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Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin visits occupied Kherson region; US journalist appears in Moscow court | Russia
Putin attends military meeting in Kherson Russian president Vladimir Putin has attended a military command meeting in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region which is partly held by Russia, the Kremlin has said. Putin heard reports from commanders of the airborne forces and the “Dnieper” army group as well as other senior officers who briefed him on the situation in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, both of which Moscow has proclaimed part of Russia, Reuters reported. Russian troops retreated from Kherson, the regional capital, last November, and have been reinforcing their positions on the opposite bank of the Dnipro river in anticipation of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The Kremlin did not say when…
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Finland joins NATO, doubling alliance’s border with Russia in blow to Putin
CNN — Finland officially became the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday, marking a major shift in the security landscape in northeastern Europe that adds some 1,300 kilometers (830 miles) to the alliance’s frontier with Russia. The Nordic nation’s accession was sealed during a formal ceremony at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg were on hand as the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pekka Haavisto, established Finland’s accession. “Finland has today become a member of the defense alliance NATO. The era of military non-alignment in our history has come to an end. A…
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Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges
Russian authorities on Thursday arrested an American journalist for The Wall Street Journal on spying rates. Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg on suspicion of “espionage in the interests of the American authorities,” the Federal Safety Company (FSB) explained in a assertion, which was noted by state media. The FSB accused Gershkovich of accumulating “information constituting a state mystery about the pursuits of a single of the enterprises of the Russian armed forces-industrial complicated.” The Journal denied the fees. The FSB supplied no evidence or further more facts on when Gershkovich was detained. He was later on taken to the Lefortovo court in Moscow and…
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Russia-Ukraine war live: war crimes dominate agenda at UN in Geneva; US warns China against arming Russia | Ukraine
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Summary of the day so far … Air raid alerts sounded across Ukraine’s Kyiv region late on Sunday night as Kyiv’s regional military administration confirmed the country’s air defences were at work. The nearby northern city of Chernihiv also reported shooting down Iranian-made Shahed drones, according to its regional governor, Vyacheslav Chaus. Ukraine’s ministry of defence claimed in total to have shot down 11 of 14 drones deployed, including nine over Kyiv. Two emergency service workers were killed and three other people injured during a drone attack on Khmelnytskyi, according to city’s mayor. Belarus’s exiled opposition…
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Russia-Ukraine war live: UK warns conflict could last another year; Russian general ‘under intense pressure in Donetsk’ | Russia
Russian general probably under intense pressure to take Vuhledar, says UK The town of Vuhledar, in southern Donetsk oblast, has experienced heavy shelling again, according to the MoD’s latest defence intelligence update. “There is a realistic possibility that Russia is preparing for another offensive effort in this area despite costly failed attacks in early February and late 2022,” the update on Thursday morning said. Colonel General Rustam Muradov, commander of Russia’s Eastern Group of forces, is likely to be under intense pressure to improve results in Vuhledar after harsh criticism from the Russian nationalist community, according to the MoD. “However, it is unlikely that Muradov has a striking force capable…
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Nations: No clarity on neutrality, no Olympics for Russia
The governments of 34 nations launched a assertion Monday calling on the IOC to explain the definition of “neutrality” as it seeks a way to permit Russian and Belarusian athletes again into intercontinental sporting activities and, in the long run, following year’s Paris Olympics. “As long as these basic challenges and the substantial absence of clarity and concrete depth on a workable ‘neutrality’ design are not resolved, we do not concur that Russian and Belarusian athletes really should be authorized back into competitors,” read through the assertion. Amongst these signing the assertion were being officials from the United States, Britain, France, Canada and Germany. Those 5 countries brought virtually a…
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