April 05 2022 - 15:02
Israeli PM condemns Bucha killings, does not mention Russia
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett condemned on Tuesday the killing of civilians documented in the Ukrainian town of Bucha but stopped short of accusing Russian forces of responsibility.
Israel has been restrained in its criticism of Russia during the Ukraine crisis, citing Bennett's efforts to broker peace. Israel also wants to keep channels open to the Russian military in Syria, where it often mounts air strikes on Iranian assets.
"We're shocked by the terrible sights in Bucha - awful scenes - and we condemn them. The suffering of Ukrainian citizens is immense, and we're doing everything we can to assist," Bennett said during a televised news conference.
The discovery of the slain civilians, many of them bound, after the withdrawal of Russian forces from the town has stirred a global outcry. Kyiv deemed them evidence of genocide. Moscow has denied responsibility and accused Ukraine of trying to smear it.
Bucha has opened up rifts within Bennett's cross-partisan coalition. One liberal cabinet minister described the killings as a Russian war crime, while another, rightist partner suggested that Russia's counter-accusations should be heeded.
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April 05 2022 - 15:22
Putin says possible nationalization of Russian assets abroad is "a double-edged weapon"
Possible nationalization of Russian assets abroad is "a double-edged weapon", Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, in comments suggesting that Russia was capable of responding in kind.
He was speaking a day after Germany said its energy regulator would take control of Gazprom Germania, a gas trading, storage and transmission business which Russia's Gazprom said it was exiting last Friday.
Putin also said that Russia needs to keep a close eye on agriculture exports to "unfriendly countries".
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April 05 2022 - 15:02
Israeli PM condemns Bucha killings, does not mention Russia
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett condemned on Tuesday the killing of civilians documented in the Ukrainian town of Bucha but stopped short of accusing Russian forces of responsibility.
Israel has been restrained in its criticism of Russia during the Ukraine crisis, citing Bennett's efforts to broker peace. Israel also wants to keep channels open to the Russian military in Syria, where it often mounts air strikes on Iranian assets.
"We're shocked by the terrible sights in Bucha - awful scenes - and we condemn them. The suffering of Ukrainian citizens is immense, and we're doing everything we can to assist," Bennett said during a televised news conference.
The discovery of the slain civilians, many of them bound, after the withdrawal of Russian forces from the town has stirred a global outcry. Kyiv deemed them evidence of genocide. Moscow has denied responsibility and accused Ukraine of trying to smear it.
Bucha has opened up rifts within Bennett's cross-partisan coalition. One liberal cabinet minister described the killings as a Russian war crime, while another, rightist partner suggested that Russia's counter-accusations should be heeded.
Reuters
April 05 2022 - 14:45
NATO allies to discuss sending more arms to Ukraine, Stoltenberg says
NATO allies will discuss the delivery of more weapons to Ukraine when foreign ministers meet on Wednesday and Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday.
"We speak about advanced weapons systems. We speak about, for instance, javelins and other anti-tank weapons," he told a news conference, adding that ammunition, medical supplies and "high-end" weapons systems would also be discussed.
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April 05 2022 - 13:37
Kyiv mayor says all European payments to Russia are ‘bloody’
The mayor of Kyiv urged European politicians to cut all commercial ties with Moscow, saying on Tuesday all payments to Russia were “blood money” that would fuel a “genocide of Ukrainians”.
The US and Europe are planning new sanctions after dead civilians were found in recaptured satellite towns near Kyiv, including a shallow mass grave in Bucha, but Russian gas exports to Europe continue.
Moscow has dismissed the reports of civilian killings in Bucha as “fakes” aimed at discrediting Russia.
“Every Euro, every cent you receive from Russia or send to Russia has blood. It is blood money and the blood is Ukrainian blood, the blood of Ukrainian people,” Vitali Klitschko, dressed in military clothes, told a mayors’ conference in Geneva via video link.
April 05 2022 - 13:30
Germany reports rise in attacks against Russian, Ukrainian migrants
Attacks against Russian and Ukrainian migrants in Germany have risen since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in remarks made available on Tuesday.
Faeser told the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung this week that since the end of February 308 anti-Russian offences were recorded by police, including 15 acts of violence.
“Offences against Russians and Russian facilities are on the rise,” she said.
Some 250,000 Russia-born migrants and 150,000 people born in Ukraine lived in Germany before President Vladmir Putin ordered Russian troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, which has prompted more than 300,000 Ukrainians to flee to Germany.
April 05 2022 - 13:15
Traders ask Ukraine government to cancel wheat export curbs
Ukraine's traders union UGA has asked the government to cancel wheat export curbs as stocks are very high and the shipments would not affect Ukrainian food security, the union said on Tuesday.
In March, Ukraine introduced export licences for wheat, corn and sunflower oil. Two weeks later, the government cancelled export restrictions on corn and sunoil.
Ukraine is among the world's leading producers and exporters of grain and the top exporter of sunflower oil.
Ukraine, which harvested 33 million tonnes of wheat in 2021, had planned to export 25.3 million tonnes in the 2021/22 July-June season.
April 05 2022 - 12:59
Russia to retaliate after expulsion of diplomats from Italy
Russia will give an appropriate response to the expulsion of 30 of its diplomats from Italy, TASS news agency quoted Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.
Italy has expelled 30 Russian diplomats because of security concerns, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday, according to comments sent by a spokesman.
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April 05 2022 - 12:23
Sweden to expel three Russian diplomats, foreign minister says
Sweden will expel three Russian diplomats who are not acting in accordance with international rules, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Tuesday.
"Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ... decided to deport three Russian diplomats whose work in Sweden is not in accordance with the Vienna Convention," Linde told reporters.
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April 05 2022 - 12:13
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer plans to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ukraine in the coming days to discuss humanitarian and political support for the country, his office said in a statement on Tuesday.
"For security reasons no further details of this trip can be announced for the time being," the statement said, adding that the two men had had a phone conversation on Monday evening.
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April 05 2022 - 12:00
UK, Japanese foreign ministers agree on need for more Russia sanctions
Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday she had agreed with her Japanese counterpart Hayashi Yoshimasa that more sanctions against Russia are needed.
"We agreed that the international community must increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war machine with further coordinated sanctions," Truss said on Twitter.
Reuters
April 05 2022 - 11:54
Bucha killings: Ukraine President Zelenskyy to address UNSC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will address the United Nations Security Council, for the first time since the Russian invasion, on Tuesday. Speaking during his nightly video address, he also said it is in Kyiv’s interest to have the most open investigation possible into the killing of civilians in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has categorically rejected accusations that Russian forces were responsible for killing civilians in Bucha, suggesting images of corpses lining the streets were “fakes”.
Russia’s Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia, during a press conference at the UN headquarters on the situation in Bucha, accused the Ukrainian regime of promoting in Western mass media “fake news” about alleged “atrocities” of Russian military forces.
April 05 2022 - 10:39
ANALYSIS | What are war crimes? Three essential reads on atrocities in Ukraine and the likelihood of prosecuting Putin
Russian troops retreated from Kyiv and the nearby town of Bucha in early April, and new horrors of their occupation were revealed.
Ukrainian forces found the bodies of at least 410 civilians — among them people who were killed with their hands and feet tied behind their backs and shot in the head. Reportedly there were bodies of women who had been raped and burned, and bodies of children who were also not spared.
In response, President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin should face war crimes charges over the reported mass murder. He called Putin “a war criminal,” but stopped short of calling the Bucha massacre genocide.
April 05 2022 - 09:15
Zelensky to address United Nations Security Council
President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, while a call between top diplomats from Ukraine and China could pave the way for his first talks with President Xi Jinping since Russia’s invasion more than a month ago.
The US said it might impose further sanctions this week on Moscow, as the world’s attention focused on allegations that Russian troops executed civilians in Bucha and other towns. Russia denies its forces killed civilians.
April 05 2022 - 09:03
Russian parliament speaker says West staged Bucha to discredit Russia
Russia's top lawmaker said on Tuesday that civilian killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha were part of a deceitful attempt by the West to discredit Russia.
“The situation in Bucha is a provocation aimed at discrediting Russia,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, said.
April 05 2022 - 06:45
JPMorgan's Dimon warns of possible $1 billion Russia loss
JPMorgan could lose about $1 billion on its Russia exposure, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said, detailing the extent of the bank's potential losses from the conflict in Ukraine for the first time.
April 05 2022 - 06:30
Russian oligarch's yacht seized on behalf of US
Spanish police impounded a superyacht belonging to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg on behalf of U.S. authorities, the first time the United States has seized property belonging to a Russian oligarch since its invasion of Ukraine.
April 05 2022 - 06:00
Biden urges Putin war crimes trial after Bucha killings
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - President Biden accused Russian President Putin of war crimes and called for a trial, adding to the global outcry over civilian killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha as more graphic images of their deaths emerged.
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