The Ukraine protests the Russian aggression at the UN…..
That will get nowhere…..
Power outages are fixed and then bombed again…..
More POW exchanges….
NATO and America will only send certain military equipment to the Ukraine….
Here’s what we know:
The departure of the parent of the company known as “Russia’s Google” would be a setback to President Vladimir V. Putin’s efforts to develop homegrown substitutes for Western technology.
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The parent of a tech giant known as ‘Russia’s Google’ wants to cut ties with the country.
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Millions remain without power in Ukraine even as some services are restored.
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‘Every hour is getting harder’: Surgeons in Ukraine struggle to operate when the power goes out.
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Ukraine’s allies want to curb the flow of oil revenue helping finance Russia’s invasion.
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Ukraine’s energy grid, the target of repeated strikes, is like a network of roads, its energy utility head says.
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Zelensky takes his case to the U.N., as the U.S. accuses Russia of trying to freeze Ukraine ‘into submission.’
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A U.S.-made missile went astray in Ukraine in September and injured civilians…
Ukraine and Russia each freed 50 prisoners Thursday in an exchange.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
- Russian and Ukrainian officials said Thursday that Moscow and Kyiv had exchanged 50 prisoners of war. The Ukrainian side of the swap included troops captured in Mariupol, some at the Azovstal steel plant where fighters made a last stand, along with some taken prisoner at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and at Snake Island, where the defiance of defenders became a symbolic moment for Ukraine early in the war, Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential office of Ukraine, said on Twitter. The SBU, Ukraine’s main internal security service, released a video of the exchange.
- Zelensky compared Russia’s attacks on energy to “weapons of mass destruction” in his speech late Wednesday. “When the temperature is below zero outside, and tens of millions of people are left without electricity, heat and water as a result of Russian missiles hitting energy facilities, this is an obvious crime against humanity,” he told the Security Council.
- Many parts of Ukraine reeled in the wake of the strikes. In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, around half of residents remain without power, the head of the local military administration said early Thursday. According to Valentyn Reznichenko, almost 3,000 miners had to be rescued after being trapped underground during the blackouts.
- The European Union is working at “full speed” to prepare a ninth round of sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen announced Thursday, as the bloc’s parliament approved $18.7 billion to help Ukraine “survive the war and start its reconstruction.” Speaking at a news conference in Finland, she said she was “confident” that the G-7 and other major partners would soon approve a global price cap on Russian oil, adding: “We will not rest until Ukraine has prevailed over Putin and his unlawful and barbaric war.”
- Millions of Ukrainians could face life-threatening conditions without power, heat or running water this winter, after attacks on energy infrastructure battered the country to the brink of a humanitarian disaster, The Washington Post reported. Sergey Kovalenko, the head of a power company supplying Kyiv, has warned that Ukrainians could face blackouts until the end of March. The head of power grid operator Ukrenergo on Tuesday described the damage as “colossal.”
- Pro-Russia hackers have claimed responsibility after the European Parliament’s website was forced offline for several hours, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said. The apparent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack came as the E.U. legislative body voted to designate Moscow a state sponsor of terrorism.
- Russia is likely to redeploy airborne forces from Kherson to the Donbas, according to a British Defense Ministry assessment.
- German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said Thursday that Patriot air defense units bound for Poland were for the defense of NATO and could not be sent on to Ukraine, Reuters reported. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Twitter that he had asked Germany to send Ukraine the missile launchers…