3 years agoBila Tserkva, Vasylkiv, Myronivka(13:40). Red Alert: aerial threat. Sirens sounding. Take cover now!
3 years agoKyiv, Dnipro, Cherkasy, Kramators’k(13:39). Red Alert: aerial threat. Sirens sounding. Take cover now!
3 years agoKyiv(13:34). Red Alert: aerial threat. Sirens sounding. Take cover now!
3 years agoU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that any Russian troops deployed to eastern Ukraine would not be "peacekeepers" as Moscow has asserted and rejected President Putin's claim that a genocide of ethnic Russians was being committed there
3 years agoPer a Schumer spox: Leader Schumer has requested an all-Senators briefing on Russia-Ukraine
3 years agoVideo uploaded an hour ago allegedly from a Russian tank operator (previous videos seem to indicate this as well) as part of a large convoy of tanks in the Belgorod region of Russia, per video author
3 years agoSpeech by the Keyan ambassador regarding Africa's history & views on the Ukraine crisis
3 years agoIs the US assessment of an invasion of Kyiv an immediate danger @PressSec declines to offer a timeline but says it's a "real possibility"
3 years agoTrudeau announces first round of economic sanctions on Russia over Ukraine crisis
3 years ago"We see this as the beginning of a further invasion (by Russia) of Ukraine," says @PressSec
3 years agoVideo uploaded this evening showing tanks driving in the direction of the Ukrainian border in the Kursk region, Russia
3 years agoRussian media report explosion in Donetsk. No casulaties
3 years agoUkrainian Foreign Minister: Our security guarantees are our army and our diplomacy
3 years agoUkrainian FM Kuleba: Plan A is diplomacy to avert war. But if that fails, "Plan B is to fight for every inch of our land and every city and every village. To fight until we win, of course"
3 years agoMinister Kuleba tells: "No, we do not have such plans to evacuate Mariupol or Kharkiv"
3 years ago"He attacked the world order" per Ukraibe FM @DmytroKuleba on Putin's actions
3 years ago"To the extent that we can do anything to avert a worst case scenario," including a potential attack on Kyiv, "we will always pursue that," Blinken says when asked about diplomacy. "But Moscow needs to demonstrate that it's serious
3 years agoSec Blinken says his meeting with Lavrov is off because Russia is now beginning its invasion of Ukraine & making clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy. He says a meeting with Lavrov does not make sense. He sent Lavov a letter informing him of this today
3 years agoSec Blinken clearly states that "because of the invasion" by Russian into Ukraine the US is moving on its swift response, he details sanctions & says the US will continue to escalate sanctions if Russia escalates its aggression towards Ukraine"
3 years agoDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered 800 U.S. troops to the Baltic region and eight F-35 fighter jets to NATO's eastern flank. Senior U.S. defense official said 20 AH-64 attack helicopters moving to Baltics and 12 helicopters to Poland
3 years agoPresident Zelensky declared call of reservists
3 years agoRussian military deployment near Novoozerne, Crimea
3 years agoMilitary convoy filmed in Bile, Luhansk region
3 years agoThe Pentagon: 20 Apache attack helicopters will move from Germany to the Baltic region
3 years agoUkraine's Foreign Minister Kuleba (who is in town for meetings with Secs. Austin and Blinken) has met with President Biden. "President Biden reiterated the readiness of the United States. to respond swiftly and decisively to any further Russian aggression against Ukraine
3 years agoEU ambassadors took a preliminary decision on the EU sanctions on Russia tonight. final adoption at around 11am tomorrow. then written procedure till 15 and finally the sanctions will be published in the EU official journal later that afternoon
3 years agoIn Volnovakha, Donetsk region about 30,000 people cut from water supply as a result of attacks by Russians, - Ukraine's ombudsman Denisova
3 years agoSentinel-2 imagery taken this morning 08:36 UTC shows at least nine Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo aircraft departing Taganrog-Central Air Base near Taganrog in Russia, located on the shores of the Sea of Azov, 40 km from Ukraine (DPR). Three of them airborne, six taxiing
3 years agoPutin's speech recognizing Ukraine's breakaway regions is a "rewrite of history": President Biden. Nothing in Russian President's speech indicates that Kremlin is interested in dialogue
3 years agoBiden says Putin has a "twisted" sense of history. "He explicitly threatened war unless his extreme demands were met. There's no question that Russia is the aggressor"