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Russia has announced that it’s closing the strategic Kerch Strait until October under guise of military exercise.
This effectively closes the Ukrainian ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk to traffic.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is pissed
“Such actions of the Russian Federation are yet another attempt, in violation of the norms and principles of international law, to usurp the sovereign rights of Ukraine as a coastal state, since it is Ukraine that has the right to regulate shipping in these waters of the Black Sea,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry
The Biden administration targeted Russia with sweeping sanctions and diplomatic expulsions Thursday, punishing Moscow for its interference in the 2020 US election, its SolarWinds cyberattack and its ongoing occupation and “severe human rights abuses” in Crimea.
Joe Biden declares national emergency with regard to Russia in a letter to congress over Crimea and Ukrain (and election meddling)
UK summons Russian ambassador over ‘malign behaviour’ and Ukraine
Britain’s foreign ministry said it summoned Russia’s ambassador on Thursday to express its concern about “malign behaviour” by the Russian state and show London’s support for actions announced earlier in the day by U.S. President Joe Biden.
Poland has expelled three Russian diplomats in relation to cyber-attacks carried out on the United States by the Russian Federation.
The news of the expulsions came after the Russian ambassador was summoned to a meeting at the Polish Foreign Ministry on Thursday.
Biden to deliver a speech at 4:30 ET 1:30 PT about Russia
Ukraine will consider arming itself with nuclear weapons if it does not become a member of the NATO military alliance, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany said.
“Either we are part of an alliance like NATO and contribute in this way to making Europe stronger … or we are left with the other option, which is to arm ourselves,” Ambassador Andriy Melnyk told Deutschlandfunk radio Thursday.
Russia says Moscow will respond to U.S. sanctions, summons U.S. envoy
Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday it was “unavoidable” that Moscow would respond to new U.S. sanctions and that it had called in Washington’s ambassador in Moscow for “tough talks”.
