High Russian offical says Russia needs to seize Kyiv and establish a ‘ protective corridor’ to protect his country….
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev also said his country looks to change the Ukraine government as a ultimate goal in the conflict….
More sanctions lodged against Russians by Western Countries…
But Russia economy is moving along even with 17% interets rates and loses of propabaly a half million of its men….
Polish farmers are still unhappy and protesting Ukraine imports to their country….
The Ukraine has shot down a second Russian Early Warning aircraft like the Western AWACS…It is believe that Russian is down to six aircraft from the orignal 8…
Estonia and Moldova ARE very worried about Russian effort to detablize their countries….
NATO and Baltic countries are copying the Russiana and laying mine feilds .…
US Senate leader Schumer listens to Ukraime soliders (Being In the Ukraine) plead for more US military assistance and assures the military drone operator that America supports him and will come thru with aid and ammo soon…
Switzerland is set to hold a Ukraine peace conference “by the summer”. Addressing the UN general assembly on Friday, the Swiss foreign minister, Ignazio Cassis, said: “At Ukraine’s request, we intend to organize by the summer a high-level conference on peace in Ukraine,” Reuters reports.
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Canada has announced additional sanctions against 10 individuals and 153 entities over Russia’s “illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine”. In a statement released on Friday, the Canadian foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, said that the sanctions target individuals and entities who support the Russian military through finance, logistics and sanctions evasion.
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The US has sanctioned three Russian officials over last week’s death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Agence France-Presse reports. The individuals sanctioned include Valery Boyarinev, the deputy director of the Russia’s federal penitentiary service, which oversaw Polar Wolf, the penal colony where Navalny suddenly died last week. The other two sanctioned individuals are officials administering the penal colony.
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Alexei Navalny’s mother has been given an ultimatum, “agree to secret funeral or he is buried in prison”, by Russian authorities holding her son. Lyudmila Navalnaya accused Russian investigators of “blackmailing” her on Thursday over the logistics of the funeral for her son, a Russian opposition leader who died in an Arctic prison last Friday.
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The US has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia, which target Russian firms and individuals connected to Navalny’s death. The US Treasury, state department and commerce department announced on Friday that they will impose roughly 600 new sanctions on Russia and its “war machine” in the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
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The White House has accused the House speaker of aiding Iran in latest Ukraine aid push. “President Biden is standing up to Iran. But where is House Speaker [Mike] Johnson’s supposed commitment not to ‘appease Iran’ in all this? Nowhere. Instead, his inaction is benefiting Putin and the Ayatollah,” the deputy press secretary and senior communications adviser, Andrew Bates, said in a memo.
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Protesting farmers have spilt Ukrainian rapeseed on Polish railway, the second incident this week amid protests by angry farmers. Farmers in Poland are protesting against what they call “uncontrolled” imports from its war-torn neighbour, souring otherwise friendly ties between Warsaw and Kyiv. Across Europe, angry farmers have been protesting over rising costs, high fuel prices, bureaucracy and EU environmental rules.
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The Council of Europe confirms “unwavering support” for Ukraine. “We mark an anniversary that no one of wanted to see,” said Marija Pejcinovic Buric, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, adding, “Our thoughts today are with the Ukrainian people.”
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The prominent Russian businessman Boris Mints can take his bid to pause an $850m fraud lawsuit brought by two Russian banks to the UK’s supreme court, his lawyers said in court filings on Friday…
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Feb 23, 2024 – ISW Press
Ukrainian officials reported that Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft on the night of February 23 – the second such aircraft shot down in 2024
Feb 22, 2024 – ISW Press
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia would likely have to seize Kyiv sooner or later while identifying Russia’s possible further territorial objectives in Ukraine. Medvedev responded in an interview published on February 22 to a question asking if there will “still be any part of Ukraine left that [Russia] will consider as a legitimate state, whose borders [Russia] will be ready to recognize.” Medvedev stated that Russia must “ensure its interests” by achieving the goals of the “special military operation” as laid out by Russian President Vladimir Putin – referring to Russian demands for Ukraine’s “demilitarization,” “denazification,” and neutrality. Medvedev reiterated Russia’s intention of changing the government in Ukraine, stating that the Ukrainian government “must fall, it must be destroyed, it must not remain in this world.” Medvedev claimed that Russia must create a “protective cordon” in order to protect against “encroachments on [Russia’s] lands,” including shelling and active offensive operations. Medvedev stated that he does not know where Russia should “stop” but that Russia “probably” must seize and occupy Kyiv “if not now then after some time.”