Tag: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Russia threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea, Ukraine says – POLITICO
Russia is threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea, more than a week after the Kremlin reneged on a U.N.-backed deal to allow Kyiv to export grain across the Black Sea, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said.
“Russian warships are threatening civilians in the waters of the Black Sea, violating all norms of international maritime law,” Andriy Yermak, head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, said on Telegram on Friday.
Yermak added that these are the “methods of terrorists” and
Ukrainian troops liberate southern village, while Russia shoots down drone attack on Moscow – POLITICO
Ukrainian forces have recaptured a strategic village in the Russian-occupied southeast, as their troops continue a southbound advance in a summer counteroffensive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that troops had reclaimed the village of Staromayorske in the Donetsk region. It is the first major gain in days. Battles are continuing around Bakhmut for the villages of Klishchiivka and Andriivka.
“The 35th brigade and the Ariy territorial defense unit have fulfilled their task and liberated the village of Staromayorske. Glory
Putin can’t count on his friends in Italy anymore – POLITICO
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When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni walks into the Oval Office on Thursday, her transformation will be complete.
Gone is the ghoulish caricature of an extremist monster, sympathetic to Moscow, whose party was descended from fascists, and in her place stands a pragmatic conservative willing to do business with a grateful international mainstream.
For U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s backers in the West, securing Meloni’s long-term commitment to
Inside Ukraine’s first day as an EU member – POLITICO
This is the moment Ukrainians have been fighting — and dying — for. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is walking up a red carpet in Brussels’ Europa building toward his first meeting of the European Council, the forum where the European Union’s leaders hammer out the bloc’s most perplexing problems.
He has been here before, of course, wearing his olive green sweatshirt in solidarity with the Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the trenches — his eyes exhausted from leading his country through
How Charles Michel lost the room – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Her patience finally exhausted, the Danish prime minister rounded on Charles Michel.
Mette Frederiksen had expected a certain amount of disorder. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit that day to Brussels had upended the usual business of the European Council summit she was attending, along with the European Union’s 26 other national leaders.
But with evening falling, the Ukrainian president gone and the EU Quarter emptying out, the conversation in
The making and unmaking of Eva Kaili – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Eva Kaili was unhappy with the seating plan.
It was a few days before POLITICO’s P28 gala dinner — a splash of glitter on the Brussels social calendar unveiling a ranking of the most powerful people in Europe — and the Greek lawmaker wanted to make sure she would be seated at a high-level table.
In a flurry of emails, her office in the European Parliament lobbied
‘Oh my God, it’s really happening’ – POLITICO
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Kaja Kallas had been dreading the call.
“I woke at 5 o’clock,” the Estonian prime minister recalled recently. The phone was ringing. Her Lithuanian counterpart was on the line.
“Oh my God, it’s really happening,” came the ominous words, according to Kallas. Another call came in. This time it was the Latvian prime minister.
It was February 24, 2022. War had begun on the European continent.
The night before,
POLITICO’s most-read stories of 2022 – POLITICO
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The year 2022 will go down in the history books. And it includes a chapter few wanted to see written: War returned to Europe.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his tanks rolling into Ukraine, marking the start of a brutal conflict that, 10 months later, shows no signs of ending anytime soon. The early weeks of the war saw a wave of refugees flood the EU
How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder – POLITICO
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BERLIN — On a balmy September evening last year, an Azeri man carrying a Russian passport crossed the border from northern Cyprus into southern Cyprus. He traveled light: a pistol, a handful of bullets and a silencer.
It was going to be the perfect hit job.
Then, just as the man was about to step into a rental car and carry out his mission — which prosecutors say was
Russia has mobilized. What happens now? – POLITICO
Vladimir Putin has gone nuclear.
Admittedly, things have not been going well. Kyiv’s counter-offensive has retaken thousands of kilometers of Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine; Moscow’s troops have fled the front lines; dissent from previously loyal pundits has increased; and criticism (oblique though it may be) has even emanated from his pals in Beijing and New Delhi.
Faced with the prospect of a humiliating climb-down, the Russian president on Wednesday sought to escalate the war by announcing a partial mobilization