Roman Abramovich takes a further step away from Moscow. Or at least this is intended to show. After handing over the management of the club to the Chelsea FC charity he wanted a few years ago, the Russian tycoon now announces that he has put the company up for sale. The unexpected news follows the […]
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Les Échos: Ukraine war threatens Silk Railway
The side victim of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the “Silk Road”, is mentioned in today’s publication of the French financial newspaper Les Échos, noting that a prolonged blockade of this Eurasian axis will not be to China’s liking. Mainly after the signing of an agreement between Beijing and Kiev in July 2021, for the […]
Ukraine: The Greek convoy of Mariupol was shot
LAST UPDATE 22:13 The procession of cars, with staff of the Consulate General of Mariupol, the journalists who were housed in its premises, as well as Greek citizens who wished to leave, arrived in Zaporizhia, according to diplomatic sources. In particular, the procession, under Ambassador Francesco Costelleno, consists of 21 cars and 82 people, as […]
Putin loses key EU ally as Orban turns against him
Hungary’s Viktor Orban, a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has had a week of upheaval and political setbacks, CNBC reports. After Russia formally recognized the “democracies” of Lugansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine last week, the EU began work on a first round of sanctions against Moscow. But there was a major concern […]
Boris Johnson accuses Russia of ‘war crimes’ in Ukraine
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today accused Russia of being suspected of “war crimes” in Ukraine because of the weapons it uses against civilians and called on the UN to “demand” Russia’s withdrawal. “What we have already seen on the part of Vladimir Putin’s regime regarding the use of ammunition fired against innocent civilians is, […]
Fighters in Syria are seeking Turkish help to go to war in Ukraine
It was expected and in fact the manifestation of this phenomenon has been delayed. As happened in Libya, as happened on the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkish-backed Syrian opposition rebels, and certainly its jihadist mercenaries, are looking for opportunities to be in Ukraine, while asking for Turkey’s help. Syrian guerrillas seeking refuge in Eastern Europe, the […]
More than 85% of Ukrainians support the country’s accession to the EU
More than 85% of Ukrainians support Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and 76% are in favor of its membership in NATO, according to a poll conducted by the sociological group “Rating”, reports the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. Before the start of the war these percentages were more than 20 percentage points below the above […]
Ukrainian army calls on mothers of captured Russian soldiers to pick them up
LAST UPDATE: 17.49 The Ukrainian army today called on the mothers of Russian soldiers captured on Ukrainian soil to come and look for them, while Kyiv claims to have captured dozens of prisoners since the beginning of the invasion of the country by Moscow. “A decision has been made to hand over the captured Russian […]
An official denies that Kherson was occupied by the Russians, the fighting continues
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that Russia had not occupied Kherson, a southern port city that Russia had said earlier. Oleksiy Arestovich said fighting was continuing for the provincial capital of about 250,000, located at the mouth of the Dnieper River in the Black Sea. “The city has not fallen, our […]
Ukrainian forces shoot down two Russian Su-35 fighters and lose a MiG-29
The anti-aircraft defense in the Kiev region on the night of March 1 shot down two Russian Su-35 fighters, the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reports, citing an announcement by the Command of the Ukrainian Air Force posted on Facebook. “On the night of March 1, in the Kiev region, a particularly fierce air battle took […]
