Ukraine is not an abstraction to be traded away but a real country. So are the other countries from the Baltic to the Black Sea. 140 million Europeans.

Part of the speech by Martin Kimani, Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the UN, New York, which has been described as one of the best delivered at the forum in recent times. Martin Kimani

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"Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine has exposed the true nature of the Putin regime as it aims to conquer and subjugate a peaceful neighbor and violently revise the international order. The world we lived in a week ago no longer exists." Dr Alina Polyakova cepa.org/confronting-th…

One reason we're paying $4 a gallon for gas is that a Saudi prince is angry that we criticized him for for murdering a Washington Post journalist. If the alternative to relying on a Russian tyrant's oil is a Saudi tyrant's oil, maybe we should be less reliant on oil?

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Amid all the hustle and bustle, it's hard to keep track of what actually happened yesterday in Brussels. Here are some takeaways from the diplomatic showdown (NATO, G7, EUCO) including President Donald J. Trump attendance & Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський speeches. A 🧵 /1

The #UNGA will vote on a new resolution on #Russia's war on #Ukraine this week. What can past UNGA votes tell us about global views of the war? New from me and my Crisis Group team-mates Raquel Alberto and Tess Gibson World Politics Review. worldpoliticsreview.com/un-ukraine-res…

In today’s column, the Crisis Group’s UN team breaks down what they’ve learned from parsing and mapping UN voting data on resolutions about the war in Ukraine. worldpoliticsreview.com/un-ukraine-res…

EU condemns Russia’s announced intention to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus. Part of Russia's continued reckless, irresponsible nuclear rhetoric, this escalates a tense situation in view of Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. Statement➡️eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un…

By organizing today’s UNSC debate Russia is trying to portray itself as a defender of the UN Charter & multilateralism. Nothing can be further from the truth. We all know that while Russia is destroying, we are building. While they violate, we protect. ⏩eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un…

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