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European Union: Burbock calls for support for Western Balkan countries to join the European Union
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) called for supporting the Western Balkan countries „with all our strength” on their path to the European Union. “We cannot afford to have gray areas anywhere in Europe, and we must do everything together to close the wings that Russia can use for its policy of destabilization, disinformation and infiltration,” she said before leaving. the black Mountain And Bosnia and Herzegovina. This includes supporting countries in “strengthening their democratic institutions, improving their resilience, and improving people’s economic prospects.”
“The fact that we support the six countries in the region with all our might on their path to the European Union has become a geopolitical necessity, especially in light of brutal Russian imperialism,” she said. We in the European Union have a „shared duty to prepare ourselves for the future while putting more chairs at the European table.”
Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina are among the so-called Western Balkan countries. These also include Albania, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo. The European Union views Montenegro as the country furthest along in the accession process. The European Union is not expected to be enlarged before the end of the decade at the earliest. Bosnia and Herzegovina has candidate status, but has not yet entered into negotiations.
Montenegro's ambitious agenda
Berbock said Montenegro has been a NATO ally for years. During the EU accession process, the country set itself an ambitious agenda, which it is now boldly tackling again. Their talks in the capital, Podgorica, will also focus on how Montenegro can make better progress in reforming the rule of law and in the fight against corruption and organized crime.
In Montenegro, Prime Minister Milojo Spajic and President Jakov Milatović have been in power again since 2023, with two declaring themselves pro-European. However, Spic can only be elected with the support of small pro-Russian and pro-Serbian parties.
Divided Bosnia and Herzegovina
A meeting is scheduled to be held with the Presidency of State in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It consists of one representative each of the Bosniak, Serb and Croat ethnic groups. A conversation will also be held with the High Representative of the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, German Christian Schmidt.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into entities called the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (abbreviated FBiH) and the ethnic Serb part Republika Srpska (RS). The president of Republika Srpska is Serb nationalist Milorad Dodik, who seeks secession. Dodik is currently on trial in Sarajevo on charges of causing the non-publishment of the decisions of the representative of the international community in the Official Gazette of Republika Srpska. Recently, Dodik visited Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko from Russia President Vladimir Putin.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) called for supporting the Western Balkan countries „with all our strength” on their path to the European Union. “We cannot afford to have gray areas anywhere in Europe, and we must do everything together to close the wings that Russia can use for its policy of destabilization, disinformation and infiltration,” she said before leaving. the black Mountain And Bosnia and Herzegovina. This includes supporting countries in “strengthening their democratic institutions, improving their resilience, and improving people’s economic prospects.”
„Praktyk żywieniowy. Guru bekonu. Irytująco pokorny entuzjasta zombie. Uczeń totalny”.
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Ten kilometers in slippers: 98-year-old Ukrainian woman flees Russians on foot
Ten kilometers in slippers
A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman flees from the Russians on foot
May 1, 2024 at 3:17 pm
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The Russian army is gradually advancing in some areas of Ukraine. When Ochertyn becomes a target, Lydia Stepanievna Lomikowska and her family decide to flee. The 98-year-old is fighting alone. Now she can hope for private housing.
A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman fled Russian-occupied territory with a stick and slippers. She and her family decided to flee Osherytin in the Donetsk region after invading forces entered the city last week and fighting intensified, Lydia Stepanevna Lomikowska said after arriving in Ukrainian-controlled territory in a statement published by the National Police and a video distributed.
In the chaos of her escape, she was separated from her son and her two daughters-in-law. While her relatives took side roads, she continued on the main road.
Lomikowska stated that she had been walking ten kilometers all day towards the Ukrainian lines, carrying a stick in one hand and a piece of splintered wood in the other, without food or drink. I fell twice. “Once I lost my balance and fell among the weeds. I slept a little and then continued on my way. Then – for the second time – I fell again. But then I got up and said to myself: ‘I must keep myself steady.’ “I say little by little,” said the old woman.
He actually survived World War II
Pavlo Dyachenko, spokesman for the Donetsk National Police, said soldiers finally rescued Lomikowska after discovering her in the street that evening. They handed them over to a police unit called the White Angels, which evacuated civilians from the front lines. Then they called Lomikowska's family.
The 98-year-old said she actually survived World War II. “Now I had to fight this war too, and in the end I had nothing left,” she said. At that time you didn't see any house burning, but now everything is on fire.
The story was heard by the director of one of the largest banks in Ukraine. “Monobank will buy a house for Lydia Stepanevna and she will live in it safely until this abomination disappears from our country,” Oleh Horokhovsky promised.
„Praktyk żywieniowy. Guru bekonu. Irytująco pokorny entuzjasta zombie. Uczeń totalny”.
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Consequences of Russia's losses in the Ukraine war
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Vladimir Putin must accept resistance from his own ranks in the Ukraine war. Russian organizations help deserters and report an increase in their numbers.
Kiev/Moscow – “Get Lost” is the name of a Russian initiative that supports deserters from the Russian army. “We live in a world today where the Russian army brings nothing but death and destruction. Escaping from the army is the best way to help your country.” With these words, the organization addresses Russia's soldiers.
According to opposition media Novaya Gazeta More and more soldiers are doing it: while in January 2023, according to Get Lost, only 28 men were looking for support, the number has increased tenfold within a year. In January 2024, 284 soldiers arrived at the deserter contact point.
Organization helping those fleeing the Ukraine war: “We receive new inquiries every day”
“Idite Jeslom,” translated as “walking through the forest,” is the name of another Russian organization that takes care of deserters. Employee Ivan Shulyaev says they have already been in contact with more than 30,000 men. A quarter of the cases involved soldiers who were already at the front and wanted to escape the operation. Others contacted her after receiving the recall notice. In an interview with the magazine geography He said he did not initially expect the commitment to last so long.
“When we started with seven people, we thought we would do this for a few months, dealing with urgent cases. And that was it. But we receive new requests every day, and we cannot stop. These people do not want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin and have nothing to do with the war.” In his estimation, the people were not interested in the war at first, but now they felt like hostages of their government and he now worked from abroad to strengthen the anti-war movement in Russia.
Putin's toughness towards those fleeing Russia – almost no protection in Germany according to ProAsyl
He says desertion and resistance have become an increasing problem for the Russian military in the Ukraine war Novaya Gazeta. According to another Russian portal. mediazonaDespite Vladimir Putin's tightening of regulations, desertions increased by 400 percent in one year.
A soldier who left with the help of another organization called Ivan says he still knows many soldiers who are happy even after more than two years on the front. But not everyone: “Escape from the front is very dangerous. People are fully aware that there are criminal consequences, but that does not stop them. Some pretend to be one of the dead or wounded, and some may harm themselves to escape.
Those fleeing Russia come to Armenia, Kazakhstan, Serbia and Turkey
Incidentally, only a small percentage of those who have fled come to the EU: people on the front will be helped to flee to Kazakhstan, Armenia or Kyrgyzstan, says Chulyaev of Idite Jeslom. high ProAsylum About 250,000 men have fled since the beginning of the war, often to Serbia or Türkiye. Some of them, for example from Kazakhstan, were deported to Russia. Nearly 3,500 men of military age were due to apply for asylum in Germany by August 2023.
While Germany was open to accepting Russian deserters in the first year of the Ukraine war, e.g Daily news I mentioned, apparently not much happened. Non-governmental organization Supported asylum Complain about it though Changes in decision-making practice As of 2023, there is still little protection for those fleeing Russia in Germany. In November 2023, Russian soldiers fled Crimea, wounding the deputy commander of their regiment. (cat)
„Praktyk żywieniowy. Guru bekonu. Irytująco pokorny entuzjasta zombie. Uczeń totalny”.
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A military economist sees a strategic defeat for Ukraine for Putin
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A military economist believes that time is running out for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine war. This is also why there are increasing calls for peace in the West.
COLOGNE – When we look at the war in Ukraine, people increasingly imagine that Vladimir Putin is just trying to buy time. Because the head of the Kremlin knows that Russia is significantly superior to its invaded neighbor.
That is why Germany's opponents of arms deliveries to Kiev often say that this will only prolong death and suffering indefinitely. The best that could happen to Ukraine is a negotiated peace that would also allow Moscow's ruler to save face.
Putin and the Ukrainian war: “Like Hitler, he must win in the short term”
Marcus MQ turns the tables. In the meeting with Cologne Rundschau The military economist confirms that the clock is actually ticking against Putin. The 71-year-old has long been personally determined to be a loser.
The Freiburg native compares World War II to another aggressive and inhumane dictator: Adolf Hitler. “Putin faces the same problem as Hitler,” says Cube. “He has to win in the short term, because in the long term he has no chance against the industrial potential of the West.” That is exactly why Putin is burning systems and people on a massive scale at the front.
Military expert compares World War II: “Putin does it like Marshal Sokov”
Keough is convinced: “He wants to make a decision before the whole huge arms industry takes off in the entire Western world. About 80 years ago, something similar happened to the United States when Washington intervened to stop Hitler: “It took years to ramp it up.” The American defense industry. And it did not The maximum is reached only in 1945, at the end of the war.
Putin also acted as the Soviet Union did at the time against Nazi Germany – even if those countries were initially fighting to liberate their territories. „What is Putin doing there?“The tsars did it, and then Marshal (Georgy) Zhukov in World War II,” recalls the lecturer at the Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. “If 30,000 people fall in a wave of attacks, it means ‘it doesn’t matter to him, in the end’ The survivors were able to regain their new positions.
Present The Kremlin's tactic of relying on the massesIt also has consequences for Kiev: “If Russia continues like this, Ukraine will have to mobilize at some point, even if it is difficult for democracy.” A million men.” Their time has not yet come: “At the moment, it is cheaper for them to rely on wear and tear.”
Military economist Q sees new tactics: „The Kremlin's parrots are shouting loudly again”
But not least because of the $1 billion US aid package approved in the House of Representatives after months of stalemate, the sun is starting to shine brighter again for Kiev. Additionally, despite the shift to a war economy, Russia has shown its limits, as Cube asserts: “Russian warfare is getting worse and worse technologically.”
The soldiers will be sent „with old T62 tanks without a turret and some in golf carts.” The reserve of about 3,000 tanks has been exhausted, and satellite images show that pipes in artillery camps are missing and systems have been dismantled.
“I would say that Russia can definitely continue the war in 2024 and 2025,” Cube estimates. “But they are increasingly facing a time problem.” One indication of this for him is that “the Kremlin’s parrots are starting to shout loudly again, with the usual slogans: Negotiate peace, and Ukraine cannot win.” And so on. The AfD in particular could feel directed here.
Putin before the end? Expert Cube is betting heavily on Russia's defeat in the Ukraine war
Putin has already realized that Russia will be inferior to Ukraine and its allies: “That is why he is trying to sabotage the Western logistical base by transforming countries politically and playing the German emotional keyboard so that the Germans feel afraid.”
But Cube is certain: “If the Western logistical base continues to grow, Russia will not only win the war, but also lose it. With all the ensuing consequences for the internal organization in Russia.”
Cube points out that this may mean the end of Putin's power, but it may be a disservice to his main supporters. By ending the war. Russia will decline economically and will have to unite internally again. “But the rule of the Siloviki, the group currently leading Russia, will continue,” the author explains the way to avoid impending unrest in the country.
The end of the Ukrainian war: According to Cube, Russia's strategic defeat has been certain since the fall of 2023
Cube is certain that the Ukraine war could end any day. It is in Putin's hands. However, there is reason to doubt whether the Kremlin's seemingly all-powerful head is really prepared to go down in history as the biggest loser who sent countless people to their deaths and, on top of that, divided two former sister states for more than a year. A decade for his own purposes.
According to Cube, Russia strategically lost the Ukraine war in the fall of 2023: “By then it had become clear that the rate of production could not keep up with the rate of attrition.” He had already started the war in the fall of 2023, and it had to stop, as if he simply didn't want to accept that time was against him. (mg)
„Praktyk żywieniowy. Guru bekonu. Irytująco pokorny entuzjasta zombie. Uczeń totalny”.
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