2023-04-25 19:43:00
Here’s what you need to know today regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
The Spanish fashion group Tendam will reopen its stores in Russia through a Belarusian companysaid its CEO to Archyde.commodeled following Mango, which transferred its stores to Russian franchisees last year.
Last month, Tendam agreed with the Belarusian company ALC Belvirineja to divest its business in Russia under a franchise agreement. The third largest fashion retailer in Spain has kept its 19 stores in Russia closed since March last yearalong with many Western companies that suspended operations in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States on Moscow.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, criticized on Tuesday the Russian invasion of Ukraine and described it as an “insane war”. During a visit to Spain, the president stated that his country was committed to finding a peace formula to end the conflict, according to what he reported. Archyde.com.
“I understand the European vision of this war. It is unacceptable for one country to invade another, but it is a war in which I do not see anyone talking regarding peace ”Lula expressed in a speech during a business conference.
On Tuesday, Sweden informed Russia that five employees of the embassy in Stockholm had to leave the country on suspicion of espionage. Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said that his activities were “incompatible” with his diplomatic statusas stated Europa Press. He also added that the Russian ambassador, Viktor Tatarintsev, had been informed of the expulsions.
The Swedish Security Service (SAPO) recently received a list of names of suspected Moscow intelligence agents, the SVT broadcaster reported. Last year, Sweden expelled three officials from the Russian embassy..
This Thursday, Pope Francis will receive Denys ShmyhalPrime Minister of Ukraine, just before traveling the next day to Hungary, a neighboring country, where he will meet with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of Vladimir Putin’s few allies in Europe.
As reported by LA NACION, Shymhal travels to Rome in the framework of a bilateral conference with Italy on the reconstruction of the country that will take place on Wednesday in that capital, which will be attended by various ministers of the Giorgia Meloni government and some 700 businessmen.
This is the first high-ranking official of the government of Volodimir Zelensky to see the leader of the Catholic Church since the war in Ukraine began.
The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, manifested this Tuesday that, “With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the freedom of the country is once once more in real danger” and reiterated that the country sided with kyiv, as reported by ANSA.
“In this new bipolarity, Italy made its choice of side, and it is a clear decision. We are on the side of freedom and democracy, without buts”, said Meloni.
A court in Russia found former police officer Semiel Vedel guilty of spreading false information regarding the military for judge invasion in Ukraine in conversations with his friends and sentenced him to seven years in prison. In addition, he was disqualified from opting for work in that same area for four years following serving his sentence, in accordance with AP.
In three phone conversations with friends last year, Vedel referred to Russia as a “murderous country”, greeted with the phrase “glory to Ukraine” and said that Russia suffered “enormous losses” in Ukraine, according to the prosecutor. Officials deemed the conversations public because the man’s phone was tapped and an investigator was listening in on the conversations.
Vedel, who was born in Ukraine, said he was limiting himself to giving information he received from friends in the Kiev police department whom he trusted.
A court in Germany denied a marriage’s petition to legally change their last name, which sounds Russian, due to the negative repercussions that, according to them, they have experienced since the war in Ukraine began. This decision can still be appealed.
The couple had tried to force officials in the southwestern state of Rhineland-Palatinate to authorize the change, claiming that they and their daughter had suffered in their daily lives because of their surname. “The fact that a surname is foreign or does not sound German is generally not an important reason in itself for a name change”indicated the court in its statement and added that his financial situation had not been affected either.
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, on Tuesday asked Georgia to demonstrate progress in its judicial reform and more freedom of the press to get closer to its objective of entering the European Union (EU), according to Europa Press.
Despite noting that “the future of the country is in the EU”the community leader stated following meeting in Brussels with the Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Garibashvili, that in order to advance on the European path it was “crucial” that Georgia take steps in the implementation of “key” reforms.
The Italian company Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI) broke ground on its first liquefied natural gas project in the Republic of the Congo, an African country that is one of Rome’s bets to diversify its suppliers. The ceremony took place in Pointe-Noire and brought together the Congolese president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, and the CEO of the oil and gas giant, Claudio Descalzi.
The project will have the capacity to produce three million tons (4.5 billion cubic meters) of liquefied natural gas per year. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Italy began to strengthen its relationship with other natural gas suppliers to reduce its energy dependence on Russia, the world’s largest exporter of the raw material.
The German automaker Mercedes-Benz announced on Tuesday its complete withdrawal from the Russian market, more than a year following the start of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The shares of the Russian subsidiaries of the German manufacturer were sold to an investoras stated by the company in Stuttgart.
Mercedes explained that the necessary official authorizations were granted and that the corresponding contractual agreements were executed. The transaction took place this April and the buyer is the local Avtodom dealeralthough he did not offer more details.
The All England Club will cover the cost of rooms for Ukrainian tennis players and their companions during the lawn tennis season and will donate one British pound (regarding $1.25) for every ticket sold at Wimbledon as humanitarian aid to Ukraine, which might reach regarding 620 thousand dollars, following allowing the presence of players from Russia and Belarus in the tournament despite the war.
Carolyn Nordengripwho between 2018 and 20022 held a seat in the Swedish Parliament for the far-right party Sweden Democrats, confirmed that joined the regular forces of the Ukrainian Army.
The former deputy confirmed the news through her Instagram profile and thanked all the messages of support she has received following learning of her decision to join the Ukrainian forces. In a later interview for Radio Svoboda, Nordengrip confirmed that she will serve in the 47th Magura mechanized brigade and that she will soon be sent to the front.
A Russian missile hit a museum in the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Tuesday, caused the death of two women and injured ten othersthe state emergency service said. Rescue teams dug through piles of rubble to recover the bodies following the local history museum was hit by what President Volodimir Zelensky’s chief of staff and the regional governor said was a Russian S-300 missile.
The Russian authorities reported on Tuesday that they decided to expel a diplomat from the Moldovan Embassy in the country, in response to a similar measure taken on April 19 by the Moldovan Foreign Ministry during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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