Vladimir Putin Russia-Ukraine war

If you're hoping that the instability that Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine has wreaked on global markets and geopolitics has peaked, your hope is in vain.

Incidentally, the way things are going on the ground in Ukraine right now, it is not out of the realm of possibility that Putin could actually lose early and big. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. Why do I say that defeat in Ukraine is Putin’s only option, that only the timing and size are in question? Wait until Putin fully grasps that his only choices left in Ukraine are how to lose — early and small and a little humiliated or late and big and deeply humiliated. But because this is solely his war and he cannot admit defeat, he could keep doubling down in Ukraine until … until he contemplates using a nuclear weapon. If you’re hoping that the instability that Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has wreaked on global markets and geopolitics has peaked, your hope is in vain.

Ukrainian president calls bombing in Mariupol 'beyond atrocity' and urges world to 'stand united in condemning Russia for this crime'

European Union leaders will phase out buying Russian oil, gas and coal, a draft declaration showed on Thursday, as the bloc seeks to reduce its reliance on Russian sources of energy. The result of the shelling killed three villagers, including a minor boy,” he said. A 13-year-old boy and 2 women were killed as a result of an artillery shelling.” “This is the beast that Putin is,” Pelosi said. Also partially destroyed police department,” Sumy regional state administration head Dmytro Zhyvytsky said, citing a report from the Sumy regional military administration. The House approved the overall bill in two separate votes. Still, the news is raising concerns that a lack of external power to the site could compromise nuclear safety. Kuleba warned in a Facebook video his expectations were “limited”. The Guardian was unable to fully verify Ukrainian officials’ accounts, but video published by the Associated Press showed multiple injured people at the site of the hospital attack. Footage of the attack shared online by Zelenskiy shows the hospital’s windows being blown out, and parts of the structure collapsing. Were there little Banderovites? Were pregnant women going to shoot on Rostov? Did anyone in the maternity ward humiliate Russian speakers? How did they threaten the Russian Federation?” Zelenskiy added.

Experts analyse the Russian president's claims of 'genocide' as justification for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

How would the state perpetrate a genocide on the territories it doesn’t even have access to?” So, answering your question, only genocide is committed with the intent to erase a group,” she said. If it had proof, you can be sure Russia would have provided it long ago.” None. Russia has made vague references to mass graves and civilian attacks. The definition of genocide, according to the UN, is “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such”. Russia has been arguing that what was happening to the residents of the Donbas region was a genocide, and it had a responsibility to step in and help them.

CIA director says Putin's assumptions about Ukraine before the invasion turned out to be 'profoundly flawed'.

The CIA’s Burns predicted an “ugly next few weeks” of fighting. “We’re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy. The war has forced two million people to flee the country and devastated areas across Ukraine with major cities, including the capital Kyiv, facing Russian bombardment and siege.

Russia-Ukraine war LIVE updates: Russian President Vladimir Putin has defined it as a 'special military operation'.

- Reports said Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa would continue to remain in office even as all members of the Cabinet tendered their resignations to the PM a day ago. The world doesn’t believe in Russia’s future, doesn’t talk about it. The United States said it is working with Ukraine to prevent invading Russian forces from seizing biological research material amid concern governments or unscrupulous actors might try to use such items to create bioweapons. The country's financial markets have been thrown into a turmoil by Western sanctions after it invaded Ukraine, raising significant concerns over its ability and willingness to service debt. Warsaw has offered to deliver the Soviet-era planes to the US base in Ramstein, Germany. Under the proposed scheme, those jets could then be deployed to Ukraine, while the Polish air force would receive F-16 fighters as replacements. IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva on Tuesday said that the board is set to approve a $1.4 billion emergency funding for Ukraine, news agency Reuters reported. Ukraine energy minister Herman Halushchenko said on Facebook that about 500 Russian soldiers and 50 pieces of heavy equipment are inside the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. “We’re going to support them against tyranny, oppression, violent acts of subjugation," Biden said at the White House. On the 14th day of the Ukaine war, Russia foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, “Some progress has been made”. The official was referring to three rounds of talks, news agency AFP reported. Three rounds of ceasefire negotiations have been held so far - the two sides, however, are yet to reach a breakthrough. A planned evacuation of civilians from the Ukrainian town of Izyum in the eastern Kharkiv region was held up by Russian shelling on Wednesday, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said an online post. However, Moscow has been accused of violating its own ceasefire agreement over the last few days.

US intelligence chiefs has branded Russia's Vladimir Putin an "angry", isolated leader craving global clout, frustrated about how his Ukraine invasion has ...

Putin has "invested in tactical nuclear weapons", Berrier said. He has longed "to be the guy that helps recreate the Soviet Union", she said of Putin, a KGB officer at the time of the USSR's disintegration, which he saw as a personal defeat. A top US diplomat also weighed in before Congress to label Russia's president an "obsessed", paranoid leader who has created a "bed of lies" and tested the very foundations of international law.