3 years agoSecretary Blinken: Governments and citizens everywhere should care about what's happening in Ukraine. This is not a distant regional dispute or yet another example of Russian bullying. The principles at stake have made the world safer and more stable for decades
3 years agoUS Secretary of State @SecBlinken met chancellor @OlafScholz in the chancellery in Berlin Scholz' spokesperson @RegSprecher: "The situation on the border with Russia remains very delicate. It's up to Russia to defuse the situation and withdraw its troops"
3 years agoMilitary echelon in Tyumen
3 years agoMilitary equipment at Maslovka railway station near Voronezh today
3 years agoA court in St. Petersburg recovered 60,000 rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the fact that the police did not investigate the case of an attack on an LGBT couple
3 years agoRussia Special Flight Squadron Il-96 Moscow to Geneva. Lavrov scheduled to meet Blinken Friday: RA-96014, 15770E
3 years agoPresident Erdoğan: We are paying great importance to both Mr. Putin's visit to Turkey and my visit to Ukraine. I have a visit to Ukraine at the beginning of next month
3 years agoPresident Erdoğan on Russia-Ukraine tensions: Our hope is to bring together Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelensky as soon as possible and to ensure that they have a face-to-face meeting
3 years agoPresident Erdogan on Russia-Ukraine tensions: We want peace in the region, other than that, other negative developments do not happen
3 years agoPresident Biden stresses any move across Ukraine border by Russian military units would constitute an invasion
3 years agoUSAmbNATO: Today I met with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister @StefanishynaO and reaffirmed that Russian aggression against Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity would be met with a decisive, reciprocal, and united response by all @NATO Allies
3 years agoPresident Erdogan: We do not find the developments between Russia and Ukraine correct
3 years agoThe commander of Russia's 35th division at Bernaul says remaining regiment (867th: 53.227, 84.664) will be fully equipped with SS-27 Mod 2 (Yars) ICBMs by April 2022. @Maxar satellite image shows first camouflaged vehicles on Dec 31, 2021
3 years ago.@SecBlinken: "There's been a lot of speculation about President Putin's true intentions, but we don't actually have to guess - he's told us repeatedly. He's laying the groundwork for an invasion because he doesn't believe that Ukraine is a sovereign nation”
3 years agoMore Blinken in Berlin speech at @atlantikbruecke: Warns after Belarus that if Russia succeeds in Ukraine, its "efforts to turn its neighbors into puppet states and crack down on any spark of democratic expression will intensify
3 years agoSpeaking in Berlin at @atlantikbruecke, Blinken warns Russia "would drag us all back to a much more dangerous and unstable time when this continent— and this city — were divided in two"
3 years agoSecretary Antony Blinken:Productive conversation with @JensStoltenberg, @JosepBorrellF, and @mblaszczak to discuss Russia's destabilizing military buildup near Ukraine's border and the need for de-escalation. We are working together in a variety of fora to advance dialogue on European security
3 years agoAnother military echelon filmed in Ufa
3 years agoA U.S. official confirms CIA Director William Burns traveled to Berlin - and Brussels - last week, in addition to Kyiv. During his visits he met with intelligence counterparts, European and NATO leaders, and discussed issues of shared concern, including Russia/Ukraine tensions
3 years agoKyiv City Council approved a resolution today to spend about $3.9 million over the next three years to stand up a full Territorial Defense brigade and HQ. Measure was made amid the "high probability of a full-scale invasion" by Russia, deputy chairman Andriy Krischenko said
3 years agoRussian troops have officially arrived in the Belarusian town of Yelsk, 18km from Ukraine. A local news outlet made a short story about it
3 years agoIran FM @Amirabdolahian met Russia FM Lavrov in Moscow
3 years agoRussian envoy discusses Syria with Saudi crown prince - now back to Damascus RA-85586
3 years agoRussia's international reserves increased by $7.7 billion over the week to $638.2 billion, the Central Bank said
3 years agoMilitary doctors of the Western Military District conducted exercises with about 1,200 military police officers to provide first aid to military personnel who received shrapnel and bullet wounds
3 years agoCentral Bank of Russia say cryptocurrencies have multiple features of pyramid scheme - speculative growth backed only by new holders
3 years agoRussian Central bank: as cryptocurrencies pose risk to sovereignty of Ruble it is recommended to prohibit any operations with cryptocurrencies, prohibit mining of cryptocurrencies in Russia, block any crypto-fiat exchange operations, impose responsibility for Russian citizens for crypto operations
3 years agoThe forces of the Russian Pacific, Northern and Baltic fleets will conduct exercises in the Mediterranean Sea - Russian Defense Ministry
3 years agoSix large landing ships of the Russian Navy is heading to the Mediterranean Sea for exercises, - the Russian Defense Ministry said
3 years agoThe Russian Defense Ministry: The Russian Navy will conduct separate maneuvers in the White Sea and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans