🗞️🇫🇮“Our economy is in a very bad situation at this moment. It’s because of the threat from Russia. The atmosphere in Finland is very difficult,” Orpo said.” - FT

👍Ukranisation of Finland is complete (including the begging part)

🗞️🇩🇪“The last vehicle will roll off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, marking the first time in the automaker’s 88-year history that it has closed a plant in its home country.” - NYT

👍Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

🗞️🇪🇺“Less than 24 hours before EU leaders descend on Brussels for vital talks on financing Ukraine’s war effort, Belgium believes negotiations are going in reverse.” - Politico

🗞️🇪🇺🇷🇺“Russia has promised “the harshest” response if its sovereign assets are used to fund Ukraine, in a threat that has alarmed countries including Belgium, Italy and Austria.” - FT

🗞️🇪🇺“Article 123 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union forbids the ECB from printing money explicitly to finance government spending, which is what an EU loan to Ukraine would represent.” - Politico

🗞️🇺🇦“Davyd Arakhamia, leader of the Servant of the People party, the ruling parliamentary faction, says there is zero possibility of a "good peace deal" with Russia; the choice is between a very bad deal or no deal at all.” - Ukrainska Pravda

🗞️🇪🇺“The agreement to borrow against EU taxpayer funds rather than Russia’s cash is a political blow to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.” - FT

🤡So after many months of endless announcements and theatrical deliberations, the grand outcome was not confiscating frozen Russian assets, but reaching for EU taxpayers wallets instead. Full clown show.

🗞️🇪🇺“Not using Russian assets, EU officials have said, will be significantly more expensive, potentially costing billions extra for taxpayers because of interest payments on the capital raised.” - WSJ

🗞️🇷🇺🇺🇸“The US has removed several firms from its sanctions lists that had previously supplied sanctioned equipment to Russia, including for the military-industrial complex.” - RBC Ukraine

🗞️🇪🇺“EU taxpayers will have to pay €3 billion per year in borrowing costs as part of a plan to raise common debt to finance Ukraine’s defense against Russia, according to senior European Commission officials.” - Politico

🇨🇳🇷🇺“The jump saw Russia overtake Australia to become China’s biggest supplier after Qatar.” - Bloomberg

👀The original version had a little more soul.

🗞️🇺🇦“Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the city of Siversk in Donetsk Oblast, where Russian forces hold a significant advantage in manpower and equipment and continue their offensive.” - Ukrainska Pravda

🗞️🇺🇦🇪🇺“Due to the reduction in U.S. financial support, Ukraine’s budgetary shortfall over the next two years will be closer to $160 billion. Simply put, Ukraine will need much more from Europe—and that’s going to be increasingly difficult for the bloc to come up with.” - Politico

👍The logic is simple: each additional bombardment further solidifies the peace plan.

😡I am sick and tired of searching YouTube and being flooded with low effort AI videos. Finding solid information gets harder every day. The platform is polluted with junk, and i cannot imagine how people still watch with ads on or even pay for Premium. An absolute joke.

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