Andrij, 40, became the soldier's wife - now he is dead
Magnus Falkehed,
Niclas Hammarström (photo)
Published 2024-03-30 22.17
The buyer Andrij became the soldier Konan. Photo: Niclas Hammarström
I'm drinking my morning coffee when it pings in the encrypted chat: Konan, 40, the soldier who enabled Aftonbladet's reporting along the front line to Avdijvka in Ukraine the other week, is dead. So also several of his men.
It's happening again. And again.
The management of the dead; those who are dying, those who died and those who will soon die is one of the most difficult things to describe in the Ukrainian war.
Yet it is precisely this that, beyond the statistics, will decide the war.
As a reporter, I have never felt comfortable with the word "soldier".
Because Konan, whose real name was Andrij, should never have become a soldier. He was a husband and a father to a girl who is now studying in Prague.
His work had never been to kill fellow humans. It was to buy and sell grain to feed fellow humans all over the earth.
But like so many other Ukrainians, the Russian president forced him to put on a uniform and defend his country.
But since the buyer Andrij became the soldier Konan, he, like thousands of other Ukrainians at the front, had already been centimeters away from the ever-present death. The week before our meeting, he had driven a car that was targeted by a drone. His companion in the seat next to him died.
- Four out of twenty men under my command have died, he said then. At the time of writing, there are even more.
Konan, Fransosen and Amur. Photo: Niclas Hammarström
No one for statistics
The news will never become official unless there is a public soldier's funeral. Then maybe a dark hearse drives slowly through a community somewhere far from the front. Flags flutter in the wind and people get down on one knee or just lower their heads a little to show respect and participation.
It happens in cases where there are bodies to bury. None of the missing bodies are included in any statistics of fallen soldiers in Ukraine. Ukraine. They remain missing.
People dying is something that has become commonplace in Ukraine, but that doesn't mean anyone has gotten used to it yet.
But people deal with fragility in different ways. Mobile phones are the main instrument in dealing with death. I noticed that already in the initial stage of the full-scale invasion in Donbass. Group photographs would be taken all the time.
- Do you remember the guy with the Stinger robot? He became meat-slams after we left, was one of the first messages my colleague Niclas Hammarström and I received in 2022. I picked up my phone and looked at the young, smiling and chatty man.
Same thing with roadblocks (with soldiers we joked about) turned into craters, buildings demolished with smiling waiters and customers in the throngs. The mobile phone goes up and the picture evidence that these people have actually existed for a time on earth is scrolled forward.
Photo: Niclas Hammarström / Niclas Hammarström
Uncomfortable with the question
Out on the practice field, group photos are also taken. Then we're standing there a few months later with an acquaintance who points to the pictures: "he's dead and he, like him... You remember him too, don't you? He was the one who…”
I noticed a turning point about a year into the war, when the so-called meat grinder began to grind in earnest, mainly around Bachmut. Suddenly, more and more Ukrainians at the front felt uncomfortable with the question of what they would do in civilian life after the end of the war.
In fact, they only dreamed of surviving the night.
For the fortunes of war have turned—as if there had ever been any fortune in war?
Now the Ukrainian fighting morale is put to perhaps its toughest test since the start of the war of invasion. Wounded soldiers have to lie for hours and days waiting for help. New recruitment is at rock bottom.
Voters in Europe are preparing to vote for parties that want to end the costly aid, while Trump supporters withhold US supplies.
Russia lost tens of thousands of soldiers in Avdijvka – a small industrial town that can be closely compared to Swedish Grums. But in front of them, the Russians have a Ukrainian army that waited too long to switch to a defensive war.
Ukraine hoped that their friends in the West would indeed provide them with the necessary ammunition to drive wedges into the Russian meat grinder.
Avdiivka, February 2024. Photo: Niclas Hammarström
"Then they are outside your capital"
The four cannons Konan commanded were mostly silent. His Grad model rocket launcher was completely out of ammunition. The colleagues with grenade launchers 1500 meters from the Russians had only a few boxes of grenades, where they had previously been able to pour a sea of fire on the enemy who has now occupied their former trenches on the plain.
- I am the one who gave my soldiers the order to start digging new trenches. Excavators? No, they dig with their shovels, Konan told us.
Compare that to the lines of defense the Russians built with anti-tank concrete cones and acres upon acres of dense minefields before Ukraine's failed counteroffensive last year.
I asked Konan if he thought the Russians would soon capture the rail junction in the town of Pokrovsk, a good half-hour's drive on potholed roads northwest of his own position.
- The answer is simple. It depends on how many of us die. When we're all dead, the Russians won't be in Pokrovsk. Then they will be outside your capital, he said.
How it ends, Konan will never get to experience.
Aftonbladet's team: Magnus Falkehed, reporter, and Niclas Hammarström, photographer.
Grape harvest in southwest France. Archive image. 1 / 2Photo: Francois Mori/AP/TT
The delicate vines are often likened to the canary in the coal mine for a changed climate.
Up to 70 percent of wine regions could become unsuitable for production if the world misses climate targets, according to a study.
Today's successful wine regions are mainly located in the middle latitudes. There it is warm enough for the grapes to ripen, but not too hot, and relatively dry so that diseases do not spread as easily.
But climate change's persistent drought and more frequent heat waves are redrawing the wine map – a reality producers already have to deal with.
Previous studies have focused on regional conditions. Now a group of researchers wants to provide a global picture of the changing geography of wine by compiling the results.
There are winners
There are winners and losers. Cultivation may become possible in places that have not previously been suitable, while already hot and dry regions will have the hardest time.
Between 11 and 25 percent of wine regions may face more favorable production as a result of rising temperatures. New suitable areas may also emerge at higher altitudes or more northerly latitudes (such as southern Britain), according to the literature review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.
It looks worse in 49 to 70 percent of the wine regions, depending on the degree of global warming. Here, the researchers see a "considerable risk" that it will no longer be economically beneficial to produce good wine.
- You can still make wine almost anywhere, but we have looked at quality wine with economically profitable harvests, says lead author Cornelis van Leeuwen to the AFP news agency.
Increased diversity
Exactly how bleak the future will be is determined by how severe climate change will be in combination with the opportunity and ability to adapt.
To avoid sunburned grapes, there are simple tricks such as shading the vines. However, increased diversity among the grapes can help the most, according to the researchers.
"There are still hundreds to thousands of different variants and clones waiting to be explored, many of which will have valuable traits for adaptation to climate change," the researchers write.
China has built a replica of Taipei: "Planning invasion"
Martin Palmborg
Published 00.19
Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: Ng Han Guan/AP
China has built a replica of Taiwan's capital, Taipei.
There they conduct military exercises with bomber flights and now experts are warning of the threat to Taiwan.
"China is planning a full-scale invasion," writes China expert Julien Hoez at X.
In the desert of Inner Mongolia, China has built a replica of the government quarters in Taipei. It shows satellite images published on X by Taiwanese defense analyst Joseph Wen.
A map comparison shows how the capital's central road network has been recreated in the middle of the wasteland.
The replica is also located in a military area where the Chinese conduct aerial bombardment training and gunnery exercises.
Satellite images show how China built its copy. Published by Taiwanese Defense Analyst. Photo: X/Joseph Wen
Planning an invasion
The pictures of the training field have also been noticed by the French China expert Julien Hoez, who is now warning of an invasion.
"It's an exact copy of the road network near Taiwan's presidential palace," he writes on X and continues:
"China is planning a full-scale invasion of Taiwan in a geopolitical game that destabilizes the region".
Not the first replica of Taipei
It's unclear when the area was built, but it has been around since at least December 2022, according to Business Insider.Business Insider.
It is also not the first time that the Chinese have created a replica of the Taiwanese capital. In 2014 and 2015, state broadcaster CCTV showed footage of troops conducting military exercises against a replica of the presidential palace in Taipei, according to Diplomat newspaper.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen. Photo: Chiang Ying-Ying/AP
American politics Trump spread picture of back-tied Biden: Gets criticism
Ellen Sundstrom
Published 2024-03-31 23.23
Earlier this week, Trump posted a video clip on his social media depicting a tied Joe Biden.
Now he is receiving criticism, including from Biden's team.
- Trump continues to advocate political violence and it is time to take him seriously, campaign manager Michael Tyler told CNN.
Trump posted the clip on his own platform Truth Social on Friday, CNN writes. The video appears to have been filmed the day before, when Trump was in Long Island, New York, to visit the memorial service for slain police officer Jonathan Diller.
The video shows a pickup truck with a picture of Joe Biden who appears to be lying on his side with his hands and feet tied.
- This post from Trump is exactly the kind of crap you put out when you call for "a bloodbath", says Biden's campaign manager Michael Tyler to CNN.
He also refers to the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
- It's time to take him seriously, just ask the police officers who were attacked while defending our democracy on January 6.
Donald Trump. Photo: Mike Stewart/AP
Trump's campaign manager Steven Cheung said in a statement that "Democrats and crazies" have called for violence against the former president and his family.
- They are also using the legal system as a weapon against him, he said.
Escalated mood
Ahead of the presidential election in November, the exchanges between Biden and Trump have escalated more and more.
Biden has recently mocked Trump for his golfing and even challenged him to a round himself. Earlier in March, Trump warned that there could be "a bloodbath" for the American car industry and the United States in general if he does not win the election.
China's global ambitions The hackers' email looked like a newsletter: "Nasty"
KD politician Elisabet Lann, municipal councilor in Gothenburg, has also been exposed in the extensive Chinese hacker attack that became known this week, reports SVT Nyheter.
In her case, it was an email that she received and opened in 2021. It looked like a regular newsletter and the group behind it may have accessed information about her geographic location and IP address. She describes it as "disgusting".
- This is not just a general spam attack that can hit anyone, but this is aimed at democratically elected politicians.
The hacker attack is said to have targeted several million people and politicians in several countries have been affected.
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Arrested reporters in Russia Putin seems to want to replace the reporter with a bicycle torpedo
Russia seems to want to exchange the imprisoned Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich for the Russian torpedo Vadim Krasikov, writes the BBC.
Krasikov is convicted of having shot dead a Chechen former commander who lived in exile in Berlin. He is also suspected of several murders where he is believed to have used a bicycle as an escape vehicle, which earned him the nickname "the bicycle torpedo".
When President Vladimir Putin was interviewed by American media profiler Tucker Carlson, he said he wanted a "Russian patriot who has eliminated a bandit in Europe" to be included in a prisoner exchange for an American citizen.
Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian security and the history of Vladimir Putin, says the switch would send a clear message to Russian foreign agents.
- It may take a long time, but we will get you out. An important message to people who put themselves in very dangerous situations.
Benjamin Netanyahu will be sedated during surgery tonight
Tonight, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be sedated and undergo hernia surgery, the Times of Israel reports.
The hernia was discovered during a routine check-up on Saturday and the 74-year-old Prime Minister will undergo surgery after a meeting with the War Cabinet this evening.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin will temporarily take over the role of Prime Minister.
- I will get through this procedure and return to work immediately, says Netanyahu at a press conference. ....................................
Violent protests in Israel against Netanyahu's government
Protesters and Israeli police clashed in connection with a large anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv, reports Haaretz.
The demonstrators demanded, as in several previous protests, that new elections be held and that concrete measures to release the Israelis that Hamas has taken hostage be introduced.
During the protests, people have, among other things, blocked roads and gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem. The police responded with tear gas and water cannons, after which the protesters began lighting fires and blocking more roads. At least 16 people have been arrested. ...................................
Knife attack at central station in Israel - soldier stabbed
A man went on a knife attack at the central station in the city of Beersheba in Israel on Sunday morning. A man in his 20s was stabbed. The perpetrator was then shot dead by security forces.
Israeli police describe it as a terrorist attack.
- A terrorist came with a knife and stabbed a soldier. Other soldiers came and shot him, an eyewitness told Ynet.
Video clips from the incident show how panic broke out at the central station.
Today, Ukraine would have voted on Zelensky's future
In another world, Ukrainians would go to the polls today and give their verdict on the leadership of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. But just over two years into the full-scale war, a presidential election is not in sight, and not many Ukrainians seem to long for one either, writes CNN.
According to a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in February, only 15 percent of the population thinks the country should vote now. The constitution, which states that Ukraine will vote today, March 31, also states that elections cannot be held in wartime.
Several military personnel that CNN spoke to express concern that a presidential election would at least temporarily weaken the situation at the front, when new leaders and positions are to be appointed.
- A power vacuum during the transition period could pose a threat to the leadership of the military and the functioning of the state, says soldier Oleksandr Voitko.
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The Russian invasion The concert attack in Moscow Russia demands the extradition of Ukraine's security chief
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accuses several Ukrainian officials of having been involved in "terrorist attacks" against Russia and demands that these be extradited to Russia, writes Reuters.
Among the officials is Vasyl Malyuk, head of Ukraine's security service SBU.
The Russian Foreign Ministry lists a series of attacks, including last week's concert attack in Moscow, and states that "the clues point to Ukrainian involvement." No evidence for this is presented.
The SBU responds by calling the demand "meaningless" and writes that the Russian ministry seems to have forgotten that President Putin is internationally wanted for war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.
Ukraine and several Western countries have strongly denied that Kyiv is involved in the Moscow deed, which IS has claimed.
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The Russian invasion. The outside world's response Germany urged to do more: "Only we have the ability"
When the support from the USA to Ukraine does not materialize, there is only one country that can take the leadership shirt: Germany. This is what the journalism professor, author and economist Henrik Müller writes in his Sunday column in the German Der Spiegel.
"The less the United States can be trusted, the more we are responsible for Europe's security, whether we like it or not [...] Only we have the ability to create a real European counterweight to Vladimir Putin."
All other countries are too small or too weak militarily, he continues. Germany is Europe's largest economy and also has the largest population. Even if it is an "inconvenient truth", this must now be used to defend Europe's freedom.
"Everyone else is waiting for Germany," he writes.
Germany's former federal president Joachim Gauck also calls on the government to do more, including sending the Taurus cruise robots, writes Die Welt.
- Anyone who does not believe that this is our war and that the costs are too high risks having a hard awakening, he says.
John Bolton was, during Donald Trump's time as president, national security adviser. But in recent years, he has turned from a Trump friend to one of his sharpest critics.
In an interview with DN, Bolton says that he thinks it is good for NATO that Sweden has joined the alliance and at the same time gives a picture of how he thinks Trump sees the matter.
- I'm not sure he knows where Sweden is. It is probably good from Sweden's perspective. He knows very little about the rest of the world, he says.
Trump has recently made a series of statements critical of NATO. Bolton says that the criticism is probably based on the fact that the former president "does not understand alliances". .................................
Biden's trans statement is met with conservative Easter cheer
A number of conservative Americans rage against Joe Biden's attention to the official day for the visibility of transgender people, which this year coincides with Easter Sunday. This is written by a number of media.
Former sports star Caitlyn Jenner, who herself is trans, writes on X that she is "disgusted".
"The only thing to pay attention to is that he is resurrected," she writes, referring to Jesus' resurrection.
Donald Trump's campaign says Biden's commemoration of the day, in which he called for an end to violence and discrimination against transgender people, was intended to "divide the country."
Biden declared the day official already in 2021. The fact that it coincides with the Christian holiday this year is because Easter is not celebrated on the same date every year.
John Bolton var under Donald Trumps tid som president
nationell säkerhetsrådgivare. Men på senare år har han vänt om från
Trumpvän till en av hans skarpaste kritiker.
I en intervju med DN
säger Bolton att han tycker det är bra för Nato att Sverige har gått
med i alliansen och ger samtidigt en bild av hur han tror att Trump ser
på saken.
– Jag är inte säker på att han vet var Sverige ligger.
Det är förmodligen bra ur Sveriges perspektiv. Han kan mycket lite om
resten av världen, säger han.
Trump har den senaste tiden gjort
en rad Nato-kritiska uttalanden. Bolton säger att kritiken troligtvis
grundar sig i att expresidenten ”inte förstår allianser”.
Bidens transuttalande möts av konservativ påskilska
En rad konservativa amerikaner rasar mot att Joe Biden har
uppmärksammat den officiella dagen för synliggörandet av transpersoner,
som i år sammanfaller med påskdagen. Det skriver en rad medier.
Tidigare idrottsstjärnan Caitlyn Jenner, som själv är trans, skriver på X att hon är ”äcklad”.
”Det enda man ska uppmärksamma är att han är uppstånden”, skriver hon syftandes på Jesus uppståndelse.
Donald
Trumps kampanj säger att Bidens uppmärksammande av dagen, där han
uppmanade till ett slut på våldet och diskrimineringen mot
transpersoner, var ämnat att ”splittra landet”.
Biden
deklarerade dagen officiell redan 2021. Att den i år sammanfaller med
den kristna högtiden beror på att påsken inte firas samma datum varje
år.
Prominent AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, also called "the godfather of AI", left his top job at Google because he wanted to be free to speak about the existential risk of the technology. He says so in a long interview with Nikkei Asia.
Hinton has been a vocal advocate of the threat to humanity that AI may pose. According to him, we will get to a point where the AI develops and improves itself at such a fast pace that we humans cannot keep up.
Ilya Sutskever, who tried and failed to oust Open AI CEO Sam Altman last fall, is one of Hinton's former students. Even the high-profile conflict was largely based on security issues. The researcher believes that Open AI initially had a good plan where safety was put first.
- But even there it changed and profit came first, Hinton tells the newspaper. The development of AI
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Sources: Microsoft invests 1,000 billion in supercomputer
Microsoft and Open AI plan to invest upwards of 100 billion dollars – the equivalent of over 1,000 billion kroner – to build an AI supercomputer. The site The Information reports with reference to sources. According to the information, the tech giant will finance the construction.
The goal is for the "Stargate" project to be commissioned in 2028. The alleged cost would make the data center about a hundred times more expensive than the most expensive data centers in use today. The development of the Swedish krona
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The krone weak into the holidays: "It will be quite expensive to travel"
Since the beginning of the year, the krona has once again lost ground against both the euro and the dollar. But it is not a weakening of the krona but a strengthened dollar, says SEB's senior economist Robert Bergqvist to DN.
This is due to a combination of a strong economy in the US and interest rates not being lowered. It is likely that the krona will continue to be weak until the summer, when both the Riksbank and the Fed are expected to make their first reductions.
- Expect that it will be quite expensive to travel abroad, says Bergqvist.
Den framstående AI-forskaren Geoffrey Hinton, också kallad
”AI:s gudfader” lämnade sitt toppjobb på Google eftersom han ville ha
ryggen fri att tala om den existentiella risken med tekniken. Det säger
han i en lång intervju med Nikkei Asia.
Hinton har varit en
högljudd förespråkare för hotet mot mänskligheten som AI kan utgöra.
Enligt honom kommer vi komma till en punkt där AI:n utvecklar och
förbättrar sig själv i så snabb takt att vi människor inte hinner med.
Ilya
Sutskever, som både försökte och misslyckades att få bort Open AI:s vd
Sam Altman i höstas, är en av Hintons tidigare elever. Även den
uppmärksammade konflikten grundade sig i stort i säkerhetsfrågor.
Forskaren menar att Open AI initialt hade ett bra upplägg där säkerheten
sattes i första rummet.
– Men till och med där ändrades det och vinsten gick före, säger Hinton till tidningen.
Källor: Microsoft investerar 1 000 miljarder i superdator
Microsoft och Open AI planerar att investera uppemot 100
miljarder dollar – motsvarande över 1 000 miljarder kronor – för att
bygga en AI-superdator. Det rapporterar sajten The Information med
hänvisning till källor. Techjätten ska enligt uppgifterna finansiera
bygget.
Målet är att projektet ”Stargate” ska tas i bruk under
2028. Den påstådda kostnaden skulle göra datacentret omkring hundra
gånger dyrare än de mest påkostade datacenter som är i bruk i dag.
Kronan svag in i semestern: ”Blir ganska dyrt att resa”
Sedan inledningen av året har kronan återigen tappat mot både
euron och dollarn. Men det är inte en försvagning av kronan utan en
stärkt dollar det handlar om, säger SEB:s seniorekonom Robert Bergqvist
till DN.
Det beror på en kombination av en stark ekonomi i USA
och att räntorna inte sänks. Troligen kommer kronan fortsätta vara svag
fram till sommaren, då både Riksbanken och Fed spås göra sina första
sänkningar.
– Räkna med att det blir ganska dyrt att resa utomlands, säger Bergqvist.
The opposition claims victory in both Istanbul and Ankara
The opposition is linking its grip on power in both Turkey's largest city Istanbul and the capital Ankara, reports Reuters.
In Istanbul, incumbent mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has declared himself victorious and in Ankara his party colleague Mansur Yavas has done the same.
President Erdogan's party lost power in both cities in 2019 and hoped to regain it in Sunday's local elections. The majority of Turkey's citizens live in the cities, which means that the local elections are a clear indication of the political situation in the country.
After the election, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is portrayed as a serious presidential contender. Especially since, according to the constitution, Erdogan is not allowed to stand in the next presidential election. .....................................
One dead in clash at Turkish polling station
There was unrest at a polling station in the southeastern Turkish region of Diyarbakir, writes TT. Two groups clashed and around twelve people are said to have been injured and an election officer killed.
"An extremely serious incident," writes Kristoffer Tamsons (M), the opposition regional councilor in Stockholm, who is on site as an election observer to TT.
Polling stations are held in Turkey on Sunday. Mayors, regional leaders and neighborhood leaders must be elected. The fight in Diyarbakir is linked to the election of a neighborhood leader, says SR's correspondent Samar Hadrous.
Oppositionen kopplar greppet om makten i både Turkiets största stad Istanbul och huvudstaden Ankara, rapporterar Reuters.
I
Istanbul har sittande borgmästaren Ekrem Imamoglu utropat sig till
segrare och i Ankara har hans partikollega Mansur Yavas gjort detsamma.
President
Erdogans parti tappade makten i båda städerna 2019 och hoppades kunna
återta den under söndagens lokalval. Majoriteten av Turkiets medborgare
bor i städerna vilket innebär att lokalvalen är en tydlig fingervisning
för det politiska läget i landet.
Efter valet målas
Istanbulborgmästaren Ekrem Imamoglu ut som en seriös presidentutmanare.
Särskilt eftersom Erdogan enligt konstitutionen inte får ställa upp i
nästa presidentval.
En död i sammandrabbning vid turkisk vallokal
Det blev oroligt vid en vallokal i den sydöstra turkiska
regionen Diyarbakir, skriver TT. Två grupper drabbade samman och omkring
tolv personer ska ha skadats och en valförrättare dödats.
”En
oerhört allvarlig incident”, skriver Kristoffer Tamsons (M)
oppositionsregionråd i Stockholm, som är på plats som valobservatör till
TT.
Det hålls vallokal i Turkiet under söndagen. Borgmästare,
regionsledare och ledare för grannskap ska väljas. Bråket i Diyarbakir
kopplas till valet av en grannskapsledare, säger SR:s korrespondent
Samar Hadrous.
Violent protests in Israel against Netanyahu's government
Demonstrators and Israeli police clashed in connection with a large anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv, reports Haaretz.
The demonstrators demanded, as in several previous protests, that new elections be held and that concrete measures to release the Israelis that Hamas has taken hostage be introduced.
During the protests, people have, among other things, blocked roads and gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem. The police responded with tear gas and water cannons, after which the protesters began lighting fires and blocking more roads. At least 16 people have been arrested.
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The Israel-Hamas warThe reactions Expert: Biden will not stop arms exports despite the pressure
American weapons continue to flow into Israel. This despite the fact that President Joe Biden has repeatedly pointed out against Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to invade Rafah and that a majority of the US population is against the support.
Stephen Zunes, a professor specializing in American policy towards Israel and Palestine, tells DN that the White House is likely to be pressured by the situation.
- Because they see the polls, they see the protests, they start to hear the opposition from the more left-wing Democrats, he says.
At the same time, he adds that it is unlikely that arms exports will be stopped as they have almost never been questioned in Congress.
On Friday, sources told the Washington Post that the White House approved sending 2,300 bombs to Israel. One of the sources then said that they will not condition the arms export.
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte calls the dawn raid by police on her residence on Saturday a "threat to democracy", local media reports.
- I respect the investigation. But I contradict the way it is implemented. It is discriminatory and against the constitution, she says in a speech to the nation.
She adds that she has been compliant despite the "arbitrary and offensive" raid on her home.
The raid was part of a corruption investigation against Boluarte, and the police searched for, among other things, about ten Rolex watches and a diamond bracelet from the brand Cartier.
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Raid on Peru's president - police search for jewellery
A large police force has carried out a search of Peru's president Dina Boluarte's home in the capital Lima. A video shared by El Comercio shows the police slamming the door.
The president is suspected of having illegally enriched himself in what Peruvian media call the "Rolex case". At an event in New York recently, she wore a gold and diamond bracelet from the brand Cartier, which costs over half a million kroner. She also frequently wears a gold Rolex watch.
The police carry out the raid following a court order. This is to verify which jewelery is in the home. According to the newspaper Perú 21, the police have, among other things, received orders to seize watches, jewelry, documents and cars.
