UKRAINE has unveiled a new stamp showcasing the paintings of legendary British artist Banksy as Putin’s brutal war enters its turn of year.
The stamp, which shows Banksy’s art of a child hitting an adult to the ground, was issued in honor of the first anniversary of Putin’s invasion.
“We believe that this precise stamp, this accurate painting would be the most productive representation of how each and every Ukrainian feels about our enemy,” Ukrainian postal service leader Ihor Smilianskyi said ahead of the first postage stamp, Reuters reports.
This comes as Vladimir Putin’s losses reach 150,000 victims since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Kiev said.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s armed forces claimed to have killed 660 Russian infantrymen in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 148,130 as of Feb. 26.
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On Friday, in an interview with ABC News, Joe Biden showed that the United States would refrain from sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine “for now. “
He said: “There is no explanation as to why there is a justification, according to our military now, for offering F-16s. I exclude it for now.
“Listen, we are sending [Zelensky] what our veteran army thinks it wants now. You want tanks, you want artillery, you want air defense, Himar adds.
“There are things he wants now that we send him to put them in a position to make a profit this spring and summer through the fall. “
On the ninth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Crimea, Ukrainian human rights defender Dmytro Lubinets said there were 180 prisoners detained there.
Lubinets wrote in Telegram, Sky News reports: “Due to the constant concern for the Ukrainian resistance, Russia is preventing serious repression and persecution of our citizens in temporarily occupied Crimea: illegal searches, cases of fabricated criminals, fabricated sentences, especially opposed to representatives of the indigenous peoples of the peninsula – the Crimean Tatars.
Lubinets added that the remedy of political prisoners in Crimea is a “flagrant violation of basic human rights and norms of foreign law through Russia. “
A White House aide said Russia with military equipment would have a “real cost” to China.
This comes days after top Chinese diplomats visited Moscow as the two nations forged increasingly powerful ties.
“Beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it does it, whether to provide military assistance, but if it goes down that road, it will result in genuine prices for China,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN.
Speaking today, Putin accused the West of not wanting to destroy Russia.
Tass reports that Putin told Rossiya 1 state television: “Under the existing conditions, when all the major NATO countries have declared that their main goal is to inflict a strategic defeat on us, so that our other people suffer as they say, how can we forget about their nuclear capabilities?Under those conditions?
“They have one goal: to dissolve the former Soviet Union and its base: the Russian Federation. “
President Joe Biden shared a provocative message for Ukraine.
He wrote: “It is in times of uncertainty that knowing what you stand for is most important.
“And knowing who’s with you makes all the difference. We stand with Ukraine.
“We NATO. We democracy. “
Reconciliation between Russia and Ukraine “is not possible” in the hundred years, the Ukrainian prime minister said.
“Reconciliation, cooperation, no, not in the next hundred years,” Shmyhal told German magazine Focus.
“Russia will first have to change, democratize, demilitarize and denuclearize. “
The Labour Party demands that the Wagner Group be a banned terrorist organisation.
The mercenary gang is described as Vladimir Putin’s personal death squad and is accused of massacring civilians in Ukraine.
Known for recruiting Nazi thugs and criminals, he acts outside the law and has been fighting in Ukraine since 2014.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: “The Wagner Group is in favour of the terrible atrocities in Ukraine and around the world.
“No one in the UK deserves to be allowed to belong to or advertise the group.
“One year after Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, we will have to hold accountable those who carried out his barbaric agenda. “
The United States banned the last month.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has sensationally claimed he has “no choice” to launch his brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking to Rossiya TV on Sunday, Putin said: “They (the West) have tried to reshape the world exclusively on their terms.
“We still didn’t have the selection to react. “
He went on to say that the West is complicit in Ukraine’s “crimes” that oppose Russia.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaffirmed his country’s support for Ukraine.
This comes as Ukrainians celebrate Global Day of Resistance, years after Russia’s invasion of Crimea.
Trudeau wrote: “On Ukraine Resistance Day, Canada reaffirms its commitment to Ukrainians and the principles they fight for: democracy, justice and freedom. We will continue to use all the equipment at our disposal for Ukraine, as long as it is needed.
“As Ukrainians continue to fight for the land that rightfully belongs to them, we reaffirm today that Crimea is and will be Ukraine. “
According to Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Ukraine has shot down more than 1200 Russian missiles and drones since September.
This 650 Russian cruise missiles and more than 610 drones.
Today, it has been years since Russia introduced its invasion of Crimea.
Speaking to Twitter, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry wrote: “The liberation of Crimea is the only path to freedom for its people, peace for Ukraine, stability for the world. “
Three civilians were killed by Russian movements in Donetsk yesterday.
Two other people were killed in Bakhmut and one in Novopokrovske, Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
Four others injured.
Algeria has announced that it will reopen its embassy in Kiev, as Russia remains unable to advance in the capital.
A Foreign Ministry said: “This resolution is a component of preserving the interests of the Algerian state and the interests of the national network in this country,” state television quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying.
“The Algerian embassy in Kiev, which has suspended its activities due to the deterioration of security in Ukraine, will be controlled by the chargé d’affaires. “
A White House aide said Russia with military equipment would have a “real cost” to China.
This comes days after top Chinese diplomats visited Moscow as the two nations forged increasingly powerful ties.
“Beijing will have to make its own decisions about how to proceed, whether to provide military assistance, but if it goes down that road, it will result in genuine prices for China,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN.
The National Bank of Ukraine has presented a commemorative in honor of the first anniversary of Putin’s brutal invasion.
“To mark the anniversary of the war, we have to launch a commemorative banknote that will constitute on a small piece of paper a year of emotions, patterns, content and iconic things,” said Andriy Pyshnyi, governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. today at the Kiev Central Bank.
This week marked the first anniversary of Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine.
According to Ukrenergo, the country’s state-owned network operator, there is no deficit in Ukraine lately.
The report adds that this has been for the past two weeks.
This comes after others across the country faced power cuts and firefights and emergency outage fights.
A Ukrainian style revealed the devastating moment he returned home: he realized that the city had been devastated by the Russians.
Anna Malygon discovered the building where she grew up completely devastated and shattered by Russian artillery fire.
Collapling buildings, damaged windows and streets pierced by projectiles found the 19-year-old as she returned home from Toronto, Canada.
He visited some of his favorite places, such as his favorite mall, his favorite café, his old school, to locate them all destroyed.
And even on its scale after the Russians were driven out, there were still air raid sirens and bomb blasts.
“This is how other people live in Ukraine right now,” the 19-year-old told The Sun Online.
The UK Ministry of Defence shared a clip showing how recruits marked the first anniversary of the war.
Next to the clip, the caption read: “On Friday we marked one since the invasion of Russia.
“300 Ukrainian recruits joined through their British instructors and partners for a dawn box service and a minute’s silence.
”#StandWithUkraine”.
President Zelensky celebrated the ninth anniversary of the Russian profession of Crimea.
He wrote: “9 years ago, Russian aggression began in Crimea. By returning Crimea, we will restore peace. “
“This is our land. Our people. Our history. We will put the Ukrainian flag back in each and every corner of Ukraine.
“Qırım serbest olacaq!”
Vladimir Putin’s cronies childishly interrupted a minute’s silence for the victims of the war in Ukraine.
Members of the UN Security Council were forced to duck when Russia’s envoy continuously tapped on his microphone and demanded a statement.
On Friday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba proposed a minute of silence in memory of the “victims of aggression” on the first anniversary of the war.
But as other members stood up, Moscow’s representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, sat down and began banging his microphone with his pencil.
He then took the ground to do a consultation in New York.
An oligarch friend of Vladimir Putin helped fund a £2. 2 million swimming pool at Prince George’s School.
Pipeline billionaire Arkady Rotenberg has made a major donation to the £2. 2 million swimming complex at Lambrook School in Berks, attended by Prince William and Kate’s 3 children.
The ex-wife of former vodka baron Natalia, 41, once photographed smiling with Putin, showed she donated funds, estimated at tens of thousands of pounds, for the lavish facility when she and Rotenberg’s two children were studying there.
She told The Sun on Sunday: “We are satisfied with this school and we give young people the new opportunity to swim. “
The Ukrainian president shared a glimpse into his modest life away from his family as he leads the fight against Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky has been locked in a bunker surrounded by a metal ring in Kiev for a year.
When Putin unleashed his troops in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Zelensky ran to Bankova, the citizen of Downing Street.
The concrete construction has been the home of the Ukrainian president ever since.
Zelensky said: “I have a little guy here.
“Such casual things. I’m just not in disguise right now. “
But on the edge of the railing, Zelensky was left in a suit as a “symbol that the war will end soon. “
He added: “We will win soon, so we will fit in again. “
Zelensky also showed off his bedroom, with its bachelor bed and modest furnishings, of the ultimate luxury other people would expect to find in a president.
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Russian forces lost a total of 148,130 in the last year of the war in Ukraine.
Putin has suffered heavy losses in the 24 hours of 660 people.
According to reports from Governor Oleh Syniehubov, in the last 24 hours, the state emergency service defused explosive elements in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Syniehubov reported that the Russian bombing of the city of Kupyansk over the past day destroyed at least four personal homes, as well as some advertising companies.
Demining efforts continue actively in Kharkiv Oblast.
Zelensky is living his scariest day of the war in Ukraine so far, a year after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of his country.
The Ukrainian president photographed the day he “saw the devil” and precisely what the bloodthirsty troops of the Russian tyrant were capable of.
The hero Zelensky asked about his most terrifying day in the war so far, to which he replied “Bucha”.
He referred to the city where a civilian bloodbath took place shortly after its liberation from the Russians.
“What I saw when we vacated it. It’s very scary.
“Because we saw that satan is not elsewhere, he is on earth. Probably that.
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