[Nota de la redacción: Este artículo fue elaborado antes del inicio de la invasión de Rusia a Ucrania, pero dado su interés periodístico en este contexto lo compartimos con nuestros lectores.] The decision of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to recognize the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk has provoked the general rejection of the […]
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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 […]
Putin’s baseless accusations against Ukraine, from genocide to atomic bombs
Vladimir Putin redoubled this week his incendiary rhetoric against Ukraine and its leaders, a neo-Nazi regime according to him, which he accuses without evidence of committing genocide in the east and of wanting to obtain an atomic bomb. His address to the nation on Monday was welcomed by his MPs and supporters, but caused outrage […]
Disinformation about Ukraine is rampant in Eastern Europe
In the countries of Eastern Europe, controlled in the past by Russia and where since then a deep anti-Moscow sentiment prevails, false information and rumors are surprisingly pervasive as the regional crisis worsens. In Slovakia, Ukraine’s neighbor, misinformation about the situation is widespread, including from MPs. Following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech in which he […]
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 […]
Ukraine closes its airspace to civil aviation after Russian announcement of “military operation”
Updated on 02/24/2022 12:28 am Ukraine has closed its airspace to civil aviation, the Infrastructure Ministry said Thursday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a military operation against the country. The ministry said the airspace was closed “because of the high security risk,” halting civilian traffic shortly after midnight. Several powerful explosions […]
Zelensky imposes Martial Law and asks Ukrainians to stay home | VIDEO
Updated on 02/24/2022 12:27 am the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, This morning he asked the Ukrainians to remain calm and stay at home after the start of the Russian operation in the east of the country. The Ukrainian president made this video announcement on his Telegram account in which he also reported on the […]
Russia-Ukraine crisis: Vladimir Putin announces a “military operation” in Ukraine
Updated on 02/23/2022 10:36 pm the russian president Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday a military operation in Ukraine to defend the separatists in the east of the country. “I have made the decision of a military operation”, Putin declared in an unexpected television message shortly before 03:00 GMT, denouncing an alleged “genocide” orchestrated by Ukraine […]
This is how Russia prepared to counter Western sanctions; this is the impact on your economy
Russia has been preparing for this moment for years. In 2014, when Vladimir Putin’s troops entered Crimea, annexing part of Ukraine, a first round of international sanctions fell on the Kremlin. And that taught Moscow an important lesson. Since then, Putin has developed better defense mechanisms, weaning himself from the dollar and trying to protect […]
Putin advances in Donbas, but shows signs that he has more plans for Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin has taken the Ukrainian crisis into a new and more dangerous phase with a barrage of words and actions that suggest his ultimate goals go far beyond extending Russian rule over two hard-pressed breakaway regions of Ukraine. On Monday night, Putin signed friendship treaties with the so-called Donets and Lugansk people’s republics […]