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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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May 21

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⚡️'We don't want this anymore' — Russia rejects a ceasefire in Ukraine, Lavrov says.

Russia rejects a ceasefire in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on May 21.

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Russia rejects a ceasefire in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on May 21.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call
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on May 19 as Ukraine and its allies intensify efforts to end Russia's war. Putin rejected a ceasefire and instead insisted on negotiating a "memorandum regarding a potential future peace treaty."

Lavrov rejected the push to "have a truce and then we'll see," claiming that the "root causes" of Russia's war need to be resolved.

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Lavrov accused European leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron,

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, of pushing Trump to tighten sanctions against Russia.kyivindependent.com/tag/emmanuel-m…

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May 21

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18 hours in the making of a president: Inside Nicușor Dan’s election win

Romania’s new leader told POLITICO how he will approach international affairs and what he will do to rebuild trust in a democracy battered by corruption, economic strife and Russian meddling.
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It’s 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 18 — election day — and Nicușor Dan is trying to hold it together.

After months of campaigning in the country’s fraught presidential race, the independent mayor of Bucharest has just 12 hours left before he will learn his fate.

The morning air is cool in the yard outside School Number 4 in Făgăraș, Dan’s Transylvanian hometown. The sun breaks through, picking out streaks of snow on the tops of the mountains in the distance

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Today, the school Dan attended as a young boy is being used as a polling station, and he has chosen to come here with his long-term partner Mirabela Grădinaru to vote. At one point, the emotion of returning home and seeing his old neighbors and teachers threatens to overwhelm him.

“I was forcing myself not to,” Dan tells POLITICO afterward, laughing, as he mimes tears rolling down his face. “It was very emotional.”

Wearing a plain dark suit, white shirt and navy tie, he grips Grădinaru by the hand as they meet familiar faces and old friends on the playground. Several receive hugs.

Dan, 55, was born in the house next door to the school, a low-rise building painted apricot pink, with vines hanging over the garden to the side. His parents lived in the town for most of their lives, and Dan returned here for several months during the pandemic before winning his first term as mayor of Bucharest later in 2020.

With voting underway, POLITICO was granted exclusive access to Dan as he spent time with his family and closest aides away from the TV cameras on election day. These would be the last hours of calm before his life would be transformed forever. When the results rolled in on Sunday night, it became clear he had defied the odds and beaten the radical right-wing nationalist George Simion to take the presidency.

Dan’s victory was cheered in the halls of power across much of Europe, where many centrist politicians and officials had feared Simion would derail their mainstream agenda.

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Desperate Dan
While the opinion polls had started to tighten in the final week of the campaign, the 38-year-old Simion had been favored to win the run-off after winning the first round with 41 percent of the vote to Dan’s 21 percent.

“After the first round, the people for our side felt a little bit desperate,” Dan says, seated at the Bistro Story Caffe in the center of Făgăraș, with his partner and family at the next table.

“Mr. Simion made a lot of mistakes,” he adds, chief among them refusing to show up for television debates.

Dan and Simion debated each other directly only once — a three-hour affair that observers agreed benefited the mayor.

While Simion spent much of the time attacking his opponent loudly and aggressively, Dan remained calm, delivering methodical responses and refusing to be drawn into a slanging match.

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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May 21

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#russia reiterates demands for Ukraine's surrender: ISW @TheStudyofWar ) explains what's behind the statements

#russia continues to deny at a high level the legitimacy of the Ukrainian government and constitution, as well as #Ukraine️'s sovereignty.

This demonstrates Moscow's disinterest in negotiations and any end to the war other than through #Kyiv's surrender.

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This, along with the Kremlin's constant repetition of maximalist demands on Ukraine, belies the alleged "readiness" of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to establish peace, according to a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Following another phone call between US President @realDonaldTrump Trump and Putin on May 19, senior Russian officials continued to deny the legitimacy of Ukraine's president, government, and constitution, as well as Ukraine's sovereignty - despite the Russian dictator himself feigning interest in peace talks to end the war.

This time, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, spoke at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on May 20 with the usual Kremlin narratives.

According to him, there are currently no officials in Ukraine authorized to conclude a peace agreement with Russia - and the aggressor is going to determine those who are "authorized" to do so, based on their own interpretations of the Constitution of Ukraine.

Medvedev also questioned Ukraine's sovereignty and stated that Ukraine is a "failed state," and the "lack of legitimacy" of Ukrainian government officials, according to the Russian official, raises "serious questions" about who Russia can negotiate with during future peace talks.

With these statements, analysts believe, Medvedev overturned Putin's attempts to feign interest in achieving peace.

"Medvedev's statements directly contradict Putin's reported agreement with US President Donald Trump to immediately begin bilateral talks with Ukraine. They indicate that Russia is not really interested in engaging with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other senior Ukrainian government officials who are key to bilateral talks to end the war," the material states.

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Russian officials have repeatedly resorted to the false narrative of the "illegitimacy" of @ZelenskyyUa and the #Ukrainian government before - in order to justify Russia's refusal to engage in good faith negotiations with Ukraine and to facilitate Russia's long-standing military goal of

"establishing a pro-Russian puppet government in Kyiv".

These narratives have been regularly refuted, including by ISW analysts:

- holding elections in Ukraine during martial law is expressly prohibited by the constitution and Ukrainian legislation.

The Ukrainian authorities cannot lift martial law either - as long as, as stipulated in the relevant law, there is a "threat of attack or danger to the state independence of Ukraine and its territorial integrity."

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May 21

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F-16 in the highest risk zone: fighters are not immortal, but we are forming a new model of war. Interview with aviation expert Khrapchinsky

(Anatoliy Khrapchynskyi is a Ukrainian aviation expert, former officer of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.)
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Ukrainian aviation in wartime
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operates in the highest risk zone, and no aircraft, even the most high-tech, is "immortal" and has "immunity" from enemy air defenses, tactical errors, or simply random factors.

This explains the cases of aircraft losses, which sometimes, unfortunately, occur.

- However, now we can say that another stage has come in the war, when it is not just about waiting for equipment supplies, but about its tactical and strategic use.

#Ukraine️ is fighting for parity in the sky every day and is forming a new model of war.

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The RS-24 "Yars" intercontinental ballistic missile, which is in service with the aggressor countries of Russia, is

"a monument to the old world that wants to scare the new."

It is also an expensive and limited-quantity weapon that a priori cannot be used to achieve tactical goals. As for the palace plane, the Boeing 747-8, which Qatar presented to US President Donald Trump, given all the features of the equipment, it is more likely a "luxury target" than a safe plane number one.

This opinion was expressed by aviation expert Anatoly Khrapchinsky in an exclusive interview

– Could you explain what the RS-24 "Yars" intercontinental ballistic missile is ,
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with which the Kremlin is threatening Ukraine?

For what purposes is it intended? How many of them does the enemy have? Do we have effective countermeasures against such weapons?

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May 18

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The Russian invaders have resorted to new tricks: what new things have they come up with for the residents of the occupied part of Ukraine?

In the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine, the Russian invaders are doing everything they can to establish maximum control over local residents. With special attention paid to families with children.

At the same time, they are now severely limiting the number of Ukrainians who are allowed to return home, at least for a certain period of time

There is no logic – only terror

The fact that the occupiers have a bad causal relationship has been known for a long time (let's remember the "reasons" for the war against Ukraine).

- No changes for the better are happening now.
Moreover, the actions of the invaders are becoming even more sophisticated and illogical - and this is clearly visible from what is happening in the occupied territory.

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One of the latest "innovations" introduced by the occupation authorities concerns schoolchildren.

- From now on, in order for a child to attend school, a statement from both parents is required - regardless of which of them is where and whether they live together.

The Center for National Resistance believes that this was done to force people to return to temporarily occupied territories.
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"The goal is obvious: to drag as many people as possible into TOT, to filter, intimidate, and recruit," the Central Intelligence Agency says.

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"The thing is that the occupation authorities did everything to ensure that children, God forbid, would not study remotely in Ukrainian schools.

They see this as a great threat. And they directly stated:

"They will turn them into partisans and saboteurs there!"

The Russians are panicky afraid of this, it's true.

And there were real raids - they calculated which family had a child who did not go to a Russian school. Parents were threatened with taking away their children, sending them to an orphanage.

And therefore it is unclear why this innovation with statements from both parents is needed. Maybe we don't know something yet," a resident of occupied Berdyansk shared with us.

A woman of pre-retirement age, herself a former teacher, was forced to stay in the occupation to care for a sick relative. And she is convinced that most of those who remained in the occupation with their children have pro-Russian views.

"Let's be honest:

- The school teaches according to the Russian curriculum, many teachers are from the Russian Federation, and at the age of 14, Ukrainian children are required to be issued a Russian passport.

Which normal parents would agree to this?

Only those who betrayed #Ukraine. With very rare exceptions. Those who think about the future of their daughters and sons are still trying to escape from here," says Olena.

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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May 17

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ANALYSIS: How Well Understood Is Ukraine in the West?
For centuries, #Ukraine️ has been viewed by the West as a sub-category of Russia. Only now is the West realizing what a fatal misunderstanding this is – and how Moscow is taking advantage of it.
By:
@DVKirichenko

kyivpost.com/analysis/52308

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Now in the fourth year of its full-scale resistance, Ukraine continues to defy the assumptions of a Western world that, in February 2022, largely expected its rapid collapse. Ukraine’s belief in freedom runs deep in its history.

The national poet Taras Shevchenko believed in the unifying power of the struggle for freedom among Ukrainians.

His writings “inspired Ukrainians to dream of freedom while angering Russian official censors.”
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This spirit was rooted in the legacy of the Cossacks, who built a tradition of self-rule and resistance to foreign domination.

Yet while both the West and Russia have long believed they “know” Ukraine, both have consistently misjudged its resilience.

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Russia’s first invasion in 2014 should have triggered a deeper reckoning across the West to confront the imperial logic and deeply rooted ideology that has driven Russia to genocidal intent against Ukraine.

Yet Ukraine’s story remains too often misread or reduced. Its past is compressed, its identity filtered through a Russian lens, and its struggle diminished to the language of great power competition in the view of the new @realDonaldTrump administration.

This strategic blind spot led to devastating consequences in the lead-up to the full-scale invasion. The US and other Western governments initially believed that supplying Ukraine
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- with heavy weapons wouldn’t change the outcome of Russia’s invasion, and therefore withheld critical military aid, such as heavy weaponry

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