Photo by Yu Kato on Unsplash A senior MEP says that China supplying weapons to Moscow “would be a slap in Europe’s face.” Reinhard Bütikofer was speaking as Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen met Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday. The two leaders sent a message of unity – even as China is said by some…
Photo by Lucas Marcomini on Unsplash Finland shares a lengthy and vulnerable border of 1,340 km with Russia. As the only non-NATO EU member with any such frontier it has long been wary of its larger neighbour. This wariness is not just because of present behaviour but because of the past: in 1939 the USSR…
Photo by Dylan Hunter on Unsplash The EU needs to respond immediately to the hybrid threat from Russia: Putin is training professional killers and criminals to destabilise Europe For years, Russia has been building an agent network among national diasporas in various EU countries. It has exploited the freedom of speech in democratic European countries, organising and holding…
Photo by Ying Ge on Unsplash Russia is deliberately introducing mercenaries, experienced in combat operations and committing terrorist attacks into Europe. The militants of the Wagner Group, notorious for their involvement in wars and conflicts around the world, occupy the palm of precedence. In particular, it is alarming that there is a sharp decline in the number of…
Photo by Ahmed Zalabany on Unsplash Vladimir Putin has been planning the annexation of Ukrainian territory for years; long before the full-scale offensive he was preparing the ground to enable him to carry out his criminal actions as quickly as possible. It is for this reason that Russian money has been spent on creating a loyal environment in…
Russia has traditionally used food crisis as a weapon, and this is not the first time it has blackmailed the world community with the threat of famine. Failures on the battlefield in Ukraine have set a new goal for Vladimir Putin – to provoke a global famine and another wave of migration, which is why…
Photo by Artem Nedzelskiy on Unsplash The full-scale war in Ukraine, unleashed by Putin, has been going on for more than a year now, multiplying the pain and suffering of Ukrainians every day, millions of whom have been forced to flee their homes to escape the horrors of war, and thousands have been killed by Russian occupiers. But…
The Commission and EU High Rep have unveiled for the first time a Joint Communication on a European Space Strategy for Security and Defence. Space systems and services in the European Union are,they say, “crucial” for the functioning of society and economy, as well as for security and defence. As such, the EU has identified…
Photo by Egor Lyfar on Unsplash Today marks the anniversary of Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine began in 2014 with the seizure of Crimea and the outbreak of hostilities in Donbas. Before the full-scale invasion last year, Ukraine tried to stop the fighting in Donbas and restore its sovereignty peacefully. Volodymyr Zelenskyy won the…
This morning Monday 20 February, U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Kyiv without any announcements or warnings. In the morning, several important highways were blocked in the capital, and the city was gridlocked for a couple of hours. Kyiv residents tried to understand the cause of the traffic jams for a long time, until around…
