This is serious if true. Intelligence cooperation in the West has always been based on trust. Now the 🇺🇸 intelligence structures are purged of competent 🇷🇺 analysts, and sharing of intelligence with allies is said to be limited.

The 🇺🇦 drone strikes against 🇷🇺 refineries are starting to have a substantial impact on the domestic 🇷🇺 market. It seems 🇷🇺 air defenses are not fully up to countering this threat.

There are worse settings in which to reflect on the state of our Europe. As usual lively discussions at ⁦@forumalpbach⁩ #efa25. And we even expect some glimpses of sun by tomorrow.

”More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released today.” ⁦@WFP⁩

Leaving a at the moment very rainy Stockholm 🇸🇪 and heading to ⁦@forumalpbach⁩ #efa25 🇦🇹 for discussions on how we can re-energize our Europe.

Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.

The new long range heavy 🇺🇦 cruise missile Flamingo is likely to threaten key 🇷🇺 military and infrastructure facilities. It has a much larger warhead than the smaller drones now used for long range strike.

The nostalgia bomb. Russia’s obsession with recreating its Soviet past could lead to a repeat of the USSR’s bleak end — Novaya Gazeta Europe

”If intelligence analysts at the CIA saw our rivals engage in this kind of great-power suicide, we would break out the bourbon. Instead, the sound we hear is of champagne glasses clinking in the Kremlin and Zhongnanhai.” Strong words from Bill Burns.

There is - and justifiably so - global attention to the spectacular move of the Kiruna 🇸🇪 church to a new location. The gradual expansion of the huge underground iron ore mine makes it necessary to move the entire center of the city.

RT @ProSyn: Carl Bildt explains how nostalgia for the Soviet Union has destroyed the country's hope for a brighter future. .

Of course 🇷🇺 wants a say in any security guarantees for🇺🇦. But they should be told in clear terms also by the 🇺🇸 that this is no business of theirs.

RT @gzeromedia: In a new GZEROEurope, @carlbildt discusses the Trump-Putin meeting and Zelensky’s visit to the White House. "From the Euro….

It was important that the presence of 🇪🇺🇬🇧 leaders in DC yesterday prevented Trump 🇺🇸 from pressing Zelensky 🇺🇦 into ”land swap” deals of the sort that Putin 🇷🇺 evidently asked for in Alaska. As for the rest - let’s see.

RT @EuromaidanPress: German Chancellor Merz: “The path to peace is open… but I can’t imagine the next meeting without a ceasefire. Let’s wo….

It’s was healthy that both Chancellor Merz 🇩🇪 and President Macron 🇫🇷 were explicit in calling for a 🇺🇦🇷🇺 ceasefire as the necessary first step. President Trump 🇺🇸 was less than pleased. But there is no route towards peace that doesn’t start with a ceasefire.

Very muddled thinking by Trump 🇺🇸 on ceasefire versus peace. He’s clearing been listening to Putin 🇷🇺. But this muddled policy will unfortunately bring nothing.

This looks rather strange to me. Are European 🇪🇺🇬🇧leaders just supposed to hang around for two hours in the White House before they are joined into the talks between Trump 🇺🇸 and Zelensky 🇺🇦? If that’s the case it’s slightly humiliating.

Now Witkoff 🇺🇸 says that security guarantees would be there for 🇺🇦. Well, 🇷🇺 suggested that from the beginning, with 🇷🇺 having a say in them. I bet that’s still what Witkoff has picked up. Beware.

The level of dep concern in Europe over the consequences of the Trump 🇺🇸 collapse in Alaska is expressed by the numbers of leaders rushing to Washington to support Zelensky 🇺🇦. We have never seen anything even resembling this.

Hardly surprising, and unfortunately not incorrect, the Moscow media sees the Alaska summit as a triumph for the Putin 🇷🇺 approach to the war. @BBCSteveR