The United States will announce new sanctions against Russia on Friday, targeting more than 500 companies “linked to its supporters and war machine,” a US Treasury Department spokesman told AFP on Thursday, February 22 . “This will be the largest tranche since Putin's invasion of Ukraine began,” she said, emphasizing that these measures will be taken by both the Treasury and State Departments. Follow our live stream.
Volodymyr Zelensky is urging his Western allies to supply new weapons. “The most important thing is to open up the airspace. Air defense and (…) aircraft will contribute to this,” the Ukrainian president said at a press conference in Lviv. It is important that all decisions are made [sur les livraisons d’armes] are taken over on time. I think that’s the priority.”
Meeting in support of Ukraine on Monday in Paris. According to the French presidency, this meeting will bring together “several heads of state and government or their ministerial representatives”. It “will make it possible to study the means available to strengthen the cooperation of partners in support of Ukraine,” the Elysée added.
According to the United Nations, 14 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland. Accordingly, more than 14 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion in winter 2022 a report by the United Nations International Organization for Migration, published on Thursday. Among them, almost 6.5 million refugees are still abroad. Numbers that make up almost a third of the Ukrainian population.