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As many as ten per cent of the women who attempted to reach Spain illegally by boat in 2021 were killed, double the death rate of male migrants, according to statistics compiled by a Spanish NGO.

Brexit nemesis Bercow reacted furiously to a report that labelled him as a bully and a “serial liar” in a sizzling 800-word reply.

The world is heading into a global food crisis thanks to the war in Ukraine, according to the head of one major Agri organisation.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the US is in “active discussions” with their partners in Europe regarding banning the import of Russian oil.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has praised both U.S. President Joe Biden as well as the EU in his call for further sanctions to be levied against Russia.

“Russia’s assault on Ukraine is a result of Putin’s revenge on those who broke free from the USSR. The EU’s annexation of Northern Ireland is driven by their leader’s wish to punish the UK for daring to break away from the EU,” said Sammy Wilson MP.

The Romanian town of Siret, which boats a population of just 8,000, has seen over 63,000 Ukrainian refugees arrive since the Russian invasion commenced.

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder should resign from his board positions on several state-owned Russian energy firms, current chancellor Olaf Scholz has said.

Europeans should be turning down their thermostats to help fight the Ruskies, according to a new report published by one OECD group.

The Slovakian National Crime Agency (NAKA) has warned residents could face 25 years in prison if caught promoting “war propaganda” on social media regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Despite initial reports that around 70 Russian-made fighter jets were being provided to Ukraine by EU member-states, Western powers have now apparently denied any plans of giving combat aircraft to the embattled nation.

The European Commission has proposed to grant Ukrainian refugees residency rights that would include access to member states’ labour markets and welfare benefits as refugees continue to flee the conflict. The Commission has proposed to grant automatic protection for Ukrainians

A senior EU official has warned that the European agri-food sector is going to face serious ‘pain’ as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

As the EU bans Russian banks from the SWIFT financial system, a bank linked to the sale of Russian gas is said to be exempt from sanctions. 

The Parliament of the European Union welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s application to join the bloc in a resolution on Tuesday – a first step in a long and difficult official joining process that Ukraine may not technically qualify for.

In his 2022 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden announced a ban on Russian aircraft from American airspace.

During these seven days of Putin’s criminal war against Ukraine, we’ve sent this same Putin during those same seven days close to a half-billion dollars!

Ireland’s Minister for the Environment appears to have momentarily forgotten who exactly the arch-nemesis of the western world is this week, telling reporters that Europe needs to stop importing fuel from the ‘USSR’.

EU officials stated they are preparing for millions of refugees from Ukraine, with half a million moving west already, many going to Poland. 

French presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour has said that he would rather refugees fleeing Ukraine remain in Poland, with France already suffering from the ‘destabilising force’ of immigration.

EU and NATO member-state Czechia has warned that citizens who express support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including on social media, could face prison.

An estimated 500,000 people have fled Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union (E.U.) since Russia invaded Ukraine last Thursday, U.N. High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said on Monday.

President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling for both a ceasefire and for Ukraine’s “immediate” accession to the European Union as his government holds peace talks with a Kremlin delegation in the Russian client state of Belarus. 

Europe and Canada said they would close their airspace to Russian airlines, raising the pressure on the U.S. to do the same.

Germany has finally committed to meet its NATO defence spending requirements, in a move vindicating criticisms from former President Trump.

The President of the European Commission has said that Ukraine belong to the European Union and that, “over time”, the bloc “want[s] them in.”

The Ukrainian President has urged for EU leaders to allow his country to become a member of the controversial political bloc.

China and Russia are seeking a new world order with power centred in Beijing and Moscow not Washington, a Lithuanian MP told Breitbart News.

The French navy has intercepted and detained a Russian cargo ship in the English Channel in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Despite having previously repelled often violent migrants on the Belarusian frontier, Poland has welcomed genuine refugees from Ukraine with open arms.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that he is still in the capital of Kyiv (Kiev) in a video purporting to show the leader from the streets of the embattled city in the early hours of Saturday morning after reportedly shutting down a plea from the Biden administration to flee.

Despite tough talk over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is squabbling internally over whether to include luxury goods and diamonds in sanctions, while there is reluctance on all sides to restrict energy imports.

Several EU states are preparing for a wave of Ukrainian refugees, while “humanitarian superpower” Sweden has refused to take part. 

It is the West’s wacko environmentalists who handed Russian President Vladimir Putin the leverage and money to invade Crimea in 2014 and Ukraine this week.

The European Union (E.U.) sought to place itself in front of Russia’s territorial ambitions Thursday as it announced the “strongest, the harshest package” of sanctions to punish Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.

The European Commissioner for Home Affairs has said that the EU is ready to take a ‘massive inflow’ of refugees from Ukraine.