Updates from Ukraine
The project "Ukrainian bookshelf" keeps developing. Ukrainian Embassy in Austria gave fiction books in Ukrainian language for children and adults to the city library Wissensturm in Linz. Ukrainian books will soon appear in four more libraries in Vienna. – @UKRinAUT pic.twitter.com/mrMr90dJRo
— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) September 7, 2022
Macron speaks to Zelensky the morning of the invasion. This is the beginning of Zelensky’s transformation from mild-mannered president to war chief. pic.twitter.com/QmShhALAL5
— Eleanor Beardsley (@ElBeardsley) September 7, 2022
Rebuilding Ukraine
Even as Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, Ukrainian allies are grappling with difficult questions about the country’s reconstruction.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 7, 2022
A report to Western donors, seen by The New York Times, urges quick decisions and strict foreign oversight of any aid.https://t.co/rPxlvXE3Yp
Hard choices ahead for Europe, and soon, about how to fund Ukraine's reconstruction and accession…. A report of advice to donors from #GMF ahead of Berlin conference. Exclusivehttps://t.co/S1rRIy4rKd
— Steven Erlanger (@StevenErlanger) September 7, 2022
Government Statements
Putin has just publicly confessed to the crime of aggression against Ukraine: “We did it consciously”. I once again call on all states: back the creation of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine. The crime is in the plain sight. Justice must be served.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) September 7, 2022
Russians have returned the body of a British humanitarian worker Paul Urie whom they captured in April and reported dead due to “illnesses” and “stress” in July. With signs of possible unspeakable torture. Detaining and torturing civilians is barbarism and a heinous war crime 1/2
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) September 7, 2022
I express my deepest condolences to relatives and close ones of Paul Urie. He was a brave man who dedicated himself to saving people. Ukraine will never forget him and his deeds. We will identify perpetrators of this crime and hold them to account. They won’t escape justice 2/2
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) September 7, 2022
Putin says that Russia did not lose anything since its invasion of Ukraine. It seems that 50k Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine are nothing to them. They are just statistics. But when did human lives ever matter to the Kremlin? The true reality of the ‘russkiy mir’.
— Oleg Nikolenko (@OlegNikolenko_) September 7, 2022
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 8 September 2022
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) September 8, 2022
Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t.co/iG2SbXem8X
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/SdWUE7ma8j
Global Support
A chimpanzee who ran away from a Ukrainian zoo was talked into returning after zookeepers offered her a raincoat, a hug and a bike ride. https://t.co/gjYVTWtppg pic.twitter.com/H25ZPOhrUU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 7, 2022
International Opinions
Our Director, Sir Jeremy Fleming, writes in @TheEconomist about the impact cyber has had in Putin's war and how we have been operating to support Ukraine, by addressing dis-information and safeguarding critical cyber infrastructure.
— GCHQ (@GCHQ) September 7, 2022
Read it here ⬇️https://t.co/eNNykKmvgg pic.twitter.com/xyfLPGhMVK
What an opening anecdote in this @maxseddon @polinaivanovva piece about depressed oligarchs: a desperate Fridman offering to pay for reconstruction in Ukraine if the US spared him from sanctions. https://t.co/VJkElzWqjm
— Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) September 7, 2022
Correcting Misinformation
Russian propaganda goes into full swing, threatening Europe with a freezing winter. Putin moves to the next stage of hybrid warfare: disrupting the stability of European households. Don’t be misled, Russia’s cuts of gas supplies have nothing to do with sanctions. It’s pre-planned
— Oleg Nikolenko (@OlegNikolenko_) September 7, 2022
International Governments and Parliaments
The situation in Ukraine requires our full support.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) September 7, 2022
Today the @EU_Commission proposes an additional €5 billion in macro-financial assistance for the country.
This is on top of the €10 billion the EU already provided in financial, humanitarian and military aid. pic.twitter.com/B60lueYl0Q