@sakkov.bsky.social
🇪🇪 ambassador to 🇫🇮. Formerly at ICDS, CCDCoE, MoD
According to Reporters Without Borders ( @rsf.org ) my beloved Estonia 🇪🇪 ranks second in the the world in media freedom. Media freedom is one of a principal foundations of democracy. rsf.org/en/index
02.05.2025 06:21 — 👍 74 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 3OTD in 1945 the Battle of Seelow Heights began. The Red Army, getting 30% of its supplies thru US lend lease, crossed into the invader's territory for the first time.
A "dangerous escalation" of the war.
I walked this morning together with 🇺🇦 Ambassador to 🇫🇮 Olga Dibrova.
You can also #Walk4Ukraine .
Wear 🇺🇦 colours, walk, share, donate.
#SlavaUkraini
#StandWithUkraine
Donate here: u24.gov.ua
Vessel lacks a flag state, meaning it is not permitted to sail on the open seas.
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Meanwhile in Russia: head of RT Margarita Simonyan says that Russia is defeating the United States every single day. She mocks Donald Trump and JD Vance for pathetically cosplaying Putin, with their plans to annex Greenland based on a future referendum.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgKE...
OTD 76 years ago 90 thousand Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, including toddlers, were deported to cold and misery of Siberia. Many did not return. That was 5 years after the end of WW2. This is what 🇷🇺 “peace” means under 🇷🇺 occupation
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“We have learned that if we fight the Russians, we die in thousands. If we give in to the Russians, we die in millions.”
cepa.org/article/symp...
Zaporizhzhia, the downtown of a European city of one million after a visit by russian culture tonight. at least one civilian is murdered, many are injured, including kids. russians are obsessed with murdering Ukrainians at night in their beds
22.03.2025 06:32 — 👍 83 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 1This is a difficult time for my trolls. They've spent 1119 days saying Ukraine should accept unconditional ceasefire. Now they have, we violated it anyway.
19.03.2025 08:20 — 👍 1118 🔁 179 💬 18 📌 2
‘Efforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways” … a federal judge found on Tuesday.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
19.03.2025 09:07 — 👍 202 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 2
As a reminder: 🇷🇺 has never joined the convention and is using anti-personnell land-mines against 🇺🇦 all the time. As a front-line country 🇪🇪 is not going to shackle itself. We are going to use everything we have and are able to have in self-defence. kaitseministeerium.ee/en/news/balt...
18.03.2025 07:41 — 👍 133 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 4Yesterday was 🇪🇪 Day of a Mothertongue. Here is former 🇫🇮 President Niinistö reading in 🇪🇪 a page from a classic 🇫🇮 war novel “Unknown Soldier”. 85 years from the end of this heroic chapter of 🇫🇮 history. This is one reason why Finns are so strongly behind 🇺🇦 - they know what Ukrainians are going through
15.03.2025 10:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Try to guess whats happening here!
14.03.2025 13:30 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Today is 🇪🇪 day of a Mother Tongue. 14 grammatical cases, no future tense, rich on vocals, long composite words and tongue-twisters.
HEAD EMAKEELEPÄEVA!
www.e-resident.gov.ee/blog/posts/1...
Putin's missiles of peace headed to power plants, hospitals and apartment buildings all over Ukraine yesterday morning.
08.03.2025 16:43 — 👍 418 🔁 124 💬 13 📌 5
@whataweek.bsky.social
05.03.2025 19:45 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My new book The Folly of Realism is officially released. Three years since the invasion of Ukraine, this book provides clarity on how we got here and a vision of what's next.
Here’s the book; shorturl.at/FjMbQ
What Scholz refused to say for three years, the incoming ruling party CDU says on day 1 after the election:
“Ukraine must win the war!”
We will not make that mistake again. We will fight, whatever the odds.
24.02.2025 09:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0On the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion, Europe is in Kyiv.
We are in Kyiv today, because Ukraine is Europe.
In this fight for survival, it is not only the destiny of Ukraine that is at stake.
It’s Europe’s destiny.
Today, we celebrate Estonia’s 107th birthday! We fought for our independence and won—just as Ukraine will. Elagu Eesti! #SlavaUkraini!
(Photo: Valmar Valdmann)
To strengthen Ukraine's position Estonia is sending 10,000 artillery shells and 750,000 food packages for Ukrainian fighters.
At the earliest opportunity, this will be supplemented with our own defence industry products worth over 100 million euros.
It is #UpToUkraine to decide its future.
Seems like another undersea cable is broken near Gotland. Cable runs between 🇫🇮 and 🇩🇪. www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...
21.02.2025 08:36 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Nordic-Balti leaders’ statement:
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I heard Lavrov bleating on again.
A reminder #Russia's Foreign Secretary loathes the west and its decadence.
He sent his daughter Ekaterina to Columbia Uni NY & a postgrad at London School of Economics.
Lavrov's girlfriend's daughter, Polina Kovaleva, bought a $6m London flat.
OTD in 2022 "Examples of large-scale disinformation campaign by the Western media, hyping the claim that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine" were debunked by my parody in Sweden.
And then we never invaded & all you imperialists were proved wrong. So you can believe us now about negotiating.
What some key words used by the Kremlin actually mean in English:
Election = Coup
Negotiation = Capitulation
Cooperation = Submission
Peacekeeping = Occupation
For example, "Russia will accept negotiations after Ukraine has an election."
This mysterious russian soul
08.02.2025 12:20 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Desynchronising our energy grid from Russia has begun.
We have thoroughly prepared for this. There are sufficient controllable capacity and external connections in the Baltic States to ensure a smooth transition.
Tomorrow we will join the Continental European frequency band.
