“We will never feel safe again if Putin succeeds in Ukraine,” says the United Kingdom.
“If Putin succeeds, there will be indescribable additional misfortunes across Europe and terrible consequences around the world,” said British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
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Ukraine’s fate hangs in the balance, and Western allies must “double” their support for the country to ensure that Putin fails in Ukraine, the UK’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
“Ukraine’s victory is a strategic imperative for all of us,” Liz Trus said in a speech in London last night, arguing that the Group of Seven industrialized nations and their allies must keep up pressure on Russia through tougher sanctions, including a power outage. “. and gas imports once and for all ”, providing additional military assistance and ongoing humanitarian support.
“If Putin succeeds, there will be indescribable additional misfortunes across Europe and terrible consequences around the world,” she said, adding that “we will never feel safe again.”
“So we need to be prepared for the long road and redouble our support for Ukraine,” she said. Trus’s comments come at a time when tensions between Western nations and Russia have risen sharply, with President Vladimir Putin warning that Russia will respond to any intervention in the war in Ukraine.
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Blinken says Europe has “ambitious” plans to reduce energy dependence on Russia
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken heard during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington, DC, April 26, 2022. Blinken and the Secretary of Defense on Monday committed a total of $ 713 million in foreign military funding to Ukraine and 15 Allied and 15 partner countries.
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European countries have “truly ambitious” plans to reduce their dependence on Russian energy, said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, adding that “further progress” is expected on Russian oil imports in the coming weeks.
“I think Europeans have really ambitious plans to move away from this dependence on Russian energy. The challenge is to make them happen, “Blinken said at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. About half of Russia’s 4.7 million barrels a day go to the EU. Terminating them would deprive Moscow of a large flow of revenue.
“I think you will probably see further progress in the oil part of the equation on Russian imports in the coming weeks. Gas is a bigger challenge, “he added.
The European Union is considering options to reduce Russian oil imports as part of possible further sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, but none has been formally proposed as governments assess their impact.
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The White House is about to make a “massive” request for funding for more aid to Ukraine
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The White House is preparing to send a request to Congress for additional aid to Ukraine as early as Thursday, administration officials confirmed to NBC News.
Officials described the amount of the request as “huge”, but would not provide a specific amount in dollars, as some details have not been finalized.
Officials said the requested amount in dollars should be able to finance US support for Ukraine by the end of the current fiscal year, which ends in September. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, the Biden administration has authorized $ 3.4 billion in military aid.
Last week, President Joe Biden said he was running out of congressional funding and would soon send a request to lawmakers.
The latest $ 800 million military aid package, the eighth installment of the aid, comes after eight weeks of war and as Russian forces prepare for a resumed battle in eastern and southern Ukraine.
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Putin threatens to take revenge on anyone who intervenes in the war in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin walks past a guard during a ceremony in honor of the country’s Olympians and Paralympians at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, April 26, 2022.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned world leaders not to interfere in what he continues to call a “special military operation” in Ukraine.
“I want to emphasize once again that the special military operation in Ukraine and Donbass, which began in February, will definitely meet all objectives to ensure the security of the people of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, Russia’s Crimea. and our whole country, “Putin told the Russian Legislative Council in St. Petersburg.
He said that the Russian military had prevented “a real threat looming over our country.” Putin added that the Kremlin would retaliate against anyone who interfered in the ongoing military operation.
“Our response, our revenge, these attacks will be lightning fast. We have all the tools for that. Such tools that no one can boast of … and we will use them if necessary. I want everyone to know that, “Putin said.
It was not immediately clear what was meant by tools. Putin also said that rafts of global sanctions against Russia had failed to “suffocate us economically.”
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