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The number of people who are fleeing Ukraine because of Russia’s military operation could reach a “frightening” mark of 2 million people. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, warned about this today on the air of the French radio station France Inter.
“Today or at the latest tomorrow we will reach a frightening figure of two million refugees from Ukraine who have crossed the borders of neighboring countries,” RIA Novosti quoted a UN representative as saying.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the President of the Russian Federation, head of the delegation at the talks with the Ukrainian side, said that yesterday about 400 buses were ready from the Russian side to evacuate people along humanitarian corridors from the surrounded cities, but people are not being released.
However, later, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk made it clear that Kyiv approved the work of one humanitarian corridor from Sumy to Poltava.
And recently, the head of the Sumy Regional State Administration Dmitry Zhyvitsky said that the second convoy for the evacuation of civilians from the Ukrainian city of Sumy is being formed to leave at about 14:00 Moscow time.
Recall that on February 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), and on February 24 he made an emergency appeal to the Russians and announced a special military operation in Donbass. In his speech, he stated that “circumstances require decisive action from Russia” and stressed that “Russia will not allow Ukraine to have nuclear weapons.”
In response to Russia’s actions, Western countries (USA, Canada, European Union, Great Britain, Japan) announced new, tougher sanctions against the Russian Federation, including financial and economic ones.
In particular, Russian banks fell under the sanctions, including Sberbank, VTB, Novikombank, FC Otkritie and Sovcombank, and for a number of state-owned companies it was difficult to attract foreign capital.
Later, the EU countries and the United States agreed to disconnect Russian banks that fell under sanctions from the international system of interbank transactions and information exchange SWIFT. In addition, it was decided to freeze the assets of the Bank of Russia, which will create difficulties for its use of international reserves. EU countries also pledged to take steps to limit the sale of citizenship — the so-called “golden passports” that allow wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government to become citizens of EU states and gain access to their financial systems. In addition, the European Union, the United States, Canada and a number of other countries have closed the sky for Russian aircraft.
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Source: Rosbalt
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