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Retired official of the European Commission; former lawyer and diplomat; originally from Tyrol in Austria, happily living in Finland; I enjoy sailing in the archipelago.
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Why does Putin want a ceasefire on energy infrastructure? Because Ukraine has been blowing up Russian oil refineries like hell, and with winter over, hits on 🇺🇦 energy supply hurt less. This “ceasefire” benefits Russia: they get to keep killing Ukrainians AND keep their refineries safe.

….but a self-inflicted bad relationship with 🇪🇺🇨🇦. If I had a choice, I would not seek to have a very good relationship with a bunch of dictators.

Utterly predictably, Putin rejects the unconditional ceasefire offered by Ukraine, sends Trump off on the errands of making the Russian invasion easier and denying Ukrainian sovereignty, while Trump claims he has accomplished something.

I once received an electric shock during torture only for writing for Radio Liberty: I was told that it was "a CIA structure and an enemy of Russia", and for that reason alone I was already guilty. Now, the "enemy of Russia" is being destroyed by America itself, and my torture seems doubly in vain.

…with disgusting Russian sauce, I presume. Medwedew does not indicate willingness for peace on the side of 🇷🇺.

Reuters reports that several US national security agencies have stopped work to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks.

I Don’t Believe a Single Word Trump and Putin Say About Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

Wichtiges Interview mit MdEP Lopatka und Schieder im heutigen @derstandard.at . Es ist Zeit, in 🇦🇹 eine Debatte zur Sicherheitspolitik anzustoßen. Ich sehe das seit Langem auch so.

Note for editors and producers: Forcing Ukraine to surrender to Russia is not brokering a peace agreement. Taking dictation from the Kremlin is not diplomacy. Betraying our allies is not courage.

🇵🇱❗️ Tusk: "Dear allies, the investigation of the Lithuanian prosecutor’s office has confirmed our suspicions that responsible for setting fires to shopping centres in Vilnius and Warsaw are the Russian (!) secret services. Good to know before negotiations."

They can discuss all they want. The reality is that they’ll at max speed up Hungary’s involuntary exit. Otherwise Trump implementing Project 2025 has just given a big boost to the EU.

The crazy part is there's no evidence of any encircled Ukrainian soldiers. Since the russians don't plan to make any concessions whatsoever, they're inventing encircled Ukr soldiers to claim they're generously sparing their lives. Trump is either going along w it or is hoodwinked.

Leniie Umerova, a Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activist, recounted her nearly two-year imprisonment in Russia after being abducted by Russian security forces while attempting to visit her sick father in Crimea. She went through physical and psychological abuse, interrogations and solitary confinement

Trump repeats the blatant lie today that Russia has a Ukrainian army surrounded in Kursk, but claims he is going to save them when he talks to Putin tomorrow. Trump will be the hero of Putin’s made-up story.

„Lavrov and Rubio had a phone call about the 'normalization' of relations between the two countries. Soon, they will start lifting the sanctions. Then Russians will return to sports. Companies driven by greed will return to Russia. The EU needs to stand up against this bullshit.“ Pekka Kallioniemi

“‘I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days.’”

One of the best photos I have seen in response to “why don’t you wear a suit”

In Kherson region, Russian drones continue to hunt civilians, including children. A boy shared that he and his friends were playing outside&saw a drone approaching.The kids ran towards their homes across the fields.When the Russian drone closed the distance,it dropped the bomb. Shrapnel flew at him

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

Wie konnte nur Auschwitz passieren und wie konnten nur all die Menschen einfach so andere gnadenlos töten? Nun, wenn man nach MAGAstan schaut - die USA gibt es nicht mehr, streicht das aus euren Köpfen - könnt ihr das 1:1 mitverfolgen, es Auschwitz passieren konnte. 🤨🤷‍♂️

Disgraceful

Präsident Zelenskyj verlieh dem F-16-Piloten Oleksiy Mesia den Titel „Held der Ukraine“, Posthum. Er starb am 26. August bei der Abwehr eines massiven russischen Raketen- und Luftangriffs. In seinem letzten Gefecht zerstörte er drei Marschflugkörper und eine Angriffsdrohne.

Pre-emotive concession after concession after concession. Inept, malevolent or compromised negotiators. An administration that shouldn’t be trusted with a potato, let alone European security.

Radio Liberty&Voice of America all over the world are stopping their broadcasting Free Europe/Radio Liberty received information from the U.S.Agency for Global Media that its federal grant agreement,which funds RFE/RL’s global operations,has been terminated The same is true of Voice of America

Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun "Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’" www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

16.03.2022 - gegen das Vergessen Der Tag, an dem das Herz von Mariupol herausgerissen wurde ❤️‍🩹

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

This is hideous. And close to inexplicable unless Trump is doing what Putin tells him to.

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

Apartment building is on fire in Chernihiv, after tonight's russian drone strike on the city.

The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is what childhood looks like for Ukrainian children when your neighbor is Russia.

Statement worth reading to understand the extent of media repression in 🇺🇸.

Two days later, everyone at VOA has reportedly been fired.

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

Trump says ‘thousands’ of Ukrainian soldiers encircled in Kursk; Ukraine says that’s untrue THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR says: Russian forces marginally advanced towards the international border in Kursk Oblast on March 14, but Ukrainian forces still maintain limited positions in Kursk Oblast.

An acute observation: Russia wants the West to force Ukraine to concede territory, so that Moscow can subsequently tell Ukrainians that the West always betrays them.

Chinese media published footage of a giant floating structure - partly standing on the seabed and partly a drifting platform. "These barges are designed solely for the rapid transfer of heavy equipment. It is difficult to explain them by civilian needs." - French magazine Naval News

When President Trump entered his first term, stocks were steadily marching upward. This time, the trajectory has inverted. Here's how. nyti.ms/3XVhSjh

What shit these propagandists roll out on a daily basis! Nonetheless dangerous, as they shape the Russian mindset.

Donald Trump macht echt kein Geheimnis daraus, dass er von einem liberalen Rechtsstaat, Gewaltenteilung und Medienfreiheit nichts hält, sondern ein autoritäres System aufbauen will, in dem die Justiz dem Präsidenten untertan, die Opposition „Abschaum“ und kritische Berichterstattung „illegal“ sind:

‼️ Cherson - So sieht Putins Frieden aus Es ist schrecklich zu sehen, wie eine friedliche Stadt, ihre Bewohner und ihr Leben dem Terror ausgesetzt sind. Gestern noch gab es hier gemütliche Wohnhäuser. Heute sind nur noch Ruinen. Eine untröstliche Mutter, die ihren Sohn verloren hat ... 😢

🧑‍🧒‍🧒🇺🇦🚫 Musk’s DOGE has stopped funding the Yale University team that was engaged in the search and rescue of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, — The Mirror