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Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Latvian Deputy Prime Minister tells #Newsnight: “Sanctions cannot be too hard on Russia.”
Latvian Deputy PM: “If Ukraine falls the strategic situation in Europe will be totally different.” #newsnight
“I have authority to say this, because when we in the Baltics warned Western leaders about what happened in Georgia, we were right. When we warned about Crimea we were right. When we warned about Belarus being swallowed by Russia, we were right. We’re right now. Believe us.”
For those asking what he means by this, he means that they cannot be hard enough- Ie no upper limit, should be as hard as they can possibly be.

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Feb 27
Remarkable that neutral Sweden is sending arms to Ukraine. Putin wanted to redraw the European and wider security order. He can’t have imagined the reordering would look quite like this- in some ways the West united against his own state even more profoundly than in the Cold War.
Swedish PM says this is the first time the Swedish govt has sent weapons to another state in this way since assistance provided to the Finns in the Winter War in 1939, against the Soviet Union.
Fair point from @davidmacdougall- with EU membership and NATO cooperation probably not useful to describe Sweden as neutral now. “Historically neutral” and not as aligned as NATO states but still, clear which side they’re on. Still them to send weapons a big deal as…
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Feb 27
Polish firemen packing milk and clothing for refugees outside the railway station at Przemysl, the border town just west of Ukraine. Local residents have turned out in droves to donate. #UkraineWar Image
Local officials tell us there’s too much right now- the cars are all full up. But thousands and thousands more are expected today.

We’re told typically you’d expect about 3000 people crossing the border- yesterday was north of 25000.
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Feb 26
Heading to various areas along the Ukrainian border for Newsnight, starting in Poland. Tell me who we should be speaking to and where we should be going. If you’re in Ukraine and making that journey now, get in touch, want to hear your stories and talk to you- DMs open.
A few miles from the border. Truly bizarre to be only short distance from a road which we’re told has a queue stretching at least 8km, as people wait to make it across. We’re told in some cases people and families are simply abandoning their cars and taking their chances on foot.
I’m looking to speak to anyone currently on their way to a border crossing from Ukraine, wherever you are on your journey I want to hear how your journeys are progressing. DM me.
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Feb 25
NEW: No 10 confirms UK to introduce sanctions on Putin and Lavrov personally, on top of the package announced yesterday.
No 10 spokesperson says that following the NATO leaders’ call: “The UK would introduce sanctions against President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov imminently, on top of the sanctions package the UK announced yesterday.”
Latvian Foreign Minister reported as saying that EU will introduce similar measures
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Feb 24
A few weeks ago, I came across this interview from 1992 with Richard Nixon not long before he died. His words on the two potential futures for Russia and Europe have been ringing around my head today (key clip about 13 mins in). Image
He was many things but there’s little denying he was an astute observer of world politics. It’s a remarkable part of the interview.
Clip below
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Feb 24
President Biden addressing US and the world: "For weeks we'd been warning this would happen and now it's unfolding exactly as the way we predicted...Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war. Now he and his country will bear the consequences."
Biden announcing new sanctions. Says the sanctions will be imposed by countries representing half of the global economy.
Biden: "Between our actions and those of our partners we estimate we'll cut off more than half of Russia's hi-tech imports."
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