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Since Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine began on February 24, some 4.9 million Ukrainians have fled for neighboring countries, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
The events in kazakhstan are being closely watched by opposition groups in other former soviet republics, including belarus and its exiled opposition leader, svetla na ti kha novs kaya. it is shameful belarusians should not fight abroad and should not participate in such operations, should not help another dictator to stay in power, by all means. russia says its deployment of troops is temporary. china has expressed support for what it calls "strong measures" taken to restore stability in kazakhstan, where it has significant investments. the us has advised some of its consular staff to leave, ...
Abandoned diplomatic rules and had been seeking to undermine our country with unilateral sanctions as well as military pressure on russia with mean rivers along the russian borders. they are trying to draw kyiv into provocation. joining me now is james nixey who is the director of russia & eurasia programme at chatham house. we have the rhetoric, we have the diplomacy, we had the military build—up. looking at the latter specifically, how do military analysts think this situation is going to evolve?— analysts think this situation is going to evolve? they tend to be slit, going to evolve? th...
Also the diplomatic consequences of taking this step.— taking this step. former british ambassador — taking this step. former british ambassador to _ taking this step. former british ambassador to the us. - well, we can speak now to keir giles, who's a senior consulting fellow in the russia and eurasia programme at the chatham house think—tank. he joins us from northamptonshire. picking up on what lord derek was saying. he said it is difficult for the west to bring any new messages to russia. it has delivered all the messages that it can and all of this. but do you think the focus will n...
A group of 30 nations in a military alliance — were united at "a moment of extreme danger". the ukrainian president has said his country is determined to protect itself from russia — with or without the support of western allies. 0rysia lutsevych is a research fellow and manager of the ukraine forum in the russia and eurasia programme at the think—tank chatham house. she's been explainig what the so—called "false flag" strategy is, and how russia is using it. that is the strategy that we have seen in ukraine in 2014, before the annexation of crimea, where russia was saying that there i...