1 year agoECB assesses that Sberbank Europe AG and its subsidiaries in Croatia and Slovenia are failing or likely to fail. The ECB took the decision after determining that, in the near future, the bank is likely to be unable to pay its debts or other liabilities as they fall due
Turkey says it will transparently implement all provisions of the Montreux Maritime Agreement as Russia launched war against Ukraine
1 year agoLocal outlets reported that aerial strike on a bridge on Oskil river in Kupyansk, Kharkiv Oblast
Saudi Arabia confirms its commitment to the 'OPEC Plus' accord with Russia: state news agency
1 year agoSatellite images from @Maxar show long line of Russian units on a road outside of Prybirs'k in Kyiv Oblast, about 70km north of Kyiv
Van with captions "People, wake up!" "This is war" "Putin is a scum!" crashed into the fence at Puhkinskaya square in Moscow and caught fire
Russian central bank orders market players to reject foreign clients' bids to sell Russian securities from 0400 GMT on Feb 28 — central bank document seen by Reuters
Blinken: Japan and our allies will impose high costs on Russia that will destroy its ability to wage war on Ukraine
Aeroflot is suspending all flights to Europe starting February 28, the airline said
The Guardian newspaper: Britain is considering banning Russian ships from its ports
1 year agoThe head of Russia's delegation at a major UN climate summit on Sunday apologised for Putin's invasion of Ukraine, saying he could not find "any justification" for it.
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 9 km WSW of Chul’man, Russia
1 year agoUS Embassy in Moscow says: "US citizens should consider departing Russia immediately
1 year agoMore footage of the TB2 strikes on Russian Occupation Forces
1 year agoVIDEO of Tb2 strike against a Russian Buk missile system in the Zhytomyr region
1 year agoGrad launch towards Mariupol this evening as filmed by Russian propagandist WarGonzo. Russian troops are working to encircle the city today and tonight
UN spokesperson says idea of nuclear conflict 'inconceivable'
Russia war on Ukraine has displaced 'over 7 million people': EU
STRATCOM: "We saw Mr. Putin's statement on his nuclear forces. STRATCOM remains at an appropriate posture and remains ready should the president call upon us."
1 year agoA Russian armored vehicle reportedly fell into a river near Hadyach
BP said on Sunday it had decided to exit its 19.75 % stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft after Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Russian Ministry of Defense admits casualties including fatalities in war against Ukraine
1 year agoPresident @VonDerLeyen also announces that all EU airspace is being closed to all Russian airlines. Any plane: chartered or commercial. "Our airspace will be closed to every Russian plane, and that includes the private jets of oligarchs"
1 year agoA group of unarmed civilians stopped Russian tanks at Dniprorudne in Zaporizhia region
Josef Borrell: We are coordinating with Ukraine to deliver military and humanitarian aid while we are living in unprecedented conditions
2,000 Russian marines advancing on Mariupol in southeast Ukraine after amphibious assault from Sea of Azov: U.S. official
1 year agoPresident @VonDerLeyen and High Rep @JosepBorrellF announce, "for the first time ever, the European Union will finance purchase and deliver military equipment to a country that is under attack." "This is a watershed moment"
1 year agoUrsula von der Leyen: we will ban the Kremlin's media machine in the EU. The state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, and their subsidiaries, will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin's war. We are developing tools to ban their toxic and harmful disinformation in Europe
Ursula von der Leyen:We are stepping up our support for Ukraine. For the first time, the EU will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to a country under attack. We are also strengthening our sanctions against the Kremlin
Germany advises its citizens against travelling to Russia, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, as Moscow's invasion of Ukraine enters day four
Senior U.S. defense official warns that we are still in Day 4 of an operation with no end in sight. Hard to predict how it will go, given the bloody, unpredictable nature of ground combat. "Everybody needs to look at this with a sense of humility here," official says
Russia is about 30 kilometers from Kyiv's city center and about 50 kilometers from Mariupol city center, U.S. defense official says. Belief is that the forces west of Mariupol include both ground forces coming from Crimea and naval forces who made an amphibious landing
The United States has charged that President Putin is "manufacturing threats" as he placed Russian nuclear deterrence forces on high alert amid the Ukraine crisis
Entire G7 "now supports disconnecting selected Russian banks from SWIFT, restrictions on the Russian Central Bank, and sanctioning key Russian leaders." says @PressSec in a statement
U.S. envoy to the United Nations: We condemn Putin's decision to put the nuclear forces on alert
1 year agoMore than 100,000 people showed up at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate waving Ukrainian flags and anti-war banners to protest Russia's invasion
Ukrainian Foreign Minister: The losses suffered by the Russian forces prompted Moscow to negotiate without preconditions
Ukraine says about 4,300 Russian troops have been killed or injured so far in their invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds more have been taken prisoner, Ukrainian foreign minister @DmytroKuleba says
1 year agoRussian Buk surface-to-air missile systems reported in Berdyans'k in the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine
1 year agoBig anti-war rally in St.Petersburg
Putin orders his country's nuclear forces to be ready in response to "aggressive" NATO threats
Putin put "strategic deterrence forces" on combat alert, meets with Shoigu and Gerasimov now
Putin holds a meeting in the Kremlin with Shoigu and Gerasimov
Ukrainian army: Russian forces launched 5 raids since midnight and fired 16 missiles at Ukrainian cities
France announces its intention to close its airspace to Russian airlines, starting this evening
Japan joined Western allies to block many Russian banks from SWIFT. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that Japan will put sanctions on Russia's dictator Putin and extend $100 million in emergency humanitarian aid to Ukraine
1 year agoRussian Pantsir-S system reportedly in Molodizhne, Kherson
1 year agoRussia seized 2 Ukrainian civilian vessels in Black Sea
Command of the Northern Ukrainian Forces: the destruction of a Russian military convoy near the city of Chernihiv in the north of the country
The Kremlin: The Israeli Prime Minister offered to Putin in the mediation call Tel Aviv for ceasefire
1 year agoAt yesterday's pro-democracy protests in Khartoum, demonstrators came out in support of Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion
Ukraine army retakes Kharkiv, expelling Russian troops: governor
1 year agoUkraine has submitted its application against Russia to the ICJ. Russia must be held accountable for manipulating the notion of genocide to justify aggression
Russian tanks bombed a civilian bus in the Sumy region and prevented ambulances from reaching it
1 year ago5 Russian IMV have been captured and destroyed by Ukrainian forces in Kharkiv
1 year agoGeolocation of Ukrainian TB2 airstrike on Russian military column in Kherson International Airport tarmac
Reuters from the Kremlin spokesman: We warned Ukraine that we will not stop military operations during the talks that will take place
Unidentified people at night glazed a shop window of the Russian bank Sberbank in Lazarská Street in Prague. Although the branch, like the others in the Czech Republic, was supposed to reopen on Monday, but in view of the events, a sign appeared in the shop window that they would not open
1 year agoVideo of a Russian military column reportedly near the town of Okhynky, on the highway between Kyiv and Sumy. There's a TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS
1 year agoThe Bucha-Irpin bridge has been blown up to stop the Russian advancement towards Kyiv in this direction
Ukrainian President: Russian forces attacked everything, even ambulances
Ukraine now has international territorial defense units –Zelensky asks everyone who can help defeating Russia to go to Ukraine's embassies in their countries
1 year agoRussian forces shelled Volodymyr in Western Ukraine, according to officials and locals. The city is located less than 9 miles from Poland
1 year agoRussian special operation forces engaged in street fighting in Kharkiv
A large column of Russian vehicles is pushing into the city of Sumy from the side of Khimprom, the military administration is reporting. Civilians are asked to be in a safe place, not to go out unnecessarily and to stay away from windows
1 year agoClashes in Kharkiv city
1 year agoHeavy clashes in Shishkovka, Kharkiv
1 year agoRussian KamAZ truck in Kharkiv
1 year agoRussian patrol in Kharkiv is fired upon
Google says it has banned state-funded Russian media from running ads on its services
1 year agoASEAN stops short of saying it condemns Russia attack on Ukraine, choosing instead to say it's "deeply concerned" & there's "still room for a peaceful dialogue". Interesting Russianot identified at all in statement. Myanmar, an ASEAN member, had supported Russia's actions
1 year agoHead of Dagestan contradicts Russian defense ministry and express condolence after death of officer from Dagestan in Ukraine
1 year agoGeolocation of the Russian column consisting "two 2S3 152mm howitzer batteries, 1V13 battery command posts, MT-LB, Strela-10 air defense systems" in Pryazovs'ke, going towards east. Presumably to Berdyansk. 36TYS0296878538
1 year agoTanks in Boromlya/Sumy area uploaded this morning. Might be T-80U
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his Belarus counterpart to demand that the country, Ukraine's neighbor, quickly order Russian troops to leave. Macron denounced "the gravity of a decision that would authorize Russia to deploy nuclear arms on Belarus soil”
1 year agoRussian troops targeted gas pipeline in Danilovka district of Kharkiv
1 year agoThe moment of the explosion at the oil depot in Vasylkiv
1 year agoIran riot police deployed inside Russian Embassy in Tehran to repel any likely attack by demonstrators. Here in IRAN, anti-govt sentiments are highly aligned by anti-Russian ones
In addition to SWIFT and Russian Central Bank sanctions, Western allies are forming a joint task force to "collectively hunt down the physical assets of sanctioned Russian companies and oligarchs — their yachts, jets, fancy cars and luxury homes"
1 year agoFull statement by @POTUS, @vonderleyen, @EmmanuelMacron, @OlafScholz, @BorisJohnson, @JustinTrudeau and Draghi on restrictive measures for Russia's central bank and cutting key Russian banks off SWIFT
Update from Armed Forces of Ukraine: violent clashes in Kharkiv, Sumy, Okhtyrka. In Luhansk region Russia attacked from Belgorod region towards Starobilsk. Clashes in Kherson region in Skadovsk and Hola Prystan
1 year agoUrsula von der Leyen: we will paralyse the assets of Russia's central bank. This will freeze its transactions. And it will make it impossible for the Central Bank to liquidate its assets
Ursula von der Leyen: we commit to ensuring that a certain number of Russian banks are removed from SWIFT. It will stop them from operating worldwide and effectively block Russian exports and imports
EU to end golden passport scheme, which allows wealthy Russians and their families to obtain EU citizenship
1 year agoPM: Ukraine closes border crossings with Russia and Belarus
In the village of Zelenovka, near Kherson, Russian soldiers shot a civilian journalist with automatic weapons and also hit an apartment building in Kharkiv - Irina Venediktova
1 year agoAir defense southwest of Kyiv responding to possible airdrop
Governor of Mykolayiv Oblast Vitaly Kim says Russian tanks attacked Mykolayiv and were moving through the city. Heavy fighting was reported in Mykolayiv earlier on that day. Kim later posted a video denying reports he had been captured
European Union countries have decided to ban all Russian airlines from their airspace. Airlines of EU nations over Russian airspace called back fearing an immediate Russian response
71 people were injured. 25 of them are civilians, in particular three children. Russia is also destroying the infrastructure of our cities. This is barbarism and savagery
This man, back out from Latakia, Syria flag-ruflag-ru Russian Air Force Tu154 RFF413
Russian artillery fire has struck Kyiv's children's cancer hospital Okhmadyt
Putin spoke with Ilham Aliyev on the phone. They discussed topical issues of the bilateral and regional agenda, including the development of the situation with Russia's invasion of Ukraine
1 year agoRussian Mi-24 shot down over Ukraine
Instagram blocked account of Kremlin's warlord Kadyrov
Chancellor Scholz: The Russian attack marks a turning point. It is our duty to do our best to help Ukraine defend itself against Putin's invading army. Therefore, we are supplying 1000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles to our friends in Ukraine
Lithuania closes its airspace to Russian flights from today
1 year agoProtesters in Tehran chant "Death to Putin" and "Viva Peace" in front of the Ukrainian embassy
Ukrainian Railways Ukrzaliznytsia: All rail links to Russia destroyed. The state rail service announced that all railway tracks from Russia to Ukraine have been blown up by Ukraine's armed forces
Belgium will deploy 300 troops to Romania as part of NATO reinforcement and send machine guns to Kyiv, as Russia pounded targets in Ukraine with artillery and cruise missiles for a third day
