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April 8, 2022

Courtesy of The Council on Foreign Relations [Website: https://www.cfr.org]

di Emanuele G. - sabato 9 aprile 2022 - 3971 letture

Top of the Agenda

Russian Strike Kills Dozens Waiting to Evacuate in Eastern Ukraine

A Russian strike hit a Ukrainian railway station (NYT) used to evacuate civilians today, killing at least thirty-nine people and wounding more than ninety, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the attack, while Russia’s defense ministry said reports blaming Russian forces were a “provocation.” People have rushed to evacuate Ukraine’s east in recent days over fears of a new Russian offensive.

Three senior European officials are in Kyiv today (RFE/RL) for talks with Zelenskyy. Yesterday, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreed to supply Ukraine (FT) with new types of advanced weapons, and the UN General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, with ninety-three countries voting in favor, twenty-four voting against, and fifty-eight abstaining.

Analysis

“It is not too late to help Ukraine defend itself and, in so doing, defend the nonproliferation regime. Ukraine should have everything it needs in terms of armor, air and coastal defenses, aircraft, and intelligence support to successfully repel the Russian invasion and recover its territory,” Harvard University’s Mariana Budjeryn writes for Foreign Affairs.

“As Russian strikes reduce Ukrainian cities to ruin—killing, injuring and terrorizing thousands of civilians—comparisons have been made with the second world war, but there was a much more recent precedent. The tactics, and even some of Russia’s soldiers, have come direct from the civil war in Syria—which Moscow joined in 2015,” the Guardian’s Emma Graham-Harrison and Airwars’ Joe Dyke write for the Guardian.

CFR offers background and fresh analysis on the war in Ukraine.

Pacific Rim

Japan to Move Away From Russian Coal Imports

The pledge is part of Japan’s sanctions (Kyodo) on Russia for invading Ukraine. Russia supplies about 13 percent of the coal Japan uses for power generation.

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