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2022/02/04 – 19:09 • Daily review
It has surfaced that Hungary was the NATO Ally responsible for blocking Ukraine’s accession to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), an institution Kyiv keeps seeking closer ties with following the recent cyberattacks, even after the official rejection of Ukraine’s membership status last year.if(typeof __ez_fad_position != ‘undefined’){__ez_fad_position(‘div-gpt-ad-euromaidanpress_com-medrectangle-3-0’)};
Hungary blocked Ukraine’s accession to NATO cyber defense center
As Russia concentrates troops on Ukrainian borders, an Armenian-run infrastructure for sowing panic among Ukrainians is being unfolded in Facebook, the Ukrainian media outlet Texty.org.ua says. The journalists have revealed a number of Facebook pages posing as Ukrainian patriotic groups which have been actively advertised on the platform. Most of those FB “ghost” pages are still empty, but when necessary, they “will be filled instantly — no wonder a lot of money has been spent for their promotion.”
Amid Russian war scare, a “panic infrastructure” targeting Ukrainians unfolds in Facebook
After several months of Russian statements that the country’s security depends on obtaining guarantees that Ukraine and other former Soviet republics will never be accepted to NATO, it turns out that it was all about Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin finally made this clear at a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Putin stressed that if Ukraine joined NATO, Ukraine would then be able to present its claims to the “Russian” peninsula of Crimea and try to reestablish its control over it by military means. Thus, Russia would be drawn into conflict with all NATO member countries.
For Putin, it’s all about Crimea
On 26 January, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) started considering Ukraine’s case against Russia. It is the largest that the European Court of Human Rights has ever considered. Here is what Ukraine wants to prove, and how Russia is responding to the accusations.
Why the ECHR case against Russia is so important for Ukraine
Germany ranks among the top arms-exporting countries worldwide. However, it is withholding lethal security assistance to Ukraine and provides even non-lethal assistance with conspicuous parsimony.
Germany’s tripartite coalition government, in office since December 8, 2021, is continuing the policy of the predecessor government of Angela Merkel, which embargoed arms sales to the embattled Ukraine. In deference to Russia, moreover, the German government is grasping at legal opportunities to obstruct or block arms transfers from other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states to Ukraine.
German security assistance to Ukraine perpetually on hold (Part 1)
Malgorzata Gosewska, Vice Speaker of Polish Sejm, nominated Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.
Mustafa Dzhemilev was repressed in the USSR for his dissident views. He spent 15 years in Soviet camps and prisons, survived 303 days of hunger strike.
Dzhemilev returned to Crimea in 1991.
From 1991 to 2013, he was the leader of Crimean Tatar Mejlis (the highest executive-representative body). In 2014, he opposed the Russian occupation of the peninsula.
From 1991 to 2013, he was the leader of Crimean Tatar Mejlis (the highest executive-representative body). In 2014, he opposed the Russian occupation of the peninsula.
That was followed by Moscow initiating several criminal cases against Mustafa Dzhemilev (illegal crossing of Russian but in fact Crimean border, negligent possession of firearms, Illegal acquisition and possession of arms.
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev. Photo: Stanislav Yurchenko, RFE/RL
On 1 February, Aider Azamatov, a lawyer of Arsen Dzhepparov, Crimean Tatar political prisoner of the Kremlin and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, informed that a Russian court of appeals will consider an appeal over the seven-year sentence against Arsen Dzhepparov on 15 February 2022. This is in relation to an independent expert assessment proving that the key evidence – audiotape – employed to sentence Dzhepparov was illegally made of separate utterances.
Earlier, two courts have upheld the sentence without due consideration of independent expert assessment. The fake audiotape served as the reason to detain Dzepparov on 18 April 2016 and sentence him to seven years’ imprisonment.
Crimean Tatar political prisons Arsen Dzhepparov (in front), Refat Alimov (on the left) prosecuted by Russia in occupied Crimea. Photo Crimean Solidarity
Andriy Harrius, a 33-year-old former police driver, was captured by militants from the self-proclaimed and Russia-controlled ‘Donetsk People’s republic’ on 11 December 2018. Since then, he has been held prisoner for fabricated “sabotage” charges. An illegal court may sentence him to death or life imprisonment.
Until the Russian occupation in 2014, Harrius had resided in Krynychna, near Makiyivka in the Donetsk region (Donbas). After Russian hybrid forces seized the territory, he moved to Ukraine-controlled Dnipropetrovsk oblast. But since he could not find a job and had to feed his growing family, he had to move back to Krynychna. Harrius and his family were living there when the man disappeared on 11 December 2018.
Hostage of Russia-controlled Donbas militants Andriy Harrius, screenshot from the militant video in February 2019
Tags: China, Crimean Tatars, Dzhemilev, NATO, Poland, Russia, Turkey
2022/02/02 – 19:50 • Featured, Opinion
Article by: Oleksandr Khara Source: Ukrayinska Pravda Translated by: Christine Chraibi Russia’s aggressive actions raise several important questions about a major war with Ukraine, the Kremlin’s goals, reasons, and potential…
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