USA has declared national emergency due to the extraordinary threat posed by the Russian Federation / On Thursday, April 15, U.S. President Joe Biden declared a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States posed by specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.
The U.S. to base additional troops in Germany in a reversal of Trump policy / The United States will ramp up its forces in Germany amid the latest tensions with Russia over Ukraine, abandoning former President Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw around 12,000 of the 36,000 troops from the fellow NATO country, as was reported by Reuters.
Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin discussed the aggravation in the Donbas: details of the call / On Thursday, April 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the Donbas issue during their telephone call.
As long as Putin needs: how long the Russian troops will be deployed on the Ukrainian-Russian border / Dmitrii Peskov, press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, spoke about the concentration of Russian military forces near the Ukrainian border.
Signal for the Russian Federation: Zelensky had a conversation with NATO Secretary General / NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in order to express his serious concern regarding the Russian military activity on the Ukrainian-Russian border.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a series of documents during his visit to the State of Qatar / A number of bilateral documents were signed in the presence of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is on an official visit to the State of Qatar, and Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
“Does not pose any threat”: the Kremlin commented on the strengthening of the Russian military presence on the border with Ukraine / Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that theconcentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraineshould not cause any concerns to other countries, because Russia allegedly does not pose a threat to any other states.
Russia is relocating its troops to the Ukrainian borders: Khomchak's statement / During an extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Tuesday, March 30, Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Ruslan Khomchak, said that Russian troops are being drawn to the Ukrainian borders (in Bryansk, Voronezh region and in the Crimean peninsula).This became known during the Verkhovna Rada meeting.
Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on the nationalization of Motor Sich / President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree enacting a non-public decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) regarding Motor Sich Joint Stock Company.
A Belgian university has discovered a new coronavirus variant / A new mutation of the coronavirus (Covid-19) has been detected in Belgium by the university in Liège (ULiège) and currently accounts for about 4% of infections in the country, as was reported by Le Figaro.
