In the middle of the night, the noise that had been feared for days woke up the Ukrainian capital, in panic. At 4:30 a.m., explosions ripped through the sky over Kiev for the first time since World War II. At dawn, the first warning sirens sounded for several minutes from loudspeakers throughout the capital. “The […]
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NATO puts warplanes on alert and increases troop presence on the eastern flank
Updated on 02/24/2022 07:45 am NATO said on Thursday it would take further deterrence and defense measures after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, including putting more than 100 warplanes on high alert and further increasing troop presence on its eastern flank. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said there would be an emergency virtual summit of […]
Russian forces enter the Ukrainian capital, while citizens leave it
Updated on 02/24/2022 07:26 am Russian forces entered the northern Kiev region from Belarus to carry out a Grad missile attack on military targets, Ukrainian border guards said Thursday. An AFP journalist in the north of the Ukrainian capital saw unidentified helicopters flying low on the outskirts of Kiev. While AFP reported that on the […]
NATO will hold a virtual summit over Russia’s military actions against Ukraine
Updated on 02/24/2022 06:31 am The leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will hold a videoconference summit on Friday to discuss the military actions initiated by Russia in Ukraine, diplomatic sources confirmed on Thursday. Meanwhile, NATO announced this Friday in a statement that its member states had decided to take “additional steps” to […]
Ukraine calls civilians from Territorial Defense Units to arms
Updated on 02/24/2022 05:46 am Ukraine has called to arms the volunteers of the Territorial Defense Units before the start of the Russian military operation ordered this Thursday by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Ukraine has entered full defense mode. Anyone who is ready and able to hold a weapon can join the Territorial Defense Units […]
Ukraine breaks diplomatic relations with Russia
Updated on 02/24/2022 05:28 am The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced today that his country breaks diplomatic relations with Russia after the military aggression against Ukrainian territory ordered by the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin. “This morning has gone down in history, but this history is absolutely different for our country and for […]
The serious consequences of the Russian denial of the national status of Ukraine
Internationalist Immediately after President Putin presented the historic march that would eventually justify an invasion of Ukraine, he proceeded to state recognition of the “republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk, to establish diplomatic relations and sign cooperation agreements with them. In this artificial way, according to Putin, a historical injustice began to be resolved (the removal […]
Russia once again subject to international sanctions
Western countries have adopted different sanctions against Russia for eight years, when in March 2014 the crisis between Ukraine and Moscow aggravated as a result of the annexation of the Crimean peninsula. In 2021, the US president, Joe Biden, aggravated the sanctions for the Navalni case and now the United States and the European Union […]
Ukraine claims to be under attack on its borders with Russia and Belarus
Updated on 02/24/2022 01:54 am Ukraine is under artillery fire along its northern border with Russia and Belarus, the border guard service said Thursday, noting that Ukrainian forces were responding to the attack. Ukraine is under artillery fire along its northern border with Russia and Belarus, the border guard service said on Thursday, noting that […]
Raw materials have not been militarized, for now
By Javier Blas In the 24 hours after Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing two breakaway Ukrainian territories, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States together bought 3.5 million barrels of Russian oil and refined products, worth more than US $350 million at current prices. In addition, the West likely bought another […]