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As long as moscow speaks the language of missiles, drones & blood, any proposal for peace sounds like a farce – EU Ambassador to Ukraine
29.11.2025
As long as moscow speaks the language of missiles, drones & blood — like last night — any proposal for peace sounds like a farce, writes EU ambassador to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova.I am disgusted and shocked by russia’s actions. Is this how they want an agreement? Or they just pretend? Or is killing and attacking simply more natural to them?Last night, russian forces struck Kyiv and several other regions of Ukraine — fighter jets launched 36 missiles and nearly 600 ...Real 28-Point Peace Plan from the Centre for Eastern European Democracy — Sheremeta
24.11.2025
Here is a real 28-Point Peace Plan from the Centre for Eastern European Democracy, writes Associate Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University Roman Sheremeta.I. Core Principles of a Just Peace1. Peace must be anchored in international law — not coercion, spheres of influence, or great-power deals.2. Borders cannot be changed by force. This post-WWII principle protects global stability.3. Ukraine’s territorial integrity is non-negotiable, including Crimea and all territories occupied from 2022–2025. No outside power may restrict Ukraine’s right to ...No plans developed without Ukraine can be imposed on Ukraine, where there is complete consensus on the “red lines” that cannot be crossed — Ukraine’s fifth president
23.11.2025
This is, without exaggeration, one of the most pivotal moments in modern Ukrainian history. We are entering a phase where every mistake can be extremely costly — not in a political or rating sense, but in terms of human lives, territories, and the future prospects of the state, the fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said in a statement.At such moments, internal unity ceases to be something that we just aspire to — it becomes a strategic imperative. That is ...A plan of real actions to physically reduce the flow of russian oil exports through the Baltic Sea
01.11.2025
A plan of real actions to physically reduce the flow of russian oil exports in the Baltic Sea. And about Crimea — of course — that the liberation of Crimea will begin the collapse of this version of the russian Empire, the co-founder and chief editor of the web portal blackseanews.net, Andrii Klymenko, wrote.To reduce the putin regime’s ability to finance the war, the Baltic Sea countries will have to find a way to limit the passage of tankers. There ...I can’t shrug off the feeling that by repeating the mistakes of 1938, we are strolling into 1939 — Gabrielius Landsbergis
29.10.2025
A real European peace plan would be one that reduces putin’s strength at home or in Ukraine, forcing him to change his calculations. If the russian people stop supporting him, if he cannot maintain the fight in Ukraine, if he sees that the West can support Ukraine longer than he can keep going – only then will his calculations start changing, Lithuania’s former foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis writes.Recent announcements carried a very important message: the current contact line would be considered ...Gabrielius Landsbergis: It’s time to face the hard reality of the still-approaching war
11.09.2025
2025 started with JD Vance making his famous “stepping up” speech in Munich, and alarm bells started ringing. Now it’s autumn, a good time to review European diplomatic achievements so far this year, the former foreign minister of Lithuania, Gabrielius Landsbergis, writes.Unfortunately — Europe didn’t even wake up, let alone step up.Europe instead based its summer security strategy on three pillars:1. Appeasing President Trump.This pillar can be summarised as paying and praying — paying with tariffs and promises of equipment ...Safety at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remains precarious, with six of Seven Pillars compromised – IAEA
11.09.2025
The safety situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remains precarious, with six of the Seven Pillars compromised. Only one off-site power line remains, posing serious safety risks. All six reactors are in cold shutdown and no reactor can safely be started under current conditions, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement.The cooling pond level has dropped to 13.4m, nearing the 12.0m threshold below which cooling systems fail. Measures to isolate the inlet channel offer short-term relief, but ...I’m asking you to think about all of the atrocities putin has committed against the Ukrainian people and what a threat he is to the world – Sheremeta
27.08.2025
I have wanted to post about the Trump-putin summit in Alaska last Friday, but I have struggled to write about it, unsure of how to even begin, writes Associate Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University Roman Sheremeta.I think most people agree that putin is an evil man. He is so evil that there are over 40,000 documented cases of war crimes that russia has committed against Ukrainians. Please let that number sink in; this is 40,000 separate incidents of ...putin & Co. smashed the “art of Trump’s deal-making” face on the table of Soviet diplomacy – Zerkal
19.08.2025
Lavrov’s sweatshirt with the letters “CCCP” written on it was a message that Americans understood only after the fact. They understood it after putin & Co. smashed the “art of Trump’s deal-making” face on the table of Soviet diplomacy. Soviet diplomacy had been honing its tactics of brutal blackmail and pressure for decades. Their approaches had not changed since the days of Gromyko, of whom Henry Kissinger said: “It was suicidal to negotiate with him without mastering the record,” ...Betrayal of Christian Witness in Welcoming a Dictator
17.08.2025
Beloved in Christ,It is with deep sorrow and righteous indignation that we respond to the recent words of a hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America, who publicly welcomed and complimented the President of the russian Federation during his visit to this continent, writes in an open letter Archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Daniel Zelinsky.Such gestures are not merely unfortunate; they are a betrayal of the Gospel of Christ and a scandal to the faithful. At ...
