Although its economy is very vulnerable, Moscow has no financial incentive to stop the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin may reconsider his position on continuing the war against Ukraine if the West can squeeze Russian oil revenues, according to a Reuters study. Despite the sanctions and... #Putin #RussianAgression #RussianEconomy #RussiaProfits #WarinUkraine
The West is deliberately limiting the supply of weapons to Ukraine to induce Putin to de-escalate; instead, Russia is preparing a new summer offensive. Western countries limited the amount of weapons they provided to Ukraine to persuade Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to de-escalate the conflict, said the head of the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania, Ga... #GabrieliusLandsbergis #MilitaryAidforUkraine #RussianAgression #RussianOffensive #RussianTroops #WarinUkraine
Top international lawyers explain why confiscating and transferring Russian assets to Ukraine is legal and important for the entire world. Former US diplomat Philip Zelikow and a large group of international lawyers plan to publish an open letter next week arguing that the West is taking too narrow a view of customary international law. ... #PhilipZelikow #ReparationsForUkraine #RussianAgression #RussianAssetsConfiscation #RussianWarcrimes
Russia will launch a new offensive after Putin’s re-election in March and prepare for conflict with NATO over the next decade, said the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell. Therefore, he called for an urgent increase in support for Ukraine. Borrell emphasized that EU member states should work with their ... #Avdiivka #JosepBorrell #KaupoRosin #OleksandrSyrskyy #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine
Another 10 million Ukrainian refugees will flee to Europe if Putin wins the war. The German government predicts that in the event of a victory by the Russian Federation in the war, the number of Ukrainian refugees will increase by 10 million, and Germany will be one of the most po... #JensStoltenberg #RefugeesFromUkraine #RussianAgression #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
The US is changing its strategy to provide help to Ukraine. The strategic focus is defense instead of the liberation of Ukraine’s territory. As WP reports, Washington’s new strategy will not be designed to reclaim the occupied territories but on helping ... #RussianAgression #SupportUkraine #USaidforUkraine #VictoryStrategy #WarinUkraine
On January 23, Russia attacked several Ukrainian cities, killing 7 and injuring 77. Moscow launched rocket attacks on Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Pavlograd, targeting civilian infrastructure. Seven deaths and at least 77 injuries were reported in these cities. In particular, 22 victims were i... #Kharkiv #kyiv #MissileAttackOnUkraine #Pavlograd #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine
The US has reached an agreement to finance the government, and next comes aid to Ukraine. The FT writes that the US House of Representatives has approved a new bill that President Joe Biden signed to extend the government’s temporary funding until March and avoid a shutdown. Congress... #JoeBiden #RussianAgression #SupportUkraine #UScongress #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine
EU leaders in Davos say it is necessary to prepare for war with the Russian Federation. Latvian President Edgars Rinkevičs said at the summit in Davos that his country should work on the combat capability of its army and prepare for a hybrid war. “The defense industry should streng... #AndrzejDuda #Davos2024 #EdgarsRinkevics #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy has appealed to the Baltic countries for help: Estonia will provide €1.2B in support for Ukraine. The Russian dictator Putin wants to destroy Ukraine, and after that, other countries bordering the Russian Federation may become targets of his aggression, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in Vilniu... #AlarKaris #BalticCountries #RussianAgression #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukraine must develop a realistic military strategy because this year will be a turning point in the war. Time published a list of global risks for 2024, which included a “divided Ukraine.” The Russian invasion of Ukraine remains a “historical failure,” the article says. “Thi... #NATO #RussianAgression #VictoryStrategy #WarinUkraine
Russia launched almost 300 rockets and more than 200 Shahed drones into Ukraine in the last four days, said Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On January 2, Russian forces launched almost a hundred rockets of various types during their attack. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, reported that the Russians ... #DroneAttackOnUkraine #MissileAttackOnUkraine #RussianAgression #ValeryZaluzhny #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Europe seeks to increase military aid to Ukraine to minimize the risks from a decrease in US military support. The UK and other European countries want to help Ukraine and ensure that Kyiv can win its war with Russia without US support if Donald Trump comes to power and refuses to support Ukraine. According to... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #RussianAgression #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Europe is considering the consequences of untimely aid to Ukraine. Due to problems with allocating aid to Kyiv, European officials are considering the implications of a possible Russian victory in Ukraine, writes Bloomberg. Beyond the potentially catastrophic consequ... #JoeBiden #LeoVaradkar #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATO #RussianAgression #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Russia plans to wage war until 2026; without the support of the West, the Russian Federation will conquer all of Ukraine and open military bases near NATO countries. The information published by Bild concerning Russia’s plans to occupy new Ukrainian territories during 2024-2026 corresponds with other data that has been received, the Institute for the Study o... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #Putin #RussianAgression #RussianOccupation #WarinUkraine
Freezing the war in Ukraine threatens the Russian Federation’s ability to attack NATO in 6-10 years. Experts from a German foreign policy association expressed this opinion and added that Russia’s military potential is underestimated. The invaders have suffered the greatest losses in manpower a... #NATO #RussianAgression #RussianTroops #WarinUkraine
The risks of diminishing support for Ukraine and the threat of a world war are increasing. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sees the risks of decreased support against the background of the war in Israel and leadership changes in several European countries. However, he considers these as risks... #IsraelWar #RussianAgression #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy at the European Community Summit in Granada: If Russia recovers, it will attack other European countries in 2028. During his trip to Spain, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that any pause in Russia’s war against Ukraine could become a new critical moment. If Russia is given this pause and the ... #EuropeanPoliticalCommunity #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Putin’s revenge for the Crimean bridge took the lives of 13 people in Zaporizhzhia. According to Ukraine’s air force, the southern city was hit by six Russian cruise missiles and 16 S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. The cruise missiles were fired from Russian Tu-22M3 and Su-35 fig... #CrimeanBridge #KyryloTymoshenko #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine
European societies cannot afford war fatigue. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that European societies cannot afford to be war-weary because this is what Putin is counting on. According to Borrell, the governments of the EU me... #JosepBorrell #RussianAgression #WarFatigue #WarinUkraine
Russia’s war machine is still making plenty of cash from il exports. An increase in the rate of export duty charged on crude oil shipped out of Russia in July has helped the Kremlin to ride out a slump in revenue inflow in the first full week of the month. Duty rates ... #RussianAgression #RussianOil #RussianOilExport
Ukraine and the EU are working on the seventh package of sanctions. Ukraine is already working with the European Union on the seventh package of sanctions against Russia and is not giving anyone a pause in this process, said the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Ku... #EUsanctionsPackage #RussianAgression #Sanctions #СанкціїРосіі
The G7 leaders have agreed on limiting the price of Russian oil. The leaders of the Group of Seven, met recently at a summit in Bavaria, Germany, and reached a unanimous consensus on the need to limit the price of Russian oil. Still, this mechanism needs to be work... #G7 #G7summit2022 #RussianAgression #RussianOilPriceLimit #RussianOilSanctions
Russian invaders have seized and blocked 15 Ukrainian ports. Three Ukrainian ports operating on the Danube handled almost 1.3 million tons of cargo in May. According to Deputy Head of the Seaports Administration Dmytro Barinov, “In total, there are 18 po... #BlockedSeaports #DanubePorts #RussianAgression #UkraineSeaPorts
Russian hackers perform massive cyberattacks on Lithuania. The Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for cyberattacks on Lithuanian websites in response to Vilnius banning the passage of goods sanctioned by the European Union across its territor... #Lithuania #LithuaniaSyberattacks #RussianAgression
Ukraine has bought 2,900 anti-tank missile systems from Germany. On its own initiative and at its own expense, Ukraine has purchased 2,900 RGW 90 Matador anti-tank missile systems from the German company Dynamit Nobel Defence (DND), reported Welt. The German anti-... #AntiTankWeapon #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine #WeaponforUkraine
Newly supplied weapons will allow Ukraine to reclaim occupied territory, including Crimea. US weapons will help Ukraine regain Russian-occupied territory, including Crimea and the Donbas, the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov told CNN in Brussels. The defense minister said the fi... #OleksiyReznikov #RussianAgression #Ukrainewar #WarinUkraine #WeaponforUkraine
Russia’s revenue from energy exports in the first 100 days of the war amounted to €93B. According to a study by CREA, the EU remains the largest buyer of Russian gas and oil, 61% of Russia’s fossil fuel exports, amounting to €57B. Among individual countries, the largest importer wa... #RussianAgression #RussianEnergy #RussianEnergyExport
Ukraine is doing everything it can to unblock its seaports. “We are doing all we can, but this issue can be resolved only by unblocking Ukrainian ports because 80% of agricultural exports go through them,” said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytr... #BlockedSeaports #DmytroKuleba #RussianAgression #SeaPorts #UnblockingSeaPorts
President Zelenskyy, in the speech to EU leaders, asked for an agreement on the Russian oil ban. On May 30, Zelenskyy called on the EU to approve the sixth package of sanctions against Russia and stop depending on Russia in an address to the European Council. “Why do you depend on Russia and the... #EUmemberiship #EUsummit #RussianAgression #RussianOilSanctions #Zelenskyy
The US has not decided whether to send long-range rockets to Ukraine or not. US President Joe Biden said he doesn’t plan to ship any missiles to Ukraine that could strike Russian territory. The Biden administration has been preparing to step up the kind of weaponry it o... #JoeBiden #MLRSforUkraine #NATO #RussianAgression #Ukrainewar
The US will not lift sanctions on Russia in exchange for access to Ukrainian ports. US State Department spokesman Ned Price said the United States has rejected Russia’s proposals to lift sanctions in exchange for allowing access to Ukrainian ports. “Of course, we will not... #NedPrice #RussianAgression #UkrainePorts #ussanctions
Russia is “weaponizing energy” amid the war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions from the West have sent oil prices skyrocketing, lifting gasoline and diesel prices in the US to unprecedented levels, reported CNN. Natural gas... #EnergyAsWeapon #JenniferGranholm #RussianAgression #RussianEnergy
Putin should not win his war, states Olaf Scholz. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine as a failure and said Putin should not win. “He has already misse... #OlafScholz #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine #worldeconomicforum
A joint UK, EU, and US group will document war crimes in Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the launch of a new joint UK, EU, and US group to help support the efforts of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General to document war crimes and other atrociti... #AnthonyBlinken #RussianAgression #RussianWarcrimes #WarCrimes #WarCrimesInvestigation
The world is indecisive about providing MLRS for Ukraine, but Ukraine needs them ASAP. During the World Economic Forum, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba noted that Ukraine is now in critical need of Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), and allies that could provide them are w... #DmytroKuleba #MilitaryAid #MLRS #MLRSforUkraine #RussianAgression #Ukrainewar
The President of the European Council is confident the Russian oil ban will be resolved by Monday. Charles Michel is confident that any issues over the proposed ban on Russian oil imports will be resolved by the next council meeting on May 30. Addressing a news conference alongside Swedish Prime M... #CharlesMichel #OilEmbargo #RussianAgression #RussianOilEmbargo
If Ukraine loses the war, Latvia will be next. Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks called on its partners to increase support for Ukraine so that they do not have to defend themselves. “Ukraine is currently fighting our war, and if it lo... #ArtisPabriks #Latvia #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine
Britain will not ease sanctions against Russia in exchange for a grain export corridor. The Minister of Defense of the United Kingdom, Ben Wallace, rejected the idea of easing sanctions against Russia in exchange for a grain export corridor through Ukraine, reported Reuters. Earlier on... #BenWallace #BlackSeaBlockage #BlackSeaCorridor #RussianAgression
The German president calls on Putin to hold serious and direct talks with Zelenskyy. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine immediately, Spiegel reports. “Respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, stop ... #FrankWalterSteinmeier #PutinWar #RussianAgression
Oil prices have risen to $115 a barrel. Oil prices rose at the beginning of trading on Wednesday due to limited stocks and the prospect of growing demand in connection with the upcoming start of the summer driving season in the United Stat... #GlobalOilPrices #OilPrices #RussianAgression #WTI
The war in Ukraine is not regional, it is a global problem. The war in Ukraine is a global problem, not exclusively a European problem said US President Joe Biden during a meeting in Tokyo. Stressing that Washington and its close domestic partners would insis... #GlobalWar #JoeBiden #RussianAgression #Ukrainewar #WarinUkraine
Russia is using food supplies as a weapon as it did with energy supplies. Russia is using a similar scheme with food supplies as it did with energy and weaponizing the sector with global repercussions, said Ursula von der Leyen to the World Economic Forum. The European Comm... #RussianAgression #Ukrainewar #UrsulavonderLeyen #worldeconomicforum
Germany is ready to support the oil embargo against Russia without Hungary’s participation. German Economy Minister Robert Habeck is disappointed that the EU has not yet approved an oil embargo against Russia, reported Reuters. However, Habeck added that Germany was ready to renounce Hungary... #GermanyOilEmbargo #OilEmbargo #RobertHabeck #RussianAgression #RussianOilEmbargo
The naval coalition suggested lifting the Russian blockade from Ukraine’s seaports. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has proposed the creation of a naval coalition to lift the Russian blockade on Ukrainian grain exports across the Black Sea, reported the Guardian. &... #GabrieliusLandsbergis #RussianAgression #SeaPortsBlockage #UkraineSeaPorts
Russia is blocking 22 million tons of food in Ukraine ports. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of blocking the export of 22 million tons of food products and warned that many countries will face a food crisis if their ports are unblocked. “The world ... #RussianAgression #SeaPortsBlockage #UkrainePorts
The European Union has a €300B plan to drop Russian fossil fuels. The EU Commission submitted a €300B plan to eliminate Russian energy imports by 2027, reported EuroActiv. However,, EU officials admitted, that this would require short-term investments in new fossil ... #BanRussianOil #EUsanctions #RussianAgression #RussianFossilFuelsBan #WarinUkraine
The International Criminal Court has sent Ukraine the largest group of investigators in history. On Tuesday, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan said that he had sent a team of 42 investigators, forensic experts, and support staff to Ukraine to investigate war crimes and crimes ag... #CrimesinUkraine #ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #KarimKhan #RussianAgression #WarCrimes
The Russians have lost one-third of their ground combat force in Ukraine. In its latest defense intelligence update, the ministry said Russian troops had sustained heavy losses in their Donbas offensive and that “under the current conditions, Russia is unlikely to dr... #RussianAgression #RussiansLosses #Ukrainewar #WarinUkraine
Germany accuses Russia of using energy as a weapon. German Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck accused Russia on Thursday of using energy “as a weapon,” following an announcement by the Russian government on Wednesday to impo... #Germany #RobertHabeck #RussianAgression #RussianOil
