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⚡🇺🇦President Zelensky: “I spent the whole day today in the Sumy region – with our brigades, with the heroic men and women who are actively defending our land and who carried out our offensive operation in the Kursk region (VIDEO and more) #Ukraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

TelegramZelenskiy / OfficialI spent the whole day today in the Sumy region – with our brigades, with the heroic men and women who are actively defending our land and who carried out our offensive operation in the Kursk region. Today marks the anniversary of the Kursk operation – a truly Ukrainian historic operation. We brought the war onto the territory of the aggressor state and are still operating on its territory. At a time when many spoke that the situation had reached a stalemate, and were losing faith in Ukraine, we proved that Ukrainians know how to act right. And we proved that many of Russia’s threats were just bluffs. Today, I want to thank all our warriors – every soldier, sergeant, and officer – all the men and women who took part in the Kursk operation. Thirteen hundred kilometers of Russian territory were under our control. And this forced the Russians not only to pull their forces away from the Donetsk region, but also to ask North Korea for help. We thwarted Russia’s plan to expand its offensive against Sumy and Kharkiv. Our men captured more than a thousand Russian POWs in the Kursk region – including some whose capture helped unblock, among other things, complex prisoner exchanges. It was one of the most important chapters of this war.

"After nearly ten months of tracking Israeli soldiers abroad, the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) have scored a symbolic breakthrough: the arrest and interrogation of two Israeli soldiers in Belgium on war crimes allegations related to the war in Gaza.

The soldiers were released after questioning. Belgian prosecutors, however, said a formal investigation was underway.

For observers of international justice, the incident signals a potential turning point — a shift from symbolic outrage to legal accountability for Israeli military actions in the Palestinian territories, raising diplomatic concerns in Israel.

“The era of impunity is coming to an end, and a new era of accountability is beginning,” said Dearbhla Minogue, a senior lawyer at GLAN involved in the case. “These unimaginable atrocities will be examined by courts around the world — and those responsible will be prosecuted and imprisoned to protect society.”

“It is the first time that law enforcement authorities in Europe have exercised universal jurisdiction against Israeli soldiers,” said Fiona Thorp, a legal fellow for International Crimes and Accountability at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin. “I hope this will motivate other European states to follow suit. These actions are essential in light of Israel’s unwillingness to hold its armed forces to account.”"

jacobin.com/2025/08/belgium-is

jacobin.comBelgium’s Arrest of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed MomentBelgium’s detention of Israeli soldiers over alleged war crimes in Gaza has set a historic precedent for holding Israel to account for its war crimes. And it’s a sign that the tide is turning against Israel.
#EU#Belgium#IDF
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@EUCommission How about this:

  • You introduce €1 (Antique / Classical Era) &
  • €2 (Medieval Era) banknotes

as well as

  • reintroduce €500 (modern) bills and consider even issuing €1000 (futuristic) bills amidst #inflation.

In return you can phase-out €1 & €2 coins.

Pretty shure #Rhine, #Danube, #Olives, #Eagle and #Owl would make excellent motives.

France's biggest wildfire of the summer has eclipsed the size of Paris and is still spreading

phys.org/news/2025-08-france-b

> France's biggest wildfire this summer was spreading quickly Wednesday in a Mediterranean region near the Spanish border after leaving one person dead, authorities said. The fire had burned an area larger than Paris.

Phys.org · France's biggest wildfire of the summer has eclipsed the size of Paris and is still spreadingBy Sylvie Corbet