Over 1.5 million refugees from Ukraine escaped to neighboring countries within 10 days; is the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, reported the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi on Twitter.more
Russian troops in Ukraine are attacking densely populated areas to break the morale of the population; this is a tactic that the Russians have previously used in Chechnya and Syria, informs the British Ministry of Defense in an intelligence update.more
46.5 percent of respondents believe that economic sanctions may mean that Russia will stop its invasion of Ukraine, 31.7% of the respondents are of the opposite opinion. of the respondents, and 21.8% did not have an opinion on this matter. - according to the SW Research survey for rp.pl.more
The war in Ukraine may last months, if not years, said Dominic Raab, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the United Kingdom. He also expressed the opinion that there is no such tactic to which Russian President Vladimir Putin will not resort to.more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed "several" attacks on health facilities in Ukraine and is investigating further ones, said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. These attacks have cost many people's lives; there are also many wounded - he added.more
Vladimir Putin must fail and it must be evident that he has failed, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of the talks on Ukraine scheduled for the coming week, including a meeting with the prime ministers of the Visegrad Group countries.more
It is possible that Russian President Vladimir Putin will go to prison for his crimes in Ukraine, I want to see him behind bars, said Benjamin Ferencz, the last living prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, in an interview with the British daily The Mirror.more
The Kiev city council yesterday called on the international community to introduce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, informed the mayor of the capital Vitaly Klitschko, quoted by Interfax-Ukraine. The authorities of other Ukrainian cities made a similar appeal to NATO and Western countries.more
The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (European Leagues) has decided to exclude two Russian leagues from its ranks - Tinkoff, the Russian Premier League (RPL) and the Olimp Football National League (FNL) - announced in a press release.more
Russian oligarchs have accumulated billions in Swiss bank accounts for years. Among them there are people whose assets have been frozen as a result of recently imposed sanctions - informed "Tages Anzeiger".more
"The sanctions imposed on Russia by the West are reminiscent of a declaration of war," Russian President Vladimir Putin said today during a meeting with Russian airline employees. As a result of Western sanctions, Russia is increasingly isolated from the world and increasingly technologically backward, experts note.more
More ships carrying Russian oil and gas - but flying the flag of third countries - are not allowed to enter British ports because dockers refuse to unload them. The third such case has already been reported today.more
The Coca-Cola concern and Danone are withdrawing from the Russian market, the Nexta portal reported today. Samsung has also joined the growing group of international companies that have withdrawn from trading with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.more
Russia plans to send as many as 1,000 more mercenaries to Ukraine and is ready to bomb the cities to enforce subjugation, which risks a large number of civilian casualties, CNN reported on Saturday, citing anonymous Western sources.more
Brits, whose presence in Russia is not essential, should consider leaving the country using commercial routes that are still available, the British Foreign Ministry recommended today.more
Poland is safe despite the war in Ukraine, there are 10,000 in our area. American soldiers, we also buy modern military equipment - said the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, yesterday on TVP Info.more
Russia's attack on Ukraine could lead to a wave of up to 5 million refugees. The New York Council on Foreign Relations (CRF) emphasizes that half of the refugees to date have been accepted by Poland, to which more than 787.3 thousand arrived yesterday. more
Two Chinese TV broadcasters, which have broadcasting rights from the English Premier League, will not show the matches of the next queue due to the demonstrations of solidarity with Ukraine announced in the stadiums, which repel the aggression of Russian troops.more
The crew of the British Sky News station was ambushed near Kiev, journalist Stuart Ramsay was shot, the station said today. Ramsay was informed that a Russian reconnaissance unit was behind the attack.more
Refugees from Ukraine who want to join relatives already living in the UK will be able to stay in the country for three years, not the year as initially planned, announced the British Interior Minister Priti Patel yesterday.more
The Russian invader shoots civilians and uses women, children and the elderly as human shields, the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces reported this morning on Facebook.more
Already six British supermarket chains have announced that they are withdrawing Russian vodka, and some of them also other Russian products in the range in response to Russia's attack on Ukraine. Meanwhile, the British are increasingly looking for vodka from Ukraine on the Internet.more
NATO has given the green light to continue bombing Ukraine by refusing to close the airspace over our country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday evening in a video posted on Facebook.more
Most of the members of the UN Security Council, as well as the deputy secretary general, condemned the Russian attack in the vicinity of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, stressing that it was a violation of the Geneva Convention. "The world almost escaped a nuclear catastrophe," said US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.more