UC-specialist, jobbar med Unified Communication, och bor på Öckerö. Gift med Kjersti. UC-specialist and lives at Ockero in the archipelago close to Göteborg.
In June 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and began its military aggression against Ukraine, it was decided to hold the G7 summit in Brussels instead of Sochi and without Russia’s participation. Russia’s membership was suspended until it "changes its political course."
Today, in June 2026, Ukraine has been invited to the G7 summit. Ukraine is now present along the world’s leading powers, and Russia is not part of it.
The leaders of the G7 countries have agreed to tighten sanctions against Russian oil and gas exports.
Russian drone hits private school in Kyiv's Dniprovskyi district.
Russia: We never attack civilian targets.
Reality: Russia attacks almost exclusively civilian targets.
Canada strongly condemns Russia’s latest attack on Kyiv, including the strike on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a sacred site in Ukraine and Eastern Christianity.
Canada stands with Ukraine. Their cause — freedom, democracy, sovereignty — is our cause.
Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine: One more Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity.
"As a result of the Russian shelling that is taking place now, on the night of June 15, the roof of one of the holiest places in the Christian world is burning - the Assumption Cathedral of the Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv.
We ask for prayer to save the shrine from destruction.
One more Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity.
What else must the Kremlin's antichrist do so that the world realizes that it is necessary to act decisively so that the Russian terror against Ukraine and the very principles of peace stops?
Holy Virgin Mary, stop the Herod!"
росіяни проводять геноцид українців, вони вдарили КАБом 3000 кг по українському місту Покровське, Дніпропетровської області 💔
Друзі , поширюйте відео на цілий світ , нехай бачать всі, які росіяни варвари і нелюди ...
I cringe every time I hear "Ukraine and russia exchanged attacks overnight."
Ukraine strikes military targets. russia strikes apartment buildings, hospitals, and civilians.
These are not equivalent actions. And they should not be reported as if they are.
Today, the Russians again struck the special territory around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. A “shahed” hit one of the buildings of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility. An extremely critical infrastructure facility – and an extremely vile Russian strike. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Energy, and all our services are already working to ensure that each of our partners knows what has happened.
Russia deliberately struck this particular nuclear infrastructure facility. As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels. But there is certainly an increase in Russia’s brazenness, which long ago went off the charts. Ukrainian first responders extinguished the fire at this facility after the strike. And real new steps by the world are needed so that the Russians feel that this terrorist war of theirs is a blow to Russia itself.
Last night, there were also Russian strikes on other civilian facilities in 13 of our regions. In total, over the course of this past week, Russia launched 88 missiles, more than 3,250 attack drones, and around 1,800 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine. Pressure on Russia must be increased. Thank you to everyone who’s helping!
If Satan has a residence on Earth, it is in Russia: the story of former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolayenko, who survived Russian captivity.
After seeing Russia from the inside, he described it as a moral void, completely incompatible with Ukraine.
In captivity, he survived purely through willpower—holding on by sheer determination. When he finally returned home on August 24, 2025, it felt as though he had grown wings.
What struck him most was the way Ukrainians welcomed the released prisoners. From the Belarusian border all the way to Chernihiv, crowds stood along the roads waving Ukrainian flags. For the first time in a long while, he felt genuine respect and love.
Mykolayenko neither hid nor fled, even though he had the opportunity. He joined the Territorial Defense Forces because he asked himself a simple question: who else would protect his family?
He was given an assault rifle, but quickly realized that rifles alone cannot stop tanks.
The Russians lured him to a meeting under false pretenses, threw him into a car trunk, and took him away.
In captivity, he was beaten almost daily and suffered a broken rib. The occupiers offered him the position of head of the occupation administration, but he refused.
They demanded that he publicly condemn Roman Shukhevych, yet Mykolayenko instead called him a Hero of Ukraine.
Later, he was transferred between detention facilities—first to occupied Crimea, then to Russia’s Voronezh region, where the beatings became even more severe.
He never received a single letter from his family. He even refused prisoner exchanges, insisting that wounded young soldiers should be released in his place.
In his view, this war did not happen because of abstract mistakes. It happened because of geography and irresponsibility.
Russians chose Putin twenty-five years ago, and many continue to support him today. At the same time, too many members of Ukraine’s elite behave as if they have a “backup country”—Paris, Prague, New York—places they can escape to while blaming the people who were left behind.
But most Ukrainians have no alternative. There is no second homeland. There is only Ukraine.
According to Mykolayenko, the true strength of the country lies in its people—those who have survived occupation, torture, and loss, yet continue to fight.
Victory rests on two pillars: the soldiers who destroy the occupiers every day, and the civilians who do everything they can each day to ensure that the army can keep fighting.
He himself endured for the sake of his family and his faith in victory. He is proud of his daughter, who has been fighting since the first day of the war, and hopes that his grandchildren will one day be proud of both him and their country.
Kids, det är dags för farbror Sfeirs söndagsskola. Idag ska farbrorn berätta om landet som är mindre än Skåneland, nämligen Libanon.
När människor i dag talar om Mellanöstern som om dess historia började med moderna konflikter är Hiram av Tyr en nyttig påminnelse om motsatsen. Den libanesiske kungen är ihågkommen därför att han skickade timmer, hantverkare och ingenjörskunnande till bygget av Salomos tempel i Jerusalem. Långt innan regionen splittrades av nationalism, islamism och geopolitiska rivaliteter byggdes dess stora monument genom handel, samarbete och ömsesidigt beroende.
Det är särskilt tragiskt eftersom Libanon en gång var något helt annat.
För nästan tre tusen år sedan seglade kung Hiram av Tyr längs Medelhavets kuster. Hans stad, dagens Sur (Tyr) i södra Libanon, var centrum för ett handelsnätverk som sträckte sig från Levanten till Spanien. Fenicierna exporterade timmer, glas och purpurfärg. De grundade kolonier, utvecklade handelsvägar och bidrog till att sprida det alfabet som senare skulle bli grunden för grekiska, latin och därmed stora delar av Europas skriftspråk.
När Hiram slöt förbund med kung David och senare Salomo i Jerusalem var Tyr inte någon periferi. Det var en av Medelhavsvärldens viktigaste städer.
Libanon var länge en plats där handel, sjöfart och kultur möttes. Bergen gav skydd åt religiösa minoriteter. Maroniter, druser, sunniter, shiiter, grekisk-ortodoxa och andra grupper levde sida vid sida, inte alltid fredligt men inom samma geografiska ram. Idag finns det 18 erkända konfessioner, ca 1,3 miljoner syriska flyktingar och ca 250k palestinska flyktingar i ett land med ca 5,5 miljoner invånare.
Under stora delar av 1900-talet kallades Beirut Mellanösterns Paris. Banker, universitet, tidningar och förlag blomstrade. Människor från hela arabvärlden kom dit för att studera, investera och publicera sådant som inte kunde sägas hemma.
Sedan började landet användas som arena för andras projekt.
Först kom den arabiska nationalismens drömmar. Därefter de palestinska fraktionernas väpnade kamp. Sedan syrisk dominans. Därefter iransk expansion genom Hizbollah. Samtidigt genomförde Israel återkommande militära operationer på libanesiskt territorium.
Nästan varje regional konflikt har på något sätt utkämpats i Libanon.
Resultatet blev ett land som steg för steg förlorade kontrollen över sitt eget öde. Medan andra formulerade slagorden fick libaneserna betala priset i form av inbördeskrig, ockupationer, attentat, ekonomisk kollaps och massutvandring.
Libanons moderna historia kan i mångt och mycket beskrivas som historien om ett land som aldrig fått vara huvudperson i sin egen berättelse.
När omvärlden talar om Libanon handlar det sällan om libaneserna själva. Landet beskrivs som en front mot Israel, en bas för Hizbollah, en arena för Iran eller en följdfråga till Palestina. Nästan aldrig som en nation med egna intressen, egna drömmar och en egen historia.
Det är märkligt.
Libanon förtjänar att betraktas som mer än en bricka på andras spelbräden.
Kanske är det också den viktigaste lärdomen. Ett land som i århundraden bidragit till Medelhavets historia har under de senaste decennierna reducerats till en arena för andras ambitioner.
Det är hög tid att låta Libanon vara Libanon igen.
Nooshi Dadgostar är en hycklare som låtsas att hon inget visste. Jag, som redan för tio år sedan varnade partiledningen, vet att hon inte talar sanning, skriver den tidigare V-ledamoten Amineh Kakabaveh. https://t.co/4JOosZNgbI
Zelensky’s letter isn’t for Putin—it’s for ordinary Russians tired after 26 years. 🇷🇺 The war is failing, the regime is weak. The only peace plan: defeat and demilitarize. Putin’s collapse is near—subscribe and spread the truth! 🇺🇦🔥
#PutinCollapses#RussiaIsCollapsing #MakeRussiaSmallAgain #StandWithUkraine
This is Oleh.
He was 2.
russia decided that was enough.
A missile hit his home, killing Oleh, his mother, and 14 neighbors.
He never saw peace.
Never started school.
Never had a future.
His life ended before it began.
This is our Churchill vs. Chamberlain moment. Stand with good or stand with evil.
Ukraine is a democracy invaded by a dictator who wants to erase its independence, culture and people.
Ronald Reagan would stand with Ukraine and vote yes tonight. He would choose Churchill.