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Jana Zikmundova

@jzk55.bsky.social

Former ambassador of Belgium (ret.) to Ukraine (2011-2014) and Colombia (2017-2021). Memories of Soviet tanks are part of my Czech roots (remember 21.8.1968 ?) Here mainly to denounce Putin's 🇷🇺 war on 🇺🇦. Building resistance with team @DefendDemocracy 🇪🇺

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Latest posts by jzk55.bsky.social on Bluesky

PM : 🇷🇺 aggressors should never take victory for granted. There are #WWII precedents. 🇩🇰

31.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🇬🇧🇺🇸For those caring about decent updates on #Ukraine, start following Tim White. Evidence based reporting on 🇷🇺 war on 🇺🇦.

🇳🇱Voor dagelijkse geverifieerde berichtgeving over de oorlog aan Europa's oostfront volg de updates van Tim White:

31.10.2025 05:46 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Putin haunts Paris courtroom in red hands trial Intelligence notes seen by POLITICO point to organized nature of stunt targeting Holocaust memorial.

Surprise!!!

www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

31.10.2025 06:42 — 👍 38    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1

#Putin 's 🇷🇺 hordes at work against their own, in line with their (revived) #stalinist tradition ➡️
*no morale, no victory*.
#нетвойне

31.10.2025 06:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Question to 🇨🇿 authorities : why must such sinister 🇷🇺 #FSB figure be tolerated in #KarlovyVary ❔️
#StopRussiaArmUkraine 🇺🇦

30.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Millionaire vs. buskers: Chief of St. Petersburg Police cracking down on street musicians owns $6.2 million worth of real estate St. Petersburg police have unleashed a crackdown on street musicians performing songs by opposition-minded artists. Members of Stoptime, a popular cover band, have been subjected to so-called “carouse...

Millionaire vs. buskers: Chief of St. Petersburg Police cracking down on street musicians owns $6.2 million worth of real estate

The Insider examines the inexplicable riches of the police official who is arresting street performers for the “wrong” songs.

30.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A big strategic win for #Moscow no doubt.
#нетвойне

30.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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30.10.2025 07:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

30.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Extraordinary (and infuriating) film. I’m proud to call @adamkinzinger.substack.com
a friend. History will be very kind to him, as he demonstrated mountains of courage that went far beyond the ordinary. But not so much to all those who condoned and whitewashed Jan 6. Shame on all of them.

30.10.2025 01:21 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Baltic companies secretly refuel tankers from Russia’s “shadow fleet,” LRT investigation finds A network of companies in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia has been supplying fuel to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet,” according to an investigation by Lithuania’s national broadcaster LRT, conducted ...

Baltic companies secretly refuel tankers from Russia’s “shadow fleet,” LRT investigation finds

Between June 2024 and March 2025, the Rina and Zircone — bunker tankers belonging to Estonian firm Fast Bunkering — refueled at least 20 shadow fleet tankers.

30.10.2025 05:18 — 👍 40    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 0

"Money talks" : probably the essence of current US foreign policy. Despicable.⬇️

29.10.2025 17:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Is Russia’s ‘flying Chornobyl’ a real threat?
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent Is Russia’s ‘flying Chornobyl’ a real threat?

The Kyiv Independent’s Chris York spoke with Pavel Podvig, the Geneva-based nuclear arms control expert and the director of the Russian Nuclear Forces research project, to learn whether this "super-weapon’ poses a new threat.

29.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 81    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 1
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Beyond the “Hybrid War” Cliché • russian desk The notion of "hybrid war" no longer corresponds to the war waged by Russia against both Ukraine and the West.

What we call “hybrid warfare” is simply war. It is a cognitive war, but also an Orwellian, subversive, systemic war, whose goal is to accustom us to thinking within the universe of Putin’s lies, to make us accept Russian conditions in the real world. ⤵️
desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/b...

29.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Prix Albert Londres : un livre sur Poutine et un documentaire sur les soupçons d’arme secrète russe récompensés Elena Volochine est lauréate pour «Propagande, l’arme de guerre de Poutine» ; Jules Giraudat et Arthur Bouvart pour leur série documentaire «Le syndrome de la Havane».

Congrats to Jules Giraudat and Arthur Bouvard, who just won the Albert Londres prize, the most prestigious French journalism award, the equivalent of the Pulitzer, for their documentary on Havana Syndrome. Several victims were featured (including me). www.liberation.fr/economie/med...

28.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 34    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

"I believe Russia is assisting foreign governments", says @christogrozev.bsky.social, a journalist that does make a difference and is therefore directly threatened by the #Kremlin
👀
#StopRussiaArmUkraine 🇺🇦

29.10.2025 06:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join me Wed at 11amET on Substack for my video chat with best-selling author Jonathan Freedland, whose new book The Traitor’s Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany and the Spy Who Betrayed Them, examines what kind of person risks everything to stand up to tyranny.

28.10.2025 23:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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The Accidental Revelations of a Russian Spy’s Memoir Alexander Zorin’s desire to make himself larger than life inadvertently exposes Moscow’s lies about how the war in Syria was waged

Incredible from michaeldweoiss.bsky.social The infamous GRU General Zorin in prime time, high on his own supply as he writes his memoirs and the GRU propagandists make a movie of his heroic exploits. Except it’s all bullshit and exposes Russian war crimes, disinfo. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...

28.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

"The message must be unequivocal: future violations will meet a response — including, if necessary, the interception and downing of intruding aircraft," Tsahkna said (...)
↪️ As diplomacy failed long ago with #Putin 's 🇷🇺, let the military do *their job*
#StopRussiaArmUktaine 🇺🇦

28.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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BREAKING: Russian propaganda site promotes far-right party ahead of Netherlands elections.

"The party's channel is also in the top 10 sources on which the website has relied since its inception."

defenddemocracy.eu/russian-prav...

#TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen

28.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 62    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 2
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BREAKING: Russische propaganda site ‘Pravda’ promoot FvD in aanloop naar verkiezingen.

www.web-watch.org/news/russisc...

#TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen

28.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 3

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

28.10.2025 06:46 — 👍 68    🔁 35    💬 7    📌 2
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Oct 27 - Nov 4, 1937: Soviets executed 1,111 Solovetsky prisoners in Sandarmokh.
Among them - Zerov, Kurbas, Kulish, Pidmohylnyi.
Ukrainian culture decapitated in cold blood.
236 mass graves.
10,000+ murdered.
Remember.
Name the killer: Moscow.

27.10.2025 17:40 — 👍 116    🔁 48    💬 2    📌 3

"The sanctions also open the door for secondary penalties against foreign institutions that handle transactions with those on the blacklist." Disappearance of infamous #Lukoil petrol stations from 🇧🇪 landscape on the horizon ❔️ASAP please.
#нетвойне

28.10.2025 07:14 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cruciale Oekraïense stad Pokrovsk onder steeds grotere druk door nieuwe tactiek Honderden Russische militairen zijn de stad binnengetrokken en de Oekraïense president Zelensky erkende gisteravond dat zij het "extreem lastig" hebben.

"Cruciale Oekraïense stad Pokrovsk onder steeds grotere druk door nieuwe tactiek" Waar (of wie) gaat de 🇷🇺 wreedheid stoppen ❓️
#Pokrovsk

28.10.2025 07:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This week, on 30 October, we mark the International Day of Political Prisoners. In today’s Russia, even according to public and self-admittedly incomplete figures from human rights groups, thousands of people are imprisoned for political reasons, and the machinery of repression keeps turning.
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27.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

"...the aggressor state has used the Russian citizenship it forced the 30-year-old Ukrainian to take as excuse for accusing her of ‘state treason’ for remaining a patriot of her own country."
❗️Reminder : Ukrainians in territories occupied by 🇷🇺 are going through #hell.

27.10.2025 07:18 — 👍 20    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

22: „we will take Kyiv in 72 hours.“
25: Toyota rifle air defense Kremlin
Everything according to the plan ✔️🪄

27.10.2025 05:48 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Why did Trump introduce sanctions on Ru? Because Ru refuses a ceasefire along the front line; Ukr agreed back in March.

How can Ru avoid the sanctions? By agreeing to the ceasefire asap.

Instead, Ru is pushing back and making nuclear threats.
Clearly, Ru doesn't want to stop its war against Ukr.

26.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 145    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 3

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

26.10.2025 18:38 — 👍 30    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

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