Russia releases 215 fighters, including Mariupol commanders, in a prisoner exchange.
The exchange, the war’s largest, included Viktor Medvechuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and close friend of the Russian president.
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Month: September 2022
In U.N. General Assembly Address, Zelensky Says, ‘Russia Should Pay for This War’
“A crime has been committed against Ukraine, and we demand just punishment,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a recorded speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
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Biden Paints Russia as a Threat to the World in U.N. Speech
President Biden portrayed Russia as the chief threat to global peace and renewed warnings that “a nuclear war cannot be won.”
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Putin Raises Stakes in the War, With Direct Challenge to the West
The Russian leader announced a call-up of troops and hinted at using nuclear weapons, accusing the West of trying to “destroy our country” and vowing that Russia would defend itself.
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Vladimir Putin declares a partial mobilisation
Ukraine’s advances force the Kremlin to take desperate measures
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Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky gets standing ovation after UN speech
Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska could be seen smiling as delegates in New York applauded her husband
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Spain slaps food-delivery firm with penalty of up to €79 million
Spanish food-delivery firm Glovo, a subsidiary of German platform Delivery Hero, was ordered this week to pay tens of millions of euros by Spanish authorities. The penalty, first reported by local media and confirmed to POLITICO, follows the country’s so-called rider law — a law passed last year that ordered delivery companies to employ their […]
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Flights leaving Russia sell out after Putin announces mobilization
Flights out of Russia have sky-rocketed in price — and are selling out — following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address Wednesday in which he called for a partial mobilization of troops to fight in the war against Ukraine. Putin said the decree is aimed at reservists with training and experience. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu […]
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Russia has mobilized. What happens now?
Vladimir Putin has gone nuclear. Admittedly, things have not been going well. Kyiv’s counter-offensive has retaken thousands of kilometers of Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine; Moscow’s troops have fled the front lines; dissent from previously loyal pundits has increased; and criticism (oblique though it may be) has even emanated from his pals in Beijing and […]
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EU begins drafting new Russia sanctions
The European Commission will start consultations with EU countries’ representatives on an upcoming sanctions package within days, four EU diplomats told POLITICO. Brussels has already implemented several sanctions packages against Russia over its war with Ukraine. The European Commission is currently preparing new measures and will discuss proposals with EU ambassadors as soon as Friday, […]
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