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#Czechs have spoken. The new 🇨🇿 #president for the next 5Y will be Petr #Pavel, a retired general, former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (2015-2018), and strongly pro-Atlanticist defender of liberal-democratic values. ✌️🦁
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Pavel defeated Andrej Babiš, a wealthy businessman, frmr PM (2017-2021), who led an aggressive populist campaign and brought up the Russian war against Ukraine as a key issue. Babiš called for „peace“ and accused the retired general of being a warmonger. 2/9
What happened in🇨🇿—discussion between a defender of continued support for🇺🇦 & those who are more reluctant (similar to Hungary’s Orbán or some republicans in the US)—is instructive for future electoral contests in Europe. 3/9
Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia is highly unlikely to be able to fulfil some export orders for armoured vehicles as it needs the capacity for its own army in #Ukraine. Weapons exports have been hit because the credibility of many Russian weapons is now undermined.
60 members of Amnesty International in #Norway have resigned since the publication of the #Ukraine report in open protest at its contents; another 40 have left without explanation.
Previously: the head of Amnesty in Sweden and of the Ukraine desk resigned rubryka.com/en/2022/08/10/…
Previously: the head of Amnesty in Sweden and of the Ukraine desk resigned rubryka.com/en/2022/08/10/…
Latest @DefenceHQ update: #Russia is moving towards the annexation of #Kherson. This area of #Ukraine has been occupied since February and the Russians are planning to stage a referendum. One way Moscow is preparing for this is by arresting opposition elements.
#Colombia has been added as Major Non-NATO Ally
#Singapore, #Japan, and #Taiwan joining the Western effort to sanction #Russia for the assault on #Ukraine foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/22/bid…
Details on #Ukraine's reservist mobilisation: far from complete (since that would require martial law), but still of a scale that it will take weeks to complete ... and the assault on the capital is days away at most
Made a mess of these threads. Integrating them here
#Ukraine's President Zelensky said a few hours ago he is still going to Germany tomorrow for the Munich Security Conference. Whether this is supposed to promote calm or what is unclear; it's a hell of a time for him to leave his capital.
