#volodimir zelenszkij

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L’Ukraine dans un seul graffiti, vu à New York.

[davidaugust]

😲🤭

[agentfascinateur]

True historical figures are the likes of Zelensky who didn't train as a general yet has staved off someone like Putin for over two years now.

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Zelensky not invited to inauguration, Trump says

US President-elect Donald Trump has not invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to his inauguration, which will take place in January 2025, US media reported.

Asked about Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said on Monday at a press conference in Florida:

“No, I didn’t invite him.”

He added, however, that Zelensky could attend the inauguration if he wanted to.

Trump also added that he received some signals from Kyiv that Ukraine wants to reach a settlement of the conflict. What exactly those signals were and whether they came after a 20-minute meeting with the Ukrainian president and Macron in Paris, the US head of state-elect did not explain, but added “a little progress” has already been made.

Biden’s authorisation to use ATACMS missiles for strikes deep inside Russia was described by Trump as “stupid.” He also added that he will reconsider this authorisation.

Earlier, Zelensky after Donald Trump’s message about the loss of 400 thousand soldiers by the Ukrainian army cited his data, according to which since the beginning of the military conflict in Ukraine the AFU lost 43 thousand military killed and 370 thousand wounded. By doing so, the Ukrainian leader actually accused the US president-elect of lying.

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[nicklloydnow]

“President Biden has authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials said.

The weapons are likely to be initially employed against Russian and North Korean troops in defense of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of western Russia, the officials said.

Mr. Biden’s decision is a major change in U.S. policy. The choice has divided his advisers, and his shift comes two months before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office, having vowed to limit further support for Ukraine.

Allowing the Ukrainians to use the long-range missiles, known as the Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, came in response to Russia’s surprise decision to bring North Korean troops into the fight, officials said.

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Mr. Biden began to ease restrictions on the use of U.S.-supplied weapons on Russian soil after Russia launched a cross-border assault in May in the direction of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.

To help the Ukrainians defend Kharkiv, Mr. Biden allowed them to use the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, which have a range of about 50 miles, against Russian forces directly across the border. But Mr. Biden did not allow the Ukrainians to use longer-range ATACMS, which have a range of about 190 miles, in defense of Kharkiv.

While the officials said they do not expect the shift to fundamentally alter the course of the war, one of the goals of the policy change, they said, is to send a message to the North Koreans that their forces are vulnerable and that they should not send more of them.

The officials said that while the Ukrainians were likely to use the missiles first against Russian and North Korean troops that threaten Ukrainian forces in Kursk, Mr. Biden could authorize them to use the weapons elsewhere.

Some U.S. officials said they feared that Ukraine’s use of the missiles across the border could prompt President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to retaliate with force against the United States and its coalition partners.

But other U.S. officials said they thought those fears were overblown.

The Russian military is launching a major assault by an estimated 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean troops, on dug-in Ukrainian positions in Kursk with the goal of retaking all of the Russian territory that the Ukrainians seized in August.

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Some Pentagon officials opposed giving them to the Ukrainians because they said the U.S. Army had limited supplies. Some White House officials feared that Mr. Putin would widen the war if they gave the missiles to the Ukrainians.

Supporters of a more aggressive posture toward Moscow say Mr. Biden and his advisers have been too easily intimidated by Mr. Putin’s hostile rhetoric, and they say that the administration’s incremental approach to arming the Ukrainians has disadvantaged them on the battlefield.

Proponents of Mr. Biden’s approach say that it had largely been successful at averting a violent Russian response.

Allowing long-range strikes on Russian territory using American missiles could change that equation.

In August, the Ukrainians launched their own cross-border assault into the Kursk region, where they seized a swath of Russian territory.

Since then, U.S. officials have become increasingly concerned about the state of the Ukrainian army, which has been stretched thin by simultaneous Russian assaults in the east, Kharkiv and now Kursk.

The introduction of more than 10,000 North Korean troops and Mr. Biden’s response come as Mr. Trump prepares to re-enter office with a stated goal of quickly ending the war.

Mr. Trump has said little about how he would settle the conflict. But Vice President-elect JD Vance has outlined a plan that would allow the Russians to keep the Ukrainian territory that their forces have seized.

The Ukrainians hope that they would be able to trade any Russian territory they hold in Kursk for Ukrainian territory held by Russia in any future negotiations.

If the Russian assault on Ukrainian forces in Kursk succeeds, Kyiv could end up having little to no Russian territory to offer Moscow in a trade.

Mr. Zelensky has long sought permission from the United States and its coalition partners to use long-range missiles to strike Russian soil.

The British and French militaries have given the Ukrainians a limited number of Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles, which have a range of about 155 miles, less than the American missile system.

While British and French leaders voiced support for Mr. Zelensky’s request, they were reluctant to allow the Ukrainians to start using their missiles on Russian soil unless Mr. Biden agreed to allow the Ukrainians to do the same with ATACMS.

Mr. Biden was more risk-averse than his British and French counterparts, and his top advisers were divided on how to proceed. On Sunday, some Republican lawmakers praised the move but said it had come too late.”

“President Vladimir V. Putin on Tuesday lowered Russia’s threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, a long-planned move whose timing appeared designed to show the Kremlin could respond aggressively to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with American long-range missiles.

The decree signed by Mr. Putin implemented a revised version of Russia’s nuclear doctrine that Mr. Putin described in televised remarks in September. But the timing was clearly meant to send a message, coming just two days after the news that President Biden had authorized the use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia.

Asked whether Russia could respond with nuclear weapons to such strikes, Dmitri S. Peskov, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, repeated the new doctrine’s language that Russia “reserves the right” to use such weapons to respond to a conventional-weapons attack that creates a “critical threat” to its “sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

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The new doctrine, published Tuesday on the Kremlin website, differs from the previous iteration in at least two important ways that show how Mr. Putin is trying to use the threat of his nuclear arsenal to deter the United States from further supporting Ukraine.

First, it raises the possibility that nuclear weapons could be used against a nuclear-armed country that doesn’t directly launch an attack on Russia but supports one by a nonnuclear country. That is a clear reference to Ukraine and its nuclear-armed backers led by the United States. Russia’s previous nuclear doctrine focused on responding to attacks by nuclear-armed countries and alliances.

Second, it lowers the threshold at which Russia could consider nuclear use in response to an attack with conventional weapons. The previous doctrine, published in 2020, said such an attack must threaten “the very existence of the state,” while the new one puts that threshold at a “critical threat” to Russia’s sovereignty.

The doctrine’s publication on Tuesday appeared to be the latest suggestion from the Kremlin that Russia could use nuclear weapons to respond to attacks by Ukraine carried out with American support, and that the response could be directed against American facilities as well as Ukraine itself.

“Aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies by any nonnuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state is considered as their joint attack,” the document says.

Mr. Peskov, speaking at his daily conference call with reporters, pointed to this section of the revised doctrine, saying, “this is also a very important paragraph.”

“Nuclear deterrence is aimed at ensuring that a potential adversary understands the inevitability of retaliation in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies,” Mr. Peskov said.

(…)

On the battlefield, Russian forces are advancing in eastern Ukraine, while Kyiv struggles with recruitment and morale. And in geopolitics, Mr. Putin has also been making gains: his phone call last week with Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany broke two years of diplomatic isolation by the biggest Western countries, while the election of Donald J. Trump as incoming president of the United States has raised hopes in Russia of an Ukraine peace deal on the Kremlin’s terms.

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In September, Mr. Putin warned that if the United States and its allies permitted Ukraine to fire missiles deeper into Russia, they would put his country “at war” with NATO.

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On Tuesday, Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the defense committee in Russia’s lower house of Parliament, said that Mr. Biden “will slam the lid of his own coffin and drag many, many more people with him.”

Dmitri A. Medvedev, the outspoken former Russian president and vice chairman of Mr. Putin’s security council, said in a social media post that under the new nuclear doctrine, the use of missiles provided by NATO countries in attacks by Ukraine against Russia “can now be qualified as an attack on Russia” by NATO nations.

Mr. Medvedev, whose threats often go beyond the Kremlin’s official pronouncements, added: “In this case, the right arises to launch a retaliatory strike with weapons of mass destruction against Kyiv and the main NATO facilities, wherever they are.””

“It seems extraordinary, but I have seen and heard the same things at every front line I have visited across south and eastern Ukraine: The Russians are happy sending their soldiers to the ‘meat grinder’ to be slaughtered. They have endless supplies and a political system that renders them entirely expendable.

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This doesn’t surprise me. Everything on the ground in the Russia-Ukraine War is now playing out with Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on January 20 in the background. Trump says he wants to end the war: This appears to mean a Versailles-style carve-up of the territories Moscow stole through invasion, torture and murder.

But I’ve always believed it will be almost impossible for Putin to negotiate while Ukraine holds a part of Russia. It makes him look unforgivably weak.

This is the man who wanted to bring back his nation’s glory days as a global power, but ended up with a foreign army on Russian soil for the first time since the 1940s. He has little choice but to go all-out to take it back before the inauguration, no matter how many will die.

Ukraine seized around 420 square miles of Russian territory in the Kursk Oblast following its August incursion, but the Russians have counter-attacked ferociously and reclaimed around half of what they lost.

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US officials have said that Biden may authorise them to be used to strike targets deeper into Russia in the future. In the meantime, a bonus is that Biden’s authorisation means the UK and France will now almost certainly grant Kyiv authorisation to use their Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles inside Russia, too.

Anticipating such a move, Russia has reportedly pulled most of its warplanes and other assets deeper into Russia. In September, a Pentagon spokeswoman said 90 per cent of Russian aircraft launching guide bombs into Ukraine were doing so from airfields out of ATACMS range.

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The Ukrainians will need all the help they get. They are always outnumbered when they face their far more brutal and larger neighbour. And now things are even worse as Russian numbers in Kursk have swelled with the arrival of 10,000 North Koreans. The troops, whom Moscow has supposedly trained in artillery fire, basic infantry tactics and trench clearing, are likely to get involved in the continuing assaults against Ukraine’s positions. They wear Russian uniforms and are equipped by Moscow. But US officials assess that they will likely fight in their own distinct units.

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Either way, the arrival of the North Koreans is an ominous development. This marks a major broadening out of the war as another nation state joins the fight. Alongside its troops, Pyongyang has also reportedly supplied Russia with long-range rocket and artillery systems, some of which have been deployed to Kursk.

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The arrival of the North Koreans also drags China further into this war. We already know how deep China and Russia’s ties run. In February 2022 the two powers announced their own ‘no limits’ partnership. Russia is integral to creating the alternate world order Beijing wants to build and lead.

The ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy’ doctrine that underpins Chinese foreign policy stipulates that countries should work together on a ‘common destiny’. Make no mistake, the North Korea-Russia partnership, especially if successful in Kursk, brings the ‘common destiny’ of dismantling American and Western hegemony one step closer.

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In the end, though, it is perhaps a different harbinger of World War III that we need to beware of – and confront. Almost every week in 90 Seconds To Midnight, the Daily Mail’s weekly global news podcast, I discuss how the prospect of mass war is closer than ever. The podcast has travelled from Ukraine to Iraq to Israel, and the lesson from those I speak to is always the same: Appeasement emboldens our enemies.

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‘Trump reminds me of Neville Chamberlain. He said he would bring peace, but instead brought us World War II. Now, Trump could bring us World War III.’”

[ninavova]

Volodimir Zelensky in Hungary ❤️

[szepkerekkocka]

Egyrészt nagyon örülnék, másrészt nagyon röhögnék, ha az Ukrán többségi társadalom és a kárpátaljai magyar kisebbség közötti feszültségeket, mint pl. nyelvtörvény, sikerülne úgy elsimítani, hogy ahhoz Viktornak látványosan semmi köze ne legyen, sőt kifejezetten kidomborítanák, hogy annak ellenére ássák el a csatabárdot, hogy az a sértett óvodás ott óbégat a háttérben.

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(via "President Zelenskyi on the burning background tarot card "Hierophant"" Postcard for Sale by Gelyane)

[kozbeszedhu]

Volodimir Zelenszkij ukrán elnök vasárnap elítélte a Donald Trump volt amerikai elnök elleni merényletet, és jobbulást kívánt a volt amerikai elnöknek.

[szepkerekkocka]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/13/zelensky-ukraine-war-leaked-documents/

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George Lazar

Dráma a Comói-tónál. Lesajnálkozó mosollyal átnéztek Orbánon… Meloni és Zelenszkij, még találkozni sem akartak vele.

Így még nem szégyenítették meg az egyre zavarosabban kiabáló magyar miniszterelnököt. Igen, kiabáló… A magyar miniszterelnök teljesen nevetségessé tette magát.

Múlt pénteken nyílt meg az olaszországi Comói-tónál a The European House-Ambrosetti fórum. Az eseményen európai politikusok vettek részt. A Cernobbióban tartott fórumon felszólalt Giorgia Meloni olasz miniszterelnök, Orbán Viktor magyar miniszterelnök is és ott volt Volodimir Zelenszkij ukrán elnök is.

“Olaszországban futhat össze Orbán, Meloni és Zelenszkij…” harsogta Orbán médiája magyarul, mert ugye Orbánnak van egy nagyszabású “béketerve”; első dolog az azonnali tűzszünet Putyinnal. Orbán nem segíti katonailag Ukrajnát mert kormánya “békepárti” (és Putyin barátja..)

Orbán a konferencián emelt hangon és kissé izgatottan hosszasan részletezte a putyinista “béketervét” amikor a moderátor udvariasan más témákra akarta terelni a beszélgetést. De Orbán erősködött, kiabálni kezdett, és folytatta a “béketerv” ügyet… majd összekapta magát, és megkérdezte a moderátortól hogy nem sértette-e meg…

Viselkedése enyhén szólva meghökkentő volt. Az a konferenciáról terjesztett videókon jól látható az, és az is, hogy sokan félmosollyal hallgatták az izgatott magyar Viktátort.

De ami ezután jött arra Orbán sem számított. A konferencián jelenlevő Meloni nem volt hajlandó találkozni vele,, habár Orbán a konferencián bejelentette, hogy ő szoros barátja Georgia Meloni olasz miniszterelnöknek „nemcsak a kollégám, hanem a keresztény testvérem is.” Meloni kezet sem fogott vele.

Az ugyancsak jelenelevő Zelenszkij pedig Orbán “tűzszüneti tervéről” gyakorlatilag azt mondta, hogy az Putyin propagandája, így akarnak időt nyerni az oroszok csapataik átcsoportosítására… Látni sem akarta Orbánt…

Miközben Meloni és Zelenszkij összeölelkeztek a megszégyenített Orbán felvette a napszemüvegét és visszakullogott Budapestre. Senkit nem állt vele szóba, és senkit sem érdekelt mondókája..

[diogenesz2020portugal]

Volodimir Zelenszkij beszédét nem mutatja a közmédia, sőt, a helyszínen sem nyilvános, miről beszél az ukrán elnök. 

Volodimir Zelenszkij beszédét nem mutatja a közmédia, sőt, a helyszínen sem nyilvános, miről beszél az ukrán elnök. 

Volodimir Zelenszkij beszédét nem mutatja a közmédia, sőt, a helyszínen sem nyilvános, miről beszél az ukrán elnök. 

[zeroz2ro]

"A résztvevőket öt különböző szlogennel szembesítették, amiket a nemzeti konzultáció aktuális kérdéseihez találtak ki:

„Nem dönthetnek a fejünk felett!”,

„Ne táncoljunk úgy, ahogy ők fütyülnek!”,

„El a kezekkel Magyarországról!”,

„Büsszel (sic!) visszalökne minket a múltba”, valamint

„Védjük meg Magyarországot!”.

Az első három szlogenhez tartozó kreatívon Alex Soros, Ursula von der Leyen és az ukrán elnök, Volodimir Zelenszkij szerepelt. A negyediken Gyurcsány Ferenc volt látható, míg az utolsó változaton a képet egy tiszta kék ég töltötte be, a horizonton már be-betörő viharfelhőkkel.

A kutatás során ezzel a plakátverzióval kapcsolatban a hatból három fő úgy vélekedett, hogy „a feltartott mutatóujj nagyon jó, a dirigálás megjelenik”, valamint „fontos a gesztikuláció”, és „átjön a lenézés, a felsőbbrendűségi érzés, ami a többi képen nem”. Egyetlen résztvevő azonban (a 20 éves egyetemista) úgy gondolta, hogy

„Sorosról és Zelenszkijről nem összeegyeztethetők ezek a képek”.

A kutatási eredményeket összegző dokumentum erről így fogalmaz: „a karakterek megválasztásával alapvetően nem volt kifogásuk [a megkérdezetteknek], - fenyegetőnek érzik tevékenységüket hazánkra nézve, - egyedül Zelenszkijjel szemben merült fel ilyen tekintetben bizonytalanság”.

Valószínűleg ezért döntöttek úgy vagy a plakátok látványtervét készítő ügynökségnél, vagy a Kabinetirodánál, hogy Zelenszkijt eltávolítják a kreatív végső verziójáról, viszont a kifejező kéztartást átadják egy másik szereplőnek." Egészen zseniális! A plakátterveket egy HAT FŐS fókuszcsoporttal tesztelte, amiért a New Land Media Kft. leakasztott 4 millió 517 ezer forintot a Propagandaminisztériumból. (Zárójeles megjegyzés: behívsz 6 embert az utcáról, eléjük raksz 5 kreatívot és egy kérdőívet majd kapsz érte 4,517 millió forintot). A HAT FŐBŐL az egyik, egy 20 éves egyetemista nem érezte elég fenyegőtenek Zelenszkíjt a mutatóújjal és emiatt lecseréltél Alex Sorosra.