Tag: Crimea
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Highest military spending in Europe since the Cold War: Study
Stockholm – Europe’s military spending grew at a record pace in 2022, reaching a level not seen since the Cold War following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, global security researchers said on Monday. The surge in Europe helped global military spending reach an eighth consecutive record high of $2.24 trillion, or 2.2% of the world’s gross…
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Finland, NATO and the developing new world order – what small nations know
In the world of geopolitics, great powers create, break and play according to their own rules. Smaller states must largely be content to adapt to the world determined by others. It is therefore decision by Finland – a country of only 5.5 million peoplenoted for decades as a neutral presence in Europe – to join…
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This is how Putin is pressured to release Ukrainian children
Sveriges Radio’s Ukraine correspondent Lubna El-Shanti tells the story of 16-year-old Vitaly who was taken to a Russian camp in the occupied Crimean peninsula. After months of struggle, his mother managed to get him back to Ukraine. According to Ukraine, around 19,000 children have been taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas against the will of…
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Latest on Ukraine: Finland joins NATO on Tuesday
New developments: Poland said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the country on Wednesday for talks with President Andrzej Duda and to meet Ukrainians who have taken refuge in Poland. The Financial Times reported that Russian security officials are “confiscating passports of senior officials and state business executives” due to concerns about information leaks and…
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How the Nobel family helped establish the Russian oil industry
This enterprising family rose from the bottom to incredible heights during their years in Russia. The Nobel Prize was established in 1901. Since then, it has been awarded 615 times to 989 individuals and organizations, mostly from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Sweden and Russia. What few people remember today is that the…
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More than 600,000 Germans signed a petition to end heavy weapons supplies to Ukraine as 10,000 demonstrated in Berlin for peace
Notables including former Vice President of the European Commission Gunter Verheugen, former Brigadier General Erich Vadpress corps Franz Alt and Gisela Marxpoliticians Oskar Lafontaine and Jürgen Todenhoferand political scientists Come on Funke and Ulrike Guerot were among the first to sign the petition. The authors of the petition stated that “with the support of the…
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Pål Jonson (M): That is why we are sending Leopard to Ukraine
The government will send Leopard tanks and air defense systems to Ukraine in a new arms package. It includes about ten Leopard tanks that will work together with the fifty combat vehicles 90 that Sweden has already decided to donate. The weapons are to be coordinated with contributions from other countries, including Leopard tanks, which…
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Biden’s alleged meddling in Baltic Sea could be a game-changer
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize Winner for his reportage on the infamous My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, has just broken the colossal true story of how America took out Russias Nord Stream I & II LNG Pipelines. Hershs account now affords all concerned to more clearly see and understand what the real…
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Hersh claims Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 blown up on order of Biden
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name-down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as…
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The military that started the war is condemning Russia
Russia has been unanimous about the invasion of Ukraine. Now comes several critical statements from Russian former military personnel about the slim chances of the Russian army to win. Among other things, hear about Igor Girkin, who led the first armed groups that started the war in Donbass and was a key player in 2014…
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Putin vows to continue targeting Ukraine’s power grid
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia will continue to strike Ukraine’s energy grid after waves of missile attacks have left parts of the country without clean water and electricity. Pope Francis broke down and wept as he spoke about the suffering of Ukrainians during a prayer at Rome’s Spanish Steps. Read our live…
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Live: Putin vows to continue targeting Ukraine’s power grid
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia will continue to strike Ukraine’s energy grid after waves of missile attacks have left parts of the country without clean water and electricity. Pope Francis broke down and wept as he spoke about the suffering of Ukrainians during a prayer at Rome’s Spanish Steps. Follow our live…
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Live: Kremlin sees ‘risk’ of Ukrainian attacks on annexed Crimea
The Kremlin said Thursday that Crimea was vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks after the Russian military downed a drone near the peninsula’s largest city, home to a key Russian naval base. The comments came a day after President Vladimir Putin admitted that Russia’s war in Ukraine would be “a long process”. Follow our live blog for…
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Winter campaign
As the conflict drags on for ten months, what initially seemed like a three-day rush to Kiev has slowed to a slow, grinding war of attrition. The front lines, with the major exceptions of Kharkiv and Kherson, have remained mostly static. In the Kharkiv region, Russians settled on the outskirts of the city of Kharkiv…
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Live: Sweden confirms Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Investigators have found traces of explosives at the site of the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, confirming that sabotage had taken place, a Swedish prosecutor said on Friday. Follow our live blog for the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+1) 11:25 a.m.: The Kremlin is saying nothing about the Putin-Biden summit at this time…
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Live: China urges ‘calm’ after missile strike in Poland
China on Wednesday called for “calm” following a deadly missile strike on a Polish village near the border with Ukraine. Follow FRANCE 24’s live blog for the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+1). 9:27am: NATO holds emergency talks after missile lands in Poland Ambassadors from the 30 NATO nations gathered in Brussels Wednesday…
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Eastern European countries support more refugees from Ukraine
Eastern European countries such as Slovakia and Hungary are bracing for an increase in the number of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine in the coming months as winter approaches. Russia has targeted power and heating plants in Ukraine in recent months. Temperatures drop below zero Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), with minus 20 degrees Celsius…
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Putin says civilians in Ukraine’s Kherson should be evacuated
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that civilians in Ukraine’s Kherson region should be evacuated from the conflict zone, the Kremlin chief’s first acknowledgement of a deteriorating situation in a region he claims to have annexed. Read FRANCE 24’s liveblog below to see how the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris local time…
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Some 4.5 million Ukrainians temporarily without power, says Zelensky
Some 4.5 million Ukrainians, more than 10% of the pre-war population, were temporarily without power on Thursday evening due to Russian attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address. Kyiv earlier on Thursday condemned the “mass forced relocation” of its citizens living in regions occupied by Russia. Read our live blog to see how…
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Live: 4.5 million Ukrainians temporarily without power, says Zelensky
Some 4.5 million Ukrainians, more than 10% of the pre-war population, were temporarily without power on Thursday evening due to Russian attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address. Kyiv earlier on Thursday condemned the “mass forced relocation” of its citizens living in regions occupied by Russia. Follow our live blog for the latest…
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Zelensky calls for ‘long-term protection’ of Ukraine grain corridor
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the grain shipping corridor to get food out of his country, part of an agreement Russia has suspended, needs reliable, long-term protection. Lawyers in Britain earlier took the first step towards what they said was “groundbreaking” legal action against Russia’s shadowy Wagner group over allegations it committed “terrorism”…
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Live: France accuses Russia of endangering world food supply
French President Emmanuel Macron, during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, accused Russia of endangering the world’s food supply by suspending its participation in a Ukrainian grain deal. Macron also assured Zelensky that France would help Ukraine get through the winter and help repair water and energy infrastructure damaged by Russian…
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Live: Water, power supply in Kyiv restored after missile attack
Kiev’s mayor said water and electricity had been restored to residents after “massive” missile strikes on the capital by Russian forces. Meanwhile, Russian-installed officials in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region announced the extension of an evacuation zone further from the Dnipro River, saying Ukraine may prepare to attack the Kakhovka dam and flood the region. Follow…
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Russia stops participation in UN agreement that allows Ukraine to export grain
Moscow has suspended implementation of a UN-brokered grain export deal that has allowed more than 9 million tonnes of grain to be exported from Ukraine, helping to ease the global food crisis and lower prices. The Russian Defense Ministry said it would no longer guarantee the safety of cargo ships participating in the UN-led initiative,…
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Kamikaze drones create the new horror of war
When the bridge between the Russian mainland and the annexed Crimean peninsula is blown up, Vladimir Putin responds with attacks on Ukrainian cities. Among the missiles targeting civilians are Iranian suicide drones. And drones have a big role in the war in Ukraine, not least in propaganda. On Twitter, for example, there are constantly new…
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Guest opinion: Genocide as liberation
Russian President Vladimir Putin has often demonstrated the clarity of his goals during the war in Ukraine. As has happened with each and every case of celebration in Ukraine, moments of peace do not last very long, and on October 10 that became more than evident. After what felt like a personal victory for every…
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This is how Putin escalates the war in Ukraine
After the dramatic explosion on the Kerch bridge connecting Russia and the occupied Crimean peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of blowing up the bridge. Before the Russian Security Council, Putin also claimed that Ukraine was also behind other attacks on Russian-controlled territory. The Russian response came quickly – Russia has carried out…
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Russia ready to restart supplies, ball in the EU: Putin on gas supplies via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
If they want, let them turn on the faucet and that’s it. We will not limit anyone anywhere, including our readiness to supply additional quantities in the fall-winter season,” Reuters reported. He said that Europe’s prosperity in recent decades was based on cooperation with Russia. “I have repeatedly said that Nord Streams has no political…
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Summary of Xinhua world news at 1530 GMT, 10 October
Kyiv – Several explosions occurred in the Shevchenkivskyi district here in the Ukrainian capital on Monday morning, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko told The Telegram. The explosions have resulted in casualties, according to the press service of the state rescue service in Kyiv. (Ukraine-Explosions) – – – – MOSCOW – The Crimean Bridge explosion was undoubtedly…
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Why is Putin threatening nuclear weapons?
After the explosion on the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea with Russia, Russia has again attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia.But in the past week, Russian President Putin has warned that nuclear weapons may be used if the country’s “territorial integrity” is threatened. The other day, US President Joe Biden raised the tone and warned that the…
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Right now: Paasikivi about the explosion on the Krimbron
The Crimean Bridge, which runs between the annexed Crimean peninsula and the Russian mainland, has been partially destroyed in a powerful explosion. According to Ukrainian correspondent Lubna El-Shanti, this could have major consequences for Russia: “The bridge is both symbolically important, and important for the Russian military supply”. Hear El-Shanti and Joakim Paasikivi, lieutenant colonel…
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At 70, Is Putin Still The Russian Public’s Irreplaceable Man?
Russian President Vladimir Putin marks his 70th birthday on October 7. The jubilee comes at a time when the increasingly authoritarian leader faces some of the most daunting challenges of his two-plus decades in power, having gambled all his achievements on an increasingly costly and troublesome war against neighboring Ukraine. Despite a relentless crackdown on…
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EU proposes new Russia sanctions including oil price cap
The EU’s executive on Wednesday proposed a new round of sanctions on Moscow over its latest “escalation” in Ukraine, including an oil price cap and ban on Russian exports worth seven billion euros. Read our live blog to see how all the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). This live page is…