Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@TimoOlkkonen) profile picture

Deputy Director General for Africa, Middle East and Latin America at @Ulkoministerio. RT:s not necessarily endorsements.

Helsinki, Finland
Joined June 2015
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Russia lost 54,200 troops (killed or wounded) in October, the first month of the war over 50,000. For their efforts, Russia has gained no net ground in October. This is the most pointless war in the history of wars. Great job, Putin.
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
diplomat dressing up as a diplomat this halloween so he can tell everyone he's a diplomat
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP. 🎥 The Guardian
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Finnish Foreign Minister Valtonen and I signed a Technology Prosperity Deal and a Critical Minerals Framework Agreement that will strengthen our economic and strategic cooperation. I welcome Finland’s partnership on critical minerals and commitment to sustained defense investment.
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
President of Finland @AlexStubb received credentials from the new Ambassador of Botswana, Juliana Angela Dube-Gobotswang (accredited from Stockholm).
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
If I were a Russian, I really wouldn't start telling the Nordics that medieval history justifies invasions.
Putin spent most of a 90-minute call today lecturing the leaders of Finland and Norway on medieval Slavic history rather than discussing a peace deal in Ukraine, three people familiar with the conversation told the FT. ft.com/content/a384acd1-c90c…
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Warm congratulations to President @LulaOficial on your re-election. I wish you every success in leading your country and look forward to continuing the excellent cooperation between us and our nations also in the upcoming term.
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
How Many People Can Speak 3+ Languages By European Country credit: @Maps_interlude brilliantmaps.com/3-language…
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
I know Putin is a monster but seeing him ‘thanking Melania Trumр for her humanitarian effort’ in Oleshky after his own Russian army first occupied it to then starve the people there is some very special level of psychopathy
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
I welcome the Sakharov Prize awarded to the International Criminal Court. For victims of the world's gravest crimes, justice means a voice. The @IntlCrimCourt must be free to pursue its mission, independently, and without pressure or intimidation. Europe stands firmly behind President Tomoko Akane, the Court's judges and officials, and their vital work for a world governed by rules.
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
The International Criminal Court and its officials have been awarded the European Parliament's 2026 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Learn more about the laureate here ➡️ link.europa.eu/rVBvTR
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Commander Magyar says: Stay alert: how you are being deceived through generative AI-powered psychological operations in the information war. By both the swamp dwellers and those who call themselves “our own.” As we in the Unmanned Systems Forces once again examine the technological challenges and risks of 2027, I rank this method—a form of cognitive operations—among the threats with strategic impact. So let me explain in plain language how it works. When you ask an internet search engine a question, for example, “Why did X happen?” or something similar about a targeted topic—or even one that isn’t targeted—you instantly get a ready-made answer generated by a chatbot from the vastness of the web. Very convenient. But you need to understand where that answer comes from. The chatbot searches through numerous news sources and texts and usually gives you a substantive answer, while below it, Google or whatever search engine you use displays dozens of pages of blue links to websites. Of course, reading a single compiled answer is quick and convenient. Just understand this:‼️artificial intelligence does not know the truth. It literally retells the internet. Russia was among the first to grasp this, and here is what it is cooking up, systematically and deliberately poisoning AI with millions of fake articles: since 2022, the “Pravda” network of websites has gained momentum and remained active—close to two hundred sites in dozens of languages. These sites publish 10,000–20,000 similar articles every day, amounting to 4–6 million articles a year. These articles are not written for people. They are written for machines. Here is what happens next: when 20,000 articles are created around a single false propaganda claim, published in different languages across hundreds of websites that also link to one another, the machine sees: lots of sources are reporting this, so it looks like the truth. And it dumps a lie on you in the chatbot’s characteristic descriptive yet confident manner, delivered in a neutral, non-judgmental tone. No telltale accents or traces of a propagandist, no “Rossiya 1” logo in the corner. Just presented as fact. Research into ten of the world’s most popular chatbots has already found that, in a third of cases, they take in and reproduce narratives from Russian fake stories. The machine readily answers your question, “Why did X happen?” even when X is made up—meaning the lie is already embedded in the question. Back in 2024, four out of ten bots answered yes when asked, “Did Azov soldiers burn an effigy of Trump?” and provided links to sources. Try it. There are thousands of examples like this. Including ones about Magyar and the Birds—the worm goes berserk every fucking second. We are losing ground to the worms’ troll farms in this war. Though we have bred an entire stratum of trolls of our own. There is no “betrayal” here, and no advice to follow—just highlighting a threat that is under study alongside dozens of other challenges of today and tomorrow. Critical thinking should not be delegated. Not even to the smartest machine. Use your head and always verify the source and the information. We will stand Moscow will fall MAGYAR 16.10.26
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
General Keith Kellogg on Foxnews commenting on Ukraine‘s campaign targeting Russian refineries: “Russia has been targeting schools, churches. Ukraine is attacking military targets. Russia is not winning and Ukraine has been really putting pressure on. (…) Ukrainians will not stop hitting Russian refineries, as they should. It’s a war and they are attacking correctly.”
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Finland stands with the EU in calling for an immediate end to rising tensions in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa. We support all diplomatic efforts toward peaceful resolution and the full implementation of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement.
Statement by HR/VP @kajakallas on Ethiopia and regional implications. Respect for international humanitarian law is imperative. Civilians need to be protected at all times, and unhindered humanitarian access must be ensured. Read more: link.europa.eu/mrkKqg
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
The Nordic countries 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪 deeply regret the Russian and Chinese veto of the Iran sanctions Panel of Experts. The Panel was the UN's eyes and ears on Iran's nuclear programme. Ending it leaves a monitoring gap, and the UN General Assembly should now consider how to fill it.
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Cannot stop laughing - stereotypes can be hilarious #africaworks
This is hilarious 😂
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Statement by HR/VP @kajakallas on Ethiopia and regional implications. Respect for international humanitarian law is imperative. Civilians need to be protected at all times, and unhindered humanitarian access must be ensured. Read more: link.europa.eu/mrkKqg
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Timo Olkkonen🇫🇮 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Libya: The 🇪🇺 is gravely concerned by the resumption of executions in Benghazi and Derna, marking the end of a de facto moratorium on the use of the death penalty in Libya that had been in place since 2010. Full statement👇🏼 link.europa.eu/fXFMK6
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