UK announces easing of its rules allowing Ukrainians to obtain visas into the country after facing widespread backlash over its response to the growing refugee crisis.
estimated 2 million peopleIwanowa, originally from the Poltava region in central Ukraine, told NBC News earlier this week that she and her daughter, Anastasia, 6, and son, Artem, 10, were forced to flee their home because the Russian Army was approaching. She left her husband, a retired soldier, behind to fight.
"I told him that before the Russian soldiers came to our territory everything was fine with our nuclear power plants," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told reporters following his high-level meeting in Turkey with Russia's Sergey Lavrov.His comments came amid concerns about the Chernobyl plant after it was disconnected from the national power grid.
Kuleba said:"The best thing that Russia can do right now is withdraw its troops from our nuclear power stations."Mithil AggarwalUkraine is investigating 38 cases of alleged treason against local officials and law enforcement officers accused of aiding Russia, the State Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday.
Following the high-level meeting in Antalya, Turkey, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia appeared to"seek surrender from Ukraine, but this is not what they are going to get."Kyiv"cannot stop the war if the aggressor country does not want to do so," he added.