Jana Zikmundova
@jzk55
Former ambassador of Belgium (ret.) to Ukraine (2011-2014) and Colombia (2017-2021). Memories of Soviet tanks are part of my Czech roots (remember 21.8.1968 ?) Here mainly to denounce Putin's war on 🇺🇦. @DefendDemocracy team member 🇪🇺
Despite 🇷🇺 harassment, #Grimbergen abbey community continues to stand with #Ukraine : ambulance n° 1️⃣7️⃣ is ready to go ❕️🇧🇪 🫶 🇺🇦
It is a new morning on #Greenland 🌄 : trust the #Danes, they know how to lead and deliver 🇩🇰 🇬🇱🇪🇺
Truce for 🎄, like in #WWI ❔️ Unlikely that Putin 's 🇷🇺 regime, based on crime and cruelty towards 🇺🇦, would go along.
The start of the Battle of the Bulge (16.12.1944) soon to be commemorated here in 🇧🇪, with the immense sacrifice of 🇺🇸 soldiers' lives. Will be especially painful to remember them this year.
"Unprovoked war of aggression is the worst crime in international law, so much so that a Special Tribunal had to be set up to prosecute 🇷🇺 leaders who used armed force against Ukraine, in violation of UN Charter. Immunity does not mean impunity." Glad to have spoken on this theme at #GetReady4Europe
"68 Publishers" : what a light feeling each time the book packages arrived in Belgium in godforsaken normalisation years. Did not know they were wrapped and dispatched by Ms Salivarová herself, accompanied by notes such as these (for the memoirs of chess master Pachman price 4$). Labor omnia vincit.
Tariffs earthquake already started, set to worsen tomorrow. A "lose-lose" disaster in the making for *everybody*, courtesy of DJT.
Very timely : on March 15, we remember #Hitler 's full invasion of free #Czechoslovakia in 1939, and subsequent proclamation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The #EU was founded precisely to avoid repetition of such tragedies on our continent. 🇪🇺 #Munich #NeverAgain #StopRussiaArmUkraine 🇺🇦
This Sunday, I was asked to address words of support to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic community in their hour of need : whatever happens, #Putin 's 🇷🇺 must be defeated ! #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦
A busy weekend ahead for the #Baltics and the #EU Commission. 🇪🇺⚡️ #GoodbyeLenin
Why are so few experts talking/writing publicly about these scenarios ? Thank you for bringing hope. #StandWithUkraine #нетвойне
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,279,060 ! Feels good to be here, 🦋 ! #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
8.7.24 🖤 🇺🇦 « Ô Dieu, Tu es là ? – Tu es là et Tu ne Te venges pas ! – Pour Toi, il n'y a pas encore assez de crimes moscovites — ou bien — ou bien Tu es moscovite toi-même. » Frédéric Chopin Journal, 1831
Remember that #Putin 's KGB mission once was to encourage far right in Dresden/Germany ? Memory refresh 👇
Only the people who have experienced USSR/Russia's imperialism for generations of ancestors now feel the threat in their bones. Why ? Because it comes at you like Hokusai's Great Wave : there is no escape and you will be left alone if it suits big powers, like in 1938, 1948, 1956, 1968, 2022 ...
⚠️ BREAKING : check this out on the other platform. Why must we still go there ? 😒 Because not enough serious people do serious and frequent work on 🦋 regarding Putin's 🇷🇺 genocidal war on 🇺🇦. #ViveLaFrance 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷.
Fountain pens so far. Proud of the black Parker gifted to me at an AB InBev site visit in 🇺🇦 in better times (hope they keep working normally there). 🇯🇵Pilot ✨️bought in Kyoto 🌸 not in order, fear it needs special refills not available in 🇧🇪 ? Will try 🇩🇪 Lamy with brown ink. All ✒️✒️✒️ for every day use !
Tired of wars, wherever ? Read Velibor Čolić : "I am no longer a military, nor a writer, even less a man. I am just a survivor." His latest novel is set in Brussels, where memories of Bosnia conflict still haunt him. "Courage and despair have the same root." 💙📚
Bruges and whole 🇧🇪 stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 this Christmas ! Your pain is our pain. 🖤 Genocidal Russia must and will be defeated.
Listening to this old record by Jamala, now exiled somewhere unknown and on Putin's hit list. The fight for freedom of her Crimean Tatar people is not over yet. How good this music is...All Or Nothing.