Russian Ukraine war

Despite the government's pro-Western policy, everyday Greeks remain wary of both the US and Russia.

In reality, both Russia and Turkey have weaponised minorities to undermine the sovereignty of independent states for geopolitical and ideological reasons,” Karagiannis told Al Jazeera. Many Greeks believe then-secretary of state Henry Kissinger actively encouraged it. “European defence is a dream for some of us … the Ukraine war taught us that there is no European security without the US and NATO. The [membership bids] by Finland and Sweden underline that,” Filis said. Russia’s navy helped secure Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire a thousand years later. “If we want Europe to be independent on the international stage, it will have to show strategic autonomy and European sovereignty … [we want] a Europe that will be an international player with a balancing role,” he said. And Turkey has been accused of violating Greek airspace as a way of showing it disputes Greek sovereignty in the east Aegean. Turkey has also recently claimed that Greece has entered its airspace. “The Russians have nothing to offer Greece in terms of controlling Turkey, and wouldn’t want to if they could,” said Constantinos Filis, who directs the Global Affairs Institute at the American College of Greece. “The red line of the Americans [vis-à-vis Turkey] seems to be the avoidance of war [with Greece]. But that is not enough for Greece. It means Turkey has a wide scope for doing things to Greece it shouldn’t do.” “We took sides. “Even the US … has actually reduced its support for Greek positions,” he told Al Jazeera. “They withdrew support for the East Med [gas pipeline], and even from the East Med Act of 2019 which provided for the US monitoring Turkish violations of Greek airspace.” The East Med, a pipeline Greece has pledged to build with Cyprus and Israel to transport Israeli and Cypriot gas to the EU market, has been a major irritant to Turkey. Three-fifths of the Greek parliament recently ratified a much-expanded defence agreement with the US, which allows Washington to use the Greek port of Alexandroupolis as a logistics hub for the supply of NATO allies Romania and Bulgaria. A mid-March survey by Politico showed that 60 percent of Greeks found Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “unacceptable”, compared with 88 percent, 86 percent, 82 percent and 78 percent in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and France respectively.

More than 20 million tons of grain are stuck in silos at Ukrainian ports, as Russian blockades prevent ships setting sail with wheat, corn and other exports.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts this year's wheat harvest in Ukraine will be down 35 per cent from last year due to the war. New inflation data, released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday, shows the price of bread jumped 12.2 per cent between April 2021 and last month, while pasta prices jumped 19.6 per cent. "There is enough food for everyone in the world. And also, this crisis right now is completely avoidable. Current food supply challenges, experts said, have been compounded by the pandemic. "This is a crisis on top of a crisis.

Igor Girkin, an ex-FSB agent who led fighting in Donbas in 2014, says there is no path to victory for Russia's forces currently fighting in the region, ...

'Thus, it will be necessary to try and defeat the enemy in field battles. Russia is also a major exporter of fertiliser. Things don't work like that, we're not idiots,' he said on Telegram. Will this end the war? The ramifications could be far-reaching. Russian forces are trying to surround the two - split by a river marking a central front of the war - and are bombarding them to try and wear down resistance and starve residents of supplies. And? What will this achieve? A destroyed Russian tank is seen in a village to the north of Kharkiv after the area was recaptured by Ukrainian forces As long he remains shielded from reality 'nothing will change, and when it does change... Writing on Telegram late Thursday, Strelkov said: 'Let's imagine for a second, that in the next few weeks the enemy will be after all defeated through continuous frontal and flank attacks, and completely pushed out of [Donbas] borders. Ukraine is known as the 'breadbasket of Europe' because it exports up to a fifth of the world's barely and rapeseed, a tenth of global wheat and up to half the world's sunflower seeds. It is 'meaningless to hope for victory' without a general mobilisation of Russia's army, Strelkov argues, which Putin refuses to do because he is being molly-coddled by his inner circle into believing victory is still possible.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces have completely destroyed the eastern Donbas region, describing the area where the Kremlin has ...

This is what will be qualified as the genocide of the Ukrainian people and for which the occupiers will definitely be brought to justice," he added. "Food pricing is our number one problem right now, as a result of all this perfect storm for 2022," Beasley said. Experience shows that they become such by the age of 40–45," the State Duma said, according to a Reuters translation. This can be a lengthy process when done thoroughly," the ministry said. Speaking during his nightly address, Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces continue to liberate the northeast Kharkiv region. Borrell said it's up to Ukraine to decide the terms of any negotiations. "Starting from tomorrow, during the upcoming summer season, Gasum will supply natural gas to its customers from other sources through the Balticconnector pipeline. Destroy as many houses, social facilities and enterprises as possible. "It is highly regrettable that natural gas supplies under our supply contract will now be halted. It also comes just two days after Finland formally applied to join NATO. There's hell, and that's not an exaggeration." He said that he hopes that "when the time comes for negotiations to take place, Ukraine will be able to negotiate from a position of strength."

Close historic ties with Russia and deep internal divisions are undermining a unified national stance on the conflict.

“The question of a pro-Russian or pro-Western alignment feeds into a longstanding fissure in Montenegrin politics and identity. In 2019, Russia accounted for 26 percent of foreign investment in the Montenegrin economy. So did the alleged Russian-backed coup attempt of 2016 and Montenegro’s entry into NATO the following year. The war in Ukraine has shrunk the room for geopolitical neutrality in Europe, leaving Montenegro in a difficult spot. Montenegrins have demonstrated in support of Ukraine while Serb nationalists in Montenegro have demonstrated in support of Russia,” said Marco Attila Hoare, a historian and associate professor at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. “With Montenegro’s population split between supporters of independence who identify as Montenegrin or who belong to ethnic minorities, and those who opposed independence and identify with Serbia, it’s primarily the former that have emerged as the pro-Ukrainian and the latter as the pro-Russian camp.”

The Group of Seven unveiled a package worth more than $19 billion in short-term financial aid for Ukraine, while the ruble surged to the highest level in ...

The lawyer for the first Russian soldier on trial in Kyiv said in closing arguments on Friday that his client was "not guilty" of premeditated murder and ...

Did Shishimarin have the intention to kill Shelipov?" I didn't want to kill," he said, standing in the glass defence box, wearing a grey and blue hoodie. The lawyer for the first Russian soldier on trial in Ukraine said in closing arguments Friday that his client was "not guilty" of premeditated murder and war crimes.

Via both Times articles and ideas from readers, here is a look at how classrooms of all kinds are grappling with the war and its effects.

We began with a brainstorm about what students had heard about what was happening with Ukraine and Russia. Then students moved on to define terms like Soviet Union, Cold War and NATO, and worked together to combine their definitions into one “best definition.” This vocabulary work set them up to read the Times article about what was happening in Ukraine as Russia invaded, annotating in the margins. They also responded to the importance of having free and independent journalists report on the war. What are the ideal outcomes or results of this plan or intervention? As part of a larger project on the theme of “nostalgia,” students were asked to think of a family recipe that made them nostalgic. When discussing the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, that consisted of orienting everyone to where this conflict is happening geographically and what cities and countries are involved. After each episode, we discussed positives that we heard, we shared “wonders” (the things that we want to find more information on), and we shared one word to summarize the new information. The first step in teaching the Russian invasion of Ukraine is noticing that your students need to talk about it. My students are 11 and 12 years old and a lot of them come to the table with their own nuanced prior knowledge, but there are always gaps in basic understanding. Below are three articles about three different student populations that have been affected by the war in Ukraine. Assign each student, or have them choose, one of the articles to become an “expert” in. In this lesson, students choose between three recent articles that look at “a war so close to home” from the points of view of teachers, students and parents in Poland, Germany, Denmark, England and other European countries. What do these two details reveal about the importance of education in a society? What do you think it says about the power and importance of education, and the role it plays in young people’s lives, even amidst an ongoing war?

Battered by their monthslong siege of the vital port city of Mariupol, Russian troops need time to regroup, Britain's Defense Ministry said in an assessment ...

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As the war neared its three-month mark, the Ukrainian general staff said massive artillery barrages, including multiple rocket-launchers, had hit civilian ...

Russian Defence Minister Shoigu put the number of those laying down their arms at about 2,000. The war has caused global prices for grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertilizer to soar. “The Donbas is completely destroyed,” President Zelenskyy said in an address on Thursday night. In a sign of Russia’s need to bolster its war effort, the parliament in Moscow said it would consider a bill to allow Russians over 40 and foreigners over 30 to sign up for the military. “Groupings of the Russian Armed Forces, together with units of the people’s militia of the Lugansk (Luhansk) and Donetsk people’s republics, continue to expand control over the territories of the Donbas,” Shoigu said in a speech. British military intelligence said on Friday Russia is likely to further reinforce its operations in the Donbas once it finally secures the southern port city of Mariupol – scene of a weeks-long siege and Russia’s most significant success in a campaign of mixed fortunes for the Kremlin.

Mariupol, city of resistance, falls … underground life of the last child in the village … Putin micromanaging conflict, sources in west believe.

All 30 alliance members of Nato have to approve the acceptance of a new ally. The deputy commander of the Azov regiment, Capt Svyatoslav Palamar, released a video on Thursday evening in which he said he had not surrendered and remained in the steelworks. “I look at my government totally different since the war started,” said Tatyana Efremenko, 39, whose son Nikita Efremenko was a conscript on the Moskva missile cruiser when it was sunk in a Ukrainian missile strike a month ago. Prof Sir Lawrence Freedman from King’s College London said he judged the claim about Putin’s level of involvement to be plausible: “Putin has chased the military operation, first by giving very little notice he would launch an attack and then pushing hard for quick wins. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the combatants would be treated in line with international norms for prisoners of war, though several senior Russian politicians demanded they be put on trial and one even called for their execution. “And it’s that situation we need to escape.” But the world outside has been out of bounds to him for months. The Nordic political class initially appeared sceptical about Erdoğan’s seriousness. They should be setting the political strategy rather than getting bogged down in day-to-day activity”. But that assessment is changing. This week, Pjotr Sauer reported claims by Moscow that more than 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers holed up in the Azovstal steelworks “surrendered” and had been taken to Russian-held territory. Russia said more than 900 of the soldiers had been sent to a former prison colony.