Depending on which #EU country you are in, the #elections have started, or will start very soon. I can't stress how important they are. Not only because we're facing off with far-right groups funded and propped by foreign regimes, but also because our future's at stake and yet our share of the vote is small.
At 43, I don't consider myself young anymore, I'm a grown ass adult, and yet there's more electors in the EU who are older than me than those who are younger than me.
News: Germany Bundeswehr General Christian Freuding indicated that Ukrainian forces able to target Russian aircraft over Russia with their German-supplied weapons. Thank you, Germany.
Waiting for the ever promised massive Russian escalation and nuclear apocalypse resulting from Ukraine now firing western weapons at targets inside Russia.
OTD in 1996, Ukraine had transferred the last of the nuclear warheads on its territory to Russia.
In 2014, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the first time, the Budapest Memorandum was violated by terrorist russian state.
Russia violated its agreement to have peace and protection with neighbor Ukraine. The Russian aggressor also threatens nuclear war with Ukraine. Clearly, the wrong nation disarmed.
Russia violated its security agreement. Russia war of genocide must be stopped.
The world must unite to protect children from the genocidal war waged against a sovereign nation by a terrorist state.
Since February 24, 2022, the Russian military killed untold thousands of Ukrainian children. In occupied territories, the number of murdered children is not yet known. This is genocide. We can not bring these children back to life, but we can do everything to save others.
After a year of research, #NYT journalists have created a map of all of the damage done to buildings in #Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion.
More buildings in Ukraine have been destroyed, than if Manhattan was flattened 4x.
Russia has destroyed over 50% of Ukraine's power generation capacity, FT reports.
#Russian attacks on #Ukrainian power plants aren't new, but, the #EU ambassador to Kyiv said that the most recent strikes have hit hydroelectric and thermal power plants, which are harder to fix.
According to leaked documents, if the #EU extends sanctions on #Moscow indefinitely, the U.S. could loan $50 bn to #Ukraine that would be covered by the money from frozen Russian assets.
EU sanctions must be renewed 2x a year with unanimous consent from the bloc.
A Deep Dive into Corruption. MOL oil money comes from Putin, Russia fbs criminals to finance disinformation and propaganda operations in Europe to target freedom and the rule of law. 🚨
What a bastard….article 7 time! Orbáns' Scandalous Propaganda Empire Exposed.
Journalists from the New York Times have conducted an investigation for many months and conducted over 110 interviews to trace a network of Russian politicians kidnapping Ukrainian children - a war crime.
This is very important for future criminal investigations of Russian war crimes.
Name another country where 508,000, over half-million people could die in a futile war and still, not only is the country not on the brink of revolt, people are pretty chill about the whole thing.
⚡️A poll released on May 30 by the Levada Center, a Russian independent polling organization, found that 71% of respondents believed Russia is "going in the right direction," and another 87% said they supported Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A lot of external and even emigre observers with a Moscowcentric view of Russia tend to underplay how hierarchically stratified Russian society is in class terms.
The bleeding out of the lower working class and rural poor often just evinces a shrug from other class groups.
Fascist Russia cut undersea communications cables.
Nothing to see here. Just perfectly normal russian bottom trawling back and forth repeatedly just on top of the main fiber optic internet cable between Svalbard and the Norwegian mainland.
The sabotage of the #Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the #Baltic Sea shed new light on two incidents in the Norwegian Arctic involving the cutting of communication cables.
Deren Ausreden sind einfach nur plump und frech oder wissen die es wirklich nicht besser?!?? Nun ja, bis die mal selber deswegen betroffen sein werden…
»Verschlüsselung: Polizei will in Echtzeit an Datenströme von WhatsApp & Co.
Eine Informationsfreiheitsanfrage eröffnet Einblicke in die Arbeit der europäischen "Going Dark"-Expertengruppe, die das "Verschlüsselungsproblem" knacken soll.«
MEP @echo_pbreyer for a long time is raising awareness of the pervasive #privacy-eroding nature of this regulation, which won't have its intended effect of protecting children.
Nazi Russians barbarians were never punished after WW2, after their partners in crime Hitler's nazis turned on them. Today, we see Russian barbarians continue murder, rape, destroy.
Millions of Ukrainians are homeless.Since February 2022, Russian missiles have destroyed more than 150,000 houses in Ukraine. 5 million Ukrainians lost their homes. 3.8 Million Ukrainians are internally displaced, 6.5 Million Ukrainians are refugees globally, 14.6 Million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian aid.
V. Putin has masterminded the killing of hundreds of thousands of Russians, an untold number of Ukrainians, the disruption of the global economy, and unimagined hardship among the Russian populace.
Vanuatu Faces Visa Requirement Permanently as EU Targets Citizenship By Investment (CBI) Schemes (www.stvincenttimes.com)
The EU Commission is proposing today to permanently re-introduce the visa requirement for citizens of Vanuatu....