ISW analysts say Putin is preparing to invade NATO
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ISW analysts say Putin is preparing to invade NATO

Putin
Source:  ISW

The ISW team drew attention to the fact that official Moscow continues to use the concept of "compatriots abroad" to justify its future aggression against NATO countries.

Putin is creating informational conditions to justify a war against NATO

The American Institute for the Study of War has warned that Russian and Belarusian dictators Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko are increasingly repeating the lie that Russia is in an existential geopolitical conflict with an allegedly modern-day Nazi movement that is spreading beyond Ukraine.

What is essential to understand is that the head of the Kremlin and his team have previously applied the label "Nazism" to Western countries and individuals outside of Ukraine. However, the alleged coordinated rhetoric of Putin, Lukashenko, Naryshkin and Volodin on January 27 indicates that the Kremlin can increasingly call "Nazi " for any conditional adversary and possibly the entire West.

The Kremlin may have decided that the simple narrative of Russia and other states fighting a geopolitical Nazi force is a more effective narrative line than Putin's attempt to appeal to Russian citizens and Russian-speakers in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Empire with a "Russian world" ideology".

Most often, Putin mentions the Baltic states

Recently, the Russian dictator also publicly accused the Baltic countries of accepting "Nazism".

According to American analysts, this is part of the ongoing efforts of official Moscow to create informational conditions for future Russian aggression against NATO members.

The President of the Russian Federation cynically lies about the fact that the Baltic countries have declared thousands of people living there to be "subhuman", "depriving" them of their "most basic rights" and subjecting them to "persecution".

ISW continues to assess how Kremlin officials and mouthpieces may be trying to create information conditions for possible future Russian aggression in the Baltic states and other NATO members such as Finland under the guise of protecting "compatriots abroad".

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Canada provided Ukraine with $1.7 billion in proceeds from frozen Russian assets

Denis Shmyhal
Canada

Ukraine received $1.7 billion from Canada. These funds were sent within the framework of the ERA initiative, which involves the G7 countries.

Points of attention

  • Canada has allocated $1.7 billion to Ukraine under the ERA initiative, part of the G7 countries collaboration.
  • The funds are sourced from frozen Russian assets and will be utilized for the priority needs of Ukraine's state budget.
  • This initial tranche is part of a larger commitment of $5 billion from Canada towards ERA for Ukraine.

Canada provided Ukraine with $1.7 billion

This was announced by Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.

Ukraine received 2.5 billion Canadian dollars (about 1.7 billion US dollars) under the G7 ERA initiative.

Denys Shmyhal

Denys Shmyhal

Prime Minister of Ukraine

According to the Prime Minister, the funds, secured by income from frozen Russian assets, will be directed to the priority needs of the state budget.

This is the first tranche from Canada, which has allocated a total of 5 billion Canadian dollars for the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA), which involves providing Ukraine with financial resources from profits from frozen Russian assets.

He also thanked Canada and all G7 partners for creating a mechanism that holds Russia financially responsible for aggression.

Recall that ERA (Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration) is an initiative that involves receiving $50 billion from the G7 countries with subsequent repayment through revenues from the use of frozen Russian assets.

For example, in early March, Ukraine received the first tranche of 752 million pounds ($970 million) from the United Kingdom under the ERA. The funds, as noted above, were provided by proceeds from frozen Russian assets.

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