Launch of Soyuz-2.1b rocket with British OneWeb satellites canceled - Roscosmos
1 year agoUkraine State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation confirms the site Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is occupied by the military forces of the Russian Federation
U.S. energy secretary Granholm says the department has activated its nuclear incident response team and is monitoring events at the Ukraine nuclear plant
Lindsey Graham: Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country - and the world - a great service.
UK calls emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after fighting at nuclear plant in Ukraine
Firefighters gain access to nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where an administrative building is on fire - ZN
Ukrainian FM Dmytro Kuleba:Russian army is firing from all sides upon Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Fire has already broke out. If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl. Russians must IMMEDIATELY cease the fire, allow firefighters, establish a security zone
Users Report issues with App Store and Google Play Store apps in Russia
Canadian Prime Minister: Russia's brutal attack threatens peace and order around the world
A charter aircraft carrying Russian foreign nationals has been held at the Yellowknife airport in Canada's Northwest Territories, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said
President Duda: "We will not give up, even if the Russians surround us in Kyiv. If they start a city blockade, they will end up like the Nazis besieging Leningrad in WW II. They will not break us and they will go away in disgrace as criminals." - said to me @ZelenskyyUa this evening
Facebook, BBC & Meduza websites blocked in Russia - @globalchecknet
1 year agoThe @meduzaproject website has been blocked in Russia
1 year agoThe possible wreckage of a Russian Su-34 bomber in Irpin
FM Dmytro Kuleba:When Russians can't achieve real goals, they focus on fake TV coverage. Having seized a TV tower in Kherson, they plan a show: Russian troops provide humanitarian aid while fake 'locals' brought in from Crimea stage a fake 'demo' in favor of Kherson region 'uniting' with Crimea
British Defense Ministry: The illegal and unjustified Russian attack on Ukraine continues
Based on "information available", the command of a unit of Belarusian paratroopers has received an order to cross the border into Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian update on Russia's invasion. A combat order would be made after the crossing, it said, without giving dates
President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russian oligarchs and others in President Putin's inner circle as Russian forces continue to pummel Ukraine
RT America is ceasing productions and laying off its staff, according to a memo from the production company behind the Russia-backed network
The Pentagon on Tuesday established a deconfliction line to communicate with the Russian Ministry of Defense "for the purposes of preventing miscalculation, military incidents, and escalation," a defense official tells
Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Russia is superior to us in the air, and our partners must make a decision and provide us with combat aircraft
JPMorgan said on Thursday it expected Russia's economy to contract 35% in the second quarter and 7% in 2022 with the economy suffering an economic output decline comparable to the 1998 crisis
A U.S. Special Operations official monitoring the conflict in Ukraine told Connecting Vets that he had seen estimates of 280 Russian armored vehicles taken out by the Javelin as of this writing, out of 300 total missiles fired
Russia firing indiscriminately in Ukraine, says @POTUS during Cabinet meeting
1 year agoUsmanov's superyacht and aircraft designated "as blocked property," announces @USTreasury OFAC (which is releasing helpful photos)
1 year agoISI reveals: Minsk, Belarus and southwestern Russia, Gathering of aircraft (attack helicopters, fighter jets and cargo planes) at several bases near the Ukrainian border
1 year agoList of individuals, family members & companies hit with full blocking sanctions – officials make clear this list, which builds on individual sanctions already imposed in the last week, will continue to grow
The U.S. has slapped new sanctions on a range of oligarchs & their family members, as well as their companies. State Dept. will impose visa restrictions on 19 oligarchs and 47 family members and close associates
New sanctions to be announced by the US against oligarchs in Russia this afternoon, confirms @PressSec, adding it likely won't be the last round of such actions taken
1 year agoRussian forces are now attacking Energodar. That's the site of probably Europe's biggest nuclear power station
The second round of talks between Ukraine and Russia is over - Podoliak. Ukraine did not get the results it hoped for, said an adviser to the head of the Office of President. According to him, the parties agreed on humanitarian corridors for evacuation of people and delivery of medicines in the areas of the most active hostilities, as well as a temporary ceasefire during the evacuation. The third round of talks is to take place in the near future.
1 year ago.@ZelenskyyUa "If you can't close the sky now, then give a deadline when it will happen.If you can't do it now, tell how many people have to explode,how many arms, legs, heads have to fly to reach you Tell me how many. I'll go to count and wait for this moment."
Putin at Russian security council states that the war in Ukraine is ongoing according to the plan and schedule
Putin starts a new meeting with members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
The Pentagon judges that 90% of the Russian force gathered on Ukraine's borders ten days ago has now entered the country. The first phase of their operation has happened and they are stalled
Heavy bombardment in cities across Ukraine north-Kyiv, Cherniv , Russians just outside Kharkiv -per Sr US Def official, but Russians appear stalled. Convoy is stalled. Ukrainian air space still contested; >480 Russian missile launches of all sizes &stripes
Chernihiv: As of 3:30 p.m., the bodies of 22 people were extracted from the rubble as a result of air strikes. Rescue work continues
Verkhovna Rada today imposed life imprisonment for looting, sabotage, treason, approved the nationalization of Russian property and approved Zelensky's decree on mobilization
Putin and Macron held a third phone call since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Putin told Macron that the tasks of the Russian military will be fulfilled "no matter what," according to Kremlin
Putin told Macron that military operations in Ukraine will complete their goals
White House is asking Congress for $10 billion in emergency funding to boost its response to invasion of Ukraine—money that will be used to address humanitarian crisis as well as assist its defense against Russia
Ukraine confirms peace talks with Russia today, on March 3. A member of the Ukrainian delegation, lawmaker David Arakhamia, said that Ukraine is looking to at least agree on humanitarian corridors
Russian forces have control of Kherson regional administration: Governor
1 year agoChernihiv city, north of Ukraine. Destroyed residential are by Russia's strikes. Video: Ukrainian Public Broadcaster
1 year agoRussia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of fixating on nuclear war, one week since Russia launched its attack on Ukraine. On Sunday, President Putin put Russia's nuclear forces on high alert, accusing the West of taking "unfriendly" steps
1 year agoRussian strike in Chernihiv was caught on dashcam
1 killed and 1 injured as result of russian shelling and fire in Gatne, Kyiv suburb today
1 year agoAdviser to Ukraine's interior minister says Mariupol is surrounded by Russian forces
1 year agoFrance has seized Igor Sechin's superyacht, stripping the head of Russia's state oil champion (and long-time Putin ally) of a prized possession. According to satellite tracking the yacht's transponder hasn't broadcast since 2013 when it was near Marseille
Zelenskyy: When this war finishes Russia will be paying for decades reparation's to Ukraine to rebuild what its invasion has destroyed
Lavrov: We will not allow Ukraine to maintain a military infrastructure that threatens Russia's security
Zelenskyy: "Russia's missile and bomb strikes on Ukrainian cities are a confession, — they failed to do anything significant on our land. All lines of our defense are preserved. The enemy has no success in any of the strategic directions, they are suppressed, they are doomed"
1 year agoUkrzaliznytsia (Ukraine Railways) provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with refrigerated cars for the removal of the dead Russian soldiers
1 year agoOne million refugees have fled Ukraine in the week since Russia's invasion, the United Nations says, warning that unless the conflict ends immediately, millions more are likely to flee. Crowds of Ukrainian refugees in Poland try to board buses
Russian FM Lavrov: The Russians should not be afraid to be behind the "Iron Curtain" again, a 'construction' of which now only demonstrates the unreliability of Western countries and their inability to negotiate
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Video: Ukrainian Su-24 targeted Russian military column
By a majority vote of the Board of Directors of Echo of Moscow, a decision was made to permanently close the radio channel and the website of Echo of Moscow
Finland and Sweden, two Arctic states that are not NATO members, received a letter from Russia demanding security guarantees. Finland is preparing a response to these demands, its foreign minister says
1 year agoThis morning in Kharkiv, a city Russia is massively shelling
1 year agoAccording to the FT, Turkey blocked the passage of the Russian Navy Northern Fleet's Admiral Kasatonov Project 22350 frigate equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles to the Black Sea
1 year agoThe @StateDept issued a strong statement to condemn Russia's "full assault on media freedom and the truth."Independent outlets Radio Ekho Moskvy and Dozhd TV were restricted. RosKomNadzor threatened to block @GolosAmeriki if it does not take down reporting on Russia's invasion
1 year agoMilitary echelon in Tyumen
Several Russian warships have left Crimea and are heading to Odesa. An amphibious assault on Ukraine's third largest city could come as soon as Thursday: U.S. officials
According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia intends to declare martial law on March 4 - Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov
President Biden:Putin thought the West and NATO wouldn't respond — and he thought he could divide us at home. He was wrong. I spent countless hours unifying our European Allies. We countered Russia's lies with truth. And now, the free world is holding him accountable
1 year agoSoldiers from the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team wait to board a transport plane bound for eastern Europe on a deployment launched in response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, U.S., March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy
Kherson Mayor: Russian forces are on their way to the city council headquarters
"War crimes are happening here," said Ukraine's rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman. "The Russian army that was beating the Nazis in 1941 is bombing civilians in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa today. If I die, those who are silent today will be cursed as accomplices
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov's 512-foot yacht has been seized by German authorities in the northern city of Hamburg
The Pentagon: We postponed the test launch of an ICBM this week to prove that we are a responsible nuclear power
