The United States on Wednesday hit the consortium in charge of operating the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with sanctions and intensified its collaboration with the European Union (EU) to retaliate against Russia if it continues with its actions in eastern Ukraine. The sanctions against Nord Stream 2 represent the next step in the punishment […]
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EU: alliance between China and Russia challenges the multilateral order
The European High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, warned that “the alliance between China and Russia challenges the multilateral order” and advocated that the European Union (EU) counteract it by being more present in the Indo-Pacific area. “It is obvious that the convergences between China and Russia have an importance in the […]
EU will sanction Putin and the rest of those involved in recognition of Donbas
The European Union (EU) will react with sanctions against those involved in the illegal decision announced this Monday by the Russian president, Vladimir Putinto recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, in the region of donbasin eastern Ukraine. The announcement was made in a joint statement by the president of […]
EU denounces China before the WTO for obstructing European companies to defend patents
The European Union (EU) filed a complaint on Friday with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against China, which it accuses of preventing European technology companies from resorting to foreign courts to defend their patents. “EU companies have the right to seek justice on fair terms when their technology is used illegally. That is why we […]
Russia and Ukraine accuse each other at the UN of breaching the Minsk agreements
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin accused Ukraine this Thursday at the UN Security Council of failing to comply with the 2015 Minsk agreements, the same accusation made by the Ukrainian ambassador to the UN. “Don’t be fooled” by these “superfluous speculations,” Vershinin said of statements by top officials of Western powers warning Russia against […]
NATO warns of the staging of attacks to justify a Russian invasion of Ukraine
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has expressed concern that Russia may stage an attack to provide a justification for invading Ukraine, while the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatist militias accuse each other of carrying out attacks that violate the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. “We are concerned that Russia is trying to stage a pretext […]
Boris Johnson accuses Russia of trying to ‘discredit’ Ukraine by bombing a school
Updated on 02/17/2022 10:55 am British Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused Russia of wanting to “discredit” Kiev to justify an invasion, after a nursery school was hit by a shell in eastern Ukraine, the scene of a conflict with pro-Russian separatists. “A nursery school was bombed in an operation designed to discredit Ukrainians, designed as […]
Russia says it will be forced to use military-technical measures if the US does not give in
Russia will be forced to react through “military-technical” measures in case there is no willingness on the part of the United States to negotiate security guarantees in Europe, the Russian Foreign Ministry has warned. “In the absence of a willingness on the US side to negotiate firm and legally binding guarantees to ensure our security […]
Ukraine and pro-Russian militias accuse each other of violating the ceasefire in Donbas
The Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian separatist militias supported by the Russian government of Vladimir Putin accused each other of violating the ceasefire regime in eastern Ukraine, where they have been fighting for almost eight years in a conflict that has taken more of 14,000 lives. In Brussels, the high representative of the European Union […]
Europe dismantles network that moved cocaine from Latin America
Belgium and Spain arrested 45 people as part of an international operation between police from seven countries against a network that trafficked cocaine from Latin America to Europe, European Union (EU) agencies and prosecutors reported. The operation dismantled “one of the most active Albanian-speaking cocaine trafficking networks in Europe,” Europol and Eurojust said, adding that […]