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Russia Ukraine Crisis Live News, Ukraine Crisis News Today: Meanwhile, the Indian embassy in Kyiv issued a statement Tuesday asking citizens whose stay in Ukraine is non-essential to consider leaving the country "temporarily".
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Russia Ukraine Crisis Live News, Ukraine Crisis News Today: Meanwhile, the Indian embassy in Kyiv issued a statement Tuesday asking citizens whose stay in Ukraine is non-essential to consider leaving the country "temporarily".
Amid reports that Kremlin is pulling back some troops from the border, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said there was “cautious optimism” over Russia signals on Ukraine, but no sign of de-escalation. “So far, we have not seen any de-escalation on the ground, not seen any signs of reduced Russian military presence on the borders of Ukraine, but we will continue to monitor. Everything is now in place for a new attack but Russia still has time to step back from the brink: stop preparing for war and start preparing for a peaceful solution,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters, the Guardian reported. Meanwhile, the Indian embassy in Kyiv issued a statement Tuesday asking citizens whose stay in Ukraine is non-essential to consider leaving the country “temporarily”.
Ukraine's defence ministry and two banks came under a cyber attack on Tuesday that shut access to the ministry's website, Ukraine's information security centre said.
The Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security, which is part of the culture ministry, did not say who it blamed for the attack, but a statement suggested it was pointing the finger at Russia.
"It is not ruled out that the aggressor used tactics of little dirty tricks because its aggressive plans are not working out on a large scale," it said.
Kyiv has blamed Moscow for similar attacks in the past, since Russia began massing more than 100,000 troops near the frontier. (Reuters)
Chicago Board of Trade wheat and corn futures fell on Tuesday as Moscow's announcement that some of its troops were returning to base after drills tempered investor fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine that could disrupt Black Sea export flows.
U.S. soybeans fell as traders assessed chances for rain in dry growing belts in Argentina and Southern Brazil.
The most-active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) was down 21-3/4 cents at $7.77-1/2 a bushel by 10:24 a.m. (11624 GMT), falling below its 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. CBOT soybeans lost 8-1/4 cents to $15.61-3/4 a bushel. Corn gave up 17 cents to $6.38-3/4 a bushel.
Russia said some military units would return to their bases after exercises near Ukraine, while also indicating that dialogue would continue with the West on security issues." There’s indications that all sides are talking a little more thoroughly about the situation," said Jack Scoville, market analyst at The Price Futures Group. Traders remained cautious, given that Russia's parliament asked President Vladimir Putin to recognise two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent. (Reuters)
Only Ukraine and NATO should determine Kyiv's bid to join the alliance, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said after meeting his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio in Kyiv on Tuesday.
"No one but Ukraine and NATO members should have a say in the discussions about Ukraine's future NATO membership," Kuleba said. The meeting with Di Maio came hours after Russia said it was withdrawing some of its troops deployed near Ukraine and as Russia's parliament asked President Vladimir Putin to recognise two territories held by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine's east. (Reuters)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow is ready for talks with the US and NATO on limits for missile deployments and military transparency. Speaking after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Putin said the US and NATO rejected Moscow’s demand to keep Ukraine and other ex-Soviet nations out of NATO, halt weapons deployments near Russian borders and roll back alliance forces from Eastern Europe.
The statement followed the Russian Defense Ministry’s announced a partial pullback of troops after military drills, adding to hopes that the Kremlin may not be planning to invade Ukraine imminently. The Russian military gave no details on where the troops were pulling back from, or how many. Russia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine. (AP
UK PM Boris Johnson says, “There are signs of a diplomatic opening with Russia, but the intelligence we are seeing today is not encouraging. We have a tough package of sanctions ready if Russia chooses war. We maintain that diplomacy and de-escalation is the only way forward.”
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Russia's lower house of parliament voted on Tuesday to ask President Vladimir Putin to recognise two Russian-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent, the house speaker said.
The move by the State Duma, if approved, could further inflame a wider standoff over a Russian military build-up near Ukraine that has fuelled Western fears that Moscow could attack. Russia denies any invasion plans and has accused the West of hysteria. Recognition of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics could kill off the Minsk peace process in east Ukraine, where a conflict between government forces and Moscow-backed separatists has killed 15,000 people.
"Kyiv is not observing the Minsk agreements. Our citizens and compatriots who live in Donbass need our help and support," Vyacheslav Volodin, the State Duma speaker, wrote on social media. (Reuters)
NATO's chief on Tuesday welcomed signals that Russia may be looking for a diplomatic solution amid a military build-up on Ukraine's border but urged Moscow to demonstrate its will to act.
'There are signs from Moscow that diplomacy should continue. This gives grounds for cautious optimism. But so far we have not seen any sign of de-escalation on the ground from the Russian side', NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of a two-day meeting of the alliance's defence ministers in Brussels.
'Russia has amassed a fighting force in and around Ukraine unprecedented since the cold war. Everything is now in place for a new attack. But Russia still has time to step back from the brink, stop preparing for war and start working for a peaceful solution', Stoltenberg said, calling the current situation the 'most serious security crisis we have faced in Europe for decades'. (Reuters)
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"If that happens, that will be a blatant violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty once again, because there is no doubt that Donetsk and Luhansk are part of Ukraine within internationally recognised borders," Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels.
"So such a recognition would be a violation of international law and territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. Not only that, it will also be a violation of the Minsk agreements, so it will make it even harder to find a political solution based on the Minsk agreements", he added. Russia's lower house of parliament had voted on Tuesday to ask President Vladimir Putin to recognise two Russian-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent, the house speaker said. (Reuters)
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says, “On Russian statements regarding withdrawal of some forces from the Ukrainian border. We in Ukraine have a rule: we don’t believe what we hear, we believe what we see. If a real withdrawal follows these statements, we will believe in the beginning of a real de-escalation.”
o far, we have not seen any de-escalation on the ground, not seen any signs of reduced Russian military presence on the borders of Ukraine, but we will continue to monitor. Everything is now on place for a new attack but Russia still has time to step back from the brink: stop preparing for war and start preparing for a peaceful solution,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters, the Guardian reported.
land, the largest European Union nation to border Ukraine, is making preparations to accept Ukrainian refugees in the event of another Russian attack on that country. But the Polish government hopes that worst-case scenario can be averted.
Similar preparations are being made across the region, particularly in those nations which share borders with Ukraine.
As other countries draw down their diplomatic missions in Ukraine, Poland says it is for now keeping its diplomatic operations in place in case they are needed to facilitate a large-scale exit of Ukrainians.
Poland, which has welcomed large numbers of Ukrainian economic migrants in recent years, particularly after Russia's incursions into Ukraine in 2014, has been making plans for weeks to accept refugees if it comes to that, said Marcin Przydacz, a deputy foreign minister.
Przydacz said in a radio interview on Monday that Poland hopes the situation in Ukraine won't escalate, but that the country was preparing for any possibility, including the possibility of large numbers of refugees.
“In this worst-case scenario, we are not talking about hundreds or thousands, but much larger numbers," Przydacz said on Radio Plus. He added that the Interior Ministry has been preparing “internal scenarios, infrastructure and plans” for many weeks. The plans would include housing refugees in hostels, dormitories, sports facilities and other venues. (AP
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