
2Mar 13, '24Putin: “It would be ridiculous for us to start negotiating with Ukraine just because it’s running out of ammunition.” Republican leadership of the House cutting off military suppli69.2×3.6M8.3k3.2k859
3Dec 25, '24Increasing speculation in Russian media that the Baku-Grozny Azerbaijan Airlines flight was shot down by Russian air defenses that mistook it for a Ukrainian drone. Footage of the 64.4×3.3M5.9k1.8k677
4Feb 4, '24Russian advances in Avdiivka, which increasingly looks likely to become the first Ukrainian city to fall since the capture of Bakhmut last May, are the direct result of acute ammun63×3.2M6.3k2.4k185
5Apr 7, '23When secret U.S. slides leaked out yesterday, Russian propaganda channels quickly reposted them — but after a little photoshop. Suddenly, 43.5k 🇷🇺 fatalities turned to 17.5k, whi59.7×3.1M9.7k2k497
6Aug 15, '25Lavrov showed up in Alaska wearing a USSR sweatshirt. Very reassuring to at least 14 of Russia’s neighbors.59.6×3.1M6.5k1.8k551
7Jul 22, '23Odesa’s main Orthodox cathedral. Established in 1794, destroyed by Stalin in 1936, rebuilt under an independent Ukraine and destroyed again by Putin in 2023. One of several histori55×2.8M12k6k292
8Jul 2, '25So Zelensky did everything Trump asked him to do, signed away mineral rights, agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, and the U.S. still cut off previously funded weapons supplies, l52.9×2.7M46k13k1.7k
9Sep 3, '25Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (52.2×2.7M8.2k1.6k3.2k
10Feb 18, '25Zelensky: it seems like Russia and the U.S. are preparing an ultimatum to Ukraine, talking about Ukraine without Ukraine. We didn’t accept ultimatums in 2022, when the situation wa46.8×2.4M31k5.7k759
11Mar 27, '25“These two countries”39.6×2M46k3.5k1.2k
12Jan 29, '23If it was Israel, as everyone seems to believe, and if Iran’s drone and ballistic missile facilities have been seriously damaged, as appears to be the case, that’s worth a hell of 37.4×1.9M13k1.1k159
13Mar 22, '25It’s clear from this that the only difference between Steve Witkoff’s and Vladmir Putin’s views on the war in Ukraine is that Putin actually knows the names of all the five Ukraini36.6×1.9M7.3k1.6k488
14Mar 5, '25Did anyone think this through? Some two-thirds of European defense procurement is spent on American weapons. If the U.S. indeed switched off the targeting of HIMARS in Ukraine — a 34.9×1.8M23k4.2k968
15Apr 15, '23The people in the online spaces where Jack Teixeira spent his time and allegedly leaked highly classified documents posted violent slurs against Black, gay and trans people, Jews, 32.3×1.7M6.2k2.2k193
16Feb 13, '24Senator Graham in Kyiv in May, one of the many times when he criticized the Biden administration for not giving Ukraine enough weapons and pledged that American support will not wa31.1×1.6M6k2k175
17Oct 7, '23Yes, life in Gaza has been terrible and Palestinians have suffered under occupation. No, it doesn’t make it right to go rape and kill Israeli women and kidnap and parade their orph28.7×1.5M16k2.4k364
18Jun 24, '23Something tells me there will be another dizzying twist in the Prigozhin saga very soon.26.5×1.4M4.6k43835
19Sep 18, '24Blow up pagers, force the surviving Hezbollah cadres to rely on walkie talkies, and then blow up the much bigger explosive devices inside the walkie talkies. A TV spy series produc26.2×1.3M26k2.8k1.1k
20Jun 6, '20Trump visits the coronavirus swab production line in Maine, without a mask, and the manufacturer says it will now have to throw away the day’s output.25.8×076k42k1.2k
21May 24, '24When Turkey and India spent nearly $9 billion to buy S-400 batteries from Russia, this is not exactly the performance they had in mind. Watch the Russian S-400 system fire its load23.3×1.2M8.7k1.3k516
22May 4, '23Looks like Russian authorities are so afraid of renewed drone attacks in Moscow that they are spoofing/jamming the GPS navigation signal. Muscovites can no longer order cabs.21.5×1.1M7.1k862151
23Mar 25, '25Hold on, so Steve Witkoff was participating in the Signal group discussing war plans against Houthis while being physically in Moscow, perhaps even in the Kremlin? He met Putin lat20.7×1.1M21k3.9k752
24Dec 26, '24Kill and hide. Azerbaijani officials tell local media that Russia hit flight J2-8243 with an anti-aircraft missile and then jammed electronics and denied permission to land in thre19.9×1M5.9k2k461
25Jul 8, '24Orban’s peace mission to Moscow was a great success.18.7×959k33k8.2k272
26Aug 25, '24Extraordinary 💥 warning from Ukraine to Belarus: Belarusian forces, including Wagner mercenaries, gathering along the border in the Gomel region north of Kyiv and Chernobyl threat17.3×885k5.5k1.3k250
27Sep 3, '23Guess Ukraine would be the first country in the world with a Jewish president and a Muslim defense minister.16.9×868k5.7k1.3k133
28Sep 7, '23The headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District in Rostov — the nerve center of the Russian war against Ukraine and a compound briefly seized by Wagner in June — rocked by 16.6×850k6.8k1.2k86
29Oct 28, '23All these US bases in Taliban Afghanistan and in Turkmenistan. Wow! They’ve been real good at hiding them. Am now fully expecting a tweet with a map of Russia surrounded by NATO ba16.3×837k5k45369
30Mar 9, '25Another extraordinary moment in diplomacy. 1. Musk is right. There is no current alternative to Starlink. 2. Musk insulting the Polish foreign minister and talking about cutting of15.3×787k7.8k1.1k529
31Oct 6, '23The man in the middle was a 🇺🇦 soldier killed fighting Russian invaders last summer. When his family reburied him in his home village of Hroza, retaken last Sept from Russian occ14×720k5.8k2.6k185
32Sep 24, '24Kharkiv. Not Beirut. Happens almost daily. Not making news anymore.12.1×620k9.8k3.3k131
33Feb 13, '24Putin to Carlson: we do not intend to attack NATO countries. Two days later: Russia issues an arrest warrant for the prime minister of a NATO country.12×615k8.7k1.7k174
34Jan 27, '25DeepSeek moments…11.9×611k6.2k917175
35Nov 5, '24If Ukraine is defeated and occupied by Russia one day, many Ukrainians will blame the fickle and unreliable West for their tragedy. And if Russia’s armies head to Poland and furthe11.2×577k7.2k1k308
36Feb 22, '24A reminder that Russia is using North Korean and Iranian missiles and drones to strike cities across Ukraine every day but Ukraine remains prohibited from using American and Europe10.5×541k5.3k1.5k100
37Jul 7, '23Russia, which has been showering Ukrainian cities with cluster munitions that have dud rates upwards of 30% (meaning that 30+% of bomblets remain unexploded and dangerous) is very 9.3×476k4.7k1.1k83
38Mar 14, '25I have a very serious question: does the president of the United States rely on any information about the battlefield situation in Ukraine that doesn’t come from Putin’s conversati9.2×470k7.6k1.8k202
39Mar 4, '25Interesting choice of words by Vance to describe the proposed UK and French force for Ukraine as “20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30-40 years.” S8.9×455k11k1.4k324
40Jul 20, '25Lots of unhappiness in Russia as Azerbaijan president Aliev accepts a gift of shoulder patches of Ukrainian army brigades from a Ukrainian journalist and tells her: “Continue on th8.4×433k8.9k1.2k212
41Mar 9, '25The sea shift in the mood in Europe — including the UK — may not be evident to Americans. Here is the cartoon in yesterday’s @thetimes of London.8.3×426k8.8k2.6k392
42Feb 6, '24Poor, poor Vladimir Putin. Until now, nobody in the West has had the chance to hear him explain all the excellent reasons for why he had to invade Ukraine. Not in the speech that w8.3×425k5.4k608102
43Jun 1, '25Russia refused Ukraine’s offer of total or air ceasefire. Trump refused Ukraine’s request for air defenses and declined to sanction Russia for murderous missile attacks on Ukrainia7.8×400k6.3k1.4k241
44Feb 22, '25Every country, especially in Europe, that considers buying US weapons and technologies is going to remember this moment.7.6×389k7.5k2k231
45Feb 28, '25“By refusing to bend in Washington, Zelensky was the honor of Europe,” says the French prime minister.7.4×382k11k1.9k203
46Nov 12, '22I was going to stop posting videos from Kherson but can’t resist with this one. Especially the poster at the end.6.7×036k5.3k578
47Mar 6, '25Good for Ukrainians to know that they are publicly described by their American partners as farm animals who must be beaten into compliance.6.3×325k6.1k1.5k259
48Feb 15, '25Asked about Vance’s criticism of European democracy at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky says that Europe is the freest part of the planet — which is why people all around w6.1×312k7.2k1.3k157
49Feb 21, '22Putin basically says Ukraine shouldn’t exist. “A steady statehood didn’t occur.” Almost the same words that Stalin said about Poland in 1939.6.0×027k7.6k290
50Aug 21, '25Remember when the White House touted the minerals deal as a guarantee of Ukrainian security because Russia will never ever attack American investments in Ukraine?5.4×276k6k2.6k232
51Oct 1, '23You know who’s got real Ukraine war fatigue? Ukrainians. The only problem is that, 19 months in, Russia still wants to wipe out their country.4.6×235k5k98624
52Aug 9, '25No matter what deal Trump may plan in Alaska with Putin, it will be worthless without Ukraine and Europe agreeing. And the U.S. knows that.4.5×231k6.7k1.1k65
53Mar 9, '25“Be quiet, small man” and “Say thank you” is where we are at in the North Atlantic alliance.4.5×230k6.6k837202
54Dec 18, '24Russia repeatedly tried to kill HUR chief Gen Budanov, striking his office twice with missiles, and likely poisoned his wife and other aides, so I don’t think there is any new dime4.4×223k6.1k949168
55Mar 16, '22Russia’s rapid thrust into Voznesensk was meant to showcase its military prowess. Instead, the Ukrainian town dealt Russian forces one of the most humiliating defeats of the war. M4.1×017k5.1k871
56Nov 11, '22Liberated Kherson singing Chervona Kalyna, a song that was banned for nine months. No electricity — Russia destroyed the power lines before leaving.3.6×017k3.8k317
57Sep 21, '22Putin: I consider occupied areas of Ukraine to be Russia and any attempt to reclaim them will trigger a nuclear response. If this principle is allowed to stand, what’s to stop him 3.2×016k2.9k164
58May 22, '22On day 88 of the war, Russian tanks have finally entered Kyiv.3.1×016k2.7k179
59Mar 21, '22Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, says that according to Russian ministry of defense numbers, 9,861 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine and 16,153 were injured. The last 3.1×010k4.1k386
60Oct 10, '22Russia launches massive strikes on central Kyiv on a busy Monday morning, for the first time since the war began. Where is the air defense that the US and Germany have been talking3.1×016k2.9k64
61Oct 16, '22The U.S. isn’t giving Ukraine ATACMS missiles (range 300 km) because it would be an escalation and cross Russia’s red lines. But Iran is supplying Russia with missiles that have ra3.0×014k3.4k123
62Mar 11, '22We went to Kharkiv today. It is grim beyond belief. Ukraine’s second largest city is being pulverized by Russian air strikes that have gutted its historical downtown.3.0×010k5.1k305
63Oct 7, '19Basically the US persuaded the SDF Kurds to dismantle defensive positions that deterred Turkey, promising security guarantees in exchange. Then once the SDF Kurds became defenseles3.0×09.7k5.5k143
64Aug 15, '21And so it goes. The end.2.9×013k3.4k277
65Sep 10, '25How much of a house needs to be destroyed for this to be considered an “attack” rather than a “provocation?” Asking for a friend 🇵🇱2.9×147k6.2k1.1k118
66Nov 11, '22Amazing footage of the first Ukrainian troops reaching Kherson’s main square.2.8×014k2.6k184
67Nov 12, '22Kherson would have been a ruin, and tens of thousands would have died in the campaign, if Himars strikes on bridges hadn’t hamstrung Russian logistics and forced the Russians to wi2.2×012k1.9k106
68Nov 27, '22People in Iran are braving bullets to protest for women’s rights. People in China are on the streets calling for freedom. The only recent protests I have seen in Russia is by peopl2.2×011k2.1k104
69Sep 7, '22Lots of videos of Russian POWs (including a lieutenant-colonel) and abandoned Russian positions coming from the Balakliya-Izyum front as Russian military bloggers and analysts rema2.2×012k1.6k96
70Apr 6, '22How did I miss this? Russian envoy to UN cites a Ukrainian woman quoted by Meduza as saying Russian soldiers provided humanitarian aid. Ukrainian envoy reads the remainder of the q2.1×08.8k3k325
71Mar 27, '22Probably Ukraine’s most significant counter-offensive success so far: retaking the city of Trostyanets yesterday and unblocking the resupply road from the besieged regional capital2.1×011k1.9k106
72Oct 17, '22Russia attacks Kyiv with a swarm of Iranian kamikaze drones, some of which manage to get through air defenses and hit the city center. Iran developing and perfecting with Russia a 2.0×09.3k2.1k90
73Mar 13, '20The imagery of America shutting the borders, Germany doing nothing and China sending a planeload of critical medical supplies to Italy may be propaganda but the plane is real and i2.0×08.1k2.7k110
74Feb 22, '25There is no “conflict in Ukraine.” There is a Russian war that seeks to eliminate Ukraine.1.9×98k6.6k1.1k62
75Feb 22, '25Outside the Trump tower in Chicago.1.9×96k7.3k1.1k56
76Nov 15, '22Two Polish civilians are dead today because Russia unleashed a barrage of nearly 100 cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities. Even if the missiles that hit Poland are stray Ukrain1.8×09.7k1.4k65
77Sep 14, '22For the first time, a video emerges of a recruitment talk for Wagner by Prigozhin in a Russian prison camp. Absolutely bonkers. “Nobody goes back behind bars. If you serve six mont1.7×05.7k2.2k541
78Mar 5, '22Ukraine’s presidential advisor Oleksii Arestovych demands military personnel to stop filming demeaning videos of captured Russian pilots and soldiers, saying that Geneva convention1.7×08.5k1.6k100
79Oct 7, '22Ukrainian combat medics on the frontline in Donetsk region a few days ago.1.5×09.1k807110
80Apr 12, '22So basically tiny Estonia supplied Ukraine with *twice* as much military assistance as France, the EU’s strongest military power and one calling for European strategic autonomy.1.5×06.7k1.8k87
81Mar 8, '22Devastating. Central Kharkiv, a beautiful beautiful city, already looks like Aleppo. Those are war crimes.1.4×06k2k139
82Nov 11, '22Kherson liberation chronicles, from Ukrainian social media: When soldiers enter to clear a village that was occupied by Russia and a local girl comes out with a violin to play the 1.4×07.1k1.4k160
83Apr 17, '22For perspective: 500 Javelins will cover three to five days of fighting. 18 howitzers will account for maybe 3% of deployed field artillery. That many or more get lost in a week. T1.4×06.4k1.6k103
84Mar 23, '22Another senior Russian officer killed in Mariupol, Russian officials confirm. Col. Aleksey Sharov, commander of the 810th Black Sea Marines Brigade.1.4×07.4k1.1k43
85Sep 14, '22In today’s dam attack that’s flooding Kryvy Rih, the Kremlin sticks to the old playbook. Back in 1941, Stalin killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians, blowing up the Zaporizhzhia da1.4×05k2.1k170
86Apr 21, '22To the chants of Allahu Akbar, the city once founded by Greeks fleeing the Ottoman Empire was “liberated” of its inhabitants by Putin’s Chechen militias. What a twist of history.1.3×04.8k1.8k279
87Sep 11, '22The Russian military decided to overwhelm Ukrainian logistics near Izyum with the burden of recovering and repairing a couple of companies’ worth of T-80 tanks. The cunning minds o1.3×07.1k892144
88Feb 26, '22Looks like a dogfight between Russian and Ukrainian jets over Vasylkiv. The Ukrainian jet flew low over the town a few minutes later. Vasylkiv remains under Ukrainian control after1.3×05.5k1.5k248
89Jul 29, '22Spokeswoman for Donetsk People’s Republic tells Russian military TV that 50 Ukrainian POWs from Azov, kept in a separate barrack, were killed in the Olenivka strike and many more i1.3×04.8k1.6k149
90Nov 12, '22Kherson, day two. Ukrainian troops are trapped.1.2×07.1k774131
91Oct 11, '22Russia’s massive use of Iranian drones to target the civilian infrastructure in Ukraine is funding and improving the Iranian drone program that Tehran aims to use against Israel so1.2×06.3k98952
92Mar 21, '22The Russians once promised safe passage out of Ilovaysk, in 2014. Then they shelled the retreating column in the middle of the safe passage, killing over 400 Ukrainian soldiers. If1.2×04.6k1.9k114
93Sep 11, '22Russia is retaliating against its military defeat in Kharkiv by hitting the power grid across eastern Ukraine, plunging Kharkiv, Dnipro, Poltava and other cities — and millions of 1.2×04.8k1.6k62
94Sep 14, '22Water level rising fast in Kryvy Rih, one of Ukraine’s largest cities, after a salvo of Russian cruise missiles breached a reservoir dam, causing a flood. Seven months into the war1.2×05.4k1.4k34
95Sep 11, '22And now finally a video emerges of Ukrainian soldiers (wasting a few rounds) in the Izyum government building.1.1×06.4k65650
96Apr 25, '22Russia’s Bryansk, a logistics hub for the Russian war on Ukraine, looks like a Ukrainian city this morning, with its huge fuel depots on fire amid unconfirmed speculation about a U1.0×05.2k90448
97Mar 24, '22The US and allies planned to support a Ukrainian insurgency after a swift Russian conventional victory. Now, they are struggling to sustain a Ukrainian Army that has held its groun1.0×04.9k968127
98Nov 10, '22A negotiated permanent settlement is impossible now. No Ukrainian president will survive rewarding Russia with occupied Ukrainian land. A negotiated ceasefire would just allow Russ1.0×05k97055
99Apr 5, '22Czech Republic has already sent T72M tanks to Ukraine as it and Slovakia mull repairing and refitting Ukrainian armor on their soil. Scoop by ⁦@drewhinshaw⁩ w me.1.0×05k87553
100Apr 16, '22Russia confirms that Maj Gen Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the 8th Army, was killed in combat in Ukraine.0.9×04.7k81432

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