- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Western countries of lacking “unity” over Ukraine, citing differing positions on weapons supplies to Kyiv and disagreements within the NATO military alliance.
- Russian official says Moscow is ready to provide a safe corridor for vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine in return for the lifting of some sanctions.
- An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol says officials in the now Russian-occupied southeastern port city believe at least 22,000 people were killed during months of fighting there.
Here are all the latest updates:
10 mins ago (11:32 GMT)
Russia offers fast-track citizenship to residents of occupied Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree simplifying the process for residents of Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions to acquire Russian citizenship and passports.
The decree extends a scheme available since 2019 to residents of areas controlled by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
49 mins ago (10:53 GMT)
Latvian leader confident Sweden and Finland will ‘join NATO soon’
Latvian President Egils Levits says he believes Sweden and Finland will be able to resolve Turkey’s concerns over the Nordic’ countries’ NATO membership bids.
“We want to strengthen the alliance more through two new member states – Finland and Sweden – and this is in the interests of Turkey and all member states,” he told Al Jazeera from the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos.
“Therefore, I am sure that Turkey, Finland and Sweden will solve the problems which they have and that at the end, Finland and Sweden will join NATO, and soon.”
1 hour ago (10:40 GMT)
Russian lawmakers vote to scrap upper age limit for military
Russia’s State Duma has approved a bill to remove the upper age limit for contractual service in the country’s military.
Currently, only Russians aged between 18 and 40 and foreigners aged 18 to 30 can enlist as professional soldiers in the Russian army.
1 hour ago (10:16 GMT)
Will Turkey block Finland and Sweden from becoming NATO members?
Sweden and Finland began their NATO membership application processes earlier this month, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made it clear that he opposed the move.
Ankara is out of step with the rest of the alliance’s member states, which have backed NATO expansion as Russia’s war on Ukraine rages.
Ultimately, all 30 members must vote unanimously in favour of the historically neutral Nordic nations if they are to join the Washington-led group, so Turkey could – in theory – block an application.
Read more here.
2 hours ago (09:28 GMT)
Estonian PM says ‘a bad peace’ must be avoided
Ukraine has to be able to negotiate with Russia from a position of strength so that Moscow is not encouraged to take further aggressive action, Estonia’s prime minister says.
“We must avoid a bad peace, a badly negotiated peace for Ukraine would mean a bad peace for us all,” Kaja Kallas said in a speech while on a visit to Stockholm, Sweden.
“It is much more dangerous giving in to Putin, than provoking him. All these seemingly small concessions to the aggressor lead to big wars. We have done this mistake already three times: Georgia, Crimea and Donbas,” she added.
3 hours ago (09:05 GMT)
West lacking ‘unity’ over Ukraine: Zelenskyy
Ukraine’s president has accused the West of being divided over the extent of its support for his country.
“Unity is about weapons. My question is, is there this unity in practice? I can’t see it. Our huge advantage over Russia would be when we are truly united,” Zelenskyy said during a panel discussion on Ukraine at the WEF gathering.
Zelenskyy, who was speaking via video link, also pointed to the lack of consensus over the possible accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO. Turkey, a NATO member, has expressed opposition to the Nordic countries becoming members of the military alliance.
“So, is there a strong joint West? No,” he said.
3 hours ago (08:52 GMT)
Moscow says Mariupol port operating normally
Russia’s defence ministry says that Mariupol’s Azov Sea port is operating normally after the city was seized by Moscow’s forces following a three-month siege.
The ministry’s statement came after a Russian foreign ministry official said earlier on Wednesday that Moscow was in touch with the United Nations and “does not rule out the possibility of global talks to unblock Ukraine’s ports”.
3 hours ago (08:34 GMT)
Lithuania to transfer 20 armoured personal carriers to Ukraine
Lithuania will transfer 20 M113 armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine, as well as military trucks and de-mining vehicles, the country’s defence ministry says.
The vehicles are worth a total of 15.5 million euros ($16.5m), the ministry said in a statement. Lithuania has previously provided military support to Ukraine worth 100 million euros ($107m), it added.
Defence minister Arvydas Anusauskas said the “coordinated help” from Vilnius and Kyiv’s other allies would prove to be “the deciding factor for the Ukrainian victory”.
4 hours ago (07:45 GMT)
Nike not renewing franchise agreements in Russia: Report
US sportswear giant Nike has not renewed agreements with its largest franchisee in Russia, according to the country’s Vedomosti newspaper.
Nike announced on March 3 that it would temporarily suspend operations at all of its stores in Russia in response to Moscow’s invasion and has said that those still open are operated by independent partners.
The head of Inventive Retail Group, which operates Nike-branded stores in Russia through its subsidiary Up And Run, said Nike was no longer supplying goods to Russia, Vedomosti reported.
4 hours ago (07:20 GMT)
Moscow ready to set up corridor for ships carrying food to leave Ukraine: Official
Russia is ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine in return for the lifting of some sanctions, the country’s Interfax news agency has cited deputy foreign minister Andrey Rudenko as saying.
Ukraine’s Black Sea ports have been blocked since Moscow launched its offensive and more than 20 million tonnes of grain are stuck in silos in the country.
Russia and Ukraine account for nearly a third of global wheat supplies and the lack of significant grain exports from Ukraine’s ports is contributing to a growing global food crisis. Ukraine is also a major exporter of corn and sunflower oil.
Western powers have been discussing the idea of setting up “safe corridors” for grain exports from Ukraine’s ports, adding that any such corridor would need Russian consent.
5 hours ago (06:49 GMT)
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will fight to recover all territory
Zelenskyy says he is only willing to talk directly to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about ending the war.
Addressing the panel discussion on Ukraine in Davos, the Ukrainian leader said there was the possibility of finding a diplomatic way out of the conflict if the Russian president “understands reality”.
He added that Ukrainian forces will continue to fight Moscow’s troops until they recover all of the country’s territory and called on the Kremlin to withdraw its forces back to the lines in place before Russia began its invasion in late February.
“That might be a first step towards talks,” Zelenskyy said, before also accusing Russia of playing for time in talks over ending the conflict.
5 hours ago (06:44 GMT)
NATO unlikely to help unblock ports: Ukraine’s FM
Ukraine’s foreign minister says that NATO is unlikely to enforce a no-fly zone to help ships leave blocked Ukrainian ports.
“If NATO did not close the skies over Ukraine at the most tragic moments of the war, then why would they now open the sea so that exports could leave without barriers?” Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday at the WEF gathering in Davos.
He added that even if Russia signed guarantees to ensure a peaceful passage for ships out of Ukraine’s ports, it could violate the agreement at any time.
“Russia is absolutely unpredictable in its behaviour,” Kuleba said.
5 hours ago (06:14 GMT)
At least 22,000 killed in Mariupol: Official
An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol says officials believe at least 22,000 people were killed during months of fighting in the now Russian-occupied southeastern port city.
Petro Andryushchenko, who has fled to Ukrainian-held territory, told CNN the toll was based on information provided by Ukrainian officials still residing in the city. He added he believed the true number of fatalities could be much higher.
Andryushchenko said the process of burying those killed had been complicated by Russia’s insistence that reclaimed bodies be brought to a morgue and that a person claiming a body must agree to record a video in which the applicant says the deceased was killed by the Ukrainian military.
He added that information provided to him by his network of sources indicated Mariupol has been thrown back to the “Middle Ages”.
There was no immediate response to Andryushchenko’s claim from Moscow, and Al Jazeera could not independently verify his report.
6 hours ago (05:56 GMT)
Shelling kills six in Severodonetsk, injures eight: Governor
Russian shelling killed six people in the city of Severodonetsk on Tuesday and wounder another eight, the governor of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region says.
“One woman had to have her leg amputated,” Serhiy Haidai said in a Telegram post.
6 hours ago (05:25 GMT)
Romani refugees from Ukraine face segregation in Moldova: HRW
Moldovan authorities are deliberately housing most Romani refugees separately from others fleeing the war in Ukraine, in a manner that constitutes unequal and discriminatory treatment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found.
The information comes from interviews HRW conducted between March 30 and April 5 which included members of police, border patrol, staff and volunteers working at transit and reception sites, refugees, UN agencies and Roma rights activists.
HRW found a practice that appeared to be based on an agreed policy to segregate Romani refugees in designated state-run reception centres, which volunteers said were inferior, and to deny Romani refugees housing together with other refugees in alternate state-run centres.
Since February 24, 2022, more than 471,000 refugees have crossed into Moldova from Ukraine, the highest per capita influx to a neighbouring country.
6 hours ago (05:16 GMT)
Staple product prices due to rise as Russia continues blocking Ukraine ports: UK
The United Kingdom’s defence ministry has echoed global concerns about the risk of price rises among staple products due to the blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
“There has been no significant shipping activity in or out of Odesa since the start of the war,” the ministry said in its latest intelligence briefing.
“Fighting has already placed indirect pressure on global grain prices. While the threat of Russia’s naval blockade continues to deter access by commercial shipping to Ukrainian ports, the resulting supply shortfalls will further increase the price of many staple products,” the ministry added.
The illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is continuing.
The map below is the latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 25 May 2022
Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/nYJGqHGoUQ pic.twitter.com/rq82WgaKji
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) May 25, 2022
7 hours ago (05:08 GMT)
Russia launched three missiles on Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk: Governor
Russian forces launched three missiles on Kryvyi Rih, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration has said, noting there was “serious damage”.
“Information about the victims is being specified,” Valentin Reznichenko said on Telegram.
8 hours ago (04:01 GMT)
Russia launched four missiles at Zaporizhzhia: Local administration
Four cruise missiles were launched at the region of Zaporizhzhia early on Wednesday morning, with one having been shot down by Ukraine’s air defences, the region’s military administration reports.
“Today, on May 25, at 05:13 the Russian troops launched four cruise missiles across Zaporizhzhia. One of them was shot down by our air defence. The affected area is currently being inspected and appropriate services are working at the scene,” the post on Telegram said.
An air raid siren was activated across the region in the morning and residents said they had heard explosions. One posted on Twitter that a missile had hit someone’s home.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the administration’s report.
Ukraine Siren Alert [25/05/2022]
03:21:09
Zaporizhzhia oblast: Zaporizhzhia oblast
Запорізька область: Запорізька область#Ukraine – Message was generated using municipal data pic.twitter.com/ty0ueI6Wub— Ukraine Siren Alerts (@UkraineAlert) May 25, 2022
8 hours ago (03:49 GMT)
India allows duty-free imports of crude soyoil, crude sunflower oil
India has allowed duty-free imports of two million tonnes each of crude soyoil and crude sunflower oil for the current and the next fiscal year to March 2024, a government order has said, as part of efforts to keep a lid on local prices.
India imports more than two-thirds of its edible oil needs and a sharp drop in the supplies of sunflower oil from the Black Sea region has stoked local prices.
The Black Sea accounts for around 60 percent of the world’s sunflower oil output and 76 percent of exports, while Argentina, Brazil and the United States are the key soyoil suppliers to India.
“India’s soyoil imports will rise in the coming months, but sunoil imports are unlikely to rise as Russia and Argentina have limited stocks,” said a Mumbai-based dealer with a global trading firm.
9 hours ago (02:56 GMT)
Russia shells Kherson, blames Ukraine: Army
Ukraine’s army says that Russian forces are regularly shelling areas in the now-occupied Kherson region but are directing the blame for the strikes at Kyiv.
“The occupying authorities and the Russian army are trying to force local residents to cooperate or agree to the occupation,” Ukraine’s Operational Command South said in a Facebook post.
“According to reports, they intend to mobilise Ukrainians from the occupied territories of the Kherson region for a war against Ukraine. This is a gross violation of the Geneva Convention and qualifies as a war crime,” it added.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the army’s reports.
9 hours ago (02:40 GMT)
Blinken criticises Moscow’s rejection of Navalny’s appeal
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has criticised a Moscow court for rejecting opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s appeal against a nine-year sentence, saying it was another example of the “Kremlin’s quest to suppress dissent and civil society”.
“We respect the brave citizens of Russia who protest their government’s brutal war and endemic corruption, despite threats, criminal charges, detentions and poisonings,” Blinken said in a tweet.
Navalny is serving nine years for alleged fraud and contempt of court – charges he denies as fabricated to thwart his political ambitions.
The denial of Navalny’s appeal is another example of the Kremlin’s quest to suppress dissent and civil society. We respect the brave citizens of Russia who protest their government’s brutal war and endemic corruption, despite threats, criminal charges, detentions and poisonings.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) May 24, 2022
9 hours ago (02:37 GMT)
Intercepted conversations show Russian soldiers think war futile: Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy has said that intercepted conversations of Russian soldiers in Donbas indicate they are aware of the senselessness of the war.
“Now the situation in Donbas is extremely difficult. In fact, all the strength the Russian army still has was thrown there to attack. Lyman, Popasna, Severodonetsk, Sloviansk,” Zelenskyy said in a video address.
“But in the interceptions of their conversations, we hear that they are well aware that this war does not make sense for Russia and that strategically their army stands no chance,” he added.
He said it would take time and “a lot of extraordinary efforts” for Ukraine to “break through” the superior equipment and weapons systems of Russia’s forces.
9 hours ago (02:13 GMT)
Russian forces making incremental gains in the east: Think-tank
Russian forces have likely abandoned efforts for a single large encirclement of Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine and are instead attempting to secure smaller encirclements. This enables them to make incremental measured gains, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said.
“Russian forces are likely attempting to achieve several simultaneous encirclements of small pockets of Ukrainian forces in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts: the broader Severodonetsk area (including Rubizhne and Lysychansk), Bakhmut-Lysychansk, around Zolote (just northeast of Popasna), and around Ukrainian fortifications in Avdiivka,” the ISW said in its latest campaign analysis.
Although they begin advancing efforts in these different encirclements daily, Russian forces “haven’t achieved any major ‘breakthroughs’ or made major progress towards their stated objectives of securing the Donetsk Oblast borders or seizing all of Donbas,” the institute added.
Russian forces may have secured more terrain in the past week than earlier in May, but they have done so by reducing the scope of their objectives, the ISW said.
#Russian forces have likely abandoned efforts to complete a single large encirclement of #Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine and are instead attempting to secure smaller encirclements—enabling them to make incremental gains.
Read the full report: https://t.co/xCKUYx86uZ pic.twitter.com/ouPAzVwPFt
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) May 25, 2022
10 hours ago (01:27 GMT)
‘Last chance’ for foreign firms to leave Russia: Kuleba
Ukraine’s foreign minister has said Russia’s new law to allow the government to appoint new management of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia made it even more imperative for foreign companies remaining in the country to leave.
“It’s the last chance to save not only your reputation but your property,” Kuleba said in a statement.
10 hours ago (01:25 GMT)
Russia works on law to allow new management for pulled-out foreign firms
The Russian parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would allow the government to appoint new management of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.
According to state news agency Tass, the new law would transfer control over companies that left Russia because of “anti-Russian sentiment in Europe and the US”. Tass said foreign owners would still be able to resume operations in Russia or sell their shares.
The State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, approved the bill in the first of three readings on Tuesday. After final approval, it would go to the upper house and then to the president for his signature.
11 hours ago (01:05 GMT)
Tennis player Saville says cannot go back to Russia after opposing Ukraine invasion
Australian tennis player Daria Saville says she can no longer return to Russia, the country of her birth, after protesting against the military intervention in Ukraine.
Saville wore yellow and blue at the Paris Open in March and urged Putin to stop the war and the Russian army to return home in a post on social media.
“Already I can’t really go back to Russia, no,” she told Australian media at the French Open.
Saville, whose parents live in Moscow, represented Russia in tennis until emigrating to Australia seven years ago.
Russia. Stop this war 💔
— Daria Saville (@Daria_gav) February 26, 2022
11 hours ago (00:49 GMT)
Ukraine minister says only one way to prevent war from escalating: ‘Help Ukraine win’
The head of the office of Ukraine’s president has said that there is only one way to prevent the war in Ukraine from escalating: “Help Ukraine win.”
Andrii Yermak told a panel at Davos that Ukrainian leaders “keep hearing calls for capitulation for the sake of peace in Europe”.
But “history teaches us that pacifying an aggressor is futile. They always take peacefulness for weakness. They demand more with every next concession,” Yermak said.
“Therefore, there is only one way to prevent the war in Ukraine from escalating into a continental and even world war: Help Ukraine win. Now, you don’t have to wage this war. Just help us do it. Otherwise, you’ll have to. You’ll have to send your troops to the battles,” he added.
11 hours ago (00:38 GMT)
Ukraine’s first lady urges the world to keep speaking about her country
Ukraine’s first lady has urged the world not to become accustomed to what is happening in Ukraine and to continue to speak about it.
“We ask on behalf of the whole of Ukraine – do not to get used to the fact that somewhere in Europe children are bombed. Talk about it. Because as soon as we all get used to it, Putin will have a psychological victory,” Olena Zelenska said in a talk via video link to Ukraine House at Davos.
“Information warfare is also ongoing. And if you start to think that there may be some justification for attacking another country, that invasion may make some sense, it means that you are under the influence of the Russian media,” she added.
11 hours ago (00:20 GMT)
Swedish delegation arrives in Turkey to discuss NATO bid
A Swedish government delegation, including the state secretary with responsibility for foreign affairs, Oscar Stenstrom, arrived in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Tuesday evening.
Turkish officials will meet with Swedish and Finnish delegations in Ankara on Wednesday to discuss Stockholm and Helsinki’s applications to become members of NATO, the Turkish foreign ministry confirmed.
12 hours ago (23:27 GMT)
Woman dies from shelling in Kharkiv region, another person injured
Russian shelling continued around Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Tuesday, even after Russian troops withdrew from its surroundings last week.
Ukrainian regional officials said the city of Derhachi was hit and a 69-year-old woman died and another person was injured.
Derhachi is southwest of the city of Kharkiv and has previously come under Russian shelling.
12 hours ago (23:22 GMT)
Ukraine says Russia firing at border guards in Sumy
The Ukrainian military has said Russia fired at Ukrainian border guards in the northeastern Sumy region in the latest of a series of alleged cross-border attacks over the past few weeks.
Military officials say observers on Tuesday night recorded seven shots from Russian territory towards the village of Boyaro-Lezhachi, most likely mortar fire.
The Ukrainian Operational Command North said on its Facebook post that eight other shots were heard on Tuesday afternoon near a neighbouring village. There were no reports of any deaths.
14 hours ago (22:09 GMT)
US official heads to India to talk about US sanctions on Russia
A Biden administration official is travelling to India to talk with officials and private industry about US sanctions, the Treasury Department has said, as Washington seeks to keep India’s purchases of Russian oil from rising.
Elizabeth Rosenberg, the assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, will visit New Delhi and Mumbai through Thursday, a Treasury spokesperson said.
The visit is part of a wider Biden administration effort to fan out to partners and allies around the world to talk with officials and industry about the implementation of US sanctions and export controls, the spokesperson said.
14 hours ago (21:26 GMT)
Zelenskyy says Russian defence minister’s comments are ‘pathetic’
Zelenskyy blasted comments made earlier by Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu, who said that Russia was deliberately slowing its offensive in Ukraine to allow civilians to evacuate.
“And they are trying to cover this up with lies about how they are supposedly not fighting at full strength? How pathetic – and the time will come when they will recognise this themselves,” Zelenskyy said in a late-night address.
Zelenskyy said Shoigu’s comments were “absolutely unreal”, given that Kyiv estimates Moscow has lost nearly 30,000 soldiers and thousands of tanks and other armoured vehicles.
14 hours ago (21:13 GMT)
Ukrainian refugee camp in Mexico City to close: Organisers
Organisers of a camp for Ukrainian refugees who had travelled to Mexico in hopes of reaching the US have said they will soon close it while discouraging Ukrainians still in Europe from travelling to Mexico.
“We are asking people from Europe, Ukrainians, to go through the programme from Europe, do not come to Mexico because it is much more expensive for them, it is a lot of travelling,” said Anastasiya Polo, spokeswoman for United with Ukraine.
The camp will close by June 1, but Ukrainians remaining in Mexico will continue receiving support.
Some 1,000 Ukrainians passed through the camp during the month that it was open on the east side of Mexico City. Now, only about 120 remain and 98 percent of those already have sponsors lined up in the US and expect to soon travel there, the organisation said.
15 hours ago (20:39 GMT)
Situation in Luhansk getting ‘worse with every hour’, governor says
The governor of Luhansk says the situation is getting “worse with every hour” as Russian attacks on the eastern Ukrainian region continue.
“The situation is very difficult and unfortunately it is only getting worse. It is getting worse with every day and even with every hour,” Governor Serhiy Haidai said in a video posted on Telegram.
“Shelling is increasing more and more. The Russian army has decided to completely destroy [key city] Severodonetsk.”
15 hours ago (20:28 GMT)
US criticises Russia-China military exercise
The US has criticised a joint military exercise between Russia and China, saying that it demonstrated that Beijing is still committed to its partnership with Moscow despite the invasion of Ukraine.
“This exercise was likely planned well in advance by both countries,” said State Department Spokesperson Ned Price.
“And Beijing’s decision to cooperate with Moscow in this way amid Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin’s dangerous nuclear rhetoric demonstrates the ‘no limits partnerships’ that they talked about in their joint communique is quite alive and well.”
Early in February, before the Ukraine war, Russia and China released a lengthy joint statement that reaffirmed their alliance and expressed opposition to NATO expansion.
15 hours ago (20:20 GMT)
Ukraine post-war reconstruction, recovery to be key topics at int’l forum: Minister
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says the country’s “post-war reconstruction and recovery” will be key topics at an upcoming international forum in Switzerland.
The Ukraine Recovery Conference will take place in the town of Lugano on July 4 and 5, the Swiss government said earlier in a separate statement. Forty states and 18 international organisations have been invited.
“Switzerland is our trusted partner,” Kuleba tweeted alongside photos with Swiss Confederation President Ignazio Cassis at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “We focused on Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and recovery, which will be the key topics of this year’s conference in Lugano.”
At the onset of my visit to Davos I was warmly welcomed by the President of the Swiss Confederation @ignaziocassis. Switzerland is our trusted partner. We focused on Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and recovery, which will be the key topics of this year’s conference in Lugano. pic.twitter.com/qGVMoQrARm
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) May 24, 2022
15 hours ago (20:14 GMT)
Ukraine says 14 civilians killed in Russian attacks in Luhansk, Donetsk
Ukraine’s military has said Russian troops killed at least 14 civilians and injured 15 more on Tuesday during attacks in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
In a Facebook post, the military said Russian troops had used aircraft, multiple rocket launchers, artillery, tanks, mortars and missiles in their assault on the two regions.
16 hours ago (20:05 GMT)
Former German leader rejects Gazprom board nomination
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder says he rejected his nomination to the supervisory board of Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom.
“I gave up my nomination to Gazprom’s Supervisory Board a long time ago. I have reported this to the company as well,” Schroder wrote on his LinkedIn account.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to huge public pressure in Germany for Schroder to turn his back on Putin and sever his ties with Russia’s biggest energy companies.
16 hours ago (19:55 GMT)
US will not extend key Russian debt payment waiver
The US will not extend a key waiver that allows Russia to pay US bondholders, which could push Moscow closer to the brink of default as Washington ramps up pressure on the country following its invasion of Ukraine.
The US Treasury Department said on its website it would not extend a license, set to expire at 12:01am local time in Washington, DC, (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday, allowing Russia to make payments on its sovereign debt to US persons.
The waiver had allowed Moscow to keep paying interest and principal and avert default on its government debt.
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