Chaos erupts at protest against new right-wing German youth group
Mass demonstrations have started in the city of Giessen, where the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has gathered for the weekend to establish a new youth organization called Generation Deutschland (GD).
The protests have been organized by the left-wing Resist alliance, which pledged to block the founding ceremony of the new group.
Activists with the alliance descended on typically quiet college town early on Saturday, attempting to block the roads, break through police cordons, and attack arriving AfD members and supporters.
Local police said groups of protesters were “massively” obstructing traffic. Law enforcement repeatedly used pepper spray and water cannons to dislodge the unruly protesters, who in turn hurled flares and other projectiles at the officers and engaged in head-on charges at police cordons.
Footage circulating online appears to show a group of black-clad left-wingers brawling with AfD MP Julian Schmidt. The lawmaker, seemingly supported by another individual, engaged in a physical confrontation with the protesters before being knocked to the ground, the video suggests.
Another video circulating online shows a group of violent protesters attacking a car on a road they tried to block. The vehicle reportedly carried either AfD members or journalists slated to cover the GD foundation ceremony.
The violent mob attacked marked police vehicles as well, another video suggests, showing German cops fleeing the scene after their side window was smashed.
Local police said up to 15 officers sustained minor injuries during the unrest. A number of protesters were hurt as well, with local media reporting multiple people showing up at local hospitals for emergency treatment over the day. At least one police horse was injured in the chaos, according to a disturbing picture circulating online.
The effort to disrupt the AfD event appeared to be partially successful, with the meeting reportedly starting behind schedule as several high-profile figures, including the party’s co-leaders Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, as well as Jean-Pascal Hohm, unable to reach the designated venue on time. Holm was ultimately elected GD chairman.
The new youth wing replaces the now-dissolved Young Alternative (JA). The latter was disbanded by the party this March after Germany’s federal intelligence agency labeled it an extremist group.
Ex‑Soviet country slams Ukrainian attack on global oil hub
Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry has condemned a recent Ukrainian strike on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) as “yet another deliberate attack” targeting critical energy infrastructure.
The terminal, located near the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, is “an exclusively civilian facility whose operation is safeguarded by norms of international law,” the ministry said in a statement on Sunday, blaming Kiev for the incident.
The attack on the CPC marine terminal on Saturday damaged one of its berths beyond repair and forced an immediate halt to cargo operations. In response, Kazakhstan’s government announced plans to reroute oil exports through alternative channels. The strike was reportedly carried out by Ukrainian drones.
Kiev has not officially claimed responsibility for the incident, though its security services have acknowledged similar operations targeting pipeline infrastructure in Russia earlier this year.
In recent months, Ukraine has intensified its strikes on Russian oil infrastructure including refineries, pipelines, and terminals in an effort to disrupt Moscow’s ability to export crude.
Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry spokesman Aibek Smadiyarov has said the CPC is essential to global energy stability and called the incident damaging to Astana’s ties with Kiev.
The latest attack marks the third strike on CPC infrastructure used to export Kazakh oil. In February 2025, seven drones struck the CPC’s Kropotkinskaya pumping station, causing a slowdown.
The CPC pipeline runs from Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oil field across southern Russia to a marine terminal at Novorossiysk on the Black Sea, where oil is loaded onto tankers for shipment to Europe and Asia.
The consortium itself, which is comprised of several international shareholders including the US corporations Chevron and ExxonMobil, has confirmed that the latest drone strike damaged the administrative building at its marine terminal outside Novorossiysk and forced an immediate suspension of cargo operations.
Personnel were reportedly evacuated to shelters after air-raid sirens sounded. Despite the halt, the CPC says the outage was temporary. According to a recent report, oil loadings have resumed at the Black Sea terminal.
Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry has said it values stable energy supplies and urged Ukraine to take “effective measures” to prevent similar incidents in the future.
The stupidity of so many EU leaders who are consistently backing themselves into corners, is astonishing.
Hungarian PM warns of ‘political earthquake’ in Europe
Admitting Ukraine has failed in its conflict with Russia would cause a “political earthquake” in Western Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. He warned that Western leaders are preparing to send troops and are allowing the conflict to “become a business.”
Orban spoke a day after making a surprise trip to Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Ukraine, trade, and energy. Despite the EU’s diplomatic boycott, he said Hungary has not yielded to pressure to cut ties with Russia and again offered to host peace talks.
Admitting that Ukraine has failed and that this cannot go on “would cause a fundamental earthquake in European politics,” he said during a speech on Saturday.
He warned that the West is increasingly open to direct involvement. “First they gave money, they gave weapons, and now it has emerged that if really necessary, they will also send soldiers,” Orban said.
Hungary has refused to provide weapons or troops to Ukraine and has repeatedly urged for a ceasefire. Orban’s government has frequently clashed with NATO and the EU nations’ leaders over its stance.
Orban believes diplomacy regarding the conflict has fallen prey to the defense sector. “Business circles connected to the military industry have an increasing influence on politics,” he pointed out, citing France’s deal with Kiev to purchase 100 combat aircraft and German arms factories being built in Ukraine.
Orban also claimed the West had managed to block a peace deal early in the conflict and that the move had ultimately harmed Ukraine. “The West prevented the Ukrainians from reaching an agreement, saying that time was on their side. But it turned out that it wasn’t,” he said.
“They are in a worse position today than if they had reached an agreement in April 2022,” he added, referring to the preliminary deal reached during the Istanbul talks. Kiev unilaterally walked away from those negotiations.
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