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Stefan Evers sent greetings from the SPD Berlin to Boris Pistorius and referred to the announcement to terminate the cooperation agreement between the education administration and the Bundeswehr. He wrote that Moscow at least had reason to rejoice on that day. #Bildung #Bundeswehr #Kooperation (translated)

More than 15 important facilities for electricity generation and transmission in various regions of Ukraine were attacked. Trump decided on the move just one day after Moscow carried out one of the most massive strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, complained Zelenskyy. (translated)

Regina Laska criticized that Donald Trump had suspended the Russia sanctions that he himself signed in mid-September and which were supposed to come into effect automatically the next day. She wrote that tariffs of up to 100 percent on large consumers of Russian oil and gas, levies of up to 500 percent on Russian goods, and measures against the shadow fleet and banks were planned. Two days before the deadline, Trump resorted to an exception that allowed for a waiver in the national interest; according to Laska, he did not provide a justification. As a possible background, Laska mentioned a diesel deal announced by Trump with Vladimir Putin. The U.S. Treasury Department had granted a license to Russian energy producers for that until April; furthermore, a U.S. government representative said that easing penalties against the shadow fleet was being considered. Laska connected this with the upcoming U.S. elections in two and a half weeks and high fuel prices. However, Trump blamed Ukraine for the prices, claiming they had attacked Russian refineries, she wrote. According to Laska, Kirill Dmitriev, Putin's representative for business with the U.S., was already talking about joint data centers and small nuclear power plants. Dmitriev reportedly said, "the ice is beginning to break." She also pointed out that Congress passed the sanctions by a large majority and that the law was named after Lindsey Graham, who had died in July. She wrote that seven Republican senators had urged Trump to reverse the diesel deal. Regarding Volodymyr Zelensky's reaction to the question in Brussels about whether Trump was making him a scapegoat, Laska wrote that he had remained silent for 15 seconds, grinned, and said, "That is my answer." Laska stated that she concurred with his reaction but refrained from grinning. #Trump #Ukraine #Sanktionen (translated)

U.S. President Donald Trump has suspended the sanctions against Russia approved by Congress, as he claims this is in the national interest of the U.S., while at the same time approaching Russia and concluding a controversial diesel deal with Moscow. #Trump #Sanktionen #Russland (translated)

Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul critically comments on the AfD in an interview and emphasizes that Russia will face greater difficulties in sustaining the war due to Moscow's lack of willingness to compromise and that support for Ukraine remains consistently important. #Ukraine #Russland #Wadephul (translated)

Oleksii Makeiev wrote that Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, which is larger than Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin. After the Minsk Agreement, Saxony-Anhalt was added; in the meantime, Moscow holds more territory than all of East Germany. According to his account, every Western concession has only brought the next war. Those who want to give more to Putin should inform Hessen in advance, wrote Makeiev. https://t.co/fDL2y5cxrW #Krim #Putin #Ostdeutschland (translated)

Slovakia has secretly resumed military contacts with Russia under Prime Minister Fico, which is cited as a sign of growing closeness to Moscow and concern about possible espionage activities, especially amidst tensions between Russia and the EU. #Slowakei #Russland #Militärkontakte (translated)

Matthias accused Egon Krenz of having asked Mikhail Gorbachev during a visit to Moscow on November 1, 1989, for the deployment of Soviet troops against East German citizens. Gorbachev rejected this and stated that the troops would remain in their barracks. Krenz only signed the order against the use of firearms on November 3, Matthias wrote. He claimed that Krenz later falsely asserted that he had prevented bloodshed in the fall of 1989. The responsible commanders on the ground had waited in vain for orders from the leadership and had independently ordered not to shoot. Matthias also accused Krenz of shared responsibility for election fraud in May 1989 and wrote that he had approved of the Tiananmen massacre. Furthermore, Matthias pointed out that Krenz had been sentenced in 1997 to six years and six months in prison for manslaughter and co-responsibility for the East German border regime, of which he had served nearly four years. He criticized Krenz's complaints about the conditions of his detention in the Plötzensee prison, his defense of the GDR, and his complaints about the amount of his pension. Matthias also wrote that Krenz had only been in power for 50 days before being ousted by the people, and he stated that he should have been entitled to social welfare instead of pension and royalty payments. #DDR #Gorbatschow #Wende (translated)