![]() ![]() Budapest has delayed or limited EU measures, including sanctions on Moscow, over the invasion of Ukraine. Hungarian President Viktor Orbán is close to Putin. Sources said EU countries may seek tougher wording when leaders meet at a summit in Brussels on Thursday-Friday. On Monday, EU Justice Ministers published a statement in support of the ICC. The EU sees the decision by the ICC as a beginning of the process of accountability and holding Russian leaders to account for the crimes and atrocities they are ordering, enabling or committing in Ukraine. Hungary has blocked a European Union joint statement on the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.īecause of the Hungarian veto, EU foreign policy head Josep Borrell issued a statement on his own behalf: Memorial, along with the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and the Belarusian human rights activist Ales Byalyatsky received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. It created an online database with more than 3 million records. Memorial was established in 1987 to study political repression in the Soviet Union and to rehabilitate victims. Russian law enforcement officers have raided the homes of employees of the human rights organization Memorial, liquidated by Russia’s courts in December 2021.Īt least six homes were raided under the guise of an investigation of the “rehabilitation of Nazism”. Russia reportedly lost 130 armored units, including tanks, with brigades decimated during the assault. In Kostyantynivka, three private houses, a kindergarten, a gas pipeline, and a water pipeline were damaged.įootage from Vuhledar after Russia’s failed attempt to overrun the city in the southern Donestk region in eastern Ukraine…. One person was killed and one wounded in Bakhmut. Houses on 4 streets and two factories were were damaged. The latest Russian shelling across the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine has killed two civilians and wounded three.ĭonetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said one civilian was killed and two injured in the town of Avdiivka, near the frontline, amid two shelling attacks and a rocket attack. “Any goods on that list are blocked from Russia no matter which country they come from,” he said.Ī European Union official confirmed verbal assurance from Ankara that no goods would be allowed to Russia from March 1 if they are covered by EU, US, or UK sanctions and export controls. ![]() Turkey has halted the transit of sanctioned goods to Russia, say a senior export official and a diplomat.Īfter pressure from the US and European countries, the Erdoğan Government circulated a list of banned foreign goods and instructed companies not to transship them to Russia from March 1, said Cetin Tecdelioglu, head of the Istanbul Ferrous and Nonferrous Metals Exporters Association. A Yale University report cites at least 6,000 cases. Ukrainian official says more than 16,000 children have been forcibly transferred from Ukraine to Russia. Lubinets says a total of 308 children have been returned to Ukraine-controlled areas during Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets says 15 children, their mothers, and legal guardians have been returned from Russian-occupied areas in northeast and south Ukraine. Speaking at a news conference alongside Xi, Putin followed Beijing’s line: “We believe that many points of the Chinese peace plan correlate to the point of view of the Russian Federation and many of these points can be adopted in the west and in Kyiv.” The spokesperson then gave a consolation to Putin - and a sign of China’s broader goals: “The two sides oppose the practice by any country or group of countries to seek advantages in the military, political and other areas to the detriment of the legitimate security interests of other countries.” Hua drove home the point about China’s avoidance of an alliance siding with the invasion: “Russia speaks positively of China’s objective and impartial position on the Ukraine issue.” Instead, it said Xi and the Russian leader “stressed that the Ukraine crisis should be settled through peace talks”. Notably, the Foreign Ministry avoided any support of Putin’s military operations and objectives. Spokesperson Hua Chunying spoke after the two men finished formal talks and signed a joint statement “deepening the two countries’ comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for the new era”. An image of the explosion in Dzhankoi in Russia-occupied Crimea in southern Ukraine, March 21, 2023Ĭhina’s Foreign Ministry has issued its first significant statement on President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Russia and talks with Vladimir Putin. ![]()
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