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milan svoboda retweeted
In other words, for the sake of a few hundred milions for a Greek businessman, Greece used its veto power and blocked the sanctions package. The fact that their decision will prolong the war and cost many lives is less important to Greece.
Greece is blocking the EU’s 21st sanctions package against Russia to protect a single shipping company.
At issue is a proposed ban on transporting Russian LNG to third countries. Greece’s ambassador to the EU warned fellow envoys that the measure would “destroy” Dynagas, the fleet owned by Greek oligarch George Prokopiou – and cited that as the reason Athens cannot support the package.
Dynagas operates 27 gas carriers. About a third are Arc7 ice-class tankers, specially built to serve Russia’s Yamal LNG plant in Arctic waters.
Since the start of 2025, Dynagas has moved over 10 million tons of Russian LNG across 11 vessels, completing 144 voyages. Separately, Prokopiou’s oil-tanker business, Dynacom, has earned at least $915 million from trading Russian crude over the past three years – more than any other Greek shipowner.
Because the package requires unanimity, Greece’s objection alone has stalled it for a week, also freezing planned sanctions on Russian banks, crypto networks, and defense firms, and forcing an emergency extension of the Russian oil price cap.
Source: Financial Times
milan svoboda retweeted
It has been a great honor to serve the Ukrainian people as the Minister of Defense.
Here is what our team managed to achieve:
1. Disabled Starlink access for Russian forces.
2. Took over a Ministry of Defense with zero budget, took a risk, reallocated funds from payroll from the end of the year, and effectively invested them in mid-strike capabilities, fiber-optic FPVs, low-cost reconnaissance, ground robotic platforms, interceptor drones, and deep-strike drones.
3. Launched "Logistical Lockdown", this cut off enemy logistics and initiated the isolation of Crimea.
4. Continued the funding program for the Drone Line.
5. Launched a support program for modern drone-assault units that rely primarily on advanced technologies in combat.
6. Introduced a 70% advance payment policy for procurements made via e-Points on the Brave1 Market portal.
7. Fundamentally overhauled the procurement system.
8. Procured thousands of pickup trucks, buggies, and ATVs for the military for the first time—and did so through open tenders.
9. The drone interception rate rose from 83% to 91%, and the cruise missile interception rate soared from 47% to 87%.
10. Contracted Patriot PAC-2 GEM-T missiles for the first time, and submitted an application through an EU loan to purchase PAC-3 missiles.
11. Launched a baseline drone supply system for brigades and corps.
12. Launched a massive grant program for manufacturers of explosives and missiles.
13. Initiated an unpopular but vital transformation of the military.
14. Conducted three UDCG meetings, where we successfully broke through the Russian information trap claiming our defeat, restoring partners' faith in Ukraine. This secured $40 billion in support announced for this year (excluding the EU loan).
15. Launched the mechanism to utilize the EU loan for our military priorities.
16. Found a way to scale cheap missiles against jet-powered Shaheds and signed a record-breaking contract.
17. Our domestic ballistics. We radically revised the technical specifications, maximized accuracy, and reduced the cost by 30%.
18. Signed a contract to procure Gripen fighter jets.
19. Collaborated with the military to plan and execute Operation Auchan, which halted the enemy's mechanized offensive for six months.
20. Opened up exports under the Drone Deal program to attract investment and scale up domestic defense-industrial complex (OPK) production.
21. Launched the Trophy Lab, providing partners with the opportunity to study captured Russian military technologies.
22. Launched the Defense AI Center A1 to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence on the battlefield.
Thank you to my entire team for their relentless 24/7 service. A special thank you to my family for their patience.
Thank you all for your support!
I will continue to work toward the mission I originally brought to the Ministry of Defense: defeating the enemy through asymmetry, the speed of innovation, and the power of organization.
To be continued.
milan svoboda retweeted
Divide and conquer. There's always one or two EU nations corrupt enough to block action against Russia, which is big reason Putin can keep the war on Ukraine going, and gives him hope to outlast the pressure.
Greece is blocking the EU’s 21st sanctions package against Russia to protect a single shipping company.
At issue is a proposed ban on transporting Russian LNG to third countries. Greece’s ambassador to the EU warned fellow envoys that the measure would “destroy” Dynagas, the fleet owned by Greek oligarch George Prokopiou – and cited that as the reason Athens cannot support the package.
Dynagas operates 27 gas carriers. About a third are Arc7 ice-class tankers, specially built to serve Russia’s Yamal LNG plant in Arctic waters.
Since the start of 2025, Dynagas has moved over 10 million tons of Russian LNG across 11 vessels, completing 144 voyages. Separately, Prokopiou’s oil-tanker business, Dynacom, has earned at least $915 million from trading Russian crude over the past three years – more than any other Greek shipowner.
Because the package requires unanimity, Greece’s objection alone has stalled it for a week, also freezing planned sanctions on Russian banks, crypto networks, and defense firms, and forcing an emergency extension of the Russian oil price cap.
Source: Financial Times
milan svoboda retweeted
“Putin is a strategic fool and a military failure. He wanted to pacify Ukraine - now it’s on its way to the EU and eventually NATO. He aimed to dissolve NATO, but instead doubled its border through Finland. He tried to destroy the transatlantic partnership - now we’re jointly increasing our defense spending to 5% over ten years. He wanted to break up the EU - I’ve never seen it so united. He has failed on all fronts.”
Finnish President Alexander Stubb in an interview with The Sydney Herald.
milan svoboda retweeted
✅ The modern Ukrainian #language has about 256,000 words, it was formed in the X-IV millennia BC and comes from Sanskrit. In Ukrainian, unlike other East Slavic languages, nouns have 7 cases, one of which is vocative.
milan svoboda retweeted
📈 🇪🇺 #EU set a new #CleanEnergy record: 46% of its electricity now comes from renewables.
The leaders are:
• 🇩🇰 Denmark – 90% (mostly wind)
• 🇵🇹 Portugal – 83% (mostly hydropower)
• 🇱🇹 Lithuania – 76% (mostly wind)
The laggards are:
• 🇨🇿 Czechia – 13%
• 🇲🇹 Malta – 13%
• 🇸🇰 Slovakia – 17%
The shift saved the EU €51B in fossil fuel imports last year, strengthened #EnergySecurity, and is helping lower long-term electricity costs. The next challenge is expanding grid infrastructure & energy storage to reduce reliance on gas during periods of peak demand. @EU_Eurostat
milan svoboda retweeted
Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland have become among Ukraine's strongest partners by doing more than just donating weapons.
🧵 1/6 ⬇️
milan svoboda retweeted
We need to put an end to the false narrative that Russia is "retaliating" when it hits Ukrainian civilians.
Russia is the unprovoked, genocidal aggressor that started this war, and Ukraine is the only side fighting back and executing real retaliation.
Calling a Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian apartment block a retaliation is a grotesque distortion of facts. Russia lied for months to cover up its plans before executing a completely unprovoked invasion.
The numbers tell the real story of who is targeting whom. While Ukraine has 2.5 to 3 times fewer total casualties than Russia, Ukraine has dozens of times more civilian casualties.
Russia opened this dark chapter by targeting civilian infrastructure first. Ukraine is retaliating to survive, while Russia is simply continuing its deliberate campaign to destroy the Ukrainian population
milan svoboda retweeted
Petraeus: Ukraine is about to isolate Crimea. Gasoline so short they won't sell it to civilians. Tourists who came for beaches are trying to get home any way they can
Kerch Bridge rail no longer works. Ferries knocked out. Land bridges destroyed. Pontoon bridges now targeted 1/
milan svoboda retweeted
"Ukraine is not just defending its own land; it is defending the idea of a free world against tyranny."
- Garry Kasparov
milan svoboda retweeted
Canada is one of the biggest supporters of Ukraine. Standing with President @ZelenskyyUA at the G7, I announced that Canada is imposing more than 160 new sanctions on Russian individuals, entities, and vessels.
We’re keeping the pressure on Russia to negotiate peace — a just and lasting peace — for Ukraine and Europe.
ALT Prime Minister Carney meets with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Évian-les-Bains, France.
milan svoboda retweeted
Truman was right, as usual, and nothing has changed about Russia. What has changed is the American president and his business partners saying they trust Russia's dictator.
milan svoboda retweeted
Putin could pay a personal price for failure in Ukraine. After four years he has not won, and defeat has ended more than one ruler in the Kremlin.
Russia has now fought longer than the Soviet Union fought Hitler, and this April it lost ground — Gideon Rachman, FT. 1/
milan svoboda retweeted
Russia’s only response to losing on the battlefield and watching its economy collapse is to threaten Europe with destruction and murder more Ukrainian civilians with missile & drone attacks. Why do the most powerful economies and militaries in the world tolerate this terror?
milan svoboda retweeted
Important thread.
1/5 Russia’s oil revenues have nearly doubled since the start of the Iran war. But the windfall is not changing the bigger picture: the budget deficit keeps growing, the economy is stalling, and higher oil prices cannot fix Russia’s structural problems
📘 Full Russia Chartbook by @KSE_Institute: e.surl.li/aisumv
milan svoboda retweeted
Kasparov: Trump has already done everything he could for Putin.
Cut aid to Ukraine, stopped giving weapons, even stopped selling them to Europeans, raised oil prices with the Iran war, quarreled with Europe, and practically buried NATO. 3/
