Tag: Crisis in Ukraine
Germany has learned the wrong lesson from its history – POLITICO
Mathias Döpfner is Chairman and CEO of Axel Springer, POLITICO’s parent company.
BERLIN — I remember feeling ashamed to be German. I was sixteen years old when I first saw the “Holocaust” miniseries on television. It was the first time I saw my country’s greatest disgrace. The pictures from concentration camps, the starving internees, the piles of corpses and the touching story of the Weiss family — I didn’t understand how “the Germans” could do such a thing, how they
Inside the mind of ‘Putin’s attack dog’ – POLITICO
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Nobody involved in the war in Ukraine is more fearsome
than Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov — at least
when it comes to social media.
Illustration by Anthony Gerace for POLITICO
It’s past midnight on March 4, and Ramzan Kadyrov sounds drunk and drugged, or maybe just depressed and angry. Eight days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war, it seems, isn’t going to plan. In a rambling voice message lasting nearly eight minutes,
Inside Olaf Scholz’s historic shift on defense, Ukraine and Russia – POLITICO
BERLIN — At 1:49 p.m. on Saturday, February 26, Andrij Melnyk, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, finally got the message he’d been hoping to receive for more than seven years.
“We’re changing course,” the text from a senior German politician began. “All arms deliveries to commence. Very late. I hope not too late. Finally.”
Sitting at his cluttered desk in central Berlin, Melnyk, whose vociferous advocacy for Ukraine had made him a diplomatic pariah in the German capital, couldn’t believe his
The case against Vladimir Putin – POLITICO
THE UKRAINE CRISIS
With his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president has made himself more vulnerable to prosecution for war crimes.
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ON FEBRUARY 24, THE FIRST DAY OF RUSSIA’S INVASION of Ukraine, a Russian missile loaded with a cluster bomb landed just outside a hospital in the Ukrainian city of Vuhledar, killing four civilians and wounding 10 others. The next day, a similarly equipped missile hit a preschool in the town of Okhtyrka,
In Ukraine, even peace accords can be a Russian weapon – POLITICO
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In their frenzied diplomatic effort to dissuade Russia from a new invasion of Ukraine, Western leaders are pinning renewed hope on the long-stuck Minsk peace accords.
The Minsk agreements, first negotiated in 2014 and 2015, were intended to bring an end to the war with Russian-backed separatists, then raging in eastern Ukraine.
But the pact is fiercely disputed and flawed, with ambiguous provisions open to conflicting interpretation and serious contingencies unplanned for.
Since
With Russian guns pointed at Ukraine, West and Moscow dive into talks – POLITICO
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GENEVA — U.S., European, and NATO officials are adamant the intense week of diplomatic meetings with Russia is a dialogue, not a negotiation.
But with upwards of 100,000 Russian soldiers quite literally pointing guns at Ukraine, with tanks and other heavy weaponry massed on the border, and President Vladimir Putin openly threatening military action if his demands for security guarantees are not met, this week’s talks have all the markings of a hostage