RUSSIA'S LAVROV IN CALL WITH BLINKEN 'CERTAINLY DID NOT SIGNAL' THAT MOSCOW WAS PREPARED TO DE-ESCALATE -SENIOR STATE DEPT OFFICIAL

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❗️List of countries urging their citizens to leave 🇺🇦 Ukraine.

🇺🇸USA
🇨🇦Canada
🇬🇧United Kingdom
🇫🇷France
🇪🇸Spain
🇮🇹Italy
🇸🇪Sweden
🇳🇴Norway
🇩🇪Germany
🇳🇱Netherlands
🇧🇪Belgium
🇯🇵Japan
🇰🇷South Korea
🇹🇷Turkey
🇵🇱Poland
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
🇱🇹Lithuania
🇱🇻Latvia,
🇪🇪Estonia
🇫🇮Finland
🇲🇰North Macedonia
🇲🇪Montenegro
🇮🇱Israel
🇰🇼Kuwait
🇲🇦Morocco
🇮🇶Iraq

And the list of such countries continues to grow.

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"Sorry for the language - but we shit on the sanctions of the West," - Russian Ambassador to Sweden Viktor Tatarintsev in an interview with Aftonbladet.

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🚨 BREAKING – PM Orban hinted for the first time that Hungary may leave EU. The 'democratic' push by the latter, according to him, has become anti-democratic and detrimental to Hungarian national interests...

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JUST IN – 🇩🇪🇺🇦⚡The German airline Lufthansa is closely monitoring the situation around Ukraine and is considering the termination of air traffic over the country

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🇩🇪⚡Germany's Scholz heads to Moscow tomorrow in last-ditch attempt to change Putin's mind about invading Ukraine⚡🇺🇦

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Analysis: The proposals to shake up the west's Russia policy in here include moving for "regime change" in Russia, which one assumes would turn it into Iraq (if it worked) or start World War III (if it doesn't)

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🚨 Cyprus recommended its citizens to leave Ukraine

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JUST IN – Biden talks with Zelensky

Zelenskiy will discuss the security situation and ongoing de-escalation efforts with Biden in the coming hours, his spokesman said

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🇺🇸⚡Officials from the White House, US intelligence agencies, and the Department of Homeland Security met via video link on Friday to discuss responses to a potential wave of hacking, given the ongoing tensions between NATO and Russia, CNN has reported.

Article 5 of NATO next?

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Russia has failed to respond to questions raised by Ukraine under the OSCE Vienna Document with in the 48-hour timeframe. Deadline for a response expired today at 13:59 CET. Ukraine asked Russia to clarify "unusual military activities"

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JUST IN – Ukraine: The US Ambassador in Kiev and the remaining diplomats are evacuated to Lviv.

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🇮🇩⚡Poland is preparing for "various scenarios" for a possible influx of refugees if Russia were to attack Ukraine, — Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski

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🇩🇪⚡German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sees the conflict between Russia and Ukraine as a "very, very serious threat to peace in Europe."

In the event of military aggression against Ukraine, which would endanger its territorial integrity and sovereignty, there would be "tough reactions and sanctions," he said in Berlin.

The sanctions had been carefully prepared, Scholz said, and they would take effect immediately, together with Germany's allies in Europe and NATO.

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BREAKING – 🇨🇦⚡🇺🇦The Canadian Department of Defense begins a partial evacuation of its military personnel located on the territory of Ukraine to an unnamed European region.

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⚡Moscow is not ready to transfer the dialogue on security guarantees into the mode of multi-year negotiations, because they will be conducted in parallel with the specific actions of the United States and allies to arm Ukraine and draw it into the NATO military infrastructure, this cannot meet our interests, moreover, it poses a threat, - Kremlin spokesman Peskov

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🇨🇵 Paris, unlike Washington, sees no signs of a possible "Russian invasion" of Ukraine, Le Figaro with reference to a source in the Elysee Palace

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🇩🇪⚡German Chancellor Scholz confirmed the imposition of uniform sanctions against Russia in the event of a military invasion.

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JUST IN – Russia won’t take part in the OSCE meeting (scheduled for today, 15.00 CET) called for by Baltic countries.

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BREAKING – 🇵🇱⚡️Poland’s foreign minister is set to meet with his Russian counterpart in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss tensions over Ukraine and a range of bilateral issues.

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Russian envoy warns of right to counterattack in eastern Ukraine

... not hard to see where this is going.

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