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Ukraine is applying for “accelerated ascension” into NATO, in a symbolic move, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday.

21 to call up as many as [300,000 reservists](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/21/russia-partial-mobilization-putin-war-ukraine/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_6) in a dramatic bid to reverse setbacks in his war on Ukraine. [Putin declared a military mobilization](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/21/putin-speech-annexation-ukraine-russia/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_5) on Sept. [Russia-Ukraine war](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-russia/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_17). President Volodymyr Zelensky also said Friday that Ukraine is [applying for “accelerated ascension” into NATO](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/30/ukraine-application-nato-russia-war/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_4), in an apparent answer to the annexations. [annex four occupied regions of Ukraine](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/30/putin-ukraine-annexation-russia-ceremony/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_1), following staged referendums that were widely denounced as illegal. [Subscribe to our channel](https://t.me/washingtonpost?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_18) for updates and exclusive video. NATO allies do not and will not recognize any of this territory as part of Russia,” he added. Member countries, including the United States, have drawn clear lines: They arm Ukraine, but they don’t have their own troops on the ground out of concern for triggering a World War. “A decision on membership of course has to be taken by all 30 allies and we take these decisions by consensus,” he said. To victory.” At the time of Putin’s speech, Zelensky was meeting with his National Security Council. NATO could already expand by year’s end; Sweden and Finland requested to join in May.

Knowledge security entails mitigating the risks of espionage, unwanted knowledge transfers, intellectual property theft, data leakage and the misuse of ...

Applying the assemblage approach to the DREAMS Lab case has offered an empirical example of what such a response to hybrid threats in the civilian domain might look like. Responding to cases like DREAMS Lab requires a careful analysis and consideration of the different perceptions, interests and dependencies of the actors involved, and close collaboration across government and society at large. Second, the policy and practice of knowledge security helped to bring the concerns of different actors together and make the threat actionable. The Ministers and State Secretary identified a number of countermeasures, including the development and implementation of the guidelines that resulted in the above mentioned Framework. To illustrate the challenges of responding to hybrid threats in the knowledge domain, we draw on empirical fieldwork conducted in 2021 on a Sino-Dutch research project on AI called DREAMS Lab.DREAMS Lab is a collaborative project run by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Free University of Amsterdam (VU). One of the primary objectives of these knowledge security measures is to ensure a reciprocal exchange of knowledge and expertise and prevent the undesired transfer of sensitive knowledge or technologies. Concerns about the implication of undesired knowledge transfer for the Dutch innovation and research community resonated with the Ministries of Economic Affairs and of Education as well as sector organisations like the aforementioned VSNU. The Framework not only encompassed a risk analysis and guidelines, but also offered six concrete instruments to promote knowledge security and prevent abuse, such as a national network of advisory teams, a checklist for international collaboration, a risk and incident register, training sessions and awareness campaigns. Knowledge security is a term used by the Dutch government (and increasingly by universities) to refer to the risks of working with research partners from countries such as China but also Iran and Russia. As will become clear, the DREAMS Lab case offers insights relevant to NATO regarding the nature of hybrid threats in the knowledge domain and could help encourage member countries to take appropriate knowledge security measures. In the context of research on and the development of high-end technology, knowledge security is vital to NATO’s ability to deter and defend against adversaries and protect the prosperity of its members. The development of such an approach is hindered by diverging threat perceptions, interests and levels of awareness of the stakeholders (civilian and military; private and public) involved.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismisses Moscow ceremony as a farce and rules out negotiations with Putin.

Ukraine’s army released video of what appeared to be Russian soldiers fleeing across a wood in the Lyman region. It now seems likely that Ukrainian units will be able to make further territorial gains in the north of Luhansk province. The Russian army is facing embarrassing military defeat and the possible collapse of its northern front in the Donetsk and Luhansk region. Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, tweeted a picture of a cauldron, a reference to the fact Russian soldiers were apparently trapped in Lyman. The Kyiv Post tweeted a question of the day asking: “On scale from 1,000 to 1,001, how mentally deranged is he?” Earlier this month, Ukraine’s armed forces launched a surprise counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region, liberating an area half the size of Wales. The Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko described Putin as an “insane, inadequate person” and said Russia under his two-decade leadership had become a “constant danger to the world”. Zelenskiy said Putin’s willingness to kill and torture in order to expand his “zone of control” was madness. They dismissed Russia’s president as delusional and said his new “treaty” incorporating four regions of Ukraine into Russia would make no difference to the situation on the ground, where Ukrainian troops are on the brink of securing a major victory. Moscow was against “life, the law, humanity and truth”, he added. He promised the application would happen in an “expedited manner”. [Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine) – real on the battlefield and in all aspects of our interaction,” he said.

Recent actions by Russia constitute the most serious escalation of the conflict since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February,...

"Putin has mobilised hundreds of thousands of more troops, engaged in irresponsible nuclear sabre-rattling and now illegally annexed more Ukrainian territory. Together, this represents the most serious escalation since the start of the war," Stoltenberg told a news conference on Friday. Recent actions by Russia constitute the most serious escalation of the conflict since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says.

Ukraine will request fast-track NATO membership, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Friday (30 September), shortly after Russia formally annexed ...

Therefore, we are ready for a dialogue with Russia, but with another president of Russia,” Zelenskyy said. Upon receiving a formal letter of intent, the military alliance would need to assess the request in a sitting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) of the 30 member countries, probably at the ambassadorial level. “We are making our defining step by signing Ukraine’s application for accession to NATO in an expedited manner,” Zelenskyy announced in a

Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent actions in Ukraine amount to the most serious escalation of the war to date, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says.

This land grab is illegal and illegitimate," he said. But he will not succeed in that," he told a news conference. NATO has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of provoking "the most serious escalation" of the war in Ukraine since it began, but said he would not succeed in deterring the alliance from supporting Kyiv.

Putin announces annexation of occupied Ukrainian territories ... On Friday, September 30, Russia announced annexation of the territories it had seized in ...

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The petty-bourgeois Anticapitalistas tendency is signaling that its middle class supporters should rally to the support of Podemos' right-wing agenda based ...

The hostility of middle class “left populist” parties like Podemos to the workers is irrefutably established. This requires building sections of the ICFI in Spain and internationally, based on the colossal political experiences embodied in its defence of Trotskyism, to wage an uncompromising struggle against the PSOE-Podemos government, its appendages in the union bureaucracy and groups like Anticapitalistas. The PP would go from 91 seats to 139 in the 350-seat assembly, and the PSOE would obtain 92, falling from the previous 120 seats and Podemos would go down from 26 to 23. She concluded, “Irene Montero is not a friend of mine, but the blows they are giving her are the ones that the patriarchy would like to give each one of us. Factions of the bourgeoisie are concerned that Podemos faces an electoral debacle in next year’s November elections, due to the unpopular right-wing policies it has pursued. Not in the same way, not with the same violence.” It also supports the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO—another reckless provocation against Moscow—and is preparing to hike Spain’s military budget by a historic 20 percent. That is the significance of the message we are sending today.” And I say this proudly because I am tired of this feeling that they are giving us women and feminism with a string of constant attacks on the Minister of Equality.” They did so, not because they opposed any of Podemos’ signature policies in government: its back-to-work order amid the pandemic which led to tens of thousands of deaths, its austerity policies and its police state measures against Catalan nationalists. Anticapitalistas founded Podemos in 2014 along with Stalinist professors like Pablo Iglesias, Montero’s current partner, and Irene Montero herself, a former member of the Communist Party Youth. Her title was a reference to the French government’s “Je suis Charlie” slogan after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks, which it used to stoke anti-Muslim sentiment and back police-state policies.

NATO has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of provoking "the most serious escalation" of the war in Ukraine since it began, but said he would not ...

This land grab is illegal and illegitimate,” he said. “Together this is the most serious escalation of the conflict since the start and the aim of President Putin is to deter us from supporting Ukraine. NATO has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of provoking “the most serious escalation” of the war in Ukraine since it began, but said he would not succeed in deterring the alliance from supporting Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he was accelerating his country's bid to join NATO, hours after Russia declared it would annex four new ...

He accused the West of seeking to turn Russia into a colony, railed against LGBTQ rights, and again made veiled references to nuclear weapons, noting that the United States had “setting a precedent” for their use at the end of World War II. “For now, we should respond with words of reassurance to Ukraine,” Townsend said. The official added that the bid would also allow Ukraine to accelerate military reforms that would be needed to join the alliance in the future. But Moscow may use them to reframe the war as a defensive operation to defend the newly absorbed territories or as a pretext to escalate, claiming Ukraine has attacked Russian territory. [vowed](https://www.reuters.com/world/extracts-putins-speech-annexation-ceremony-2022-09-30/) that the people of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are “becoming our citizens forever.” Sham referendums held at gunpoint in the four regions over the past week were condemned by Ukrainian and Western officials. The United States and Britain immediately slapped sanctions on the head of Russia’s central bank, Elvira Nabiullina, while the Biden administration also moved to impose sanctions on Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s wife and daughters in an effort to further isolate the Kremlin’s elite after a monthslong drumbeat of sanctions. [Jens Stoltenberg](https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-formal-application-join-nato/) said in a press conference on Friday that Ukraine has a right to apply for NATO membership, even as the alliance has sought to avoid entering a shooting war with Russia. “Every democracy in Europe has the right to apply for NATO membership,” Stoltenberg said. Both Nordic countries applied to join NATO in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But some alliance members later soured on the idea of bringing both countries into NATO at subsequent alliance summits after sharp backlash from Russia as well as Russia’s war to illegally annex parts of Georgia later that year. “It’s logic as much as the battle of symbols,” one Ukrainian official told Foreign Policy, speaking on condition of anonymity to speak about ongoing policy debates. A foundation of the NATO alliance is its so-called Article 5 collective defense clause, which states that any attack on one alliance member constitutes an attack on all members, prompting a full alliance response.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his threat to block the NATO bids of Sweden and Finland, saying he would not give his approval until the two ...

The blasts resulted in four leaks and the venting of methane gas into the sea. Stoltenberg said it is a decision that requires a consensus of all 30 allies, and the focus should remain on helping Kyiv's war effort. [Live Briefing](https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crisis-crosshairs-live-briefing/31668477.html) gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, Russian protests, and the plight of civilians. Speaking at a news conference in Brussels, Stoltenberg condemned the Russian "land grab" of four Ukrainian provinces in decrees signed by Putin earlier at a Kremlin ceremony. "The residents of these regions do not want to return to Ukraine. "The results of the referendums speak for themselves," Nebenzya said. response to Iranian drones as a "hostile action" and reserved the right to respond. Security forces reportedly tried to prevent protesters from gathering in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on September 30. The single vote from Russia, one of five permanent members of the council, was enough to block the resolution's passage. Moscow has used Lyman as a logistical hub for operations in the northern part of the Donetsk region. Lyman will be Ukraine," one of the soldiers says in the video. "People in Bulgaria and across Europe are feeling the consequences of Russia's war [against Ukraine]," von der Leyen said.

President Erdogan has accused both countries of being havens for Kurdish militants, specifically highlighting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), ...

"Until the promises made to our country are kept, we will maintain our principled position," Erdogan said in a speech to parliament in Ankara. "We are closely following whether the promises made by Sweden and Finland are kept or not, and of course, the final decision will be up to our great parliament," he added. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Turkey would not ratify the NATO membership bids of Sweden and Finland until the two Nordic countries "kept" promises they had made to Ankara.

Would-be NATO member Sweden on Friday announced it will allow exports of arms to Turkey, which had threatened to block the Scandinavian nation's application ...

A delegation from Sweden is expected in Ankara next week to discuss Turkish requests for the extradition of figures wanted by Turkey. Turkey’s parliament has yet to ratify Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO, and Friday’s step was widely seen as aimed at securing Ankara’s approval. NATO operates by consensus so Turkey needs to approve.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday trained guns on Sweden and Finland once again regarding NATO membership and said Ankara continues to ...

Erdogan continues to denounce Finland and Sweden for providing a safe haven to Kurdish 'terrorists'. If Finland and Sweden wish to, they can join. “We don’t have problems with Sweden and Finland like we do with Ukraine. So far, 28 out of 30 countries have signed the document. The accession will only be complete after all 30 NATO allies have signed the form. Turkey would not ratify the NATO membership bids of Sweden and Finland until the two Nordic countries "kept" promises they had made to Ankara.