Михайло Подоляк engagement report

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• Sep 10, 20252.4x their median

  Russia deliberately, thoughtfully, and with specific intentions attacked Poland with drones. This is, without a doubt, a completely conscious strategy. To test the "system of possible Western responses" and prove that it does not exist. To shock Ukraine's European partners, frighten them, and remove them from support algorithms. To expand and scale the war on European territory. To accustom them to the idea of the possibility and necessity of war… As has been said repeatedly, Russia will never voluntarily exit the war. Therefore, living in the illusion that it is possible to appease the aggressor (Russia) by making compromises in its favor means only an inevitable massive tragedy for many European countries very soon...

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• Sep 21, 2026

  Ukraine is one of the world’s great chess nations. Its remarkable tradition has produced generations of outstanding players and coaches. Even during an extraordinarily difficult time for the country, Ukrainian chess has remained strong and respected internationally. FIDE is a global organization, and it cannot operate in isolation from what is happening in the world. Ukraine should have its own voice in the room when decisions are discussed and made, and the opportunity to raise directly the issues that matter to its chess community. I would like to invite Ukraine to join our team and nominate its representative to serve as a FIDE Vice President if we are elected. @Podolyak_M, following our recent conversation, I would like to personally ask you to consider this proposal and help make Ukraine’s representation in FIDE’s leadership a reality.

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• Nov 17, 2025

  Russia is not offering a diplomatic settlement; it is offering Ukraine unconditional capitulation. There is no “conflict between two sides.” There is a classic occupation, when a foreign army comes to kill the citizens of another state and take their property — both communal and private — their land and their washing machines. In the Kremlin’s imagination, after four years of bloody war, Ukraine is supposed to disarm its military down to the level of a police force, abandon missiles and drones, hand over its information space to Russian propaganda and cultural trash. In other words, we are being asked to turn ourselves into a vassal. But Ukraine is built differently. We are about creating, building, trading, and earning together with our neighbors. Russia, by contrast, exists like a swarm of locusts: to come, destroy, and carry off everything of value. The border between us lies not only on the map but also in our value systems. That is why forced Russification will not work; on the contrary, for Russia to return to the community of normal states and nations, Russians will have to — paradoxical and strange as it may sound — Ukrainianize themselves. Or Europeanize themselves. Or disappear in their current form as a non-competitive relic of the past.

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• Sep 12, 2025

  Russia has shown that it will attack Europe until it receives a hard response. What is a hard response? - Using frozen Russian assets to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine: approximately 380 billion dollars, of which about 300 billion are in Euroclear. This must happen regardless of Belgium’s position on “reputational risks.” - Financing military production, a significant expansion of European procurement of anti missile systems and missiles. - A substantial increase in strikes on sensitive Russian infrastructure using Ukrainian and partner systems. - Sanctions without exceptions, closing all circumvention schemes and routes. If Russians do not see Europe moving from words to action then Europeans will soon see drones overhead again. But next time there will be hundreds. And this is exclusively about objective reality. It is time to finally get rid of illusions.

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• Nov 13, 2025

  The news about an investigation into a corruption scheme in the energy sector is, unfortunately, not surprising. It is a logical echo of the past, in which the Kremlin spent decades building a system to keep Ukraine within its sphere of influence. Corruption was one of its main instruments, and remnants of that mechanism still exist. However, today’s situation is fundamentally different in nature. The real news is not the fact of wrongdoing itself. What matters is that the independent anti-corruption institutions established after 2014 are working. The very fact that such an investigation has begun, that extensive investigative work has been conducted, and that the highest levels emphasize the need for fair verdicts — all this convincingly demonstrates Ukraine’s transformation. Of course, Russian propaganda will try to use this as proof of Ukraine’s dysfunction. But the reality is the opposite: what we are witnessing is not the collapse of the state but a test of its new institutional foundations. Few countries could, in wartime, detect, investigate, and publicly discuss such cases. We are taking difficult, painful, yet absolutely necessary steps on the path toward integration with the European Union.

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• Feb 12, 2026

  By provocatively disqualifying Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav @Heraskevych before his first start, the International Olympic Committee has once again proven that reputations mean nothing and humanism is a complete fiction. For sports officials, potential Russian sponsorship cash weighs more than Russian mass murders. They’ve decided that silencing aggression and atrocities is more profitable than honesty, confirming that hypocrisy is, unfortunately, the cornerstone of the modern Olympic movement. Silent consent with the aggressor and a timid turning away from its victims will undoubtedly lead to the further erosion of global values. But this is the IOC's choice – absolute and absurd. In contrast, Vladyslav Heraskevych’s choice was flawless. His performance was a powerful manifesto: appearing before millions in a "Helmet of Memory" featuring athletes who fell victim to Russian aggression – his friends who will never realize their sporting ambitions. Heraskevych has turned the page on the old IOC tradition of "see no evil, hear no evil, welcome the murderers." He elevated the issue of "sporting neutrality" as deliberate, monetized hypocrisy to a new level, proving that strength of spirit and loyalty to true ideals are more important than the "here and now." Heraskevych has made the reality of Russian genocide and the mass killing of civilians in Ukraine the defining theme of the 2026 Olympic Games. Whether Ms. Coventry liked it or not is irrelevant. This is a priceless result that offers humanity a second chance and leaves the hypocrites in tracksuits on the sidelines of history.

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• Oct 2, 2025

  The Kremlin is staging pre-accident scenarios at the Zaporizhzhia and Chornobyl nuclear power plants as a tool of blackmail. These are not technical problems but a method of waging war. Russia inflicts maximum damage where it breaks in. It deliberately creates environmental risks in order to extract political dividends by putting pressure on its opponents. The Russians’ sabotage of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was a large-scale catastrophe, but not for Moscow. The same logic applies to the threat against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The risks to Ukraine and to Europe are leverage for the Russians. They are fully capable of destroying the remaining diesel generation at the Zaporizhzhia plant and then blaming Ukraine. The pattern of provocations is familiar: simulated drone attacks, the blocking of airports in Europe, and immediate claims that Kyiv is responsible. There is no point in negotiating with racketeers. The only way to achieve justice is through the inevitability of punishment for the crime.

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• Dec 1, 2025

  On the resignation of Mr. Yermak. This is standard democratic practice. Critics often claim Ukraine is becoming a "mini-Russia" due to wartime limits on rights. However, our democracy remains alive. This is proven by real accountability: the resignation of ministers, the government reboot, and now the Head of the President's Office. During a full-scale war, when people sacrifice so much for the army and recovery, any suspicion of corruption hits public trust harder than in peacetime. Even before legal verdicts, the government cannot ignore serious public concern. This is a classic democratic mechanism. When an official causes public doubt that hinders the President's strategy, they take political responsibility and resign. This is how tension between the people and the state is reduced.

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• Aug 26, 2025

  The question is not what security guarantees Ukraine will receive. Ukraine itself is now the guarantor of the stability of the European security architecture. Unfortunately, Russia is not going anywhere. This zombie state will recover from its defeat only to once again send hordes toward the West. And it is Ukraine, tempered by fire, that will be the main barrier in their path. We are not asking. We are offering a partnership on equal terms. It is now clear that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the main land force on the continent. Only Ukrainian brigades are capable of effectively fulfilling the tasks of collective defense here and now. Our experience, our army, and our will are the backbone of Europe’s future defense power.

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• Feb 3, 2026

  Well… Unfortunately, everything is entirely predictable. Russia sees no reason whatsoever to stop the war, halt genocidal practices, or engage in diplomacy. Only large scale freezing tactics. Only deliberate missile and drone strikes against major urban agglomerations with the aim of causing mass suffering at the peak of extreme winter cold. This is what a Russian “ceasefire” looks like: during a brief thaw, stockpile enough missiles and then strike at night when temperatures drop to minus 24 Celsius or lower, targeting civilians. Strike civilians in Ukraine while simultaneously demonstratively damaging the reputation of American mediators. This is what the entire concept of the “Russian world” has always been about.

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