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☆ Ukraine war live updates: Russia says it isn’t bluffing over threats to use nuclear weapons; ‘difficult night’ for Kharkiv
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The European Union's upcoming 14th sanctions package against Russia must do more to choke off energy exports and clamp down on circumvention by third parties, an advisor to the office of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNBC. Vladyslav Vlasiuk said it was also vital to tighten export controls on critical technologies used within Moscow's military equipment. However, he noted that EU states would need to work more cohesively for sanctions to stand a chance of crossing the line by the end of next month as planned. The EU's special envoy for the implementation of sanctions, David O'Sullivan, was in Kyiv Thursday to discuss the latest sanctions package amid ongoing pushback from member states such as Hungary. Shapoval noted, however, that gas supplies were much more difficult to direct without European infrastructure than, for example, oil.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Vlasiuk, David O'Sullivan, Nataliia, Shapoval, — Karen Gilchrist Organizations: CNBC, Kremlin, Russian Sanctions, EU Locations: Russia, Kyiv, Hungary, Belarus, China, India

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Kremlin dismisses threat from anti-war election hopeful; Zelenskyy visits front-line war hot spot
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

As part of the Western Balkans block waiting for EU-membership, Serbia is caught in a geostrategic rivalry between its Western allies and Russia. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine brought fresh political momentum to the European Union and its plans for enlargement in the Western Balkans. "I see the European Union more ready for the Balkans than the Balkans for the European Union," Miroslav Lajčák, EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and Western Balkans, told CNBC last month. Within days of Russia's invasion, Ukraine, neighboring Moldova and, soon after, nearby Georgia applied for EU candidate status — which they were granted in quick succession. "Now, it's very clear that the European Union is serious."

Persons: Russia's, —, Miroslav Lajčák, Lajčák, — Karen Gilchrist Organizations: EU, European Union, Belgrade, Pristina, CNBC, European Locations: Ukraine, Belgrade, Serbia, Balkans, Russia, Western Balkans, European, Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Europe, Yugoslavia, Moldova, Georgia, European Union

☆ Live updates: Three drones downed in Moscow region, mayor says; Russia strikes Ukraine's Danube grain facilities
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A building of the Moscow International Business Center, Moskva City, damaged after a drone attack on Aug. 23, 2023. Russia's Defense Ministry on Wednesday thwarted an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow, downing three drones, the city's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. No casualties and only minor damage were reported in the sixth consecutive day of similar reported incidents on the capital. "This night, air defense shot down a drone in the Mozhaisk district of the Moscow region. The Defense Ministry said air defense forces had shot down two of the three drones over the wider Moscow region's Mozhaisky and Khimki districts.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Sobyanin, — Karen Gilchrist Organizations: Moscow International Business, Russia's Defense, Defense Ministry, Mozhaisky, Moscow City Locations: Moskva City, Moscow, Mozhaisk, City, Khimki, Ukraine

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Moscow airport disrupted after drone attack; Russia stronger than ever, Putin tells Asian allies
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Ruxandra Iordache | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin appears to have resurfaced on social media after being exiled to Belarus since his failed insurrection 11 days ago. A voice recording said to be of Prigozhin was posted on the Grey Zone Telegram page — an account supportive of Russian mercenaries, with more than 500,000 subscribers. "I want you to understand that our "March of Justice" was aimed at fighting traitors and mobilizing our society. NBC's Moscow bureau said the voice does sound like Prigozhin's, but that he is speaking more slowly than usual. The mercenary leader has not been seen in public since the uprising 11 days ago.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, — Karen Gilchrist Organizations: Grey, NBC News Locations: Belarus, Moscow

In an exclusive interview with Reuters, former U.S. President Donald Trump said that Russia's President Putin had been "somewhat weakened" by Wagner forces' aborted mutiny over the weekend. Trump, a longtime admirer of Putin, said however that the Russian president remained "strong," and noted that an alternative leadership could be "better, but it could be far worse." "You could say that he's [Putin] still there, he's still strong, but he certainly has been I would say somewhat weakened at least in the minds of a lot of people," he told Reuters in a telephone interview on Thursday. Trump also said that now was the time for the U.S. to broker a peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv. You need the right mediator, or negotiator, and we don't have that right now," he said.

Persons: Donald Trump, Putin, Wagner, he's, Trump, Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, they've, — Karen Gilchrist Organizations: Reuters, Trump Locations: Russian, Moscow, Kyiv, Russia

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Wagner forces will no longer fight in Ukraine; Prigozhin retreat deal terms could still be under discussion
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Karen Gilchrist Ruxandra Iordache | Karen Gilchrist | Ruxandra Iordache | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

NATO member states must agree on a clear route for Ukraine's membership of the military alliance when they meet at a summit next month, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on Thursday. "The only security guarantee that really works, and the cheapest security guarantee that really works is NATO membership," Kallas told reporters ahead of a summit with other European Union government leaders in Brussels. Speaking at the same summit earlier Thursday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that the EU still needed to decide what further security assurances it wishes to provide to Ukraine. We will have to discuss how far it goes, and if it would be lethal or non-lethal support. And we have to take into account that several EU countries are not a member of NATO," Rutte said.

Persons: Kaja Kallas, Kallas, Mark Rutte, Rutte, — Karen Gilchrist Organizations: Estonia's, NATO, European Union, Dutch, EU Locations: Brussels, Ukraine

☆ Ukraine war live updates: NATO leaders to meet in Brussels; Wagner Group makes gains around Bakhmut
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The International Monetary Fund's managing director Kristalina Georgieva said Tuesday that Ukraine is fighting not just in defense of its national sovereignty but to protect the international rule of law. "In Ukraine, people strongly believe they're fighting not just for themselves, they're fighting for the right of every nation to exist and run its own affairs," the director of the United Nations financial institution said at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Georgieva said that a problem which is Ukraine's problem today can tomorrow "be a problem for many other countries," adding that it is in "everybody's interest" to defend a rules-based global system. "If we blow up rule of law internationally, how are we going to keep it domestically?" "It is for everyone, everybody's interest to defend it."

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Russian forces claim gains; China's top diplomat to visit Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Moscow said Monday that its forces had pushed forward a few kilometers along Ukraine's frontline, while Kyiv said its troops had repelled Russian attacks in various areas. Much of the fighting was concentrated around the eastern city of Bakhmut, with 16 nearby settlements having been bombarded, according to Ukrainian military. Russia's Defence Ministry said Russian troops had managed to advance 2 km (1.2 miles) to the west in four days. However, it did not say which part of the long frontline, encompassing several Ukrainian regions in the south and east, had moved. "The Russian servicemen broke the enemy's resistance and advanced several kilometres deeper into its echeloned defence," it said.

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