#Polska #Poland #Pologne
#PiStoRosja #nawrusski

There is another FCAS deadline coming up. I spoke with SRF about what a cancellation of (part of) the project might mean.

Full segment: www.srf.ch/play/tv/10-v...

Verteidigung: Kampfjetprojekt FCAS – auch der letzte Vermittlungsversuch scheitert Nächste Woche dürfte das deutsch-französische Projekt beerdigt werden – wenn Kanzler Merz sich von Frankreichs Präsident Macron nicht noch einmal umstimmen lässt.

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www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

I would like to draw your attention once again to one of my most recent articles, which I have just updated with some new information which further supports my reporting. Germany is set to support Ukraine in developing a lower-cost Patriot alternative.

READ HERE: deaidua.org/news/2026/04...

Very interesting.

Zelenskyy visits Sener to strengthen industrial Defence cooperation Sener and the Ukrainian companies Fire Point, Luch and Radionix have signed collaboration agreements to develop defence technologies.

Maybe Sener (Spanish), they announced a cooperation with e.g. Fire Point.

www.group.sener/en/noticias/...

We should repeat this every day: russia is intentionally, deliberately, murdering Ukrainian children, day after day, for the sheer pleasure of it.
We can never forgive this—and above all, we have no right to forgive it.
These crimes will haunt the russians—all russians—for as long as they exist.

Heading off to Washington for a week of meetings culminating in the @brookings.edu @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social @swp-berlin.org US-European Forum on Global Issues. My main focus will be on Russia-Ukraine, US-China & NATO, but Gulf crisis & Eur disagreements w US will influence all those issues.

"Sweden agreed with the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, that Russia was understating its budget deficit by $30bn, and had also noticed some financial indicators that could point to a future banking crisis" www.ft.com/content/04a9...

In order to succeed, the Zeitenwende will need more political guidance than we see at the moment.

No “Fazit” this time, but my final words of our #SicherheitshalberLive in Mainz.

Sicherheitshalber LIVE - Zeitenwende-Halbzeitbilanz: Ist Deutschland bald wehrhaft? YouTube video by phoenix

Full debate here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GkP...

The list is lengthening

A fiesr political victim of Iran-war induced austerity?

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1518

1. Pro-🇷🇺 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 ex president Radev wins parliamentary elex, may form govt
2. 🇷🇴 Social Democrats remove key support of Bolojan govt
3. Tusk 🇵🇱-Macron 🇫🇷 discuss nuclear exercises
4. EU Formins in 🇱🇺 to discuss € 90bn loan to 🇺🇦
5. ~80 Shaheds, 22 leakers. 1/2 Iskander-M down

Sounds more like the UK sidelined itself.

“Kyiv appears to have given up on the United States. It is aggressively seeking new diplomatic and military partners—for instance, by sharing its hard-won expertise in drone warfare with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates and forging arms-production agreements with Germany.”

The European right is pivoting away from America Electoral logic is driving a shift as polls lay bare European disgust at the US administration

Thanks indeed to @financialtimes.com for publishing me on the anti-US turn of the European right. From moderate conservatives to nationalist radicals, it is nimbly shifting towards a politics of autonomy. The centre and left must move fast - or risk being outflanked.

www.ft.com/content/cba2...

The thread as a shareable webpage: skywriter.blue/@jeremycliffe.bsky.socia...

@unroll.skywriter.blue Unroll 🙏

One of the most fascinating shifts in European politics recently (not making the far right less problematic).

players standing on the podium at the European Individual Chess Championship. They are holding novelty checks showing their prize winnings. Congratulations to the Winner and Medalists: 🏆IM Roman Dehtiarov 🇺🇦, 9 points 🥈GM Nijat Abasov 🇦🇿, 8.5 points 🥉GM Aydin Suleymanli 🇦🇿, 8.5 points Photo via European Chess Union

18-year-old Ukrainian international master Roman Dehtiarov (2452) just won the European Individual Chess Championship with 9/11 and a 2781 performance rating.

Quite an upset against a field with many 2600+ GMs. (He was 126th seed by rating)

lichess.org/broadcast/eu...

close-up of Roman Dehtiarov at the board with the White pieces

Dehtiarov chose to stay in Ukraine with his family, in Kharkiv, near the Russian border, after the full-scale invitation and has limited opportunities to play, according to GM Pavel Eljanov, who helped multiple families relocate to Europe in 2022

x.com/Eljanov/stat...
📸: European Chess Union

photo of Zelenskyy meeting Dehtariov, they are seated at a table in office. via Zelenskyy's Twitter: https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2046590735655272634

Photo of Dehtiarov, holding an award and standing with Zelenskyy

I was incorrect in my first post: Dehtiarov is still just 17! Today he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who presented the newly minted grandmaster with the Future of Ukraine award

Brandende olie opslag in Rusland.

Reuters:

Rusland heeft zijn olieproductie in april met naar schatting 300.000 tot 400.000 vaten per dag zien dale dit naar aanleiding van Oekraïense drone-aanvallen op raffinaderijen en op- en overslaghavens.

The thread as a shareable webpage: skywriter.blue/@bartaafjes68.bsky.socia...

des #negociations, #ruZZiaNAZIstate aurait accès à d’importantes ressources naturelles et à des réserves d’énergie.
En savoir plus sur la dimension economique de la ceinture de forteresse d’ #Ukraine 🇺🇦 sur
@cepa.org

@HelsinskiCommission sur YouTube et ex-Twitter : L’Est de l’ #Ukraine 🇺🇦 abrite plus de 70 % de la richesse minérale de l’Ukraine 🇺🇦. Si l’🇺🇦 était forcée de céder la région de la ceinture de forteresse de #Donetsk comme l’exigent #trumpedokrasnov & #MAGAGOPWarcriminal a #ruSSiaNAZIState à la table
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦
#UkraineNews
@volberg.bsky.social : #ruSZiaTerroristState a officiellement entamée le processus d’extraction illégale de manganèse du gisement de Velyko-Tokmak dans la région 🇺🇦 illégalement occupée par #ruZZiaNaziState de #Zaporizhzhia
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P.S You can litteraly map Ukrainian gas/oil/metal deposits with russian territorial ambition and the war makes a whole lot more sense

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