The Red Cross has been accused of direct complicity in Russia’s forced deportation of Ukrainians, thereby aiding and abetting the Russian NaZi policy of ethnic cleansing of the territories it has illegally occupied. This is the only interpretation possible for the decision of the Red Cross to open a refugee assistance centre in Rostov-on-Don. A…
Against the background of the European Council summit, the European Economic and Social Committee adopted this week a resolution on the Ukraine conflict. The members expressed their solidarity with Ukraine and highlighted the role of the civil society in assisting Ukrainian people and refugees. Opening the debate, President Christa Schweng stressed: “This invasion has put our security and…
Until February 24, 2022, we lived in a post-war world. Now we live in a pre-war world. Since the day Russia invaded Ukraine, the whole world now faces the threat of a Russian full-scale attack. This is evidenced both by the transfer on 28 February of the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation to…
The Ukrainian-Russian war has been going on for 8 years, but the countries of the West, until February 24, 2022, did not believe that Putin would launch a full-scale offensive on all fronts in Ukraine. The destruction of civilian infrastructure, the obliteration of entire cities off the face of the Earth and, the murder of…
In times of crisis , people’s core personality features are bared for all to see. This is true both at the individual and at the collective level. War is a perfect storm that comprehensively tests everyone it affects. From the first days of the war unleashed by Russia, a striking gap between Ukrainians and Russians…
For nearly a month, Ukraine has held back the onslaught of a full-scale war unleashed by Putin on February 24. This war, forecast by the Kremlin dictator to be a cakewalk in which the Russian army would meet with no resistance, has turned into a deadly war that has already claimed more than 15,000 Russian…
Putin’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine has forced all of us to take another look at the Russian ideology, on which the Kremlin’s foreign policy actions are based. If initially the “special operation” was presented by the Kremlin as a defence of “Donbass” and “liberation of Ukraine” from the “Nazis”, today Putin’s war is…
As a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine, thousands of civilians have already been killed over 21 days of the war, including more than a hundred children. Millions of Ukrainians are forced to hide in basements to avoid being torn apart by Russian bombs and rockets raining on their homes every day. Many are forced…
The Russian Federation is trying to discredit Ukraine in the international arena by claiming it has at its disposal what turn out to be hoax planning documents about an alleged preparation by Ukraine for an offensive that was to be launched on 8 March against Crimea and the so-called “LPR/DPR”. The allegation was voiced by…
24 February. Morning. Phone call. Kyiv is being bombed, sirens are wailing all over the city. Following the unprovoked Russian attack in Ukraine, martial law is introduced, the President announces the severance of diplomatic relations with Moscow. Feeling of surrealism. Today is the 20th day of the war, and Russia continues to deny that it…
