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• U.S. To Send More Weapons To Ukraine As Russia Looks Beyond Donbas

  Published 21 July 2022 | viewed 5,861 times

  The United States will send four more high-mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei…

• Putin And Erdogan Meet To Discuss Ukrainian Grain Exports

  Published 19 July 2022 | viewed 2,226 times

  Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will discuss Ukrainian grain exports at their meeting on July 19 in Tehran, an…

• Can Russia And Ukraine Break The Impasse Over Grain Exports?

  Published 14 July 2022 | viewed 3,992 times

  Military delegations from Russia and Ukraine have held a face-to-face meeting in Istanbul in an attempt to break a damaging impasse over grain exports that…

• The EU Has Frozen $13 Billion In Russian Assets

  Published 13 July 2022 | viewed 5,218 times

  European Union member states have so far frozen Russian assets worth $13.8 billion since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders…

• Turkey Mediates Talks Between Ukraine And Russia As Food Crisis Escalates

  Published 12 July 2022 | viewed 2,399 times

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed Ukrainian grain exports in separate phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Ukraine…

• Major Russian Investment Projects Are Being Sidelined Due To Sanctions

  Published 10 July 2022 | viewed 13,146 times

  Sergei had for years been clinging to hope that his hometown of Sovetskaya Gavan, a once bustling port city in Russia's Far East, would soon…

• U.S. Secretary Of State Calls On G20 Countries To Hold Russia Accountable

  Published 06 July 2022 | viewed 2,843 times

  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will call on Group of 20 members this week to put pressure on Russia to support UN efforts to…

• Britain To Slap New Sanctions On Belarus For Aiding Russian Invasion

  Published 05 July 2022 | viewed 2,199 times

  The British government says it will introduce a new round of economic, trade, and transport sanctions on Belarus and the regime of authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr…

• Sweden And Finland Move One Step Closer To Joining NATO

  Published 05 July 2022 | viewed 1,444 times

  The 30 NATO allies have signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland, sending the membership bids of the two countries to the…

• Sweden And Finland Begin The Process Of Formally Joining NATO

  Published 04 July 2022 | viewed 1,881 times

  Sweden and Finland are holding talks with NATO officials in Brussels on starting the formal process to join the Western military alliance -- a move…

• NATO Chief: Ukraine Invasion Is “Biggest Security Crisis Since World War II”

  Published 30 June 2022 | viewed 1,832 times

  NATO has declared Russia the "most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security amid Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The Western military…

• The Catastrophic Environmental Consequences Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine

  Published 28 June 2022 | viewed 3,459 times

  In addition to thousands of deaths and the destruction of crucial infrastructure, another, more invisible, crisis tied to Russia’s invasion could haunt Ukraine for years:…

• Iranian Food Consumption Plummets As Prices Soar

  Published 26 June 2022 | viewed 8,975 times

  Iranians are consuming fewer fruits and vegetables as skyrocketing prices shake the country's food security. Ismail Moradian, the vice-president of the Fruit and Vegetable Sellers…

• Moldova Granted €300 Million Loan To Bolster Its Energy Security

  Published 26 June 2022 | viewed 1,668 times

  The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending Moldova 300 million euros ($316 million) to help it secure additional gas reserves that could…

• Will The European Union Grant Ukraine Candidate Status?

  Published 22 June 2022 | viewed 1,529 times

  A draft of the final declaration for this week's European Union summit proposes candidate status for Ukraine and Moldova, a copy of the document seen…

• Russia Says It Will Retaliate Against Lithuania If Transit Blockade Isn’t Lifted

  Published 21 June 2022 | viewed 9,109 times

  Russia has summoned the European Union's envoy to Moscow to "strongly" protest new restrictions on goods shipments to its Kaliningrad exclave through EU member Lithuania…

• EU Diplomat Slams Russia Over Ukrainian Grain Blockade

  Published 20 June 2022 | viewed 672 times

  The EU's top diplomat has accused Russia of committing "a real war crime" by blocking grain exports from Ukraine. "One cannot imagine that millions of…

• Zelensky Calls For Seventh EU Sanctions Package Against Russia

  Published 16 June 2022 | viewed 1,413 times

  President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the European Union to ratchet up its sanctions regime on Russia, calling for a seventh EU package of punitive…

• Will Western Sanctions Actually Impact Putin’s Political Prowess?

  Published 11 June 2022 | viewed 3,668 times

  Russia's economy will be hit hard by Western sanctions, but President Vladimir Putin faces no immediate political risk and his government will likely weather the…

• Russia Holds Grain Hostage, Demands The West Lift Sanctions

  Published 08 June 2022 | viewed 6,695 times

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, has made progress toward accepting a plan that would restart Ukrainian…