UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said today that he was deeply concerned about the Ukraine crisis and the “increased speculation” of a military conflict, urging world leaders to step up diplomatic efforts to calm the situation. “We simply cannot accept the possibility of such a catastrophic confrontation,” he told reporters after having lunch with UN Security […]
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Ukraine will resist Russia – both on the battlefield and at the diplomatic level
By Katya Soldak Once again, Russia and NATO are face to face and holding tense negotiations. The reason this time is the concentration of troops from Russia on the border with neighboring Ukraine. This latest confrontation – the most serious since the end of the Cold War – has been going on in the midst […]
French Foreign Minister: Conditions for French forces to stay in Mali are not met
The conditions are no longer in place for the fight against the Islamists to continue in Mali and French President Emanuel Macron has called for a reorganization of French forces in the region, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said tonight. “If the conditions are no longer met so that we can act in Mali, which […]
Johnson, Biden agree ‘there is still room’ for diplomacy in Ukraine crisis
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden have agreed that there is still a critical margin for diplomacy and a chance for Russia to step down and avoid a catastrophe in Ukraine, Downing Street said after the two leaders telephoned. . “They agreed that there remained a critical window for diplomacy and […]
Pentagon: Beijing ‘tacit support’ to Moscow over Ukraine’s deep concern
Beijing’s “tacit support” for Moscow over Ukraine is “deeply troubling”, the Pentagon said today, as Westerners feared a Moscow military strike on Ukraine. “This support” is honestly even more destabilizing for the security situation in Europe, “Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told a news conference. The US Secretary of Defense in Belgium, Lithuania and Poland US […]
Russian ambassador to EU: Russia will not invade Ukraine ‘unless provoked’
Russia “will not invade Ukraine unless provoked,” Russian Ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Tsizov said in an interview with The Guardian today. “We will not invade Ukraine unless we are challenged to do so,” said the Russian ambassador, who has represented Russia in Brussels since 2005. “If the Ukrainians launch an attack on Russia, […]
Zelensky: Our briefing is for an attack on February 16th
LAST UPDATE 23:36 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a speech today – which was also posted on Facebook – said that he was informed that Russia will attack on Wednesday, as broadcast by foreign agencies. The Ukrainian leader’s comments come as tensions between Kiev and Moscow have turned red. Russia has deployed more than 100,000 […]
Pentagon: Russia strengthens its forces on the border with Ukraine
Russia further strengthened its military presence on Ukraine’s border over the weekend, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said today, despite Moscow’s announcement that some military exercises would end. “Russian President Vladimir Putin” has plenty of potential at his disposal, “Kirby told CNN. “It continues to send additional forces along these borders with Ukraine, as it did […]
The World Bank is temporarily withdrawing staff from Ukraine
The World Bank is temporarily withdrawing its personnel from Ukraine, while it has suspended the sending of personnel to the country due to the tensions on the border with Russia, according to an internal memo that came to the attention of the Reuters agency. The World Bank says it is closely monitoring the situation on […]
Roskosmos showed the stones rolled down on Mars in the “Labyrinth of the Night”
The press service of Roscosmos has published an interesting photograph of the surface of Mars, taken by the CaSSIS camera aboard the Trace Gas Orbiter orbiter of the Russian-European ExoMars mission. As the press service notes, in this photo, upon closer examination, you can see something more than a cursory glance. At the cliff cutting […]
