Intermarium

21/07/2022

Latvian President Egils Levits supported the initiative to revoke citizenship for supporting the aggression of the Russian Federation

The law primarily concerns Russians living in Latvia.
"It is very difficult to reconcile people who believe that the entire nation of Ukrainians should not exist with our democracy. If such views are expressed in words or actions, of course, democracy must defend itself. And, in my opinion, this is the position of all democratic countries," he said.

On April 21, the Latvian Seimas supported the amendments to the citizenship law proposed by the Ministry of Justice, which provide a legal basis for depriving persons who support war crimes of Latvian citizenship. In particular, for financial, material, propaganda, technological, or other support to countries or persons who have committed acts (including genocide, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes) that undermine or threaten democracy, territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of states or their constitutional system.

17/07/2022

🇱🇹🤝World Lithuanian Unity Day

Lithuanians living abroad are united every year on July 17th, celebrating World Lithuanian Unity Day. This date was selected because of this date the legendary pilots S. Darius and S. Girėnas perished after crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1933. This dramatic occasion strengthened the ties between Lithuanian expats and Lithuanians back home.
Lithuanians living abroad are united every year on July 17th, celebrating World Lithuanian Unity Day. This date was selected because of this date the legendary pilots S. Darius and S. Girėnas have perished after crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1933. This dramatic occasion strengthened the ties between Lithuanian expats and Lithuanians back home.

This day aims to connect Lithuanians scattered across the world, to provide opportunities for the Lithuanian diaspora to get more involved in life in Lithuania, to share their experiences and to feel needed back home.

We congratulate Lithuanians on the holiday and thank them for spreading the feeling of unity among their friends.

12/07/2022

🇵🇱🇺🇦The President registered Bill #7550 on legal and social guarantees for Polish citizens residing in Ukraine

The draft law provides for:
- the right to employment and entrepreneurial activity, tax accounting, social protection, medical care at the same level as citizens of Ukraine
- obtaining an education under the same rules as citizens of Ukraine, including scholarships
In addition, Polish medicals will be able to work on the territory of Ukraine for 18 months without additional permits.

11/07/2022

Latvia to reinstate compulsory military service amid Russia’s war on Ukraine

15 years after abolishing the measure, Riga plans to make all men aged 18-27 complete 11 months of training.

Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said: "The current military system in Latvia has reached its limits. At the same time, we have no reason to believe that Russia will change its behavior"

The Baltic country currently has only 7500 active soldiers and national guardsmen, supported by 1500 NATO troops.

10/07/2022

During the war, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine establishes cooperation with colleagues from the Intermarium countries

On July 7-8, delegations of fire and rescue services from Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania arrived in Ukraine.
During the visit, the Memorandum on mutual understanding and joint actions on the protection of the population and territories in the conditions of external armed aggression was signed.

The guests also visited Irpіn and Gostomel, where they have seen the consequences of Russian atrocities.

27/06/2022

Highlights of the June, 26
Missile strikes, G7 meeting, Belarusian direction and new Russian crimes

🔥Russian Forces launched a missile strike on Kyiv. In the high-rise building hit by a Russian missile, three floors were partially destroyed. At least one person was killed and five others were injured in this attack, including a seven-year-old girl. 25 civilians were evacuated from this residential building after the attack.
Russian Forces shelled not only the residential buildings but also a kindergarten in Kyiv.

🔥Also, Russian Forces fired missiles at Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and Chernihiv regions during the day.
🔻There were at least two explosions in Cherkasy. One person was killed and five others were injured in the attack. Infrastructure objects were damaged.

🔻Russian Forces targeted the Zelenodolsk community in the Dnipropetrovsk region with Grad multiple rocket launchers and artillery. As a result of the attack, residential high-rise buildings and a post office were damaged. At least two people were injured.

🔻Russian Forces have again fired missiles at Desna in the Chernihiv region. The strikes were carried out from the territory of Belarus using Х-22 rockets.

🔻Russian aviation launched a missile strike in the Odesa region.
"As a result of hitting a residential area of the village, several residential buildings and outbuildings were destroyed and caught fire in an estimated area of 500 square meters", the SES reported.
According to preliminary information, six people were injured, including one child.

⚔️Russian Forces continue to concentrate their resources on capturing the city of Lysychansk. Now the main goal of the Russian occupiers is to destroy and capture Lysychansk.

🌐As a result of G7 meeting, US President Joe Biden has announced that the G7 plans to ban imports of Russian gold, which brings Russia tens of billions of dollars.

🇧🇾🤝🇷🇺Russian Forces plan to increase the number of operational and tactical aircraft in Belarus.
This was reported by the Central Intelligence Agency of Ukraine.
Officially - to conduct a joint airspace patrol within the joint training and combat training center of aviation units and air defense units. To do this, a flight of 10 planes to Baranovichi airport is planned. Mobilization exercises have also been going on in the Gomel region since June 22.
Russia will also hand over Iskander-M missile systems to Belarus. Putin agreed with Lukashenko that Belarus would receive Iskander-M missile systems from Russia, which could carry missiles with nuclear warheads. The complexes may come into service in Belarus in the coming months.

🔪Meanwhile, in occupied territories, Russians keep going on their crimes:
❗️Russian Forces are holding hundreds of Enerhodar residents captive. They are tortured and beaten. Some residents are being kidnapped for ransom (50000 hryvnias, it is approximately $1700 by today's current course). Every day the mayor's office receives 2-3 reports of new abductions.

❗️Russian Forces have already stolen over 400,000 tons of grain from the occupied territories of Ukraine. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky.
At the time of the actual occupation, there were about 1.5 million tons of grain in these areas. Ukraine's agricultural losses from a full-scale Russian invasion already amount to $ 4 billion 300 million. Russia is deliberately destroying Ukraine's agricultural infrastructure.

And now for the icing on the cake:
💰Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918. The grace periods on two eurobond coupons expired on Sunday informed Bloomberg

(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-26/russia-defaults-on-foreign-debt-for-first-time-since-1918)Russia defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors.

For months, the country found paths around the penalties imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. But at the end of the day on Sunday, the grace period on about $100 million of snared interest payments due May 27 expired, a deadline considered an event of default if missed.

27/06/2022

The first foreign exhibition of destroyed Russian military equipment opened on Castle Square in Warsaw. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

Visitors will see the broken main battle tank of the Russian army T72B, 152-mm ACS "Msta-C", samples of MLRS "Hurricane" and "Tornado".

The exhibition "For Our and Your Freedom" in Warsaw is the first demonstration of hostile equipment from a series of exhibitions that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine will hold in European cities.

26/06/2022

"They are not humans": SES showed a funnel in a kindergarten in Kyiv, which remained from the arrival of a Russian missile this morning.

💬 "I don't even want to think that a Russian bomb could have arrived on another day and at another hour when there were children in the kindergarten ...", the SES reported.

26/06/2022

Morning was not good for Kyiv

Kyiv this morning was fired from Tu-95 and Tu-160 aircraft with X101 missiles, which can fly at a distance of up to 5.5 thousand km

The rocket hit the roof of a 9-storey residential building in Lukyanovka district and demolished several upper floors. In total, 25 residents were evacuated from a house, where the rocket hit. This was announced by the mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko.

Four victims were hospitalized. Including a seven-year-old girl who was pulled out from under the rubble, and then her mother was also rescued.
Search and rescue work continues.

The consequences of the morning shelling of Kyiv can see in pictures.
The morning was not good for Kyiv.

15/06/2022

Ukraine received from the West only 10% of the requested weapons, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar

“No matter how hard Ukraine tries, we won't win the war without the help of the West. We received only 10 percent of what Ukraine said, what we need,” Maliar said on the air of the telethon.

15/06/2022

"Lithuania will provide Ukraine with Turkish ammunition for Bayraktar TB2," Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anušauskas said.

13/06/2022

Війна в Україні триває вже 4-й місяць, але Франція і Німеччина в постаті Емануеля Макрона та Олафа Шольца не втрачають надії на те, що з Путіним можна домовитися.

Домовитися ціною життя і землі українців, але заради своїх геополітичних інтересів.

Про те, чому Україна повинна створити Інтермаріум разом з її союзниками, читайте в статті Владислава Ковальчука

Інтермаріум — утопія чи відповідь на виклики часу? Між політичною необхідністю і риторикою “анти-ЄС” та “анти-НАТО”

09/06/2022

Polish President Andrzej Duda: talks with Putin are like talks with Hi**er

June 9, Polish President Andrzej Duda criticised the leaders of France and Germany for their phone calls with Vladimir Putin, comparing it to negotiations with Adolf Hi**er during World War Two.

In an interview with Bild, Duda said that such conversations, in fact, only justify this genocidal war in Ukraine.

"Did anyone speak like this with Adolf Hi**er during World War Two? Did anyone say that Adolf Hi**er must save face? That we should proceed in such a way that it is not humiliating for Adolf Hi**er? I have not heard such voices," Duda said.

08/06/2022

Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius died not from shelling, but in Russian captivity in Mariupol, says Mariupol activist Diana Berg.

“And I know this because it was my mother-in-law who was saved by him from the siege at the time he was captured,” she wrote.

According to her, the director was seized in front of Diana’s mother-in-law in the center of Mariupol, and no one else saw him alive after that.

“He died from cruel torture and ex*****on, and it is important to talk about this, about the grave crimes of Russia and the “DPR”, and not about some random shelling,” she said.

08/06/2022

Sanctions have affected 87% of businesses in Russia

At the same time, more than 30% of businesses in Russia are not experiencing an economic downturn.

03/06/2022

100 days ago, Russia has started a full-scale war against Ukraine

03/06/2022

🇪🇺EU Official Portal: The sixth package of against Russia was finally approved.

The package includes:
- reduction of Russian oil imports;
- disconnection from the SWIFT system;
- ban on broadcasting of certain Russian media outlets;
- export restrictions;
- individual sanctions.

▪️Oil
The EU bans the purchase, import, and transport of crude oil and some petroleum products from Russia to the EU. The phase-out of Russian oil will last 6 months for crude oil and 8 months for other petroleum products. A temporary exemption is envisaged for crude oil imports by pipeline to those EU member states that, due to their geographical location, suffer from a specific dependence on Russian supplies.

▪️SWIFT system
The EU disconnects Belinvestbank, Sberbank, Credit Bank of Moscow, and Russian Agricultural Bank from the system.

▪️Media.
The EU stops the broadcasting of Russian state television channels: Russia RTR/RTR Planeta, Russia 24/ Russia 24, and TV Centre International within the EU. These structures are engaged in propaganda in favor of Russia.

▪️Export
The EU has expanded the list of people and organizations from Russia and Belarus that are prohibited from delivering goods and technology that can be used in the defense sector. It has also expanded the list of goods and technology that are banned from being exported to Russia. In particular, this applies to 80 chemicals that can be used to produce chemical weapons.

▪️Individual sanctions
Sanctions against law enforcement and military officials in connection with the killings in Bucha and Mariupol, and industrial and technological enterprises linked to Russian aggression.

03/06/2022

Russia is fighting as in the Middle Ages – U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter during his speech in Vienna.

"15 weeks of brutality. 15 weeks of atrocities. Russia has many modern weapons of war: cruise missiles that fly hundreds of miles, hitting their targets with astonishing accuracy. It has precision guided munitions that can be launched from the air, sea and land.

But why is this war being waged as if we were living in the Middle Ages? Why are so many civilians enduring the horrors of war?"

He added that looting resources in the occupied territories and forcing the population to flee is “another medieval tactic”.

03/06/2022

The Moldavian Parliament adopted a law "On Information Security" that prohibits the broadcasting of news and programs on political and military topics made in Russia in the country.

03/06/2022

The Ukrainian military will determine the range of the HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, which Kyiv should receive soon, announced the new US ambassador to Ukraine, Brigitte Brink, at a briefing in Kyiv.

Four HIMARS will be provided initially, and it will take the Ukrainian military approximately three weeks to train using them.

HIMARS carries six multiple-launch rockets or one MGM-140 ATACMS on a five-ton truck.

03/06/2022

About 800 people are hiding under the chemical plant "Azot" in Sievierodonetsk (Luhansk region) in shelters, the head of Luhansk RMA, Serhiy Haidai, informed.

The plant is shelled by the Russian military.

02/06/2022

Lithuanian Defense Ministry published the photograph of Bayraktar UCAV acquired by the Lithuanians for the Ukrainian armed forces.

UPD. ⚡️⚡️Great news! Türkiye will give Lithuania the Bayraktar, for which they collected money, to then hand over to Ukraine

Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas said that Lithuania will now be able to purchase the necessary ammunition for the Bayraktar with the money raised, the rest of the money will also go to support Ukraine.

02/06/2022

🇵🇱 The Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki: Poland will help export Ukrainian grain and become an economic hub for Ukraine.

Warsaw will receive funding from the EU to increase capacity and improve infrastructure.

The export of grain from Ukraine is practically impossible due to the naval blockade in the Black Sea by Russian troops and the occupation of several seaports.

🤝 Also Ukraine and Poland adopted a joint statement based as a result of intergovernmental consultations.

Poland reaffirmed its support for Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO, and will work to ensure that Ukraine receives candidate status for EU membership in June this year.

The governments also agreed to:
▪️strengthen defence cooperation;
▪️develop the Polish-Ukrainian-British Union;
▪️work to strengthen sanctions against Russia;
▪️strengthen cross-border cooperation.

The Polish partners also reaffirmed their readiness to participate in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.

01/06/2022

🇵🇱Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki inaugurated the container towns able to accommodate more than 1,000 people in and .

01/06/2022

‼️President Biden: What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine

“Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” – stated President Biden in his column in The New York Times. He also expressed the following:

- The Ukrainian people surprised Russia and inspired the world with their sacrifice, grit and battlefield success. The free world and many other nations, led by the United States, rallied to Ukraine’s side with unprecedented military, humanitarian and financial support.
- America’s goal is straightforward: We want to see a democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine with the means to deter and defend itself against further aggression.
- Ukraine’s talks with Russia are not stalled because Ukraine has turned its back on diplomacy. They are stalled because Russia continues to wage a war to take control of as much of Ukraine as it can.

He finished the column with the words: “Americans will stay the course with the Ukrainian people because we understand that freedom is not free.”

01/06/2022

🇺🇦Never attack but defend

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not intend to strike at the territory of the Russian Federation, including with the use of American MLRS, as Moscow has repeatedly stated.

“I know that people in the US or someone in the White House is saying that we can use their MLRS to attack Russia. Look, we're not going to attack Russia. We are not interested in the Russian Federation, we are fighting on our territory," Zelensky said in an interview with Newsmax.

01/06/2022

🇺🇸The United States welcomes the European Union's decision to cut Russian oil imports but said more needs to be done over time to reduce dependence on Russian energy.

“We applaud the steps taken by our European allies and partners to reduce their dependence on Russian oil and natural gas,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters a day after EU leaders announced an agreement to cut Russian oil imports by more than two-thirds.

01/06/2022

🇩🇪 German Minister of Economy Robert Habek expressed his dissatisfaction with the compromise on the oil embargo by the European Union, adopting the sixth package of sanctions against Russia.

He said this at a meeting of the economic council of the CDU. "Orban 'ruthlessly' played to his own interests. European strength and determination suffered as a result of the dead grip around the sixth package of sanctions", - Spiegel reports the words of the German minister.

01/06/2022

☢Russia began exercises with Yars nuclear missile systems

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announces the involvement of about a thousand military personnel in the missile forces and more than 100 pieces of equipment.