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Feb262023 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

Putin casts war in Ukraine as a battle for Russia’s survival

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address, announcing that Moscow is suspending its nuclear arms treaty with the U.S.Mikhail Metzel | Afp | Getty ImagesRussian President Vladimir Putin cast the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine war as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people — and said he was forced to take into account NATO's nuclear capabilities.A year since ordering the invasion of Ukraine, Putin is increasingly presenting the war as a make-or-break moment in Russian history — and saying that he believes the very future of Russia and its people is in peril."They have one goal: to disband the former Soviet Union and its fundamental part — the Russian Federation," Putin told Rossiya 1 state television in a...

Feb242023 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

2 former ambassadors look back on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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2 former ambassadors look back on Russia's invasion of Ukraine - CBS News Watch CBS News The war in Ukraine is entering a new phase after 12 months of Russian brutality. Former U.S. ambassador to Russia John Sullivan and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst join John Dickerson on "Prime Time" to discuss. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

Feb232023 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

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Moldova dismisses Russian report of Ukraine plot over TransdniestriaMoldova dismissed an accusation by Russia's defense ministry on Thursday that Ukraine planned to invade the breakaway Moldovan region of Transdniestria after staging a false flag operation, and called for calm.The Russian news agency RIA said Ukraine, which borders Moldova, planned to stage an attack by purportedly Russian forces from Transdniestria as a pretext for the invasion. Russia keeps troops in the breakaway region.The TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin as saying separately that the West had instructed Moldova's government in Chisinau to stop all interaction with Transdniestria's Moscow-backed authorities.Flags of Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniestria and Russia flutte...

Feb212023 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

How Biden’s wartime visit to Kyiv came together

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US President Joe Biden walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an unannounced visit in Kyiv on Feb. 20, 2023.Evan Vucci | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden's decision to make a risky wartime visit to Kyiv took root after a similarly clandestine mission just two months ago — when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington and addressed a joint meeting of Congress, according to two sources familiar with the matter.Senior members of Biden's national security team who helped arrange the travel at the end of last year were heartened — and pleasantly surprised — by how powerful and positive the reaction to Zelenskyy's trip seemed to be among the American people, said the sources, who, like others in this article, were granted anonymity to discuss internal...

Feb172023 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

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Two ships leave Ukrainian ports under Black Sea Grain InitiativeA photograph taken on October 31, 2022 shows a cargo ship loaded with grain being inspected in the anchorage area of the southern entrance to the Bosphorus in Istanbul.Ozan Kose | AFP | Getty ImagesTwo vessels carrying more than 90,845 metric tons of grain and other food products have left Ukrainian ports, the organization overseeing the export of agriculture from the country said.The ships are destined for Egypt and Turkey and are carrying corn and barley.The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a deal brokered in July among Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations, eased Russia's naval blockade and saw three key Ukrainian ports reopen.So far, more than 700 ships have sailed from Ukrainian ports.— Amanda MaciasFirst Ukrainian...

Feb92023 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

MH17: ‘Strong indications’ Putin approved missile supply | MH17 News

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An international team of investigators has said there are “strong indications” that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the supply of the missile to separatists who shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. But members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the Netherlands said they did not have enough evidence to prosecute any more suspects and suspended their eight-and-a-half-year inquiry into the tragedy. As a head of state, Putin also has immunity. MH17 was shot down by a Russian missile launched from eastern Ukraine as it was on its way to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board the Boeing 777 were killed. Russia denied involvement in the incident and refused to cooperate with the international investigation. “There ...

Feb52023 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

Putin promised not to kill Zelenskyy, former Israeli prime minister says

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks on the phone during a conversation with Agatha Bylkova from the Kurgan region, an 8-year-old participant of a New Year's and Christmas charity event, in Moscow, Russia, January 3, 2023. Mikhail Klimentyev | Sputnik | Via ReutersA former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia's war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett emerged as an unlikely intermediary in the war's first weeks, becoming one of the few Western leaders to meet President Vladimir Putin during the war in a snap trip to Moscow last March.While Bennett's mediation efforts appear to have done little to end the bloodshed that continues until today,...

Dec172022 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

Putin sounds out military commanders on Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds the annual meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, via video link in Moscow, Russia December 7, 2022.Mikhail Metzel | Sputnik | ReutersPresident Vladimir Putin has sought proposals from the commanders of his armed forces on how they think Russia's military campaign in Ukraine should proceed, during a visit to the operation's headquarters, the Kremlin said on Saturday.A series of defeats in 10 months of fighting, resulting in Russian withdrawals from areas around the capital Kyiv and Ukraine's second city Kharkiv and most recently from the city of Kherson, has forced Putin to call up reservists and generated rare public criticism from military bloggers and some allies.Since the appointment in October of Air Force Gene...

Dec42022 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

‘Russia will not export oil subject to Western price cap’

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MOSCOW: Russia will not export oil that is subject a Western-imposed price cap even if Moscow has to accept a drop in oil production, President Vladimir Putin's point man on energy said on Sunday. "We are working on mechanisms to prohibit the use of a price cap instrument, regardless of what level is set, because such interference could further destabilise the market," Russian deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said. Russia will not operate under a price cap, even if Moscow has to cut production, Novak said. On Friday, G7 nations and Australia agreed a $60 per barrel price cap on Russian seaborne crude oil in a move to deprive President Vladimir Putin of revenue while keeping Russian oil flowing to global markets. !(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { window.TimesApps =...

Dec32022 by Waqas-ChNo Comments

Russia warns it will cut off oil supply after countries vote for $60-per-barrel price cap

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Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country's oil set by Ukraine's Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it. Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60-per-barrel. The limit is set to take effect Monday, along with an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed to analyze the situation before deciding on a specific response but that it would not accept the price ceiling. Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, warned that the cap's European backers would come to rue their decision. ...