3 years agoEmbassy of Ukraine in Egypt: Russia prevents a ship bound for Egypt carrying a shipment of Ukrainian wheat
3 years ago"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”
3 years agoShipments from the $800 million security assistance package for Ukraine from the US arrived "over the course of the weekend," @PentagonPresSec says
3 years agoIt's the belief of @POTUS that it's ludicrous for Russia to be a member of the UN human rights council, says @PressSec
3 years agoIt'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
3 years agoSatellite 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
3 years agoRussia intends to "conquer and occupy territory" in eastern Ukraine, according to @JakeSullivan46
3 years agoGerman Foreign Minister: We should not talk about lifting sanctions on Russia while its forces are still in Ukraine
3 years agoBerlin expels 40 Russian diplomats. The federal government has a "considerable number" of members of the Russian embassy declared undesirable persons
3 years agoGermany places Gazprom subsidiary temporarily under state control: minister
3 years agoBiden again calls Putin a 'war criminal'
3 years ago"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"
3 years ago2/3 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
3 years agoLatvia 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
3 years agoRussian warplanes launch several air raids on ISIS sites in the south and east of Al-Raqqah Governorate
3 years agoOleg 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"
3 years ago"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."
3 years agoRussia has suspended a number of visa liberalisation agreements with the EU, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
3 years agoUS seizes yacht in Spain owned by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin as part of recent sanctions enforcement, reports @AP
3 years agoWargaming @wargaming_net stops its operations in Belarus and Russia, @devby reports
3 years agoWashington's envoy to the United Nations: We seek to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council
3 years agoPhotos: destroyed Russian equipment near Ichnya town in Chernihiv region
3 years agoState-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
3 years ago4 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
3 years agoTrevor 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
3 years agoPoland'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"
3 years agoRussian troops shelled Zelenodolsk community with incendiary ammunition
3 years agoSecretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine: Russian forces are redeploying in Sumy and we expect an attack there soon
3 years agoSlovakia's Minister of Economy will not take steps that could jeopardize supplies from Russia. He says his ministry is taking steps to prevent a gas and oil shortage. "If there is a condition to pay in rubles, let's pay in rubles" - RTVS
3 years agoOne person was killed and three others were injured when Russian forces targeted a hospital in the east Ukrainian town of Rubizhne, the local governor Sergiy Haiday said on Telegram