The European Commission proposed to ease restrictions on non-essential travel to the EU / On Monday, April 3, the European Commission recommended that the Member States ease the current restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU to take into account the progress of vaccination campaigns and developments in the epidemiological situation worldwide.
"We are watching very carefully": Blinken commented on Russia's actions near the Ukrainian border / U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the concentration of Russian troops on the Ukrainian-Russian border exceeded the number of Russian forces there back in 2014.
Ukraine shall receive additional 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine / Ukraine has signed a contract with the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer on the supply of additional 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
“Space is a warfighting domain”: The U.S. about the relationships with Russia and China in the space sphere / Both, China and Russia, have developed weapons that can either disrupt our satellites or destroy our satellites, from on the ground or in space, or in cyber, General Jay Raymond, the Chief of Space Operations for the U.S.
“Russian Federation has chosen confrontation”: the EU reacted to Russia's sanctions / The European Union reacted to Russia's sanctions against eight EU representatives in a joint statement by the President of the European Council, the President of the European Commission, and the President of the European Parliament on the imposition of restrictive measures against eight EU nationals.
Russia has imposed sanctions against eight EU representatives / In response to European Union sanctions against the Russian Federation, Russia has imposed sanctions against eight EU representatives.
Persona non grata: Ukraine is to expel a Russian consul from Odesa / The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has declared Russia’s consul in the city of Odessa persona non grata in response to Moscow’s expulsion of a Ukrainian diplomat on April 26, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Russia's tit-for-tat response: the Russian Federation expels 10 American diplomats from the country / On April 15, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a decree imposing new sanctions against Russia.
Germany threatened to stop Nord Stream 2 in case of further escalation in Donbas / In case of aggravation of the situation near the borders of Ukraine, where Russia is pulling its troops, the head of the European People's Party (EPP) in Germany, Manfred Weber called for the stop of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.
The US Intelligence Community: “Russia Remains a Major Source of Threats to the United States and the World” / On April 13, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an open part of the Annual Threat Assessment prepared by the US Intelligence Community.
