The European Parliament voted for the post-Brexit trade deal between the EU and Britain / The European Parliament voted in favor of the post-Brexit trade deal between Britain and the European Union, clearing the last hurdle towards its ratification, while expressing clear mistrust of the British government, Reuters reports.
"We're going to keep watching this very, very closely": the US addressed the Russian threat to Ukraine after the beginning of the troops withdrawal / The Pentagon said even though part of the Russian troops were withdrawn from the Ukrainian borders, the Russian Federation still poses a threat to the security of Ukraine.
Poland convened an emergency meeting of the Visegrad Group because of Russia's actions / Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki convened an urgent meeting of the heads of the governments of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) due to the Russia's behavior.
"The relationship is very bad": Germany issued an unexpected statement on sanctions against Russia / Germany opposed the tightening of the country's sanctions pressure against Russia, despite its provocative actions on the border with Ukraine and the situation around Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny.
Russia has started the withdrawal of its troops from the Ukrainian borders / The Kremlin has begun to withdraw Russian troops from the Ukrainian borders. In particular, Moscow redeploys troops participating in Crimea drills back to their permanent bases, as was reported by TASS.
Canada provided an update on safety review of AstraZeneca and Covishield COVID-19 vaccines / Health Canada is updating Canadians and healthcare professionals about its ongoing safety review of very rare events of blood clots associated with low levels of blood platelets following immunization with the AstraZeneca and COVISHIELD COVID-19 vaccines according to the Department of Health of Canada.
The US has imposed sanctions for harmful foreign activities by the Russian Federation / U.S. President Joe Biden signed a decree imposing new sanctions against the Russian Federation.
President of Ukraine had a phone conversation with the President of Finland / President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a phone conversation with the President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö, as was reported by the press service of the President of Ukraine.
Ursula von der Leyen snubbed in chair gaffe at EU-Erdoğan talks / Ursula von der Leyen, the European commission’s first female president, was “surprised” after being left without a chair during a meeting of the EU’s two presidents and Turkey’s leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and has demanded such a snub is never repeated, according to The Guardian.
In Russia, a new military camp has been established near the Ukrainian-Russian border / Russian investigators with the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) OSINT team have discovered a new Russian army field camp in the relevant proximity to the Ukrainian border in the Voronezh region.
