Tag: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ukrainian Independence Day — past, present and future – POLITICO
Every year, on August 24, Ukrainians celebrate breaking free of the Soviet Union in 1991. This year, the holiday falls on the six-month anniversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to roll back that freedom with tanks, soldiers and missiles.
In this installment of Refugee Diaries, POLITICO asked five Ukrainian refugees in Europe to reflect on past commemorations, share their hopes for the future, and write a letter to fellow refugees spending this year’s Independence Day away from home.
Anna
A self-defeating G7 fails on all fronts – POLITICO
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ZUGSPITZE, Germany — If they need reminding about the urgency of climate change and their role in stopping it, all G7 leaders needed to do was look up.
High above the opulent Schloss Elmau, the resort in which the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies have held earnest (and not so earnest) discussions over the past three days, Germany’s largest — soon to be last — glacier sits in a saddle at
EU countries unanimously back Ukraine — except on its bid to join the EU – POLITICO
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EU countries are all for Ukraine in its war against Russia, but they are all over the map when it comes to Ukraine’s demand to be recognized as a candidate for EU membership.
The European Commission on Friday is expected to recommend formal candidate status for Ukraine and for neighboring Moldova, but the final decision requires unanimity among the 27 EU heads of state and government who will gather for a European Council
12 Germans who got played by Putin – POLITICO
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BERLIN — Russia’s war against Ukraine has thrust Germany’s establishment into the throes of a tortured process of introspection, self-doubt and recrimination.
After years of lecturing the West that a bit of Ostpolitik was all that was needed to keep Russia in check, Germany’s political, media and academic elites are now obsessing over a new question: How could we have been so wrong?
Rarely has a country’s confidence about itself and its place
Tested by war, Ukraine’s Jews keep faith in their country – POLITICO
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If you still believe Vladimir Putin’s propaganda that he’s trying to de-Nazify Ukraine, you should talk to Ukrainian Jews. They don’t buy a word of it.
After facing deadly pogroms during the tsarist era and the Bolshevik Revolution, mass murder during the Holocaust and state-sanctioned anti-Semitism and repression under the Soviet regime, Ukrainian Jews say they’ve experienced a renaissance since the collapse of the USSR. Synagogues, Jewish schools and community organizations have popped
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.
Illustration by Nicole Rifkin for POLITICO
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,