Eight years ago, in February, #Russia invaded and subsequently annexed Crimea. Unrest broke out in the region, eventually calmed by the 2015 Minsk II agreements ⤵️
🔴WAR IN 🇺🇦: Six months after #Russia 🇷🇺 invaded #Ukraine, the conflict is getting bogged down.
Fighting and deadly Russian strikes continue on a daily basis as Kyiv requests Western weapons to continue its resistance and launch counter-offensives.
@smougin Hundreds gathered Tuesday for the #Moscow 🇷🇺 funeral of Daria Dugina, the daughter of a prominent ultranationalist intellectual who was killed in a car bombing that #Russia blames on #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
If the Supreme Court cancels the results of #Kenya's presidential elections following Raila Odinga's legal challenge, there will be a new vote held in sixty days ⤵️
@vee_wandera 🇰🇪 Four out of seven election commissioners said that the tallying of election results was not transparent.
In #Kenya, all elections have been contested since 2002. 2007 saw especially violent protests, traumatising the country.
🔴: #Russia 🇷🇺 celebrates its 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on Monday with a show of military might even as its army battles Kyiv's forces in the east of Ukraine 🇺🇦
🔴: 🇷🇺 President Vladimir #Putin begins his speech by telling Russian troops they are defending their country in Ukraine, calling it the "motherland" ⤵️
🇷🇺🔴 "Russia has always fought for the security that is required for the international community," says #Putin
Putin says he offered a security system to the West in December but that it was "in vain" ⤵️