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☆ Live Updates: Biden Speaks About Aid Package for Ukraine and Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Zolan Kanno-Youngs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Artillery ammunition has been in short supply for the Ukrainian military for more than a year. Now that the Senate has approved a nearly $61 billion aid package to Ukraine, and with President Biden poised to sign it, desperately needed American weapons could be arriving on the battlefield within days. The Senate has approved a nearly $61 billion aid package to Ukraine. The Pentagon has prepared what a U.S. official said on Tuesday was a $1 billion military aid package to be rushed to Ukraine once Mr. Biden signs the funding bill. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general, said on Tuesday that the American aid package would allow for “advanced air-defense systems” to Ukraine but did not specify which kind.

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Ukraine’s Race to Hold the Line The days of lightning battlefield breakthroughs may be over. N Anti-tank ditch 1 2 Dragon’s teeth 1 mile 3 Trenches This defensive line in southern Ukraine runs a staggering 27 miles. 25 miles KHERSON N Anti-tank ditch 1 Dragon’s teeth 2 1 mile 3 Trenches This defensive line in southern Ukraine runs a staggering 27 miles. 10 miles Anti-tank ditch 1 Dragon’s teeth 2 3 Trenches 15 miles Ditches. 25 miles N 1 Anti-tank ditch 2 Dragon’s teeth 1 mile 3 Trenches This defensive line in southern Ukraine runs a staggering 27 miles.

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CNN —Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a key piece of legislation overhauling the country’s mobilization rules. The legislation places a new requirement on all men between 18 and 60 to register with Ukraine’s military and to carry their registration documents on them at all times. Ukraine’s parliament passed the law last week and Zelensky gave presidential approval Tuesday. A Ukrainian servicemen fires a howitzer towards Russian troops in Kherson region, Ukraine, in March. After the law passed last week, dozens of wives and relatives of servicemen gathered outside Ukraine’s parliament to protest and demand that mobilization deadlines be included.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia’s, Zelensky, Serhii Nuzhnenko, Zelensky’s, Oleksandr Syrsyki, Anastasia Bulba, Vitalii, ” Organizations: CNN, Reuters, People Locations: Ukrainian, Kherson region, Ukraine, Ukraine’s, Russia

☆ Zelensky says he will listen to Trump’s ideas to end war ‘with pleasure’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Sophie Tanno | Lauren Said-Moorhouse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would listen to former US President Donald Trump’s ideas to end the war in Ukraine with “pleasure” but trod carefully around the issue during an interview at the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece. I haven’t heard that directly from Trump,” Zelensky told CNN’s Senior Correspondent Fred Pleitgen via video link from Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky is pictured speaking from Ukraine during an interview with CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, who is at the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky inspects new fortifications for Ukrainian servicemen near the Russian border in the Kharkiv region on Tuesday. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout/Reuters“I’d like to underscore that no Western weapons were used to attack in such a way.

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☆ How José Andrés and His Corps of Cooks Became Leaders in Disaster Aid
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Kim Severson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. How José Andrés and His Corps of Cooks Became Leaders in Disaster AidLong before the killings of seven workers in Gaza, World Central Kitchen pioneered a new way to deliver emergency relief, using local labor and recipes. Share full articleJosé Andrés, the Spanish chef who founded World Central Kitchen, delivering food in Kherson, Ukraine, in 2022. Credit... AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

Persons: José Andrés Organizations: Disaster, AP Locations: Gaza, Spanish, Kherson, Ukraine

☆ Zelenskyy fires more aides in a reshuffle as Russia launches drones and missiles across Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is speaking during a joint briefing with Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis outside the Transfiguration Cathedral, which was destroyed by Russian shelling, in Odesa, Ukraine, on March 6, 2024. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers on Saturday in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight. Zelenskyy dismissed top aide Serhiy Shefir from his post of first assistant, where he had served since 2019. Ukraine's air force said Saturday that Russia launched 12 Shahed drones overnight, nine of which were shot down, and fired four missiles into eastern Ukraine. Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in recent days, causing significant damage in several regions.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Serhiy Shefir, Oleksii Danilov, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Centrenergo, Serhiy Lisak Organizations: Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis, National Security and Defense Council, Russia, Gov Locations: Ukraine, Greece, Odesa, Russia, United Kingdom, Kharkiv, Poltava, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk

☆ Why Russian separatists called an exorcist when they discovered a Ukrainian POW was an evangelical Christian
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Viktor Cherniiavskyi said he was targeted because he was an evangelical Christian. AdvertisementA Ukrainian soldier said he was tortured by Russian separatists and forced to undergo an exorcism , partly because of his evangelical Christian faith. While serving as a volunteer in the city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, Cherniiavskyi said he was captured by Russian-aligned forces. Second, because I'm an evangelical Christian. "In reality, Russian society, and the Kremlin, to be more precise, hates any type of Christian denomination, bar the Orthodox Church," Cherniiavskyi said.

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☆ Russia's new river patrol force will likely have the same explosive problem battering its Black Sea Fleet, Western intel says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewRussia's new river patrol force could be vulnerable to the same exploding naval drones that Ukraine has used to wreak havoc on Moscow's Black Sea Fleet, according to Western intelligence. AdvertisementElite Ukrainian naval forces raiding a Russian-occupied island in the Dnipro river. AdvertisementUkrainian infantrymen soldiers travel on the Dnipro River in the Kherson region in September. In some cases, the Kremlin has relocated some elements of the Black Sea Fleet to Russian ports and away from its vulnerable headquarters in Sevastopol, a city in the occupied Crimean peninsula. AP Photo/Evgeniy MaloletkaBecause the fleet is now mainly operating in the eastern Black Sea and farther away from the Kherson region, Russia's new Dnipro formation will likely assume its river patrolling responsibilities, British intelligence said on Wednesday.

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☆ How to 3D-print a school in a war zone
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Project Hive will provide the school with four extra classrooms to help it accommodate additional students displaced by the war, said Bonis. But he continues undeterred: “(This) is also a way of taking technology to give back hope.”A model of the 3D-printed school showing the four new classrooms. Where 3D printing is really great is when you have special geometries and shapes, because you’re totally free. According to Lange, there are cheaper, faster alternatives to 3D printing, such as prefabricated and modular buildings. Team4UAReconstructing communitiesTeam4UA is not the only organization to see the potential of 3D-printed construction in disaster and conflict zones.

Persons: Jean, Christophe Bonis, “ I’m, ” Bonis, Team4UA, Olga Gavura, “, ”, DUS, Christian Lange, you’re, Hong Kong University Lange, Lange, Jack Oslan, Oslan, ‘, Andriy Zakaliuk, Bonis, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Team4UA, United Nations ’ International Organization for Migration, ”, Balbek, Ars Longa, Dubai Future Foundation, Hong Kong University, Robotic, 7CI Group, Russian, Diamond, Kyiv School of Economics, Lviv City Council’s Locations: Lviv, Ukraine, Europe, Russia, —, Texas, Austin , Texas, Nacajuca, Mexico, Dubai, Malawi, Arizona, “, Kherson, Kyiv

☆ Ukrainians in occupied territory were rounded up at gunpoint to vote in Putin's election, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russia's presidential elections included forced voting in occupied regions of Ukraine, reports say. Armed guards coerced locals, both on their doorsteps and at polling stations, according to reports. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementArmed guards took part in door-to-door voting operations in occupied regions of Ukraine as part of Russia's recent presidential elections, according to multiple reports. Part of that vote was secured in Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporozhzhia, occupied regions of Ukraine that were at least partially captured since Russia's full-scale invasion began in 2022 — as well as Crimea, occupied since 2014.

Persons: —, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, —, Crimea

The woman is Lutfiye Zudiyeva, a Crimean Tatar, and she shared video of the moment on her social media accounts. It’s inevitable.”Arrests like hers, as well as large mass raids, especially, but not exclusively, in areas predominantly inhabited by Crimean Tatar communities, have been common since 2014. “The situation is only getting worse,” said human rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, himself a Crimean Tatar. AFP/Getty ImagesThe major concern now is that Crimea is a template for the other four Ukrainian regions now fully or partially occupied by Russia. Propaganda effortWhen it comes to Crimea, Russia has tried to hide its oppression under a veil of public investment, and patriotism.

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☆ Putin scores a resounding win, but what’s next for Russia?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Nathan Hodge | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Putin poses for a picture with his wife, Lyudmila, and daughters, Yekaterina and Maria. Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images Putin rides a horse during a vacation in Southern Siberia in August 2009. Dmitry Astakhov/RIA Novosti/AFP via Getty Images Putin plays with his dogs Yume, left, and Buffy at his home in Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia, in March 2013. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Putin and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November 2018. Getty Images Putin speaks with American right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson during an interview in February 2024.

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Russian Telegram channels have showed other mobile election teams across the occupied territories, including some which appear to clearly show Russian soldiers accompanying election officials as they go house to house. Ukrainian officials say intimidation tactics like that are commonplace and are aimed at forcing people to give their vote to Putin. For their part, Russian-installed officials in the occupied territories reported several explosions close to polling stations on Saturday, at least some of which Ukraine appeared to acknowledge. Russia’s election officials have been posting updates on what they say is turnout in the various regions. Ukraine says Moscow will fabricate the final results and insists that the majority of people living under Russian occupation are choosing not to take part in the poll.

Persons: CNN —, Vladimir Putin, Iryna Vereshchuk, ” Vereshchuk, “ We’ve, ”, fatigues, Putin, Vladimir Rogov, Vladimir Saldo, Saldo Organizations: CNN, RIA Novosti, Russian, Ukrainian, Saturday Locations: Russia, Crimea, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Moscow, Avdiivka, Russian, Ukraine, Berdiansk, Kakhovka, Dnipro

☆ Russians vote in an election that Putin will win, but the Kremlin is looking for a landslide victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty ImagesThere are no surprises over who will win Russia's presidential election this coming weekend with incumbent, Vladimir Putin, set to win a fifth term in office, keeping him in power until at least 2030. The heavily stage-managed vote taking place from Friday to Sunday is not expected to throw up any nasty surprises for the Kremlin which told CNBC months ago that it was confident Putin would win the vote comfortably. That's particularly the case in a country where Russian opposition figures are not represented on the ballot paper or in mainstream politics, with most activists having fled the country. "According to official data, Putin received 77.5% of valid votes in the 2018 presidential election that saw a turnout of 67.5%. Russian opposition activists, most in self-imposed exile in order to evade arrest, imprisonment or attack, have also condemned the election.

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☆ Russia’s Persecution of L.G.B.T.Q. Ukrainians Should Be a Crime Against Humanity - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( J. Lester Feder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

They found that he’d been gathering information about Russian military positions to share with Ukrainian forces; they also discovered he was gay. Mr. Polukhin gave a detailed account of his detention to Projector, an Odesa-based human rights organization. Mr. Polukhin lived in Kherson, a southern city of around 250,000 people that the Russians conquered with blinding speed in the war’s early days. (This is a common practice by Russian forces, nominally to search for nationalist tattoos.) “I think that all of them should be killed,” Mr. Polukhin said the man responded.

Persons: Oleksii, Polukhin, ” Mr, they’d Organizations: Ukrainian, Russia Locations: Ukraine, Kherson, Ukrainian

☆ Russian military bloggers call out gap between Kremlin propaganda and reality over Ukraine's Dnipro bridgehead
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewAs Ukraine's Dnipro bridgehead holds firm, Russian military bloggers are lashing out over reported Kremlin misinformation, the Kyiv Post reported. Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a televised briefing last month that Ukrainian forces had been defeated at the Dnipro River bridgehead near Kherson. AdvertisementAnd Russian military bloggers and think tanks have called out the disconnect between Moscow's public statements and the reality on the ground. Ukrainian soldiers on the Dnipro River in the Kherson region of Ukraine on September 14, 2023. AdvertisementIt added that the Kremlin "is likely setting expectations that the Russian military may fail to meet."

Persons: —, Sergei Shoigu, Mikhail Zvinchuk, Krynky, Libkos, It's, Oleksiy Organizations: Service, Kyiv Post, Russia's, Business, Military, UK's Ministry of Defence, New York Times, Washington Post, for, Kremlin Locations: Dnipro, Kyiv, Kherson, Krynky, Russian, Ukraine, Russia, Ukrainian

☆ Russia’s new guided bomb inflicts devastation and heavy casualties on the Ukrainian frontlines
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Frederik Pleitgen | Tim Lister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

It is delivered from above by fighter jets from a distance of some 60-70 kilometers, out of range of many Ukrainian air defenses. Yuri Ihnat, Ukrainian air force spokesman, told CNN: “On the eve of and during the battle of Avdiivka hundreds of air bombs were launched within days. The Ukrainian air force has claimed that it has brought down several Su-34 fighters in recent weeks. But most Ukrainian air defenses do not have the range to hit planes some 70 kilometers away. In the meantime, Ukrainian forces on the frontlines, especially in Donetsk, are exposed to a blitz of Russian air strikes - sometimes more than 100 in a day, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.

Persons: Joseph Trevithick, Stringer, ”, Yuri Ihnat, Justin Bronk, Ihnat, Su, Sergey Shoigu, Bronk, Volodymyr Zelensky Organizations: CNN, FAB, Getty, Airmobile Brigade, Royal United Services Institute, Bomber, Russian Defense Ministry, Russian, JSC Tactical Missiles Corporation, Ministry, US, Patriots, Ukrainian, Staff Locations: Russia, Soviet, Ukraine, Donetsk, AFP, Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Moscow, London, Anadolu, Kherson, Kharkiv, Ukrainian, Russian

☆ Pope Francis' 'white flag' comment is met by criticism from Ukraine and allies
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In an interview recorded last month with Swiss broadcaster RSI and partially released on Saturday, Francis used the phrase "the courage of the white flag" as he argued that Ukraine, facing a possible defeat, should be open to peace talks brokered by international powers. "How about, for balance, encouraging Putin to have the courage to withdraw his army from Ukraine? Peace would immediately ensue without the need for negotiations," Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski responded with a post on X, formerly Twitter. His post on X appeared to compare the pope's comments to calls for "talking with Hitler" while raising "a white flag to satisfy him." Matteo Bruni said that the journalist interviewing Francis used the term "white flag" in the question that prompted the controversial remarks.

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☆ Exclusive: US prepared ‘rigorously’ for potential Russian nuclear strike in Ukraine in late 2022, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Jim Sciutto | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Russian officials alleged Ukraine would build and detonate a dirty bomb against Russian forces and then blame the attack on Russia. Western intelligence agencies had received information that there were now communications among Russian officials explicitly discussing a nuclear strike. “It’s never a cut-and-dry, black-and-white assessment,” the first senior administration official told me. Secretary of State Antony Blinken communicated US concerns “very directly” with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, according to senior administration officials. “We conducted a number of quiet conversations with core allies to go through our thinking,” the first senior administration official told me.

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☆ US asked China and India for help to prevent Russia from carrying out a nuclear strike in 2022, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewThe US asked non-allies for help in an attempt to dissuade Russia from carrying out a nuclear strike in 2022, a senior US administration official told CNN. The official said their assessment was that input from the likes of India, China, and others "may have had some effect" on Russia's thinking. In June 2023, President Joe Biden said Russia's nuclear threat remained "real" following the news that Russia had moved nuclear weapons into neighboring Belarus. "All this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of civilisation.

Persons: —, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Sergei Guneyev, Putin, Biden, Sergei Shoigu, Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron Organizations: Service, CNN, Business, Getty, Russian, NATO, Reuters Locations: Russia, India, China, AFP, Ukraine, Kherson, Russian, Belarus

☆ Russian soldiers targeted while riding on top of armored vehicles is now a 'daily occurrence,' pushing up its death toll, US soldier says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Video shows a Russian armored vehicle with soldiers riding on top being attacked. A US veteran fighting in Ukraine said it was "a daily occurrence" that had killed many Russians. AdvertisementFootage showing Russian soldiers being targeted while they are riding on top of an armored vehicle highlights a "daily occurrence" that has driven Russia's death rate way up, according to a US veteran serving in Ukraine. It shows about a dozen Russian soldiers riding on top of a fast-moving armored vehicle that has smoke pouring out from it. It also said that Russia's daily casualties in February were the highest since the invasion began, at an average of 983 a day.

Persons: —, Bradley IFV, FPVfUtnZ5k, 🐈🇺 Organizations: Service, Ukraine's Strike Drones Company, Ukraine's 47th Mechanized Brigade, Brigade Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Ukraine's, Kherson

☆ Nuclear War: The Rising Risk, and How We Stop It - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( W.J. Hennigan | W.J. Hennigan Writes About National Security For Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

The United States estimates Russia has a stockpile of up to 2,000 tactical nuclear warheads, some small enough they fit in an artillery shell. But the detonation of any tactical nuclear weapon would be an unprecedented test of the dogma of deterrence, a theory that has underwritten America’s military policy for the past 70 years. Possessing nuclear weapons isn’t about winning a nuclear war, the theory goes; it’s about preventing one. If Mr. Putin dropped a nuclear weapon on Ukraine — a nonnuclear nation that’s not covered by anyone’s nuclear umbrella — what then? Many in the administration believed the Kremlin’s dirty bomb ploy posed the greatest risk of nuclear war since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Persons: Putin, Sergei Shoigu, Lloyd Austin, Russia Sergei Shoigu, Britain Ben Wallace, Defense Turkey Hulusi Akar, Sebastien Lecornu, General Austin, Mark Milley, Biden, Putin’s, William J, Burns Organizations: United, of American, NATO, Defense, State, Defense Turkey, National Defense, Defense Minister American, Russian, Biden, Joint Chiefs, Staff, Moscow, White House, State Department, The Energy Department, Strategic Command, ’, Pentagon, Unmute Defense, Central Intelligence Agency Locations: Washington, Ukraine, Russia, United States, Kharkiv, Kherson, Russian, U.S, Crimean, Moscow, Poland, China, India, Turkey

☆ Death toll rises from Russian drone strike on Ukrainian port city, as China's envoy tours Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Drone view shows rescue crews working at the site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian drone strike that killed several residents, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa on March 2, 2024, in this still image from handout video. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Western allies to boost Ukraine's air defenses in the wake of the deadly attack. Four more people may be trapped in the rubble in Odesa, the local branch of Ukraine's main emergency service said in a Facebook update Sunday. Elsewhere in Ukraine, regional authorities reported that a 58-year-old man died under rubble after Russian forces shelled his village in the southern Kherson province. Another civilian man, aged 38, was also killed in a Russian artillery strike on the neighboring Zaporizhzhia region, local Gov.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Read, Tymofiy, Mark, Zelenskyy, Oleh Kiper, Ivan Fedorov Organizations: Twitter, Gov Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Odesa, Russia, Iranian, Kherson province

☆ A veteran Republican operative relocated to Kyiv — he says Ukraine can win the war
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Veteran Republican operative, Steven Moore, relocated to Kyiv after Putin's full-scale invasion. Within a week of Putin declaring war on Ukraine in 2022, Moore founded the Ukraine Freedom Project (UFP). If we don't continue to support Ukraine, then the Russians will roll through Ukraine," Moore told BI. 'I'm doing the right thing'Steven Moore, founder of the Ukraine Freedom Project, pictured in front of a bombed out building in Irpin. In the early months of the war, Moore witnessed civilian casualties he saw pouring in from battles in Irpin and Bucha.

Persons: Steven Moore, Moore, —, Peter Roskam, Putin, Mike Johnson, They're, I'm, Karl Ahlgren, Steven Moore Moore, Anatoly, didn't, Rebekah Maciorowski, " Moore Organizations: Republican, Service, Capitol, Washington DC, Republicans, GOP, Ukraine Armed Forces, NATO, Medical, Network Inc, Ukraine Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, Ukrainian, Chernivtsi, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kherson, Russia, Avdiivka, Irpin, American, Tulsa , Oklahoma, Russian, Kramatorsk, Oklahoma, Bucharest

☆ West closely watching Putin's next move after breakaway region asks Moscow to 'protect' it from Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with his confidants for the 2024 election at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 31, 2024. Maxim Shemetov | ReutersSpeculation is mounting that Russian President Vladimir Putin will use his annual address to Russian lawmakers Thursday to announce that Russian troops will be sent to "protect" the pro-Russian, breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova. Officials in the separatist region appealed to Russia on Wednesday for "protection" against Moldova's pro-Western government. "We keep a close eye and reiterate that the Transnistrian region is aligned with the goal of peace and security of Moldova. A map of Moldova, including the breakaway region of Transnistria.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Maxim Shemetov, —, Putin, Moldova's, Daniel Voda, Matthew Miller, Tursa, Russia's, Ivana Stradner, Daniel Mihailescu Organizations: Gostiny Dvor, Reuters, Moldova's, Russia's Foreign, RIA Novosti, Analysts, Federal, U.S . State Department, EU, Getty Russia, United Nations, Defense, Democracies, CNBC, Kremlin, Russian Federation, Institute for, Afp, Getty Locations: Moscow, Russia, Transnistria, Moldova, Soviet Union, Europe, Pridnestrovie, Moldavian Republic, Transnistrian, Ukraine, Donetsk, Luhansk, Russian, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Georgia, Washington, U.S, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Chisinau

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