Boek aan het lezen. Niet een opmerkelijk leuk boek. Ik ben op pagina 155 en de eerste vijf miljoen mensen zijn al vermoord. Er vallen nu heel veel puzzelstukjes op hun plek voor mij.
Boek aan het lezen. Niet een opmerkelijk leuk boek. Ik ben op pagina 155 en de eerste vijf miljoen mensen zijn al vermoord. Er vallen nu heel veel puzzelstukjes op hun plek voor mij.
Ik geloof niet dat dit allemaal vreedzaam zal verlopen. Het wordt tien jaar van burgeroorlogen en revoluties.
Ik hoop dat er daarna meer vrijheid in de wereld is.
Ik ben bang dat onze politici dit scenario niet willen zien en blijven hopen dat alles straks weer bij het oude is. En wij straks niet voorbereid zijn op wat gaat komen.
💪 On May 12th, the Ukrainian military repelled 18 enemy attacks, destroyed 55 units of equipment, shot down helicopter and 4 drones. Today, in particular, they destroyed: 13 tanks; 8 artillery systems (one of them - rocket-propelled grenade launcher ); 27 units of combat armored vehicles; 2 units of special engineering equipment; 5 cars. In eastern Ukraine, the situation is difficult but controlled. Along the entire line of defense, the enemy uses combat aircraft, multiple rocket launchers, large-caliber artillery, tanks, mortars of various systems, launches missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure, peaceful housing estates, destroys office buildings, hospitals, schools and children's kindergartens.
⚡️President’s Office: Steinmeier, Scholz expected to visit Kyiv. Deputy head of the President’s Office Andrii Sybiha said on May 12 that there has been progress in the Ukraine-German relations, and Kyiv is expecting visits of two German leaders, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Steinmeier earlier said that Kyiv refused his offer to visit in April. German newspaper Bild reported that it was due to the official’s close ties to Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky denied having received such a request from Steinmeier.
🇺🇸The White House has developed internal intelligence-sharing guidelines with Kyiv aimed at keeping tensions between Washington and Moscow from rising. This document, in particular, prohibits representatives of American intelligence from transmitting to the Ukrainian side detailed information about the whereabouts of top Russian military leaders and ministers, as well as data for delivering strikes on targets outside the territory of Ukraine. At the same time, this restriction does not apply to Russian officers, including generals, although it was also decided not to give such information behind the scenes.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 This year's Europe Day, which is celebrated on May 9, Europe met in the colors of Ukraine! Government buildings and European cities shone with the yellow and blue colors of the Ukrainian flag, and the EU institutions expressed their solidarity with the people of Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers defending the village of New York, near Donetsk, say they repelled several attacks as Russian forces tried to outflank their positions. RFE/RL correspondent Maryan Kushnir spent time with them on April 29 as the sound of explosions and small-arms fire echoed across the landscape.