Litauens Premierminister Mindaugas Sinkevičius hat am Montag in einem BBC-Newsnight-Interview gesagt, sein Land werde sich im Angriffsfall nicht ergeben. Wörtlich: "Wir werden Widerstand leisten, wir nehmen den Kampf auf." Er bestätigt, dass Litauen bereits Evakuierungspläne für die Zivilbevölkerung ausgearbeitet hat, sogar konkret für ältere Menschen aus den Städten, ohne dass die Straßen verstopfen. Er sagt, die Litauer fühlten sich "ständig bedroht", wegen der wiederholten Drohnen-Luftraumverletzungen. Und er vergleicht die eigene Lage explizit mit Großbritannien: Litauen sei "näher an der Grenze, näher an der Bedrohung" – und fordert die Briten auf, ihr Denken über Verteidigung zu ändern. Dazu, als Hintergrund zu dem Drohnenabschuss von Mitte September, den er anspricht: Litauens Verteidigungsminister Robertas Kaunas hat inzwischen bestätigt, dass die von NATO-Jets abgeschossene Drohne aus Belarus kam und Sprengstoff an Bord hatte. Moskau und Minsk haben sich dazu offiziell nicht geäußert. Moldau: Am wichtigsten, mit Blick auf die Parlamentswahl am 28. September, also in fünf Tagen: Ein verdeckt recherchierender BBC-Reporter hat ein großes, aus Russland finanziertes Desinformationsnetzwerk in Moldau aufgedeckt. Rekrutierte Personen wurden bezahlt, um pro-russische, regierungsfeindliche Inhalte zu produzieren und in sozialen Netzwerken zu verbreiten, ausdrücklich gegen Maia Sandus proeuropäische PAS-Partei gerichtet. Die Rekruten wurden über Telegram koordiniert, nahmen an geheimen Online-Seminaren teil, wurden getestet und als "Operative" eingesetzt. Moldaus Polizeichef Viorel Cernăuțeanu sagt dazu: Während 2024 die Kampagne von Ilan Șor auf Geld setzte, ist es dieses Jahr Desinformation. Die russische Botschaft in London hat jede Beteiligung bestritten und im Gegenzug der EU Einmischung vorgeworfen. Dazu, am 18. September: Moldauische Polizei hat bei einer Razzia im Umfeld des Șor-Netzwerks eine Person festgenommen, Geld, Laptops und Bankunterlagen beschlagnahmt. Die Verdächtigen sollen über Telegram Anweisungen von "Kuratoren aus der Russischen Föderation" bekommen haben, wie sie Desinformationsvideos auf Facebook, TikTok und Telegram verbreiten und kommentieren sollen. Und, etwas älter aber noch im Umlauf: Ein prorussischer Telegram-Kanal namens "Ghenii Karpat" verbreitet die falsche Behauptung, Rumänien würde für 2026 gar keine Projekte in Moldau mehr fördern, mit erfundenen Beispielen wie Schulausstattung und Spielplätzen – wurde auf russischsprachigen Facebook-Gruppen und von Șor-nahen Accounts weiterverbreitet.

Der Kreml 🇷🇺 redet ständig von „Frieden“ und Verhandlungen, lehnt aber gleichzeitig jede Feuerpause und jeden Stopp der Kämpfe kategorisch ab. Das ist keine neue Taktik, sondern ein jahrzehntelanges System: Verträge sind für Ruzzland nur Papier, das so lange gilt, wie es gerade nützt. Seit Putins Machtantritt 1999 hat der ruzzische Staat eine unzählbare Reihe an Abkommen, Sicherheitsgarantien und Nichtangriffspakten gebrochen. Ein Blick in die lange Liste der gebrochenen Zusagen zeigt das Muster: • 1996/1999: Die Friedensabkommen von Chasawjurt und die Verträge mit Tschetschenien, die kurz darauf im brutalen Zweiten Tschetschenienkrieg zerschlagen wurden. • 1994: Das Budapester Memorandum, in dem Ruzzland der Ukraine 🇺🇦 im Gegenzug für die Abgabe der Atomwaffen die Unabhängigkeit und territoriale Unversehrtheit garantierte. • 1997/2003: Der große Freundschaftsvertrag und die Grenzverträge mit der Ukraine, die den Status quo der Grenzen rechtlich zementierten. • 2008: Der Sechs-Punkte-Waffenstillstandsplan nach dem Georgien-Krieg, dessen Truppenabzugsklauseln ignoriert wurden, gefolgt von der Anerkennung der abtrünnigen Regionen. • 2014–2015: Die Minsker Abkommen (Minsk I & II), die als vermeintlicher Fahrplan für den Frieden ausgehandelt, aber von Moskau kontinuierlich unterlaufen und schließlich völlig annulliert wurden. • Rüstungskontrolle: Der einseitige Ausstieg und die systematischen Verletzungen internationaler Verträge wie des INF-Vertrags über Mittelstreckenraketen, des Vertrags über den Offenen Himmel oder des KSE-Vertrags über konventionelle Streitkräfte. Das sind nur einige wenige, besonders drastische Beispiele aus einer langen Historie gebrochener Versprechen. Genau diese Lügen werden von ruzzischen Trollen und Bots auch hier ständig in den Antworten aufgewärmt – mit immer derselben billigen Propaganda von wegen der angeblicher Unterdrückung im Donbass. Ganz ehrlich, man hat inzwischen einfach keine Lust mehr, sich mit solchen Leuten auseinanderzusetzen, weil da absolut keine echten Argumente kommen, die nicht schon längst hundertmal widerlegt sind. Es nervt nur noch gewaltig. Da kommt Null, nada, rein gar nichts Substanzielles – nur erbärmlicher, verlogener Kreml 🇷🇺-Müll von Gestalten, die jede intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung vermissen lassen. Wer heute noch glaubt, man könne mit neuen Vereinbarungen ohne eiserne Absicherung echten Frieden schaffen, blendet die Realität der letzten 25 Jahre völlig aus. #StandWithUkraine #Fakten #StopRussianPropaganda

❗️Russia will not stop its war while peace negotiations are taking place, – Lavrov He also repeated the Kremlin’s usual “root causes”: blamed Ukraine and Europe for the failure of the Minsk agreements, claimed Kyiv had been preparing a military operation to retake the occupied Donbas, defended Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and again raised Moscow’s claims about the rights of Russian speakers and the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

Russia had a chance after 1991 to look forward. Instead it chose imperial maps and millions dead in the mud. It burned 21st-century wealth on a 19th-century map & threw away its 22nd century. The world is laughing at the “great power” drag itself back to the Stone Age.

Horror in broad daylight. Just minutes after a russian strike: people screaming in pain, bodies lying in the streets. This is the reality Ukrainians are living through every day. 📽 Oleksandrivka, Donetsk region. September 23, 2026.

“Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them...” - Czech President Petr Pavel. President Petr Pavel, delivered an absolute masterclass on how to handle the world's biggest bullies. He completely shreds putin’s murderous, unhinged invasion of Ukraine, and then turns right around to put Xi’s feet to the fire for quietly enabling the whole thing while pretending to be neutral. He basically calls out both regimes for holding global security hostage and acting like international law doesn't apply to them. Pavel: “Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them. When rules are cast aside, raw power fills the vacuum. A world dominated by great power competition is a volatile world, less able to address the most pressing challenges of our time. It is a world where a single spark can ignite a fire. Instead, we should insist that with greater power comes greater responsibility. Responsibility in the use of force, responsibility to exercise restraint, but also responsibility to use one's influence to prevent force from becoming necessary in the first place. This applies particularly to permanent members of the UN Security Council. China has the power, influence and responsibility to help prevent conflicts, to escalate tensions and contribute to ending wars. This includes using its influence to help bring Russia's aggression against Ukraine to an end. That aggression was launched and continues to be waged by another permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia, in violation of the UN Charter and fundamental principles of international law. Russia's aggression continues to inflict enormous suffering on the Ukrainian people. Civilians and civilian infrastructure continue to be attacked indiscriminately. And risks are growing day by day. Russia's aggressive posture poses a direct threat to European security as a whole. The immediacy of that threat was starkly illustrated by the recent attempted Russian drone attack on Leipzig Halle Airport in Germany, only 150 kilometers from the borders of Czech Republic.”

"Our lives are more important than energy prices" - Volodymyr Zelensky President of Ukraine 🇺🇦 This Man is Legend🫡❤️

770 million - a tenth of the world’s people - are at “acute risk” from sea level rise, concludes a report by the UN Secretary-General. They include the residents of some of the world’s biggest cities and the entire populations of some island nations. carbonbrief.org/explainer-ho…

In occupied Crimea weather apocalypse: "Blyat, nahuy, why nobody warned us about apocalypse, we are drowning here, ebat'". 😆

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Boris Johnson: This is not the moment to try to put more pressure on Ukraine by depriving them of the ability to strike Russian oil and gas refineries. It is absolutely absurd that we’re having a conversation now. This is a David and Goliath struggle. David’s got a slingshot that is able to take out Russian refineries, Russian assets. Why are we taking David’s slingshot? Why are we asking the Ukrainians to put down their sling? It’s absolutely insane.

India and China are swimming in Ukrainian blood. India and China directly financed approximately 45% of Russian military spending. The value of their Russian crude oil purchases alone during the fourth year of the war amounted to about 45% of Russia's annual military expenditure. China + India → approx. €75 billion in Russian crude oil during the fourth year of the war → roughly $85–87 billion → around 45% of Russia's annual military budget of $190 billion. Fuck India. Fuck China.

Indonesia burned area from January 1 to August 31 reached 3.4 million acres, of which about 1.32 million hectares burned in August alone Indonesia released 19.7 million metric tons of fire emissions, the highest of any country in the world that week and more than a third of the global total iqair.com/newsroom/wildfire-…

Petraeus: Ukraine does not have to march on Moscow. Deny Russia meaningful gains. Cut its logistics. Make Crimea untenable. Hit the military-industrial and energy base. The goal is to show Moscow that time is not on its side. 1/

We survived another terrifying night. Odesa and the Odesa region came under a massive attack — 11 Banderol missiles and 6 aerial bombs. I was worried about my sister because she wasn’t answering, and based on the timing, she should already have been crossing the Romanian-Ukrainian border. My sister made it back home, everything is okay 🫂♥️ But our Ukrainian 💙💛 superpower is getting up after 4 hours of sleep, having some coffee, thanking God for a new day, and carrying on. And I still have dogs to walk )) In the photo is my adorable little “tenant” Nyura, my sister’s dog. Lots of coffee today — basically my main food.

... evacuation from the city of Kramatorsk. Ukrainians are leaving the city, some already have, some are still thinking about it, and others are finding a suitable city according to their finances and capabilities. Winter is approaching, and for us in Ukraine, this is the most difficult period. Staying in such places in the Donetsk region is very dangerous, especially if you have children; an adult is able to adapt somehow to this kind of life, but children should not have to see the worst sides of human life... yet they are seeing it. russians are already causing damage and destroying warehouses with food, medicine, and other supplies, and they have also started targeting internet providers, which I read about this morning. In winter, heat and electricity are very important; we all remember what happened in previous years. You simply cannot prepare for everything that might happen...

The Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist in Kramatorsk. Bombed by russians yesterday.

The Russians are attacking an aid convoy intended to bring food to Oleshky. Over 2,000 people there have been encircled for months and are facing starvation. Russia wants to wipe out an entire city—and Europe is watching.

‼️ZELENSKYY: Ukrainians did not choose this war. We choose not to die, not to lose our country, our families, not to lose our independence, our freedom. “Sometimes it may seem that Ukraine is focused, focused only on war because we speak about weapons, we speak about defense and sanctions against the aggressor. But, but Ukrainians did not choose this war. We choose not to die, not to lose our country, our families, not to lose our independence, our freedom. And we are defending ourselves, and this matters not only for us. I’m sure most of you here are like Ukraine was before this, this war. You are peaceful nations, and you do not think about war every second. But that does not mean you are weak, and those who may wish you harm should not make that mistake” - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during UNGA 2026. Video by Marichka Hlyten (@marichkahlyten )

Russian propagandists kept shouting at Zelensky: “When are you coming to Moscow?” Zelensky: “On a missile.” Well. They did ask.

Kasparov: Europe must stop hesitating and respond to Putin with the same speed and severity with which the Kremlin wages war. The West will not be safe as long as the Russian state exists in its current form. As long as Putin's regime survives, it threatens democracies around the world. The war will not end if Putin gets the Donbas. It will move on to the Baltics, and then to the rest of Europe. Putin needs an attack on NATO not so much for a military victory as to keep breaking Western institutions. He operates like a KGB agent. Europe is beginning to wake up, but far too slowly. At one point, tough diplomacy would have been enough. Later, sanctions could have worked, had they been enforced. Later still, greater but limited military aid to Ukraine. Now none of that is sufficient. Europe must do everything for Ukraine's victory and the collapse of Putin's regime. Fully close Ukraine's skies. Immediately provide all the weapons it needs. No delays. Enforce the sanctions that already exist. Russia evades them on a massive scale, and Europe knows through whom. These schemes must be hit with every available mechanism. Sever diplomatic relations with Russia. Recall ambassadors from Moscow. Expel Russia from international organizations built on democratic principles. Stop treating it as a normal state. Frozen Russian state assets must be confiscated now and transferred to Ukraine's war needs. Source: translated from Tymofiy Mylovanov