Great meeting today in 🇱🇹 PermRep with @DrikOleksandra from @ccl_ua, winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2022, #EU 🇪🇺 &intl partners, on ensuring a comprehensive intl accountability system, including the creation of a #SpecialTribunal for Russia’s Crime of #Agression against #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Exchange of views at PermRep w/Oksana Zolotaryova & #EU27 Legal advisers, Justice Attachés & COEST delegates on accountability mechanisms for intl crimes against #Ukraine. Broad agreement that impunity cannot prevail & those who planned&perpetrated 🇺🇦 invasion must be prosecuted.
When Bucha & Irpin happened, it was hard to realize. Now monstrous crimes have been discovered in Izium, Kharkiv area, my native region. There're even more dead now, 445 corpses — military men, children, old people... Most died forcibly.
#Izium#RussianWarCrimes#StopRussiaNOW
A hands-on start of the new political season with a working breakfast at our Representation with 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister @StefanishynaO and EU-27 Ambassadors. In focus: military/financial support for UA, reform agenda, EU integration, reconstruction, further sanctions.
Deportations have returned to the European continent.
🇷🇺 has deported more than 1 mln Ukrainians to its territory, including 200,000 children.
14 June, 2-7 p.m. by @Europarl_EN in Brussels we will honour the victims of Soviet deportations and in 🇷🇺 by reading out their names.
Today marks 100 days since Putin’s invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦. Together with our allies, Lithuania 🇱🇹 continues to stand in solidarity with Ukraine as they defend their country and protect and uphold our shared values. #DemocracyAllies#StandwithUkraine
On 19 May, we are wearing #Vyshyvanka, a traditional Ukrainian 🇺🇦 embroidered shirt, to celebrate solidarity, unity, and friendship🤝with our Ukrainian friends🌻. Today, even more than ever, Vyshyvanka symbolises Ukraine's courage, freedom, and strength. Happy #VyshyvankaDay!
If you don't get how vital the battle for #Ukraine is, let Sergei Lavrov explain:
"This is not about Ukraine at all, but the world order. The current crisis is a fateful, epoch-making moment in modern history. It reflects the battle over what the world order will look like".
The Belarus resistance to Russia's invasion of Ukraine & their troops in our country continues. BYPOL initiative informs about multiple cases when Belarusian partisans block the roads & disrupt the railway system in our country – to stop movement of trains with military vehicles.
66224. That's how many men returned from abroad at this moment to defend their Country from the horde. These are 12 more combat and motivated brigades 🇺🇦! Ukrainians, we are invincible! #FightLikeUkrainian
Why Russia will lose this war?
Much of the "realist" discourse is about accepting Putin's victory, cuz it's *guaranteed*. But how do we know it is?
I'll argue that analysts 1) overrate Russian army 2) underrate Ukrainian one 3) misunderstand Russian strategy & political goals🧵
In his new blog post, HR/VP @JosepBorrellF explains what the EU is doing on the Ukraine and Belarus crises.
The EU must be firm and united, and strengthen its security and defence efforts to face new security challenges:
https://t.co/8PQ53lk3n7
Good to be in Vilnius 🇱🇹 today with @NATO SG @jensstoltenberg.
We are here to express our full solidarity with Lithuania in the face of the hybrid attack led by the Belarus regime and highlight our good EU @NATO cooperation.
Russia has added Marta Hillers' 1945 memoir A Woman In Berlin, which details the mass rape of German women by Soviet soldiers, to its list of extremist materials banned in the country. Seen as another move to sanitise its narrative of the Soviet war effort https://t.co/d5UYaCMrJ5
Russia: Declaration by @JosepBorrellF on behalf of the EU27 on latest elections: crackdown of opposition, civil society, independent media. 🇪🇺 calls on 🇷🇺 leadership to reverse the negative development & stick to its international commitments. https://t.co/Yrno1RrtWS