🇺🇦 I am an associate professor at MIM Business School in Kyiv, Ukraine. Posting on business education, negotiations, leadership, and communication. #rp
A European capital is on fire because Russia spent the night firing missiles at civilians in their beds.
Kyiv is full of smoke. People are buried under rubble.
This is terrorism.
IN DENMARK 🇩🇰 we don’t celebrate Independence Day, because 🇩🇰 were never ruled by any other nation.
🇩🇰 went to war more than 200 times & we lost some, but we never fully lost our sovereignty.
Foreign National flags are BANNED in our kingdom. Except the flag of #ukraine 🇺🇦
Since 2022, an exemption in our flag-law allows flying the Ukrainian flag, because we acknowledge that Ukraine is protecting OUR SOVEREIGNTY‼️
SLAVA UKRAINI 🇩🇰🫡🇺🇦
❗️A Russian KAB bomb killed a 23 year old young woman in Kharkiv.
She has arrived for her graduation ceremony. Her cap and gown were found by her body.
Deepest condolences...
Russia is a murderer.
Всі бачили відео з образами на адресу українки-касирки у Польщі. Часу від моменту публікації до затримання нечемного дідка-шовініста минуло небагато. Польська держава, як бачимо, не толерує таку поведінку. Дуже добре.
It isn't just Ireland that's helping russia, it's the whole of Europe. This year I travelled across the EU to expose how the shadow fleet transports billions of euros in oil to russias war machine. All of this could have been stopped years ago.
Here's the full documentary 🚨
Wow. Laura Loomer: "A lot of us just became overly sympathetic to Russia... But now when I see Russians say things like "we need to denazify Ukraine" and "we need to continue our brutal war with Ukraine", while they pretend to be some Orthodox Christian country, but they're slaughtering hundreds of 1000s of young Christians in Ukraine, and then they're supporting actual neo-Nazis in the U.S. I'm like, "Wow, we fell for Russian propaganda", and I fell for Russian propaganda.
I've been so anti-Ukraine for so long, and I have parroted these talking points, thinking that I was saying the right thing, not recognizing how I was being emotionally manipulated by propaganda online.
I felt a little embarrassed, to be completely honest, sending a correspondent @MooreIAm to Ukraine because I thought, well, people are going to attack me, and they're going to say that I'm a hypocrite, and they're not going to be gracious, and they're not going to give me an opportunity to change my opinion."
16 500 причин не сваритися з ЦСО «А» @ServiceSsu
Саме стільки FPV-дронів «Повернись живим» передав тим, хто вже як три місяці утримує першість за кількістю знищених ворожих цілей серед усіх підрозділів Сил оборони❗️
Right now, as Russians continue to strike #Kyiv with over a dozen of ballistic missiles, the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.
A brutal assault on our people and our heritage. This is the true face of Russia’s Orthodox values.
Cluster 1, “Fundamentals,” to be open – a decisive step bringing Ukraine closer to EU membership.
This proves that reforms work, and that enlargement remains merit-based, credible, and alive.
This is not the finish line. It is the beginning of the hardest work – a shared effort to fulfill the aspiration of the Ukrainian people, who have given so much for their European future.
Ukraine is ready. Europe is moving forward, united.
Thank you, @CY2026EU, @vonderleyen, @eucopresident, @MartaKosEU, @kajakallas, and the leaders of all EU member states for your unwavering support and historic contribution.
Today, the European Union took a major step forward.
All Member States agreed to open the first accession negotiations cluster with Ukraine and Moldova.
At the first Intergovernmental Conference on Monday, we will open the cluster on fundamentals; the backbone of the accession process.
It covers the core values and principles on which the EU is built, from the rule of law to strong democratic institutions.
This is a recognition of the determination, courage and hard work shown by both countries in advancing reforms, even in the face of immense challenges.
And a signal that the EU’s offer of peace, stability and opportunity is unmatchable.
Enlargement is a strategic choice.
By bringing our nations closer together, we strengthen peace, security and prosperity across our continent.
In a world marked by growing uncertainty, a larger European Union is in our common interest.
Enlargement remains one of the EU’s greatest success stories and our best investment in our shared future.
As the shelling of Ukraine becomes more frequent and widespread, and as the West fears a future war between NATO countries and Russia, I would like to remind you of the chances the world has missed to destroy the Russian empire.
Over the past hundred years, the United States has repeatedly had the chance to end Russian imperialism forever, but it has never seized the opportunity.
The first time was when William Bullitt brought back from Petrograd in 1919 Lenin's proposal for a ceasefire and fixing the borders in their current state, i.e., dividing Russia into five or more sovereign states.
For some reason, Woodrow Wilson did not even find time to respond to such an excellent proposal. Moreover, the famous Fourteen Points, in which he outlined his vision of the international order after World War I, despite promises, were not implemented. Even then, it was clear that the terms of the Treaty of Versailles would push Germany and Russia into each other's arms, and that World War II would become inevitable.
Bullitt made his attitude to this fact clear by resigning from the State Department in protest.
The second chance came during the Second World War, when the United States began to help the USSR by providing arms, ammunition, food, transportation, and ammunition under the terms of the Lend-Lease. This dramatically influenced the course of the war and allowed the USSR to defeat Nazi Germany.
Having such a favorable negotiating position, the #US government, for some reason, did not receive any written guarantees from the USSR that the population in the liberated European territories would not be subjected to the criminal, communist ideology.
Moreover, at that time, it was even possible to demand that Stalin soften the internal policy of the USSR. This could have significantly affected the fate of the peoples enslaved by the communist regime within the then Soviet state.
But Roosevelt did nothing in this direction. Now we all understand the reason why. According to researchers, Franklin Roosevelt's administration was literally crawling with Stalinist agents. In particular, his most trusted man, Alger Hiss, head of the Office of Special Political Relations, whom Roosevelt had instructed to work out the creation of the United Nations, was a spy for the USSR.
Roosevelt was satisfied with Stalin's vague promises that he would not use terrorist methods in his zone of influence.
Stalin once again deceived the U.S. leadership by not keeping his word, and as a result, 140 million Europeans were thrown into the hell of Soviet dictatorship for more than 50 years.
The third chance came in 1991, when the USSR finally collapsed.
The U.S. government was supposed to support all necessary democratic transformations in Russia until its complete de-imperialization.
For some unknown reason, Ronald Reagan's assertion that Russia was an evil empire was ignored. Historical lessons were not taken into account, for example, George Kennan's "Long Telegram," in which he described in detail the impossibility of cooperation with the USSR "Soviet leaders are driven [by] necessities of their own past and present position to put forward which [apparent omission] outside world as evil, hostile and menacing."
I would like to remind you that William Bullitt and George Kennan studied Russia very well, communicating with the intellectual elite of the USSR at the time. It is an interesting fact that "Bullitt and Kennan were friends with Bulgakov, and became the prototypes of the characters: Voland and Koroviev in The Master and Margarita. Despite Bullit's warm personal relationship with Stalin and other Soviet leaders, he informed Washington about the real, terrifying nature of the USSR."
Instead of obstruction, the U.S. offered Russia the scam of taking the USSR's seat in the UN, thereby demonstrating its willingness to indulge the Kremlin rulers' further imperial ambitions. By neglecting the global denuclearization of Russia, the U.S. allowed the entire nuclear stockpile of the USSR to be concentrated in the hands of one crazy scoundrel.
Very soon, we will win this war, and by "we" I mean Ukraine and the collective West.
We have no right to ignore such hard and tragic lessons of history and not take advantage of the fourth chance to end Russian imperialism. Russia must be finally denuclearized, de-imperialized, disarmed, go through the process of purification, and be under external control for at least 20-30 years.
It must be finally understood that there is no point in negotiating with Russia and that the fifth chance to end the Russian empire may not come. Russia is not a state, but a terrorist entity, and after its defeat, all its territory will have to come under the trusteeship of the United Nations, and only under such conditions will it have the opportunity to become a civilized country for the first time in its existence.
#unrussiaUN #russiaisateroriststate #UkraineRussiaWar #StandWithUkraine
russians just struck a baby food factory near Kyiv.
Yagotynske for Children — the plant that produces milk and food for Ukrainian infants and small children.
4 killed. More may still be under the rubble.
This isn’t war.
It’s the deliberate killing of civilians who feed Ukrainian babies. Pure evil.
Scandal brewing in “neutral” Ireland after revelations that one Russian-affiliated plant there has been supplying over 83% Irish exports of alumina to Russia where it’s smelted into aluminum, a critical component for war production.
Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, Europe’s largest alumina refinery, owned by United Company Rusal (Russia’s largest aluminium producer), whose parent EN+ Group was founded by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. An investigation by the Irish Times, OCCRP and other outlets, drawing on confidential documents, customs data and satellite imagery, established the supply chain.
The Irish government tried to deflect but when a reporter filmed the plant with signs in Russian, they could no longer deny it. Now internal documents were leaked showing that the company is threatening the Irish government with loss of jobs and all sorts of things if it tried to curb its exports to Russia.
The newest defense is that alumina isn’t under EU sanctions so technically no rules were broken. Except Ireland had no problem defying the EU and forging ahead with its own restrictions on imports from Israel with its Occupied Territories Bill. Because… reasons (or maybe Russian occupation of Ukraine is OK while Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is not).
Australia stopped its alumina exports to Russia because the material is so necessary for the war (its main exporter was also 20%-owned by Deripaska). The neutral Irish government is operating under different standards, where morality is spelled in Russian.
I wonder what the Irish people, who overwhelmingly support Ukraine (in fact, they are among the strongest supporters in Europe when it comes to economic and financial aid), think about all of this.
🇩🇪 Engines from the German company MAN continue to arrive in Russia, an investigation by the Dossier Center and the Süddeutsche Zeitung has shown.
They are supplied to Russia via a Turkish company, where they are installed on the Sobol border boats.
The Turkish company does not indicate Russia as the final buyer, so the manufacturer may not know where the products are going, but experts say that without engineers from the manufacturing company, the engines cannot be installed on Russian boats.
Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’
I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine.
I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues
Russian strike on an ambulance in Kherson today.
Russia is systematically tearing Kherson apart, committing one war crime after another. The city is in a desperate, critical situation‼️‼️
I asked a local councillor if the russian refinery here in Ireland should be sanctioned.
He said yes, if it was supplying Israel.
But Russia? No.
This is Ireland’s sanctions hypocrisy in 90 seconds.
For weeks, Irish politicians have dodged questions about the refinery in Ireland supplying Russia’s war machine.
So I tracked down government minister Niall Collins at a farming show.
He refuses to back sanctions & his stance was worse than I expected.
Avoidance.