ANKARA (AA) – A Dutch lawmaker has called for space to be made for “real refugees from Ukraine” and for those “who have no right to stay” to be returned. In an opinion piece published on Monday by the Dutch weekly EW Magazine, Ruben Brekelmans said his party, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy [&he...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the early renewal of the NATO mission Operation Reassurance in Latvia. At a press conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Latvian Prime Minister Arturs Krisjanis Karins, Spain and Canada recommitted to sendi...
PARIS (AA) – France will launch a sponsorship program to enable French families to provide accommodation to fleeing Ukrainian refugees. Since Feb. 25, border police have allowed 5,000 people to enter France and many more are likely to follow, Premier Jean Castex said, while announcing the launch of the “I am committed to Ukraine” program...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Pentagon has turned down a proposal from Poland to transfer all of its MiG-29 fighter jets to a US airbase in Germany for backing Ukraine. “The prospect of fighter jets ‘at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America’ departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly […]
Organizations working with refugees have slammed French authorities for treating non-European refugees differently. At a time when Ukraine has re-focused attention on refugees, it’s important to remember…that people from many different countries are also here fleeing the most terrible conflicts and the fear of persecution. We should be welcomi...
KYIV, Ukraine- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that Ukraine wants direct talks between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. “Putin is the one who makes the final decisions. We have long wanted a direct conversation,” Dmytro Kuleba said. Noting that Zelenskyy is “not afraid” of ...
WASHINGTON- Russia has become the world’s ‘most sanctioned country’ due to its war on Ukraine, according to recent data. Moscow has been subjected to 2,778 new sanctions in just under two weeks since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine, bringing the total to 5,532, according to the global sanctions mo...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The EU is preparing to consider the membership applications of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, EU term president France said Tuesday. In recent years both Georgia and Ukraine have had Russian-backed separatists on their territory, with Russian troops crossing into Georgia in 2008 and into Ukraine in 2014 and now, during th...
WASHINGTON- US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of 500 more troops to Europe to bolster NATO’s capabilities against Russia. The measure has been taken in order to “augment” forces that have already been deployed to Europe. “These additional forces are going to be positioned to respond to the ...
ISTANBUL – Poland has not sent any fighter aircraft to Ukraine to support its defense against Russia, said Maciej Wasik, a deputy interior minister. “A decision on this type of aid should be taken at the NATO level, and it should be uniform for all NATO countries. It should not be the case that one […]
