NEARLY three hundred other people have been charged with war crimes following Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian courts have charged another 276 people with war crimes as Putin’s brutal war nears its first anniversary.
Myroslava Krasnoborova, the prosecutor running with The Hague to qualify people, said Russia’s “atrocities” come with rape and ruthless treatment of civilians.
This comes as Britain prepares to mark the first anniversary of the Russian invasion.
On Friday at 11 am, Britons will practice a minute of silence to commemorate those who suffered the war, Rishi Sunak announced today.
Read our blog about the war in Ukraine below for the latest news. . .
Speaking ahead of a news conference, Janet Yellen said the United States is looking to offer more monetary aid to Ukraine, Reuters reports.
The Treasury secretary: “As President Biden has said, we will support Ukraine in its fight, for as long as it takes. Continued and strong aid for Ukraine will be a major topic of discussion during my time here in India. “
Yellen added: “Our financial aid makes Ukraine’s resilience imaginable through front-of-house support: through investment in essential public facilities and helping the government stay operational.
“In the coming months, we plan to supply about $10 billion in additional savings to Ukraine. “
The National Bank of Ukraine has imposed 50 years of sanctions on all monetary establishments in the Russian Federation.
“This is a total blockade of monetary establishments of the markets and assets of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. A complete block,” Andriy Pyshnyy, governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, wrote on Facebook.
“We will have to weaken it with all available means. It is the monetary sector that is a strategic ‘donor’ for this war. “
The UK will practice a minute’s silence to mark the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, the government has revealed.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who will observe a minute of silence on Friday at 11 a. m.
One tweet read: “Prime Minister @rishisunak will lead the country in silence, paying tribute to the courage of the Ukrainian people. “
“As we celebrate the anniversary of Russia’s barbaric and deplorable invasion of Ukraine as a nation, we pay tribute to the bravery and resilience of the Ukrainian people,” Sunak said.
The National Bank of Ukraine released a commemorative note honoring 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.
Tomorrow will mark one year since Putin introduced his bloody invasion of Ukraine.
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he “believed” the UK had Ukraine’s functions with Typhoon aircraft.
Speaking to Sky News, Boris said: “What Ukrainians need are F-16s. In this case, we have F-16s, but we have Typhoon. “
“I think it’s an argument for the UK to break the ice and give them typhoons.
“If it’s about educating other people to use those machines, we can do it. “
Ukraine’s foreign minister and the UN secretary-general discussed plans to “end Russian aggression” at their assembly today.
Dmytro Kuleba took to Twitter to share the news of his meeting with Antonio Guterres.
He wrote: “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and I discussed tactics to end Russian aggression on the basis of the principles of the UN Charter and foreign law.
“I the Secretary-General’s efforts to enable the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which will go down in history as his legacy. “
Ursula Von Der Leyen, President of the European Commission, paid tribute to Ukraine’s courage.
This comes as the first anniversary of Putin’s brutal invasion approaches.
Writing on Twitter, she wrote: “We are with you.
“We have been with you in this existential since the beginning.
“Ukraine has half of our continent.
“The position where our values are defended, where our freedom is defended, where Europe’s long journey is written. “
The EU leader also shared a video message for Ukraine, which read: “We have been with you in this existential struggle from the beginning. We have stepped up our economic, humanitarian and military support. “
“Because Ukraine has the center of our continent, the position where our values are defended, where our freedom is defended, where the long term of Europe is written. “
During a visit to Kiev today, the Spanish Prime Minister showed that his country will supply Ukraine with more tanks.
Speaking at an assembly with President Zelensky, Pedro Sánchez showed that 4 more Leopard 2 tanks will be for Ukraine.
This comes after the country pledged to send another six people to the besieged country.
Sanchez said the device could arrive within “a few weeks. “
President Zelensky met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in Kiev.
During their meeting, Sanchez said: “I am back in Ukraine a year after the beginning of the war. We will endure Ukraine until peace returns to Europe. “
Tomorrow will mark one year since Putin introduced his brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Zelensky shared a message of defiance.
Speaking to Telegram, he shared several photographs of Ukraine and wrote: “They remind us how we have come from February to February.
“We have triumphed over many tests and we will win.
“We will hold accountable all those who brought this evil, this war to our land. All the terror, all the killings, all the torture, all the looting,” he added.
“Russia has selected the path of the murderer. The path of the terrorist. That of the torturer. That of the looter. This is the selection of the state of Russia, and there will be a state duty for the terror committed. “
A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the defense secretary warned that the world “is definitely more dangerous, more volatile, and more precarious. “
“The clash will go all the way to the end of this decade,” he told The Sun, “whether it’s a bloodless war or a hot war, war is coming. “
“We just have to deter him, you just have to be ready, you have to be equipped and you have to be with your friends and allies. “
Viktor Liashko, Ukraine’s minister, has declared Russia a terrorist state after a year of attacks on civilian infrastructure.
According to Lyashko, 106 doctors have died since Russia introduced its brutal invasion last year, with 174 sports facilities destroyed.
“Under the Geneva Convention, medical services are through foreign laws, and if a country does not obey those rules, it is a terrorist state and will have to be identified as such,” he said.
It is understandable that more than 800 of Putin’s foot soldiers are killed every day amid accusations that Putin is mobilizing troops as cannon fodder in World War-style tactics at the front.
NATO intelligence suggests that Russia loses up to 2,000 men for every hundred meters gained in Ukraine.
Just a few days ago, Putin’s elite military force of 5,000 troops was wiped out like “turkeys on a firing range” in Ukraine’s bloodiest war in Donetsk.
President Zelensky said Ukraine is open to talks with China after Chinese diplomat Wang Yi visited Moscow this week.
Speaking at a news conference in Kiev, Zelensky said: “We would like to meet China. “
China has come to fire from the West in recent days, as U. S. officials have warned that the country is opposed to aiding Russia’s brutal invasion.
The British Ministry of Defense took to Twitter to answer why Ukraine wants tanks.
Sharing a video of the Challenger 2 tanks that Britain will supply to the besieged nation, the Ministry of Defence provided 3 main reasons.
The Ministry of Defense listed:
U. S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has issued a stern warning to the Chinese government about its relationship with Russia.
Yellen told reporters: “We have made it clear that offering curtains to Russia or assistance for any kind of circumvention of systemic sanctions would be a very serious fear for us.
“And we will continue to make it transparent to the Chinese government, corporations and banks in their jurisdictions what regulations are related to our sanctions and the serious consequences they would face by violating them. “
The warning comes after Chinese diplomats met Putin in Moscow today.
A Russian attack in Kharkiv left several people trapped under the rubble.
At 12:30 this afternoon, local emergency services picked up other people.
The attack hit the city of Kupyansk.
The National Bank of Ukraine has imposed 50 years of sanctions on all monetary establishments in the Russian Federation.
“This is a total blockade of monetary establishments of the markets and assets of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. A complete block,” Andriy Pyshnyy, governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, wrote on Facebook.
“We will have to weaken it with all available means. It is the monetary sector that is a strategic ‘donor’ for this war. “
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has said the war in Ukraine could end last year.
Speaking to LBC, Ben Wallace said: “I think we will. I think Russia has shown total contempt, not only for the life of the Ukrainian people, but also for the lives of its own soldiers. “
“We have been sitting here for 12 months and 188,000 Russians, in fact more now, have been killed or injured as a result of this catastrophic miscalculation and aggression by President Putin. “
He added: “When someone has crossed the line and thinks it’s okay to do this to their own people, running a meat grinder for an army, I think they’re not going to stop. “
As the war in Ukraine approaches its first anniversary, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has shared a detailed map on the ground.
The ministry says Russia continues with Bakhmut and Lyman.
A Russian oligarch and a former Putin party have been discovered dead hours in the new mysterious deaths that have struck Russia’s elite.
The painting of Vyacheslav Rovneiko, 59, who founded Russian energy giant Urals Energy with Putin’s predecessor Boris Yeltsin’s son-in-law, learned at his home outside Moscow around 11 p. m. Wednesday night.
Russian media have given some cause of death so far.
A police report states that “there were no symptoms of violent death on his body. “
On Thursday, he announced that a former politician from Putin’s United Russia party, on trial for corruption, had died in custody.
Andrei Bralnin, an elected official from the city of Kotlas in Russia’s Arkhangelsk region, is awaiting trial for allegedly accepting bribes.
Four protesters were arrested after displaying a Ukrainian flag in the street in front of the Russian embassy in London.
The protest was organized through the crossover organization Led By Donkeys.
The protest saw other people pouring blue and yellow paint on the road.
Joe Biden met with the leaders of the Bucharest Nine (B9) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
At the meeting, Biden said it was “absolutely clear” that the United States would protect “literally every inch of NATO. “
The US president said that the leaders of the B9 countries are “front line” of NATO’s resistance to Russian aggression and “the freedom of democracies in Europe and the world. “
Vladimir Putin hoped to defeat Ukraine in 3 days because his spies had told him that thousands would rise up to overthrow Volodymyr Zelensky.
Leaked documents show that the FSB’s security service offers stupid intelligence to the Russian tyrant, feeding his deranged ego.
Putin ordered his forces to invade Ukraine a year ago, convinced he could win a lightning victory if he seized the capital, Kiev, and “beheaded” the rulers.
In an email written a fortnight after the invasion, when Russian deaths began to rise, the source shows how FSB spies had reported that prior to the invasion, Ukrainians were in a position to rebel.
“We have published reports that at least 2,000 trained civilians in all major cities in Ukraine are in a position to overthrow Zelensky.
“And that at least 5,000 civilians were in a position to faint with flags opposed to Zelensky at Russia’s request. “
Friday will mark the first anniversary since Vladimir Putin ordered his invasion of Ukraine.
Tomorrow morning, the British will be silent to mark one year since the deranged tyrant ordered tanks in Ukraine.
Rishi Sunak will lead the moment of the image reflected from the outside of Downing Street.
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