More than 2.15 million people have been forced to flee Ukraine since Russian forces invaded on Feb. 24, according to the latest figures from the United Nations refugee agency.
McDonald's has announced it will temporarily close all 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the invasion in Ukraine.The United Kingdom will phase out the import of Russian oil and oil products by the end of the year, as part of its sanctions on Moscow for invading Ukraine, U.K. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced Tuesday.President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the U.S.
"Our expectations from the talks have failed, but we hope that we would be able to make a more significant step forward next time," Medinsky said."The talks will continue."French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian criticized Russia's offer of humanitarian corridors for Ukrainian civilians as a"trap" that could possibly lead to more bombing in Ukraine.
"The Russian Air Force dominates in the skies and continues bombing our cities and killing many civilians," Kuleba told George Stephanopoulos on"Good Morning America." Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the third plant currently under threat is the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant, located 120 kilometers north of Mykolaiv, one of several cities the Russians were trying to keep encircled Saturday.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing state agencies and departments to ensure their contractors are complying with economic sanctions imposed in response to Russia's attacks on Ukraine. He's also calling on businesses to stop new investments, financial transactions and transferring of tech to Russia.I’m ordering state agencies & departments to end contracts with anyone subject to US government sanctions on Russia.
The agency, Roskomnadzor, said Friday it decided to cut access to Facebook over its alleged"discrimination" of the Russian media and state information resources. It said the restrictions introduced by Facebook owner Meta on the RT and other state-controlled media violate the Russian law. In a statement after talks in Brussels on Friday, the G7 ministers said they are"deeply concerned with the catastrophic humanitarian toll taken by Russia's continuing strikes against the civilian population of Ukraine's cities."
Tim Davie, director-general of the British broadcaster, said the legislation"appears to criminalize the process of independent journalism." He said the corporation was halting newsgathering work by its journalists and support staff in Russia"while we assess the full implications of this unwelcome development."
The official assessed that Ukrainian forces remain in control of much of the country's territory but that Russia holds the cities of Kherson, Melitopol and Berdiansk in the south. Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014 following the ouster of the country's former Moscow-friendly leaders and cast its support behind the rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The mayor of Enerhodar said Ukrainian forces were battling Russian troops on the city's outskirts. Video showed flames and black smoke rising above the city of more than 50,000, with people streaming past wrecked cars, just a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency expressed grave concern that the fighting could cause accidental damage to Ukraine's 15 nuclear reactors.
"These individuals and their family members will be cut off from the U.S. financial system; their assets in the United States will be frozen and their property will be blocked from use," the White House said in a statement announcing the new penalties.
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