Embassy of Ukraine in Egypt: Russia prevents a ship bound for Egypt carrying a shipment of Ukrainian wheat
2 year 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”
Shipments from the $800 million security assistance package for Ukraine from the US arrived "over the course of the weekend," @PentagonPresSec says
It's the belief of @POTUS that it's ludicrous for Russia to be a member of the UN human rights council, says @PressSec
It'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
Satellite 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
Russia intends to "conquer and occupy territory" in eastern Ukraine, according to @JakeSullivan46
German Foreign Minister: We should not talk about lifting sanctions on Russia while its forces are still in Ukraine
2 year ago Berlin expels 40 Russian diplomats. The federal government has a "considerable number" of members of the Russian embassy declared undesirable persons
Germany places Gazprom subsidiary temporarily under state control: minister
Biden again calls Putin a 'war criminal'
"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"
2/3 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
2 year ago Latvia 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
Russian warplanes launch several air raids on ISIS sites in the south and east of Al-Raqqah Governorate
2 year ago Oleg 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"
"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."
Russia has suspended a number of visa liberalisation agreements with the EU, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
US seizes yacht in Spain owned by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin as part of recent sanctions enforcement, reports @AP
2 year ago Wargaming @wargaming_net stops its operations in Belarus and Russia, @devby reports
Washington's envoy to the United Nations: We seek to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council
2 year ago Photos: destroyed Russian equipment near Ichnya town in Chernihiv region
2 year ago State-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
2 year ago 4 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
Trevor 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
Poland'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"
2 year ago Russian troops shelled Zelenodolsk community with incendiary ammunition
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine: Russian forces are redeploying in Sumy and we expect an attack there soon
Slovakia'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
One 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