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Ukraine's representative at the UN Security Council has now given remarks, responding to the "propaganda" shared by her Russian counterpart - see our 15.37 post. Khrystyna Hayovyshyn, Ukraine's deputy permanent representative, said it is "baffli...
Russian Aeroflot kicked out of SkyTeam airline alliance - In a press release posted on its official website today, SkyTeam announced that Russia’s national flag carrier Aeroflot was… Tourism Global Travel & Tourism sector unites to support Ukraine ...
Ukraine is certainly experiencing some setbacks on the battlefield, with the recent loss of Avdiivka and several other settlements to Russian forces in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in the last week. Russia's claims that Ukraine has lost over 444,000 personnel is wildly above Ukraine's admission l...
“Today’s shelling of the Poltava region is perhaps the largest during the course of this full-scale war,” Dmitry Lunin wrote in a Telegram post. “12 Russian missiles hit the infrastructure in (the city of) Kremenchuk; most of them hit an oil refinery that was not operational anyway.”...
Ukrainian officials expect that the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant will be working again next week after the site was damaged by Russian shelling. Ukrainian engineers are currently repairing one of three disconnected power lines linking the country's largest nuclear power plant to the electricity gr...
“The magnitude of the humanitarian crisis unleashed by the war is staggering," said Anna Bjerde, the World Bank's vice president for the Europe and Central Asia region. "The Russian invasion is delivering a massive blow to Ukraine’s economy and it has inflicted enormous damage to...
But, Ben Barry points out, the Russian leader also proposed steps now being advocated it seems by Donald Trump's defence secretary "to reduce the US footprint in NATO and effectively greatly reduce the US as a NATO security guarantor". Putin will also be pleased to ...
Before Russia banned all imports of fresh produce from the European Union (EU) in 2014 in response to EU sanctions on Russian banks and businesses, 70 percent of the cooperative's production was exported to Russia, and in recent years at least 20 percent was sold in Ukraine, Tabakiaris tol...
"Our sanctions today on the largest state-owned banks and entities and Putin's cronies and their families will hit hard at Putin's assets because this is where he stashes them. No Russian elite or their family member is safe from our sanctions," she said. ...