Ukraine starts planning presidential elections and referendum, – Financial Times According to the publication, the Trump Administration is demanding that both votes be held by May 15 to prevent Ukraine from losing security guarantees from the U.S. Sources say Zelensky plans to announce the elections on February 24. ¹https://x.com/i/status/2021467989091258804
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent making it very clear: Washington is willing to use the full force of its financial system to choke Iran economically. That may look like strength, but it also confirms what much of the world already suspects, that access to the dollar system is conditional and can be weaponised at will. Every time the US turns sanctions into a blunt instrument, it reinforces the case for countries to reduce their exposure to American financial dominance. You don’t have to admire BRICS to understand the dynamic. When…
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Zelensky’s interview with the Economist in March 2022, before the US and UK sabotaged the Istanbul peace talks²: – “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives”¹ https://x.com/i/status/2020087211832598918 ² The Istanbul Peace Talks (primarily those held in March 2022) represent the closest the Russian Federation and Ukraine have come to a negotiated settlement since the full-scale invasion began. While the talks ultimately collapsed, they established a…
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Ο Ντόναλντ Τραμπ υποδέχτηκε τον Βολοντίμιρ Ζελένσκι στο Μαρ-α-Λάγκο στη Φλόριντα για έναν νέο γύρο κρίσιμων συνομιλιών με στόχο την προώθηση του ειρηνευτικού σχεδίου για την Ουκρανία. Ο πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ εμφανίστηκε ιδιαίτερα αισιόδοξος για τον τερματισμό του πολέμου, δηλώνοντας ότι «σημειώθηκε μεγάλη πρόοδος» και «οι ειρηνευτικές συνομιλίες βρίσκονται στο τελικό στάδιο». Την άποψη αυτή συμμερίστηκε ο Ουκρανός πρόεδρος, με τους δύο ηγέτες να τονίζουν ότι «το 95% του σχεδίου για το τέλος του πολέμου έχει συμφωνηθεί». https://youtu.be/aheRDlCry3U?si=ZdXWEcYMuWXRcjo5
Περισσότερα1. U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that land disputes remain a sticking point in peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, after hosting a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Florida resort. The president’s statements came after the two leaders met for a discussion that took place after what Trump described as an “excellent,” two-and-a-half-hour phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine launched the war four years ago. Trump insisted he believed Putin still wants peace, even as Russia launched another round of…
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Putin: “If NATO blockades Kaliningrad, it’s full-scale war in Europe” “If threats to the Kaliningrad region are created, Russia will destroy them. Everyone must understand and be fully aware that such actions will lead to an unprecedented escalation of the conflict, taking it to an entirely different level, up to a full-scale armed conflict.” 1.https://x.com/i/status/2002061124087525710
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Did you know “Ukraine” literally meant borderland? And before the 19th century, this region was officially called Little Russia (Malorossiya) not as an insult, but as honor. Before the 1900s, the lands around Kiev were known as Malorossiya, “Little Russia.” That didn’t mean “lesser,” it meant the original Rus’, the spiritual and historical cradle of the Russian world. The name came from Byzantium, rooted in an even older Greek tradition. The ancient Greeks called their original homeland “Little Greece” (Mikrà Hellás) and their colonies in southern Italy “Great Greece” (Megálē…
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1. Ανάρτηση από Richard (@ricwe123) Richard (@ricwe123) δημοσίευσε στο 10:43 μ.μ. on Κυρ, Σεπ 21, 2025: Listen to Stephen Cohen, one of the better known US scholars on Russian Studies speaking about the origins of the war in Ukraine…. https://t.co/Rd9svNVo6I(https://x.com/ricwe123/status/1969850039616024733?t=CfVE9jG7ZGvs17okrw-Wpw&s=03)
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