This week could be pivotal for diplomacy. It is clear that Russia does not want peace, and therefore we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible. My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council on Defence ↓

As leaders once understood, and was explained clearly by Harry Truman, you fight small wars to avoid fighting big ones. If you think supporting Ukraine winning is expensive, it’s nothing compared to the cost of Ukraine losing.

On Dec 1, 1991, people in every Ukrainian region overwhelmingly voted to live in a free and independent Ukraine. 84% turnout, 92% voted “Yes.”

Historian Antony Beevor: "For Russians, conspicuous cruelty is a necessary weapon of war." The atrocities in Ukraine aren't aberrations — they're rooted in centuries of uniquely brutal warfare. And the West failed to see it coming — The Telegraph. 1/

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We made our war very comfortable for the world. We considered everyone’s interests. We acted carefully and reasonably. Africa has nothing to eat, and African children supposedly need stolen Ukrainian grain from the occupied territories? Sure — go ahead, take it, enjoy! It

Always stuns me this needs to be repeated- but it does over and over

After 11 months, Russian soldiers blindfolded Mykola, loaded him onto buses and a plane, then fed him powdered potatoes at a camp to “fatten” prisoners for exchange. He appeared in a POW swap and finally called Iryna with shaking hands. 7X

Canada is home to the second-largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world. Alongside our #NATO allies, we keep standing up for Ukraine’s freedom, sovereignty, and security.

Bart De Wever’s trips to Russia are now paying off for the Kremlin: He protects its interests and blocks billions in aid for Ukraine. 🧵1/23

Now that Putin has predictably rejected Trump’s peace plan isn’t it time to impose those oil sanctions we have all been waiting for?

Rachel Maddow: “Russia is a podunk country. The idea that we work for him is so humiliating and is such an abject failure on the part of Trump in terms of his weakness. I don’t know what Putin has on him, but he works for Putin and it’s an embarrassment to this country”

Belgium’s refusal to seize frozen Russian assets explained.

BREAKING: The US lobbied several countries in the European Union in an effort to block EU plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a massive loan to Ukraine, according to European diplomats familiar with the matter. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

31 years ago on this day, the Budapest memorandum was signed. A piece of paper that has become synonymous with a failed security arrangement. Having had such a bitter experience in the past, Ukraine does not trust empty pledges anymore—we trust the strength of our army and

In short, by carelessly designating Europe as an adversary, at least ideologically, distancing itself from its commitment to NATO (understatement) and seeking reconciliation with Moscow, this US Security Strategy could almost have been dictated by the Kremlin... Wake up, Europe!

Can't think of another example of a global power so demonstratively burning its assets and destroying its influence, in a single document

Today, on International Volunteers Day, we extend our deepest gratitude to the incredible volunteers of the Ukrainian Canadian community.

#OTD in 1994, under the Budapest memorandum, Ukraine agreed to give up a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons in return for security assurances, primarily from Russia and the United States. For the war to end, it's enough for the signatories to honour them.

French intellectual and activist Bernard-Henri Lévi: "Of course we’re not ready. And thank God we have the Ukrainians. Thank God that in Europe there is an army that knows how to fight. Thank God there is an army in Europe capable of holding the line. We always talk about the