It has been reported that the Ukrainian Security Service has assassinated its own delegation memmber at talks with Russia on suspicion of high treason.
Many observers speculate that Putin invaded Ukraine because he wanted to prevent NATO from expanding to Russia’s border. He felt increasingly threatened by a Ukrainian government formed in the aftermath of a 2014 Obama-backed coup. It is highly unlikely that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine without first receiving the approval of China’s Xi Jinping.
In retaliation for US sanctions over Ukraine, Russia has chosen to suspend delivering rocket engines to the US, according to Dmitry Rogozin, the director of the national space agency Roscosmos.
Sergei Naryshkin, the chief of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), claimed that the SVR had gotten information indicating that Ukraine was engaged in developing its very own nuclear weapons. President Volodymyr Zelensky's warnings to quit the Budapest Agreement, according to Naryshkin, were "not an empty promise."
Since February 21, when Russia acknowledged the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, laying the groundwork for the special military operation three days later, Western nations have instituted a succession of economic sanctions against hundreds of Russian political leaders and corporate tycoons who regulate the country's media, financial institutions, oil refineries, and other critical industries.
After European Union prohibited the selling and leasing of planes to Russian airlines the Russian government might decide to nationalize Boeing and Airbus jets.
Russian oligarchs seems to be on the run as Russian President Vladimir Putin's incursions into Ukraine enter their seventh day. Reportedly these Russian oligarchs are fleeing to Maldives in their luxury yachts as US plans to seize their assets.
A top State Department official recently informed Congress that Washington is considering sanctions against India over its acquisition of Russian arms. The US is also pressuring India to distance itself from Moscow in the present Ukraine situation.
As a consequence for Moscow's military invasion on the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, the International Feline Federation (FIFe) has slapped Russian cats with sanctions banning them from competing in its events.
Even though America is threatening Russia with sanctions they still pay Putin $70 million per day for oil which helps them in their attack of Ukraine.
