💬The Foreign Secretary has said that "nothing is off the table" to stop Vladimir Putin's incursion into Ukraine.
Western officials increasingly believe Putin is preparing to launch a full invasion, a move which could lead to thousands of casualties telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Sanctions enacted by the West "cannot solve a thing" and that it is "ordinary citizens" in the West who will feel the impact, the Russian ambassador to the United States has warned telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇺🇦Ukraine has started conscripting reservists aged 18-60 following a decree by President Volodymyr Zelensky, the armed forces said in a statement telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️A Russian invasion of Ukraine is “likely to occur within the next 24 hours”, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺 The Russian President is laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow today to mark Defender of the Fatherland Day, which is a public holiday in Russia telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇬🇧Britain is ready to guarantee up to $500 million (£368 million) in loans to support Ukraine and help mitigate the economic effects of Russian aggression, the foreign office has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🚨BREAKING: Ukraine's security council has approved plans to declare a state of national emergency, in response to the growing threat of a Russian invasion telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺Russian military assets reportedly moving towards the Donbas region could heavily outmatch the Ukrainian forces defending the area.
❌Households are threatened with even higher energy bills including petrol at £1.70 a litre, after the invasion of Ukraine intensified the inflationary forces advancing on global markets telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…
🔴This is how Russia's military presence has mounted around Ukraine
🔴 Boris Johnson has announced Britain will provide Ukraine with "lethal defensive weapons" and "more military support" to Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has defended the UK's "very serious package" of sanctions against Russia, arguing it will be effective in "inflicting pain" on Russian President Vladimir Putin
🔴The Prime Minister has said "even more" sanctions against Russia are coming when pressed to "unleash a full package" of measures by Sir Keir Starmer telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Denis Pushilin, leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, said he would prefer to resolve questions about border demarcation with Kyiv peacefully, but reserved the right to ask Russia for help telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️The crisis in Ukraine could be the most "critical moment" for the world since 1945, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.
"This is a moment to stand up for independence, for sovereignty, for territorial integrity and for democracy around the world," she said
🔴Russia’s ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev has said that he hopes Germany’s cancellation of Nord Stream 2 is a "temporary measure" and that "prudence and pragmatism will prevail" in the matter telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️In a news conference alongside his Polish and Lithuanian counterparts, Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said international response to Russia's actions should be "immediate and harsh."
He added,"We expect further sanction pressure"
❌Russia’s largest social media platform’s operations, finances and work with business partners are “not affected”, the site has announced, despite its CEO being on the US sanction list telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️The Government and British firms must ramp up their defences against cyber attacks, western officials have warned, amid growing fears they could fall victim to Russian hacks
🗣️It is an "obscene perversion" for Vladimir Putin to speak of Russian soldiers acting as peacekeepers in Ukraine, Australia's Foreign Minister has said.
"Any suggestions that there is a legitimate basis for Russia's actions are pure propaganda and disinformation"
🔴Vladimir Putin said earlier today that Moscow was ready to look for "diplomatic solutions" amid raging tensions with the West over Ukraine.
🔴Boris Johnson has announced that extra defensive weapons are being sent to Ukraine in response to the looming threat of a full-scale Russian invasion.
🔴EU leaders will meet for a special summit in Brussels tomorrow to discuss the bloc's response to Moscow after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine
🔴The United States is ready to impose further sanctions on Russia if it continues to escalate its aggression towards Ukraine, the US ambassador to the United Nations has said
🔴Addressing the UN in New York, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said: "Russia's accusations of Ukraine are absurd, Ukraine has never threatened or attacked anyone"
🔴Spain has recommended its nationals leave Ukraine as soon as possible given the worsening of the security situation, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said today
Addressing the UN in New York, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said: "Ukraine made a historic contribution to global security ... in 1994 we denuclearised."
🔴Israel declared its support for “the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of Ukraine” but avoided criticising Russia for moving troops into the country
🔴NEW: US warns Kyiv of 'imminent' full scale invasion
🔴Russian President Vladimir Putin's military is as ready as it can be to launch what the US believes could be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a senior US official said today
🔴Vladimir Putin has gone "full tonto", Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, said on Wednesday as the Government hardened its rhetoric over the Russian president.
🚨The Ukrainian parliament has approved a declaration of a state of emergency across the whole of Ukraine except for two eastern regions where it has been in place since 2014
🔴The White House says the request by Ukrainian separatists for Russian military assistance, in the face of supposed "aggression" by Ukraine's government, is an example of the "false flag" operations they have consistently warned against
🔴The sudden reappearance of the crude Soviet-era missiles in Ukraine is a grim sign of what is to come if the Russians unleash their threatened invasion.
🇱🇹Lithuania has become the latest country in Europe to impose a state of emergency after the Russian invasion of Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇩🇪Germany is boosting its defence to ward off any possible surges in cyberattacks, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺Banks in Moscow are running out of foreign currency.
Sberbank, Russia’s biggest bank, in a statement called on Russia not to panic-withdraw funds telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Boris Johnson said he is "appalled by the horrific events" in Ukraine and that he had spoken to its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss "next steps".
⚫️An £8m property in Belgravia inhabited by the son of a newly sanctioned Russian oligarch could be seized by the Government as part of the response to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine
💼Official records show the property is linked to Roman Rotenberg, a British citizen, whose father is Boris Rotenberg, who alongside his brother Arkady is one of Russia's richest businessmen
❌For the best part of two years, Putin has been kept in a biosecurity bubble of such severity that people scheduled to meet him spend a fortnight in guarded isolation.
And even then have to pass through a tunnel fogged with disinfectant and bathed in ultraviolet light
➡️Beyond a relative handful of his closest aides and friends, everyone has become a two-dimensional figure on a screen to him, his country a foreign land experienced through the TV news
President Joe Biden has said that Vladimir Putin is “poised to go much further” in attacking Ukraine, as he outlined a “first tranche” of sanctions against Russia
In a televised statement, Mr Biden said that Russia's move to lay claim to more Ukrainian territory controlled by Kyiv represents “the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine”