will prepare and implement measures to ensure the de-occupation and reintegration of the peninsula.[118] Given that the residents of Crimea, most of whom are ethnic Russians, are quite happy with the current state of affairs under Russian governance this, according to a 2020 Washington Post report Zelenskys threat in this regard was not only a threat against Russia itself but was also a threat of potentially massive bloodshed against a people who do not want to go back to Ukraine. Such a line emphasizes their involvement in events. Russias Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the terrorist attack by Ukrainian troops on the oil drilling platforms. [35] NATO by-passed Congressional action by training Azov fighters in Canada under Operation Unifer with an $890 million budget. On 11 February 2022, U.S. President Biden warned Americans in Ukraine should leave as soon as possible, as a Russian invasion could begin on 16 February 2022. [51] The crisis was described by many commentators as one of the most intense in Europe since the Cold War. [32] Danilov claimed that the "narrative" about the need to reach mutual understanding with Russian-speaking Ukrainians is highly dangerous for the state. proxies. The target of the missile attack on Kherson were residential areas where kindergartens, schools and many social institutions are located. With breaking news and in-depth material, our written, audio, video, and multimedia publications are key to informing the public and international press agencies on topics such as peace, security, disarmament, human rights, relief assistance, development, economic and social issues. He recently said that SpaceX had spent about $80 million to enable and support Starlink in Ukraine. The special military operation has dispelled the myth of super-weapons supplied to Ukraine by the West, which are capable of fundamentally changing the situation on the front. "[130], After visiting with NATO boss Stoltenberg, Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov wrote on twitter that the long-standing cooperation between Ukraine and NATO makes it possible to say that the country has de facto become a member of the North Atlantic alliance. 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On June 15, 2022 Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko warned the Polish NATO regime that if it invaded Ukraine, Belarus would intervene. All times EDT. Ukraine was almost immediately turned into a testing site for military biological experiments and is being flooded with weapons, including heavy weaponry, without any heed to the Kiev regimes statements about its desire to obtain nuclear weapons. By October 6, 2022 NATO/Ukraine had amassed about 30,000 forces around Bakhmut. On October 25, 2022 Biden regime State Dept. She said that it was clear that Germany needed to diversify its energy supplies as it moved away from nuclear and coal-fueled power generation and that gas would be needed for the transitional period. On October 10, 2022 unified Russians forces recaptured the village of Spirne. However, the Russian delegation to the OSCE was absent from the meeting. On August 15, 2022 reconoissance aircraft of the United Kingdom entered Russian airspace in t he Murmansk region. [196] The objective appears to be a storage depot in Kolbasnaya of roughly 20,000 tons of munitions left over from the Red Armys evacuation of former Warsaw Pact countries. The Times suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings: The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals. After the NATO-led assault on the Kharkov and Izium front in September 2022,[108] numerous assassinations, sabotage, nuclear blackmail, terrorism plots and continued shelling of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics killing dozens of civilians - including children with U.S.-built HIMAR missile launcher systems,[109] the Russian State Duma began debating an upgrade of the Special Military Operation to a counterterrorism operation. Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage. China, Egypt, Serbia, India, Kazakhstan and 7 other nations closed their embassies and called on all their citizens to leave Ukraine immediately. On April 19, 2022, Moldova banned wearing the black and orange Ribbon of St. George, established in 1769 as the highest military decoration in Czarist times, continued in the Soviet era, and reaffirmed in 1998 by Presidential decree signed by Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin. 77.2), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002) all forbid state armed forces and non-state armed groups from using children under the age of 15 directly in armed conflict (technically "hostilities"). he said. Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky told CBS News on Face the Nation, "I don't think Putin is bluffing. On April 28, 2022 the Polish Defense Ministry announced that there would be intensive movement of convoys with equipment in the countrys north and east from May 1, 2022 until the end of the month due to military exercises. [341], On 23 February 2022, an unidentified senior U.S. defense official was quoted by news media as saying that "80 percent" of Russian forces assigned and arrayed along Ukraine's border were ready for battle and that a ground incursion could commence at any moment. Password requirements: 6 to 30 characters long; ASCII characters only (characters found on a standard US keyboard); must contain at least 4 different symbols; [379][380] Belarussian neo-Nazis have flooded into Ukraine as NATO-backed mercenaries. On May 17, 2014 the International Observatory of Ukrainian Crisis posted: A general rebellion against the illegal coup broke out. Global Hawk drone flew in circles south of Crimea relaying data from and to the drones. On June 19, 2922 high-precision long-distance Kalibr cruise missiles destroyed ten M777 155-mm Howitzers and up to 20 armored combat vehicles delivered by the West to the Kyiv regime in recent days that were hidden in a transformer plant in Nikolayev. Ukrainska Pravda reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's unannounced surprise visit to Kyiv shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in Istanbul. By September 2022, as a result of the U.N.-brokered deal to facilitate shipments of Ukrainian grain from the Port of Odessa, only 2 of 87 ships went to Africa, while rest went to Europe. [364], Russian POWs who were exchanged in June 2022 attested to torture, beatings, electro shock, and stabbings while in Ukrainian custody.[365]. Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia's accusations of genocide in eastern Ukraine, Escalation and invasion (February 2022 present), Alleged clashes between Russia and Ukraine, Recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics by Russia, International treaties and negotiation structures, The Donetsk People's Republic is a separatist state that declared its independence in May 2014, while receiving recognitions from its neighbouring partially recognized quasi-state, the, The Luhansk People's Republic is a separatist state that declared its independence in May 2014, while receiving recognitions from its neighbouring partially recognized quasi-state, the. [328] defending the Russian homeland against NATO aggression; collective security between the Donbas Republics and the Russian Federation under Article 51 of the UN Charter; the 2014 NATO overthrow of the democratically-elected government; the burning alive of at least 48 anti-Maidan protesters in the, the Madian regime cutting off the fresh water supply to the civilian population of. 2,500 alone were lost in the past week. This page was last modified on November 7, 2022, at 16:15. [501], The fake news stories stemming from high ranking Ukrainian officials were widely disseminated by TIME magazine, CNN, Newsweek and other fake news sources. Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. "[385] By definition, the U.S. is waging a proxy war against Russia, using Ukrainians as their instrument, with the goal of not ending the war but prolonging it, making the United States a co-belligerent. Every soldier exiting the minibus received a bullet from a Kalashnikov rifle in the kneeThose who admitted that they were officers got shot in the headWhen I returned to France, I was extremely shocked by what the people who were invited on the TV shows were saying. Ukrainian forces were thrown back across the Ingulets River with heavy losses. He's wheezing," a voice said off screen before shots were fired at the defenseless soldier. Shoigu puts Ukrainian losses at some 62,000 killed and some 50,000 wounded. Due to the magnitude of losses and the approaching seasonal change, Gen. Valerei Zalushni was reported to have advised Zelensky to cease the counteroffensive and revert to a defensive posture. And, most importantly, we do not have access to fertilizer. Ambient (outdoor) air pollution in both cities and rural areas was estimated to cause 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide per year in 2016; this mortality is due to exposure to fine particulate matter of 2.5 microns or less [50] On 21 February, President Putin signed a decree recognizing the two self-proclaimed separatist republics in Donbas as independent states.