It’s morning in Ukraine again and the weather has changed drastically in recent days.
It’s paramount that all the countries which declared that they will send winter uniforms to the Ukraine will do it as soon as possible.
Let’s make sure that only the Russians will freeze in UA
"Hitlerism is brown Communism, Stalinism is Red Fascism. The world will now understand that the only real ideological issue is one between democracy, liberty, and peace on the one hand and despotism, peril, and war on the other" - The New York Times editorial, September 18, 1939.
In Bucha, Russian occupiers worked according to pre-prepared lists. They were looking for veterans of the ATO, law enforcement agencies, owners of hunting weapons. The order was to liquidate when found. Where did they get all the lists with names and addresses?
Estonia has provided this year alone to
#Ukraine
humanitarian and military aid worth 200 million euros. We have 1.3 million people. Dear allies and partners, catch up!
@spideycyp_155
Whether one likes it or not, Crimea is absolutely seen as a core part of Russia by Russia.
Crimea is also of critical national security importance to Russia, as it is their southern navy base.
From their standpoint losing Crimea is like USA losing Hawaii & Pearl Harbor.
Which country bombs schools, shopping malls, kindergartens, hospitals in 2022? A permanent member of the
#UNSC
. What does it tell about the entire UN? How long can 192 countries accept Russia as a full member of the UN?
I had an "enlightening moment" at a meeting with 🇩🇪 SPD BD member: "You, Eastern Europeans would like to destroy everything that was built by Western Europeans during 75 years. You think only about Russia." I answered: "No, you are mistaken. We think about our common freedom".
7 concusions about the Russian missile attack against Poland:
1) it was not a mistake, but probably an attempt to test NATO's unity and readiness to respond;
2) Russia, of course, denies it and considers it a provocation against itself;
I think that in some Western countries leaders do not yet understand the magnitude of the war launched by Russia against all of us in the free democratic world and not only against Ukraine.
Remember, Putin's candidates in the US elections aren't there to win, they're merely there to platform and normalize Kremlin narratives to the American electorate.
Major pro-Russian demonstration in Cologne, Germany today.
The protesters demanded that the government opens the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and stops weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
Many came with Russian flags.
These people clearly don’t care about massacred Ukrainians.
From today on our borders are closed for regular Russian tourists. They have to understand that they are all sharing the responsibility. Only they can change the genocidal course of their own country.
Russia continues to take it out on Ukrainian civilians. Another night, another horrific strike on a residential apartment building in Zaporizhzhia, the third such act of mass murder in a week. Photo from local social media.
What Russias are doing to Kyiv today has zero military objective.
Pure terrorism.
100% civilian targets, to force the country's population into the EU, as they've done with Syria, immigration crisis.
And the West hasn't even begun to realize Putin's war is on them.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have formed a coalition of the willing against the West. Ukraine and Israel are both their active fronts in a world-changing war.
Hungarian prime minister suggests postponing negotiations on Ukraine's EU membership for 10 years
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has suggested that the EU conclude a strategic partnership agreement with Ukraine for 5-10 years and only after this period of time return to
I made this photo as a war correspondent in Grozny, Chechnya in February 1996. It reads - "Chechnya in Russia - genocide, poverty! Russia in Chechnya - aggression, war!" and "Reichstag - nazism! Kremlin- Russism!" This was 26 years ago. What has changed?
BREAKING:
Russia is firing everything it has at Ukraine right now.
Cruise missiles from bombers, sea-launched cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, suicide drones & S-300 missiles against Kharkiv.
It's -10C in Ukraine.
They are going after the energy grid
5) Ukraine has the full right to attack Russian missile positions on land and in the air;
6) It should now be clear to everyone that Ukraine also protects NATO, therefore Ukraine must be supported by all means;
After my fourth trip to the frontline of Ukraine 🇺🇦, I can confirm - we do not have a pre-war time in Europe, as some of our leaders think, but we are already in a war time. If we do not want to pay a high price in the lives of our citizens, we must help Ukraine to win.
У этой власти есть огромные дома и яхты, миллиарды украденных денег, армия и пропаганда, но нет главного — любви к России и желания изменить нашу страну к лучшему. А у вас есть. Не побоявшись прийти в 12 часов 17 марта, вы это доказали.
The Soviet Union started the World War II together with Nazi Germany and was able to emerge victorious from the war it initiated. This fact is the main reason why there is still a war in Europe today. We must do everything to make fascist and imperialist Russia lose this war.
Today, on behalf of Estonia, I placed a candle in Kyiv for those who died in the Holodomor genocide. Estonia 🇪🇪 was the first country in the world to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide in 1993.
Russian ex-president Medvedev: "We must not stop until the current, inherently terrorist Ukrainian state is completely dismantled. It must be destroyed to the ground. Or rather, so that even the ashes from it do not remain". Sounds like Hitler, isn't it?
In our statement today, the chairmen of the foreign affairs committees of the parliaments of the 19 NATO member states 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱🇳🇴🇺🇦🇱🇺🇦🇱🇩🇰🇨🇿🇧🇬🇷🇴🇨🇦🇧🇪🇮🇸 call for Ukraine to be given a clear road map for joining NATO at the upcoming Vilnius Summit of the alliance.
Minutes ago Estonian parliament declared (with the vote 88-0) Russia a terrorist regime and condemned illegal annexation of the territories of Ukraine.
#StandWithUkraine
️ 🇺🇦🇪🇪
BREAKING: 83% of Russians asked by Levada Center support aggression against Ukraine. This is not Putin's War, this is Russia's Imperial War against democratic and independent Ukraine.
Since Russia is blocking Estonia from becoming the chairman of the OSCE by 2024, a legitimate question arises - isn't the OSCE at the end of its existence? How can European security and stability be ensured with an aggressor country at the same table?
4) As a result of the consultations of the NATO allies, the long-awaited decision could finally be made to give Ukraine tanks (Leopards, etc.), airplanes (F-15, F-16, A-10, etc.), air defense complexes, etc. for defensive and offensive armament;
Why don't we see similar statements about Ukraine? It is high time to stop being hypocritical and finally act. The first step in restoring US credibility would be the immediate approval of the Ukraine aid package by Congress.
In Madrid, local Russian community marched with flags of genocidal USSR, and terrorist entities "Luhansk People's Republic" and "Donetsk People's Republic". Note that these Russians are young, and live in a free society, they demonstrate freely, and totally support terrorists.
If Russia attacked a NATO country, would the US agree and be ready to attack Russian territory? The current rhetoric from the US administration is luring the enemy into a major war.
My short take away from Moscow meetings I concluded this morning.
1. 🇷🇺 is trying to shake up entire European security architecture. That could mean less security for its neighbors and basically veto right about European security environment. Must be no go area for NATO and EU.
“It is absolutely wise never to do something just by yourself,” said
@Bundeskanzler
. That is not a leadership we are looking for in Germany. Not sending Leopards and Marders to Ukraine will help Russia to escalate the war.
My take from the recent trip to Kyiv:
1. Ukraine is a vibrant democracy with the strong civil society and political opposition. This is the best security guarantee 🇺🇦 has today. Democracy is the best deterrence against the Russian aggression.
Employees of the Russian media outlet Izvestija were detained in Estonia and deported yesterday. At the border, they claimed to be on a tourist trip, but the journalists headed to the Narva tank monument (for the Soviet occupiers) to do propaganda work.
Russia has not changed. Just as it was a terrorist state 7️⃣5️⃣ years ago, when 95,000 people were deported from the occupied Baltic states, so it is today. Thanks to Ukraine, we have the opportunity to finally hold this terrorist regime accountable.
Hamas supporters celebrating on the streets of Canada last night.
This type of images can be seen repeated in many cities in Western Europe and North America.
🇨🇦
Tbilisi right now. Despite the riot police forcefully and brutally dispersed the protesters several times, people returned on Rustaveli avenue waving Georgian and EU flags 🇬🇪🇪🇺 The courage and bravery of Georgians are truly remarkable!
The future of democracies around the globe are at stake in Ukraine. The solution is easy: We simply have to do what's right. And the resources necessary to help Ukraine achieve victory are a drop in the bucket for us.
Don’t tell me that this is Putin’s war. Russian diplomats are fully behind of it. They are not zombies. They know what and why happens and this is pure fascism.
“Russia’s boundaries don’t end anywhere.” - No, this Russian imperialism has limits. European visa ban will teach Russians to honor the boundaries of the sovereign states.
1/17 Exactly three years ago, I came back to Russia after treatment following my poisoning. I was arrested at the airport. And for three years, I've been in prison.
And for three years, I've been answering the same question.
Swedish tank. Very good in combat. But very scarce ammunitions. This is what I see everywhere. And it’s a terrible mistake of the West. We must arm
#ukraine
more. We must
#ArmUkraineNow
. For Europe, for the West, for all of us, it’s a matter of life and death.
⚡️Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine refused to participate in the meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers in Skopje due to
#Lavrov
's presence, the AFP reported.
Luc Ferry:
“Les pays Baltes ne sont pas dans l’Otan.”
?? Les 3 Baltes sont dans l’Otan.
Après avoir été “sûr” que Poutine n’envahirait pas 🇺🇦, Ferry est maintenant “sûr” qu’il ne nous menace pas: il n’attaquera “que” dès États à minorités russes pas dans l’Otan.
Tout est faux.
At the meeting with the President of Ukraine, I emphasized that Estonia will do everything to prevent the spread of condescending sentiments among its allies. The only way to keep Europe out of a bigger war is to do everything for 🇺🇦 victory. Russia must be strategically defeated
Dear 🇫🇮 friends and future allies! It is high time to defend rule of law and our democracies. We need to help 🇺🇦 and set the moral standard for Russians who don't want to or don't understand their responsibility as citizens of the fascist country as described by
@TimothyDSnyder
.
No, this is not a cartoonish movie villain. This is Andrey Gurulyov, State Duma deputy, former deputy commander of Russia's Southern military district, asserting that Putin's decision (which he is yet to make public) means the end of Ukraine and the conclusion of its history.
Missile strike on Ukraine is the most massive of the ongoing war. This is how fascist Russia takes revenge for the destruction of the Black Sea fleet. Dear allies, it is high time to provide Ukraine with maximum modern weaponry to defeat the evil that threatens the whole world!
🚨BIGGEST ATTACK TO DATE
Fascist Russia attacked Ukraine with Kinzhal ballistic missiles, S-300s, UAVs, X-22s & X-32s. 18 Russian strategic bombers launched dozens of X-101/X-505.
"We have never seen so many targets simultaneously on our monitor" - Ukrainian Air Force spokesman.
The Battle of Donbas has begun. Next few weeks would decide in which direction the war will go. Ukraine needs help immediately from all Western allies.
The West needs leaders as capable as Mamuka Mamulashvili, commander of
the
@georgian_legion
. I had the great honor of hosting him today in the Estonian Parliament. Thank you,
@Harri_Est
! 🇺🇦🇪🇪🇬🇪
THREE simple steps to the lasting peace in Europe:
(1) Ukraine 🇺🇦 will win the War of Independence liberating all occupied territories;
(2) Ukraine 🇺🇦 will become a member of NATO;
(3) Russian 🇷🇺 war criminals led by the leaders of the current regime will be brought to justice.
Why German authorities tolerate this? That is not a democracy or freedom of speech. Pro-genocide and pro-war rallies are direct danger to the peace and stability in Europe. I can not imagine something like that happening in Estonia.
A protest was held in Lubmin, Germany yesterday.
It’s the location where Nord Stream 2 reaches German land.
Russian Germans and their supporters demanded the pipeline to be opened.
3 Ukrainian women showed up to counter-protest and were attacked.