Ukraine war - Page 48

While the vast majority of French say Putin is responsible for the war, over half also believe NATO also shares some responsibility.

Ukrainian tennis star Sergiy Stakhovsky has set aside his tennis racket to pick up a gun and join Ukraine’s military to fight Russia.

Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina announced Tuesday that she does not intend to play against Russian or Belarussian players.

As well as economic sanctions on Russia, several attempts to isolate the Eurasian state culturally are also underway. 

The further alienation of Russia in the sporting world continued on Monday when the NHL suspended all of its Russian partnerships.

The leader of Sweden’s Left Party has slammed the decision by the Swedish Prime Minister to break with the country’s tradition of neutrality.

International Skating Union (ISU) has moved to exclude Russian competitors in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

A sailor was arrested after trying to sabotage the megayacht of his Russian boss, who he claims sells weapons to the Russian military. 

Officials have now warned citizens against going to Ukraine to volunteer, pointing out that it is in fact illegal under UK law.

Russia has announced plans to host the world’s first “International Anti-Fascist Congress” in order to “unite” the world against Nazism.

Vladimir Putin wants to re-create the “empire of fear” of the Soviet Union, a Lithuanian MP told Breitbart News.

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.

Soccer’s governing body has reversed course and announced that Russia will be banned from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Left-wing New York Times reporter and controversial 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was slammed online after accusing journalists covering the Russian invasion into Ukraine of “racialized analysis and language.”

Czech Republic-born Hall of Fame hockey goaltender Dominik Hasek is calling on the National Hockey League to suspend all Russian-born players

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. 

The Russian government has claimed that armed Ukrainian nationalists are killing Ukrainian army officers who want to give up, and that looters armed by Kyiv (Kiev) are “rampaging” through the capital. 

Britain’s Conservative Party government has loosened rules surrounding Ukrainian visas in order to allow close relatives of British Citizens to more easily come to the UK.

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.”

Vasiliy Lomachenko, a former world champion and Top 10 pound-for-pound boxer, has joined his country’s Territorial Defense Forces to help Ukraine fight off the Russian invaders.

FIFA, international soccer’s governing body, has rejected calls to ban Russia’s national team from the coming World Cup tournament.

The National Guard of Ukraine has shared video footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets with pig fat for Chechen “orcs” deployed in their country on their verified Twitter account.

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), who boasted of his push to ban domestic oil and gas drilling in 2019, suffered a major backlash online after he called upon the government of Saudi Arabia to supply “more oil” or be held accountable for the deaths of Ukrainians.

The Mufti of the Chechen Republic has endorsed Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, backed by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, saying that the invaders are “on the path of Allah”.

Russia has warned that sanctions on its aerospace industry could result in the International Space Station (ISS) falling into an “uncontrolled deorbit” and smashing into the United States or Europe, potentially with the force of a small nuclear bomb. 

Vladimir Putin is still the president of Russia, for now. However, he is no longer the honorary president of the International Judo Federation (IJF).

The national soccer teams of Poland and Sweden have refused to play against Russia during the upcoming World Cup qualifiers due to that country’s unprovoked attack against Ukraine.

Ukraine has agreed to meet a Russian delegation on the Ukraine-Belarusian border, despite initially refusing the country as a location for talks over its involvement in the invasion.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she supports Britons going to Ukraine in order to take up arms against Russia.

Despite much being made of China’s apparent lack of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the communist state’s true colours have been shown by one of its chief diplomats declaring that the world should remember that the “real threat” is the United States of America.

As the Ukraine war rages on, armed local volunteers in the country’s capital of Kyiv have been hunting Russian “saboteurs”.

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

Ukrainian and Russian forces have engaged in street fighting in the city of Kharkiv (Kharkov) after an “intensive” artillery battle overnight.

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