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News Updates – 3/15/22

▪️Zelensky said it’s time to admit that Ukraine will not join NATO

▪️Russia imposes personal sanctions against Biden, including banning him from entering the country. So far, there are 13 people on the list, among them White House Press Secretary Psaki, US Secretary of Defense Austin, Secretary of State Blinken, Assistant to the President for National Security Sullivan, CIA Director Burns, Hillary Clinton and others. New announcements will follow in the near future

▪️The White House on Russia’s sanctions: “We are not planning trips to Russia, and we do not have bank accounts there”

▪️Pfizer declares that it will not suspend the pharmaceutical business in Russia. “You cannot stop the flow of our medicines to Russia,” said Pfizer CEO Burla

▪️Russia and China are strategic partners and look at the situation in the world in a similar way, the Russian representative to the UN said

▪️The Russian government will allocate 1 trillion rubles to support the economy, Mishustin said. According to him, Russia will also propose to the EAEU partners to increase the maximum limit of duty-free import of goods within the framework of electronic commerce in order to maintain access to the necessary resources and goods

▪️In Ukraine, tens of thousands of machine guns were issued to the population to participate in military operations against Russia, the process of distributing weapons continues, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the country said

▪️Lawyers still cannot find the editor of the Russian First Channel Marina Ovsyannikova. Earlier it was reported that she was taken to the police department of the Ostankino district of Moscow. However, the police told human rights activists that she was not in the department

▪️Zelensky introduced criminal liability for cooperation with Russia

▪️The UK intelligence service sees no evidence to support the idea that Ukraine can use chemical and biological weapons, the Ministry of Defense of the country reports

▪️The Slovak government announced that it had charged two citizens with espionage in favor of Russia, saying that they had handed over secret intelligence concerning NATO and Ukraine to Moscow.

▪️”Biden is the best man God has ever created” (…) “He needs to pursue everyone and everyone who tries to support Putin” – US Senator Lindsey Graham

▪️Ministry of Defense of Russia: “The Kherson region has been completely taken under control”

▪️In Russia, the activities of artists who have publicly expressed support for Ukraine are banned

▪️”This is the entrance to the dark valley where everything is starting to get out of control” – columnist Steve Bannon on the news regarding the transition of Saudi Arabia to the yuan

▪️The EU imposes sanctions against 600 Russians. In addition, the sanctions include a ban on concluding any transactions with some Russian companies. A ban on the import of certain steel products has been introduced

▪️Every minute one child becomes a refugee because of the war in Ukraine: UN

▪️Kiev introduces a curfew for two days

▪️The White House has asked popular bloggers to blame Putin for the rise in fuel prices in the United States

▪️The Prime Ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia are due to arrive in Kiev on March 15 to express the solidarity of the European Union in connection with the situation in Ukraine

▪️More than 3 thousand Russian railcars are being nationalized in Ukraine

▪️The operator of the Fox News channel was killed in Ukraine as a result of shelling

▪️ Denmark is considering a ban on the sale of cigarettes for the next generations

▪️Producer price inflation in the US soared to 10.0% — the largest annual increase in the entire history of observations

▪️Асс Assange was refused extradition

▪️A sharp increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 infection has been recorded in one of the provinces of China