Medvedev is trying his hand at languages
The Russian politician tweeted in English and even in Polish with the aim of spreading the message as far out as possible. “Some fool named Mateusz Morawiecki said that Ukraine has the right to attack Russia and he doesn’t worry regarding a NATO war once morest Russia because the latter would soon lose it,” the tenor said.
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Türkiye approves ratification of Finland’s application to join NATO
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan approved the Turkish Parliament’s decision to ratify Helsinki’s application for Finland’s NATO membership. The corresponding decree of Erdogan was placed in the bulletin Resmi Gazete. REN TV reports.
The Turkish parliament supported the protocol on Helsinki’s entry into the alliance on March 31. 276 deputies of the Turkish Parliament supported the approval of the ratification.
“The ratification of the protocol on Finland’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Brussels on July 5, 2022, was deemed expedient,” the text of the decree reads.
Finland and Sweden applied to join the Alliance in the summer of 2022. Since then, 28 of the 30 member countries of the bloc have ratified the treaties on the admission of the Nordic states. Hungary and Türkiye blocked the process. The latter put forward an extensive list of demands, including the extradition of members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party hiding in Scandinavia and considered terrorists in Turkey. The process dragged on until January. Later, Hungary nevertheless approved Finland’s application to join NATO.
On January 21, the day of the planned visit of the Minister of Defense to Turkey for negotiations on joining NATO, Swedish radical activist lawyer Rasmus Paludan held a rally with the burning of the Koran. The activist promised to burn one holy book a day until Erdogan approves the country’s membership in the alliance. Turkey assessed this step extremely negatively, the process of Sweden’s entry into NATO was suspended and postponed indefinitely. Finland said it was ready to join the alliance separately from Sweden.
In February, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he had a negative attitude towards Sweden’s entry into NATO. Later it was reported that Turkey might “look positively” at Finland’s membership in NATO if Helsinki considers the option of a separate application from Sweden to join the alliance. Finland, in turn, said it was ready to join the alliance separately from Sweden.
On March 21, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Finland might become a full-fledged member of the alliance even before the parliamentary elections in Turkey, that is, before May 14.
On March 30, the Turkish parliament approved a bill to ratify Finland’s accession to NATO.
Rumors have been circulating for months regarding a new major offensive by Russia in the Ukraine war. Numerous experts and members of the Ukrainian government expected attacks once morest large parts of Ukraine, including Kiev and Kharkiv. A high-ranking NATO official has come to a different conclusion.
«This is the Russian spring offensive. That’s exactly what she looks like, that’s all there is to it,” he told the “Bild” newspaper.
Accordingly, Russia seems neither willing nor able to increase the current efforts and manpower in the Ukraine war. The reason for this is the lack of political will to send soldiers to Ukraine on a large scale. Moscow has also recognized the complete inferiority of Russian war material.
As it became known in February, the notorious Wagner private army is running out of ammunition in the battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. In a video, mercenaries accused the Russian military leadership of cutting off deliveries to the front.
In addition, there is a fear of losing more aircraft. «Russia has already lost 130 planes in Ukraine. There would be crews for 1,500 more, but they will not be deployed,” the NATO official continued. He justifies this with the ever-stronger Ukrainian air force, which makes air warfare impossible.
The official also spoke of an extremely high number of Russian soldiers killed. In July 2022, this would have been 173 deaths per day. In February it had already risen to a good 200 deaths and more than 600 injuries per day.
Poland promises to send fighter jets to Ukraine – is the ice finally broken?
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
These warplanes would be the first type of aircraft sent by a NATO country to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Polish President Andrzej Duda’s promise was not exactly what Ukraine would have liked most – it is asking for more advanced F-16 fighter jets from the United States – but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s chief of staff still welcomed it as “great news coming soon”.
However, some uncertainty remains.