Russia demands Finland leave NATO and the alliance abandon bases in the Baltic states
These “conditions” were put forward by the Russian delegation during recent trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, BILD reports.
Moscow proposes keeping occupied Ukrainian territories and taking all of Donbas, including Kyiv-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The plan also requires NATO to drop military bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Finland to leave the military alliance.
Ukraine would get non-aligned status and renounce NATO membership, though EU membership is not ruled out. Odesa and Mykolaiv ports would be demilitarized. Agreements on free navigation in the Black and Baltic Seas are also envisaged.
Russia also wants Moldova turned into a federal republic including Moldova, Gagauzia and Transnistria. If Moldova joins the EU, Transnistria and Gagauzia could hold independence referendums.
In exchange, Moscow offers to withdraw nuclear weapons from Belarus, abandon intermediate-range missiles there, and pull troops from Transnistria.
Srbe su danas na Zadušnice u južnom delu Kosovske Mitrovice dočekali oskrnavljeni spomenici. Od završetka rarnih sukoba ovde je srušeno i devastirano 90% srpskih nadgrobnih spomenika.
Wataha wilków przemierzająca las, uchwycona przez fotopułapkę. "Różnica między ludźmi a zwierzętami polega na tym, że zwierzęta nigdy nie pozwalają, aby głupiec prowadził stado” - Winston Churchill...🐺👑🤡
❗️As the head of Ukraine’s negotiating team, I have just held an online meeting with Yana Lantratova, head of the Russian negotiating team. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the humanitarian mission in Oleshky.
I informed the Russian side that the ceasefire would take effect on October 27 at 3:00 a.m. Kyiv time. The Russian Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed that, on the Russian side, the ceasefire would begin on October 27 at 4:00 a.m. Moscow time. This means the ceasefire will begin at the same time.
We also discussed other details agreed upon in advance, exchanged information, and confirmed that preparations are proceeding in accordance with the preliminary agreement and that both sides are fulfilling all the commitments they have undertaken.
‼️Our work continues. I will keep you informed of further developments regarding these arrangements.
Cyprus must be a strange place: Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, Greeks and Turks, Israelis feeling Israel, English military base, drunk English tourists, porn and crypto servers, offshore banks, every intelligence agency spying on each other — all on one medium sized island.
Den erfarne diplomaten Sven Hirdman har avlidit.
I vad han kallade sitt testamente, om Ryssland, Kina, BRICS, Sverige och mycket annat samtalade han den 23 maj 2025 med @Dissidentklubb1.
https://t.co/lZ2rVQE0wc
Russia surprised us all - Eric Schmidt, former chairman of the USCAI
• The West assumed that Ukraine was the innovator. However, Russia could match them, but with far larger resources.
• Russia is fielding guided glide bombs and new jet-powered strike drones, and Ukraine has no reliable defense against Russian ballistic missiles
• Within a year Russia will have an early version of a Starlink-style satellite system called Rassvet, already in testing and hard to jam, which would tighten strike precision.
• Europe and the US are focused on budgets rather than output, and Patriot interceptor production is badly constrained.
➡️ Ukraine [and NATO] has found its technological match, but with immensely more industrial resources.
The Slavic world's great people, all eras: Russia 61%, Poland 15%, Czechia 13%, everyone else 11%. All Slavs together: 3.9% of the world's notable figures.
La Tercera Guerra Mundial no va a empezar con un comunicado avisándonos de que empieza mañana.
Pero mirad lo que está ocurriendo en Europa.
🇩🇪 Alemania prepara su sistema sanitario para un escenario de hasta 1.000 militares heridos al día.
🇵🇱🇱🇹 Polonia y Lituania trabajan en planes de evacuación masiva de población ante un posible conflicto.
🇸🇪🇩🇪 Suecia y Alemania ensayan el despliegue rápido de 1.500 soldados en Gotland, en pleno Báltico.
🇫🇮 Finlandia alerta a su población sobre sabotajes, drones y posibles ataques contra infraestructuras.
🇱🇻 Letonia prepara protocolos para responder inmediatamente ante incursiones sin esperar decisiones colectivas de la OTAN.
🇨🇭 Suiza acaba de aprobar una nueva estrategia de seguridad y defensa ante el deterioro de la situación europea.
🇬🇧 Reino Unido pide a la población estar preparada con reservas domésticas de comida y agua para emergencias.
🇱🇺 Luxemburgo tuvo que cerrar temporalmente su aeropuerto por drones no identificados.
Y todo esto mientras Europa acelera su rearme y sus dirigentes hablan cada vez con más naturalidad de prepararse para un posible enfrentamiento con Rusia.
La pregunta no es si la guerra empieza mañana. La pregunta que debería acojonarnos es otra:
¿Por qué están preparando a media Europa para asumir psicológica, económica y militarmente que una guerra con Rusia puede ocurrir?
Porque las guerras no empiezan cuando aparece el primer tanque.
Empiezan mucho antes, cuando lo que ayer era absolutamente impensable empieza a parecernos normal.
I know Patriarch Bartholomew personally, so his actions in Ukraine didn’t surprise me—Elder Gabriel (Bunge)
https://t.co/m3cWnw8GXj
Noting that Patriarch Bartholomew previously recognized the canonicity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, Fr. Gabriel says “We all know that Patriarch Bartholomew did not act voluntarily” in creating the schismatic OCU.
Immanuel Kant died at 79 having almost certainly never been with a woman in his life. he also split the entire history of philosophy into before him and after him.
he never married. never traveled more than 40 miles from Königsberg, the town where he was born. his daily walk was so precise that neighbors set their clocks by it. every ounce of energy his body produced went through the same narrow channel for eight decades: pure thought.
the critique of pure reason, the book that rebuilt the foundations of human knowledge, came out of that discipline. philosophers describe the depth of sustained abstraction in it as almost inhuman. holding chains of reasoning in the mind for years, refining a single argument for a decade. that kind of cognitive endurance isn't talent. it's fuel management.
Kant understood exactly what he was doing. he wrote about mastery over inclination as the foundation of a free will. a man ruled by his appetites, in his framework, isn't free at all. he's a passenger in a body that makes his decisions for him.
the deepest thinker of the modern era ran his entire life as a retention experiment and produced work that outlived every empire of his century.
total energy discipline for 79 years. the results are still on every philosophy syllabus on earth.