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- Russia-Ukraine war latest news: rouble crashes as markets open; US condemns Putin’s nuclear deterrence order – live updates
- Ukraine war: sanctions-hit Russian rouble crashes as Zelenskiy speaks of ‘crucial’ 24 hours
- Ukraine: what we know on day five of Russia’s invasion
- From budgets and cocktails to all-out war: Ukraine’s week of grim transformation
- Two top Russian billionaires speak out against war
- The phone has become the Ukrainian president’s most effective weapon
- Denounce Putin or lose your job: Russian conductor Valery Gergiev given public ultimatum
- ‘They were fooled by Putin’: Chinese historians speak out against Russian invasion
- 'We left our Dad in Kyiv': young Ukrainian boy in tears after fleeing capital – video
- Brisbane flood: warning up to 15,000 properties could be inundated as river reaches peak
- As election looms, can Macron show he has governed for all for France?
- New Zealand ends isolation rules for vaccinated travellers from Australia as transmission rates soar
- Revealed: leaked files show how Ericsson allegedly helped bribe Islamic State
- North Korea says latest missile test part of building satellite surveillance system
- UK considers banning Russian ships from British ports
- Indonesia earthquake death toll climbs to 11 after more bodies recovered on Sumatra
- Concussion in sport: CTE found in more than half of sportspeople who donated brains
- Screen Actors Guild awards 2022: Squid Game, Will Smith and Coda win big
- Republican Tom Cotton refuses four times to condemn Trump on Ukraine
- New York to lift schools mask mandate and indoor venues could follow
- Nearly half of 500m free Covid tests Biden made available still unclaimed
- Will we get a single, variant-proof vaccine for Covid?
- Coronavirus came from Wuhan market and not Chinese lab, twin studies say
- Peaky Blinders review – Tommy Shelby’s back where we want him to be: in all kinds of trouble
- War is really bad – and not just this one – all of them – is the world going to end? | First Dog on the Moon
- Ukraine: what will China do? There are signs it is uneasy about Putin’s methods
- ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder – podcast
- Sally Kellerman obituary
- Devastating floods wreak havoc in Queensland and NSW – in pictures
- Robert Pattinson: the heart-throb who dared to be repellent
- Birmingham to host six-month arts festival for Commonwealth Games
- Australia news live update: Lismore flood level breaks 1954 record as Perrottet warns worse to come in NSW; Queensland death toll rises to eight
- Russian strategic slips lift Ukrainian morale, but should not obscure broader picture
- Putin’s nuclear posturing requires west to tread extremely carefully
- Analysis: what weapons is Russia deploying in Ukraine invasion?
- Swift action at last brings meaningful sanctions against Putin regime
- Ukrainian football player emotional on pitch after support from fans – video
- Ukrainian president sceptical of upcoming meeting with Russia – video
- 'A watershed moment': EU shuts down airspace to Russia and finances weapons for Ukraine – video
- People gather around the world to show solidarity with Ukraine – video
- Fighting on streets of Kharkiv after Russian tanks enter Ukrainian city – video
- Vladimir Putin puts Russian nuclear forces on high alert – video
- Scholz announces €100bn rise in German defence spending after Russia's Ukraine invasion – video
| Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:47 PM PST Russian currency plummets as sanctions hit; Belarus referendum result could lead to Russian nuclear arms on its soil; Putin raises nuclear deterrence readiness. Follow all the latest, live
Here's a report from the Guardian's diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, on how the phone has become the Ukrainian president's most effective weapon. In a string of phone calls from a besieged Kyiv, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has persuaded the west to agree to a set of sanctions against Russia that were inconceivable a week ago. Continue reading... |
| Ukraine war: sanctions-hit Russian rouble crashes as Zelenskiy speaks of ‘crucial’ 24 hours Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:37 PM PST Some analysts expect a 'complete collapse' in currency amid signs one state-backed bank could fail, while Ukraine president warns key moment has arrived The Russian rouble has crashed more than 40% after trading began on Monday in the wake of unprecedented international sanctions against the country's financial system over Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The news came as Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the British prime minister that the next 24 hours would be "crucial" for his country and amid reports that a column of Russian tanks was heading for the capital. Belarus is reportedly preparing to send soldiers into Ukraine in support of the Russian invasion. The Washington Post spoke to an unnamed US administration official on Sunday evening who said the deployment could begin as soon as Monday. "It's very clear Minsk is now an extension of the Kremlin," they said. Kyiv Independent reported the move was likely after Putin failed to secure a swift victory. The Guardian has not been able to independently verify the claim. Blasts were heard in the capital Kyiv and in the major city of Kharkiv early on Monday morning, Ukraine's state service of special communications reported. Ukraine's interior ministry said 352 Ukrainian civilians have been killed during Russia's invasion, including 14 children. It says an additional 1,684 people, including 116 children, have been wounded. A rare emergency special session of the UN general assembly is due to be held on Monday in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, marking the first time in 40 years the security council has made such a request. Continue reading... |
| Ukraine: what we know on day five of Russia’s invasion Posted: 27 Feb 2022 05:39 PM PST Putin change to Russia's nuclear stance an 'unacceptable' escalation, says US, as rouble set to crash on Monday in wake of global sanctions Continue reading... |
| From budgets and cocktails to all-out war: Ukraine’s week of grim transformation Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:00 PM PST Many people in Ukraine – like many outside observers – have found it hard to believe what has transpired, though spirits mostly remain high Last Monday, Oleh Synehubov was wearing a sharp suit with a neatly knotted mauve tie, sitting in an overfurnished room in the grand regional administration building in Kharkiv, and discussing his plans for his region's next quarterly budget. Five days later, he was giving a video address to citizens wearing combat fatigues, heralding the repulsion of Russian forces from Ukraine's second-largest city, and announcing that anyone on the streets after 6pm would be "liquidated", as the Ukrainian army attempted to weed out saboteur groups in the city. Continue reading... |
| Two top Russian billionaires speak out against war Posted: 27 Feb 2022 03:43 PM PST Oleg Deripaska and Ukrainian-born Mikhail Fridman call for peace, as activities come under threat from sanctions Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have become two of the country's first leading businesspeople to speak out against Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Fridman, who is one of Russia's richest men, controls private equity firm LetterOne and was a founder of Alfa Bank, Russia's largest private bank. In a letter to his employees he called for an end to the "bloodshed". Continue reading... |
| The phone has become the Ukrainian president’s most effective weapon Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:00 PM PST Analysis: Zelenskiy has managed to achieve an unheard-of range of sanctions against Russia thanks to a tireless round of calls to allies In a string of phone calls from a besieged Kyiv, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has persuaded the west to agree to a set of sanctions against Russia that were inconceivable a week ago. Sensing how European public opinion is responding to the bravery of his people, Zelenskiy has been constantly on the phone to western leaders, using his Twitter feed to cajole, encourage, scold and praise his allies. In the process, sanctions regarded as unthinkable a week ago have become a moral baseline. The pace at which the west has been agreeing to the new sanctions has also left the lawyers, officials and bankers gasping for air, officials admit, as they work under severe pressure to turn headlines into reality. Continue reading... |
| Denounce Putin or lose your job: Russian conductor Valery Gergiev given public ultimatum Posted: 27 Feb 2022 05:41 PM PST Star conductor and close friend of Putin dropped by his management ahead of deadline to speak out or be fired from Munich Philharmonic Russia's star conductor, Valery Gergiev, has been dropped by his management over his close ties to Vladimir Putin as he faces a looming deadline to publicly denounce the Russian president or lose yet another role in his rapidly crumbling career. The 68-year-old Russian, an old friend and supporter of Putin, has faced increasing pressure to speak out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine over the last week. He has been removed from performances around the world and faces more professional punishment if he does not condemn Putin's aggression in the next 24 hours. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| ‘They were fooled by Putin’: Chinese historians speak out against Russian invasion Posted: 27 Feb 2022 07:04 PM PST An open letter written by five historians denounced the war and called on Beijing to make its stance clearer For Xu Guoqi, a Chinese historian, Beijing's reluctance to denounce Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is alarming. "I'm a historian of the first world war. Europe sleep-walked into a huge conflict over 100 years ago, which also had had enormous consequences for China," Xu said. "The world may be at the point of no return again". But looking at how Chinese diplomats are responding to it, and how Chinese people have talked about it on social media in the past week, he said, "I'm afraid it seems we still have not learned the lessons of the past tragedies. As a historian I'm very disappointed." Continue reading... |
| 'We left our Dad in Kyiv': young Ukrainian boy in tears after fleeing capital – video Posted: 27 Feb 2022 05:15 PM PST Families have been torn apart in the biggest European conflict since the second world war, as Ukrainian women and children left their husbands and fathers behind after Ukrainian authorities ordered men aged 18-60 to stay and fight Kremlin forces. 'We left dad in Kiev and dad will be selling things and helping our heroes, our army, he might even fight,' Mark Goncharuk, a young boy choking with tears, said as he and his relatives fled the capital. As missiles fell on Ukrainian cities, nearly 400,000 Ukrainian civilians, mainly women and children, have fled into neighbouring countries.
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| Brisbane flood: warning up to 15,000 properties could be inundated as river reaches peak Posted: 27 Feb 2022 07:10 PM PST Eight people have died and three are still missing after heavy rain battered south-east Queensland
Queensland authorities estimate up to 15,000 properties could be affected by flood waters as the Brisbane River reached its likely peak on Monday morning, inundating low-lying areas in the city's central business district. Heavy rain lasting more than three days unabated in Brisbane eased at midnight on Monday, removing some of the strain that had choked suburban floodways and dumped unprecedented volumes into dams. Continue reading... |
| As election looms, can Macron show he has governed for all for France? Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:00 PM PST Brittany symbolises how difficult life has been for many French people in past two years – but there are signs of change On the edge of one of Brittany's poorest housing estates, a six-year-old girl sits in class and works on her handwriting. Her teacher, Lucile, encourages her as 11 other children sit around tables, arranged into cosy nooks. "Every day I listen to each child read to me, I never managed that when I had 25 in a class," said Lucile. "I get to know each child individually and it's so calm." It is in classrooms like this, in France's most deprived neighbourhoods, that the centrist president, Emmanuel Macron, wants his record in office to be considered. When he came to power five years ago – a former banker who had served as economy minister under the left – he promised a "pragmatic" cherrypicking of ideas from both left and right that would liberalise the economy and end the persistent inequality that he said "imprisoned" people by their social origins. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand ends isolation rules for vaccinated travellers from Australia as transmission rates soar Posted: 27 Feb 2022 08:30 PM PST Change comes as NZ, virus-free for much of pandemic, records some of world's highest transmission rates amid Omicron surge New Zealand has ended its self-isolation requirements for vaccinated travellers arriving from Australia, as the country's Covid transmission rates soar to among the highest in the world. From Wednesday, vaccinated travellers will no longer need to self-isolate but will still be required to undergo a Covid-19 test on arrival and on day five or six, prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: leaked files show how Ericsson allegedly helped bribe Islamic State Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:00 AM PST Telecoms giant's internal investigators uncover allegations it was involved in corruption in at least 10 countries Confidential documents have revealed how the telecoms giant Ericsson is alleged to have helped pay bribes to the Islamic State terrorist group in order to continue selling its services after the militants seized control of large parts of Iraq. The leak of internal investigations at Ericsson, which also found that the firm had put its contractors at risk and allowed them to be kidnapped by the militants, is potentially damaging for the multinational. Continue reading... |
| North Korea says latest missile test part of building satellite surveillance system Posted: 27 Feb 2022 05:10 PM PST Eighth rocket launch this year looked to be fired from area near Pyongyang international airport North Korea says a test conducted on Sunday was for the development of a reconnaissance satellite system, state media reported a day after a missile launch was detected from the country. The report from state news agency KCNA did not elaborate on what type of rocket had been used in the test, but authorities in South Korea and Seoul said it appeared to be a ballistic missile fired from an area near Pyongyang where its international airport is located. Continue reading... |
| UK considers banning Russian ships from British ports Posted: 27 Feb 2022 12:27 PM PST The NS Champion oil tanker, majority-owned by the Russian state, is due to berth in Orkney on Tuesday The UK government is considering restricting Russian ships from using British ports after it emerged that a Russian-owned oil tanker is due to dock in Orkney this week. The NS Champion, operated by Sovcomflot, a large shipping company majority-owned by the Russian state, is due to berth at Flotta oil terminal in Orkney on Tuesday to collect crude oil. Continue reading... |
| Indonesia earthquake death toll climbs to 11 after more bodies recovered on Sumatra Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:19 PM PST Rescuers still searching for four villagers believed to have been buried in mud after magnitude-6.2 quake Rescuers on Indonesia's Sumatra island have retrieved more bodies after a strong earthquake two days ago, raising the death toll to 11 while another 400 were injured and thousands displaced. The body of the latest victim was recovered on Sunday from the rubble of homes toppled by the magnitude-6.2 earthquake that shook West Sumatra province on Friday morning, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari. Continue reading... |
| Concussion in sport: CTE found in more than half of sportspeople who donated brains Posted: 27 Feb 2022 08:30 AM PST Groundbreaking findings by Australian Sports Brain Bank reveal prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, including in younger players Groundbreaking research into the long-term ramifications of concussion in sport has found chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of more than half of a cohort of donors, including three under the age of 35. The Australian Sports Brain Bank on Monday reported its preliminary findings after examining the 21 brains posthumously donated by sportspeople since the centre's inception in 2018. Continue reading... |
| Screen Actors Guild awards 2022: Squid Game, Will Smith and Coda win big Posted: 27 Feb 2022 08:15 PM PST Netflix phenomenon and Apple's deaf family drama make history at this year's SAG awards ceremony The indie drama Coda has won big at this year's Screen Actors Guild awards, picking up best ensemble in a movie and best supporting actor for Troy Kotsur, who is the first ever deaf actor to win an individual SAG award. The Apple drama about a deaf family was bought for $25m from last year's Sundance film festival and has also been nominated for three Academy Awards, including best picture. Continue reading... |
| Republican Tom Cotton refuses four times to condemn Trump on Ukraine Posted: 27 Feb 2022 08:46 AM PST
The Republican senator Tom Cotton refused four times on Sunday to condemn or even comment on Donald Trump's repeated praise for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president who ordered the invasion of Ukraine. "If you want to know what Donald Trump thinks about Vladimir Putin or any other topic," Cotton told ABC's This Week, "I'd encourage you to invite him on your show. I don't speak on behalf of other politicians. They can speak for themselves." Continue reading... |
| New York to lift schools mask mandate and indoor venues could follow Posted: 27 Feb 2022 02:51 PM PST Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams announce moves as Covid infections continue to fall dramatically The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams announced on Sunday that a dramatic drop in coronavirus infections could lead to the lifting of vaccine mandates on restaurants, bars and theaters as soon as 7 March. His announcement came shortly after the governor of New York state, Kathy Hochul, announced plans to lift the mask mandate on schools, effective Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Nearly half of 500m free Covid tests Biden made available still unclaimed Posted: 27 Feb 2022 12:23 PM PST White House sees program as a more elastic testing infrastructure that will accommodate surges and remain on standby Nearly half of 500m free Covid-19 tests the Biden administration made available to the US public have not been claimed, as cases plummet. Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from vaccines to hand sanitizer and tests. On the first day of the White House test giveaway in January, the covidtests.gov website received more than 45m orders. Now officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for packages of four free rapid tests per household, delivered by the US Postal Service. Continue reading... |
| Will we get a single, variant-proof vaccine for Covid? Posted: 26 Feb 2022 09:00 AM PST The goal of a universal vaccine would have seemed a fantasy only a few years ago. But not now… This week the government announced additional vaccine booster jabs for the over-75s and suggested a further shot is likely to be needed in the autumn. But imagine if the next Covid vaccine jab you have were the last you would ever need. That's a dream being actively pursued now by researchers, who feel it could be possible to make a "universal" vaccine against the Sars-CoV-2 virus that would work well not only against all existing variants but any that the virus could plausibly mutate into in the future. Some are thinking even bigger. In January, Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, and two other experts called for more research into "universal coronavirus vaccines" that would work not only against Sars-CoV-2 but against the many other coronaviruses in animal populations that have the potential to spill over into humans and cause future pandemics. "We need a research approach that can characterise the global 'coronaviral universe' in multiple species," Fauci and colleagues wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine, "and apply this information in developing broadly protective 'universal' vaccines against all [coronaviruses]." Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus came from Wuhan market and not Chinese lab, twin studies say Posted: 26 Feb 2022 01:02 PM PST Two studies released by scientists but yet to be published in journals say virus did not emerge from Wuhan Institute of Virology International scientists on Saturday released two major studies which one participant said made it "extraordinarily clear" a market in Wuhan, China was the source of the coronavirus which fueled the Covid-19 pandemic – and not a Chinese government laboratory, a theory championed in the US by rightwing campaigners, columnists and politicians. The question of where Covid-19 came from and how it spread has proved divisive. Continue reading... |
| Peaky Blinders review – Tommy Shelby’s back where we want him to be: in all kinds of trouble Posted: 27 Feb 2022 02:00 PM PST It's war on three fronts, across two continents for the Birmingham gang leader. Without his beloved Aunt Polly, will he be able to take it? Man walks into a bar. Herringbone cap, baby face, topcoat flapping in silhouette, weaponry secreted in case things turn sour. Which they always do. "Glass of water, please," he says. The French stereotypes at table four give him the evils. Nobody orders soft drinks in these parts if they know what's good for them. You could cut the tension with a – well, a razor blade concealed in the brim of your cap would do the job. It's 1933, in a remote outpost of la Francophonie called Miquelon Island, which, as you know, is just off the coast of Newfoundland, and, therefore, beyond Canadian and American jurisdictions. For years, these Gallic stereotypes have been ferrying bootleg whiskey to Boston. But, now, prohibition is ending and their business model is collapsing. Continue reading... |
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| Ukraine: what will China do? There are signs it is uneasy about Putin’s methods Posted: 26 Feb 2022 11:15 PM PST Analysis: Beijing has held off from backing Russia, raising questions about the extent of any partnership China's decision to abstain on Friday night at the end of the UN security council vote condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine may be a source of deep frustration in the west, but it will also send a nervous tremor through the Russian ministry of foreign affairs that China's protection is not unconditional. UK-based diplomats, looking at the stance adopted by China in the middle of the week, were expecting Beijing to join Russia in voting against the US-sponsored motion, but in common with the United Arab Emirates and India, it abstained, leaving Russia isolated in deploying its veto power as a permanent member of the security council. Continue reading... |
| ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder – podcast Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:00 PM PST Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. But this isn't good news – in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable. By Daniel Immerwahr Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2022 05:23 AM PST American actor and singer who played Major Margaret Houlihan – 'Hot Lips' – in the 1970 film M*A*S*H Women in M*A*S*H (1970), Robert Altman's boisterous comedy about a mobile army hospital during the Korean war, tend to get a raw deal. The actor Sally Kellerman, who has died aged 84, was still able to make the best of a thankless role. She received an Oscar nomination for playing the priggish Major Margaret Houlihan, better known by the nickname "Hot Lips". In one scene, she is showering in a tent when the canvas is ripped away, exposing her to the rowdy applauding co-workers who have lined up their chairs to watch. "The first take, Sally hit the ground so fast that we couldn't tell what she was doing," said the director. For the second one, he and the actor Gary Burghoff stood "on either side of the camera with our pants down, so when the tent went up she saw the two of us standing there naked. That's why she froze before falling, and how we got the shot we wanted." Continue reading... |
| Devastating floods wreak havoc in Queensland and NSW – in pictures Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:16 PM PST Brisbane and Queensland's south-east are set to endure more wild weather as the state grapples with a flood crisis. With the death toll from floods in Queensland and New South Wales rising to seven, severe weather warnings remain in place across 900km of Australia's eastern seaboard Continue reading... |
| Robert Pattinson: the heart-throb who dared to be repellent Posted: 27 Feb 2022 02:00 AM PST Playing Batman finally puts the boy from Barnes on the A-list, after years spent sabotaging any hope of mainstream success At first glance, it looks like a neatly managed movie star career path: the graduation from teen-franchise heart-throb to a starring role in a superhero flick. But Robert Pattinson's journey from Twilight – which made him, along with co-star and sometime girlfriend Kristen Stewart, one of the most famous people on the planet – to the latest incarnation of the nocturnal vigilante Bruce Wayne in The Batman, has been intriguingly circuitous. He took a decade-long detour through arthouse and auteur cinema, through offbeat roles – the freaks and weirdos, the feckless and the fundamentally untrustworthy – before he finally circled back, via scene-stealing supporting performances in The King and Tenet, into the kind of lead role which cements an actor's A-list status. It could be viewed as a risky strategy, but it is one that paid off handsomely. Pattinson, who is now 35, has honed his mercurial talent. He is not just a movie star, he's a thrillingly unpredictable and daring character actor. And he has nurtured something that is in short supply in his generation of groomed and polished media-savvy contemporaries: a refreshing oddball eccentricity. Continue reading... |
| Birmingham to host six-month arts festival for Commonwealth Games Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:01 PM PST More than 200 events to take place as city invests £12m in programme hoped to aid post-pandemic recovery Birmingham will benefit from "the great gift of the mega-event", said the creative officer of the Commonwealth Games at the launch of a concurrent six-month-long cultural festival. Birmingham 2022 festival will include more than 200 events from March to September across the West Midlands and will involve more than 100,000 participants, making it one of the largest cultural programmes to ever surround the games. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2022 09:43 PM PST NSW premier says 'unprecedented' floods expected to get worse; Lismore residents call for help on social media as flood level hits record high; Australia lists Russia as 'do not travel' zone; Frydenberg discusses financial support for Ukraine ahead of Scott Morrison's call with president; at least 12 Covid-related deaths recorded. Follow the latest updates live
Josh Frydenberg was asked if he believed the Russian president Vladimir Putin could turn the invasion into Ukraine nuclear. He says it's no secret that Putin may have ambitions beyond simply controlling Ukraine. No one wants to see an escalation ... but these are the dangers of the times and the insanity of what Putin has done ... I'm worried there could be an escalation beyond the borders ... I'm worried that there could be an escalation beyond the borders and no doubt. That's what other European nations or neighbouring countries are concerned about ... Just to get a sense of when will we find out the amount of money we're committing to this issue ... we're working the details through you will find out probably today. I mean, we're going to start with an initial payment. It will be in the millions, and it's not going to be the same sort of quantum that United States or the United Kingdom would provide but you know, where we can ... Continue reading... |
| Russian strategic slips lift Ukrainian morale, but should not obscure broader picture Posted: 27 Feb 2022 11:28 AM PST While the botched assault on Hostomel and the failure to take Kharkiv have surprised some commentators, these are but the opening salvos Russia's invasion of Ukraine has so far been curiously uncoordinated, even haphazard, in its first four days – prompting fears that Kremlin may adopt more brutal and deadly methods to achieve victory at a higher cost. Military analysts have been surprised by what they see as repeated errors, perhaps reflecting Vladimir Putin's mistaken belief that Ukrainians had an underlying affinity with Russia and would simply acquiesce in the fall of Volodymyr Zelenskiy once Moscow's troops rolled in. Continue reading... |
| Putin’s nuclear posturing requires west to tread extremely carefully Posted: 27 Feb 2022 11:27 AM PST Challenge for Nato is to maintain support for Ukraine while making clear Russian leader has way out of crisis Successive generations have experienced what it is like to feel the shadow of nuclear annihilation loom over their daily lives, from the Cuban crisis of 1962, to the missile standoff in Europe in the 1980s. This is shaping up to be our turn. "I'll be honest – I'm nervous," Pavel Podvig, one of the world's leading experts on Russian nuclear forces, said after Vladimir Putin declared a "special mode of combat duty of the deterrence forces". Continue reading... |
| Analysis: what weapons is Russia deploying in Ukraine invasion? Posted: 26 Feb 2022 11:00 PM PST Fears that use of indiscriminate armaments could amount to war crimes Footage captured by a CNN crew of the deployment of a T0S-1 heavy flame thrower system which was filmed being transported towards the Ukrainian border on Saturday has focused increased attention on what weapons Russia is beginning to deploy and how indiscriminate they are. The TOS-1, nicknamed the "Buratino" – the Russian version of Pinocchio – for its big nose, is one of the most feared weapons systems in Russia's conventional armoury, a multiple launch rocket system mounted on the chassis of a T-72 tank capable of firing thermobaric rockets which use oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion. Continue reading... |
| Swift action at last brings meaningful sanctions against Putin regime Posted: 26 Feb 2022 05:42 PM PST Selected Russian banks banned from global payments system, while Russian central bank will find it harder to spend $500bn war chest It has taken a week to reach this point, but western governments have put down their peashooters and wheeled out the financial howitzers against Vladimir Putin. Far-reaching new sanctions against Russia were announced on Saturday night in a joint statement from the EU, UK, US and Canada. Continue reading... |
| Ukrainian football player emotional on pitch after support from fans – video Posted: 27 Feb 2022 08:12 PM PST When Ukrainian football player Roman Yaremchuk came on to the pitch for Portuguese Primeira Liga club SL Benefica, he was met with thunderous applause from the crowd who held signs in support of the player's homeland. Russia invaded Ukraine late last week and has been carrying out military offensives across the country
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| Ukrainian president sceptical of upcoming meeting with Russia – video Posted: 27 Feb 2022 12:22 PM PST Volodymyr Zelenskiy says the Ukrainian and Russian delegations will meet without preconditions at Pripyat in Belarus. The Ukrainian president revealed that he was not confident that any progress would come from the meeting, but said he would do everything he could for the Ukrainian people Continue reading... |
| 'A watershed moment': EU shuts down airspace to Russia and finances weapons for Ukraine – video Posted: 27 Feb 2022 10:45 AM PST For the first time ever, the European Union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons to a country under attack, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has said, as she announced the bloc's commitment to supporting the Ukrainian war effort against Russia. The EU will also shut down its airspace for any and all Russian aircraft and in another unprecedented step ruled it would ban Russian-state backed television channels RT and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries, so that the Kremlin media machine 'will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin's war and to sow division in our union'
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| People gather around the world to show solidarity with Ukraine – video Posted: 27 Feb 2022 08:25 AM PST Thousands of people have gathered in cities around the world to show their support for Ukraine as Russia continues its invasion. More than 100,000 gathered in Berlin bearing signs reading 'stop the war', 'Putin's last war' and 'we stand with Ukraine'. From Tel Aviv to Tbilisi, demonstrators have let their disgust at Vladimir Putin's actions be known as the conflict continues to escalate
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| Fighting on streets of Kharkiv after Russian tanks enter Ukrainian city – video Posted: 27 Feb 2022 06:42 AM PST Scenes from Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, show Ukrainian soldiers fighting on street corners with rocket-propelled grenades. Other videos show an alleged Russian convoy that was stopped by Ukrainian soldiers, tanks driving through residential areas and various missile fragments stuck in ground near residential buildings Continue reading... |
| Vladimir Putin puts Russian nuclear forces on high alert – video Posted: 27 Feb 2022 06:36 AM PST The Russian president has ordered his military to put the country's nuclear deterrence forces on high alert in response to 'aggressive statements' by Nato countries Continue reading... |
| Scholz announces €100bn rise in German defence spending after Russia's Ukraine invasion – video Posted: 27 Feb 2022 04:57 AM PST Germany departed from longstanding policy again on Sunday with chancellor Olaf Scholz announcing the government would invest more than 2% of GDP in the military from its 2022 budget. He praised Russians who protested against the invasion for their bravery Continue reading... |
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