UNITED NATIONS – UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths on Monday (Feb. 28) called for the protection of humanitarian workers in Ukraine and for more resources.
The next round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks will take place on the Belarusian-Polish border in the coming days, according to Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation at the talks held in Belarus, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday, Feb. 28.
U.S. intelligence expects Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to throw in his 48,000-strong army into the war raging in Ukraine in the next few hours or days to reinforce Russia in its faltering invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. Treasury made its strongest moves yet to sever Russia’s access to its assets, the White House said Monday, Feb. 28, with measures aimed at both the Russian Central Bank and the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
