1 year agoNetherlands PM Mark Rutte is in Kyiv today as a week of high-level visits backing Ukraine against the threat of a renewed Russian invasion continues
1 year agoA Royal Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III left RAF Brize Norton this morning
1 year agoKlimovo, western Russia, near Belarus and Ukraine borders. Military equipment and storage facilities. Jan. 19
Joint Forces Operation: Russian forces targeted Hnutove checkpoint with VOG dropped from drone
1 year agoHere is @Maxar's comparison of the Novoozernoe site in Crimea. Some equipment is missing, but more importantly, a camp for personnel has been established
1 year agoYelnya continued. Jan. 19
1 year agoYelnya, western Russia. Jan. 19. Battle groups, tanks, artillery, support, troops
1 year agoOpuk training area, southern Crimea. Jan. 31. Tents and armored vehicles
1 year agoYevpatoria, western Crimea. Feb. 1. Russian troop tents and armored vehicles
1 year agoAngarsky training area, southern Crimea. Feb. 1. More troop camps
1 year agoBakhchysarai, Crimea. Images were taken on Feb. 1 and show battle groups, tents, and infantry fighting vehicles
1 year agoNovoozernoye, Crimea. More Russian troop tents, various vehicles, tanks, other materiel
1 year agoBrestsky training area, southwest Belarus, near the borders of Poland and Ukraine
Tents/shelters for personnel, @Maxar adds, "suggests the units are now accompanied with troops and have increased their overall readiness level; moreover, local military training activity (including live-fire artillery and maneuver training) has been observed in progress at numerous training areas
"During the past couple of weeks, several new significant military deployments have been observed in Belarus. Also, troop tents/shelters for personnel have been seen at virtually every deployment location in Belarus, Crimea and western Russia," @Maxar says
Joint Forces Operation: 2 ceasefire violations yesterday
1 year agoMilitary convoy filmed in Belgorod region near the border of Ukraine
1 year agoMilitary convoy geolocated at Slovyansk-na-Kubani, moving towards Crimea
Jens Stoltenberg: Continued coordination with @SecBlinken, @RauZbigniew and @JosepBorrellF on Russia's unjustified military build-up in and around Ukraine and our next steps
US told Kremlin it's willing to discuss giving Russia a way to verify there aren't Tomahawk cruise missiles stationed at NATO bases in Romania and Poland—on condition Russia shares similar info on certain bases in Russia, sources tell @JenniferJJacobs, @AlbertoNardelli and Henry Meyer
Russia adding to combat capabilities but also "sustainment & logistics" to forces surrounding Ukraine, per @PentagonPresSec "That includes field hospitals & doctors & nurses" "[Putin] has enough capability to move now if he wants to.he could move imminently" per Kirby
The US has not shared the intel about the imminent Russian threat with Ukraine, the sources close to the Ukrainian government told. American officials are only citing the intel report but not sharing the document itself with Kyiv, they clarified
"We are ready to give Ukraine tens of thousands in artillery and ammunitions rounds, but also surface-to-air weapons of the Grom class and light mortar systems, as well as drones," PM Morawiecki said
The Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has confirmed to the BBC that he will visit Moscow next week for talks with Russia Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu
1 year agoUkrainian MPs holding up flags of countries that have offered help to Ukraine
"We are very grateful" per Estonia PM @kajakallas, asked about @POTUS' handling of the Russia-Ukraine standoff "We feel we are also heard in this process"
1 year ago[email protected] has spoken with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Per @StateDeptSpox, he emphasized US willingness "to continue a substantive exchange with Russia on mutual security concerns," urged "immediate Russian de-escalation
1 year agoZelensky met with Johnson at the Mariinsky Palace
Delayed phone call over Ukraine crisis between UK Prime Minister @BorisJohnson & Russian President Putin has been rescheduled and is now set to happen on Wednesday, the UK PM's spokesman says
With Russiasupplying about a third of European gas, tensions over Ukraine put the EU's EnergySecurity at risk. In a joint statement, @vonderleyen and @POTUS commit to intensifying energy cooperation to avoid shocks in case of an escalation
Prime Minister @MorawieckiM says in Kyiv that "foreign ministers are working on a possible format that could bring closer cooperation in many fields between Poland, Ukraine and Great Britain"
Putin holds a meeting with the Hungarian prime minister. Orban said that none of the European leaders wants war: we are in favor of peace agreements
Prime Minister @MorawieckiM in Kyiv: NS2 is a powerful threat to peace in Europe; together we appeal to the Germans not to open this gas pipeline, you cannot sign your solidarity with Ukraine with one hand and certify NS2 with the other hand
Kyiv: Prime Minister @MorawieckiM ensures that we are ready to support Ukraine in both gas, defense and humanitarian issues
1 year agoDefense Minister of Ukraine: The day hasn't passed yet and we're unloading the 6th bird from our friends from the United States. 84 tons of ammunition arrived in Kyiv. In total, for today we've received about 500 tons of defense equipment from U.S
Russia is still preparing response on U.S and NATO reply to Russian security guarantees proposals, but Lavrov sent NATO’s MFAs document on understating of indivisibility of security - Russian Foreign Ministry
1 year agoU.S. N936CA, another National Airlines Boeing 747, is currently approaching flag-usflag-uaKyiv Boryspil Airport, Ukraine, as U.S. Transportation Command flight CMB330
Joint Forces Operation: 2 ceasefire violations yesterday
State Department orders departure of family members of US Embassy Belarus employees & warns American citizens not travel to the country amid an "unusual and concerning Russian military buildup along Belarus' border with Ukraine
Moscow responds to Biden: "We can confirm we received a written follow-up from Russia," says US official. "It would be unproductive to negotiate in public so we'll leave it up to Russia if they want to discuss their response"
