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En Ukraine, la question des violences sexuelles liées au conflit s'ajoute à la longue liste de crimes de guerre commis par l'agresseur russe. Jusqu'à présent, tous crimes confondus, la justice ukrainienne a recensé plus de 150 000 violations. Et lorsqu'il s'agit de crimes à caractère sexuel, l'État et les organisations non gouvernementales qui y répondent font face à de nombreux obstacles. De notre correspondante à Kiev, Les crimes à caractère sexuel font partie des crimes les plus difficiles à recenser sur le territoire ukrainien. À Kiev, les acteurs qui y répondent se sont rassemblés il y a quelques mois autour de la volonté commune de joindre leurs forces afin de proposer le meilleur cadre possible pour que la justice suive son cours et que les survivants soient mieux pris en charge. La problématique du genre des survivants est centrale. Céline Bardet, juriste internationale à la tête de l'ONG We Are NOT Weapons of War, explique : « C'est important parce que de l'extérieur, quand on parle des violences sexuelles, on pense immédiatement aux femmes et aux filles, à juste titre évidemment. Mais il y a plein d'endroits dans le monde où les hommes et les garçons sont très touchés, et en Ukraine, c'est le cas. » Face à ces violences, le travail des ONG ukrainiennes a été crucial. Olena Suslova, fondatrice du centre d'information et de consultation pour les femmes, épaule les survivants depuis plus d'une décennie : « Nous avons commencé à nous attaquer aux problèmes des violences sexuelles liées aux conflits en 2015. Nous nous sommes ensuite rendus dans les territoires libérés de la région de Donetsk, à Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Droujkivka pour interroger la population. À cette époque, les gens étaient très effrayés et très fermés. Ils avaient peur de parler des violences sexuelles. Alors, nous avons posé des questions pour savoir s'il y avait eu des violations des droits humains. » À lire aussiUkraine : la kétamine utilisée pour soigner les maux physiques et psychiques des vétérans Ce travail a permis à Olena Suslova d'établir qu'au moins 15% des personnes à qui elle parlait avaient été victimes de violences sexuelles. Des ONG comme Global Survivors Fund agissent à leurs côtés et les aident notamment à obtenir des réparations. Pour Fedir Dunebabin, le représentant de l'association pour l'Ukraine, le plus important pour les survivants est d'être reconnus comme tels : « D'après ce qu'on voit dans nos échanges, la chose la plus utile pour eux, c'est de dépasser le traumatisme, c'est la reconnaissance. C'est de savoir qu'ils ne sont pas seuls et que quelqu'un pense à eux. Pas seulement une personne, mais la société ukrainienne, le gouvernement ukrainien ainsi que la communauté internationale. » À l'heure actuelle, seuls 366 cas de violences sexuelles en lien avec l'invasion russe de 2022 ont été documentés. Un chiffre que les autorités craignent bien en deçà de la réalité. Côté judiciaire, le président Volodymyr Zelensky vient de ratifier l'accord sur la création d'un tribunal spécial pour juger la Russie de ses crimes en Ukraine. Le chemin vers la justice est encore long pour les Ukrainiens, mais il est bel et bien enclenché.  À lire aussiGuerre en Ukraine: «Dans les prisons russes, la torture des Ukrainiens est une pratique institutionnalisée»

Edition No167 | 24-06-2025 - Russia has sustained staggering troop losses in Ukraine. Can the regime admit to itself, let alone its people that this has been a tremendous waste for a senseless purpose, and in exchange for trivial gains? Has Russia inadvertently just admitted to the scale of its losses? The staggering troop losses incurred by Moscow's armed forced during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine may just have been blurted out by a senior Russian official on June 19. Mostly likely by accident. He now needs to beware of windows in tall buildings, and a growing list of other hazards that Russia officials, businessmen and military officers are falling prey to. But the war goes on, and Russia's demands remain maximalist. They continue to demand Ukraine withdraws from the four partially occupied regions — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, and now are making incursions into a new oblast – Sumy. According to figures from Kyiv, Russia has suffered more than 1 million dead, wounded, and missing soldiers since the start of its full-scale invasion, and burned through a large chunk of the Soviet era military equipment that was bequeathed to Russia upon the dissolution of the USSR. And then fell into the hands of pathological kleptocrat, Vladimir Putin.In return for their losses, Russia has received just a few hundred square kilometres of blasted and wrecked earth and the piles of rubble that were formerly towns and villages on those territories. In an interview with CNN, Russian Ambassador to the U.K. Andrey Kelin dismissed the 1m figure of killed and wounded but did confirm that "about 600,000" Russian soldiers were fighting in Ukraine, a number which tallies with some Ukrainian estimates.----------LINKS: https://kyivindependent.com/russia-just-accidentally-admitted-to-its-staggering-troop-losses-in-ukraine/https://kyivindependent.com/by-dumping-bodies-during-exchanges-russia-afraid-to-admit-scale-of-casualties-zelensky-says/https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/jun/22/one-million-and-counting-russian-casualties-hit-milestone-in-ukraine-war?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb----------Car for Ukraine has once again joined forces with a group of influencers, creators, and news observers during this summer. Sunshine here serves as a metaphor, the trucks are a sunshine for our warriors to bring them to where they need to be and out from the place they don't.https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/summer-sunshine-silicon-curtainThis time, we focus on the 6th Detachment of HUR, 93rd Alcatraz, 3rd Brigade, MLRS systems and more. https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/summer-sunshine-silicon-curtain- bring soldiers to the positions- protect them with armor- deploy troops with drones to the positions----------CHAPTERS:00:00 — Introduction and thanks to supporters.00:24 — Channel support helps ongoing Ukraine coverage.02:32 — Recruitment rates and implications for Russian losses.05:05 — Russian economy at risk; government spending out of control.08:13 — Official casualty numbers; independent verification by Mediazona and BBC.10:40 — Funeral industry profits; bureaucracy's role in reporting.14:18 — Workforce impact; pandemic deaths; falling life expectancy.16:40 — Example of a bereaved parent urging escalation.18:00 — Massive government compensation for families; online support groups.19:45 — Recent recruitment figures; wasteful tactics.19:58 — War continues until public or families refuse to participate.20:19 — Closing remarks; senseless death continues at Kremlin's behest.----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

Sumérgete en el latido crudo y desgarrador de “Elegía de un Amor perdido en la Guerra”, el artículo de opinión de Alberto Guzmán que te transporta a la crudeza del conflicto moderno. Con una prosa que combina testimonios íntimos y datos estremecedores, Guzmán nos lleva desde los cielos incendiados de Irán y la represalia contra la base de Al Udeid, hasta las ruinas de Gaza, el sur del Líbano y los sótanos de Donetsk. Cada párrafo late al ritmo de historias de amores truncados por misiles, de madres que buscan a sus hijos entre los escombros y de poblaciones enteras reducidas a estadísticas. Cuando creas haber alcanzado el punto más bajo, el relato regresa a España, a los pasillos del Tribunal Supremo, donde las sospechas de comisiones ilegales y la indignación ciudadana —con gritos de “¡corruptos!”— ponen de manifiesto la sombra de la corrupción. “Elegía de un Amor perdido en la Guerra” no es solo un artículo: es una llamada de conciencia para que abramos los ojos ante el sufrimiento y la avaricia que marcan nuestra época. Una lectura que sacude el alma y nos empuja a exigir un mundo donde el amor, la justicia y la dignidad no sean víctimas más de la barbarie. https://www,edenex.es

*** VIDEO EN NUESTRO CANAL DE YOUTUBE **** https://youtube.com/live/aUC6VhBSeNM +++++ Hazte con nuestras camisetas en https://www.bhmshop.app +++++ #Actualidad #GuerraDeUcrania #Geopolítica 18 de junio de 2025 ️ En esta edición de Frente de Batalla, José María Rodríguez y Francisco García Campa analizamos las últimas claves del conflicto en Ucrania, marcadas por una intensificación de las operaciones rusas con vistas a la ofensiva de verano. FOCO del día: Drones y Fortificaciones – Ucrania refuerza sus líneas defensivas ante la presión creciente del ejército ruso. Analizamos cómo se integran tecnologías UAV con las estructuras defensivas tradicionales para resistir la embestida. Además: Ataques rusos a la población civil ucraniana ⚔️ Avances rusos en Donetsk: nos centramos en el eje Torestk–Pokrovsk, donde Moscú está empujando con fuerza. Ataques de precisión: Ucrania responde golpeando infraestructura crítica rusa. Todo esto y más, con el análisis riguroso, táctico y sin concesiones que caracteriza a Frente de Batalla. #Actualidad, #GuerraDeUcrania, #Geopolítica, #FrenteDeBatalla, #Ucrania, #Rusia, #DronesMilitares, #Fortificaciones, #Donetsk, #PuenteDeCrimea, #AnálisisMilitar, #BellumArtis, #Defensa, #OfensivaRusa, #ConflictoUcraniano Síguenos en redes para no perder detalle de la guerra en tiempo real: YouTube – @BELLUMARTISACTUALIDADMILITAR Blog – bellumartishistoriamilitar.blogspot.com X (Twitter) – @bellumartis Telegram – Canal Bellumartis También en tu plataforma favorita: Spotify | iVoox | Apple Podcasts | YouTube

Day 1,213.Today, we discuss our exclusive reporting into insider Russian reaction to Operation Spider's Web, hear from someone just on the frontline in Donetsk, and relay the latest acts of resistance in the occupied territories. Plus, you'll hear Dom's panel from the Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa featuring former British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and former Minister of State for Security, Tom Tugendhat, reflecting on key decisions made in the war.Contributors:Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.Dr. Jade McGlynn (War Studies Department of King's College). @DrJadeMcGlynn on X.Memphis Barker (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @memphisbarker on X.Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.With thanks to Tom Tugendhat (Member of Parliament for Tonbridge) and Ben Wallace (Former British Defence Secretary).Content Referenced:Putin told to declare full war on Ukraine as Kremlin hardliners despair (The Telegraph):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/18/putin-under-pressure-declare-war-ukraine-nationalists-kyiv/ I abandoned my unit in Ukraine. Now I'm going back to war (Memphis Barker in The Telegraph):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/16/ukraine-russia-soldiers-abscondment-donetsk-kyiv/ 'Putin doesn't want negotiations' - interview with Zelensky's 'power broker' Andriy Yermak (The Telegraph):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CneThrXUHSI Russia accidentally admitted to its staggering troop losses in Ukraine (Kyiv Independent):https://kyivindependent.com/russia-just-accidentally-admitted-to-its-staggering-troop-losses-in-ukraine/?mc_cid=8c2eeadbda&mc_eid=08d0680a95 Washington has had it with Andriy Yermak (POLITICO):https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/19/ukraine-andriy-yermak-frustrates-trump-administration-00414197Links relating to Dr Jade McGlynn's segment:https://t.me/samotniyskhid/6332 https://t.me/informnapalm/24948Daily T episode mentioned in final thoughts:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/19/the-daily-t-trump-iran-attack-britain-fit-for-battle/ Subscribe: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

C dans l'air du 18 juin 2025 - L'Iran est-il vraiment proche d'obtenir la bombe nucléaire ?Voilà cinq jours que l'Iran est sous les bombes israéliennes et les signes d'escalade se multiplient. Le président américain Donald Trump est allé jusqu'à appeler, hier, à la "capitulation sans conditions" de la République islamique. Il a même assuré que les États-Unis pouvaient aisément tuer le guide suprême iranien Ali Khamenei. Ce dernier a proclamé que son pays "ne se rendra jamais" et mis en garde les Etats-Unis contre des "dommages irréparables" en cas d'intervention dans le conflit.Pour l'heure, les frappes israéliennes ont déjà fait plus de 200 morts et plus de 1200 blessés. Le monde reste suspendu aux paroles de Donald Trump. Hier, en rentrant en avion du G7, le président américain a démenti les informations de sa cheffe du renseignement, Tulsi Gabbard qui estimait en mars devant le Congrès que l'Iran ne possédait pas la bombe nucléaire : "Je me fiche de ce qu'elle a dit", a rétorqué le président à une journaliste qui l'interrogeait. Si L'Iran ne dispose pour l'instant que d'uranium enrichi à 60%, là où le seuil requis s'élève à 90% pour obtenir l'arme nucléaire, la France, l'Allemagne et le Royaume-Uni ont estimé jeudi dernier que l'Iran pourrait avoir la capacité de produire "plus de neuf" bombes nucléaires. Mais avec l'opacité entretenue par le régime iranien, impossible de savoir si ces projections sont vraiment crédibles.Acculé, affaibli, le régime iranien continue de menacer, à commencer par fermer le détroit d'Ormuz, par lequel transitent 20% du pétrole mondial et 30% du Gaz naturel liquéfié. Sardar Esmail Kowsari, commandant des Gardiens de la Révolution, a déclaré que cette option était "à l'étude". Son application plongerait le monde dans une grave crise économique. En fin de semaine dernière, lorsque les premières bombes israéliennes sont tombées sur l'Iran, les cours du pétrole ont flambé, avant de se stabiliser. Large d'environ 50 kilomètres, le détroit s'étend d'Oman à l'Iran. L'Iran, lui-même producteur important de pétrole, serait évidemment impacté par la fermeture de ce passage stratégique. Selon Le Figaro, 95% des barils iraniens sont exportés vers la Chine, et transitent par ce passage maritime.Pendant ce temps, à l'autre bout de l'Europe, Volodymyr Zelensky s'inquiète. Le président ukrainien craint que l'attention focalisée sur le Moyen-Orient n'affecte encore plus le soutien militaire à l'Ukraine. Samedi dernier, il a appelé à ce que "l'aide à l'Ukraine ne diminue pas pour cette raison", comme ce fut le cas lors de la précédente altercation entre Israël et l'Iran en octobre 2024. Présent au G7 en début de semaine, il n'a pu que constater le manque d'intérêt de l'administration américaine pour sa cause, et a quitté le rassemblement mardi au lendemain du départ précipité de Donald Trump. "La diplomatie est désormais en état de crise", a-t-il lâché. D'autant que la Russie semble profiter de la guerre au Moyen-Orient pour avancer ses pions. Dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi, elle a lancé une vaste attaque de drones sur Kiev, faisant 24 morts et plus de 130 blessés. Le président ukrainien, a déclaré qu'il s'agissait de "l'une des attaques les plus horribles sur Kiev" et a appelé à un soutien international plus fort pour aider l'Ukraine à se défendre. Cette nuit, un nouvel essaim de 58 drones a frappé les oblasts de Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk et Zaporijia.Où en est le programme nucléaire iranien ?Quelles conséquences aurait une fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz sur l'économie mondiale ?Et comment la Russie profite-t-elle du chaos au Moyen-Orient pour avancer ses pions ?LES EXPERTS :- Général Jean-Paul PALOMEROS - Ancien chef d'état-major, ancien commandant suprême de la transformation de l'OTAN- Patricia ALLÉMONIÉRE - Grand reporter, spécialiste des questions internationales- Anthony BELLANGER - Éditorialiste - Franceinfo TV, spécialiste des questions internationales- David RIGOULET-ROZE - Chercheur associé à l'IRIS, rédacteur en chef de la revue "Orients stratégiques", auteur de "La République islamique d'Iran en crise systémique"- Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA – En duplex - Directeur du centre énergie et climat de l'Ifri

June 12th Yuriy recounts the tragic divide within his own family due to the ongoing war, revealing the schizophrenic beliefs held by many Russians. He criticizes the contradictory narratives supported by the Russian government and highlights the dire consequences of these delusions on both personal and societal levels. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: fightingtherussianbeast@gmail.com    You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family   Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  Subscribe to his substack: https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It is June 12. A new soldier recently joined my military unit. He's fairly young, just over 30, and originally from Doneysk. Let me remind you, that's a Ukrainian city. Russia has occupied since 2014. Right after the occupation, this guy fled to the free part of Ukraine, but his father stayed behind in Donetsk, took Russian citizenship and eventually moved somewhere into Russia. Now that Father fervently supports the war against Ukraine, he even sends money to the occupying forces- donating part of his salary to units fighting the Ukrainian army. That means he's also funding the war against his own son. Sometimes this father writes to his son about how much he hates Ukraine and how he regrets having a child who doesn't understand that it's better to be Russian. He says Ukraine has no right to exist and that his willing to accept his own sons death if that's what it takes to destroy Ukraine. This is pure schizophrenia -to wish so obsessively for the destruction of the entire country that you'd be willing to sacrifice your own child for it. And there are millions of people like him. Another kind of schizophrenia is believing that the war will end soon and everything will go back to how it was before- Russians will travel freely to Ukraine again, Ukrainians will forgive them and they will be genuine peace. That's the delusion world. My brother, for example, lives in. He recently wrote to our uncle in Kharkiv, a city bombed daily, saying that as soon as the war ends, he'll come and help rebuild it, and that our uncle should wait for him because he's coming soon. What's interesting is that the Russian government supports both of these schizophrenic delusions even though directly contradict each other. Putin regularly spouts nonsense about how Russians are destined to be friends with what he calls "the Ukrainian part of Russian people" while one of his goons, someone like Medvedev, will immediately follow up with claims that Ukrainians will be completely wiped out and forgotten by history. Schizophrenia in its many forms has become the norm in Russia. They are consumed by madness, the entire society. Putin has turned his country into massive asylum for deranged. These madmen are allowed to do anything to kill and rape Ukrainians, to loot and burn down entire cities to believe that it'll soon end and through peace will return like in the distant past, the only thing we're not allowed to do is question the war- to question whether the killing and raping is really necessary. Tragically, the western world still tries to engage with these extremely dangerous lunatics as if they were ordinary people who just have a political disagreement with Ukrainians, but we have a disagreement, not with us, but with reality itself. And we're proud of it. While your politicians keep dancing before the chief murder and looter before the chief 21st century schizoid man.

Des attaques aériennes russes massives, impliquant des centaines de drones, ont visé cette nuit les villes ukrainiennes de Kiev et d'Odessa. L'armée russe a affirmé avoir ciblé l'industrie militaire ukrainienne et avoir notamment touché des usines fabriquant des missiles, des chars et des navires. Elle a aussi affirmé être entrée dans la région ukrainienne de Dnipropetrovsk, qui borde celles de Donetsk et de Zaporijjia déjà partiellement sous son contrôle, une première en plus de trois ans de conflit. Le point sur la situation militaire avec l'analyste géopolitique Ulrich Bounat, chercheur associé chez Open Diplomacy. Ulrich Bounat est l'auteur de La guerre hybride en Ukraine : quelles perspectives ? (éditions du Cygne)

Le truppe russe sostengono di aver raggiunto il confine occidentale della regione ucraina di Donetsk e di aver lanciato un'offensiva nella limitrofa regione di Dnipropetrovsk che è stata costantemente sotto il fuoco dell'artiglieria di Mosca in questi tre anni di conflitto ma l'esercito ucraino smentisce. Iscriviti e segui "Notizie dall'Ucraina": YouTube: https://bit.ly/3FqWppn Spreaker: https://bit.ly/42g2ONG Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3JE1OMi Spotify: https://spoti.fi/40bpm0v Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/40HVQ37 Audible: https://bit.ly/4370ARc    Adnkronos: podcast/adnkronos.com  Resta in contatto con noi: https://www.adnkronos.com/  https://x.com/Adnkronos  https://www.facebook.com/AgenziaAdnKronos  https://www.instagram.com/adnkronos_/  

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Desde que inició la guerra, Ucrania hizo un llamado a combatientes voluntarios para apoyarlos en el conflicto. Algunos les llaman mercenarios, pero los expertos explican que históricamente las guerras han evolucionado y que no todos los combatientes extranjeros se denominan de ese modo. Sin embargo, organismos como la ONU reconocen que los Estados carecen de leyes robustas al respecto, por lo que impera un riesgo latente de violación a los derechos humanos tanto a la sociedad civil, como a los mismos combatientes.     El Árabe y Jack llenaron el formulario de voluntarios para luchar con Ucrania en la guerra contra Rusia, así se llaman entre ellos por seguridad. Aunque muchos les llaman mercenarios, a ellos no les gusta. Aseguran que viajaron por vocación militar y que se quedaron allí por el pueblo ucraniano. “Lo hacen sentir a uno como en casa” dice el Árabe, quien lamenta el sufrimiento del pueblo ucraniano y lleva más de un año combatiendo con sus fuerzas militares, país que según él, le ha permitido continuar su carrera militar, pues en su natal Colombia no cumplió las exigencias del Ejército. Aunque dice estar feliz por seguir su vocación, el precio ha sido alto. “Yo fui herido en combate, perdí una pierna en Donbás. Fue una situación al bordo de la muerte, perdí algunos compañeros, pero yo soy militar, estoy acostumbrado a todo eso”, cuenta el Árabe, quien defiende su posición de combatiente extranjero: “Cuando uno pisa el suelo del frente, se va da cuenta que la lucha y las motivaciones son distintas. No es lo mismo invadir un país que defenderlo. Yo no soy un mercenario”.  En el momento de la entrevista, este exsoldado colombiano se encontraba en la región de Sumy en el noreste de Ucrania, fronteriza con Rusia, que ha sido fuertemente bombardeada y es objetivo del mandatario ruso Vladimir Putin para anexionarla a su territorio, como ya lo ha hecho con un 20% del suelo ucraniano. Otra de esas provincias Donetsk donde Jack, un ex auxiliar de policía estuvo en combates en 2022. “Yo entré varias veces y salí herido de zona de combate. Allá las batallas son muy diferentes a Colombia. Desde que usted se embarca en el carro y está en zona de combate, eso ya es artillería, drones kamikazes, minas antitanques, minas antipersonas, salen emboscadas”, relató.  Cuenta que empezó a luchar con el ejército ucraniano junto a unos 140 colombianos. De ellos solo 20 quedaron vivos. Corrió con suerte durante ese año y medio que estuvo en Ucrania, regresó a Colombia para recuperarse de sus heridas, pero dice que quiere volver, “yo luchaba porque me nacía defender un país que realmente necesitaba y estaba siendo invadido, haciendo cosas que no debían hacer, porque yo miraba cómo mataban niños, abuelitos, muchachos”. Jack cuenta que la población les pedía que los apoyaran y el volvía a entrar en combates. “Es una guerra, van a ganar o a morir” Los mortíferos bombardeos que a veces se difunden por la red social TikTok donde los mismos combatientes extranjeros hacen llamados a sus connacionales a unirse al ejército de Kiev, no desaniman a los cientos de exsoldados, exvigilantes y expolicías que emprenden su viaje a la guerra en busca de un salario en dólares. “Allá nos pagaban 3.000 dólares, a veces 2.000, 2.500, depende de la línea. Entre más peligro, más pagaban”, explica Jack. Entre más alta es la suma de dinero, más riesgo corren sus vidas, aunque cuentan también que esa suma se puede ver disminuida por casos de corrupción entre los mismos compañeros. El expolicía asegura que todos los que se inscriben en el conflicto conocen los riesgos. “Porque es una guerra, saben que van a ganar o van a morir. No es un juego y si van ansiosos a ganar mucha plata o van para eso, ténganlo por seguro que no van a volver o más de uno vuelve sin extremidades". Según él, un 90% lo hacen por dinero.  Sin embargo, el sargento retirado Héctor Bernal, que asesora a empresas privadas de seguridad y fuerza pública en asistencia médica en combate y reside en Colombia, señala que no todos son conscientes de lo que implica esta guerra.    “Algunos son conscientes, otros no entienden la magnitud del conflicto. Yo siempre les digo: una cosa es el conflicto armado en Colombia, Ucrania es otro nivel, allá no hay soldados y el índice de mortalidad es muy alto porque en este momento se está desarrollando la guerra de los drones, y los explosivos, por eso el índice de muerte en el campo de batalla es muy alto”, señaló Bernal. También se interroga por el objetivo de quienes luchan en Ucrania, “Todos los que han regresado acá a Colombia, han regresado enfermos y sin dinero. Hay unos muchachos que llegaron con problemas psicológicos, estrés postraumático de la guerra”, lamentó. De Ucrania a una prisión rusa A veces también son sus familias las que lamentan esta decisión. Es el caso de Lizeth, la esposa de Miguel Ángel Montilla quién fue capturado por las fuerzas rusas y condenado por mercenariato a 9 años de prisión el pasado abril. Él trabajaba como vigilante en un centro comercial de la ciudad de Cali y su compañera recuerda los planes que hacía al regresar a casa en su bicicleta. “Él empezó a escuchar que necesitan voluntarios para ir a Ucrania y que les pagaban muy bien, que lo que se hacían aquí en Colombia en un año, allá se lo hacían en 15 días, le iluminaron los ojos”, indicó. El viaje de Montilla para mejorar sus condiciones económicas terminó en una prisión rusa y no es el único, pues Moscú castiga con entre siete y 15 años de cárcel el mercenariato. Según la prensa independiente, el Kremlin también utiliza a miles de extranjeros de países como Kirguistán, India o Cuba en su guerra. Para Ulrich Petersohn, profesor de políticas internacionales en la Universidad de Liverpool que investiga el impacto de empresas de seguridad privada y mercenariato en guerras civiles, es una muestra de doble rasero. “A menudo, el término mercenario se usa simplemente para describir a personas que no te agradan o que no te gusta lo que hacen. Por ejemplo, Rusia arrestó a combatientes extranjeros que vestían uniforme ucraniano y los etiquetó como mercenarios. Es un caso donde se aplica una doble moral. En primer lugar, si vestían uniformes ucranianos y eran miembros de las fuerzas armadas ucranianas, merecían el estatus de prisioneros de guerra y no eran mercenarios. Por otro lado, si los rusos se miraran, ellos básicamente hacen lo mismo. Están en el extranjero y emplean, por ejemplo, a sirios en sus fuerzas armadas, pero no los etiquetan como mercenarios”, señaló Petersohn. Un marco legal casi inexistente El marco regulatorio internacional para quienes participan en conflictos en países extranjeros es casi inexistente. Solo unas 37 naciones, entre las que se encuentra Ucrania han ratificado el convenio de la ONU contra el mercenariato que criminaliza esta actividad, pero aceptan la existencia de las llamadas empresas de seguridad privada que en ocasiones proveen servicios de mercenarios y carecen de regulación estatal. Jovana Jezdimirovic Ranito, presidenta del grupo de trabajo de Naciones Unidas sobre mercenarios, reconoce que el caso de Ucrania es difícil de clasificar. “Claro que se trata de un conflicto entre Estados, pero hay diferentes tipos de actores involucrados. Tenemos empresas militares privadas, actores relacionados con mercenarios, y también observamos mucho reclutamiento predatorio, que se refiere a las prácticas en las que un actor recluta en lugares donde la gente se encuentra en una situación económica o social difícil, ofreciéndoles condiciones que no pueden obtener en sus propios países, especialmente en lugares históricamente afectados por conflictos”. Colombia con más de 60 años de conflicto armado tiene cientos de exveteranos y expolicías con experiencia militar, aunque no solo ellos van a Ucrania, pues según los testimonios, el único requisito es comprar el tiquete de avión. Una de las razones para este reclutamiento masivo que también tiene voluntarios de Georgia, Perú, Chile y otras tantas nacionalidades es que los Estados no cuentan con recursos para prepararse para un conflicto eterno, explica Jezdimirovic: “Los Estados no tienen recursos para financiar el conflicto indefinidamente, por lo que usualmente en algún momento van a necesitar cierto apoyo por diferentes medios y si eso no es posible conseguirlo a nivel nacional, necesitan buscarlo a nivel internacional”.   La RAE define a un mercenario como todo aquel que participa en un conflicto extranjero a cambio de dinero. Es una actividad muy criticada por los riesgos a la violación de derechos humanos, pero los expertos coinciden en que hay matices y no necesariamente un combatiente extranjero se convierte en mercenario. Se estudian factores como si el combatiente obtuvo residencia o no, si lo hace solo por dinero, si ha tenido entrenamiento calificado previo, si están vinculados directamente con el gobierno y guiados por las fuerzas militares o si son contratados por empresas privadas. El debate es amplio y aún difuso.  “No existe ningún organismo específico a nivel internacional encargado de vigilar esta actividad” dice la convención de Naciones Unidas. A nivel nacional, los marcos regulatorios de los gobiernos son también contradictorios. En tiempos de guerra, los límites pueden volverse inexistentes.

Nguyên thủ Mỹ những ngày cuối tháng 5/2025 đã có những tuyên bố gay gắt đối với tổng thống Nga Vladimir Putin, rằng ông « hoàn toàn điên rồ », « đang đùa với lửa »…Những lời chỉ trích này phải chăng đánh dấu một bước ngoặt trong chính sách của ông Trump về Nga? Phải chăng Donald Trump đang thoát khỏi sự kìm kẹp ảnh hưởng từ đồng nhiệm Nga ? Trên đây là những thắc mắc từ nhiều nhà quan sát. Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump có những phát biểu như trên sau những đợt oanh kích quy mô lớn chưa từng có tính từ đầu cuộc xung đột Nga – Ukraina, phối hợp tên lửa và drone nhắm vào nhiều vùng trên lãnh thổ Ukraina.Thiếu kiên nhẫn chiến thuậtPhải chăng tổng thống Nga đã đánh mất sự hậu thuẫn của Donald Trump ? Cựu đại sứ Pháp tại Nga giai đoạn 2020-2024, Pierre Lévy, trên làn sóng RFI Pháp ngữ ngày 27/05/2025, tỏ ra cẩn trọng khi cho rằng đối với Donald Trump, « cần phải chờ xem » những tuyên bố sắp tới.Nhưng theo ông, điều này thể hiện rõ một phương pháp tồi từ phía Washington, « không phải là cách để đối phó với Nga », với một dân tộc mà trong tâm trí luôn quan niệm rằng « nhà lãnh đạo thống trị và tự ngự trị mình. Do vậy, vị lãnh đạo đó không có tâm trạng và ông ta không nên thể hiện cảm xúc quá mức. Đó là dấu hiệu của sự yếu đuối ».Cũng theo cựu đại sứ Pháp Pierre Lévy, cách tiếp cận này của Nga là rất rõ ràng, được thể hiện rõ qua lời đáp trả của phát ngôn viên điện Kremlin Dmitri Peskov khi đánh giá những phát biểu của Donald Trump là « trả lời theo cảm xúc trước các sự kiện ».Nhà ngoại giao Pháp giải thích tiếp : « Vì vậy, tôi thấy rằng về cơ bản đây là một cách tiếp cận khá khinh thường. Vụ việc thể hiện sự tương phản giữa một bên là sự thiếu kiên nhẫn về chiến thuật của Donald Trump và bên kia là sự kiên nhẫn chiến lược của Nga với một quyết tâm lạnh lùng. Và do vậy, không chút tâm trạng. »Vladimir Putin : Ukraina chỉ là « Tiểu Nga »Sự thiếu kiên nhẫn đó có lẽ phần nào phản ảnh tâm trạng hụt hẫng của Donald Trump khi nhận ra rằng ông không dễ chấm dứt chiến tranh « trong vòng 24 giờ » như tuyên bố khi vận động tranh cử. Ngày 04/06/2025, sau cuộc điện đàm với đồng nhiệm Nga Vladimir Putin, tổng thống Trump thừa nhận sẽ không có « hòa bình tức thì » giữa Kiev và Matxcơva.Một sự thật hiển nhiên và chẳng có gì đáng ngạc nhiên. Ông Brian Whitmore, nhà nghiên cứu, giáo sư trường đại học Texas – Arlington, trên trang Atlantic Council ngày 29/05/2025, từng viết là sẽ « không có một thỏa thuận nào với Nga về Ukraina. Điều đó chưa bao giờ có và sẽ chẳng bao giờ có ».Đơn giản là vì, theo ông, không có một công thức kỳ diệu nào, không một nhượng bộ hay một sự mặc cả lớn nào có thể thỏa mãn những mục tiêu tối đa và mang tính tiêu diệt của điện Kremlin : Chấm dứt chủ quyền, quốc gia và nhà nước Ukraina. Trong khi Ukraina muốn tiếp tục tồn tại như một quốc gia có chủ quyền độc lập. Do vậy, không có một sự thỏa hiệp nào là khả thi.Trong một cuộc trao đổi với đồng nhiệm Mỹ, tổng thống Putin đã tuyên bố mọi giải pháp cho cuộc xung đột phải xử lý điều mà ông gọi là « nguồn cội sâu xa của xung đột ». Nói một cách cụ thể, đó là sự tồn tại của Ukraina như là một quốc gia có chủ quyền, điều mà từ lâu ông Putin coi là đáng nguyền rủa.Tại thượng đỉnh NATO ở Bucarest, Bulgari năm 2008, trước sự hiện diện của đồng nhiệm Mỹ lúc bấy giờ là George W. Bush, tổng thống Nga đã nói rằng « Ukraina thậm chí không phải là một quốc gia », mà chỉ là một « Tiểu Nga » như nhiều lần ông nói đến. Đây là một thuật ngữ được sử dụng dưới thời Sa hoàng để mô tả vùng lãnh thổ Ukraina. Vẫn theo ông Whitemore, « đối với ông Putin và giới tinh hoa điện Kremlin, sự thống trị thuộc địa Nga đối với Ukraina là một vấn đề tư tưởng không thể đàm phán ».Quyết tâm chinh phục Ukraina của Nga đã được một trong những nhà tư tưởng Nga thân cận với Putin, Vladimir Medinsky, thể hiện rõ qua tuyên bố « Nga sẵn sàng chiến đấu mãi mãi » và không quên nhắc lại cuộc chiến tranh phương Bắc 1700 – 1721 chống Thụy Điển trong vòng 21 năm. Trong cuộc đàm phán tại Istanbul gần đây, ông thách thức phái đoàn Ukraina : « Các người có thể sẵn sàng chiến đấu trong bao lâu ? ».Kinh tế : Mắc xích yếu của Nga, mồi nhử Donald TrumpTuy nhiên, Nga cũng ý thức được rằng chiến tranh kéo dài, họ cũng trả giá đắt. Theo ước tính của Viện Nghiên cứu Chiến tranh Mỹ, trong vòng bốn tháng đầu năm 2025, cứ mỗi một cây số vuông đất Ukraina chiếm được, Nga mất gần như 100 quân.Với nhịp độ này, Nga sẽ phải mất đến gần 4 năm để chiếm hết phần còn lại của bốn vùng Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporijia và Kherson mà Matxcơva đòi sáp nhập vào Nga, và có lẽ phải mất gần một thế kỷ để chiếm toàn bộ Ukraina, ngoại trừ các khu vực biên giới phía Tây nước này, với cái giá phải trả là 50 triệu thương vong, tương đương với khoảng 1/3 dân số Nga hiện nay.Nền kinh tế Nga hiện tại gặp khó khăn nhưng vẫn chống chọi được với các biện pháp trừng phạt của phương Tây. Nhưng nếu kéo dài cuộc chiến, kinh tế của Nga chịu được sức ép trong bao lâu nếu phương Tây bền bỉ duy trì áp lực với Matxcơva ?Trong điều kiện này, mục tiêu của điện Kremlin đối với Hoa Kỳ là tìm cách tách rời cuộc chiến với mối quan hệ Nga – Mỹ, bình thường hóa quan hệ song phương Matxcơva – Washington, và được nới lỏng trừng phạt. Tổng thống Nga Putin đưa « củ cà rốt », mời mọc Mỹ hợp tác khai thác đất hiếm. Ông tuyên bố mối quan hệ hợp tác kinh tế mới giữa Mỹ và Nga sẽ có lợi hơn cho đôi bên, nhất là trong lĩnh vực năng lượng nếu như « lệnh trừng phạt được dỡ bỏ »…Những ý tưởng mà ông Trump có vẻ như không muốn bỏ lỡ. Nguyên thủ Mỹ bày tỏ ý muốn thiết lập quan hệ kinh tế bình thường với Matxcơva. Đây có lẽ sẽ là một sai lầm, bởi vì điều đó sẽ giúp mang lại cho ông Putin chút dưỡng khí để tiếp tục cuộc chiến tại Ukraina. Thực tế trên chiến trường cũng đã cho thấy rõ : Bất chấp các cuộc đàm phán, Nga gia tăng oanh kích bắn phá các thành phố của Ukraina.Theo phân tích từ cựu đại sứ Pháp Pierre Lévy, trên đài RFI, « tổng thống Nga vẫn chưa đi chệch mục tiêu ban đầu của mình, đó là phá vỡ chủ quyền của Ukraina và đi đến cùng các mục tiêu của mình. Nói một cách đơn giản, trong phương trình này, ông phải cẩn trọng để cho ông Trump không hoàn toàn phải xa lánh. Ông ấy có thể điều khiển ông Trump, sao cho người đồng cấp vẫn hiện diện ở đó. Và đến một lúc nào đó thì ông Putin sẽ chuyển qua bước tiếp theo … »Ukraina : Chống trả hay đầu hàng, chọn lựa sinh tửĐây cũng là điều khiến nhà sử học, giáo sư Laurence Saint-Gilles, trường đại học Sorbonne, Pháp lo lắng. Trái với Ronald Reagan, vị tổng thống thứ 40 của Hoa Kỳ giai đoạn 1981 – 1989, chỉ bắt đầu đàm phán với Matxcơva sau khi đã tái lập đươc thế ưu việt chiến lược của Mỹ, tổng thống Trump đã vội vàng đồng ý ngay lập tức hầu hết các yêu cầu của đồng nhiệm Nga trước khi bắt đầu đàm phán, biến câu nói « hòa bình thông qua sức mạnh » thành « hòa bình thông qua đầu hàng ».Về phía Ukraina, bất chấp màn hạ nhục trước ống kính quốc tế tại Phòng Bầu Dục và những dọa dẫm cắt viện trợ quân sự, tổng thống Trump không nhận được sự nhượng bộ nào từ Kiev để có thể nhanh chóng đi đến một lệnh ngừng bắn, mở đường cho đàm phán hòa bình.Nhà nghiên cứu Brian Whitemore dẫn nhận định từ nhà chính trị học Ukraina Anton Shekhovtsov đưa ra hồi trung tuần tháng 5/2025, nêu lên một thực tế cay đắng : « Ukraina phải chọn giữa chống trả và nguy cơ bị giết, hay đầu hàng và bị giết. Bằng cách chống trả, Ukraina có một cơ hội, nhưng nếu đầu hàng, họ sẽ không có cơ hội nào và do vậy, việc đầu hàng không phải là một giải pháp khả thi. »Trong hoàn cảnh này, các nước Pháp, Anh, Đức và khối Liên Hiệp Châu Âu nỗ lực gia tăng viện trợ cho Ukraina và ban hành một loạt trừng phạt mới nhắm vào Nga. Thủ tướng Đức Friedrich Merz gần đây dỡ bỏ giới hạn tầm bắn đối với vũ khí Đức cung cấp cho Ukraina, buộc Matx cơva phải lên tiếng cảnh báo đó là « một quyết định nguy hiểm ».Dù vậy, ông Brian Whitemore cảnh báo một trong những thách thức lớn nhất trong tương lai là châu Âu có sẽ vượt qua được những chia rẽ trong nội bộ, nhất là từ các nước Hungary và Slovakia, và có thể cung cấp được vũ khí cho Ukraina hay không.Donald Trump có thoát được bóng Putin ?  Về phía Washington, các nước đồng minh châu Âu của Ukraina và giới quan sát đều có một câu hỏi : Liệu Donald Trump có thoát được chiếc bẫy Nga để ban hành loạt trừng phạt mới hay không, với hy vọng có thể chặn đứng được tham vọng bành trướng của Matxcơva và đi đến đàm phán hòa bình ?Nhà sử học Laurence Saint-Gilles trên La Croix lưu ý thêm rằng, nếu như những quyết định của Nhà Trắng cho đến lúc này làm hài lòng một bộ phận cử tri thân Nga, chống viện trợ cho Ukraina, thì Donald Trump khó thể phớt lờ một bộ phận lớn người dân Mỹ ủng hộ Ukraina và xem Nga như là một kẻ thù.Đây không phải lần đầu tiên Donald Trump bày tỏ bất bình công khai với đồng cấp Nga Vladimir Putin, nhưng không ai có thể đoán đâu là phạm vi hành động của ông. Theo quan điểm Laurence Saint-Gilles, tổng thống Trump rất có thể « núp bóng » sau một cuộc bỏ phiếu tại Thượng viện, vốn dĩ đã báo hiệu ý định áp đặt các lệnh trừng phạt mới đối với Nga và áp đặt mức thuế quan nặng đối với các quốc gia mua dầu, khí đốt và uranium của Nga.Kết quả của cuộc bỏ phiếu này sẽ cho thấy những phản ứng gay gắt gần đây của Donald Trump chỉ là phản ứng cảm xúc, hay là khởi đầu của một cuộc giải thoát khỏi sự quyến rũ mà tổng thống Nga đang tác động lên ông!

For review:1. Ukrainian negotiators said Russia had again rejected an "unconditional ceasefire - but the two committed to return the bodies of 12,000 Soldiers. The two sides agreed to exchange all sick and heavily wounded prisoners of war, as well those aged under 25.2. During talks in Istanbul, the Russian delegation handed Ukraine a "peace memorandum" with its proposals for a ceasefire, Russian-state media outlet TASS reported on June 2, publishing the alleged document.According to the document, among Russia key demands are the official recognition of Russia's annexation of Crimea, as well as the annexation of Ukraine's Kherson, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk oblasts. Other demands include that Ukraine sticks to its neutral status, abandons its aspirations to join NATO, and an official end to Western arms supplies and intelligence sharing with Ukraine.3.  Iran Readies a "No" Response to US Talks Proposal. “Iran is drafting a negative response to the US proposal, which could be interpreted as a rejection of the US offer,” the senior diplomat, who is close to Iran's negotiating team, told Reuters.The US  proposal for a new nuclear deal was presented to Iran on Saturday by Oman's Foreign Minister (Sayyid Badr Al-Busaidi).4. The Israel Defense Forces said Monday it had expanded its ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza over the past day. Palestinian media reported overnight that Israeli ground forces were approaching southern Gaza's Khan Younis.5. UK to Increase Defense Spending to 2.5% GDP by 2027. The UK Prime Minister (Sir Keir Starmer) said the increases represent “the largest sustained increase in defense spending since the end of the Cold War.” 6. The United States is urging Australia to raise defense spending to 3.5% of GDP.Australia already plans to raise its defense budget to 2.4% of GDP by 2033-34, up from the about 2% it spends now.7.  The Navy awarded a $536 million contract to NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement Service to dismantle, recycle and dispose of the former aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN-65)- a four-year undertaking.  

Två kinesiska krigsfångar visas upp i Ukraina och fallet reser nya frågor om Kinas roll i kriget. Enligt president Zelenskyj krigar fler än 150 kineser på Rysslands sida. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Det var i april som Ukrainas president Volodymyr Zelenskyj gick ut med att två kinesiska soldater gripits vid fronten i Donetsk. Gripandet blev en världsnyhet och den ukrainska underrättelsetjänsten visade upp fångarna på en presskonferens. Fallet har på nytt aktualiserat frågan om Kinas roll i kriget och hur nära Kina egentligen samarbetar med Ryssland. Krigsfångarna själva beskriver ingående hur de rekryterades via sociala medier i Kina, samtidigt som Peking förnekar all inblandning. För Ukraina blev fallet med de kinesiska krigsfångarna ett tillfälle att öka pressen på både Kina och USA.Medverkande: Hanna Sahlberg, Kinareporter. Moa Kärnstrand, Kinakorrespondent. Lubna El-Shanti, Ukrainakorrespondent. Programledare: Björn DjurbergProducent: Therese Rosenvinge

Medida da Corte de Apelações anula decisão anterior de umtribunal independente de Nova York que forçava a Casa Branca a suspender as tarifas que foram consideradas ilegais. E ainda:- Israel aceita proposta americana de cessar-fogo em Gazaque prevê uma trégua de 60 dias, com troca de reféns israelenses por prisioneiros palestinos e entrada de ajuda humanitária no território. Porém, Hamas rejeita a proposta- Enquanto avança em frentes de batalha na Ucrânia, especialmente em Sumy e Donetsk, Rússia voltará à mesa de negociações com a Ucrânia na próxima segunda-feira, na Turquia- Rede americana ABC destacou que a febre brasileira das mães reborns tem causado fascínio online e debates políticos. Já a France 24 destacou que a demanda por essas réplicas de bebês disparou no Brasil nos últimos anos Ouça Monstro Bom no Spotify Notícias em tempo real nas redes sociais Instagram @mundo_180_segundos e Linkedin Mundo em 180 Segundos Fale conosco através do mundo180segundos@gmail.com

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A special report from the frontline in eastern Ukraine where Russian forces are advancing. Also: remembering the renowned Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and saving lives with a defibrillator on Mount Everest.

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US President Donald Trump spoke to Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday about peace in Ukraine after Washington said there was an "impasse" over ending Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II and that the United States may have to walk away.美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周一与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京就乌克兰和平议题通话。美方此前表示在结束这场二战以来欧洲最致命的冲突问题上“陷入僵局”，并暗示美国可能不得不退出调停。Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly called for an end to the "bloodbath" in Ukraine, which his administration casts as a proxy war between the United States and Russia.特朗普政府将乌克兰冲突视为俄美之间的代理人战争，而这位自称希望以和平缔造者名垂青史的美国总统，已多次公开呼吁终止乌克兰的“血腥屠杀”。Under pressure from Trump, delegates from both sides met last week in Istanbul for the first time since March 2022, after Putin proposed direct talks and Europeans and Ukraine demanded an immediate ceasefire. Both countries agreed to swap 1,000 prisoners each but failed to agree on a truce, after Moscow presented conditions that a member of Ukraine's delegation called "nonstarters".在特朗普施压下，双方代表上周在伊斯坦布尔举行2022年3月以来的首次会晤。此次会谈背景是普京提议直接对话，而欧洲国家与乌克兰要求立即停火。两国就互换各1000名战俘达成共识，但最终未能就停火达成一致——莫斯科提出的条件被乌克兰代表团成员称为“根本不具可行性”。The call on Monday was underway shortly after 10 am, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, promising additional details after it concludes.白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特表示，周一的通话于上午10时后不久开始，并承诺在通话结束后披露更多细节。The goal for the call was to "see this conflict come to an end", she added.莱维特补充称，此次通话旨在“推动冲突结束”。Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the conversation "important, given the talks that took place in Istanbul" last week.克里姆林宫发言人佩斯科夫表示，鉴于上周伊斯坦布尔会谈的进展，此次对话“具有重要意义”。Shortly before the call, US Vice President JD Vance told reporters that Washington recognized there was an "impasse" in ending the conflict.通话前夕，美国副总统詹姆斯·戴维·万斯对记者表示，美方意识到结束这场冲突存在“僵局”。"We realize there's a bit of an impasse here. ... We're going to try to end it, but if we can't end it, we're eventually going to say: 'You know what? That was worth a try, but we're not doing any more,'" Vance said as he prepared to depart from Italy.万斯在准备从意大利启程时表示："我们认识到目前存在一些阻碍……我们将努力促成停火，但若无法实现，最终我们只能说：'要我说，至少努力过了，但不会再继续介入。'""The subjects of the call will be stopping the 'bloodbath' that is killing, on average, more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and trade," Trump wrote on his Truth Social website on Sunday.特朗普周日在其自创社交平台“真相社交”上发文称，此次通话主题包括停止“每周平均造成逾5000名俄乌士兵丧生的大屠杀”以及贸易问题。"Hopefully, it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war, a war that should have never happened, will end."他写道：“希望这一天能有所成果，实现停火，终结这场本不该发生的血腥战争。”Trump, whose administration has made it clear that Russia could face additional sanctions if it does not take peace talks seriously, said he would also speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and various members of NATO.特朗普政府已明确表态，若俄罗斯不认真对待和谈将面临追加制裁。特朗普称还将与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基及北约多国领导人展开对话。Putin has stood firm on his conditions for ending the conflict, despite public and private pressure from Trump and repeated warnings from European powers.面对特朗普政府公开与私下的双重施压及欧洲列强的连番示警，普京仍坚持其停火条件。In an interview with Russian state TV broadcast on Sunday, Putin said that Moscow's aim was to "eliminate the causes that triggered this crisis, create the conditions for a lasting peace and guarantee Russia's security", without elaborating.普京在周日播出的俄罗斯国家电视台采访中表示，莫斯科的目标是“根除引发这场危机的根源，为实现持久和平创造条件，并保障俄罗斯的安全”，但未作具体阐述。More attacks战火持续升级On the ground, the conflict continued. Moscow on Monday claimed its forces had captured two villages in Sumy and Donetsk.地面战场上，冲突仍在继续。俄罗斯国防部周一宣称已占领苏梅地区和顿涅茨克地区的两座村庄。On Sunday, Russia launched its largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the conflict.周日，俄军发动了开战以来对乌克兰最大规模的无人机袭击。Ukraine's intelligence service said it also believed Moscow intended to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile on Sunday, though there was no confirmation from Russia that it had done so.乌克兰情报部门称，他们确信莫斯科还计划在当天试射洲际弹道导弹，但未获俄方证实。Russian defense units destroyed 35 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russian state news agencies reported on Monday, citing defense ministry data.俄罗斯国家通讯社周一援引国防部数据称，俄军防空部队夜间击落了35架乌克兰无人机。Zelensky, straining to restore ties with Washington after a disastrous February White House visit, met Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Rome on Sunday on the sidelines of Pope Leo's inauguration.在政治层面，乌克兰总统泽连斯基周日借出席教皇方济各就职典礼之机，于罗马会见了美国参议员万斯和国务卿马尔科·卢比奥。这是泽连斯基继二月份白宫访问遇冷后，正竭力修复与华盛顿的关系。"I reaffirmed that Ukraine is ready to be engaged in real diplomacy and underscored the importance of a full and unconditional ceasefire as soon as possible," Zelensky said.泽连斯基在声明中表示：“我方再次确认乌克兰已准备好展开实质性和谈，同时着重指出当务之急是尽快达成全面无条件的停火协议。”Also on Sunday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the Russia-Ukraine conflict with leaders of the United States, Italy, France and Germany, a Downing Street spokesperson said.英国首相府发言人表示，周日当天，首相基尔·斯塔默还就俄乌冲突问题同美国、意大利、法国及德国领导人举行了会谈。"Tomorrow (Monday) President Putin must show he wants peace by accepting the 30-day unconditional ceasefire proposed by President Trump and backed by Ukraine and Europe," French President Emmanuel Macron said on X after Sunday's call.法国总统马克龙在周日参与多方通话后，通过社交媒体X发表声明：“为展现和平诚意，普京总统必须在明日（周一）接受由特朗普总统倡议、乌克兰与欧洲共同支持的30天无条件停火协议。”impasse/ˈɪmpæs/n. 僵局; 绝境bloodbath/ˈblʌdbɑːθ/n. 大屠杀ceasefire/ˈsiːsfaɪə(r) /n. (通常指永久性的)停火;停战sanction/ˈsæŋkʃn/n. 制裁; 处罚truce/truːs/n. 休战; 停战协定; 停战期

Hoy comenzamos hablando sobre la propuesta de Rusia para negociar un alto el fuego: la retirada ucraniana de los oblast de Jerson, Zaporiyia, Donetsk y Lugansk. Si no se acepta la propuesta, advierte Putin, la próxima vez que hablen ya habrán conquistado Odessa, Nikolaiev, Dnipro y Jarkov. Las negociaciones de paz para la guerra de Ucrania se ponen difíciles. También hablamos sobre la tregua en la guerra arancelaria que ha desatado Donald Trump y que supondrá una reducción de los aranceles mutuos entre China y Estados Unidos. Además, analizamos el acuerdo comercial al que han llegado EEUU y Gran Bretaña. También hablamos sobre el silencio informativo respecto al gran apagón y la ausencia de un debate tanto sobre el modelo de producción de electricidad español como sobre la titularidad de Red Eléctrica Española. Por último, analizamos los resultados electorales en Portugal. Con Carlos García, Íñigo Molina y Jorge Amar. Conduce Juan Carlos Barba. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

À l'occasion du 80e anniversaire de la victoire de l'Union soviétique contre le nazisme, le Kremlin réécrit l'Histoire. La date du 9 mai, puissant vecteur de propagande, permet de diffuser le narratif d'une guerre sans fin contre le nazisme, servant de prétexte à la poursuite de l'offensive russe en Ukraine. Ce 9 mai à Moscou, les commémorations de la victoire sur l'Allemagne nazie prennent une dimension symbolique inédite. Soucieux avant tout de justifier la poursuite de sa guerre contre l'Ukraine, Vladimir Poutine érige le passé en un récit de propagande visant l'Ukraine et ses alliés.Notre invité est Paul Gogo, correspondant en Russie pour plusieurs médias francophones et auteur du livre Opération spéciale, dix ans de guerre dans le Donbass, entre Donetsk et Moscou, aux éditions du Rocher.Inde-Pakistan : guerre de l'information à haute intensitéLes affrontements entre l'Inde et le Pakistan suscitent un torrent d'infox sur les réseaux sociaux, au point d'éclipser le réel. Ce sera la chronique de Grégory Genevrier de la cellule info vérif de RFI:Puis, nous mettons le cap sur le Cameroun, pour parler éducation aux médias avec la journaliste Laure Nganlay, lauréate du prix EMI 2025, décerné à son organisation AFF Cameroun lors des Assises du journalisme de Marseille. Les travaux de fact checking de cette ONG de lutte contre la désinformation sont à retrouver sur la plateforme 237 check.

Alexander Khara is CEO at CDS – The Centre for Defence Strategies. He is a Ukrainian / Greek native of Donetsk. A former diplomat/ proponent of Europe Whole and Free and at Peace with Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia as its integral part----------LINKS:https://x.com/alexanderkharahttps://icds.ee/en/autor/alexander-khara/https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-khara-b988b66a/https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/alexander-khara----------Your support is massively appreciated! SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon CurtainNEXT EVENTS - LVIV, KYIV AND ODESA THIS MAY.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Le journal Le Monde, à Paris, nous raconte l'histoire de Dosseh. Un jeune togolais de 27 ans, originaire d'un village proche d'Aného. Elève brillant, il obtient une licence d'histoire à l'université de Lomé, cherche ensuite à partir pour gagner plus de sous. Il tente sa chance au Canada, puis en France, mais aucun pays ne l'accepte.Aucun, sauf la Russie ! Il part donc étudier à l'Université d'État de Saratov, mais en février, plus de nouvelles. Sa famille s'inquiète et ce n'est qu'un mois après qu'il réapparait dans une vidéo YouTube, interviewé par un ukrainien. « Il porte une combinaison bleu marine et se contente de hocher la tête pour signifier qu'il comprend son interlocuteur », décrit le quotidien français.Il raconte les derniers mois : ces policiers qui lui font signer un contrat en russe, langue qu'il ne sait pas lire, avant d'être conduit dans un camp à Donetsk pour y suivre une formation militaire et ensuite être envoyé sur le front où il sera capturé.Le Monde n'a pas réussi à s'entretenir avec Dosseh, mais son frère Michel l'assure, il n'est pas allé faire la guerre volontairement : « Même quand il était au Togo, on lui a proposé de rejoindre l'armée et il a dit non. Dosseh n'est pas un militaire. Alors pourquoi là-bas il accepterait ? À quel prix ? ». Le prix, on le connaît pour les jeunes hommes recrutés : 200 000 roubles, soit plus de 2130 euros pour se battre pour un pays qui n'est pas le sien et risquer sa vie sur le champ de bataille.Facebook et Instagram, peut-être bientôt fermés au Nigéria…« La confrontation vient de prendre une tournure critique » écrit le Financial Afrik. Alors que Méta, la maison mère des deux réseaux sociaux s'est vue infliger une amende de près de 290 millions de dollars et menace maintenant de les fermer dans le pays. Un bras de fer qui « soulève des questions fondamentales sur la souveraineté numérique, la régulation des entreprises technologiques globales et la protection des consommateurs dans les économies émergentes », selon le journal.Le Nigéria compte 30 millions d'utilisateurs Facebook, 12 millions 600 mille pour Instagram et 51 millions pour WhatsApp ! Alors qui gagnera ce combat qui implique d'un côté, un pays qui insiste sur le respect des lois et de l'autre, un géant du web qui menace de perturber des millions de personnes et de petites entreprises ? Une chose est sûre dit le Financial Afrik : « L'issue de ce bras de fer façonnera inévitablement le paysage de la régulation numérique pour les années à venir ».À la veille du début du conclave, à Rome, pour élire un nouveau Pape, à Kigali, le New Times se félicite de la présence d'un cardinal rwandaisAntoine Kambanda, 66 ans, archevêque de Kigali. C'est la première fois que cela arrive. « Cette inclusion est plus que symbolique », affirme le journal, « elle témoigne de la diversité croissante de l'Église catholique et du rôle essentiel que joue l'Afrique dans l'avenir de la foi », ajoute-t-il, tout en plaidant pour l'élection d'un Pape réformateur, audacieux, qui s'attaquera aux abus, à la corruption et qui fera entendre la voix du Sud.Le New Times attend donc beaucoup du futur souverain pontife et conclut : « L'Église – et le monde – méritent un pape pour demain, et non pour hier ».« God Protect Ibrahim Traoré »Ce serait le nom de la dernière chanson de Beyoncé, publiée il y a peu sur internet.Problème, c'est faux ! La chanteuse, actuellement en tournée, ne l'a jamais chantée, et pour cause, c'est une intelligence artificielle qui l'a créé. C'est ce que nous rapporte Jeune Afrique : la naissance de vraies-fausses chansons à la gloire de ! « Ainsi a-t-on vu fleurir les titres "Victory" d'un avatar de Gims et même un prétendu duo entre Drake et Shakira : "Tribute to Burkina Faso & Captain Ibrahim Traoré officiel 2025" ».Ce qui effraie le plus sans doute, c'est la crédulité de certains internautes : « brave fille d'Afrique et d'Amérique » commente l'un… « Hommage bien mérité à notre capitaine » réagit un second… Mais, comme le dit Jeune Afrique : « difficile de savoir si ces posts ne sont pas eux-mêmes rédigés par des manipulateurs » avant de conclure « un outil artificiel qui profite à un camp finit par servir l'autre ». 

Day 1,162.Today, as Russian troops intensify offensive operations in several oblasts – Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson – we talk about the latest conversations amongst the coalition of the willing, where the tone is decidedly pessimistic. Then we do a deeper dive into the latest positions of China, Turkey, and Syria in relation to the war. Contributors:Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Narrative Podcast Producer) @Adeliepjz on X.Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.Sophia Yan (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @sophia_yan on X.Content Referenced:SIGN UP TO THE NEW ‘UKRAINE: THE LATEST' WEEKLY NEWSLETTER:https://secure.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secure/newsletter/ukraine/ Each week, Dom Nicholls and Francis Dearnley answer your questions, provide recommended reading, and give exclusive analysis and behind-the-scenes insights – plus maps of the frontlines and diagrams of weapons to complement our daily reporting.It's free for everyone, including non-subscribers.Sophia Yan's Podcasts on China - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/how-to-become-a-dictator-podcast/Europe ‘would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine' (The Times):https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/europe-uk-peacekeeping-troops-ukraine-6tp2cfgg5 Europe fears Trump preparing to walk away from Ukraine talks (Financial Times):https://www.ft.com/content/2f7af030-7466-4c10-9c7c-a7ceaa03a70a Russia intensifies offensive operations in 3 regions, pushes toward Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine's military says (Kyiv Independent):https://kyivindependent.com/russia-intensifies-offensive-operations-in-3-regions-pushes-toward-dnipropetrovsk-oblast-ukraines-military-says/?mc_cid=063ac27037&mc_eid=08d0680a95 Putin Renames Volgograd Airport ‘Stalingrad' to Honor WWII Battle (Moscow Times):https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/30/putin-renames-volgograd-airport-stalingrad-to-honor-wwii-battle-a88920 ‘Do you want to show strength here?': Russia's ads recruiting Chinese mercenaries (The Guardian):https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/10/russia-social-media-ads-videos-recruiting-china-mercenaries Video About Chinese Soldiers Fighting for Russia:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKWPralGKQ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vlad Mykhnenko is Professor of Geography and Political Economy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford. He is an economic geographer, specialising in geographical political economy. His academic focus is on challenging the conventional wisdom of urban and regional development within the transition economies of eastern Europe (especially, Polish Upper Silesia and the Ukrainian Donbas). Vlad has produced over 140 research outputs, including books, articles, conference papers, and research reports. Vlad is originally from Donetsk, Ukraine.----------LINKS:https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/profiles/vlad-mykhnenkohttps://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/people/vlad-mykhnenkohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/vlad-mykhnenko-1b29ba91/https://futuresteelforum.com/europe/speakers/vlad-mykhnenko/https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/vlad-mykhnenko/----------Easter Pysanky: Silicon Curtain - https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtainCar for Ukraine has joined forces with a group of influencers, creators, and news observers during this special Easter season. In peaceful times, we might gift a basket of pysanky (hand-painted eggs), but now, we aim to deliver a basket of trucks to our warriors.This time, our main focus is on the Seraphims of the 104th Brigade and Chimera of HUR (Main Directorate of Intelligence), highly effective units that: - disrupt enemy logistics - detect and strike command centers - carry out precision operations against high-value enemy targetshttps://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtain----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

durée : 00:14:33 - Journal de 7 h - Des "opérations russes" sur le front oriental, des attaques ukrainiennes dans la région de Donetsk. Kiev et Moscou s'accusent mutuellement d'avoir violé le court cessez-le-feu décrété à l'occasion de Pâques. Retour dans ce journal sur cette trêve Pascale qui n'a offert aucun répits.

durée : 00:14:33 - Journal de 7 h - Des "opérations russes" sur le front oriental, des attaques ukrainiennes dans la région de Donetsk. Kiev et Moscou s'accusent mutuellement d'avoir violé le court cessez-le-feu décrété à l'occasion de Pâques. Retour dans ce journal sur cette trêve Pascale qui n'a offert aucun répits.

Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of breaching an Easter Sunday truce announced by Moscow. We hear about the latest from Kyiv.Also on the programme: a rare interview with a former senior colonel in the Chinese army; and as busking is banned in Leicester Square in London, we'll hear from a professional musician who began her career playing on the streets.(Photo: A view shows a building hit by Russian military strikes in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka, in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 19, 2025. Credit: Iryna Rybakova/REUTERS)

Day 1,149.Today, amid more exchanges of drones and missiles between Ukraine and Russia, we hear about soldiers' experiences directly from the frontline in the east, and discuss the political situation in Kyiv and in Europe as Steve Witcoff meets with President Macron and other key figures in the ‘Coalition of the Willing.'Contributors:Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on XWith thanks to Svitlana Morenets (Staff writer The Spectator). @SvMorenets on X.Content Referenced:Event in London on Good Friday:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/europe-on-fire-the-future-of-ukrainian-and-european-defence-tickets-1323679965409Francis's Interview on Silicon Curtain:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25uu4_YHgPQ Interview with Ambassador Mike Carpenter on Biden's decisions:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2DeReNhsKg Drone swarm destroyed by new British weapon (The Telegraph):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/17/british-army-radio-waves-take-down-drone-swarm/ NOW AVAILABLE IN NEW LANGUAGES:The Telegraph has launched translated versions of Ukraine: The Latest in Ukrainian and Russian, making its reporting accessible to audiences on both sides of the battle lines and across the wider region, including Central Asia and the Caucasus. Just search Україна: Останні Новини (Ukr) and Украина: Последние Новости (Ru) on your on your preferred podcast app to find them, or click the links below.Listen here: https://linktr.ee/ukrainethelatestLearn more about the tech: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/24/ukraine-the-latest-podcast-russian-ukrainian-ai-translation/Subscribe: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Edition No128 | 15-04-2025 - A new commander has been appointed to the Eastern frontlines of Ukraine, and according to Euro Maidan Press, is bringing about a transformation of the performance of Ukraine's armed forces. General Mykhailo Drapatyi has overseen an increase in combat effectiveness, in the Kharkiv, Luhansk, and Donetsk directions, that is crippling Russian artillery and armour. Ukrainian forces are shattering Russian artillery in record-breaking numbers, according to reports, countering Russia's rumoured plans for a massive offensive in the Borova-Lyman sector. General Drapatyi commands the Third Assault Corps and has built a ferocious defensive line that is stopping Russian forces, as well as assembling an elite force. Human and material losses on a phenomenal scale will be the reality for any major Russian offensive plan.----------Links: https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/09/frontline-report-ukraines-new-commander-appointment-transforms-eastern-battlefield/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR71oSs3EaGft4OxzcgwqUrMBuCnpH6Gp_SKL3dtGF-01A8X8arAXQ2O7JtYTA_aem_BwLFc8jH6cEW6rRA4YcaDAhttps://nypost.com/2025/04/12/world-news/moscow-wont-be-able-to-afford-troops-in-ukraine-past-2026-experts/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkm7lly61do----------Easter Pysanky: Silicon Curtain - https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtainCar for Ukraine has joined forces with a group of influencers, creators, and news observers during this special Easter season. In peaceful times, we might gift a basket of pysanky (hand-painted eggs), but now, we aim to deliver a basket of trucks to our warriors.This time, our main focus is on the Seraphims of the 104th Brigade and Chimera of HUR (Main Directorate of Intelligence), highly effective units that: - disrupt enemy logistics - detect and strike command centers - carry out precision operations against high-value enemy targetshttps://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtain----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/----------

Israel kills eight more Palestinians in Gaza bombardment Israel's brutal war on Gaza continues with fresh air strikes targeting the Al-Farra family home in the Sheikh Nasser area of Khan Younis, killing at least eight Palestinians and injuring several others, according to reports. Children are believed to be among the victims. Meanwhile, rescue teams are searching for missing Palestinians trapped under rubble after another Israeli strike destroyed a home in Gaza City's al-Shujaiya neighbourhood, local media said. Netanyahu furious as Israeli Air Force's 1,000 reservists demand end to Gaza war A group of 1,000 current and former Israeli Air Force reservists has publicly urged the government to secure the return of all captives held in Gaza, even if it means ending the war. In an open letter, the reservists warned that continuing the war risks the lives of hostages, soldiers, and civilians, accusing leaders of prolonging the conflict for “political and personal interests." China engages with Saudi Arabia and South Africa on US tariffs; Xi to embark on three-nation tour China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao held separate video talks with his Saudi and South African counterparts to discuss responses to the United States' ""reciprocal tariffs,"" according to China's commerce ministry. The discussions also focused on deepening bilateral economic and trade cooperation between China, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. Russia making 'systematic' efforts to recruit Chinese citizens for Ukraine war: Zelenskyy Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of “systematic” efforts to recruit Chinese nationals for its ongoing war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year. In a post on X, Zelenskyy said Ukraine is investigating the involvement of Chinese citizens, including two reportedly captured in the eastern Donetsk region, with the Security Service conducting procedural actions. China has rejected claims made by Kiev that Chinese citizens were “fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine." Türkiye, Somalia sign onshore hydrocarbon exploration deal Türkiye and Somalia have expanded their energy cooperation by signing a new onshore hydrocarbon exploration and production deal, granting Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) rights to explore three land blocks covering around 16,000 square kilometres. The agreement was signed in Ankara by Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar and Somali Petroleum Minister Dahir Shire Mohamed, marking a key step forward following previous offshore accords.

This week on Battleground: Ukraine, Saul David and Roger Moorhouse analyse President Zelensky's announcement of captured Chinese fighters and its potential to draw the West's attention to Beijing's role. Additionally they speak to Belgian War Reporter Arnaud de Decker, who shares his firsthand accounts from speaking with Russian soldiers who deserted the Russian army and fled to Armenia. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - battlegroundukraine@gmail.com Producer: James Hodgson X: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his military has captured two Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in the Donetsk region—raising questions about Beijing's role in the war.   A new report reveals that the CIA is reviewing its legal authority to kill foreign fentanyl traffickers overseas before the drugs reach the United States.   The Trump administration is revoking legal status for migrants who entered the U.S. under the Biden-era CBP One app, ordering them to leave the country immediately.   And in today's Back of the Brief: China is considering banning U.S. movie releases in retaliation for new tariffs, threatening to shut Hollywood out of one of its most profitable markets.   To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief   TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDB for 2 Free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250 Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En Ukraine, deux ressortissants chinois ont été faits prisonniers dans la région de Donetsk, où ils affrontaient les soldats de Kiev. Selon le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky, ces hommes auraient signé des contrats avec l'armée russe, bien qu'il soit impossible de confirmer leur envoi par Pékin. Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Benyamin Poghosyan - US-Iran, Gyumri, Armenia MFA Blames Artsakh, Negotiations with AzerbaijanGroong Week in Review - April 6, 2025TopicsUS Iran EscalationAftermath of Gyumri and ParakarMFA blames Artsakh for Regional IsolationBullets and PeaceGuestBenyamin PoghosyanHostsHovik ManucharyanAsbed BedrossianEpisode 426 | Recorded: April 8, 2025Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

Day 1,140.Today, as Ukrainian forces report capturing two Chinese citizens in Donetsk, we discuss how Ukrainian drones have been found to carry malware to infect Russian systems, plus how Russia may have been behind a knife attack in Mannheim in May 2024. Contributors:Adélie Pojzman-Pontay (Narrative Podcast Producer). @adeliepjz on X.Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.Content Referenced:Zelensky: Chinese caught fighting for Russia in Ukraine: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/08/ukraine-russia-war-chinese-soldiers-captured-zelensky/Russians ‘searched internet for knife attack victim' days before he was stabbed, James Rothwell in the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/07/russians-internet-search-before-attack-mannheim-germany/Germany considers withdrawing 1,200-ton gold stockpile from US in riposte to Trump, James Rothwell in the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/04/germany-considers-withdrawing-gold-stockpile-from-us-trump/Russians Capture Ukrainian Drones Which Infect Their Systems With Malware, Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/vikrammittal/2025/04/02/russians-capture-ukrainian-drones-which-infect-their-systems-with-malware/NOW AVAILABLE IN NEW LANGUAGES:The Telegraph has launched translated versions of Ukraine: The Latest in Ukrainian and Russian, making its reporting accessible to audiences on both sides of the battle lines and across the wider region, including Central Asia and the Caucasus. Just search Україна: Останні Новини (Ukr) and Украина: Последние Новости (Ru) on your on your preferred podcast app to find them, or click the links below.Listen here: https://linktr.ee/ukrainethelatestLearn more about the tech: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/24/ukraine-the-latest-podcast-russian-ukrainian-ai-translation/Subscribe: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

President Zelensky says two Chinese citizens have been captured while fighting for Russia in the Donetsk region. But how did they end up in Ukraine and what does this mean for the future of the conflict?General Sir Nick Carter, former chief of the UK's defence staff, is in the studio to discuss this latest development, as well as whether the world order as we know it has changed for good, and if the UK would ever consider compulsory military service.Also, how has President Trump's tariffs announcement been received in Ukraine? James Waterhouse sends us his thoughts from Kyiv.Today's episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Laurie Kalus, Julia Webster and Peter Karlsen. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480You can join the Ukrainecast discussion on Newscast's Discord server here: tinyurl.com/ukrainecastdiscord

April 8th 2025 Yuriy shares the harrowing and inspiring story of his friend who lost his leg to a Russian mine but remains determined to fight for his country's liberation. Through tales of courage, resilience, and unwavering principles, Yuriy highlights the stark contrast between those who resist occupation and those who accept it. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: fightingtherussianbeast@gmail.com    You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family   Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  Subscribe to his substack: https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It is April Eighth.  I have a friend who lost his leg after stepping on the Russian mine. He and his unit ended up in a mine field that was not marked on any map. Several people were wounded in the explosions. He applied a tourniquet on himself to avoid bleeding to death, and then his comrades dragged him to the evacuation point. There is a special handle on the back of a body armor made exactly for this- to pull a wounded soldier, but while we were dragging him, another mine exploded under him.  By the time he reached the hospital, the first explosion had already torn off his leg. Shrapnel from the second mine pierced through his body armor, broke several ribs, punctured his lungs and injured several internal organs. My friend survived. He walks now with a prosthetic leg. By the way, he underwent rehabilitation in the United States, and I'm incredibly grateful to the American people for helping him. You saved an amazing human being. He's still in the military. He didn't retire even before he had every right to.  And the thing is he could have just stayed and lived under Russian rule and never put his life at risk. He's from a small town near Donetsk- occupied by Russians since 2014. He used to run a construction business there. One day, he was driving out to a construction site outside the town. That morning, the Ukrainian flag was flying at the edge of his neighborhood. By the evening when he was returning. The Russian tricolor rag was already up. And you know, it really happens just like that- that easily. The local authorities panic and submit to the enemy. Confused cops swear allegiance to the occupiers. Most of the population either becomes scared or indifferent. A few who resist, they get tortured or publicly executed. And just like that where occupation is complete- a few hours, and it's done. And my friend who had lived all his life in the suburbs of Donetsk, who still speaks the Russian that was imposed during the Soviet era, better when Ukrainian, who just happened to be out of town when it was occupied- he saw that flag rushed home, gathered his kids who were still in school at that time told his wife to grab the documents and a few essentials, and they all fled to Kyiv. He did not accept the occupation. He didn't want to live under the invader rule. Even for with his business skills and knowledge, he could have easily thrived under occupation, but his ideas of honor, morality, and values. Did not let him stay with the Russians, work for them and see every day war who are killing Ukrainians and trying to destroy Ukraine.  For many others though, this is not a problem. My own brother still lives somewhere in Moscow. Every day, I imagine, he, his posters glorifying murders and rapists now declared heroes by the Russian regime. He crosses paths with, these killers in stores, on commuter trains, in schools where he drops off his kids. Those kids, by the way, are being taught to hate Ukraine in school, to see the murder of Ukrainians as a purpose in life.  And he's okay with all of it. He feels safe and comfortable there- among looters and war criminals. So comfortable that he never even tried to escape. Never dared to even plan a way out.  Meanwhile, my friend from Donetsk is now planning an eye surgery. Without a leg and with broken bones, he can no longer serve in the special operations unit of the Ukrainian Marines where he was before his injury. But he can still become a sniper if he improves his vision, and that's what he's working on now. So that he can return to his hometown, liberated from occupation, drive the Russians out or die trying. But not betray himself, not betray the values, and principles that mean more than comfortable life.

Christian Parenti, Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and author of Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder (Verso, 2020), returns to the show with a searing analysis of the US political scene and various international theatres. Kicking off with an evaluation of the Trump v2.0 administration, Parenti reviews some of Trump's pre-presidential promises, from the Jeffrey Epstein file dump that was vastly redacted to Trump's enthralment with the Israeli lobby. Delving into the Israeli lobby, deeply entrenched within the US government, Parenti notes that this “lobby” is much more than simply monetary, and suggests that it is much more entrenched within the US political system. Parenti also develops a deeper examination of the war in Ukraine and the “demonology” of Russia within legacy media that has taken up the Cold War era model of anti-Communism by eliding the fact that some of Ukraine's oblasts (Donetsk and Luhansk) are still occupied by Ukrainian Nazis. Observing how the domestic pressure upon Putin is coming from the Communists and the far-right parties, both highly critical of Putn's longstanding abandonment of the Russian people who have been militarily occupied by Ukrainian forces wearing swastikas, Parentis evidences the machinations within the US proxy war against Russia from its provisions of munitions to Ukraine to the Ukrainian government's banning the Russian language in 2019 and Law 5371 which denies unionisation, exempting workers in companies with fewer than 250 employees from the coverage of collective agreements. Parenti also discusses the situation of free speech in the United States that is currently being eroded, specifically regarding any criticism of both the Israeli government and Zionism, as he explores the broader questions of academic freedom and anti-war sentiment within American universities where today the managerial class of university administrators within these institutions outnumbers faculty while itinerant workers with PhDs, the adjunct class, provide approximately 78% of all university teaching. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

La localité rurale ainsi que la majeure partie du territoire de la région de Koursk ont été reconquises par une contre-offensive éclair des soldats de Moscou, lancée un peu plus de sept mois après la spectaculaire incursion de l'armée ukrainienne en territoire russe. Les villages y ont pris des allures fantômes et la menace des drones est permanente. De notre envoyée spéciale à Soudja, Anissa El Jabri (avec Anna Chargatova pour la production)« Aujourd'hui est un bon jour pour travailler à peu près tranquillement. Comme il y a un vent très fort, les drones ennemis ne peuvent pas voler aussi vite et aussi près que d'habitude, et ils ont besoin de plus de temps pour viser et tirer. Et comme c'est aussi un jour très clair, pour nous, c'est aussi plus facile de les voir venir et de les abattre ».Au volant de la voiture, l'imam de Koursk, qui a rejoint les forces russes du groupe tchétchène Akhmat, connaît le trajet par cœur : en coopération avec les autorités locales, ces troupes font la route chaque jour pour nourrir les rares civils encore présents sur place, évacuer ceux qui le souhaitent ou dont l'état le nécessite. L'imam Issa reste pourtant concentré. Les soldats de Moscou ont repris position sur leurs terres, mais chaque trajet sur cette route encore interdite aux civils reste dangereux. Sur le bas-côté, quelques cadavres de vaches ou de cochons, des véhicules militaires calcinés ; dans les champs, impressionnantes, des mines anti-tanks, déposées « le 8 mars, pour bloquer tout mouvement de l'armée ukrainienne », dit Issa. « Des combats très intenses faisaient rage, des drones volaient, et tout ce qui bougeait explosait en même temps. De nombreux véhicules ont été touchés. Maintenant, les services dédiés retirent tout au fur et à mesure pour que nous puissions circuler ». La menace dans le ciel reste permanente. Comme tous les véhicules circulant sur cette route de Koursk en direction de Soudja, celui conduit ce jour-là est équipé d'un détecteur de drones.Dans la voiture, l'alarme qui signale l'approche d'un de ces engins se fait soudain très insistante. Cartouches spéciales en bandoulière et fusil anti-drones à portée de main à chaque instant, Islam explique : « Là, le détecteur est en train de nous signaler que nous sommes observés du ciel, qu'un drone se rapproche. À ce stade, il est probablement à environ un ou deux kilomètres de nous. C'est une distance très dangereuse. Les drones sont rapides, on en a repéré qui peuvent voler jusqu'à une vitesse de 140 km-heure. Mais ce n'est peut-être pas forcément un engin d'attaque, mais peut-être juste un drone de reconnaissance. Ceux-là vont beaucoup moins vite. »   Un porte-parole des « Spetsnaz », les forces spéciales tchétchènes, se présentant avec son nom de code « Dior », ajoute : « Pour les abattre, on utilise souvent des fusils de chasse, mais nous avons aussi un système de brouillage. Les drones volent sur des fréquences différentes selon le modèle. Il y en a un très grand nombre, très différents par la taille et la technique. Certains portent de très grosses charges sur de très longues distances. Ceux à fibre optique sont apparus plus récemment et sont particulièrement difficiles à contrer ».Le bip finit par s'éteindre… la tension par redescendre. À quelques kilomètres de Soudja apparaissent soudain sur les côtés de la route d'immenses piliers en bois et des hommes qui s'affairent à en placer d'autres. L'imam Issa décrypte la manœuvre : « Ils ont commencé ça il y a littéralement à peine deux-trois jours. Ils installent des poteaux en bois, un filet entre les deux côtés et recouvrent entièrement la route. Ça va ressembler à un corridor entièrement fermé par le haut, pour qu'un drone ne puisse pas le franchir. Bien sûr, un engin peut toujours larguer une charge et déchirer le filet, mais ça reste une aide, je dirais 70 % du temps.  Ça sauve quand même des vies ».Le procédé a déjà été repéré le mois dernier dans le Donbass, sur la route stratégique entre Bakhmout et Chassiv Yar, dans la région de Donetsk. Selon les observateurs, ce tunnel s'étend sur environ deux kilomètres, du jamais vu sur une telle longueur. Il viserait plus précisément à protéger les troupes russes des drones FPV lancés par l'armée ukrainienne.Soudja, avant la guerre et l'incursion ukrainienne, était une bourgade tranquille d'un peu plus de 5 000 habitants, à une centaine de kilomètres de la ville de Koursk, capitale de la région éponyme.  Une ville tournée vers l'agroalimentaire, avec une laiterie, un abattoir, une usine de transformation de la viande.Aujourd'hui, les traces des combats sont visibles à chaque coin de rue. Des tas de terres pour bloquer le passage des véhicules, des cratères de bombardement qui peuvent atteindre plusieurs dizaines de centimètres de diamètre. Quelques corps de soldats. Les ponts des routes de ravitaillement sont détruits : en ville, on les franchit désormais à pied, sur des barrières de fortune entremêlées au-dessus de l'eau. Par endroits, l'odeur de brûlé des bâtiments incendiés prend encore à la gorge et il faut parfois forcer l'imagination pour réaliser que sous un tas de gravats et de tôles se trouvait une maison. Le nombre de bâtiments épargnés par la violence des affrontements semble infime.Périodiquement, le son des combats qui se déroulent encore à plusieurs kilomètres se fait plus précis et plus fort. En quad, en mobylettes, en camion, ou tout simplement au pas de course, on croise dans les rues des soldats d'infanterie. Sur les murs des habitations, on distingue des graffitis insultant les autorités russes, d'autres à la gloire de l'armée ukrainienne, sans qu'il soit possible de vérifier de manière indépendante qui les a tracés et quand. On en trouve trace aussi sur la place centrale de la ville, très abîmée, avec sa statue de Lénine, traditionnelle dans les villes russes, quasi détruite.L'imam Issa, lui, n'imagine pas la ville redevenir vivable avant au moins un an.Dans les villages alentour, les mêmes scènes. Des rues désertes, presque fantômes, des vélos abandonnés en pleine rue, des portails mitraillés qui laissent entrevoir des pelouses ornées de nains de jardin, des toits détruits. Les plus âgés qui s'accrochent dans les maisons les moins abîmées sont une poignée. Les secouristes viennent frapper à leur porte pour vérifier qu'ils sont nourris et parfois leur montrer des vidéos de leurs proches leur demandant de les rejoindre, en sécurité, à l'intérieur des terres.Dans le village de Kazatchkaya Loknaya, Nina, babouchka de 87 ans, est encore coupée du monde, mais survit avec notamment l'électricité du générateur installé par les soldats « Je suis seule ici, raconte-t-elle, assise dans son salon.  Avant l'attaque, j'avais mes enfants et mes arrière-petits-enfants. Quand ils ont appris que les Ukrainiens arrivaient, ils ont pris les petits et sont partis. Mon fils est venu me chercher. Je lui ai dit : Sasha, je ne vais nulle part. Je resterai à la maison jusqu'à la fin. Je m'en fiche. C'était le 7 août… Et maintenant, cela fait presque huit mois. Les Ukrainiens m'ont nourrie, m'ont même apporté des médicaments… Et maintenant, les forces Akhmat sont là pour le faire. Sinon, je suis toute seule au milieu de nulle part. De toute façon, pourquoi devrais-je aller vagabonder ailleurs en Russie ? Personne ne m'a maltraitée, personne ne m'a fait de mal depuis le premier jour ». Nina pourtant pleure à l'évocation des bombardements, qu'elle décrit comme « très intenses, très effrayants, ma maison a tremblé tout le temps pendant sept mois ».  Sans informations, sans réseau là où elle vit, Nina découvre alors que des pourparlers sur un cessez-le-feu et une possible fin de conflit ont commencé. « Je souhaite tellement, tellement, tellement qu'il y ait une trêve », dit-elle alors. « Tout le monde souffre. Les jeunes comme les vieux… mais la jeunesse… je plains tellement la jeunesse ».

The 17th episode in our AE War Report series focusing on the Russo-Ukrainian War; I'm joined by John from Defense Bulletin. We go over recent developments, including the Kursk salient, Donetsk, more. Please consider support our project by donating to us. Ways to donate and other resources here: https://linktr.ee/analyzeeducate(Episodes 15 & 16 will be released as exclusives for paid subscribers)

C'est la troisième ville d'Estonie. Elle est située tout au nord, juste à la frontière avec la Russie, séparée de la ville d'Ivangorod par un pont. Plus de 90% de ses habitants sont russophones. Un héritage de la période soviétique. Aujourd'hui, comment la vie s'est-elle transformée à Narva depuis le début de la guerre de la Russie à grande échelle contre l'Ukraine ? À Narva, le grand parking était, jusqu'en 2024, le cœur battant de la ville frontalière. C'est là que transitaient toutes les voitures en partance ou de retour de Russie. Aujourd'hui, la frontière ne se traverse plus qu'à pied. Il n'y a plus que les bus qui amènent les Russes qui veulent rentrer chez eux. La ville se vide depuis le début de la guerre lancée par Moscou contre l'Ukraine. Les Russes ne peuvent plus venir en Estonie et cela affecte grandement la situation économique de Narva, comme le décrit la maire Katri Raik :« La vie à Narva avait déjà été touchée par le début du conflit en Ukraine en 2014. Depuis, il y a de moins en moins de touristes. Et maintenant, il est clair que le chiffre d'affaires commercial de Narva a diminué de près de 30%, ce qui constitue bien sûr un coup dur pour la ville. »Milan, jeune activiste politique, se présentera aux élections municipales de l'automne pour réveiller la ville. Il a donné rendez-vous en face de la mairie, un bâtiment historique à la façade rouge, un rare vestige de l'histoire à avoir survécu aux bombardements massifs de 1944 par l'armée soviétique : « La plupart des habitants de Narva sont venus pendant la période soviétique. Ils ont toujours les vieilles habitudes. Ils craignent d'être punis, déportés, tués s'ils s'expriment contre les autorités. Les gens sont très passifs ici au niveau politique. »À lire aussiLes pays baltes font face aux menaces grandissantes de la RussieLa hausse du coût de l'énergie impacte fortement les habitants de la ville. Un tiers des habitants sont des retraités. La Russie fait toujours peur. Milan se souvient de ce qui s'est passé, l'été dernier à Narva : « C'est parfois un peu effrayant ici. Il faut se souvenir que l'été dernier, les Russes ont fait voler un immense ballon d'espionnage. Les gens, ici, font parfois des blagues sur le séparatisme. Ils font un parallèle avec l'Ukraine et la République populaire de Donetsk. Ils parlent de la République populaire de Narva qui pourrait être créée. Rire de cela permet d'avoir moins peur. »Signe de la tension existante, les russophones de Narva se mettent à parler estonien dès qu'ils en ont la possibilité, preuve que la langue estonienne s'est imposée dans le pays.À lire aussiVivre à l'ombre des menaces, voyage dans les États baltes, face aux Russes et Biélorusses

The attacks came hours after the United States confirmed that it had limited Ukraine's access to commercial satellite imagery, on top of pausing military and intelligence aid.Also on the programme: we'll have more on reports that the minority Alawite community has been targeted by government troops in Latakia, Syria; and did illegal drugs, taken by some at the Nova festival in Israel attacked by Hamas on October 7th, help them recover from the trauma?(Picture: emergency services in Dobropillya, in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Credit: Donetsk Emergency Service)

President Zelensky says Ukraine is "ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership" to negotiate a peace deal and is ready to sign a minerals deal.His comments come after the US decision to pause military aid. We get reaction from Ukrainian MP Oleksandra Ustinova and ‘Neo', a soldier currently fighting in Donetsk region.And we speak to Mark Galeotti, Director and CEO of the consultancy firm, Mayak Intelligence.Today's episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.It was recorded on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30pm UK time. The producers were Ryan Johnston and Ben Carter. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The assistant editor is Ben Mundy. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480You can join the Ukrainecast discussion on Newscast's Discord server here: tinyurl.com/ukrainecastdiscord

A convidada do programa Pânico dessa sexta-feira (28) é Dani Souza: ex-mulher Samambaia.Danielle Aparecida de Jesus Souza Bonfim, mais conhecida como Mulher Samambaia ou Dani Souza, é uma modelo e apresentadora brasileira. Nasceu em Lages, em 2 de janeiro de 1981.Em 2003, posou para a revista “Playboy” após ter vencido o concurso "As Felinas". Em seguida, foi convidada para participar do programa “Pânico” como assistente de palco. Participou ainda do reality show “A Fazenda”.De 2009 a 2011, trabalhou ao lado de Ana Hickmann e da humorista Raimundinha no programa "Tudo é Possível", da Rede Record. Casou-se com ex-jogador do Corinthians, Dentinho, que mora em Donetsk, na Ucrânia. Em setembro de 2012, nasceu o primeiro filho do casal, Bruno Lucas.Redes Sociais:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dani_souza_/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DaniSouzaoficial

El presidente ucraniano Volodimir Zelenski se prepara a viajar a Washington este viernes 28 de febrero, con el objetivo de firmar un acuerdo presionado por Donald Trump. Ucrania ha aceptado las condiciones de Estados Unidos de explotar los recursos minerales en su territorio para compensar la ayuda recibida tras la invasión rusa. El acuerdo ha provocado el rechazo de la población ucraniana. Con nuestra enviada especial en Kiev, Gatalina Gómez.Las puertas de la estación de metro Arsenal en Kiev se abren por oleadas. Son las nueve de la mañana, la temperatura es de -7°C y los transeúntes caminan rápido, rumbo a cumplir sus obligaciones.Uno de ellos es Vlad, un trabajador social de 26 años. “Si nos dan unas condiciones buenas, perfecto, pero en este momento no hay nada concreto sobre nuestra seguridad”, opina acerca del acuerdo que Ucrania firmará con Estados Unidos, por presión de Washington, para la explotación de recursos.Vlad es del este del país y su casa y su negocio han quedado en territorios ocupados por Rusia. Cuenta que esta mañana va a empezar el examen médico para enlistarse en el ejército. “Me alisto porque quiero liberar nuestros territorios, mi casa como mínimo. Que hace tres años que no he estado ahí”, explica a RFI.El presidente Volodimir Zelenski ha anunciado que este viernes viajará a Washington. En un principio este acuerdo fue presentado como una exigencia del gobierno de Donald Trump para que Ucrania pague por los 100.000 millones de dólares con los que ha ayudado en la guerra."La ayuda que dio Biden no la teníamos que devolver"Los ucranianos se oponen a este acuerdo y exigen garantías de seguridad para que Rusia no ataque de nuevo. “El pueblo ucraniano no aceptará dar nada porque ya dimos mucho”, dice por su parte Oksana, dueña de una peluquería.Dentro de un café cercano, Tatiana, de 60 años y proveniente de Donetsk, se ha sentado a desayunar con una amiga. Dice estar en shock. “Por lo que yo entiendo la ayuda había sido gratuita. La ayuda que dio Biden no tenía intereses y no la teníamos que devolver”, asegura.“Veo la situación con desesperación y ataques de ansiedad”, dice por su parte Sasha, estudiante de 18 años.Otros como Vlad, el que va camino a enlistarse, seguirán luchando. Pero sin duda no es un momento fácil para los ucranianos.

Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, roughly 20% of the Ukrainian territory remains occupied by Russian troops. Before the invasion, there were 41 million people living in Ukraine; today, the UN Refugee Agency estimates that 3.7 million people still in Ukraine have been displaced from their homes, while almost 7 million refugees had to flee abroad. The war has severely damaged the Ukrainian economy and the living conditions for people in Ukraine.Like everywhere else in the world, there is a class divide in Ukraine, and the impact of the war has not been equally felt: while the average Ukrainian was forced to migrate, lose wages, and fight on the front, the wealthy were able to escape conscription and put their money abroad. While economic elites reportedly took $35 billion out of the country since the start of the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnky not only refused to expropriate and nationalize their assets but, instead, chose to impose harsh anti-labor measures on workers and unions and make further cuts to social services using the national emergency laws. The fight to ensure Ukrainian people's right to self-determination is not just about removing all Russian troops from Ukrainian territory and allowing the Ukrainian people to decide their own fate without fears of coups and invasions. It also has to do with stopping and reversing the encroachment of Western corporate and US imperial interests that seek to further exploit the country. However, prospects for this are growing darker by the day as President Donald Trump's new administration engages in bilateral negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and without Zelensky, to end the war, all while suggesting that the US take ownership of 50% of Ukraine's rare earth minerals. Solidarity with working people in Ukraine and their fight against Russia's invasion never meant support for the Zelensky government, the US government, NATO, or the designs of rival imperial powers, but lack of international solidarity has left Ukrainians in an impossible situation.   This is Solidarity without Exception, a new podcast series brought to you by The Real News Network, in partnership with the Ukraine Solidarity Network, hosted by Blanca Missé and Ashley Smith. In Episode One of this series, released on the three-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we analyze the current state of the war and the last three years from an internationalist, working-class perspective. Cohost Blanca Missé speaks with Denys Bondar, a native of Ukraine, professor of Physics at Tulane University, and one of the coordinators of the Ukraine Solidarity Network in the US; and Hanna Perekhoda, a researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, a founder of the Switzerland-based Committee of Solidarity with the Ukrainian People and Russian Opponents of the War, and an ethnic Ukrainian who grew up in the Russian-speaking the city of Donetsk in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastPre-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, Blanca Missé, Kayla Rivara, Ashley SmithStudio Production: David HebdenAudio Post-Production: Alina NehlichMusic Credits: Venticinque Aprile (“Bella Ciao” Orchestral Cover) by Savfk |https://www.youtube.com/savfkmusicMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Given the shameful American sacrifice of Ukraine, there will be few timelier movies than Anna Kryvenko's upcoming “This House is Undamaged”,. It will be an Orwellian documentary examining the Russian destruction of Mariupol, the Ukrainian city devastated by Putin's invasion in 2022. Krivenko, a Fellow at the Artist in Residence program, Institute for Advanced Studies at CEU, explains how Russian authorities are rapidly rebuilding and selling properties there while erasing Ukrainian history and creating the big lie of Mariupol as a historically Russian city. Kryvenko, originally from Kyiv, also discusses the parallels between Putin's and Trump's lies about Ukraine, summarizing their fundamental misrepresentation of the truth as a "carnival of hypocrisy."Here are the five KEEN ON takeaways from our conversation with Kryvenko:* The Russians are engaged in a systematic erasure of Mariupol's Ukrainian identity, not just through physical reconstruction but through an aggressive propaganda campaign that claims the city was "always Russian." This reconstruction effort began shortly after the city's destruction in 2022.* Pre-war Mariupol was not characterized by deep Russian-Ukrainian divisions as Russian propaganda claims. According to Kryvenko, language differences weren't a source of conflict before political forces deliberately weaponized them.* The rebuilding of Mariupol has a dark commercial aspect - Russians are selling apartments in reconstructed buildings, sometimes in properties where the original Ukrainian owners were killed, and marketing them as vacation properties while ignoring the city's tragic recent history.* There's a humanitarian crisis unfolding as some Ukrainians are being forced to return to occupied Mariupol because they have nowhere else to live, with Kryvenko citing statistics that around 150,000 people returned to occupied territories by the end of 2024.* The filmmaker is using a unique methodology of gathering evidence through social media content, vlogs, and propaganda materials to document both the physical transformation of the city and the narrative being constructed around it, rather than traditional documentary filming techniques.Transcript of Anna Kryvenko InterviewAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. As the situation in Ukraine becomes more absurd, it seems as if the lies of Donald Trump and the lies of Vladimir Putin are becoming increasingly similar. Trump has been talking about Zelensky and Ukraine, what is described as a barrage of lies. As CNN reports, Trump falsely called Zelensky a dictator. It's becoming more and more absurd. It's almost as if the whole script was written by some Central European or East Central European absurdist. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to lie as well. There was an interesting piece recently in the Wall Street Journal about Russia wanting to erase Ukraine's future and its past. My guest today, Anna Kryvenko, is a filmmaker. She's the director of an important new movie in the process of being made called "This House Is Undamaged." She's a visual fellow at the Central European University, and she's joining us from Budapest today. Congratulations on "This House is Undamaged." Before we talk specifically about the film, do you agree with my observations that there seems to be an increasingly eerie synergy between the lies coming out of Washington, D.C. and Moscow, between Trump and Putin?Anna Kryvenko: I think the situation is becoming more crazy and absurd. That's a better word to use in this situation. For me, all of this looks like some carnival of hypocrisy. It's unbelievable that someone can use the word "dictator" in comparison with Vladimir Putin or speaking about this 4% of the people who support Zelensky when he says it's only four persons. It looks completely absurd. And this information comes from Moscow, not from actual Ukrainian statistics.Andrew Keen: The phrase you use "carnival of hypocrisy" I think is a good description. I might even use that in the title of this conversation. It's almost as if Trump in particular is parodying himself, but he seems so separated from reality that it seems as if he's actually being serious, at least from my position in California. How does it look from your perspective in Budapest? You're originally from Ukraine, so obviously you have a particular interest in this situation.Anna Kryvenko: I don't even know what to think because it's changing so fast into absurd situations. Every day when I open the news, I'm speaking with people and it looks like some kind of farce. You're expecting that the next day someone will tell you that this is a joke or something, but it's not. It's really hard to believe that this is reality now, but unfortunately it is.Andrew Keen: Kundera wrote his famous novel "The Joke" as a parody of the previous authoritarian regime in Central Europe. Your new movie, "This House is Undamaged" - I know you are an artist in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University - is very much in that vein. Tell us about the project.Anna Kryvenko: We're in work in progress. I was doing research in the archives and internet archives. This documentary film will explore the transformation of Mariupol, a Ukrainian city that was destroyed by the Russian invasion in 2022. I will use only archives and found footage materials from people who are in Mariupol now, or who were in Mariupol at the time of invasion, who were actually trying to film what's going on. Sometimes I'll also use propaganda images from Russia, from Russian authorities. In May 2022, Mariupol, after intense fighting, was almost completely destroyed.Andrew Keen: Tell us the story of Mariupol, this town on the old border of Russia and Ukraine. It's in the southeast of Ukraine.Anna Kryvenko: It's on the shore of the Azov Sea. It's part of Donetsk region. It was always an industrial city, most known for the Azovstal factory. In 2022, after incredible brutality of Russian war against Ukraine, this strategically important city was almost completely destroyed in May 2022 and was occupied by Russian government. About 90% of buildings were destroyed or demolished in some way.Andrew Keen: The Russians have essentially leveled the town, perhaps in the same way as the Israelis have essentially destroyed Gaza.Anna Kryvenko: Exactly. For a lot of people, we have this image of destroyed Mariupol until today. But after these terrible events, the Russians started this big campaign to rebuild the city. Of course, we know it was done just to erase all the scars of war, to erase it from the city's history. They started the reconstruction. Some people who stayed in Mariupol thought they would have new housing since they had no place to live. But business is business - Russian authorities started to sell these apartments to Russian citizens.Andrew Keen: I'm surprised Trump hasn't got involved. Given his real estate background and his cozy relationship with Putin, maybe Trump real estate will start selling real estate in Mariupol.Anna Kryvenko: I was thinking the same thing this last week. It was looking like such an absurd situation with Mariupol. But now we are in this business mode again with Ukraine and all the minerals. It's only the economical part of war they look at.Andrew Keen: He probably would come up with some argument why he really owns Mariupol.Anna Kryvenko: Yes.Andrew Keen: Coming back to the Wall Street Journal piece about Russia wanting to erase Ukraine's future and its past - you're originally from Kyiv. Is it the old East Central European business of destroying history and creating a new narrative that somehow conforms to how you want history to have been made?Anna Kryvenko: I was really shocked at how fast this idea of Russian Mariupol is repeating after two years in Russian media, official and semi-professional blogs, YouTube, and so forth. As a person working with this type of material, watching videos every day to find what I need, I'm listening to these people doing propaganda from Mariupol, saying "we are citizens of the city and it's always been Russian." They're repeating this all the time. Even when I'm hearing this - of course it was always a Ukrainian city, it's completely absurd, it's 100% disinformation. But when you're hearing this repeated in different contexts all the time, you start to think about it.Andrew Keen: It's the same tactics as Trump. If you keep saying something, however absurd it sounds or is, if you keep saying it enough times, some people at least start believing it. You're not a historian or political scientist, but Mariupol is in the part of Ukraine which had a significant population of Russian-speaking people. Some of the people that you're filming and featuring in your movie - are they Russians who have moved into Mariupol from some other part of Russia, or are they people originally from Mariupol who are somehow embracing their new Russian overlords?Anna Kryvenko: The people I'm watching on social media, most of them say they're from Mariupol. But you can find journalistic articles showing they're actually paid by the Russian government. It's paid propaganda and they're repeating the same narrative. It's important that they're always repeating "we were born in Mariupol" and "we want the city to be Russian." But of course, you can see it's from the same propaganda book as 2014 with Crimea. They're repeating the same narrative from Soviet times - they just changed "Soviet Union" to "Russia" and "the West" to "European Union."Andrew Keen: You grew up in Kyiv, so you're familiar with all these current and historical controversies. What's your take on Mariupol before 2020, before it was flattened by the Russians? Was it a town where Russian-speaking and Ukrainian people were neighbors and friends? Were there always deep divisions between the Russian and Ukrainian speaking populations there?Anna Kryvenko: It's hard to explain because you need to dig deeper to explain the Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking parts of Ukraine. But it was never a problem before Yanukovych became prime minister and then president. It was his strategy to create this polarization of Ukraine - that the western part wants to be part of the European Union and the eastern part wants to be part of Russia because of language, and they cannot live together. But it's not true. For me as a person from Kyiv, from the center of the country, with friends from different parts of Ukraine, it was never a problem. I'm from a Russian-speaking family and have many friends from Ukrainian-speaking families. It was never a question. We were in a kind of symbiotic connection. All schools were in Ukrainian, universities in Ukrainian. We were bilingual. It was not a problem to communicate.Some of this division came from Yanukovych's connections to Putin and his propaganda. It was important for them to say "we are Russian-speaking people, and because we are Russian-speaking, we want to be part of Russia." But I have friends from Mariupol, and after 2014, when war in eastern Ukraine started and Mariupol was bombed a few times, it became a really good city to live in. There were many cultural activities. I know friends who were originally from Mariupol, studied in Kyiv in theater or visual art, and went back to Mariupol because it was a good place for their art practice. Ukraine is still a bit centralized, with most activity in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and the big cities, but Mariupol wasn't a city with internal conflict. It's weird that so fast after 2022, people started saying it was always problematic in wanting to be part of Russia. It was never like that.Andrew Keen: It's as if I lived for a year in Bosnia before the civil war, and it was almost as if ethnicity was invented by the nationalist Serbian regime. It seems as if the Putin regime is doing or has done the same thing in the eastern part of Ukraine.Anna Kryvenko: Yes.Andrew Keen: You talk to lots of friends still and you're from Kyiv originally, and obviously your professional life remains focused on the situation. In late February 2025, what's your sense of how Ukrainians are feeling given what Trump is now saying?Anna Kryvenko: I think a lot of people in Ukraine or Ukrainians abroad are feeling lonely, that they don't have support. Again we are in this situation where you have big deals about Ukraine without Ukraine. You feel like nothing, just an empty space on a map with minerals or sea access. We're just sitting there waiting while they're agreeing on deals. That's the negative layer. But it's important for all Ukrainians to be together and speak about the situation. After Trump's words about the 4% support for Zelensky, there were statistics from last year showing 57-55% support for Zelensky. Today, after these few days, new statistics show 65% support.Andrew Keen: Zelensky started his political career as a satirical comedian, and it's as if he's participating in his own comedy - as if he's almost paid Trump to promote him. What about the broader take on the US? Obviously Trump isn't all America, but he was just elected a couple of months ago. Are your Ukrainian friends and associates, as well as many people at the Central European University in Budapest, taking this as a message from America itself, or are people able to separate Trump and America?Anna Kryvenko: This is a hard question because we always know that you have a president or representative figure, but that's not the whole state. I spoke with someone from our university who was in Pennsylvania before the election, and he said all the people were pro-Trump. The logic was really simple - "he's good" and "he will stop this war" - though people sometimes don't even know which war or which country. They're just repeating the same talking points.Andrew Keen: It's sort of Orwellian in the sense that it's just war and it doesn't really matter who's involved - he's just going to stop it.Anna Kryvenko: It reminded me of how everyone was repeating about Lukashenko from Belarus that "he's a good manager" and can manage things, and that's why he's still president - not that he's a dictator killing his opponents. They use this to explain why he's good and people choose him. Now with Trump, they say "he's a good businessman," but we can see how this business works. Today, someone from Trump's administration said Zelensky needs to stop being arrogant because Trump is in a bad mood. In what world are we living where this is used as an argument?Andrew Keen: Coming back to real estate, he probably sees Mariupol as a nice strip on the Black Sea, like Gaza, which he sees as a valuable strip on the Mediterranean for real estate development. I found an interesting piece online about the Russian invasion, "When Buildings Can Talk: The Real Face of Civilian Infrastructure Ruined by Russian Invaders." In a way, your project "This House is Undamaged" is your way of making buildings talk. Is that fair?Anna Kryvenko: I think it's the best description you can use.Andrew Keen: Perhaps you might explain how and why.Anna Kryvenko: This name "This House is Undamaged" might or might not be the final name. For me, it's important because after the first months when it started to be a Russian city, some people were trying to sell apartments just to have some money. The reconstruction started a bit later. They were using video websites like Craigslist. It immediately became Russian, part of Russian territory. People from different Russian regions who saw this opportunity were trying to buy something because prices were so cheap. People needed money to buy a ticket and go to other cities or to relatives. In every advertisement, there was this phrase "this house has no damages" or "this house is undamaged." You had to put it there even if it wasn't true - you could see pictures where one building had a hole, but they were still saying "this house is undamaged."Andrew Keen: It's just again coming back to the carnival of hypocrisy or the carnival of absurd hypocrisy - you see these completely destroyed homes, and then you have the signs from the Russians saying this house is undamaged.Anna Kryvenko: It was also interesting why some people from Russia want to buy apartments in Mariupol, in these reconstructed buildings with weird pro-Russian murals - it's like Stalinism. They don't even know where Mariupol is - they think it's somewhere near Crimea, but it's not the Black Sea, it's the Azov Sea, an industrial region. It's not the best place to live. But they think it will be some kind of resort. They're living somewhere in Russia and think they can buy a cheap apartment and use it as a resort for a few months. This is absurd because the city was completely destroyed. You still have mass graves. Sometimes they're selling apartments where they can't even find the owner because the whole family is dead.On Google Maps, someone made an alternative version where you can see all the buildings that were destroyed, because officially you can't find this information anywhere. People were putting crosses where they knew someone died in a building - entire families. And after this, people are buying their apartments. For me, this is unbearable. You can do research about what you're doing, but people are lazy and don't want to do this work.Andrew Keen: It comes back to the Journal piece about Russia literally erasing not just Ukraine's past but also its future, creating a culture of amnesia. It's chilling on so many levels. But it's the old game - it's happened before in that part of the world and no doubt will happen again. As a filmmaker, what particular kind of political or aesthetic responsibility do you have? People have been writing - I mentioned Kundera, Russian writers, Gogol - satires of this kind of absurd political power for centuries. But as a filmmaker, what kind of responsibility do you have? How does your form help you make this argument of essentially restoring the past, of telling the truth?Anna Kryvenko: A lot of filmmakers in Ukraine, with the start of invasion, just brought cameras and started making films. The first goal wasn't to make a film but to document the crimes. My case is different - not only because my family's in Ukraine and I have many friends there and lived there until my twenties. For the last ten years, since the Maidan events in 2013-2014, I started working with archive and found footage material. This is my methodology. For me, it's not important to go somewhere and document. It's more interesting to use media deconstruction from propaganda sources, maybe from Ukrainian sources also because it's a question of ideology.One of my favorite materials now is people doing vlogs - just with their camera or mobile phone going from Russia to Crimea or back. You only have two ways to go there because airports aren't working, so you go through the Kerch-Crimea bridge. Now because of Mariupol's strategic location, you can go through there, so you have two different roads. People from different Russian cities sometimes film their road and say "what is this, is it destroyed?" This is the average Russian person, and you can hear the propaganda they're repeating or what they're really thinking. For me, it's important to show these different points of view from people who were there or are there now. I don't have the opportunity as a Ukrainian citizen to go there. Through this method, in the near future when I finish this film, we can have testimonies from the inside. We don't need to wait for the war to end because we don't know how or when it ends. It's important to show it to people who maybe don't know anything about what's going on in Mariupol.Andrew Keen: Given the abundance of video on the internet, on platforms like YouTube, how do you distinguish between propaganda and truth yourself in terms of taking some of these segments to make your film? It could be conceivable that some of the more absurd videos are put out by Ukrainians to promote their own positions and undermine the Russians. Have you found that? Is there a propaganda war on YouTube and other platforms between Ukrainian and Russian nationalists? And as a filmmaker who's trying to archive the struggle in an honest way, how do you deal with that?Anna Kryvenko: Of course, there are many people, and Mariupol is the best example because the Russian government is paying people to repeat pro-Russian ideology. Sometimes you can see just an average person from Mariupol going with a camera and shooting something without speaking - this is just documentation. Sometimes you have Russian people there for some days just saying something. And of course, you get different segments of real propaganda from some ministry in Russia with drone material and big music. I'm always trying to question myself: What am I looking at? Who is speaking? On technical aspects, why is this like this? It helps me to be holistic.Of course, I'm from Ukraine, and sometimes this is the most uncomfortable - you can hear actual people from Mariupol saying something you don't want to hear because it's not your point of view on the war. But these are people really from the city giving some kind of realistic point of view on the situation. It's sad, but there were statistics at the end of 2024 that about 150,000 people were returning to occupied territories, not only to Mariupol but all occupied territories. Maybe 40% were coming back to register their property and then returning to Ukrainian territory, but many people are returning to Mariupol because they don't have anywhere to live in Ukraine. It's not hundreds but thousands of people. As Ukrainians, we're not comfortable with this because we're all in different situations. But if something's not comfortable for my point of view, it doesn't mean it's bad or good.Andrew Keen: It's an important project. I know your artist residency at the Central European University is finishing at the end of February. You're going to focus on finishing the movie. When do you think it will be ready and what are your ambitions for the finished movie? Will you put it online, in theaters? What's your ideal?Anna Kryvenko: If everything goes well, we can finish it in a year and a half because it will be a long process of editing and working with rights. We only started working on it six months ago, and it's starting to go faster. Documentary making is a long process because of funding and everything. Even though I don't need to go somewhere physically, it's still a long process with a lot of waiting. First, we're thinking about festivals, maybe a theater release, maybe we'll have some broadcasters because it's an important topic to show to a wider audience. After a year, we'll see.Andrew Keen: If "Buildings Can Talk" is the subtitle of this upcoming movie "This House is Undamaged," it's a really important project about Mariupol. Thank you for being on the show. I'm going to have to get you back when the movie is done because I can't wait to see it.Anna Kryvenko: Thank you so much. Thank you.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Anna Kryvenko (1986, Ukraine) is a video and fine art photography artist based in Prague and Kyiv. She is a Fellow at the Artist in Residence program, Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University. She graduated from the Centre for Audio-Visual Studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU, Prague). Her films and performances were screened at Dok Leipzig, ZagrebDox, Visions du Reel Nyon, Fluidum Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, etc. With her found-footage film Silently Like a Comet, she won the prize for the Best Experimental Act at FAMUFEST, Prague (CZ), and a few others. Her film Listen to the Horizon won the prize for the Best Czech Experimental Documentary, Jihlava IDFF (CZ). Her first feature documentary film My Unknown Soldier won the Last Stop Trieste 2018 Postproduction Award, Special Mention at Zagreb Dox, the Special Prize of the Jury at IDFF CRONOGRAF, and the Andrej Stankovič Prize. Her newest short film Easier Than You Think won the Jury Award of the Other Vision Competition 2022 (PAF, Czech Republic).Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. 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Today, we welcome Colleen Ryan from OSCE, border training and management. We brought her on today to discuss the current challenges of border security in Europe.  --- One CA is a product of the civil affairs association  and brings in people who are current or former military, diplomats, development officers, and field agents to discuss their experiences on the ground with a partner nation's people and leadership. We aim to inspire anyone interested in working in the "last three feet" of U.S. foreign relations.  To contact the show, email us at CApodcasting@gmail.com  or look us up on the Civil Affairs Association website at www civilaffairsassoc.org --- Great news! Feedspot, the podcast industry ranking system rated One CA Podcast as one of the top 10 shows on foreign policy. Check it out at: https://podcast.feedspot.com/foreign_policy_podcasts/ --- Special thanks to the site "Rockstar Beats" for the sample of Taylor Seift "Midnight." Retrieved from: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXyd0iAdUYUWN7ifYYoqymNqJsaE0vEDC&si=-Vp6gUuRpqpHq66D   --- Transcript: 00:00:04    Introduction Welcome to the 1CA Podcast. This is your host, Jack Gaines. 1CA is a product of the Civil Affairs Association and brings in people who are current or former military, diplomats, development officers, and field agents to discuss their experiences on ground with the partner nation's people and leadership. Our goal is to inspire anyone interested in working the last three feet of foreign relations. To contact the show, email us at capodcasting@gmail.com. Or look us up on the Civil Affairs Association website at www.civilaffairsassos.org. I'll have those in the show notes. 00:00:39    Colleen Ryan My name is Colleen Ryan. I'm currently the Border Advisor to the OSC in Vienna. I'm seconded by the United States. So I do need to make it clear that I'm not speaking on behalf of the OSC or on the broader political or organizational context right now. I'm specifically focusing on my work and my experiences. Wow. You're seconded? What does that mean? Yeah, I'm essentially loaned out by the U .S. to the OSCE to serve in this role. They pay my salary. 00:01:13    Jack Nice. How did you get nominated? Where do you normally work? 00:01:15    COLLEEN RYAN In a past life, I was a police officer back in the U .S. before transitioning to working internationally. So I came to find out about OSCE and opportunities while I was doing my master's back in the States. And then I just ended up applying for the special monitoring mission to Ukraine. So I was out there as a monitoring officer up until Russia's full -scale invasion. And then went back during the war with a non -governmental organization working on humanitarian protection in the South. And then made my way to this current role. That's great. So you've been part of living history in a way. Yeah, to be out in Donetsk up until a couple days before the invasion. Working with border guards all across Europe and the changing security landscape has been an interesting role so far. 00:02:04    JACK GAINES So you've lived what soldiers call the moment before. There's a feel in the air, and it makes you edgy, it makes you a little twitchy, because you know that you're about to go down with an enemy. And so did you get that sense? Did you get that feel that things were coming close in Donetsk? 00:02:23    COLLEEN RYAN We were there at the time to monitor the Minsk agreements, which was a ceasefire at the time. It wasn't until when the U .S. evacuated all U .S. personnel that you started to realize that, you know, it may actually happen. 00:02:36    JACK GAINES Right. And so your current position is now training the border guards of Ukraine. 00:02:44    COLLEEN RYAN Yes, I manage a project that trains border guards across the OSCE, specifically on detecting porch documents and imposters. So if it's a forged passport presented at the airport or at the road crossing or for the train, we train the border guards, whether it's from Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Albania. So it really depends on the needs of OSC participating states in this realm. It's obviously a field that requires recurrent training because travel documents like passports are constantly updated. that national authorities can stay ahead of forgers. So it is something that we have to continue training on. And with the current war against Ukraine, they have the most need. They're one of the bigger border services in Europe. And then just the need in terms of half their border guard is currently engaged in combat operations, while you have the rest who are working to secure their western and southern borders and the surge in western and southern border crossings with the closure of Ukraine's airspace. You know, all of that contributes to an ongoing need for these skills and updated training on detecting passport forgeries and detecting imposters. And then you see that on the flip side with Moldova, they've seen a surge in the border crossings because a lot evacuated from Ukraine into Moldova. A lot of humanitarian NGOs and other people now fly into Kijanel to go to Ukraine. And so they've seen just a huge... spike in terms of the number of travel documents and also diversity in terms of different countries, different types of documents. And so that's why we've also been training Moldovan border police as well. 00:04:29    JACK GAINES Sure. So you're there to teach them how to spot forged documents, but is there also a follow on either by that nation's foreign affairs office or their law enforcement that tries to find the forger and remove them? 00:04:43    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah, there is very likely follow on. in terms of criminal investigations when they find forged documents or if they identify an imposter. But our project primarily focuses on those who are working on the first line and second line document checks to just spot the person posing as someone else. And then we do some work with the forensic experts after the fact to make sure that they've got that next level of training as part of their investigations. But primarily it's focusing on the first and second line officers. 00:05:14    JACK GAINES I'm sure they see all kinds of crazy stuff. Everything from the amateur glue stick to people who actually have passport printer creating forged documents. 00:05:24    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah, it's sad and it's also really interesting, the surge in the use of artificial intelligence and seeing the ways that they're incorporating things like morphing into the passport to their forgeries where two people can now travel on one passport using morphing images and things like that. It really just shows how quickly this field in terms of document forgeries is evolving and how much border services are struggling to keep up and to maintain their training so they can spot these techniques. Right, which is why they're starting to put chips and other special films that have a radio signature and stuff like that. 00:05:53    JACK GAINES they're starting to put chips and other special films that have a radio signature and stuff like that. You could print it, but to actually find those films or chips that have that radio signature has got to be a lot tougher. 00:06:08    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah, and a lot of it is just down to, like, Order guards are under a lot of stress and pressure and they don't have much time to spot the fakes. They're getting crushed by people. Yeah. So a lot of it is just making sure that they can spot some of these easier to identify orgery trends and to make a quicker decision before it gets to the point of really having to do an in -depth examination of the document. 00:06:32    JACK GAINES Yeah, I would imagine that you would see forgery trends because people would be going to the same forger and they would be doing similar patterns until that turned away. 00:06:41    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah. 00:06:41    JACK GAINES And what's it like working with all these different border guards from different countries? I mean, everyone has got to be a little different, but the same. 00:06:49    COLLEEN RYAN For me, it's interesting because I'm one of the few who has worked in policing, worked in this operational arena, kind of understands a lot of what they've done. And so you kind of speak the same language. It's interesting to hear from them, like what they view as their biggest security challenges and what their biggest day -to -day challenges are in terms of their work life. Because you see common trends across a lot of the services. A lot of them can be underpaid and that contributes to staff turnover. And so then that means you go back to a country to do more training because you have new staffs. But then to see how a country's security... You know, their perspective in terms of their biggest border security threats in Albania, where I trained in June, might be different from Bulgaria, where I trained last month. But, you know, it's still the commonalities of document forgeries, imposters, making sure your airports are secure and things like that. So I like talking with the border guards, such a different perspective across each country. Right. 00:07:51    JACK GAINES I think that's really helpful that you have a law enforcement background. helps break that ice. 00:07:58    COLLEEN RYAN I understand the perspective, but we're really just there to help and to fill the gaps that their service might not have the time or the funding to provide additional training because they've got the whole spectrum of border security issues to deal with within their service. And so that's where our organization or other international organizations doing these types of projects come in is just fill the gaps and help them develop their capacity. Especially with some other countries we train for where Frontex, maybe they're not working in that country. So then we can help supplement other EU or Frontex or IOM or UN initiatives and help to harmonize border security standards across Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia. 00:08:45    JACK GAINES I don't want to just keep circling around Ukraine. Is there any stories you have from some of the other countries you worked with? What's your favorite beer hall story on those? 00:08:53    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah, I mean, most of my stories are with Ukraine because I've trained Ukraine so much. So I'm happy to talk about that. Yeah, I feel very fortunate so far in the last year and a half to have trained almost 50 Ukraine border guards. And I was able to go to meet with their administration and their main forensic center in June to do a needs assessment to see how we could keep supporting. to make sure we weren't duplicating efforts from other international organizations or other bilateral initiatives there because we do know it's a crowded space there. 00:09:28    JACK GAINES I'm sure talking to them, you could figure out pretty quickly what those border guards needed, even if they were getting training from two or three organizations, if they weren't hitting it on the head. Yeah. And what was nice for us is we were able to actually shadow them on their train from out west as entered from. 00:09:38    COLLEEN RYAN was nice for us is we were able to actually shadow them on their train from out west as entered from. Shamashil, Poland, and went to Lviv. And so we got to board on the Ukrainian side and just seeing what they're dealing with in terms of doing document checks aboard the trains now and the different challenges they have with that as opposed to what it would be like to check a document at the airport. It's a very different perspective and it gives you insights on things like lighting and being able to see different security features in the passport. With the lighting on the train and the time of day when they're doing the document check, the technical equipment that they have aboard and that may not be connecting to the cell tower or have service as the train moves. And so it gives you a different perspective to actually be there and see it instead of just hearing about it over a Zoom call or in a sterile training environment. And so then building on that. We've been able to take some of those lessons learned and put them into our training where we're encouraging them and reminding them to say, hey, how would you see this in different types of light settings, running different types of simulations, so it more accurately reflects the conditions that they'll be doing the document checks in. So what's coming up next? 00:10:57    JACK GAINES What's the future of training? Do you have anything interesting coming up that you want to promote? 00:11:02    COLLEEN RYAN Yes, through the rest of the year, we have a couple more study visits. And these are important because they help the border guards to learn from other counterparts. They will look through how this country that they're visiting manages their forgery desk at an airport or in their border service. And it really helps with networking and sharing more information in terms of what they're seeing in terms of detecting trends or alerts on forged documents. We've got a couple of study visits coming up next week. I'll be in Madrid with another group from Ukraine. The following week, I'll be with Albania and Milan. And then a week after that, I'll be in Dublin, Ireland with forensic experts from Ukraine's border service to round out the year. So it's a busy stretch right now. That's very cool. 00:11:50    JACK GAINES Do these multinational engagements, do they ever end up with countries with border guards doing a bilateral agreement on border protection? Or do they ever work on... building something like Eurogest, where if they find a forger from multiple countries, they'll work together to try to find out where the route is. Is that multinational cooperation starting to build, or have you seen it? 00:12:14    COLLEEN RYAN On a smaller level with us, we do see that. So at the operational level with these border guards, even in -country, being able to message colleagues around their own country. Or the experts that do our trainings are active document experts serving in their border service. So now they've got another resource, say, if we're using experts from Spain or the Netherlands or UK or Italy, then these trainees now have another resource to flag potential trends and forge documents or to ask questions if they're unsure. And then, you know, moving ahead, we'll be looking to do some more joint training between two or three countries. Especially if we do it with bordering countries, it will really help that collaboration to, say, connect the two participating states. And now they've got operational contacts to ping across the border to say, hey, we're seeing this. What are you seeing? Things like that. So it's a good opportunity for us to foster that collaboration and increase the information sharing with us through the training or study visits. Right. Because it's so important to have that contact. 00:13:23    JACK GAINES to have that contact. It's one thing when you see an issue and you want to reach out and you have to make that cold call and figure out who's the right person. It's better if you've made a contact, you know someone from training, you can just say, hey, what's this and what's going on? And they can just plug you in with the right person and then Zoom. You know, a problem's fixed versus making it a whole, oh, you have to talk to our embassy and our embassy has to write our embassy. And so it's great that those kind of cross -border contacts are being made because. Even though so much of Europe is dominated by the Schengen, there's still issues with legal immigration and criminal movement that each country still monitors what's going on and partners. And then those that are outside the Schengen zone, it's just as important for them to actually have that contact so they can partner and work on things to quickly spot forgeries, theft, criminal activity, then stop it before it becomes rampant. So that's awesome. 00:14:22    COLLEEN RYAN And it's just it's it's the first building block of really increasing that cooperation, especially with your neighboring state and contributing towards that angle of integrated border management and jointly managed VCP. So even being able to have frontline document inspectors from two neighboring countries being able to reach out, that's just your first building block to building that relationship. So, yeah, it's always useful to have those contacts. Must be fun to be in the middle of it. Yeah. And it's really rewarding. To get your group of border officers on day one, you've got 20 to 30 border officers from all across their country, wherever we're training, they're virtual strangers, and to see them learn to open up and engage and to learn from our experts and then start to share some of their challenges with me and to build those relationships, whether it's in a group or with our experts or with OSCE, it's super rewarding because then you just get to keep building from there and asking, okay, what's next? What do you need next in addition to these document trainings? What do your forensic experts need or what do your border control officers need? So, yeah, it's really rewarding to be able to deliver when you've got the funding and you've got the interest of participating states and to help them manage their borders better. 00:15:37    JACK GAINES You know, we kind of forgot to talk about who OSCE is, Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe. You want to give me a brief overview of what the organization is? Yes. But it does. 00:15:50    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah. So the OSCE is world's largest regional security organization, the state of 57 participating states. And we operate on a consensus -based approach where all participating states have to agree. And we utilize an approach of comprehensive security. And so this really helps us to support our participating states in developing. their security sector and to enhance resilience and to develop capacity to address transnational threats. So my border security management unit is situated within the Transnational Threats Department. So that's our goal is to help participating states build their capacity to confront a wide array of transnational threats that can harm their national security and pan security more broadly. Right. Now, when I think security, I think of NATO. 00:16:38    JACK GAINES I think of NATO. So you've got to be a little different. NATO is, of course, a military organization that deals with security from conflict, either deterrence or response to conflict or crisis, disaster. What is it that OSCE does in terms of security? 00:16:55    COLLEEN RYAN Our three dimensions are political, military, economic and environmental, and human dimension. So what you would traditionally think of as human rights. And so being able to take that comprehensive approach opens up. a library of opportunities for us in terms of what we can provide support on. And so my unit's mandate stems from our border security management concept that the OSC Ministerial Council adopted in 2005. So our mandate in terms of border security is pretty broad. And I think our bread and butter really is helping to develop capacity of our participating states and providing technical assistance. I mean, our unique added value is that we can provide this tailored approach and we're pretty responsive when participating states do approach us with needs. So it's a bit different from NATO since we're not providing military support. We're looking at long -term institutional capacity buildings, whether it's in border security, policing, security sector agencies. That's the core of our work. And can you talk about what the application process was like to get involved? It's different for each job. So OSC, you either have secondments, like when I am on, where your national authority nominates you, or you have the professional contract where OSC directly hires you. So for mine, I had to apply through my seconding authority in the U .S., and I was competing amongst the Americans who wanted to be nominated. And so then once I got past that, then the U .S. put my name forward in the process, and then it was straight into the OSC hiring process. It's a written exam, and then it was an oral interview, and then it's shortlisted, and you go from there. But if it's a contracted offer, obviously you skip the secondment stage of it, and it's applying straight to OSC in the typical HR process. So it's a little different. You just have to look at the job posting and if it's a secondment or not. 00:19:01    JACK GAINES They give you a salary. 00:19:02    COLLEEN RYAN Do they give you a housing allowance? 00:19:02    JACK GAINES give you a housing allowance? 00:19:04    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah, it's about when I was paying in the U .S. The really fun expense was moving my cats over. So that it's a week in a housing allowance. But it's different for contracted. So it really just depends on which job you're going for, contracted or second. 00:19:22    JACK GAINES Had you traveled internationally before you joined this position? 00:19:26    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah, I had traveled quite a bit. Back when I was still a police officer, I liked to take my leave time to go over to Europe. So I did travel a bit. But never officially. It was always first travel. It was always tourist travel. Yeah, no, I had very, very little duty travel as a cop. 00:19:43    JACK GAINES But I bet that travel helped with your application to say, yeah, I've been to Europe and I've toured around, even though I was a tourist. 00:19:50    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah, and travel is just a great educator. And I know it's expensive and not everyone can do it. Travel just gives you good life experience, especially if you're doing it solo and traveling in Europe and interacting with different cultures and just finding your way and being able to navigate and step outside of your American comfort zone. If you're looking to work internationally, in addition, obviously, to the job experience and language and whatnot, travel is just such a good educator and a good way to end your horizons. Right. And I'll tell you what, traveling and living someplace, 00:20:23    JACK GAINES living someplace, It's a whole new experience because you learned the trains when you traveled, but now you got to find out, get a lease and what that takes. 00:20:32    COLLEEN RYAN Yeah. And then if you don't speak German or you don't speak the local English, that adds another layer of complexity. So yeah, you're absolutely right. The difference between living somewhere and traveling is huge. 00:20:43    JACK GAINES But it's fun. And actually, once you've lived overseas, you start to do quirky things, I find. Like, I'll travel and I'll go to a grocery store just to see how they do their business there. Yeah. You know, you go to restaurants, but see how laundry is done or, you know, just how the public services are done because you think, man, if I had to live here, I'd have to drag my trash to the backyard this time. Or over here, they take it on the street or the Germans, they have to have a lockbox. 00:21:12    COLLEEN RYAN What's been really interesting for me is my American friends hear me speak now and they think I'm starting to lose my accent and I can't tell where I'm from or I'll... interact with Europeans over here and they can't quite pick up on my American accent and I think I'm from the UK or Ireland or Australia. So that's been a really interesting experience because I don't think about it. I just talk and just the little things that come when you're living abroad. 00:21:37    SPEAKER_00 Okay. I think we got everything we wanted. Is there anything left that you want to draw on the table? 00:21:44    COLLEEN RYAN As I've mentioned, I firmly believe that any type of security cooperation, defense cooperation is built on relationships and trust. And so there's two of the Ukrainians in particular that I've become close with because they joined our training last year. And then this year they served as trainers for us and they've joined a few study visits. And so through that, we've developed trust and become friends. So now it's gotten to a point where they know I'm a huge Swifty. Oh, no. 00:22:14    SPEAKER_01 no. 00:22:16    COLLEEN RYAN You're a Swifty? Yeah. 00:22:16    SPEAKER_01 a Swifty? 00:22:19    COLLEEN RYAN So they'll ask, oh, what's the Taylor Swift song we should listen to for this trip? Or what's your favorite Taylor Swift song these days? And it's just a funny example of how this all starts with just building those relationships and getting people's trust when you're working with your partner nations. Sure. 00:22:38    SPEAKER_01 I thought maybe you brought Taylor Swift to the border and you couldn't get her across. 00:22:44    COLLEEN RYAN No, but I did give them Taylor Swift friendship bracelets when I was in Ukraine in June. 00:22:50    SPEAKER_01 Oh my gosh. I was going to say, next time you see them, they'll be like, hey, still have my Taylor Swift. They had them in London last week, so they still have them. 00:22:57    COLLEEN RYAN week, so they 00:23:02    SPEAKER_01 They probably feel obligated, like I can't take it off. She'll think less of me. 00:23:10    SPEAKER_01 It was quite funny. Cool. 00:23:14    SPEAKER_01 But yeah, you're right. It's those relationships, right? You build them and then you can reach out and the people are there. It's so much easier than a cold call. So much easier. That's half the job. 00:23:25    COLLEEN RYAN On one hand, you can joke about Taylor Swift, but then on the other, they can come to you with more training needs or more requests for specific areas of engagement. 00:23:34    SPEAKER_01 Yeah, they know they're safe to do it. Yeah, exactly. By just talking to you. Yeah. 00:23:39    SPEAKER_01 Well, cool. Okay. Well, I got it. And I will say just one more thing that I should mention. 00:23:43    COLLEEN RYAN I will say just one more thing that I should mention. I'm able to do all this work because I'm very lucky that the U .S. mission has fully funded my project and recognize the importance of OSCE as a multilateral line of effort to strengthen international security and broaden our engagement. Honestly, the amount of funding they've given me has been a huge boost and really made this work possible. So I feel like I have to give them a shout out here. 00:24:11    SPEAKER_01 Cool. All right, Coley. Well, thanks a bunch. All right.

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