3 years agoSec Blinken welcomes the negotiated prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, that includes 2 Americans. The US is appreciative of Ukraine including all prisoners of war, "regardless of nationality, in its negotiations," he says
3 years ago As part of the prisoners swap Ukraine hand over Viktor Medvedchuk to Russia, - Security Service of Ukraine
3 years ago 215 Ukrainian servicemen were freed from Russian captivity, 108 Azov fighters among them, - Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
3 years ago Ukraine needs weapons and time to reclaim "our entire territory" from Russia, @ZelenskyyUa tells UNGA
3 years agoNorth Korea says it has not exported weapons, ammunition to Russia: state media
3 years ago President Zelensky calls on the United Nations to deny Russia its veto right
3 years ago Ukraine's Zelensky urges 'just punishment' against Russia in UN address
3 years ago Zelensky at UNGA: We will not allow Russia to defeat us
3 years ago Ukrainian President to UNGA: There are 5 conditions to achieve peace with Russia, and they are non-negotiable
3 years agoCommanders Denis "Redis" Prokopenko, Svyatoslav "Kalyna" Palamar, Serhii "Volyna" Volynskyi were released from Russian captivity
3 years ago Canadian Prime Minister: Putin's military mobilization and nuclear threats represent a dangerous and irresponsible escalation
3 years agoExplosions were audible in Belgorod due to air defense work
3 years ago Aiden Aslin, and the other British prisoners of war held captive by the Russian authorities have finally been released and are on their way back to the UK
3 years agoSaudi Arabia says it secured the release by Russia of ten foreign POWs, including citizens of the U.S., UK and Morocco. Not clear if this includes the two Brits and a Moroccan captured in Mariupol and sentenced to death
3 years agoProtest against mobilization in St.Petersburg
3 years ago Protesters not allowed police to detain a man
3 years ago Protest in Moscow against mobilization
3 years ago Biden: We must refrain from using the veto in the Security Council, except in exceptional cases
3 years ago "No one threatened Russia and no one other than Russia sought conflict," said @POTUS. He said this war is about extinguishing Ukraine's right to exist as a state, as a people. "Wherever you are, wherever you live. that should make your blood run cold"
3 years ago "Let us speak plainly, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council invaded, attempted to erase the sovereign state from the map." - Right off the bat @POTUS slams Putin at UNGA77
3 years ago Anti-mobilisation rally in Kranoyarsk
3 years ago "You cannot seize a nation's territory by force," adds @POTUS at UNGA
3 years ago "Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenants" of the UN Charter, @POTUS tells UNGA
3 years agoAn unidentified unmanned surface vehicle hit ashore in the Russian-occupied Crimea's Sevastopol
3 years agoTurkiye- A helicopter intervening in a forest fire in Mugla's Marmaris district has crashed, 1 person died, 4 people injured
3 years ago .@NATO SecGen @jensstoltenberg tells @Reuters nuclear threats by Russians President Putin "not new, he has done it many times before". Shud Putin use nukes, "it will have unprecedented consequences for Russia"
3 years ago Rally against mobilisation in Tomsk
3 years agoHeavy riot police deployment at Narymsky square in Novosibirsk
3 years ago Protest against mobilisation in Ulan-Ude
3 years agoAbout 15 detained at demonstration against mobilisation in Irkutsk
3 years agoPulkovo airport website hacked - Fontanka
3 years ago There is no need for mobilization in Belarus, -State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council, - "we are ready to fight back with peacetime personnel"
3 years agoPassenger train Murmansk-Moscow derailed in Murmansk region, reportedly no casualties
3 years agoRussian business paper RBC says that all tickets for direct flights today and tomorrow from Moscow to Istanbul, Yerevan, Tashkent and Baku have sold out
3 years agoJailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said the partial mobilisation announced by President Putin will lead to a "massive tragedy", in a video statement during one of his court cases
3 years ago The European Union considers the decision to announce partial military mobilization in Russia a "state of desperation"
3 years agoFormer head of Moscow Aviation Institute Anatoliy Geraschenko died as result of "falling from the high altitude inside institute"
3 years ago Lithuania's Minister of National Defence: As Russia's military mobilisation will also take place near our borders, (Kaliningrad region), Lithuania's Rapid Reaction Force is being put on high alert to prevent any provocation from Russia
3 years ago Lithuania: We decided to raise the degree of military readiness after the announcement of mobilization in Russia
3 years ago Digital services ministry now denies that mobilisation notices will be sent via digital services portal, only paper notices via mail
3 years agoMobilisation notice will be sent to eligible men via Russian state services digital portal "GosUslugi". Now website is partially down
3 years agoUkrainian aviation conducted over 20 air strikes at Russian military positions, including 19 areas of gathering of military and equipment, 2 air defense positions. Ukrainian air defense shot down 4 drones and 1 Su-25 plane. Ukrainian artillery and missile troops conducted strikes at over 40 Russian military objects, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years agoAt Avdiivka direction Russian army shelled Berdychi, Avdiivka, Vodiane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Paraskoviivka, Novomykhailivka and Pervomaiske, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years ago At Zaporizhzhia direction Russian army shelled Novopil, Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Novoukrainka, Prechystivka, Vuhledar, Pavlivka, Volodymyrivka, Zaliznychne, Huliaipole and Chervone, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years ago At Pivdenny Buh direction Russian army shelled 25 settlements all along contact line, including Vysokopillia, Myrolyubivka, Karyerne, Novohryhorivka, Bilohirka, Blahodativka, Andriivka, Zorya, Schevchenkove, Ternovi Pody, Pravdyne and Myrne, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years ago At Slobozhansk direction Russian army shelled Veterynarne, Hoptivka, Hlyboke, Derhachi, Hrushivka, Kupiansk and Kamianka, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years ago At Kramatorsk direction Russian army shelled Donetske, Studenok, Yarova, Tetianivka, Bohorodychne, Pryshyb, Schurove, Staryi Karavan, Raihorodok, Mykolaivka, Rozdolivka, Oleksandrivka and Hryhorivka, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years ago At Bakhmut direction Russian army shelled Sieversk, Verkhniokamyanske, Vyimka, Vesele, Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Odradivka, Mykolaivka Druha, Zaitseve, Sukha Balka, Yuryivka and New York, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years ago Latvian Foreign Minister: We will consult with allies on joint action in response to the military mobilization announced by Russia
3 years ago In August, the budget system went into deficit. Now budgets of all levels spend more money than they receive taxes - Minister of Economic Development of Russia Reshetnikov
3 years ago Russian-Belarusian consultations on security are ongoing in Moscow, - the Security Council of the Russian Federation
3 years agoAccording to SPIEGEL information, investigators are searching the villas of billionaire Alisher Usmanov on Lake Tegernsee. It's about tax evasion and money laundering
3 years ago Russian army conducted 8 missile strikes, 35 air strikes, over 120 shelling with MLRS against over 50 settlements across Ukraine, including Oskil, Sloviansk, Sieversk, Oleksandrivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Vuhledar, Stepne, Zaporizhzhia, Nikopol, Ochakiv. Attempted to hit Sloviansk thermal power plant in Mykolaivka, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years ago At Sieversk direction Russian army shelled Zalizny Mist, Mykhailove and Huta-Studenetska of Chernihiv region and Sosnivka, Holyshivske, Yunakivka and Turia of Sumy region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
3 years agoEuropean Commision has **eased its coal sanctions on Russia**, now allowing EU companies to trade, ship and finance Russian shipments to 3rd countries. Brussels says this is needed to avoid sanctions impacting "energy security"
3 years ago Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP responds to Putin's address this morning
3 years ago Mobilisation commission was created in St.Petersburg, Governor of Saint Petersburg Beglov to head it
3 years ago 300,000 reservists to be called up during mobilization - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu
3 years ago This event is known propaganda, displayed for awareness
According to Russian Defense Minister Shoigu Russian army lost 5937 servicemen in Ukraine
3 years ago This event is known propaganda, displayed for awareness
Russian Defense Minister Shoigu: we are mainly fighting The West in Ukraine, not Ukraine
3 years ago Putin says will use "all available means" if Russia's territorial integrity is threatened, adding: "We are not bluffing"
3 years ago Russia will use all means to protect itself, including nuclear weapons, - Putin
3 years ago Putin accuses The West in nuclear blackmail, threatens with nuclear blackmail in response
3 years ago Putin confirms plans to annex Donbas, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions
3 years ago The source is state-funded media. Please, be aware, do not rely on this source without proper objective analysis of facts to form a judgment.
Partial mobilization has been declared in Russia from today, the decree has been signed, - Putin said. All reservists to be mobilized
3 years ago This event is known propaganda, displayed for awareness
The goal of the West is to divide and destroy Russia, - Putin said in a statement
3 years ago President @AndrzejDuda: Ukraine is the victim today, but if Russian imperialism wins, tomorrow it can be any country in the world. Someone else will destroy someone else's fields and drive civilians out of their homes and murder them. We must not allow this
3 years ago7 missile launches towards Kharkiv. Reports of hits in Kharkiv region
3 years ago Confirmation from the @WhiteHouse that @POTUS intends to nominate Russian-speaking career diplomat Lynne Tracy as US ambassador to Russia
3 years ago President of European Parliament Roberta Metsola: To be clear: no sham referenda will change Europe's stance on Ukraine and its territorial integrity. Nor will it change the fact that it was Russia that invaded sovereign Ukraine. Europe stands with Ukraine
3 years ago Russian backed referenda in occupied Ukraine-"no one will view such sham referenda with any credibility" per @PentagonPresSec. "We will continue to work with Ukraine and our international partners to provide them [Ukraine] with the support they need to defend their territory"
3 years ago Russia's push for referenda in Ukraine "simply an information operation that's meant to distract from the difficult state that the Russian military currently finds itself in right now" per @PentagonPresSec
3 years ago Jens Stoltenberg: Sham referendums have no legitimacy and do not change the nature of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. This is a further escalation in Putin's war. The international community must condemn this blatant violation of international law and step up support for Ukraine
3 years ago White House: Russia seeks to announce military mobilization to strengthen its war in Ukraine
3 years ago Ukrainian Presidency: Any referendum held in Ukraine on joining Russia will destroy any chance of talks between Kyiv and Moscow
3 years ago The White House: We do not believe that military mobilization will undermine Ukraine's ability to repel Russia's aggression
3 years ago The White House: Referendums to annex Ukrainian lands will not give Russia an advantage in the war
