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   Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 16:09:17 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

   «"From our side, we must do everything so that this war ends next year, ends through diplomatic means," Zelenskiy said in a Ukrainian radio interview aired on Saturday.»
   https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-must-try-ensure-war-ends-next-year-through-diplomacy-2024-11-16/

   #War ends in the room where the peace treaty is signed, not on the battlefield. It's as simple as that. It should not have taken 3 years, but it's unquestionably good news that the obvious truth is now being aired on national radio.

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 16:58:24 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     «Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine can take back Crimea only through diplomatic means. "We cannot spend dozens of, thousands of our people so that they perish for the sake of Crimea coming back … we understand that Crimea can be brought back diplomatically"».
     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/ukraine-war-briefing-we-will-regain-crimea-through-diplomacy-not-force-says-zelenskyy

     About time, even if he's just pandering to the orange one. For this #war to end, we'll need to hear a lot more diplomacy-boosting talk. Imagine if the USA had caused this change of heart a few years earlier.

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 20:49:22 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     "Too many people being killed."
     https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/16/trump-says-decision-to-let-ukraine-fire-long-range-strikes-into-russia-was-mistake-that-he-might-reverse

     I can't remember the last time I heard this stated plainly: that killing more people in a #war is not a desirable goal.

     The last mention I can find is from March 2022: «enormous suffering and needless loss of life of women, children, everyone». (And the term "needless" assumes that such deaths could be justified in name of some supposed "need".)
     https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/08/remarks-by-president-biden-announcing-u-s-ban-on-imports-of-russian-oil-liquefied-natural-gas-and-coal/

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 05:58:11 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     Politician outlaws use of preferred suppliers, acts outraged that customers switch to a cheaper substitute.
     https://www.dw.com/en/germany-says-russia-shadow-fleet-ship-adrift-in-baltic-sea/a-71270172

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 15:18:39 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     «We are deeply concerned by actions, be they negligent or malicious, which cause damage to or threaten the functioning of critical undersea infrastructure. We strongly condemn acts of sabotage to critical undersea infrastructure.»
     https://www.presidentti.fi/joint-statement-of-the-baltic-sea-nato-allies-summit/

     If upon investigation the sabotage turns out to have been committed by our allies, however, we stand ready to have total amnesia about it.

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 19:25:10 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     «Experts say it would be relatively easy to force those plants to shut down if Moscow targeted infrastructure near the reactors, such as so-called open distribution devices and switchgears».
     https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-lawmakers-war-russia-bombs-nuclear-plant-energy-winter-blackout/

     This article implies that there were *no* attacks on critical infrastructure near #nuclear reactors controlled by Ukraine's government. Is it so?

     IAEA's 7 pillars and 5 principles include protection of an off-site power supply at all times.
     https://www.iaea.org/topics/response/nuclear-safety-security-and-safeguards-in-ukraine