Responding to @pwidakuswara who asks about China state media's reporting on the UkraineWar, @PressSec says if you're repeating the propaganda of Russia and Putin "you're on the wrong side of history
Family members of government officials of Russia to be included in new sanctions tomorrow, confirms @PressSec
It's not in the US interest "to be at war with Russia," says @PressSec
Additional US sanctions on Russia, to be announced Wednesday, are "in part" a response to the BuchaMassacre, says @PressSec
"We've only seen potentially the tip of the iceberg" of atrocities committed in Ukraine by Russia, says @PressSec
Additional sanctions to be announced tomorrow by the US and others on Wednesday will target government officials of Russia, confirms @PressSec
US shares the frustration expressed today by @ZelenskyyUa that Russia "is a permanent member of the (UN) Security Council, says @PressSec. "We don't see that changing
Ukrainian Health Minister: Russian forces attacked 279 hospitals and destroyed 19 of them completely since the beginning of the invasion
Explosion occurred at Krasnogvardeysky district of Belgorod region, - head of district confirms, though denies it was a result of shelling
1 年 前Ukrainian border guards return to Ivankiv and Mlachivka units in Kyiv region, which were attacked by the Russian army on February 24
Washington will ban all new investments in Russia from Wednesday
Portugal expelled 10 Russian diplomats
Roskomnadzor demands that Google restores Russian state agencies' websites in the search engine
Britain: 350 billion dollars of Russia's assets were frozen and we prevented Putin from using it in the war
10 Russian diplomats will be expelled from Romania
1 年 前UK Foreign Secretary @trussliz in Warsaw: Poland has always been clear eyed about Russia. You have understood Putin's malign intent. You were right. we agree the only way to end this war is for Putin to lose in Ukraine, we agree to step up our sanctions
Zelensky, in a speech before the UN Security Council, calls for the exclusion of Russia from the UN Security Council
Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid on Bucha massacre: Russia committed war crimes against a defenseless civilian population
1 年 前Zelensky: I want to remind Russian diplomats that Adolf Eichmann did not go unpunished
UN says 'credible' claims Russia has used cluster ammunition in populated Ukraine areas
"The Russian military and those who gave the criminals orders must be brought to justice" in a venue similar to the Nuremberg tribunal, demands @ZelenskyyUa
1 年 前Zelensky: The UN watched and did not want to see the occupation of Crimea, the war against Georgia, and how Russia was preparing the basis for other conflicts
1 年 前"The massacre of Bucha is only one of many," adds @ZelenskyyUa, saying dozens of other Ukrainian communities have suffered similar to Bucha
Zelenskyy also references MH17 and Syrian war (Chemical weapons), to give examples of Russia denying the proven facts. He tells the UN: "It is 2022. We have conclusive evidence. We have satellite evidence. We give maximum cooperation with journalists and investigators
"Show other war criminals in the world how they will be punished," @ZelenskyyUa tells UN Security Council
"Russia wants to turn Ukraine into silent slaves," adds @ZelenskyyUa. "They are looting everything starting with food and gold earrings"
Speech to the UN Security Council from Ukraine's President Zelensky: "They shot and killed women and children. Civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars. Women and children raped and killed in front of their children"
Martin Griffiths: Ground and air attacks have made life almost impossible for many civilians in Ukraine
1 年 前Zelensky addresses the UN
1 年 前Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian fuel truck with a Stugna-P ATGM strike
Gazprom Group recalls its representatives from the management bodies of Gazprom Germania GMBH, its subsidiaries and their investment objects
1 年 前More than 4.2 million have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion, according to @Refugees. That's nearly 10 percent of the country's pre-war population. The overwhelming majority have gone to Poland
EU declares 'a number' of Russian diplomats 'persona non grata': foreign policy chief Borrell
Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: we are closing two Russian consulates and expelling their staff
1 年 前Putin says Russia will 'monitor' food exports to 'hostile' countries
1 年 前Two Russian T-72B3 tanks advancing from Izium to Barvinkove were destroyed by the Ukrainian forces
1 年 前Ursula von der Leyen on 5th package of sanctions: 3 – A ban on Russian and Russian operated vessels from accessing EU ports and a ban on Russian and Belarusian road transport operators. 4 – Further export bans, worth €10 billion, in crucial areas: advanced semiconductors, machinery and transport equipment
Ursula von der Leyen on 5th package of sanctions:1 – An import ban on coal from Russia, worth €4 billion per year, cutting another important revenue source for Russia. 2 – A full transaction ban on 4 key Russian banks, among them VTB, the 2nd largest Russian bank
US will block Russia from paying debts with dollars held in US banks: Treasury
New EU sanctions package against Russia to 'include oil and coal': French minister
EU has agreed to completely end energy dependency on Russia, starting with coal and followed by oil and gas: German Foreign Minister
Stoltenberg: We will not recognize Russia's occupation of Ukraine, especially its control of the Crimea
NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg says alliance determined to supply more weapons to Ukraine, adding they will do more for partners such as Georgia and Bosnia "vulnerable for Russian threats and interference"
Zelensky on Orban: "I called him, invited him, offered to meet with him. He was afraid, I'm sure of it. He might take it as an offense and say, 'I'm not afraid of anyone.' He is afraid of Russia's influence on his state. This influence exists, whether he likes it or not
"We see that China has been unwilling to condemn Russia's aggression and has joined Moscow in questioning the right of nations to choose their own path" - Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary General: We expect more Russian escalation against Eastern European countries
1 年 前NATO chief Stoltenberg says Russian troops are leaving the Kyiv area but not leaving Ukraine. He says the alliance believes (as long suspected) that Russia does intend to try to create a land bridge between Donbas and occupied Crimea
Spain expels 25 Russian diplomats for considering them "a threat"
1 年 前New drone imagery shows Russian forces firing on a cyclists in Bucha, on Yablunska Street at 50.54148, 30.228898, where multiple corpses have been filmed and photographed
1 年 前Unknown location
A Ukrainian Stugna-P ATGM team shoots down a hovering Russian Ka-52 "Alligator" attack helicopter
1 年 前Sweden has decided to expel three Russian diplomats who did not work in accordance with the Vienna Convention, says Foreign Minister Ann Linde
1 年 前Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor demands from Wikipedia to remove information about war in Ukraine and Russian crimes
1 年 前According to the Central Bank of Russia, since the war began its foreign reserves dropped from USD643.2 billion on 18 Feb to USD604.4 billion on 25 Mar. The bank is spending on average USD7.76 billion a week to prop up the economy and meet international financial commitments
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to threaten European security, the U.S. Defense Department approved the sale of eight F-16 fighter planes to Bulgaria in a $1.67 billion deal to bolster the country's air force
General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine: In the direction of the Pivdennobuzhsky direction the Russian forces carry out assault actions with the support of artillery for the purpose of taking control of the settlement of Olexandrivka, have partial success. In the area of the settlements of Lyubyne, Myrne, and Kopani, the Russian artillery shelled the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine: In the direction of Slovyansk, the Russian enemy is trying to resume offensive operations. In the direction of Barvinkove it has partial success, advanced 7 km, took control of the village of Brazhkivka. Also, it attacked by the battalion tactical group of the 1st Tank regiment in the direction of the settlement of Sulyhivka, but had no success
General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine: Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In the areas of Borivske, Novoluhanske, Solodke, Marinka, Zolota Nyva, the enemy continued artillery shelling of positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilian infrastructure.The russian enemy carried out assault operations near the settlements of Novotoshkivske, Nyzhne, Popasna, Kalynove, Stepne, Rubizhne, Troitske, Novobakhmutivka, and Novoselivka Druha, but was unsuccessful
Embassy of Ukraine in Egypt: Russia prevents a ship bound for Egypt carrying a shipment of Ukrainian wheat
1 年 前"These persons are not going home," Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby says of Russian troops in Ukraine. "They're retreating out of Kyiv but they're not being sent home”
Shipments from the $800 million security assistance package for Ukraine from the US arrived "over the course of the weekend," @PentagonPresSec says
It's the belief of @POTUS that it's ludicrous for Russia to be a member of the UN human rights council, says @PressSec
It's not in the interest of India to accelerate imports of energy from Russia and the US is willing to help New Delhi reduce its small reliance on such supplies, says @PressSec
Satellite images refute Russia's claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine's capital, occurred after its soldiers had left town, a New York Times analysis found
Russia intends to "conquer and occupy territory" in eastern Ukraine, according to @JakeSullivan46
German Foreign Minister: We should not talk about lifting sanctions on Russia while its forces are still in Ukraine
1 年 前Berlin expels 40 Russian diplomats. The federal government has a "considerable number" of members of the Russian embassy declared undesirable persons
Germany places Gazprom subsidiary temporarily under state control: minister
Biden again calls Putin a 'war criminal'
"No indications that the Russians have made any progress in taking Mariupol" per a senior US defense official. "Still a very bitter fight for the city"
2/3 of Russiann forces arrayed vs Kyiv have left, many heading north. "We assess they are largely consolidating themselves in Belarus" before refit, resupply for redeployment to Ukraine, likely to Donbas, per a senior US defense official
1 年 前Latvia will decrease level of diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation due to crimes committed by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, @edgarsrinkevics said on Twitter
Russian warplanes launch several air raids on ISIS sites in the south and east of Al-Raqqah Governorate
1 年 前Oleg Deripaska's yacht's Cayman Islands flag support vessel Sputnik transited Bosphorus towards Black Sea en route to Sochi. U.S. imposed sanctions against Deripaska with ties to Putin in response to Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea & other "worldwide malign activity"
"To the world, China casts itself as a principled onlooker of the war in Ukraine, not picking sides, simply seeking peace. At home, the CCP is pushing a campaign that paints Russia as a long-suffering victim rather than an aggressor and defends #China’s strong ties with Moscow as vital."
Russia has suspended a number of visa liberalisation agreements with the EU, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
US seizes yacht in Spain owned by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin as part of recent sanctions enforcement, reports @AP
1 年 前Wargaming @wargaming_net stops its operations in Belarus and Russia, @devby reports
Washington's envoy to the United Nations: We seek to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council
1 年 前Photos: destroyed Russian equipment near Ichnya town in Chernihiv region
1 年 前State-run RIA explains what Putin's "de-Nazification" actually means: elimination of Ukraine's statehood for generations to reeducate its poisoned people after liquidating its elites, abolition of the very name Ukraine and its culture. In short, genocide
1 年 前4 children were killed this morning on their way to their school, after government forces targeted Maarat Al-Naasan village in Idlib. At the same time, Russian warplanes carried out several airstrikes on several towns in Idlib countryside. No reports yet about the casualties
Trevor Reed, a former US Marine jailed in Russia, has been transferred to the prison's medical facility after he declared a hunger strike last month, the Interfax news agency cited his lawyers as saying on Monday
Poland's PM @MorawieckiM names Putin's government as "fascist", and asks French President Macron "what have you achieved?" by calling Putin. "Today Russia is a totalitarian-fascist state" says PM. Poland proposes an international committee to investigate the "genocide"
1 年 前Russian troops shelled Zelenodolsk community with incendiary ammunition
