Splits between doves pushing for a quick diplomatic exit from war in Ukraine and hawks calling for Putin to be defeated threaten to tear the European Union apart this summer, a study finds today.
Most Europeans are ready to concede territorial losses for Ukraine in return for an end to the war as soon as possible, according to new opinion polling that reflects deep political divisions across Europe.
The coming days and weeks are critical for Ukraine’s future as Russia makes military gains in the Donbas and key EU countries are seeking a diplomatic end to the fighting without humiliating Moscow.
Most Europeans are ready to concede territorial losses for Ukraine in return for an end to the war as soon as possible, according to new opinion polling that reflects deep political divisions across Europe.
The coming days and weeks are critical for Ukraine’s future as Russia makes military gains in the Donbas and key EU countries are seeking a diplomatic end to the fighting without humiliating Moscow.
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Minsk Agreements ‘Meant Nothing,’ Were Used to Buy Time – Ukraine's Fmr Pres
Petro Poroshenko admitted the 2015 ceasefire in Donbass, which he negotiated with Russia, France and Germany as president of Ukraine, was merely a distraction intended to buy time for Kiev to rebuild its military.
He made the comments in interviews with several news outlets this week, including Germany’s Deutsche Welle television and the Ukrainian branch of the US state-run Radio Free Europe.
“We had achieved everything we wanted,” he said of the peace deal. “Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war – to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.”
Petro Poroshenko admitted the 2015 ceasefire in Donbass, which he negotiated with Russia, France and Germany as president of Ukraine, was merely a distraction intended to buy time for Kiev to rebuild its military.
He made the comments in interviews with several news outlets this week, including Germany’s Deutsche Welle television and the Ukrainian branch of the US state-run Radio Free Europe.
“We had achieved everything we wanted,” he said of the peace deal. “Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war – to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.”
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The governor of the Sumy region posted a video of a school that has been smashed by a Russian strike. And everything would have been fine, if the ammunition depot hadn't popped up (at 0:14). That's how Armed Forces of Ukraine are fighting against Russia: arranging military objects in schools, hospitals, kindergartens... meanly and cowardly.
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On June 12, as part of the International «Unconquered» campaign, the project participants unfurled the world's largest Victory Banner near the Victory museum on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow. The banner is more than 60 meters long and more than 30 meters wide, its areas is 2022 square meters. By June 22 it will be delivered to the Brest Hero Fortress (Belarus).
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🇷🇺10 highlights from Vladimir Putin's speech at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum:
✔️ The era of a unipolar world order has come to an end.
✔️The United States proclaimed itself to be God’s messenger on Earth.
✔️These are objective processes and genuinely revolutionary tectonic shifts in geopolitics, the global economy and technology. It would be a mistake to assume that everything will get back on track and become what it was before. It will not.
✔️Our colleagues in the Western states are trying to reverse the course of history. They seem to think in terms of the past century and harbour illusions. They refuse to notice obvious changes, stubbornly clinging to the shadows of the past.
✔️Countries of the so-called “golden billion” still treat all the other countries like colonies, and the people living there, like second-class people.
✔️The predictions of the dollar at 200 rubles and the collapse of the Russian economy have always been, and remain, just an instrument in an information struggle
✔️The economic blitzkrieg against Russia was doomed to fail from the beginning.
✔️The EU’s direct, calculable losses from the sanctions fever could exceed $400 billion this year.
✔️The root cause of the EU and US economic problems is their erroneous economic policies, and the Russian operation launched in Donbass is a lifeline they are grabbing at to be able to blame their own miscalculations on others, in this case, on Russia.
✔️The European Union has lost its political sovereignty
✔️ The era of a unipolar world order has come to an end.
✔️The United States proclaimed itself to be God’s messenger on Earth.
✔️These are objective processes and genuinely revolutionary tectonic shifts in geopolitics, the global economy and technology. It would be a mistake to assume that everything will get back on track and become what it was before. It will not.
✔️Our colleagues in the Western states are trying to reverse the course of history. They seem to think in terms of the past century and harbour illusions. They refuse to notice obvious changes, stubbornly clinging to the shadows of the past.
✔️Countries of the so-called “golden billion” still treat all the other countries like colonies, and the people living there, like second-class people.
✔️The predictions of the dollar at 200 rubles and the collapse of the Russian economy have always been, and remain, just an instrument in an information struggle
✔️The economic blitzkrieg against Russia was doomed to fail from the beginning.
✔️The EU’s direct, calculable losses from the sanctions fever could exceed $400 billion this year.
✔️The root cause of the EU and US economic problems is their erroneous economic policies, and the Russian operation launched in Donbass is a lifeline they are grabbing at to be able to blame their own miscalculations on others, in this case, on Russia.
✔️The European Union has lost its political sovereignty
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Thousands of people have gathered in London to protest against the government’s lack of action in tackling the cost of living crisis. Demonstrators carried banners reading “cut war not welfare” and “end fuel poverty, insulate homes now”.
Protesters marched from Portland Place to Parliament Square for a rally with speakers including Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the TUC, which organised the event. "Boris Johnson was 'cynically abandoning' his commitment to a high-wage economy", she claimed. “He and other ministers are treating workers like Oliver Twist by telling them not to dare ask for a decent pay rise,” she said. “The last thing we need right now is for wages to be held down".
Workers have lost an average of almost £20,000 in cumulative earnings since 2008 because pay has not kept pace with inflation. It's the biggest loss of “real wages” since the 1830s.
Protesters marched from Portland Place to Parliament Square for a rally with speakers including Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the TUC, which organised the event. "Boris Johnson was 'cynically abandoning' his commitment to a high-wage economy", she claimed. “He and other ministers are treating workers like Oliver Twist by telling them not to dare ask for a decent pay rise,” she said. “The last thing we need right now is for wages to be held down".
Workers have lost an average of almost £20,000 in cumulative earnings since 2008 because pay has not kept pace with inflation. It's the biggest loss of “real wages” since the 1830s.
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Estonia Faces ‘Concerning’ Winter With Energy Crisis
Estonian PM Kaja Kallas warned her country to expect “tough times ahead” with rocketing inflation and a deepening energy crunch ahead of winter.
Tallinn has cut all purchases of Russian gas after household energy costs shot up 50% in the second half of 2021 - the sharpest rise in the EU.
State borrowing is set to rise from 20% of GDP to 30% over the next 4 years as Kallas battles to hold a fragile coalition together, with other factions demanding more domestic spending in contrast to her austerity policy.
Estonian PM Kaja Kallas warned her country to expect “tough times ahead” with rocketing inflation and a deepening energy crunch ahead of winter.
Tallinn has cut all purchases of Russian gas after household energy costs shot up 50% in the second half of 2021 - the sharpest rise in the EU.
State borrowing is set to rise from 20% of GDP to 30% over the next 4 years as Kallas battles to hold a fragile coalition together, with other factions demanding more domestic spending in contrast to her austerity policy.
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Over 50 Ukrainian generals and officers killed in missile strike – Russia
The Russian Defense Ministry said Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy Western-supplied M777 howitzers and armored vehicles
Russian warships have destroyed a command center with Kalibr cruise missiles, killing dozens of Ukrainian officers, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
“More than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed,” the statement said.
According to the ministry, the strike took place near the village of Shirokaya Dacha in Dnepropetrovsk Region, Ukraine.
The missiles hit the compound where commanders of several Ukrainian units had gathered for a meeting, the ministry said.
The ministry added that Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy 10 M777 howitzers and up to 20 armored vehicles that were recently delivered from the West, and had been stored inside a factory building in the southern city of Nikolayev.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy Western-supplied M777 howitzers and armored vehicles
Russian warships have destroyed a command center with Kalibr cruise missiles, killing dozens of Ukrainian officers, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
“More than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed,” the statement said.
According to the ministry, the strike took place near the village of Shirokaya Dacha in Dnepropetrovsk Region, Ukraine.
The missiles hit the compound where commanders of several Ukrainian units had gathered for a meeting, the ministry said.
The ministry added that Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy 10 M777 howitzers and up to 20 armored vehicles that were recently delivered from the West, and had been stored inside a factory building in the southern city of Nikolayev.
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🇷🇺☦️ The fighters of the "🅾️" group help the residents of the DPR to restore an Orthodox church
The church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was damaged due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the dome and belfry were destroyed, the refectory was burned, icons were broken, many of which cannot be restored.
The church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was damaged due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the dome and belfry were destroyed, the refectory was burned, icons were broken, many of which cannot be restored.
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Short Documentary: "The seventh package of European sanctions against Russia" 😆
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KALININGRAD, June 18. /TASS/. Lithuania’s measures banning the transit of some goods from Russian regions through its territory to the Kaliningrad region are illegal and run counter to provisions of the agreement on Lithuania’s accession to the European Union, Governor Anton Alikhanov said in a video address on Saturday.
Alikhanov said earlier that Lithuania’s railways company had notified the railways company of the Kaliningrad region that they would ban the transit from Russia to the region of the goods that are subject to EU sanctions imposed on Moscow. "These steps are illegal and may entail far-reaching implications for Lithuania and the European Union", he said.
Alikhanov pointed out that the signatories to the 2004 agreement on Lithuania’s accession to the EU reaffirmed that they "will apply in practice the principle of freedom of transit of goods, including energy, between the Kaliningrad Region and the rest of Russian territory".
Alikhanov said earlier that Lithuania’s railways company had notified the railways company of the Kaliningrad region that they would ban the transit from Russia to the region of the goods that are subject to EU sanctions imposed on Moscow. "These steps are illegal and may entail far-reaching implications for Lithuania and the European Union", he said.
Alikhanov pointed out that the signatories to the 2004 agreement on Lithuania’s accession to the EU reaffirmed that they "will apply in practice the principle of freedom of transit of goods, including energy, between the Kaliningrad Region and the rest of Russian territory".
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June 13. Russian Federation Defense Ministry shows the work of Smerch Multiple Rocket Launcher System. It successfully hit the target and destroyed the Ukrainian warehouses with weapons and military equipment.
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NEW DELHI, June 18 - India's purchases of Russian coal and oil have spiked in recent weeks despite global sanctions on Moscow.
Its purchases of coal and related products jumped more than six-fold in the 20 days through Wednesday from the same period a year earlier to $331.17 million.
Indian refiners similarly have snapped up cheap Russian oil shunned by Western countries. The value of India's oil trade with Russia in the 20 days through Wednesday jumped more than 31-fold to $2.22 billion, the data showed.
Its purchases of coal and related products jumped more than six-fold in the 20 days through Wednesday from the same period a year earlier to $331.17 million.
Indian refiners similarly have snapped up cheap Russian oil shunned by Western countries. The value of India's oil trade with Russia in the 20 days through Wednesday jumped more than 31-fold to $2.22 billion, the data showed.
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The servicemen couldn't drive by and gave almost all of their provisions to the kids.
Russian military engineering troops, performing combat missions near Izyum, encountered a group of kids. The servicemen couldn't drive by and gave almost all of their provisions to children.
Russian military engineering troops, performing combat missions near Izyum, encountered a group of kids. The servicemen couldn't drive by and gave almost all of their provisions to children.
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🇲🇩 Moldova banned Russian news programs.
The country's authorities approved a law on the protection of the information sphere, which prohibits the rebroadcasting of news and analytical programs from Russia, as well as Russian war films. The bill was signed into law by the Moldovan President Maia Sandu. The law will take effect next week.
And what would we do without social media?
The country's authorities approved a law on the protection of the information sphere, which prohibits the rebroadcasting of news and analytical programs from Russia, as well as Russian war films. The bill was signed into law by the Moldovan President Maia Sandu. The law will take effect next week.
And what would we do without social media?
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Alexander Dubyago - the famous guy with the Russian flag – is back at home! His mother Svetlana has confirmed this. Unfortunately, the case against Alexander has not been closed and he is still under investigation. Alexander is charged with Article 74.1 of the Latvian criminal law (denial of genocide, crimes against humanity and justifying war crimes).
The Latvian girl Victoria, who stood next to Alexander when he was arrested for demonstrating the Russian flag, faced persecution by the authorities and had to flee her country. She went to Belarus, leaving all her friends and relatives behind. There she is talking about the lawlessness that is taking place in the "European" Latvia.
The Latvian girl Victoria, who stood next to Alexander when he was arrested for demonstrating the Russian flag, faced persecution by the authorities and had to flee her country. She went to Belarus, leaving all her friends and relatives behind. There she is talking about the lawlessness that is taking place in the "European" Latvia.
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