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"IT IS POLAND, NOT ELON MUSK THAT PAYS FOR STARLINKS TO UKRAINE", SIKORSKI | Ania K.
Article: Poland is the only sponsor of Starlink modules used by Ukrainian soldiers – informed Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Poland is the only sponsor of Starlink modules used by Ukrainian soldiers – informed Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Starlink modules provide satellite internet and play a key role in maintaining the defense capabilities of Ukrainian forces during the Russian invasion. Although Starlink is owned by the space company SpaceX Elona Muska, Sikorski reported that Poland pays for their use by Ukraine.
Sikorski: Starlinki for Ukraine are and will be financed exclusively by Poland
– These Starlink modules, which are used in Ukraine, are not sponsored by Mr. Elon Musk, but are and will be financed exclusively by Poland. We do it and no one else does it – told journalists the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a press conference on Thursday.
Sikorski raised this issue by discussing Poland's position before the international summit in Ramstein, Germany, focused on military support for Ukraine.
The summit, originally scheduled for Saturday, October 12, was postponed after the White House announced that US President Joe Biden had delayed his trip to Europe due to Hurricane Milton, which is raging in the United States.
Ramstein Summit. "We have prepared a position for the president"
President Andrzej Duda is going to a meeting in Ramstein. As Sikorski emphasized, the summit is held with the participation of heads of government, not heads of state. – That is why we have prepared a position for President Duda so that he can speak on behalf of Poland about what we have done and what we plan to do for Ukraine – emphasized the minister.
Earlier, Prime Minister Donald Tusk obliged the heads of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare for the president Polish government positions so that he could present them at the top.
The Prime Minister, addressing Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Radosław Sikorski during the Tuesday meeting of the Council of Ministers, said: – I would like you gentlemen to prepare a precise position of the Polish government so that the president knows what to present at the meeting in Ramstein.
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IS THIS PUTIN'S FINAL WARNING?? LUKASHENKO/ ZELENSKY PHONE CALL REVELATION; THREE PEACE MEETINGS?
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BREAKING: A Nuclear Mini Explosion Took Place in ODESSA after an ISKANDER Missile Struck a NATO Ship
On the night of October 13, the Russian armed forces launched another missile and bomb attack on military facilities located in the territory of Ukraine. This time, Russia attacked strategically important military installations in regions such as Sumy, Donetsk, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odessa. At the same time, it is worth noting that yesterday's missile attack on Odessa may go down in history as a turning point in the current conflict that led to the outbreak of World War III. The fact is that, unlike other regions of Ukraine, a really powerful explosion occurred in Odessa, the negative consequences of which have already begun to be felt not only by citizens of Ukraine but also by citizens of neighboring NATO countries.
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ANALYSIS:Is Russia Trying to Poison Finland’s Water?
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Is Russia Trying to Poison Finland’s Water?
Break-ins at water treatment plants are a prime example of gray-zone aggression. The Finns may never know who did it, but they must resist succumbing to fear.
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Elisabeth Braw
By Elisabeth Braw, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Finnish and Swedish units simulate a naval attack. Swedish and Finnish Amphibious Forces Take Part In NATO Military Drill “Baltops 22” In Stockholm Archipelago on June 11, 2022.
Finnish and Swedish units simulate a naval attack. Swedish and Finnish Amphibious Forces Take Part In NATO Military Drill “Baltops 22” In Stockholm Archipelago on June 11, 2022. JONAS GRATZER/GETTY IMAGES
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This summer, mysterious intruders have been breaking into Finnish water towers and treatment plants. They’ve stolen nothing, which is unsurprising, since there would be little to steal. But there are other reasons people might want to break into water treatment plants: to scout them out for future attacks—or to cause the public to worry about the safety of the water in their taps. By disabling water treatment or adding a contaminant, an intruder could turn the life-giving liquid into a source of disease.
So far, the Finnish authorities have not apprehended any suspects. The break-in campaign, though, is a prime example of the nonmilitary aggression that Russia has perfected. So is the coordinated sabotage that brought down French rail lines just as the Olympic Games were about to begin and only days after French police arrested a Russian national in a suspected plot to cause “destabilization” during the Games.
The water attacks in Finland began in Porvoo, a town on the southern coast, where authorities reported that someone had tried to break into the town’s water tower twice. Then Sipoo, near Helsinki, also on Finland’s southern coast, reported break-in attempts at its water plant, too. As in Porvoo, the attackers had targeted the plant two nights in a row. Finland’s southern coast is ordinarily rather quiet, but then again, its immediate neighbor is the Gulf of Finland, the passageway for ships going to and from St. Petersburg. One can never really be sure who is sailing past.
By mid-July, there had been 11 break-in attempts into Finnish water towers and treatment plants. “The break-ins reported this far have not been serious ones and not targeted against the most critical sites, which are more heavily secured, but the worrying thing is that the number of break-in has increased at this very moment,” said retired Lt. Gen. Arto Raty, whose military roles included overseeing Finland’s famous National Defense Course, in which leaders from all parts of society learn about threats to the country. (Raty now works in the private sector.)
The intruders didn’t reach any sensitive parts in the water plants and towers. But with such a noticeable string of attacks having taken place within just a few weeks, Finnish authorities must prepare for more. Several city councils have already decided to strengthen security around their water facilities, starting with more fences and more camera surveillance.
Authorities are also asking: Who would have an interest in breaking into Finnish water plants? So far, they haven’t apprehended anyone or publicly identified a suspect. The intruders, though, are unlikely to have been ordinary criminals. “These are not the sort of break-ins criminals would commit,” said retired Maj. Gen. Pekka Toveri, a former chief of Finnish military intelligence who is now a member of the European Parliament.
Indeed, thieves know that it’s hard to reach the sensitive parts of water facilities, and at any rate, expensive technology would be easier to steal elsewhere. One might suspect environmental extremists—but they stage highly public protests, not break-ins under the cover of darkness, and not even the most fanatical environmental extremist would think it a good idea to attack water sources. Terrorists, too, go for attacks that create maximum publicity, and no known terrorist groups have a beef with Finnish operators of critical national infrastructure.
One actor, though, has an interest in frightening Finns: the Kremlin. “The water treatment companies have said that the break-ins are not a normal situation, and that’s making people worried,” Toveri said. “And one goal of Russia’s gray-zone aggression is to create fear.” Raty added: “We have no evidence showing who is behind these actions, but naturally in speculations the finger is pointing to the east.”
RUSSIA HAS A CLEAR INTEREST IN HARMING Finnish critical national infrastructure—and in insinuating to the Finnish public that its infrastructure is unsafe. Before Finland and Sweden joined NATO, the Kremlin reacted to every suggestion along the lines of NATO accession by threatening unspecified consequences. When the two countries eventually joined, Russia’s armed forces were so bogged down in Ukraine that no so-called consequences took place.
That doesn’t mean that Russia has been idle. Even before the two countries’ NATO accession, the Kremlin was busy harming them and other Western countries in nonmilitary ways. Cyberattacks conducted or condoned by the Kremlin have wreaked havoc on American drivers (remember the Colonial Pipeline attack?), British hospitals, and countless others.
Last fall, Russia began bringing so many migrants to the Finnish border—with the purpose of overwhelming the Finnish authorities—that Helsinki had to shut the crossings altogether. Russia appears to have been involved in the mysterious sabotage of two undersea cables and one pipeline in Swedish, Finnish, and Estonian waters, also last fall: The suspected perpetrator, a Chinese container ship, had worked extensively with Russian authorities and sailed to and from Russian Baltic Sea ports before and after the incidents.
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