Український дух/Ukrainian spirit

Today's article focuses on the political component of the Kremlin's support abroad. Political circles that directly or indirectly support the Kremlin on the official level can be grouped geographically as follows:        -  China (Special Representative Li Hui [1])      -  Some African countries led by South African President Ramaphosa [2]      -  European countries/leaders: Hungary (Prime Minister Orbán [3]) and the Vatican (Pope Francis [4 - 6])      -  Some Latin American countries led by Brazilian President Lula [7]. They promote the following messages for global community:      a) the Ukrainian offensive operation failed, it is impossible to defeat the russian federation      b) Ukraine must sacrifice its territory and citizens for the sake of "peace"      c) Western countries and Ukrainians do not seek peace in contras...

  Dagens Ryssland rättfärdigar sin imperialism och invasion av Ukraina med att de kämpar mot nazismen och skyddar den rysktalande befolkningen. Vi har vittnat liknande retorik och handlingar under 1900-talets historia som i en nygammal form återuppstod år 2014 och nådde kulmen år 2022. Tredje Riket ledd av Hitler annekterar Sudetenlandet 1938 i Tjeckoslovakien. År 2014 annektererar Ryssland  Krym halvön i Ukraina. Världen ser på och hoppas att diktatorn har nöjt sig och kommer att lugna ner sig. Sudetenlandet likaså Krym offras av världssamfundet utan några större sanktioner och är ett exempel på hur misslyckad eftergiftspolitiken är i verkligheten. Hitler genomför anschluss av Österrike år 1938. Ryssland går in i Donbass regionen år 2014 och utropar separatistiska "folkrepubliker" Donetsk och Luhansk. Diktatorerna har fått smak för erövring och de vill ha mer, mycket mer. Tredje Riket anfaller Polen år 1939, helt oprovocerat med en påhittad historia om pågående folkmord av t...

  Since the start of the full-scale war of Russia in Ukraine, we have witnessed numerous events and activities in support of Ukraine. Many voices world over have been heard on the topic of the war in Ukraine. There have been created NGO’s in support of Ukraine, panel discussions have taken place, articles and books have been released. We are grateful to individuals and organizations who sincerely support Ukrainians and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in their fight for freedom.   What brought our attention since the war started is that Russians are often invited to take part in the events, activities, and panel discussions on the war in Ukraine as equal voices to Ukrainians. Russians not only use the war in Ukraine to bring attention to themselves – they also capitalize the tragedy of Ukrainians. We have seen Russians publishing books and taking part in events, creating own job opportunities on integrating Ukrainian refugees in Europe, speaking during events on behalf of Ukrainian...

  On the morning of the 6th of June, the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant across the Dnipro River has been destroyed by fascist russian forces. This horrific crime constitutes one of the largest man-made disasters in the 21st century.   What are the consequences? Hundred of thousands of people will be affected in the flooded areas requiring evacuation. Many settlements in Southern Ukraine will experience a shortage of water supply. In addition, the situation with cooling Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant can reach emergency as the cooling systems use water from the Kakhovka reservoir.   One thing to remember about russia is its disregard for human life. It does not matter if it is people in Ukraine or even its own population. This today’s non-human act from russian fascists shows that they turned to the scorched earth tactic completely. Every day presence of occupiers in Ukraine increases the danger of ecological disaster for the whole of Europe.   There...

  Worrisome information is coming from the reconnaissance units in the occupied Crimea in Ukraine. As reported by Ukrinform the russian military is preparing a provocation at the chemical plant the Crimean Titan in Armyansk with the aim to blame Ukraine. Crimea Titan is the largest manufacturer of titanium dioxide pigment in Eastern Europe. High concentration of titanium dioxide poses a mortal danger to the population in the affected areas. This information proves yet another time that every day of the presence of the occupiers in Ukraine increases the chance of nuclear or chemical tragedy. Only unconditional Ukrainian victory can guarantee the safety of Europe and should be supported till the time when the last russian occupier leaves its territory.

    Russian insidious invasion of Ukraine brought a lot of grief and destruction to the Ukrainian people. In the long list of crimes committed by the rashist military: torture, rape, murder of women, children and men, deliberate destruction of peaceful cities, there is the forced deportation of the civilian population of Ukraine to russia. According to the reports, approximately 2 million Ukrainians were deported . The most horrible thing is that the future of our nation, Ukrainian children and youth , are kidnapped and taken by the rashists to the remote parts of russia . The russians do not ask children and young people for permission to move to russia, and therefore, we consider it precisely as abduction. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have already been taken to russia. In order to keep them on their territory, the occupiers developed a simplified and accelerated adoption procedure which would allow children to be placed in russian families where their Ukrainian i...

  According to Ukrainian military intelligence as well as mass media the deceitful kremlin, through its proxies in the DPR, plans to organize a “ show trial ” of prisoners of war from the Azov regiment in violation of the agreements and Geneva Convention by the end of summer . We want to remind that the defenders of Mariupol reluctantly laid down their arms under the guarantees from the International Committee of  Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nation (UN) in the middle of May after almost three months of defending the city. International organizations have guaranteed that Ukrainian defenders will be held captive in accordance with international norms. In reality, russians are planning to hold a “show trial” against the warriors of Azovstal in the temporarily occupied Mariupol, this time violating agreements not only with Ukraine, but with international organizations. To hold a show trial, iron cages are being installed on the premises of the surviving philharmonic hall, in w...

  Stand with Ukraine Gothenburg supports the initiatives of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian nationals. Proposal to ban Schengen visas for Russian nationals is now submitted to the European Union for discussion. We call on all the EU states to take a decision on visa ban for citizens of Russia. Russians traveling to the EU states is related with the security risk for all the Schengen member states. How can we guarantee that a Russian citizen who received a tourist visa is coming as a tourist and not as a spy? Many of us remember the Scripal case, when two Russian intelligence agents entered UK on tourist visas to poison Skripal with military-grade nerve agent. The Kremlin claimed that these two men were tourists. Russian GRU spy Sergey Cherkasov has tried to infiltrate International Criminal Court (ICC), under fake identity and applying for internship at the ICC in the Hague. The threat posed by this intelligence officer was de...