President Joe Biden has stated that Russia’s Vladimir Putin “badly miscalculated” by ordering a military invasion of its neighboring state, claiming he tried to “shake the very foundations of the free world.” “Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson – when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they …
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Japan has slapped Russia with additional sanctions for its offensive in Ukraine, targeting three state banks and six individuals, including President Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. “We’ve agreed on the need to take powerful sanctions against Russia,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared on Tuesday. Japan’s asset …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the West an “empire of lies,” responding to a new wave of sanctions that hit the country over its special military operation in neighboring Ukraine. Speaking to top government officials on Monday, he said: “I invited you to discuss economic and financial issues … …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has been stripped of his honorary taekwondo black belt by the World Taekwondo Federation. Putin was awarded the prestigious item by the federation’s chief, Choue Chung-won, and was also made a grandmaster of the martial art during a November 2013 visit to South Korea, where taekwondo …
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Toppling Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is the goal of the new wave of international sanctions introduced in response to Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine, a spokesman for Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters on Monday. Downing Street later clarified that the spokesperson had “misspoken”. “The measures we are introducing, that …
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French President Emmanuel Macron has said he called Vladimir Putin at the request of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, who reportedly was trying, in vain, to reach the Russian president. In a press conference on Thursday, Macron revealed that he had demanded an end to Moscow’s military action in Ukraine during …
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US President Joe Biden revealed on Thursday that he has “no plans” to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he accused of carrying out a “premeditated” attack on Ukraine. “It’s a large conflict already,” Biden said when asked if he was communicating with the Kremlin to keep the situation …
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A group of Ukrainian MPs have called on their president to start negotiations with Moscow. Any further escalation of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine might turn into a “real catastrophe” for all sides that would see “no winners,” seven MPs said in an open letter to Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday. …
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has set the targets for the country’s military attack against Ukraine and he will decide when the operation ends “based on results and expediency,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. The operation “has its goals and they need to be achieved,” the official said, when asked by …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia had “no plans to occupy the Ukrainian territories” after announcing that a special operation was launched to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics from “Ukrainian aggression.” The operation’s ultimate goal is “to protect the people who have been subjected for 8 …
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