EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today to work on an "emergency security protocol" that would let member states coordinate a quick response once a hybrid threat is identified.
President Trump attributed rising diesel prices to Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries, saying the issue is a Russia problem rather than a Middle East one.
Yhdysvallat ei ole Venäjää kummempi. Alkaako seuraavaksi pommitus?
– Yhdysvallat kohdistaa Ukrainaan valtavaa painetta ja uhkaa vetää kaiken sotilaallisen apunsa pois, jos Ukraina ei viikon sisällä allekirjoita puitesopimusta rauhansuunnitelmasta.
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From the very beginning of my service as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Academy of Sciences became a second place of work for me. I knew every corner of this building, where the finest minds of our science and intelligentsia worked. And they knew me.
Today, this very place came under attack, and people close to me lost their lives. Simply because they loved their country. A raging barbarian has dared to commit every crime against humanity – both those documented and those not. And all this is happening in the 21st century, before the eyes of the entire world.
We will certainly rebuild it, our National Academy of Sciences. It will definitely exist. We cannot bring back only those who perished. And, of course, we will never forgive those responsible.
Condolences to the injured and the families of the deceased.
📷Yan Dobronosov
Negotiating with criminals and madmen like Putin is a fundamental mistake that will prolong Russia's imperialist war and result in far more deaths. The daily goal of the Western world must be the defeat of terrorist Russia and bringing Putin to trial in The Hague.
– Minulle on ollut tärkeää käydä tapaamassa ukrainalaisia rintamakomentajia ja keskustella heidän kanssaan taistelukentän muutoksesta, menestystekijöistä ja haasteista, jotta oma tekemisemme kytkeytyy oikealla tavalla meneillään olevaan muutokseen.
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Madyar: Ukraine searched for a weapon that worked, found the drone. The drone is the plague of the third millennium.
AI is becoming a digital panopticon, normalizing what looked impossible a year ago. With drones and robotics, AI becomes a weapon that can shape civilization.
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A Russian strike against the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. A rescue operation is underway: crews are putting out the fire and searching for people who may have been trapped inside. All services are deployed. Today in Kyiv, a pharmaceutical company and gas stations were also attacked; in Dnipro, a business center; and in other cities and regions, civilian facilities, businesses, and communications infrastructure were targeted as well. Sadly, people have been killed… My condolences to their families and loved ones. Russia will definitely face a response to this. And every one of Ukraine’s partners must see from this terror, from these strikes, that supporting Ukraine means truly supporting people’s lives – supporting the principle that terror must never be normalized, anywhere. Russia must be held accountable for all of this and face real consequences. I thank everyone who helps Ukraine!
If scenes like these came to us from Berlin, Paris or Washington, would the world remain indifferent?
This image was taken in Kyiv around noon today, after terrorist Russia struck the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with a drone.
❗️The EU called on member states to transfer Patriot interceptor missiles from their stockpiles to Ukraine and then replenish them with new deliveries. Kaja Kallas said this ahead of the defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels; she stressed the need to strengthen Ukraine’s air defence before winter and recalled EU funds allocated for joint procurement and compensation for previously transferred weapons.
✈️🇩🇪 Germany is ready to fight against Russia today and will defend every inch of NATO territory, - German Air Force commander
NATO will strike Kaliningrad, the Kola Peninsula, St. Petersburg, and the Black Sea in the event of a war against Russia.
🍁As surely as the leaves turn, the midterms draw near and the failed Trump regime dusts off its old footage of immigrant caravans trudging along some anonymous highway. Nothing in the clip tells you which way they are actually walking, or in which year, or on which continent, but a certain kind of voter has already decided they are heading straight for the United States, and that is all the regime needs.
We have seen this film before. The last time it played, the caravan mysteriously dissolved the morning after election day, as if the marchers had simply clocked out. Now the reel is back on the projector, right on schedule, and the same audience is settling in with the same popcorn.
Spain's former ambassador to Ukraine, López-Aranda: Around 210 billion euros of Russian assets is frozen in the EU. The returns already help Ukraine, but the principal is untouched.
Holding it for post-war compensation risks the war worsening for lack of resources — El Mundo 1/
If Russia sees that even members of the Coalition of the Willing are unwilling to articulate a clear strategic objective - namely, helping Ukraine achieve victory and pushing back Russian aggression - why should the Kremlin believe that we will have the resolve to defend NATO itself?
The Coalition of the Willing should, at a minimum, pursue three concrete objectives:
First, we need a substantial increase in military support for Ukraine - for example, a minimum of 0.25% of GDP annually - alongside continued support for Ukraine's financial system to help cover the costs of the war.
Second, we should prepare for a military humanitarian mission to protect Ukrainian cities and critical strategic infrastructure from Russia's massive aerial terror campaign.
Third, we need to apply decisive economic pressure on Russia so that its war machine can no longer operate at its current scale.
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President Zelensky is right, Russia is a terrorist state. Desperate at its war failure in Ukraine, Russia attacks civilians and civilian targets every day. #RussiaIsATerroristState
The scale of terror russia has unleashed in Ukraine could have been avoided.
But the world chose to watch the destruction of an entire nation as a safe reality show of someone else’s pain — from a safe distance.
Russia has found a way to overwhelm Ukraine's air defences with Iranian drones and Chinese engines. Kyiv is bracing for its hardest winter yet.
$300bn of Russian assets sit frozen in western banks. We must now put them to work for Ukraine.
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