Month: March 2022

Євросоюз

Reporter’s Notebook: ‘The Future Is Here’

Marina, a 34-year-old mother of a seven-year-old boy, waves a hand in what she thinks is the direction of Ukraine. “I have to stay near Ukraine, and my husband, that is where my heart is,” she says. “America, Britain, Spain, Italy, what would I do there without him,” she says, after I ask her whether she will leave Poland to settle somewhere else, if Russia’s war on her country drags on. It took Marina more than a day to reach the Polish border on the train from just west of Kyiv. She says it was stultifying and claustrophobic in the …

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Суспільство

Мирні жителі у Запорізькій області не припиняють виходити на вулиці проти загарбників з РФ

У Запорізькій області мешканці міст, тимчасово окупованих російськими військами, продовжують збиратися на акції протесту проти загарбників. Так, щоденно зранку на ходу центром міста виходять жителі Приморська. Відеотрансляцію 14 березня організував місцевий інтернет-портал. Під час акції її учасники також висловили підтримку мерам міст, захоплених агресором, та жителям Маріуполя. Активісти скандували «Приморськ – це Україна!», «Мелітополь, ми з тобою!», «Дніпрорудний, ми з тобою!», «Маріуполь ми з тобою!». Опівдні на акцію супротиву окупантам вийшли мешканці Бердянська. Вони пройшлися центром міста з національними прапорами, співаючи гімн України. Відео з заходу оприлюднив місцевий портал. На акції протесту продовжують збиратися і жителі Мелітополя, де раніше російські …

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Євросоюз

Germany to Buy F-35 Fighter Jets in Military Spending Spree  

Germany plans to buy up to 35 U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets and 15 Eurofighter jets, a parliamentary source said Monday, as part of a major push to modernize the armed forces in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The F-35 jets made by Lockheed Martin would help replace Germany’s decades-old Tornado fleet, according to media reports confirmed by the source. Tornados are the only jets capable of carrying U.S. nuclear bombs stationed in Germany that are a key part of NATO deterrence. Lockheed’s F-35 stealth jets are considered the most modern combat aircraft in the world, and their unique shape …

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Євросоюз

Germany to Buy up to 35 Lockheed F-35 Fighter Jets – Sources

BERLIN — Germany will purchase F-35 fighter jets built by U.S. firm Lockheed Martin LMT.N to replace its aging Tornado aircraft, according to two government sources, with one of the sources saying Berlin aims to buy up to 35 of the stealth jets.  A German defense source told Reuters in early February that Germany was leaning toward purchasing the F-35 but a final decision had not been taken.   The Tornado is the only German jet capable of carrying U.S. nuclear bombs, stored in Germany, in case of a conflict.  But the air force has been flying the jet since the …

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Євросоюз

IMF: Russian Default No Longer ‘Improbable,’ but No Trigger for Global Financial Crisis

Russia may default on its debts in the wake of unprecedented sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, but that would not trigger a global financial crisis, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Sunday. Georgieva told CBS’s “Face the Nation” program that sanctions imposed by the United States and other democracies were already having a “severe” impact on the Russian economy and would trigger a deep recession there this year. The war and the sanctions would also have significant spillover effects on neighboring countries that depended on Russian energy supplies and had already resulted in a wave of …

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