Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

Maria Zaharova on giving Poles in Ukraine full civil rights with the exception of voting:


"What has happened is something that really rarely happens in history: Zelensky legislates for the special status of foreign nationals - Poland - in Ukraine.

The president of the state asks the national parliament to approve the special rights of citizens of another state, essentially allowing them everything. According to leaks to the media, it is a question of equating the rights of Poles with the rights of Ukrainians, except for the right to vote.

A case of sovereignty, there is no other way to put it.

Not the separatists, but the president of the country himself transfers to the citizens of another country the rights on the territory of his state, without introducing them to the citizenship of Ukraine.

If the Kiev regime is so active in throwing away its independence, its independence, what claims can the Ukrainian administration have against the people of Crimea?

The sovereignty of Ukraine is so unimportant to anyone at Bankova that the main question is not how to keep it, but who to give it to.

There are secondary questions that arise from it - how much, how many times and how deep to carry out integration in a form that is convenient to the West.

Under the guise of preserving its own identity, the Kiev regime has been destroying it, shooting at its own people for eight years, and now it is doing something unprecedented - legalizing the de facto seizure of its country.

THIS IS WHAT THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, ZELENSKY, DOES."
 
Bravo to the gentleman from Croatia:


"🇭🇷 Croatian MEP has publicly proposed the EU to impose sanctions against the US and Saudi Arabia.

“The incredible lie and hypocrisy that sanctions against oil and gas from Russia will help stop the fighting in Ukraine. If we were the ones really fighting for peace, then we should immediately impose sanctions against Saudi Arabia, which has been fomenting war in Yemen for several years. It would also be necessary to impose an embargo on oil and gas from the United States, which took part in more wars than any other European country,” said Mislav Kolakusic"
 
Bravo to the gentleman from Croatia:


"🇭🇷 Croatian MEP has publicly proposed the EU to impose sanctions against the US and Saudi Arabia.

“The incredible lie and hypocrisy that sanctions against oil and gas from Russia will help stop the fighting in Ukraine. If we were the ones really fighting for peace, then we should immediately impose sanctions against Saudi Arabia, which has been fomenting war in Yemen for several years. It would also be necessary to impose an embargo on oil and gas from the United States, which took part in more wars than any other European country,” said Mislav Kolakusic"
I have a triple jabbed "liberal" friend who perfectly summarised to me why Ukraine is wrong whilst Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya etc wasn't wrong.

You see, it is quite simple he said. The West makes the rules and what Russia is doing in Ukraine doesn't serve "us"... this is unlike those other places you mentioned. 😳

He said this with a straight face - I repeat, liberal, "climate and environmental conscious", triple (no doubt soon to be quadrupled) jabbed person.

I nodded my head in agreement as there is no need to engage in certain discussions with people who see things so wildly different - I see it more like trying to coexist as peacefully as possible with such people whilst working to maintain a sense of mutual respect and healthy boundaries. Lol
 
Ukrainians supporting Russian special operation will be punished with confiscation of property.
Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law on the procedure for confiscation of assets from citizens, It will apply to those who support the special operation in Ukraine.

"The law establishes a new type of sanctions in the form of confiscation to the state of assets belonging to a natural or legal person, as well as assets that he can directly or indirectly dispose of," the message of the office of the President of Ukraine.


 
I have a triple jabbed "liberal" friend who perfectly summarised to me why Ukraine is wrong whilst Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya etc wasn't wrong.

You see, it is quite simple he said. The West makes the rules and what Russia is doing in Ukraine doesn't serve "us"... this is unlike those other places you mentioned. 😳

He said this with a straight face - I repeat, liberal, "climate and environmental conscious", triple (no doubt soon to be quadrupled) jabbed person.

I nodded my head in agreement as there is no need to engage in certain discussions with people who see things so wildly different - I see it more like trying to coexist as peacefully as possible with such people whilst working to maintain a sense of mutual respect and healthy boundaries. Lol

Typical Western NPC.
The West acts in our interest and Russia in its own.
The West fighting Russia (read: wanting to seize its resources...) acts in our interest and Russia in its own interest because it dares to defend itself.
Talking to them is pointless.

I hope the translation doesn't destroy the context.
 
The history of Forest Brothers and related organizations in Eastern Europe
Recently I watched the NATO clip, about the Forest Brothers in the Baltics mentioned in this article Sleepwalking into fascism: Why CIA/NATO's foreign policy has been consistent for the past 77 years
Here is the description of the video:
Forest Brothers - Fight for the Baltics 11. jul. 2017
After the Second World War, soldiers from across the Baltics who had fought on both sides of the war disappeared into the forests to wage Europe's bloodiest guerrilla war against the occupying Soviet forces. This short docu drama includes interviews with former partisan fighters and those who supported them and dramatic battle scene recreations and interviews with modern-day Special Forces of Lithuania, the direct descendants of the Forest Brothers.
I looked into the subject a bit more and found a couple of documentaries. I came away with the impression that people may have joined the organization for different reasons, and I also think it is possible that some fought the USSR not because they were ideological National Socialists. Maybe they were nationalists, as could be found in many West European countries and even the US. Some may also have been opposed to totalitarianism, as described by Lobaczewski in Political Ponerology.

The efforts of the West, especially the UK and the US, to support these groups in Eastern Europe in the years after WWII had little to do with a desire for these countries to be free and much more about them to play a useful role in the geopolitical strategy of their sponsors.

The divisions, tension and trauma created by these efforts have helped to shape the development in the post Soviet era with its expansion of the influence of the US/UK/EU/NATO and the politics of rabid anti-Russian sentiments that we encounter today.

There was an article from Estonia published by ERR News that praises one of the soldiers who worked with Waffen-SS and later the British intelligence:
ERR News is the English-language service of Estonian Public Broadcasting, run by a fully independent editorial team.
Published on the anniversary of the beginning of Operation Babarossa. Below is how the article explains why this soldier needs to be remembered, it says at the end it is a plaque put on a private house. Still, I think such an article would be hard to find in Germany or Scandinavia, but that may change, if the soldier below can get an article there are a many others that also fought the Soviet Union on the German side not to mention the German themselves.
A regional war memorial society is set to unveil a memorial plaque to Alfons Rebane, a decorated Estonian army officer who fought in the ranks of both the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS during World War II, on the external wall of a house in the southern Estonian town of Mustla on Friday, as reported by local newspaper Sakala.

Rebane was an instructor in the Estonian Defence League (Kaitseliit) in the late 1930s, in Mustla, and the plaque is to be affixed to the wall of the last of several residences he lived in in that town, according to Jaanika Kressa, from the Estonian Warriors' Sakala Society.

The plaque, carved by local stone carver Kalev Pehme, depicts Rebane in a SS uniform with the Estonian coat of arms on the sleeve.

"From the location on the wall, Rebane will be 'looking' across the road towards the memorial to the fallen of the 1918-1920 War of Independence in Jaani Park, which was first installed with his help, and later reinstalled after the restoration of Estonian independence," Kressa said.

Alfons Rebane held the German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, something bestowed on a total of two non-Germans: in addition to Rebane, Belgian Leon Degrelle was also so decorated.

The son of a railway official born in 1908, this Sunday, 24 June, would have been his 110th birthday; Rebane started his military career in the 1920s and was commissioned as an officer in 1929.

In May 1941, amid Soviet reprisals in Estonia, Rebane went underground to fight against the Soviets in Viru County.

A few months later, after Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, he became a leader of the Forest Brothers at the Kavastu partisan camp.

He later joined the German armed forces and attracted attention as the commander of the 658th Estonian Battalion. During the war, he managed to break out of no less than 13 encirclements, It is reported.

With the ending of World War Two and the Soviet Occupation of Estonia seemingly more permanent, Rebane left Estonia for the UK, and subsequently started work with the UK intelligence services. However his attempts to help the Forest Brothers (Metsavennad) movement, which conducted guerilla operations against occuypying Soviet troops, from that base, were ultimately unsuccessful.

In 1961, Rebane retired from the British intelligence services and moved to Germany, where remained until his death in Augsburg in 1976.

Rebane was buried in Augsburg with full military honours the same year, and 13 years later reinterred in Tallinn's Metsakalmistu (Forest Cemetery).

The Viljandi county governor, Alar Karu, commenting on the potentially controversial move, stated that since the memorial plaque will be attached on the wall of a private building, no permission from the municipality is required.

"Since Rebane is a part of Mustla's history, perpetuating his memory is welcome," he added.
The director of Viljandi Museum, Jaak Pihlak, concurred: "Rebane definitely deserves to be remembered as a soldier," he averred.

Editor: Andrew Whyte

And a video from Russia:
Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) and Baltic "Forest brothers" in WW2. Bandera's (OUN)
In paragraph 6 of the Charter of the International Nuremberg Military Tribunal, the circle of "leaders, organizers, instigators and accomplices who participated in the drawing up and implementation of a common plan or conspiracy aimed at committing any of the above crimes" of the Nazis were designated by the court. In the materials of the International Nuremberg Military Tribunal, the structures of the OUN-UPA appear as one of the many collaborationist forces in occupied Europe that collaborated with the Nazis, in particular with the Abwehr and his chief, Admiral Canaris. It has been documented that the punitive-police armed units of the OUN-UPA were created by the German special services on the Nazi model. More than 16% of the OUN-UPA militants served in the German army, in the Ukrainian and German police and gendarmerie. The Germans handed over to the OUN-UPA 100 thousand rifles and guns, 10 thousand machine guns, 700 mortars, and a lot of ammunition. The former Nazi leaders of the Abwehr Lahusen, Stolze, Lazarek, Paulus testified to this at the trial. So, according to Lazarek: "S. Bandera received 2.5 million marks from the Germans, that is, as much as Melnik receives" (the leaders of the OUN-Bandera and OUN-Melnik - ed.). According to Paulus: “In addition to the Bandera and Melnik groups, the Abwehr point, as well as the Abwehr 202 command, used the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). Priests of the Ukrainian Uniate Church, who took part in the fulfillment of our assignments along with other Ukrainians, were also trained in the training camps of the governor-general."

Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) and Baltic "Forest brothers" in WW2. Bandera's (OUN), p. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmCw...
Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) and Baltic "Forest brothers" in WW2. Bandera's (OUN), p. 2 - Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFAM...
Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) and Baltic "Forest brothers" in WW2. Bandera's (OUN), p. 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYOi...
Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) and Baltic "Forest brothers" in WW2. Bandera's (OUN), p. 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6vVv...
If the video is blocked in your country use VPN for Russia Watch our channel World War 2 and Great Patriotic War in the USSR 1941-1945 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqV2...
The above number of 16 % shows not all participated, but then also not all would have the needed age and physical ability to act as soldiers.
There is documentary:
The Unknown War Baltic Resistance 2016 | Nezināmais karš
Film by Dr.hist. Edvins Snore From the director of the award-winning “The Soviet Story” comes a new documentary THE UNKNOWN WAR: BALTIC RESISTANCE It tells the story of Baltic partisans who fought against the Soviet Occupation, 1945-1956. The film is based on never before published archival documents, eye-witness accounts of partisans and KGB veterans. Experts interviewed in the film include: Dr. John Prados (US National security analyst), Dr. Stephen Dorril (researcher of the British intelligence services), Dr. Mart Laar (historian, author of “War in the Woods”). Title: The Unknown War: Baltic Resistance Type: Historical Documentary Director: Dr.hist. Edvins Snore Date: May 5th, 2016 (premiere) Language: Narrated in English, foreign language speakers subtitled in English Length: 43 minutes
There are two Wikis:
Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies, which has:
The Central and Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies fought on after the official end of the Second World War against the Soviet Union and the communist states formed under Soviet occupation and support.

Prominent movements include:
The activities of some the groups have been controversial as some of them, like the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and groups associated with the "cursed soldiers", were responsible for ethnic cleansing and mass murder.[1][2]
If there after WWII were stay-behind armies in Europe sponsored by the US, then there were also stay-behind programs, ready to influence the populations and influence these populations when needed. The multi-generational programming may explain, why the current propaganda has been successful and why the conflict has enough fuel to last for some time. To counter the effects of the programs, they need to be acknowledged and resisted.
 
Ukrainians supporting Russian special operation will be punished with confiscation of property.
Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law on the procedure for confiscation of assets from citizens, It will apply to those who support the special operation in Ukraine.

"The law establishes a new type of sanctions in the form of confiscation to the state of assets belonging to a natural or legal person, as well as assets that he can directly or indirectly dispose of," the message of the office of the President of Ukraine.
Ukraine is ahead of the curve, as I'm reminded of the advertisement that "You will own nothing, and you will be happy." from the World Economic Forum. The independence people are convinced they are fighting for is surely not all it is cracked up to be, as Covid measures during the last couple of years should have illustrated, see also: WHO Stealth Coup to Dictate Global Health Agenda of Gates, Big Pharma
 
I wonder if these gentry will be "calibrated" there, in Pavlodar, or will they wait until they arrive at the front? There, at the front, the range of counter "honors" can be wider, from "Grads" to "Hurricanes" and "Tornadoes".
A couple of hours ago there was a message about an explosion in Pavlograd. The message was accompanied by a clip in 3 seconds. from which, in general, nothing is clarified. I have looked for other confirmations, but so far there are none. We'll see what they say tomorrow. I will not be surprised that the Polish guests have already been welcomed.

Пару часов назад появилось сообщение о взрыве в Павлограде. Сообщение сопровождалось роликом в 3 сек. из которого в общем ничего не проясняется. Я поискал других подтверждений, но пока их нет. Посмотрим, что скажут завтра. Я не удивлюсь тому, что польских гостей уже поприветствовали.
 
I translated the full speech of Polish President Andrzej Duda in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.


"Volodymyr!
Dear friends!
How can I speak now, when emotion blocks my larynx?

Thank you with all my heart,

Volodymyr!
Thank you on behalf of Rzeszów, on behalf of its residents, thank you on behalf of Podkarpacie, the entire Polish border region with Ukraine, the residents of this region, thank you on behalf of all Poles. Thank you so much for your wonderful words. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Honestly, Ukraine, its fame and glory, and its will,
so happy are we, brother Ukrainians.

Poland is not yet dead,
while we live,
what foreign violence has taken from us,
we will take back with a sword.

Dear Mr. President, Dear Friend, Volodymyr,
Dear Mr. President,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
All Dear Guests,
Dear Ukrainian friends!
Today I am in beautiful, proud Kiev, in the capital of free, independent, democratic Ukraine, which for almost 90 days has put up heroic resistance to barbaric aggression. I was also here on February 23, just hours before the Russian invasion began. I was there to support Ukraine and its people at an extremely difficult time and to assure them that Poland would never leave Ukraine alone.

I was also here just over a month ago with the Presidents of the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, tried friends of your country, to talk about concrete help for you.

But during that visit to Kiev in the first half of April, I was also in Borodzianka and Irpin. I saw with my own eyes the traces of crimes. I saw the enormity of human misery. I saw suffering, I saw pain, I saw destroyed houses. I saw the unimaginable tragedy of your nation. I know what terrible deeds the barbarian invaders committed in Bucza and other places.

They must answer for this before national tribunals! This is a necessary thing if the world is really to be a just world! If the world is truly to be a free world!

But despite the great destruction, despite the terrible crimes, despite the great suffering that the Ukrainian people experience every day, the Russian invaders have not broken you. They did not succeed in doing so. I believe deeply that they will never succeed.

And I want to say it forcefully: the free world today has the face of Ukraine!

As President of the Republic of Poland, I have the honor to speak before you - representatives of the Ukrainian people - in the Ukrainian Parliament, in the place where the heart of free, independent and democratic Ukraine beats. This is a great privilege and honor. I treat this as a great gesture of friendship towards Poland and the Poles, and I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, my friends.

Most Honourable Deputies,
All Distinguished Guests,
but first of all Volodymyr,
Honourable President,
Mr. President!
The moment of history makes Ukraine and Poland have an incredible political opportunity as two closely related nations of the same part of Europe.

Mr. President, Volodymyr!
You said yourself that there are more than 80 million of us together and that we are stronger together. We must not waste this opportunity.

Dear Ukrainian friends!
I would like you to know that your loved ones - wives, parents, children, grandchildren, those millions of people who had to leave Ukraine, including Poland, to escape the tragedy of war - are not refugees in our country today. They are our guests.
I assure you that while you are fighting so bravely to defend the independence of your country, they are safe in their Polish homes. And they will safely be able to return to their homeland after you defeat the Russian occupier. I believe deeply that this is what will happen.

It is a peculiar paradox that such great evil done in Ukraine by the invaders has released such great good on the other side. I believe that this goodness, these friendships established between millions of Poles and Ukrainians, will make us good neighbors forever. This is a great historical opportunity and a great historical breakthrough.

Mr President, Volodymyr!
Mr. President, Mr. Chairman!
Verkhovna Rada!
I stand before the august Supreme Council as the President of Poland to thank you - I emphasise: I stand to thank you. Until now you have been thanking us. You say that Poland has opened its border to 3.5 million Ukrainian refugees and has become home to over 2 million of them. This is true.

You say that Poland has given Ukraine a huge number of tanks, armored personnel carriers, rocket launchers, weapons, ammunition - almost $2 billion worth, that it keeps telling others that Ukraine must have the support of the free world. This is true.

That Poland has been carrying aid and has not been frightened by Russian, Moscow threats. That's also true. You say that Poland opened its border and gave Ukrainians the same rights that Poles have and admitted your children to schools. And that is also tru

However, we are not the heroes. You are the heroes.

I say this with pride, because Poland supported Ukraine, because we believed in you and we still believe in you. Many months before the outbreak of war, I was convinced that Ukraine would offer effective resistance to Russia; that it would be like the hero in the poem by the great Ivan Franko, like "the spirit of szczo tiło rwe do bojju, rwe za postup, szczastiaj woliu".

Thank you today for defending Europe from the onslaught of barbarism and new Russian imperialism; for showing tyrants their place; for proving that the spirit of a free people is stronger! Thank you for this from the bottom of my heart. You have shown, Ukraine, that you are - as your anthem says - of Cossack stock. You are great!

I turn to your soldiers - to the Ukrainian soldiers who are fighting in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, the Territorial Defense units, to the heroic defenders of Mariupol, including those who are now in Russian captivity, and to those who are putting up fierce resistance to the invaders all along the front line.

You are the heroes of Ukraine. But you are also heroes of Poland, of Europe and of the entire world.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Accept our great respect. Great! From the bottom of my heart, on behalf of the Polish nation, I thank you for your resistance, for your sacrifice, for your courage, for your love of freedom and your homeland. It will be the source of your victory. We believe in it deeply.

Ladies and Gentlemen!
Our enemies have repeatedly tried to divide us and turn us against each other. Today they are also trying to do the same, by scaring Poles with Ukrainians and Ukrainians with Poles. They use painful topics from our mutual past, from our history. But they will not succeed! We know these methods too well. We know that tensions in Polish-Ukrainian relations serve only foreign interests. And they harm us, Poles and Ukrainians!

Our two nations have a long history. A wonderful history, but at many points also a very difficult one.

We made many mistakes, for which we paid a high price.

Pope John Paul II, the great advocate of peace and Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation, spoke of this in Ukraine, in Lvov. Let me recall his memorable words:
"May, thanks to the purification of historical memory, all be ready to place higher what unites than what divides, so that together they may build a future based on mutual respect, on fraternal communion, fraternal cooperation and authentic solidarity." So said John Paul II in Lviv.

Today, more than ever, we realize this message together. And we must continue to carry it out on the basis of truth and mutual respect. During my last visit to the Vatican, not so long ago, I laid two wreaths on the tomb of St. John Paul II: one white-red and one blue-yellow. And I prayed together with my wife, with our colleagues, with the Poles who happened to be in St. Peter's Basilica, but also with the Ukrainians present there, for a free, independent, sovereign Ukraine, which will live in friendship with a free, sovereign and independent Poland, for happiness and mutual cooperation between our countries and nations, for all of us, for your families; for peace and friendship, for a safe future.

Dear friends!
It is for a safe future that the Ukrainian people have been heroically fighting against the Russian invaders for three months now. Many countries, many experts, the world media predicted that this would be Russia's quick and victorious war, that Kiev would fall in three days. But they could not have been more wrong. It did not fall in three, nor in 33, nor in 53, nor in 83 days! And it will not fall! It will not fall! I have no doubt about that!

And when almost everyone, convinced that Kiev was going to fall, evacuated their embassies, the Polish Ambassador Bartosz Cichocki stayed in Kiev. He was here with you during the bombing and during the attack on Kiev, and he is here with me. Thank you, Mr. Ambassador, for representing the Republic of Poland with dignity where it is most needed. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Ladies and Gentlemen!
The victorious battle for Kyiv, the victorious battle for Kharkiv, the heroic defence of Mariupol are now forever written in the pages of history. Nobody can erase this. Ukraine has shown the whole world that it is able to stand up to imperial Russia. Nobody believed in it, but it happened and is happening! Russia has not fully realized any of its strategic goals. It has suffered huge losses and is suffering them all the time. This is a great success of the Ukrainian state, this is a great success of the Ukrainian armed forces, this is a great success of the Ukrainian authorities - this is your great success, of the whole nation!

The Western world has united around Ukraine. Much credit for this goes to the United States and the leadership from President Joe Biden. In a situation of real danger, it is confirmed that strong American leadership is still needed by the world. Kiev is a place from which it is clear that we need more America in Europe - both militarily and economically.

Unfortunately, there have also been and are also recent disturbing voices in Europe for Ukraine to give in to Putin's demands. I want to make it clear: only Ukraine has the right to decide its future.

Only Ukraine has the right to decide for itself!

The world, the international community should demand Russia to stop its aggression, to withdraw completely from the territory of Ukraine, to stop violating international law. There is no question of any negotiating and deciding over the head of Ukraine! Nothing about you without you! Absolutely! This is an iron rule! It must be obeyed!

Today, it is not you, it is the Western world that is taking a test of credibility, of whether its values really mean anything. If Ukraine, even an inch of its territory and a piece of sovereignty is sacrificed for the sake of peace, economic interests or political ambitions, it will be a huge blow not only to the Ukrainian nation but to the entire Western community. I have no doubt about this!

It is time and your future that will show whether the foundations of the Western world, values such as democracy, human rights, and solidarity, only sound beautiful but, when confronted with brutal reality, mean nothing, or whether they really mean something. We must not allow them to become empty words. We must not allow that to happen. This is the great responsibility of the West towards Ukraine. It is a great responsibility of the international community towards your people and your country. I have no doubts about this.

After Bucza, Borodzianka, after Mariupol there can be no return to business as usual with Russia, Dear Presidents and Gentlemen, Dear Prime Ministers, Dear Members of Parliaments around the world!

There can be no return to business as usual! The honest world cannot do so by passing over crime, over aggression, over violation of basic principles.

Ladies and Gentlemen!

As Poland, we have long warned Europe against the imperial aspirations of Russia and Putin. We have been warning Europe for a long time against the imperial aspirations of Russia and Putin. Against dependence on Russian energy sources. We said that this is in fact a weapon that can be used against Europe, against nations. We said... Unfortunately, we were not listened to. Our warnings were downplayed. We were accused of Russophobia.

Today, the world quietly admits that we were right, but - believe me - this is an extremely bitter satisfaction.
The late President Lech Kaczyński spoke about the threat from Russia many times. My professor, my teacher, my president and a great friend of Ukraine. I saw from close up how he fought for Ukraine and Georgia to be admitted to the North Atlantic Alliance.

It is now 14 years since the Bucharest summit, where those historic decisions could have been made, giving Ukraine a blueprint for NATO membership. If President Lech Kaczynski had been listened to then, the aggression of 2014 probably would not have happened, there would not be the current war, there would not have been the massive destruction and human suffering. History would have turned out differently.

This should be a great remorse for some European leaders. That is why it is so important today not to repeat the same fatal mistakes that have led to so many misfortunes. We must never allow this to happen.

Ladies and Gentlemen!
Dear Friends!
Poland supports Ukraine and will continue to do so. I personally will not rest until Ukraine becomes a member of the European Union in the full sense of the word. It is my great desire and dream - both as the President of the Republic of Poland and simply as a man - that we can build a common future together. After all, it is very important not only for us, but above all for the next generations, for our children, for our grandchildren - what our part of Europe will be like in the future, how people will be able to live here. I believe that as free, happy, self-governing people, those who build the future, develop, can realize their ambitions. I believe in it deeply.

Let me remind you that Poland was the first country to recognise Ukraine's independence, in 1991. In 1992, our first presidents of the then fully independent countries signed the Treaty on Good Cooperation and Mutual Neighbourhood. But today I think it is safe to say that the historical moment is shaping our relations anew. These are the facts that I have been talking about and that I don't think anyone can deny.

Today the time has come, in my deep conviction, for a new Polish-Ukrainian treaty on good neighbourhood, for a treaty that will take into account all that we have built together in our relations, if only in recent months.

The current war has also shown how inadequate the network of road, rail, and infrastructure links connecting our countries is. It is time to make up for this backwardness. The Polish-Ukrainian border should unite, not divide. This should be our great goal at this time. Let one of the lasting signs of our relations be a fast railroad that will connect Kiev with Warsaw. We will build it together. I believe that we will be able to do it already in the coming years.

As I assured you a moment ago, we, as Poland, will actively support Ukraine on its way to membership of the European Union, now as a candidate. With all our might, Mr President! But also to EU membership, as I said, in the full sense of the word. Because the place of a free and democratic Ukraine is in a united Europe. I know it well, but most of all you know it well. And I deeply believe that this will be the decision of your society, the Ukrainian people, in the future. That this is the decision the Ukrainian people will make. That this is what they will say when the time comes.

I believe that together we will try to bring that time as close as possible. Personally, I am also very keen for Ukraine to join the Tri-Mora Initiative, which brings together the countries of our region, members of the European Union. This initiative will certainly be much stronger with Ukraine.

We want to support our energy independence, and also to take an active part in rebuilding your homeland from war damage.

Special funds are needed, funds for reconstruction. I will talk about this already in the coming days with world leaders at the Davos summit.

But let us remember that Ukraine must be rebuilt first of all at the expense of the aggressor - such are the requirements of historical justice.

At the expense of the Russian Federation, which attacked Ukraine, and which is now demolishing Ukrainian houses, destroying Ukrainian industry, taking away Ukrainian crops and killing Ukrainian people. It should be rebuilt primarily from war reparations. The Russian currency reserves frozen today in Western banks should be used for this purpose first, and they are huge. Enormous!

It was Russia that ruined Ukraine and it is Russia that must pay for it. I have no doubt about that. And I believe no honest person in the world has any doubts about it either. It is clear who is the aggressor and who has been attacked and whose land is being destroyed.

Dear Friends!
During our talks with Volodymyr, with your President, we often mentioned the Polish-Ukrainian EURO 2012. Someone will laugh, or perhaps be outraged that I am talking about this today, here in the Verkhovna Rada. But recall those joyful days. Remember that great action, those huge investments that we made back then. The joy that was poured into our societies that we succeeded. And that together we completed a great project.

I firmly believe, Dear Friends, that there will be many more such projects ahead of us, that we will carry out great European and world projects together, including sports, but also others.

Ukraine will win the war, overcome difficulties and will be rebuilt even more beautifully than it was before the Russian aggression. I am sure of it.

Long live free, sovereign, independent Ukraine!
Long live Poland!"


A cloyingly glowing steak of nonsense.(Ckliwo łechtliwy stek bzdur.)

And this passage tells me that defacto we are already a party to the war. For now, our rulers still have their positions to lose. But when they get assurances from the principals that they don't have to worry about anything then they will declare war on Russia:

Mr. President, Volodymyr!
You said yourself that there are more than 80 million of us together and that we are stronger together. We must not waste this opportunity.
 
Mr. President, Volodymyr!
You said yourself that there are more than 80 million of us together and that we are stronger together. We must not waste this opportunity.
It is either a big reality TV show put up or a big way to cover-up the US monkey business in Ukraine or both. I do not think the Polish president is that demented to restart a war with Russia and drag the entire Europe over the clif.
 
After the fall of Popasnaya as predicted, the cauldron is closing on Severodonetzk. Main road are under direct fire from the allied force artilleries.

Military Situation In Eastern Ukraine, Popasnaya Area On May 23, 2022 (Map Update)

To the north of Popasnaya, a big push to take Liman is under way.


RUSSIAN FORCES STORM LIMAN IN DONETSK PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC (VIDEOS)​

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Russian Forces Storm Liman In Donetsk People's Republic (Videos)
Satellite imagery shows fierce battles for Liman.
On May 23, Russian-led forces launched an assault on the town of Liman in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The Russian Army broke through a heavily fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and entered the town from the north-eastern direction from the stronghold in the settlement of Stavki.
The assault began at night when Russian MLRS massively shelled the AFU positions on the outskirts. The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that last night, an ammunition depot in the Liman area of the Luhansk People’s Republic was destroyed.

Later in the morning, armored vehicles went on the offensive, infantry broke into the trenches of the AFU, seizing their military positions. Ukrainian troops were forced to retreat to the city.
As a result of the street fighting, the AFU units leaved the northern and western parts of the town and crossed the railways located on the western outskirts.

Most of the streets are currently under the LPR control. According to Ukrainian sources, the control of the Russian military on Podstepnaya, Kazatskaya and Yubileynaya streets was confirmed by the midday. The advance of Russian-led forces continued. Checkpoints have already been established in the northern district of the city, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are checking documents of the local residents.
Judging by the footage from the town, the AFU artillery is massively shelling on the advancing troops of the enemy and cover the Ukrainian withdrawal. As a result, the civilian infrastructure is heavily damaged. According to some reports from the field, the notorious US-made M777 howitzers are also deployed with the AFU units in the area.

The city was called Krasny Liman (Red Liman) until 2014. Then, amid the ongoing decommunization in Ukraine, it was renamed to Liman. As soon as the DPR takes full control over the town, the name will be changed back, according to the decree of the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic.


BATTLE FOR LIMAN AND LIBERATION OF SVETLODARSK. SITUATION IN MORNING OF MAY 24 (VIDEO, PHOTOS)​

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Battle For Liman And Liberation Of Svetlodarsk. Situation In Morning Of May 24 (Video, Photos)
Russian flag over Svetlodarsk
The situation around the town of Liman is developing. On May 23, the Russian Army broke through a heavily fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and entered the town from the northern direction from the stronghold in the settlement of Stavki. Under the Russian pressure, AFU units leaved the northern and western parts of the town and crossed the railways located on the western outskirts.
In the morning of May 24, Russian forces continued the advance to capture the city. Russian artillery hit positions of AFU units in the eastern and southern parts of the city. At the same time, street fighting reportedly continued in the urban areas in the center of Liman and its north. Some DPR and LPR sources initially claimed that the town came under a full control of Russian troops. Nonetheless, these reports appeared to be premature despite the bad situation for Kyiv’s forces.



Pro-Russian sources reported that a large number of Kyiv’s troops surrendered to Russian forces. Some sources claimed that up to 500 pro-Kyiv fighters surrendered there. This number remains unconfirmed. However, at least several dozens of Kyiv’s troops were likely captured.
The fall of Liman will mark an important breakthrough in positional clashes in the Izum countryside and predetermine the fate of Svyatogorsk. Thus, Russian forces will be able to shorten the frontline on this particular area and even further expand their foothold around Slovyansk and Kramatorsk.
Photos from the ground show significant losses of Kyiv’s forces in military equipment in recent clashes in the Izum sector:
Battle For Liman And Liberation Of Svetlodarsk. Situation In Morning Of May 24 (Video, Photos)
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It is likely that after the full liberation of Liman, Kyiv’s units will try to retreat towards Slovyansk and use this city as their main strong point in the area.
At the same time, Kyiv’s forces continue attempts to defend their positions in the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk agglomeration despite the collapse of their defense north and south of it, which created a threat of the encirclement of the grouping of Kyiv’s forces there.
In the morning of May 24, Russian-led forces established a full control over the town of Svetlodarsk, which is located northeast of Gorlovka. This town, as well as earlier liberated Popasnaya, was heavily fortified points of Kyiv’s forces.
 
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