It is time to sum up 2022. For Europe, this is the most dramatic year since World War II. A new major war in central Europe has probably cost 300,000 human lives so far. This is the year when all of Europe loved Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. His determination to stay in Ukraine and…
The message that German police went to the arrests of 25 people scattered around Germany. Among those arrested are a former parliamentarian, a German aristocrat, a former high-ranking German officer and a Russian woman. The group, with connections to the neo-Nazi milieu, had concrete plans for a coup. The Riksdag was to be seized…
French President Emmanuel Macron recently said on French TV that Europe should give Russia security guarantees against its participation in peace negotiations. Ukraine and the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia distance themselves from Macron’s thoughts. I mean it’s like capitulating. Feel free to read an earlier blog about this. Peace negotiations about…
Two Russians and a Ukrainian from Donbas have been sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting down a passenger plane in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The passenger plane route MH17 was on its way from the Netherlands to Malaysia. 298 people lost their lives. Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and a Ukrainian, Leonid Kharchenko were convicted…
Donald Trump has confirmed that he is running as a candidate to become the next President of the United States. An attempt by the controversial and divisive ex-president to take the White House for a second time. Whether he succeeds is more doubtful. First, he must go through the nomination process in the Republican…
Yesterday, a Russian-built rocket crashed into the Polish village of Przewodow. 2 people lost their lives. What actually happened is currently unclear. The missile is manufactured in Russia. At the same time, the US says that the rocket was unlikely to have been launched from Russia. Belarus or the occupied territories of Ukraine are…