Moldova

The tiny breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova is denying what it calls “absolutely untrue” claims by Ukraine that Russian troops based there are ...

The International Committee for the Red Cross is attempting to remove some of the 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city. Speaking to Maltese authorities Saturday, Francis said: “We had thought that invasions of other countries, savage street fighting and atomic threats were grim memories of a distant past.” Francis has to date avoided referring to Russia or Putin by name. Around 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city, down from a prewar population of 430,000, and facing dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine. U. S.-Russian negotiations on the resumption of joint flights to the ISS were underway when Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine last month, prompting unprecedented sanctions on Russian state-linked entities. ISTANBUL – Turkey has offered to help evacuate civilians from the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol by ship. The number is likely higher as people continue to submit applications and people keep fleeing the war. At the same time, we must keep in mind our goal: ensuring the security of Finland and Finns in all situations.” “A few minutes later, the city was rocked by massive explosions and shelling.” The ID number, something all Polish citizens have, gives people the right to access health care, schooling or other state services. That is unacceptable.” Flowers are placed on a Ukrainian military armored fighting vehicle destroyed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 1, 2022. Ukraine’s state nuclear agency reported about Saturday's attacks on its official Telegram channel.

U.S. Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield met with representatives of the UN country team and humanitarian organizations ...

U. S. Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield met with representatives of the UN country team and humanitarian organizations today in Chisinau, Moldova. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield and the representatives discussed efforts by UN agencies, international partners, and non-governmental organizations to ramp up support for and capacity to assist refugees from Ukraine in the Republic of Moldova. The below is attributable to U. S. Mission to the United Nations Spokesperson Olivia Dalton: United States Mission to the United Nations

Moldova rebuts warning that Russian troops are massing on border.

Russian forces mass in the east; Pope Francis said a potential trip to the Ukrainian capital 'on the table'

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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Russian troops in Moldova's Transnistria region appeared to be preparing to carry out “provocations” ...

The British Ministry of Defense said the attack will likely “add additional short-term strain to Russia’s already stretched logistic chains.” The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said it assessed Russian troops in the Transnistria region—a Russian-occupied, breakaway region in Moldova that borders Ukraine on the southwest near the Black Sea city of Odessa —were preparing to carry out “provocations” across the border. Moldova has denied claims from Ukrainian officials that Russia is massing troops in the separatist region of Transnistria—along the border with Ukraine—to potentially prepare for an attack that could open another front in the war.

A Ukrainian negotiator said he views peace talks as advanced enough to set the stage for talks between Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, though ...

The President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, said that Chisinau could not come to sanctions, because other countries had introduced deacons against Russia, and Moldova ...

"How can we deprive the country today without gas and electricity? The President added that Moldova still has no other food supply. "It's like talking about sanctions in deep rice, without going into details, but only on the surface.

Ukraine claims Russia might use these additional units for provocations and demonstrative actions on the border with Ukraine's Odesa region.

In addition, they mentioned that Ukrainians had repulsed 9 attacks during the day in the breakaway rebel region of Donbas, comprising Donetsk and Luhansk. In a recent development, a group of Ukrainian forces have reportedly repulsed nine enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions during the day. Though reducing Russian troops in certain parts of the eastern European nation is underway, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has indicated that one must not be sure of Vladimir Putin's intentions.

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The International Committee for the Red Cross is attempting to remove some of the 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city. Speaking to Maltese authorities Saturday, Francis said: “We had thought that invasions of other countries, savage street fighting and atomic threats were grim memories of a distant past.” Francis has to date avoided referring to Russia or Putin by name. Around 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city, down from a prewar population of 430,000, and facing dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine. U. S.-Russian negotiations on the resumption of joint flights to the ISS were underway when Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine last month, prompting unprecedented sanctions on Russian state-linked entities. ISTANBUL — Turkey has offered to help evacuate civilians from the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol by ship. The number is likely higher as people continue to submit applications and people keep fleeing the war. At the same time, we must keep in mind our goal: ensuring the security of Finland and Finns in all situations.” Also included are medical supplies, field equipment and spare parts. “A few minutes later, the city was rocked by massive explosions and shelling.” That is unacceptable.” The ID number, something all Polish citizens have, gives people the right to access health care, schooling or other state services. Ukraine’s state nuclear agency reported about Saturday’s attacks on its official Telegram channel.

A soldier takes a photograph of his comrade as he poses beside a destroyed Russian tank and armoured vehicles in Bucha, Kyiv region. Image: REUTERS/Zohra ...

Kvedaravicius was born in 1976, studied at Vilnius University and got a degree in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, according to the Lithuanian president's office." (...) Mantas Kvedaravicius, was murdered today in Mariupol, with a camera in his hands, in this shitty war of evil, against the whole world," Russian film director Vitaly Mansky, founder of the festival Artdocfest in which Kvedaravicius was a participant, said on Facebook. Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed on Saturday in Ukraine's Mariupol, a city whose fate he had documented for many years, according to the Ukrainian Defence Ministry's information agency and a colleague.

Ukraine said its forces had seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time since Russia invaded more.

• In the recaptured town of Bucha northwest of Kyiv, the sprawled remains of more than a dozen bodies lined a road. The smell of explosives and the stench of death hung in the cold, dank air. • Ukraine’s economy shrank 16% in the first quarter from a year earlier and could contract 40% for the year as a result of Russia’s invasion, the economy ministry said.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias arrived in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on Sunday ahead of his visit to the Ukrainian city of Odessa as part of a ...