Canada said it has provided heavy artillery to Ukrainian security forces, following up on a pledge by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this week to send more artillery weaponry to Ukraine in the face of a Russian assault on its East
Russian Ministry of Defense: as result of fire at Moskva cruiser 1 sailor killed, 27 missed. 396 were evacuated
Russia-owned Amsterdam Trade Bank, caught up in sanctions, collapses, court says
US Treasury: China's continued purchase of coal and oil from Russia is not a violation of sanctions
Putin to meet with UN chief Guterres in Russia next week, Kremlin says
Britain will allow payments to Gazprombank and its subsidiaries for gas going to European Union countries until the end of May, a Treasury document showed on Friday
2 year agoTrain engine derailed as result of flood damage of railways between Zhukovka and Kletnya stations in Bryansk region
Power grid operator in Finland to restrict transmission capacity in cross-border connections with Russia from Sunday due to "the changing international situation"
2 year agoPoland's PM says that confiscating Russian assets in EU should be a source of additional funds for the reconstruction of Ukraine and aid for refugees. He asks EU: "do you want to return this frozen property to the Russians, after the crimes that happened It would be immoral"
2 year agoPM @morawieckim on blocking further sanctions: wheyer it is Germany or Hungary we are equally indignant Slovak PM @eduardheger says that he feels „disappointed" about the Hungary's stance on Russia
2 year agoPolish PM @MorawieckiM: we talked about how, after the opening of the Polish-Slovak interconnector, to help Slovakia to become independent from Russian gas
2 year agoSlovak PM @eduardheger says after the Polish-Slovak intergovernmental consultations with PM @morawieckim that there is a need to gradually impose further sanctions on Russia
Krasnodar Krai, Kuban: dam collapsed near Fyodorovska village
2 year agoEmergency situation declared in Bryansk due to spring flooding
2 year agoPresident of the European Council: had a call with Putin. Strongly urged for immediate humanitarian access and safe passage from #Mariupol and other besieged cities all the more on the occasion of Orthodox Easter.
Full control over Donbas, land corridor to Crimea and control over South of Ukraine in order to connect with previously occupied by RU Transnistria – announced plans of current military activities of Russia
2 year agoThe United Nations has accused Russia of taking action in Ukraine "that may amount to war crimes", including indiscriminate bombing that killed civilians and destroyed schools and hospitals
US-European statement: Those responsible for crimes in areas controlled by Russian forces must be held accountable
Putin convened meeting of Russian Security Council
The Russian State Investigative Commitee is initiating a criminal case against Vladimir Kara Murza under article 207.3 "Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" and punishable by up to 15 years
Russian ministry of Defense announces that during “2nd stage of military operation” it has plans to occupy Donbas and Southern Ukraine to make landbridge to Crimea
2 year agoRussian missile launches from Chystyakove area
2 year agoRussian troops shelled Luhansk region 11 times in last 24 hours. 7 residential buildings partially damaged, 4 people wounded in Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Popasna, Rubizhne, Hirske
Sanctioned Rosselkhozbank (RSHB) failed to pay its $500M coupon on dollar-denominated Eurobonds maturing in 2023. As a result, it became the second Russian bank to default. (UBN)
Croatia's PM now explicitly accusing the country's President, the unhinged Zoran Milanovic, of being a Russian asset
Secretary Antony Blinken:I spoke with @PrimeMinisterGR Mitsotakis about the significant aid @NATO Ally Greece has provided to Ukraine, and other ways to help Ukraine defend itself against Moscow's brutal war of aggression. The U.S.-Greece relationship has never been stronger or more important
Ukraine has more tanks available in country than Russia, thanks to European deliveries of Soviet-era T-72 tanks: senior defense official. U.S. has NO tanks to give Ukraine because Ukraine military is using Soviet-era equipment
2 year agoBiden said the US is sharing timely intel with Ukraine to help them defend against Russia, and helping facilitate transfer of weapons/aid from other countries, like S300 anti-aircraft missile systems. "We are getting them in there," he told us. He called Russia's war an outrage"
2 year agoRussian troops shelled Udy village in Zolochiv district of Kharkiv region
2 year agoReadout from the @WhiteHouse of @POTUS meeting today with @Denys_Shmyhal
