Every day of this conflict is a reminder that despite Russian disinformation being incredibly pathetic there's always going to be people dumb enough to fall for it or shameless enough to share it.
To the people of Ukraine: Slava Ukraini.
To the people of Russia: I do not believe this war is in your name.
This crisis, this tragedy, can and must come to an end. Because the world needs a free and sovereign Ukraine.
Naturally Putin was sitting a healthy 15 feet away from Shoigu and Gerasimov at the end of a ridiculously long table when he told them to get the nukes out
The people of #Ukraine are fighting for freedom and democracy – values that we share with them. We are on their side. We will therefore be supplying them with defensive weapons. And we have therefore approved tough sanctions such as cutting Russian banks off from #SWIFT.
Bellingcat has identified multiple examples of cluster munitions being fired into civilian areas of Ukraine, including residential areas, schools and hospitals.
https://t.co/4irE9ARn75
The U.S. Embassy published a statement in connection with the referendum in #Belarus
The statement says that the dictatorial referendum plunges Belarus even more into the darkness of the past
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If you're wondering how Russian logistics are going... Here are their soldiers stealing food ~100hr into a war and 20km from the Russian border. If these troops have already run out of food it doesn't bode well everywhere else.
There will be nowhere left to hide for the super-rich linked to Putin’s regime. More kleptocrats will be hit with restrictions in the coming weeks. Nothing is off the table.
https://t.co/hRy70xzbOx
This coming week, we will launch a multilateral Transatlantic task force to identify, hunt down, and freeze the assets of sanctioned Russian companies and oligarchs – their yachts, their mansions, and any other ill-gotten gains that we can find and freeze under the law.
We have taken decisive action tonight with our international partners to shut Russia out of the global financial system, including the important first step of ejecting Russian banks from SWIFT.
We will keep working together to ensure Putin pays the price for his aggression.
Second, we will paralyse the assets of Russia’s central bank.
This will freeze its transactions.
And it will make it impossible for the Central Bank to liquidate its assets.
And finally, we will work to prohibit Russian oligarchs from using their financial assets on our markets.
Putin embarked on a path aiming to destroy Ukraine.
But what he is also doing, in fact, is destroying the future of his own country.
This evening I spoke to President @ZelenskyyUa. The heroism of the President and his people in the defence of their country is awe-inspiring.
We are clear – Russia must be isolated diplomatically and financially. I welcome increased willingness to exclude Russia from SWIFT.