Russo-Ukraine War - 27 February 2022
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By order of President Vladimir Putin, on 27 February 2022 the Russian deterrence forces were transferred to a special mode of combat duty - they also include strategic nuclear forces. Putin stated this at a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. “The top officials of the leading NATO countries also allow aggressive statements against our country, therefore I order the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff to transfer the containment forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty,” Putin said. What specific measures can be taken now - this is not reported, since the status is usually confidential.
US officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin's order to put the deterrence forces on special alert is part of an approach that involves creating non-existent threats to the country to "justify aggression." NATO has never threatened Russia, according the text of the White House statement.
Conscripts are being forced to go to the war zone in Ukraine, the parents of eight servicemen told Dozhd. Young people called up for service last year, who are supposed to serve only a year, were told that they would be sent to Ukraine on February 27, according to five statements from their relatives to the “Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers” (copies of documents are at the disposal of TVRain). The relatives of two more conscripts who wrote a collective appeal to the “Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers” told the same story.
As the parents of the servicemen write in their statements, they learned that on February 27 their sons would be sent to participate in a military special operation on the territory of Ukraine. For this, according to them, orders were prepared on the acceptance of conscripts for military service under the contract. The parents insist that their sons did not sign anything, they are doing military service and did not agree to serve under the contract.
Nearly 6,000 people have been detained in four days of anti-war protests in Russia. Many were beaten, some had fractures. In many Russian cities, anti-war rallies were held, at which protesters were detained by the police. The largest number of detainees in Moscow.
The meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations will take place not in Gomel, but on the border of Belarus and Ukraine in the area of the Pripyat River. This information was confirmed by the office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. There will be no missile launches, as well as flights of planes and helicopters during the travel of delegations and negotiations. On the morning of February 27, Dmitry Peskov announced that the Russian delegation had arrived in Belarus for negotiations with the Ukrainians. “In accordance with the agreement reached, the Russian delegation, consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense and other departments, including the presidential administration, arrived in Belarus for negotiations with the Ukrainians. We will be ready to start these negotiations in Gomel.” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba did not rule out that the outcome of negotiations with Russia would be peace, noting that there was no question of Kyiv's surrender. Zelensky said that the upcoming negotiations with Russia are "small, but a chance."
S&P downgraded Russia's long-term foreign currency credit rating from BBB- to BB+ (below investment grade), and Ukraine's rating from B to B-. The European Union has introduced restrictions on deposits in European banks - they are prohibited from accepting deposits from Russian citizens or Russian legal entities in excess of €100,000 per credit institution. It is also prohibited to buy and sell financial instruments denominated in euros in the interests of Russian individuals and legal entities.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country would not supply arms to Ukraine. According to him, the Hungarian armed forces need all the weapons they have in order to be able to defend the country's borders.
The EU will discuss imposing tough sanctions against Russian oligarchs, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said. The head of European diplomacy explained that the EU authorities would take measures to identify and freeze assets owned in Europe by high-ranking Russian officials and representatives of the Russian elite close to the authorities, as well as their family members and "accomplices." In addition, the EU will restrict the sale of “golden passports” to such persons, the possession of which allows Russians to acquire the rights of Europeans, including access to the EU financial system.
European Union foreign ministers agreed to send 450 million euros ($500 million) in military aid to Ukraine for lethal weapons, according to Josep Borrell. The EU’s military aid package may include supplying fighter jets for the Ukrainian air force, Borrell said. Borrell said the EU has already had discussions with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba about the type of jets the Ukrainian military needs and there are member states that are able to supply them. Slovakia wants to end the operation of MIG-29 fighters as soon as possible. The Mig-29 was to serve until 2023, when Slovakia should take over the new American F-16 fighters.
The EU will close the airspace for all aircraft registered in Russia, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. According to her, the ban will also affect those aircraft that are “controlled by Russia” and private jets of “Russian oligarchs”.
Ankara has called Russia's special military operation in Ukraine a war and will invoke the relevant provisions of the Montreux Convention on the Bosporus and Dardanelles. Thus, Turkey, in accordance with the convention, decided to close the passage through the straits to the warships of Russia and Ukraine. An exception is the return to the port of the main parking.
The EU has introduced a new package of sanctions, which includes a complete ban on flights of Russian aircraft over its entire territory. This ban applies to all aircraft, including private ones.
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he “did not offer to bomb Ukraine,” but called for speeding up actions to “eliminate the Bandera people.” He stated this after he called for the deployment of "a large-scale operation in all directions" in Ukraine.
During the operation in Ukraine, there are dead and wounded, the Russian Defense Ministry said, without disclosing their number. “But our losses are many times less than the destroyed nationalists. And losses among the military personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces, ” the defense department said.
On 26 February 2022, Ukraine filed an application instituting proceedings against the Russian Federation before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, concerning “a dispute . . . relating to the interpretation, application and fulfilment of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” (the “Genocide Convention”). In its Application, Ukraine contends, inter alia, that “the Russian Federation has falsely claimed that acts of genocide have occurred in the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts of Ukraine, and on that basis recognized the so-called ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ and ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’, and then declared and implemented a ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine”. Ukraine “emphatically denies” that such genocide has occurred and states that it submitted the Application “to establish that Russia has no lawful basis to take action in and against Ukraine for the urpose of preventing and punishing any purported genocide”.
The Foreign Ministries of Germany and Finland recommended their citizens to refrain from traveling to Russia.
A message appeared on the Telegram channel of the founder of the messenger, Pavel Durov, stating that users had asked them not to consider shutting down Telegram channels for the period of the conflict, because the messenger is the only source of information for them. “In connection with these appeals, we have decided not to consider such measures. However, once again I ask you to double-check and not take on faith the data that is published in Telegram channels during this difficult period, ”he wrote.
Ukraine does not plan to capitulate following the results of negotiations with Russia, but does not exclude the conclusion of peace, said the country's Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that channels in the messenger are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events. He urged users to "check all channel publications for authenticity."
“We do not want Telegram to be used as a tool that aggravates conflicts and incites ethnic hatred. In the event of an escalation of the situation, we will consider the possibility of partially or completely restricting the operation of Telegram channels in the countries involved for the duration of the conflict,” Durov added.
Ukraine’s health ministry said that 352 civilians, including 14 children, had been killed since the beginning of Russia’s military operations in the country. It also said that 1,684 people, including 116 children, had been wounded.
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