
The Russian Aggression Against Ukraine: A Time for Choosing
Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers’ speech in the European Parliament on Putin and Ukraine: “Forcing millions to flee and tearing families apart is incompatible with ‘family values.'”

Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers’ speech in the European Parliament on Putin and Ukraine: “Forcing millions to flee and tearing families apart is incompatible with ‘family values.'”

French President Emmanuel Macron was keen to display a smiling optimism by answering questions in English to international journalists in Versailles; a few minutes later, he was grave and serious in his address to French journalists, commenting in exactly the opposite terms.

Days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the creation of the International Legion of Territorial Defense, nearly 20,000 foreign ’volunteers’ are said to have signed up to fight alongside Ukrainians in their armed struggle with the Russian Federation.

While Ukraine’s defense ministry says Denis Kireev was killed while serving in an operation to “defend the nation,” local media, two Ukrainian MPs, and Russian media say the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) shot him dead during an attempted arrest for treason.
The Latin Rite Catholic bishops petitioned Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday, in which they explicitly asked him to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Kyiv is under constant air attacks. The sirens can go off at any minute, sending the capital’s residents into basements or the subway, and the warning usually sounds at least a couple of times throughout the day and night.

Those who said NATO, Biden, and Zelensky were, at least in part, responsible for the war stood at 68%, 62%, and 57%, respectively, contradicting the establishment press’s grossly reductive explanation of the conflict’s inception.

Today in France, taking a sovereignist line is unfortunately understood as Putinolatry, and it is extremely difficult to hear a balanced point of view on what the positioning of a strong France in the international game should be.

As of 3:00 pm on Saturday, Russia had failed to observe one of the two agreed-upon ceasefires, according to local authorities.

“For years we have been calling for a Europe that is strong and proud of its identity and its roots. Instead, today we are paying the consequences of an increasingly weak Europe,” Ms. Meloni bemoaned.