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Radek Sikorski
24 days
Attack on civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Ukrainian authorities have been warning us that they are running out of effectors for their antimissile systems and they’ve been begging US congress to pass the aid package. Now we see the results of the lack of it.
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I wonder if France and Germany realise how much credibility they are losing in Central Europe with their policy on Ukraine.
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2 years
I have a message to my Russian followers who accept Putin's narrative about Russia's right to dominate, invade or partition Ukraine. If you want a 19th century-style empire, you might have to live technologically in the 19th century. Your choice. Enjoy.
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Lukashenka hijacked an EU-owned, EU-registered plane full of EU citizens travelling between EU capitals in order to seize an EU-recognized political refugee. If we don't make this tin-horned dictator regret it, what hope is there of restraining bigger scoundrels?
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For the record.
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We should promptly start large NATO exercises in the Baltic States and the Far East, to draw Putin's forces away from Ukraine.
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3 months
Poland categorically rejects suggestions that we inspired @TuckerCarlson to propose to Vladimir Putin the return to borders of the 1650s in Eastern Europe. 😀
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Get this, @RussianEmbassy , once and for all, in a language you can grasp. We were not orphaned by you because you were not our daddy. More of a serial rapist. Which is why you are not missed. And if you try it again, you'll get a kick in the balls.
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FM #Lavrov : #NATO has become a purely #geopolitical project aimed at taking over territories orphaned by the collapse of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation and the Soviet Union.
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She earned it.
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The Polish middle class has mobilized to keep us a European democracy. Huge turnout in metropolitan areas, demotivated traditionalist South-East. In these dark times forces of light need a break and it looks like Poland might provide it.
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2 years
Nothing like news of victory in the morning.
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2 years
I support the proposal in the Russian Duma to restore to Russia the Soviet flag. They've returned to murdering wholesale so the flag of a genocidal empire seems appropriate.
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Bye, bye Kyiv. Thank you, Ukrainian Railways.
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It's not the first time the Russian dictator V. Putin blames 🇵🇱, invaded by the USSR on 17.09.1939, for the outbreak of the #WWII . We are used to paranoid justifications for Russia's invasion of 🇺🇦 in 2022. What’s shocking is that this time they are enabled by an 🇺🇸 journalist.
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@AdinaValean @Ryanair Commissioner, I expect you to ban @Belavia_by from European airspace until Mr Raman Protasevich is released. The Belorussian MIG-29 threatened European citizens with murder in order to illegally seize an EU-protected political refugee.
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2 years
Back in Poland.
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2 years
Let us strategically use the EU's soft power, Ursula @vonderleyen . We can offer every defecting Russian soldier €3000 and a 3 year work permit. The way West Germany welcomed East Germans crossing the Wall. Ready to back you in @Europarl_EN . I mean it.
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It's beginning to look like Russian soldiers really don't want to die for mad Vlad.
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2 months
Let’s be clear on this: when a commentator or a politician calls for ‚peace’ and simultaneously advocates denying the victim of aggression the means to defend herself they actually mean that the victim should capitulate. Such Chamberlainism usually covers baser motives.
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2 years
A completely unprovoked invasion on Ukraine launched by a mad Russian dictator upon a smaller neighbour whose only crime has been to be a Europe-leaning democracy. This cannot stand. This is is worth fighting against.
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3 months
Worse. Putin suggested that Poland deserved to be invaded because we didn’t join in the Nazi crusade to conquer the Soviet Union. And the Soviet Union was therefore justified in dismembering us together with Hitler. Some gratitude.
@carlbildt
Carl Bildt
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It is indeed true that in 1939 🇵🇱 didn’t bend to Hitler. For Putin 🇷🇺 that seems to justify the Hitler decision to invade and try to annihilate the country. His historical revisionism is breathtaking in all its implications.
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2 years
@GermanyNATO @Bundeskanzler If you have doubts about fighting violence with violence then why are you wasting EUR50 billion p.a. on defence?
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2 years
Proud of you, Petro @poroshenko .
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“How long do you think you can hold out?” “Forever.” Former Ukrainian President @poroshenko takes up a Kalashnikov rifle alongside civilian defense forces as he speaks to @JohnBerman from the streets of Kyiv.
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@Amb_Ulyanov Excellency, Aren't you one of the liars who claimed that Ukraine intended to attack and that Russia would never do anything so barbaric? You are serving war criminals. So, resign and apologize or fuck off.
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2 years
For a nation that, according to Putin, doesn't exist and certainly doesn't deserve a state, Ukraine seems to attract more sympathy and support around the world these days than his authoritarian, kleptocratic Russia.
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3 years
If it turns out that the KGB operatives who boarded the @Ryanair plane highjacked to Minsk were Russian then Russian personnel and Russian assets should also be sanctioned. Stopping Nordstream 2 would be simplest and best.
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2 years
Russia is preparing to fabricate a chemical weapons incident to try to blame it on the Ukrainians. It'll be as credible as Sergei Lavrov claiming that Russia has not invaded.
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2 years
Irrespective of whether Putin invades or not, it's already clear we have a madman with nukes on our hands.
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2 years
The European Parliament will submit its proposals on the future of Europe to EU leaders on Europe Day on 9 May. The challenges of the future require a Union that is not a super state but a superpower, so it is strong enough to not only stand up to Putin, but to send him to hell.
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I worked with Donald Rumsfeld as Poland's minister of defence during the Iraq war 2005-2007 and I agree with this assessment. The man was a spiteful prig who landed the U.S. and its allies into a sea of unnecessary trouble.
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2 months
Please, watch this.
@DmytroKuleba
Dmytro Kuleba
2 months
Russia was forced to attack Ukraine because Ukrainians wanted to join NATO? NATO promised it would not expand to the east but later broke this promise? It will take me less than five minutes to prove with facts that both statements are false.
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The people of Russia should reflect that the rebuilding of empire also means full dictatorship, including domestic terror. A war on Ukraine will also be a war on them. The time to protest is now.
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3 years
East European lorry drivers were supposed to leave, so they've left. Isn't it what you wanted @MailOnline ?
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2 years
Let's take note.
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#Belgrade (Serbia) is the only city in the world where mass rallies in support of #Russia take place
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Thousands of people have signed a petition in Ukraine to bring back the historical name Muscovy to refer to today's Russia. Since Kyiv Rus was the common ancestor of both countries, it would clarify matters. And, since Kyiv predates Moscow, vindicate a case of stolen identity.
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@Amb_Ulyanov In addition, what are you doing on Twitter, which your government has banned in Russia?
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1 year
Outrageous insult to the European Union and millions of victims of Nazi rule. I don't know what's happened to the liberal anti-Communist I once admired. But if he wants to play this game I remind him that Hungarian troops supported Hitler in the effort all the way to Stalingrad.
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Sándor Rónai
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Viktor Orbán stated that Adolf Hitler also dreamed of European unity.
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Good illustration of Russia's standing.
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Bravo, 🇮🇱, for repelling a huge Iranian aerial assault, coordinated from several directions. Israel’s anti-missile capabilities should be strengthened and similar defences should be sent to Ukraine. @SpeakerJohnson , please let the House vote on the 🇮🇱&🇺🇦 support bill.
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2 years
No. Strength deters. What provokes is weakness.
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2 years
Which means that not only Ukraine but also Belorus, Moldova and the Baltic states, members of NATO and the EU, are potential targets.
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Says it was a mistake to grant rights to exit USSR for republics
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Ukrainian soldiers with a Polish howitzer that shoots American precision shells in defence of the future border of the European Union. Good luck in your counter-offensive, Ukraine! 🇵🇱🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸
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Then they protest about Russophobia.
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Anton Gerashchenko
1 month
Russian propagandists want to "restore historical justice" by capturing Finland, Poland, Baltic States and Alaska. Serbia will join voluntarily, they believe.
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2nd, they seem to think that the road to peace is to satisfy Putin with Ukrainian land rather than convincing Putin and Russia that the neo-imperial project is not worth the cost.
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It might be quite useful for Western politicians to be making those pilgrimages to Moscow and get humiliated there. Only then do they get any inkling of what we in Central Europe have been dealing with for 300 years.
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Are you the same @Amb_Ulyanov who swore in January that Russia would never ever do anything so cruel and stupid as to invade Ukraine? Do you people have no shame at all?
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And not a single refugee camp in Poland yet. Fleeing Ukrainians, mainly women and children, have been received into Polish homes. Solidarity.
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Countries to which #Ukrainian refugees go
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Apparently it's not Russia but Ukraine that's preparing to invade, in Donbas. It'll be the first in history that a country would invade itself. And fight Russian troops that are not there.
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What I’d like to know is whether those brave Russians who called Putin’s invasion of Ukraine a war before the Kremlin spokesman Peskov did will now be released from prison.
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3 months
It's even more urgent now.
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"If the election in the US goes the wrong way next year, we will be in real trouble. And I beg you, colleagues, we need to get serious about European defence", says @sikorskiradek . Watch⤵️ #EPlenary #EUDefence
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Polish public TV yesterday: "The opposition causes inflation in Poland."
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3rd They are trying to make a deal with Putin over the heads of countries with a bigger stake in this fight then they, primarily Russia's and Ukraine's neighbours.
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2 years
Looks like the Russian army is making lots of what they call gestures of good will. Which is to say getting licked real good. The ultimate politeness would be for them to fuck off from all of Ukraine.
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Victor Orban has vetoed sanctioning the Russian warmonger Cyril, who backed Putin's war on the grounds that it protects the people of Donbas from gay marches. That's not conservatism, Victor, but nastiness. I'm glad we chucked you out of @EPP . You belong in United Russia.
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6th When the Ukraine war subsides one way or another they'll be surprised to discover that Central Europeans have become sceptical about going over to majority voting on foreign and security matters, which would have given them effective veto on EU policy.
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4th They seem to think they can persuade Putin to make peace when all the evidence suggests he might at most agree to a pause.
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I didn't say that Poland would. But Japan or Korea might.
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Sikorski said that if the US doesn’t provide support to Ukraine, Poland will have to start developing nukes In my opinion, the strong alliance we saw is the reason we didn’t see nuclear wars, but if there are doubts that the US is able to provide security, no country should risk
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1 year
Wow. Aren't totalitarian symbols banned in Germany?
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1 year
This is not russia. This is Germany (Frankfurt) today. What do you think russians are celebrating?
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No pasaran.
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5th When they deliver less, per capita, than Central Europeans let alone the U.S., they recreate the concept of pro-American New Europe.
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1st, they are acting in the ineffective Minsk format instead, as we pledged in the Lisbon Treaty, together as the EU and through Union institutions.
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2 years
Recognizing 'independence' of rebel entities in Donbas is legal aggression of Russia against Ukraine. A first batch of sanctions should be activated.
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Radek Sikorski
3 years
While Russian troops converge on Ukraine let's remember that under the Budapest Protocol of 1994 Russia, USA, UK and France guaranteed her independence and borders in return for UKR giving up a huge stockpile of Soviet-era nuclear warheads. The West's credibility is at stake too.
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Radek Sikorski
3 years
Our parliament will today be voting to disenfranchise TVN, Poland's largest, American-owned independent TV station. If the bill passes, we will likely cross the point of no return toward a kleptocratic autocracy. The ruling party promised us Budapest and it is delivering.
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Radek Sikorski
2 years
Meanwhile in front of the Russian embassy in Warsaw.
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The Soviet Union, one of the two totalitarian tyrannies of the 20th century, expired on OTD 30 years ago. Good riddance.
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Radek Sikorski
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Today in the @Europarl_EN . Iran claims to be an Islamic Republic but its repression of its own people is an abomination to every decent Muslim, every person of faith and every person of conscience. If the mullahs want easing of our sanctions, they need to stop the outrages now.
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Radek Sikorski
3 years
We need to restore the moral basis of capitalism. The thievery exposed by the Pandora Papers has to stop.
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@Amb_Ulyanov Also, what are you doing @OSCE , whose principles Russia is trampling underfoot? Go home and stew in your own imperialist juices.
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3 years
The U.S. Cabinet should immediately, under the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, declare @realDonaldTrump insane and terminate his presidency.
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Radek Sikorski
2 years
Russian actions, such as assassinations of opponents and its crimes in Ukraine, are carried out by state employees. This proves that Russia is a terrorist state. Therefore, we need legislation that allows victims of Russian terror to claim compensation from Russian state assets.
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1 year
Presidential speech in both content and form. @KamalaHarris has just proven @JoeBiden doesn't have to look far for a successor.
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Putin propagandists threaten Poland and when we believe them call us Russophobes.
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Carl Bildt
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This is really horrible. The prominent Putin TV propagandists calls for hangmen and executioners in the areas that 🇷🇺 has occupied.
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Reports are coming in of Belorussian artillery shelling their own territory on the border with Ukraine. Possibly to create a pretext for Belorus to join the invasion of Ukraine. Putin is stuck and needs to widen the war.
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2 years
Looks like there's a backlog of cars trying to leave Crimea via the Kerch bridge. #Krymnash
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Radek Sikorski
2 years
This is significant. Russians were counting on their technical superiority.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: very first video of a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone taking out an entire convoy of the Russian invasion force. Recorded in #Kherson .
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#OTD in 1939, in fulfillment of the Hitler-Stalin pact, the Soviet Union stabbed Poland in the back. Five days later the two invaders staged a joint victory parade in Brest Litovsk.
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Next stop Kherson.
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Radek Sikorski
2 years
Good that #RussiaToday has got the message. My advice: don't invade Ukraine any further.
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Radek Sikorski
11 months
Because Poles have been generous toward Ukrainian refugees and Poland has supported Ukraine with arms and logistics, many commentators have missed the slide toward autocracy. #LexTusk designed to exclude key opposition figures from politics is outrageous but not surprising.
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Volunteers handed over 4 pickups to the Ukrainian army. The EU flag is going to the front with the 93rd brigade to mark the edge of Western civilization.
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3 years
Lesson from the fiasco in Afghanistan: We must get serious about European defence. @Europarl_EN @EPPGroup
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EU rules OK.
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Radek Sikorski
2 years
Bravo Germany! At last. Now we need a gas union to secure supplies at a competitive price.
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ian bremmer
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nordstream 2 is now dead us/germany fully on board
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2 years
Putin's peacekeeping.
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#Borodyanka , #Kyiv region. Fierce fighting took place there for several days.
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They are trying to provoke Ukraine to return fire just like they provoked president Saakashvili in South Ossetia in 2008.
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Carl Bildt
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When heavy artillery is used it’s as a rule under direct 🇷🇺 command rather something by local hotheads.
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Radek Sikorski
10 months
I hope we set a naval exclusion zone in the Black Sea to help Ukraine to resume its grain exports. An international coalition - including from countries that have been receiving Ukrainian grain - could station warplanes in Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey to protect the grain ships.
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Dmytro Kuleba
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A year ago today, the Black Sea Grain Initiative brought hope to 400 million people worldwide who need Ukrainian grain. Russia killed this vital lifeline this week, putting a number of African and Asian countries at peril again. We are fighting to bring hope back. @United24media
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Speaking on the Polish elections results and its repercussions for Poland, for the EU, and for Poland's foreign policy. @LBC @EPPGroup @grupaepl
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If we are not giving Ukraine the MIGs, let's at least do the below.
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We should promptly start large NATO exercises in the Baltic States and the Far East, to draw Putin's forces away from Ukraine.
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Congratulations, @anneapplebaum @TimothyDSnyder and @ianbremmer on being sanctioned by Putin's Russia. Kudos!
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Radek Sikorski
2 years
We stand with Iranian women! All our solidarity with women fighting for the right to live full, free lives in Iran. Women’s rights are human rights! 🇮🇷💪 #Brussels #EuropeanParliament
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Yes, Mr President, but only on @RT_com
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
3 years
I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!
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2 years
It would be even better if Germany got tough on Russian energy dependence and Britain on stolen Russian money. Not the other way round.
@nickgutteridge
Nick Gutteridge
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Boris Johnson: 'All European countries need to get Nord Stream [2] out of the bloodstream - yank out that hypodermic drip feed of Russian hydrocarbons. We need to find alternative sources of energy, to get ready to impose some very, very severe economic consequences on Russia.'
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2 years
Wow. This is Ukrainian partisan warfare by 21st century means. Putin will be forced to spread his forces far and wide across occupied territories and Russia itself. It probably means good-bye to resuming the offensive in Ukraine.
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Large fire near the airport in #Sochi . According to preliminary information, storages caught fire.
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2 years
Poland's approval of the US is probably higher than the US approval of the US. Happy 4th July! 🇺🇸
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Radek Sikorski
2 years
The widespread fear of Russia in our region is entirely justified given Putin's actions. The US needs 30,000 troops in Poland to deter Putin. My full interview with @BBCWorld here:
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