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Blinken: US will punish China if it provides military aid to Russia.

kyivindependent.com - 00:18 Mar 18, 2022

“President Biden will be speaking to President Xi tomorrow and will make clear that China will bear responsibility for any actions it takes to support Russia’s aggression, and we will not hesitate to impose costs,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Tags: China Russia
Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and FSB receive order to check all Ukrainian citizens living in Moscow.

kyivindependent.com - 23:56 Mar 17, 2022

According to two Ukrainian citizens living in Moscow with whom the Russian news outlet OVDinfo spoke, the security services searched their apartments and demanded they unlock their phones. They reportedly have offered some Ukrainians accelerated Russian citizenship, while others have been charged with petty hooliganism.

Tags: Ukrainian Moscow
Rental prices soar in western Ukraine amid influx of refugees

kyivindependent.com - 23:31 Mar 17, 2022

Millions of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes as Russian forces continue to bombard residential areas across the country. While more than 3 million have gone abroad, many have relocated to western Ukraine, which is currently safer than the rest of the country. English teacher Oleksiy Shpak and […]

Tags: Ukraine
Russian soldiers shoot dead mother of two as she drives family to safety

kyivindependent.com - 23:08 Mar 17, 2022

In the early morning of March 1, Svitlana Zhulina was driving her family away from war-torn Kyiv Oblast. Her husband, Andriy Vilson, was sitting next to her, their two sons of eight and 10 in the back seat. They were driving along Zhytomyr Highway, a westbound road very familiar to […]
Italian Prime Minister: Putin does not want peace.

kyivindependent.com - 22:23 Mar 17, 2022

Italian Prime Minister: Putin does not want peace. Mario Draghi sees only the Kremlin leader’s “willingness for war.” Italy’s government is ready to impose additional sanctions to end the conflict, although they already negatively affect the country itself.

Tags: Putin Italian Prime Minister
Luhansk Oblast is currently the most dangerous war zone in Ukraine.

kyivindependent.com - 22:16 Mar 17, 2022

Luhansk Oblast is currently the most dangerous war zone in Ukraine. The worst situation was in the city of Rubizhne, where the Russian military advanced. According to Serhiy Gaidai, head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, fightings are taking place along the entire front line, destroying one city after another.

Tags: Luhansk Oblast Ukraine
Biden: Putin is a ‘murderous dictator.’

kyivindependent.com - 21:29 Mar 17, 2022

Speaking at an event dedicated to Saint Patrick’s Day, U.S. President Joe Biden called Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin a “pure thug.” Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, shelling residential areas and killing thousands of people.
470 cars with refugees evacuated from ruined Mariupol to the city of Zaporizhia.

kyivindependent.com - 21:20 Mar 17, 2022

470 cars with refugees evacuated from ruined Mariupol to the city of Zaporizhzhia. In total, nearly 1,900 people, including 479 children, escaped the city surrounded by Russian forces. According to the secretary of the Zaporizhia City Council Anatoliy Kurtev, in just two days, the city hosted more than 11,500 refugees […]

Tags: Mariupol
Italy is ready to rebuild Mariupol theater destroyed by the Russian military.

kyivindependent.com - 20:20 Mar 17, 2022

The theater was used as a shelter for hundreds of civilians when the occupiers dropped a powerful bomb on March 16. “Theaters of all countries belong to the whole humanity,” said Dario Franceshchini, Italian minister for cultural heritage.
Initiative collects children’s drawings for charity NFT effort.

kyivindependent.com - 19:58 Mar 17, 2022

Called “Mom, I see war,” the initiative has already collected 4,000 drawings depicting Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. They will be put together into a collage and sold as an NFT. The funds will be transferred to a humanitarian aid fund for children.
Medvedchuk’s yacht seized in Croatia.

kyivindependent.com - 01:33 Mar 17, 2022

Co-leader of the pro-Kremlin Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk’s yacht, Royal Romance, was seized at the Port of Rijeka on March 16 due to sanctions imposed by the EU following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, a yacht owned by Russian oligarch Vladimir Strzhalkovsky is stuck in […]
Canada closes its air space to Belarus.

kyivindependent.com - 01:26 Mar 17, 2022

Canada’s Ministry of Transport wrote on Twitter on March 16 that “all aircraft directly or indirectly owned, registered, chartered, leased, operated or controlled by a citizen of Belarus are prohibited from entering, exiting or overflying Canadian airspace.”

Tags: Canada Belarus
Twitter to temporarily label accounts of Ukrainian, Belarusian state media.

kyivindependent.com - 01:12 Mar 17, 2022

Twitter’s VP of Global Public Policy Sinéad McSweeney announced the decision to expand government account labels on Twitter on March 16. Twitter earlier labeled all state-affiliated Russian media.

Tags: Twitter
UN Security Council calls emergency meeting over Ukraine.

kyivindependent.com - 00:44 Mar 17, 2022

The U.S., U.K., France, Albania, Norway, and Ireland requested an emergency security council meeting for March 17 to address the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Tags: Ukraine
Canada bans Russia Today from Canadian airwaves.

kyivindependent.com - 00:42 Mar 17, 2022

Canada’s telecoms regulator announced on March 16 it was removing RT and RT France from its list of non-Canadian programming services. Earlier, the EU and the U.K. halted the distribution of RT.

Tags: Canada Canadian
US grants temporary “humanitarian parole” to Ukrainians crossing border from Mexico.

kyivindependent.com - 00:22 Mar 17, 2022

As reported by Reuters on March 16, American border officials are permitting Ukrainians fleeing the war to remain in the U.S. until 2023, albeit on a case-by-case basis.

Tags: Ukrainians
Satellite imagery reveals word “children” painted outside Mariupol theater before bombing.

kyivindependent.com - 23:54 Mar 16, 2022

According to satellite imagery taken on March 14 by the private U.S. company Maxar Technologies, “children” had been written in Russian outside the theater where hundreds of civilians had taken shelter. The theater was bombed by Russian forces on March 16.
Switchblade drones included in $800 million US weapons package.

kyivindependent.com - 23:41 Mar 16, 2022

Michael McCaul, Republican U.S. House member, and head of Foreign Affairs Committee, said the aid package will come with 100 switchblade drones. These drones use a loitering munition to strike targets by crashing into them. Each unit costs $6,000.
Melitopol Mayor was exchanged for 9 Russian conscripts.

kyivindependent.com - 22:48 Mar 16, 2022

The soldiers were 18-19 years old, according to Dasha Zarivna, a spokesperson for the presidential chief of staff. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov was abducted and held captive by the Russian forces for five days.

Tags: Russian
Ukraine v Russian Federation: ICJ orders Russia to cease military aggression in Ukraine

kyivindependent.com - 22:36 Mar 16, 2022

On March 16, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its order on Ukraine’s request for indication of provisional measures against Russia. By 13 votes to two, it ordered Russia to immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on Feb. 24 in the territory of Ukraine and ensure that […]

Tags: Ukraine Russia

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