Russia's war in Ukraine and unprecedented sanctions against Russia have already provoked a reduction in world trade and a rise in prices for energy and products, which will inevitably have a negative impact on the prospects of the global economy.
EU High Representative Josep Borrell and EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic have condemned Russia's attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, saying those guilty of this and other crimes committed in Ukraine will be held accountable.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has failed in all his plans and calculations drawn before the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, and now he must immediately stop this senseless and unprovoked war.
In a statement on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has said he is proud to be Ukrainian and believes in victory over Putin's Russia.
A spokesperson for the British army told CNN that “a small number of individual soldiers” may have left Ukraine to fight in a “personal capacity.” Earlier, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said British soldiers would be prosecuted for desertion if they head to Ukraine to fight against Russian forces.
On March 9, the IMF Executive Board greenlighted $1.4 billion in additional financing for Ukraine under an emergency support program known as the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI).
After Poland offered to transfer its Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. base in Germany in order to replenish Ukraine’s air force, the Pentagon assessed the move “may be seen as escalatory.”
Many struggle to understand world powers’ refusal to enforce a no-fly zone (NFZ), at least on the western rest of Ukraine not (yet) occupied by Russia. It has been repeatedly requested by its legitimate democratically elected President Volodymyr Zelensky for the whole of this sovereign independent and democratic country, itself […]