Belarus’ president has denied that his army was taking part in the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Alexander Lukashenko spoke at an emergency meeting with military officials in the capital Minsk, referring to reports suggesting that Russian troops backed by Belarus were attacking Ukrainian territory. He clarified that the armed force...
Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine have sought Russian President Vladimir Putin’s help in repelling aggression from the Ukrainian army, the Kremlin announced late Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the leaders of Ukraine’s breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk wrote a letter to Putin asking for assistanc...
People living near the line of contact in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region are in a constant state of fear as they worry over the safety of their families and close ones. Andrii Bolbat, 50, who works at a coal mine in Vuhledar, a city in the Donetsk region, said an instance of shelling at his […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to declare a state of emergency across the country, except for the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, the council chief said on Wednesday. Oleksiy Danilov said the state of emergency would last 30 days and could be extended up to 60 […]
Britain on Tuesday sanctioned five Russian banks and three individuals in response to Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s separatist regions. The Russian banks sanctioned are Rossiayaz Bank, IS Bank, General Bank, Promsvyazbank, and the Black Sea Bank, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced. Gennady Timchenko, Igor Rotenberg, and Boris Rotenberg...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that a meeting planned for Thursday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva has been canceled following Moscow’s recognition of two breakaway regions in Ukraine. “Now that we see the invasion is beginning and Russia has made clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy, it doe...
Problems between Russia and Georgia, including those concerning the territorial integrity of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, cannot be forcibly resolved but instead the solution should be through diplomacy, Georgia’s president said Tuesday. Salome Zurabishvili also noted that Georgia does not have the opportunity to force Russia into a real dialog...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the Minsk Agreement on the Ukrainian settlement ceased to exist when Russia recognized Ukraine’s breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Putin said Russia had struggled for eight years for the implementation of the accord while...
The presence of tens of thousands of Russian troops inside Belarus, which the West fears could be used to invade Ukraine, represents a threat to Belarusian independence, the country’s exiled opposition leader said Wednesday. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who the West believes was the true winner of August 2020 presidential elections that kept ...
Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) urged three international broadcasters to apply for an online broadcasting license as a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed Wednesday it is a “technical requirement.” US State Department spokesman Ned Price expressed “concern” on Twitter about RTUK’s requiremen...
