Ukraine and Russia war live | Putin’s forces in Opolon, 10 km from Kiev

This department, through its official account on Twitter, called on citizens to report the movement of equipment and that peaceful residents do not leave their homes. It also calls for the manufacture of Molotov cocktails to neutralize the occupier.

As detailed by Xavier Mas de Xaxás on pages
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Penalties Its impact on Russia should be prolonged and cause the Russian economy to be disconnected from the international financial system, cutting off its access to the Swift electronic network. The European Union has ruled out such extremism for the time being.

Another vital point is that these sanctions affect the major banks. The second US package aligns with this line. Likewise, the state company Gazprom, the world’s leading gas producer, its business will have to be significantly affected.

This is because these economic sanctions have in fact not affected the major banks or energy industry of the country, and they have also been able to keep the foundations of their foreign trade sound.

However, they did not dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin from his attack on the former Soviet republic, which materialized in the early hours of Wednesday to Thursday. The 2014 sanctions were overseen by the current and then second US president, Joe Biden.

In fact, it is unlikely that it will have consequences or cause enough damage to the Kremlin until several months after its implementation. There is no precedent for winning a war with economic sanctions alone.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed that what is at stake in Ukraine is not only the Donbass region or the country led by Volodymyr Zelensky, but also
European stability and the international peace system as a whole.

The European Union has responded to the Ukrainian president’s request for help and support for the country by agreeing to a second package of sanctions against Russia through which they intend to flood its economy.

“These sanctions will weaken Russia’s economic growth, increase its financing costs, increase inflation, and gradually undermine its industrial base,” they say from the European Commission.

Another pillar of the EU sanctions will be to restrict Russian industry’s access to “the technologies they desperately need to build the future” that will affect the areas where the country’s elites enjoy more benefits.

This is “the toughest package of sanctions ever adopted,” in the opinion of the European diplomat, and he emphasized that the consequences would be “tremendous for the Russian economy.” In coordination with the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, as well as other countries, the European Union is preparing to limit Russia’s access to capital markets.

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced last Thursday the measures included in the
The second set of penalties That will apply to Russia after that country began its invasion of Ukraine.

Among the main measures is to prevent the largest Russian bank Sberbank and its subsidiaries from being linked to the US financial system. The same will be done with the second largest financial institution in Russia, VTB Bank (VTB), as well as 20 subsidiaries. On the other hand, Bank Otkritie, Sovcombank OJSC, Novikombank and 34 subsidiaries will be frozen and banned, and 13 important companies will be boycotted.

This past Tuesday, US President Joe Biden himself announced that it was the “first batch” of gradual sanctions. Yesterday, Thursday, the Democratic president announced a second package that seeks to tighten the screws on his financial system and technological production in strategic sectors.

Its forces besieged all the cities in the Sumy region between Kharkiv and Kiev, and intended to use the highway to the capital, as detailed by the Special Envoy of
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The routes they use to reach their goal are the road to the north – along the route they took the old Chernobyl nuclear power plant – and the road to the northwest. The latter was captured exactly after the Ukrainians demolished the bridge near Ivankiev.

This is stated in the text published on the page of the Office of the President of Ukraine. The decree stipulates that mobilization will be carried out within a maximum period of 90 days in 25 regions of Ukraine.

The conflict will make it more difficult for price moderation because the price of fuel and other energy sources will rise and, consequently, the price of transporting goods and the cost of production in the industry.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine It is one of the serious crises that European societies and the rest of the world are experiencing two years after the Covid-19 epidemic, and in the case of Spain, other events such as the eruption of the La Palma volcano or the cyclical political events. crises.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine It is one of the serious crises that European societies and the rest of the world are experiencing two years after the Covid-19 epidemic, and in the case of Spain, other events such as the eruption of the La Palma volcano or the cyclical political events. crises.

Spain is the fragile rearguard of the new dramatic scene, as described by Enrique Giuliana in the pages
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Thousands of others also crossed the borders into neighboring countries, explained the spokesperson for this same organization, Shabia Manto, who at the same time admitted the difficulty of monitoring population movements.

Similarly, Johansson reiterated that the European Commission itself is ready to support Member States in preparing their reception capacity. However, it did not provide details of the estimates Brussels was considering for the number of refugees.

This plan should allow for the immediate reception and accommodation of people from Ukraine, a country under attack by Russia from the early hours of Wednesday to Thursday.

Among them are Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, which have already begun to prepare specific plans for dealing with their arrival.

Other countries such as Greece have also expressed in recent hours that they are working on contingency plans in case large numbers of Ukrainian migrants eventually arrive.

The first hours of the Russian offensive in Ukraine highlighted the principle that the first casualty of war is not the truth, but the people.

European countries bordering Ukraine began to receive it
first refugees Escape from the Russian invasion of the country. The European Union defended yesterday that it has a plan with countries on the front line of the conflict to immediately welcome and house arrivals.

Its name is due to the city in which the workers of the Soviet nuclear reactor lived, which suffered the most serious nuclear accident in history on April 26, 1986.

In anticipation of a possible attack, last Friday the Ukrainian authorities suspended tourist flights to the Chernobyl region, a very popular destination among foreign tourists in recent years.

The UNIAN agency quoted Adviser to the Presidency of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolak, as saying that he did not rule out that the Russian army deliberately “damaged these very dangerous facilities”.

On the other hand, the same Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, warned that the Russian incursion into the exclusion zone is a “declaration of war on the whole of Europe.”

“After a bloody battle, we lost control of Chernobyl,” Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Mikhail Podolak, was quoted by the Greek news agency as saying yesterday.

“After this utterly irrational attack by the Russians in this direction, we cannot guarantee that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is safe,” he added. “The condition of the facilities of the old Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the sarcophagus and the nuclear waste depot” is unknown.

Last Thursday, the first day of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the Russian armed forces managed to capture it
Control of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plantThe scene of the worst nuclear accident in history.

At the moment, it is not known whether the Russian army had a special interest in this place, which has been abandoned since that fateful date of April 26, 1986, or whether it was captured because it is on the road that leads the Russians from the north to the Ukrainian capital , Kiev.

In the case of Mariupol, it is an important industrial and commercial district of the region, which has flourished remarkably since the outbreak of war in 2014.

The Dnieper River, for its part, is a strategic goal of the Russian army and evidence that its will to stay on it for as long as necessary.

Likewise, tanks and military vehicles from Crimea – which was annexed to Russia in 2014 – entered the country with the aim of reaching Mariupol, a city that has grown so much in the past eight years as a result of the conflict in the region.

On the other hand, the first day of the attack on Ukraine saw the destruction of 18 radar and missile defense systems. Not all of these data have been confirmed by the Ukrainian authorities.

The air bases in Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Kramatorsk and Ivano-Frankvist, located in the west of the country, were the first targets of Russian missiles on the first day of the offensive.

The headquarters of the National Guard, the headquarters of the intelligence services and the Ministry of Defense were also destroyed, the latter two, according to a number of witnesses.

A few minutes after three in the morning, after Russian television broadcast a previously recorded message from Russian President Vladimir Putin,
The first explosives on Ukrainian territory.

It was the starting point for the largest military operation carried out against a single country since the end of World War II.

However, Zelensky emphasized that he is “the enemy’s first target” and that his family is also in Russia’s sight. “They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state,” he added.

They are killing people and turning peaceful cities into military targets. It’s disgusting and will never be forgiven.”

At the same time, the Ukrainian president reiterated that Russia attacked the entire territory of Ukraine and not only the pro-Russian Donbass regions.

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an address to the nation early Friday, a total of 137 people lost their lives on the first day of the conflict with Russia.

“According to preliminary data, we unfortunately lost 137 of our heroes, our compatriots, ten of whom are officers, and 316 were wounded,” he said.