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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday he had spoken by phone with Belarus strongman and Kremlin ally Alexander Lukashenko, as Russia pressed on with its invasion of the pro-Western country.
“I’ve spoken with Alexander Lukashenko,” Zelensky said on Facebook, without providing further details. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was partly launched from Belarus soil.
– AFP
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Japan will join Western nations in removing selected Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system, the country’s prime minister said Sunday, piling further pressure on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
“In what was released this morning by the Western nations, steps are taken to isolate Russia from the international financial system and the world economy including exclusion of specific Russian banks from SWIFT,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said.
“Western nations have requested Japan participate. Japan will join this initiative,” he added.
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Italy has transferred an immediate payment of 110 million euros ($120 million) to Ukraine’s government “as a sign of solidarity and support”, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio announced on Twitter on Sunday.
“I’ve informed my colleague Dmytro Kuleba that I’ve just signed a resolution for the immediate payment of 110 million euros to the government in Kyiv, as a sign of solidarity and support from Italy to a people with whom we have fraternal relations,” Di Maio tweeted.
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Ho comunicato al collega @DmytroKuleba di aver appena firmato la delibera che dispone l’erogazione immediata di 110 milioni di euro al governo di Kiev, come espressione concreta della solidarieta e del sostegno dell’Italia a un popolo con cui coltiviamo un rapporto fraterno.
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#FAC ministers will discuss proposal to use European Peace Facility to finance supply of lethal material to Ukrainian army and how to facilitate related Member State coordination
We will also adopt further tough economic sanctions, including exclusion of Russian banks from #SWIFT https://t.co/tn2FTZDuzG
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Greece will send Ukraine “defence equipment” and humanitarian aid, the prime minister’s office said Sunday, as Athens formally protested the deaths of 10 ethnic Greeks during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ office said two military transport planes were to depart for Poland with “defence equipment” for Ukraine, without adding further details about what they would be carrying.
A separate shipment of humanitarian aid was also to be sent the same day, accompanied by Deputy Defence Minister Nikos Hardalias, the premier’s office added.
– AFP
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Pope Francis Sunday called for the “urgent” opening of humanitarian corridors for civilians to flee Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I am thinking of the elderly, of all those at the moment seeking refuge, of mothers fleeing with their children. They are brothers and sisters for whom it is urgent to open up humanitarian corridors and who must be welcomed,” he said.
– AFP
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Kharkiv’s mayor says Ukraine has taken back control of the city after Russian troops broke through defenses this morning pic.twitter.com/6BzGzDd4Ch
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Readying Molotov cocktails in Dnipro, Ukraine. Russian forces are still far from the city, but Russian diversionary troops tried to parachute in last night. Three were captured, four escaped. pic.twitter.com/TWQQDZNFDt
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Updated numbers of Russia’s casualties and other losses as of Feb. 27, according to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. pic.twitter.com/Z0Q9MNsCEy