Sorin Diaconescu 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇩🇪

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

If you want to measure the impact of a European leader, look at how much energy foreign adversaries spend trying to destroy their reputation.

The constant stream of pro-Russian and pro-China propaganda aimed at @kajakallas proves she is a formidable opponent to them, and while the exact powers of the EU High Representative position can potentially be reformed, Kallas has the ideal mindset to confront hostile autocrats.

European capitals have every right to analyze and potentially adjust the bureaucratic mandate of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Rethinking how the bloc coordinates its external actions is a standard part of institutional evolution, but any systemic flaws in the office cannot be blamed on Kallas.

The concentrated hostility directed at her from state media ecosystems in Russia and China (and some other enemies too) is an involuntary admission that her strategic clarity poses a major problem for them. Their fixation on Kallas confirms her status as a high-stakes obstacle.

She has a profound understanding of the psychological games autocrats play, and she refuses to grant them the passive diplomatic concessions they crave. Her clear, unyielding communication style helps insulate the European Union from the gaslighting tactics that hostile regimes use to manipulate Western policy.

The narrative attacks against her should therefore be viewed as validation of her approach. Discussions about reforming European diplomacy are healthy, but Kallas herself is not the issue, as her defiant attitude is exactly what is needed to face down modern authoritarian threats

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Enemies of Europe hate Kaja Kallas because she sees through their lies

[Sorin Melenciuc @SorinMelenciuc]

Dl. premier-desemnat, într-o întâlnire "foarte bună" cu dl. Ion Ceban, primarul Chișinăului și pro-rus asumat, în ianuarie 2025. Din păcate, dl. Ceban nu îl mai poate vizita din nou, are un necaz - adică interdicție de intrare în România din iulie 2025.

[Radu Hossu 🇹🇩🇺🇦 @RaduHossu]

The Ukrainian military is attempting to turn the Crimean Peninsula into the "island" of Crimea, and this is extremely important for the entire war.

How did we get here?

The Crimean Peninsula is connected to the mainland via two routes: the first is Crimea-Kherson (Ukraine) in the north of the peninsula, where three bridges serve this purpose: Chongar, Henichesk, and Armiansk. The second is Crimea-Krasnodar (Russia), via the Kerch Bridge.

Crimea was essential to the 2022 invasion because attacks on Ukraine’s southern front were launched from there. The invasion toward Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and later toward Mykolaiv and Odesa originated in Crimea.

The stabilized fronts in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were maintained in the first months of the invasion solely because of Crimea, through which the supply lines ran, where the military bases were located, and from where some of the Russian airstrikes on this flank were launched. In 2022, the Kerch Bridge was targeted by the Ukrainians. That strike knocked down a section of the bridge, destroyed the railway lines, and damaged its structure. To this day, the Kerch Bridge has not been used as a serious military logistics route.

Fast-forward to 2026, and we arrive in May of this year when Ukraine began targeting the logistics lines connecting Russia and Crimea via the "land bridge" of Mariupol-Berdiansk-Melitopol. These lines sustain and keep the southern front alive.

What is happening now?

For more than a year, Crimea has been the target of Ukrainian “mid-strike” attacks that are part of a shaping, modeling, and groundwork operation. Russian bases, radars, air defense systems, and naval bases have all been simply obliterated during this period.

The two operations—the one against the Mariupol-Crimea lines and the one against Crimea itself—have led to a dire situation on the peninsula. The population is on fuel rationing. Military bases are no longer defended. The naval fleet was forced as early as 2023 to flee to Novorossiysk.

It must be understood that if Crimea becomes militarily (and civilian) unsustainable, the Russian southern front faces a danger unlike any seen before in this war. Crimea REMAINS essential to this front. So the Ukrainians have gotten to work and:

This week they struck multiple times at the three access routes from the mainland to the peninsula: the Chongar, Henichesk, and Armiansk bridges. Crimea is close to complete isolation (it will never be entirely so).
The only operational military route is the one in Armiansk, because the bridge crosses the old canal that used to bring water from the Kahovka reservoir (destroyed by the Russians in 2023) to Crimea.

Crimea is on the verge of becoming a new disaster for the “second army of the world.” This year, the Ukrainians will certainly do everything in their power to isolate the Russian army there, weaken the southern front, and thus try to turn the tide of the war (because yes, Crimea could be one of the keys to an unexpectedly favorable outcome for Ukraine).

What might follow?

These operations will continue and intensify during these summer months, because Ukraine has the necessary resources: equipment (FP-2 attack drones and Behemoth—we’ll be hearing a lot about this new “Shahed-type” drone, but Ukrainian-made, with a dual payload), identification technology, acquisition, AI-guided strikes, and the necessary financial resources.

In Crimea, this year, the fate of this war MAY be “decided,” at least in part. To give you an idea, the isolation and blockade of Crimea could open the possibility (in a best-case scenario) of liberating the Kherson region (on the left bank of the Dnieper) and liberating Melitopol, the collapse of the Zaporizhzhia front, the liberation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the liberation of Berdiansk, and forcing the Russians to redeploy units from the eastern front, opening up opportunities for Ukraine there as well.

Slava Ukraini!

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Never forget that Trump betrayed the US by appointing a Russian agent as Director of National Intelligence. He knew what he was doing

[Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen and Rants" Masala @CarloMasala1]

Biolabore ≠ Biowaffenlabore

Ich weiß: schwer zu verstehen.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

Revoke the security clearance.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

⚔️"Magyar" named the cost of eliminating one occupier for Ukraine

As the SBS commander noted, the cost of destroying one occupier does not even reach $1,000.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged?

MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: Europe cannot enter talks with Putin as both mediator and participant.

If Europe acts as mediator, it starts trading Ukrainian territory. But if Ukraine stops fighting, Europe will have to fight Putin itself. Europe must be part of Ukraine’s coalition. 1/

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Let's Go Knicks! 🏀 Unfortunately, I'm far from NYC tonight, but will be cheering from Copenhagen!

[Sorin Diaconescu 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇩🇪 @sorind83]

@rolegiongetica Uraste Rusia... e de-al nostru....

[Romanian Battlegroup "Getica" @rolegiongetica]

Am urmarit o ora si jumatate interviul integral al lui Eugen Tomac la Antena3.

Uraste rusia, e istoric. (e primul demnitar roman pe care il aud ca ii numeste inamici pe orci, chapeau!)

E mai roman decat multi romani nascuti in Romania care slavesc inamicul! Respect!

Considera propaganda rusa ca fiind foarte periculoasa si a vorbit despre multe chestii concrete in privinta asta, inclusiv despre ce il califica sa recunoasca mancatoria de rahat muscalesc din Romania.

Nu va discuta cu AUR pentru ca "nu am ce sa discut cu partide care voteaza impotriva interesului national".

Nu stiu daca o sa vada situatia actuala mai bine decat Bolojan, dar e prieten cu ND de 25 de ani, zice el. Colaborarea dintre prim-ministru si presedinte e asigurata, as zice eu.

România...

Eugen Tomac: Țara mea

Moldova

Eugen Tomac: Parte din țara mea

Europa

Eugen Tomac: O port în suflet

Statele Unite

Eugen Tomac: Am încredere

Rusia

Eugen Tomac: Inamic

Ucraina

Eugen Tomac: O țară pe care o respectăm

Getica

Eugen Tomac: PATRIA ANTE OMNIA

(ultima a fost gluma)

Sper sa ii treaca guvernul de Parlament. Opinie personala. Urmariti interviul.

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[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Ukrainian forces in just 1 week have destroyed over 110 pieces of Russian military equipment including logistical trucks and armoured vehicles on the southern frontline logistical strike campaign causing significant concern for Russian commanders.

[Dr. Michael Schaaf @SchaafAmBerg]

Die DROHNEN-Überlegenheit der Ukraine ist so groß geworden, dass Russland diesen permanenten Angriffswellen nichts mehr entgegen setzen kann.
Der Krieg ist für Putin verloren. Die Bevölkerung beginnt zu leiden, nicht nur auf der Krim.
Lage: etwa Berlin 1943 nach Stalingrad.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

Moscow 👀👀👀👀

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

🚨 NXT4EU endorses Gabriel Attal for the French presidential election!

Attal wants to end decline, and offer a spark of hope with an agenda of Freedom, Ambition and Progress.

Protecting French culture, making France the "Leading European Power" and ending culture wars.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Meanwhile, the gigantic oil depot at Russia’s Novorossiysk.

Again? Yes, again.

[Nordic News @Nordic_News]

Sweden calling on EU countries to ban Russian tourists
https://t.co/vsCmimNCE4