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Minister of Foreign Affairs

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26 days
They should have listened.
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3 years
Get this, @RussianEmbassy , once and for all, in a language you can grasp. We were not orphaned by you because you were not our daddy. More of a serial rapist. Which is why you are not missed. And if you try it again, you'll get a kick in the balls.
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I wonder if France and Germany realise how much credibility they are losing in Central Europe with their policy on Ukraine.
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I have a message to my Russian followers who accept Putin's narrative about Russia's right to dominate, invade or partition Ukraine. If you want a 19th century-style empire, you might have to live technologically in the 19th century. Your choice. Enjoy.
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Lukashenka hijacked an EU-owned, EU-registered plane full of EU citizens travelling between EU capitals in order to seize an EU-recognized political refugee. If we don't make this tin-horned dictator regret it, what hope is there of restraining bigger scoundrels?
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For the record.
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We should promptly start large NATO exercises in the Baltic States and the Far East, to draw Putin's forces away from Ukraine.
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Get this, @RussianEmbassy , once and for all, in a language you can grasp. We were not orphaned by you because you were not our daddy. More of a serial rapist. Which is why you are not missed. And if you try it again, you'll get a kick in the balls.
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FM #Lavrov : #NATO has become a purely #geopolitical project aimed at taking over territories orphaned by the collapse of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation and the Soviet Union.
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Poland categorically rejects suggestions that we inspired @TuckerCarlson to propose to Vladimir Putin the return to borders of the 1650s in Eastern Europe. 😀
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She earned it.
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The Polish middle class has mobilized to keep us a European democracy. Huge turnout in metropolitan areas, demotivated traditionalist South-East. In these dark times forces of light need a break and it looks like Poland might provide it.
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Nothing like news of victory in the morning.
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Gazprom is now a loss-making corporation, which means 🇷🇺 business model is collapsing. Putin is sending messages through intermediaries suggesting he wants to freeze the conflict. His original war aim - conquering the whole Ukraine - is no longer attainable. We must stay the
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I support the proposal in the Russian Duma to restore to Russia the Soviet flag. They've returned to murdering wholesale so the flag of a genocidal empire seems appropriate.
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Bye, bye Kyiv. Thank you, Ukrainian Railways.
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It's not the first time the Russian dictator V. Putin blames 🇵🇱, invaded by the USSR on 17.09.1939, for the outbreak of the #WWII . We are used to paranoid justifications for Russia's invasion of 🇺🇦 in 2022. What’s shocking is that this time they are enabled by an 🇺🇸 journalist.
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All those who say they are for peace in the Russia-Ukraine war now have the perfect opportunity to appeal to both countries to withdraw their forces to the internationally-recognised border.
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@AdinaValean @Ryanair Commissioner, I expect you to ban @Belavia_by from European airspace until Mr Raman Protasevich is released. The Belorussian MIG-29 threatened European citizens with murder in order to illegally seize an EU-protected political refugee.
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Back in Poland.
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Let us strategically use the EU's soft power, Ursula @vonderleyen . We can offer every defecting Russian soldier €3000 and a 3 year work permit. The way West Germany welcomed East Germans crossing the Wall. Ready to back you in @Europarl_EN . I mean it.
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It's beginning to look like Russian soldiers really don't want to die for mad Vlad.
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Let’s be clear on this: when a commentator or a politician calls for ‚peace’ and simultaneously advocates denying the victim of aggression the means to defend herself they actually mean that the victim should capitulate. Such Chamberlainism usually covers baser motives.
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V.Putin worries that losing in UKR would end 1000 y. of Russian statehood. He overworries. 1. Moscow was only founded in 1147. 2. RU survived defeats in Crimea War, RU-JAP war, WW1, 1920 invasion of PL, war in Afghanistan and the Cold War. 3. There's national life after empire.
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A completely unprovoked invasion on Ukraine launched by a mad Russian dictator upon a smaller neighbour whose only crime has been to be a Europe-leaning democracy. This cannot stand. This is is worth fighting against.
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I don’t understand why the countries of the so-called Global South do not see Russian aggression against Ukraine for what it is - a colonial war. Look at what’s happening in occupied territories: people are forced to take Russian citizenship, men are drafted to Russian army,
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1939 - Photo showing Soviet-Nazi collaboration. I am sure the Russian representatives will recognise these uniforms. Fragment of my speech at the @UN Security Council
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Worse. Putin suggested that Poland deserved to be invaded because we didn’t join in the Nazi crusade to conquer the Soviet Union. And the Soviet Union was therefore justified in dismembering us together with Hitler. Some gratitude.
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It is indeed true that in 1939 🇵🇱 didn’t bend to Hitler. For Putin 🇷🇺 that seems to justify the Hitler decision to invade and try to annihilate the country. His historical revisionism is breathtaking in all its implications.
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@GermanyNATO @Bundeskanzler If you have doubts about fighting violence with violence then why are you wasting EUR50 billion p.a. on defence?
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Proud of you, Petro @poroshenko .
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“How long do you think you can hold out?” “Forever.” Former Ukrainian President @poroshenko takes up a Kalashnikov rifle alongside civilian defense forces as he speaks to @JohnBerman from the streets of Kyiv.
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During yesterday's @UN Security Council, I had several questions for Russia and its representatives:
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@Amb_Ulyanov Excellency, Aren't you one of the liars who claimed that Ukraine intended to attack and that Russia would never do anything so barbaric? You are serving war criminals. So, resign and apologize or fuck off.
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For a nation that, according to Putin, doesn't exist and certainly doesn't deserve a state, Ukraine seems to attract more sympathy and support around the world these days than his authoritarian, kleptocratic Russia.
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If it turns out that the KGB operatives who boarded the @Ryanair plane highjacked to Minsk were Russian then Russian personnel and Russian assets should also be sanctioned. Stopping Nordstream 2 would be simplest and best.
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Russia is preparing to fabricate a chemical weapons incident to try to blame it on the Ukrainians. It'll be as credible as Sergei Lavrov claiming that Russia has not invaded.
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Irrespective of whether Putin invades or not, it's already clear we have a madman with nukes on our hands.
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2 years
The European Parliament will submit its proposals on the future of Europe to EU leaders on Europe Day on 9 May. The challenges of the future require a Union that is not a super state but a superpower, so it is strong enough to not only stand up to Putin, but to send him to hell.
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I worked with Donald Rumsfeld as Poland's minister of defence during the Iraq war 2005-2007 and I agree with this assessment. The man was a spiteful prig who landed the U.S. and its allies into a sea of unnecessary trouble.
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7 months
Please, watch this.
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8 months
Russia was forced to attack Ukraine because Ukrainians wanted to join NATO? NATO promised it would not expand to the east but later broke this promise? It will take me less than five minutes to prove with facts that both statements are false.
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By supporting Ukraine we are not only aiding a victim of an unprovoked aggression ⤵️🧵
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The people of Russia should reflect that the rebuilding of empire also means full dictatorship, including domestic terror. A war on Ukraine will also be a war on them. The time to protest is now.
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East European lorry drivers were supposed to leave, so they've left. Isn't it what you wanted @MailOnline ?
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Let's take note.
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#Belgrade (Serbia) is the only city in the world where mass rallies in support of #Russia take place
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Thousands of people have signed a petition in Ukraine to bring back the historical name Muscovy to refer to today's Russia. Since Kyiv Rus was the common ancestor of both countries, it would clarify matters. And, since Kyiv predates Moscow, vindicate a case of stolen identity.
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Do not be mislead by the Russian propaganda about how its economy is doing. To measure what Russia is doing by GDP is silly. When you produce a tank instead of a car and you send that tank into a battle and it gets destroyed you have created a lot of economic activity but you’ve
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@Amb_Ulyanov In addition, what are you doing on Twitter, which your government has banned in Russia?
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Outrageous insult to the European Union and millions of victims of Nazi rule. I don't know what's happened to the liberal anti-Communist I once admired. But if he wants to play this game I remind him that Hungarian troops supported Hitler in the effort all the way to Stalingrad.
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Viktor Orbán stated that Adolf Hitler also dreamed of European unity.
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My great mentor, former U.S. National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, once said that Russia faces a clear choice – it can be either an ally of the West, or a vassal of China. Vladimir Putin chose the latter. It remains to be seen if the society follows. 🧵⤵️
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Good illustration of Russia's standing.
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Bravo, 🇮🇱, for repelling a huge Iranian aerial assault, coordinated from several directions. Israel’s anti-missile capabilities should be strengthened and similar defences should be sent to Ukraine. @SpeakerJohnson , please let the House vote on the 🇮🇱&🇺🇦 support bill.
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No. Strength deters. What provokes is weakness.
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Putin signed a border treaty with Ukraine and has breached it. But yes, go sign another one, for sure he will respect it. How can you trust a leader who sends his troops to Crimea saying “these are not my men” and some years later he gives them medals? Credibility matters.
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Which means that not only Ukraine but also Belorus, Moldova and the Baltic states, members of NATO and the EU, are potential targets.
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Says it was a mistake to grant rights to exit USSR for republics
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If Russia prevails, chronic instability will spread not only across Europe but around the world, giving extra fuel to a global coalition of dictatorships we can already see emerging. Putin will win this war unless we stop him. And we can. Contrary to its insane propaganda,
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Ukrainian soldiers with a Polish howitzer that shoots American precision shells in defence of the future border of the European Union. Good luck in your counter-offensive, Ukraine! 🇵🇱🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸
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Then they protest about Russophobia.
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Russian propagandists want to "restore historical justice" by capturing Finland, Poland, Baltic States and Alaska. Serbia will join voluntarily, they believe.
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2nd, they seem to think that the road to peace is to satisfy Putin with Ukrainian land rather than convincing Putin and Russia that the neo-imperial project is not worth the cost.
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It might be quite useful for Western politicians to be making those pilgrimages to Moscow and get humiliated there. Only then do they get any inkling of what we in Central Europe have been dealing with for 300 years.
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Are you the same @Amb_Ulyanov who swore in January that Russia would never ever do anything so cruel and stupid as to invade Ukraine? Do you people have no shame at all?
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The time for European colonialism, Russia’s colonialism is over! @CNN
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We will deter Russia if we mobilize. We need to show Putin that as Soviet Union lost the Cold War, he will loose too.
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And not a single refugee camp in Poland yet. Fleeing Ukrainians, mainly women and children, have been received into Polish homes. Solidarity.
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Countries to which #Ukrainian refugees go
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Apparently it's not Russia but Ukraine that's preparing to invade, in Donbas. It'll be the first in history that a country would invade itself. And fight Russian troops that are not there.
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What I’d like to know is whether those brave Russians who called Putin’s invasion of Ukraine a war before the Kremlin spokesman Peskov did will now be released from prison.
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Happy Birthday, free @Ukraine ! May your heroic defence of your borders be victorious. Poland is proud to have been the first country in the world to recognize your independence. We will continue to back you and look forward to welcoming you in the European Union. 🇺🇦📷🇵🇱
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It's even more urgent now.
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"If the election in the US goes the wrong way next year, we will be in real trouble. And I beg you, colleagues, we need to get serious about European defence", says @sikorskiradek . Watch⤵️ #EPlenary #EUDefence
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Polish public TV yesterday: "The opposition causes inflation in Poland."
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3rd They are trying to make a deal with Putin over the heads of countries with a bigger stake in this fight then they, primarily Russia's and Ukraine's neighbours.
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Marcus Aurelius was a great emperor but he screwed up his succession by passing the baton to his feckless son Commodus (He, from the Gladiator). Whose disastrous rule started Rome's decline. It's important to manage one's ride into the sunset.
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China’ foreign min. Wang Li has declared at the UN @sec_council that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine could be solved on the basis of respect for territorial integrity and respect for each other’s security interests. If it means what I think it means it could be significant.
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Looks like the Russian army is making lots of what they call gestures of good will. Which is to say getting licked real good. The ultimate politeness would be for them to fuck off from all of Ukraine.
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Victor Orban has vetoed sanctioning the Russian warmonger Cyril, who backed Putin's war on the grounds that it protects the people of Donbas from gay marches. That's not conservatism, Victor, but nastiness. I'm glad we chucked you out of @EPP . You belong in United Russia.
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6th When the Ukraine war subsides one way or another they'll be surprised to discover that Central Europeans have become sceptical about going over to majority voting on foreign and security matters, which would have given them effective veto on EU policy.
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4th They seem to think they can persuade Putin to make peace when all the evidence suggests he might at most agree to a pause.
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I didn't say that Poland would. But Japan or Korea might.
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Sikorski said that if the US doesn’t provide support to Ukraine, Poland will have to start developing nukes In my opinion, the strong alliance we saw is the reason we didn’t see nuclear wars, but if there are doubts that the US is able to provide security, no country should risk
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Wow. Aren't totalitarian symbols banned in Germany?
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This is not russia. This is Germany (Frankfurt) today. What do you think russians are celebrating?
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No pasaran.
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5th When they deliver less, per capita, than Central Europeans let alone the U.S., they recreate the concept of pro-American New Europe.
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1st, they are acting in the ineffective Minsk format instead, as we pledged in the Lisbon Treaty, together as the EU and through Union institutions.
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Recognizing 'independence' of rebel entities in Donbas is legal aggression of Russia against Ukraine. A first batch of sanctions should be activated.
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While Russian troops converge on Ukraine let's remember that under the Budapest Protocol of 1994 Russia, USA, UK and France guaranteed her independence and borders in return for UKR giving up a huge stockpile of Soviet-era nuclear warheads. The West's credibility is at stake too.
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3 years
Our parliament will today be voting to disenfranchise TVN, Poland's largest, American-owned independent TV station. If the bill passes, we will likely cross the point of no return toward a kleptocratic autocracy. The ruling party promised us Budapest and it is delivering.
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Radek Sikorski
2 years
Presidential speech in both content and form. @KamalaHarris has just proven @JoeBiden doesn't have to look far for a successor.
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3 years
Meanwhile in front of the Russian embassy in Warsaw.
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The Soviet Union, one of the two totalitarian tyrannies of the 20th century, expired on OTD 30 years ago. Good riddance.
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The danger is much closer than many of us in Europe want to admit. A stray Russian missile crashed 10 kilometers from my house, only 4-hour drive from Berlin.
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Today in the @Europarl_EN . Iran claims to be an Islamic Republic but its repression of its own people is an abomination to every decent Muslim, every person of faith and every person of conscience. If the mullahs want easing of our sanctions, they need to stop the outrages now.
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We need to restore the moral basis of capitalism. The thievery exposed by the Pandora Papers has to stop.
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@Amb_Ulyanov Also, what are you doing @OSCE , whose principles Russia is trampling underfoot? Go home and stew in your own imperialist juices.
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The U.S. Cabinet should immediately, under the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, declare @realDonaldTrump insane and terminate his presidency.
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2 years
Russian actions, such as assassinations of opponents and its crimes in Ukraine, are carried out by state employees. This proves that Russia is a terrorist state. Therefore, we need legislation that allows victims of Russian terror to claim compensation from Russian state assets.
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Today we welcome Mark Rutte as the new Secretary General of NATO. Together we will make the Alliance even stronger. @jensstoltenberg , thank you for years of your strong, decisive leadership.
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Putin propagandists threaten Poland and when we believe them call us Russophobes.
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This is really horrible. The prominent Putin TV propagandists calls for hangmen and executioners in the areas that 🇷🇺 has occupied.
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Attack on civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Ukrainian authorities have been warning us that they are running out of effectors for their antimissile systems and they’ve been begging US congress to pass the aid package. Now we see the results of the lack of it.
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We in Europe are doing what it takes. Poland is spending 4.3% of its GDP on defence this year, 4.7% next year. And in NATO we need to stay the course. 💬 @MSNBC Morning Joe
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Reports are coming in of Belorussian artillery shelling their own territory on the border with Ukraine. Possibly to create a pretext for Belorus to join the invasion of Ukraine. Putin is stuck and needs to widen the war.
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Looks like there's a backlog of cars trying to leave Crimea via the Kerch bridge. #Krymnash
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3 years
This is significant. Russians were counting on their technical superiority.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: very first video of a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone taking out an entire convoy of the Russian invasion force. Recorded in #Kherson .
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