Kim Nyborg

historie nørd og reenactor fra stenalderen til 1. verdenskrig

[Mariia Kramarenko @KramarenkoMari3]

Oleshky:
The occupiers are clearing mines along the road to the city, and also: transporting military logistics, ammunition, and strengthening positions. Under the pretext of a ceasefire and a ban on reconnaissance flights….

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

Gregorian chant dedicated to Edmund the Martyr, Anglo-Saxon king of East Anglia who died fighting the pagans in 869. 🎶

He REFUSED the Vikings' demands to renounce Christ and was shot full of arrows.

This beautiful medieval chant was made in his honor!

[Tamara Krawchenko 🌻🍉 @T_Krawchenko]

So, do I correctly understand that Russian forces, who have been starving the population of Oleshky, are now taking them through ‘filtration’ camps where we know Russia has arbitrarily detained, subjected to torture and separated people from their children.

[Anders Fogh Rasmussen @AndersFoghR]

Putin satser på, at Ukraine kan knækkes. Trump gør hans opgave lettere.

Europas svar må være det modsatte: Flere våben, hårdere sanktioner og en klar vej til EU-medlemskab for Ukraine.

Halvhjertede løsninger og støtteerklæringer er ikke nok.

https://t.co/Sto5hpIDyM

[Uffe Gardel @uffegardel]

Der er simpelt hen så meget galt her.

1) Rusland er næppe enig i, at der ikke er udsigt til en militær løsning. Rusland ser nedslidning af os og Ukraine som en løsning

2) Man bør faktisk undgå dialog, hvis man ikke har noget at tilføre dialogen - tilbud eller trusler.

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[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

I warned in my article that civilians must be free to choose where they go. Having literally been down this road before, I know why that matters.

Lo and behold, the FT now reports evacuees will first be taken to occupied Crimea or Russia.

What guarantees do they have of reaching Ukrainian-controlled territory?

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The UN has appointed Russian diplomat Gleb Desyatnikov as Assistant Secretary-General for Mine Action and Police in its Department of Peace Operations.

The appointment places a Russian official in a senior UN role overseeing mine-action activities and police-related work within peace operations.

Ukraine is the most heavily mined country in the world after the start of the Russian full-scale invasion. Putting a Russian in charge of mine action is...well, it's hard to find a name for it.

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

What might explain the Finnish–Norwegian diplomatic fiasco now unfolding before our eyes?

I would not be surprised if the story turned out to be something like this:

Norway’s foreign policy establishment desperately needs a success right now. Why? Because ever since the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995, it has been firmly convinced that there is a distinctively Norwegian model.

The model rests on the belief that small countries without great power ambitions, such as Norway, should pursue dialogue. Have the difficult conversations with the parties to major conflicts, and thereby reach compromises that neither the great powers nor traditional power politics can deliver.

Norway’s foreign policy establishment has an unshakeable belief that this formula was the key to the success of the Oslo Accords.

For years, however, the Norwegian model has delivered few major, lasting breakthroughs. And the Oslo Accords themselves have lost their lustre.

That is demoralising in itself.

On top of that, Norway’s foreign policy establishment has been badly shaken by the fallout from the Epstein affair.

No one knows precisely what happened. And we should be careful not to accuse people of things they have not done. But Terje Rød-Larsen, his wife Mona Juul, Børge Brende and Thorbjørn Jagland were all closer to Epstein than prudence would have counselled.

This has led to hearings in the Storting, Norway’s parliament, that clarified nothing. And to a series of more serious inquiries - including criminal investigations into Juul, Rød-Larsen and Jagland.

What makes all this awkward is that Norway’s current prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, was foreign minister from 2005 to 2012. Even if he did nothing illegal - and he probably did not - several of the failings surrounding the funding of Rød-Larsen’s think tank, the International Peace Institute, occurred on his watch.

For all these reasons, I would not be surprised if it emerged that Norway was the real driving force behind this pointless phone call - Russia’s maximalist demands remain the same as ever.

If you are a major donor to Ukraine, it is hardly impossible to devise a roadmap that also includes a few requests going back and forth.

I could, of course, be wrong. But the idea of small countries using dialogue to resolve an apparently intractable conflict comes straight out of the Oslo model’s playbook.

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

Maryna Leanovich is a political prisoner in Belarus. A former fellow prisoner told @viasna96 that she suffers panic attacks and frequent suicidal thoughts.

She needs urgent medical care and immediate release. We cannot wait for another life to be lost in Lukashenka's prisons.

[Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

🚨 BREAKING: Ukraine has launched its first Obria Nano satellite to develop its own satellite communications network, according to Militarnyi, citing Ukrainian company Himera.

The satellite is already undergoing testing and operating as planned.

[Aurora Unsilenced @iamStillAurora]

Reporter: News has just broken that your Nordic colleagues held a conversation with #ruZZian President Vladimir Putin. Were you informed about this conversation, and what can you say about it?

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: I am very skeptical of this independent Norwegian-Finnish initiative. It was not coordinated with any of us.

I see no signs that #ruZZia wants peace with Europe - neither in the hybrid warfare it wages every day, nor in #Ukraine, where brutal and aggressive strikes continue daily, claiming many lives.

I believe Europe must stand together rather than act independently.

She nailed it. Let Mette represent Europe at the table.

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

CONCLUSION 🧵(1/2): Putin would have the world, and especially the United States, believe that he is somehow holding back from crushing Ukraine, but that he could do so at any moment of his choosing. The opposite is the case.

If Putin had had a way of ending the war quickly, he surely would have used it. The effort to field an army large enough to make virtually no gains is costing Putin a fortune, driving up inflation in Russia, and generating increasing social discontent. Fielding a larger army would cost more with no guarantee of materially changing the situation on the front. That is why Putin is holding back at least for now. ⬇️

Putin has likely recognized the folly of trying to drown Ukraine in Russian blood and has instead opted to try to hammer Ukraine into submission with a strategic bombing campaign. The Russians have secured a temporary advantage in the skies over Ukraine through their jet-powered drones and the shortage of Patriot missiles that can intercept their ballistic missiles. But Ukraine is fielding solutions to defend against the jet-powered drones, and it is hardening and decentralizing its infrastructure to survive the ballistic missile strikes (as well as developing its own ballistic missile interceptors, although that effort will take time).

The Russian strikes are currently devastating Ukrainian energy and other infrastructure and imposing a brutal cost on Ukrainian civilians—as Putin intends. But there is no reason to think that this strategic bombing campaign will be any more successful than every other strategic bombing campaign in history—all of which have failed to compel a country holding its own on the battlefield to surrender.

[The Tectonic @thetect0nic]

🇺🇦 🇺🇲 The confrontation inside Trump's Ukraine peace negotiations is now coming into focus.

Le Monde reports that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spent nearly three hours pitching Ukraine's presidential chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, a postwar economic arrangement built around restoring Russian oil and gas flows to Europe through Ukrainian pipelines.

The meeting took place on October 9 at the Shell Bay golf club in Florida.

Witkoff presented the proposal as a regional prosperity plan: Ukraine would collect transit revenues, Europe would receive cheaper energy, and Russia would regain access to commercial routes disrupted by the war.

Budanov saw something fundamentally different. According to a witness cited by Le Monde, he objected that the arrangement would recreate Ukraine's dependence on Moscow.

“Our model is not Belarus, but Poland!” he reportedly replied.

The meeting was interrupted, and Budanov called Zelensky.

When talks resumed, news arrived that Trump had announced a separate agreement with Putin involving Russian diesel. Le Monde reports that an irritated Witkoff then demanded that the Ukrainians accept the arrangement and stop striking Russian oil refineries, arguing that the attacks endangered the wider world.

A source familiar with the Ukrainian delegation described its members as exceptionally distressed by the encounter.

The account adds a revealing dimension to the commercial negotiations we have been tracking. The proposed Lukoil asset sale, Novatek's involvement in an Alaska LNG venture, the broader US-Russia list of business opportunities reported by the Financial Times, and now the proposed restoration of Russian energy transit through Ukraine all point to the prominence of energy deals in Washington's diplomatic approach.

These are separate proposals, with different participants and legal circumstances. But Le Monde's reporting exposes the strategic disagreement underlying them.

For Witkoff, restoring commercial flows appears to be part of the mechanism for producing a peace settlement. For Budanov, according to the account, those same flows threaten to restore Moscow's economic leverage over Ukraine.

The reported exchange also raises a question about sequencing: why was Kyiv being pressed to stop attacking Russian refineries while Russia continued striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure?

Le Monde's reconstruction relies on accounts of a private meeting. The reported exchanges have not been independently confirmed by the participants.

Source: Le Monde

[Caitlin Doornbos @CaitlinDoornbos]

Just closed a powerful interview with a recent evacuee from Oleshky, who despite having starved for months, treated me to cake and coffee — Ukrainian hospitality.

Looking forward to bringing his story to you for The Correspondent very soon.

[zharynka @tak_ya_anna]

I am deeply outraged by Melania Trump’s statement regarding the evacuation of civilians from Russian-occupied Oleshky.

“Some will want to go to Russia, and some to Ukraine.”

Excuse me, but OLESHKY IS UKRAINE! It is a city in the Kherson region, occupied by the Russian Federation.

Why are we once again talking about Russia and Ukraine as though they are two equally legitimate parties simply offering civilians different destinations?

Russia is the country that occupied this city.

For years, people have been living under occupation, isolation and catastrophic humanitarian conditions.

According to journalistic reports, civilians attempting to escape Oleshky and reach Ukrainian-controlled territory have been killed by drone strikes.

So what freedom of choice are we talking about?

I support any genuinely safe humanitarian operation that can save civilian lives.

But evacuation must not become a tool for legitimising occupation or removing responsibility from the aggressor.

We need independent international observers, genuine security guarantees, protection against coercion, and safe routes allowing civilians to reach Ukrainian-controlled territory.

And most importantly, no humanitarian agreement changes Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders.

RUSSIA OCCUPIED OLESHKY. RUSSIA BEARS RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF CIVILIANS UNDER ITS OCCUPATION.

Helping people is essential.

But humanitarian assistance must never become a political justification for occupation.

And we must stop presenting the aggressor and the victim of aggression as though they bear equal responsibility.

Oleshky is Ukraine. Kherson is Ukraine. Occupation does not change sovereignty.

#Oleshky #KhersonIsUkraine #HumanRights #RussiaIsTheAggressor #StandWithUkraine

[Caitlin Doornbos @CaitlinDoornbos]

I’ll be honest: I’m scared tonight. The Russians have launched another round of ballistic missiles at Kyiv, where it’s increasingly clear this is the new frontline.

So I’m back to the shelter with my water bottle, passport and medication, just in case.

[Claus Mathiesen @clausmat1]

Det har ligget i kortene siden slutningen af 2021. En af grundene til, at hvis man tror, at krigen i Ukraine for Rusland alene handler om ukrainske territorier og ukrainsk neutralitet, så tager man fejl.

[Aurora Unsilenced @iamStillAurora]

Residents of occupied #Oleshky are set to be evacuated through #Crimea

The route will be determined by the #ruZZian side, with people transported by buses and ambulances.

Once they reach Ukrainian-controlled territory, evacuees are promised accommodation and medical examinations. Men of conscription age will be given up to three months to sort out their documents.

Honestly, I don’t trust this so-called evacuation. They wouldn’t let people leave before, and now suddenly #ruZZia is showing an act of mercy? 🤨

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Except, obviously, the posts saying I’m getting no views… 🙏

Thank you to everyone sharing. Please keep liking, reposting and showing the reality on the ground in Ukraine.

Every share helps challenge the lies and misinformation.

Keep Ukraine visible.

[PANTALON ROUGE @l10475_louis]

The “Tenue Detaille” – French Infantry Test Uniform, 1912. Designed by painter Édouard Detaille, it was an attempt to modernize the French infantry uniform while preserving the style of 19th-century military dress.
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