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yaesu's JournalIMF says could approve $1.4 billion emergency funding as early as next week, warns of 'severe impact
The International Monetary Fund has said it expects to bring Ukraine’s request for $1.4 billion in emergency financing to its board for approval as early as next week as it warned the war will have a “severe impact” on the global economy.
The IMF also said it was in talks about funding options with authorities in neighbouring Moldova, reports Reuters.
The global lender said in a statement that the war in Ukraine was already driving up energy and grain prices amid a growing refugee crisis and unprecedented sanctions on Russia.
“While the situation remains highly fluid and the outlook is subject to extraordinary uncertainty, the economic consequences are already very serious,” the IMF said in a statement.
US urges US citizens living or traveling in Russia to 'depart immediately'
The US government has warned American citizens living or traveling in Russia to “depart immediately”.
In new guidelines, published today, the US state department also warned that “some crediot and debit cards may be declined” when purchasing flights due to sanctions, that cash is in short supply and that foreigners may face “potential harassment”, reports BuzzFeed News correspondent Christopher Miller.
can't believe there is any none tRump Americans still in russia but who knows, idc what happens to the tRumpy Americans.
Well, I guess there are UPDATE!
Brittney Griner, one of America’s most decorated women’s basketball players, has reportedly been detained by Russian Federal Customs Service authorities after the discovery of vape cartridges that contained hashish oil in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.
The Customs Service confirmed “the detainee is a professional basketball player” who played in the Women’s National Basketball Association and won two Olympic gold medals with the United States in a statement issued on Saturday, but did not release the player’s name.
Also, noticing tRump loving putin trolls going after anti russian posts, if you spot any put them on your ignore list immediately!
This is a game changer though conditions at the plant are stable, This is an attack on Europe
The Prime Minister said the reckless actions of President Putin could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe
.
@BorisJohnson
spoke with
@ZelenskyyUa
about “the gravely concerning situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station.”
The Brits say in a readout: “The Prime Minister said the reckless actions of President Putin could now directly threaten the safety of all of Europe.”
https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1499583421353447435
In an update posted to Twitter, US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said:
We have seen no elevated radiation readings near the facility.
The plant’s reactors are protected by robust containment structures and reactors are being safely shut down.”
Ukrainian emergency services have confirmed a fire in the training building of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant has been localised just before 6am local time.
Will NATO see this as a threat to NATO countries?
Ukraine & Russia say they have agreed to temporary local cease-fires to create
“humanitarian corridors” so civilians can be evacuated & food & medicine can be delivered
This was reported earlier about the corridors but the cease-fire was new to me
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1499448966055878658?
Ukrainian officials are warning that hackers have broken into local government websites to spread
false reports that Ukraine has capitulated and signed a peace treaty with Moscow, Reuters reports.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainians-say-hackers-used-local-government-sites-spread-fake-capitulation-news-2022-03-03/
Russia has drawn up plans for public executions in Ukraine as and when cities are captured by Russia
Bloomberg cites a European intelligence official as saying that Moscow has drafted strategies to break morale in order to discourage Ukrainians from fighting back as cities fall under the Kremlin’s control.
The official said Moscow plans to crack down on protest, detain opponents and potentially carry out public executions, the news agency writes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/03/ukraine-news-russia-war-vladimir-putin-biden-latest-live-updates-kherson-kyiv-kharkiv-refugees-russian-invasion
Russian Federal Security Service leaked information that alerted Ukraine to an assassination plot
The Russian Federal Security Service leaked information that alerted Ukraine to an assassination plot against president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, according to the cyber-hacking collective Anonymous.
In a recently published tweet, the group said: Russian FSB leaked information alerted Ukraine to assassination plot against President @ZelenskyyUa. Now, we can expect an internal power struggle within the Kremlin to overthrow the Putin regime. In the meantime, let’s continue with the attacks,” the tweet read.
Anonymous also claimed responsibility for taking down the Russian Space Agency website for a second time.
From The Guardian live feed
https://twitter.com/LatestAnonPress/status/1499218376723476481
take it with a grain of salt but is an interest turn if true.
Yellen says U.S. will address potential gaps in Russia sanctions
Source: Reuters
"Russia is increasingly an economic island," she said at the University of Illinois-Chicago after visiting Chicago's Ukrainian Village neighborhood.
Asked whether sanctions to curb Russia's oil and gas exports could follow, she said "nothing is off the table," but added that the United States had not taken this step to spare Americans, Europeans and other people around the world from "punishing consequences."
Sanctions imposed last Sunday and Monday have so far restricted 80% of the Russian banking sector's assets and "immobilized" about half of the Russian central bank's assets, she said.
The rouble, which has lost about a third of its value since the start of the year, touched a fresh record low of 110 to the dollar in Moscow on Wednesday as the country's financial system teetered under the weight of Western sanctions
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yellen-says-us-will-address-potential-leakages-russia-sanctions-2022-03-02/
sanctions imposed last Sunday and Monday have so far restricted 80% of the Russian banking sector
The US Treasury Secretary added that sanctions imposed last Sunday and Monday have so far restricted 80% of the Russian banking sector’s assets and “immobilised” about half of the Russian central bank’s assets, according to remarks cited by Reuters news agency.
The rouble, which has lost about a third of its value since the start of the year, touched a fresh record low of 110 to the dollar in Moscow on Wednesday.
The former chair of the US Federal Reserve said she knew there were concerns about members of Russia’s elite using cryptocurrencies as a possible means to evade sanctions, but noted there were anti-money laundering laws in place to prevent that from happening.
The Treasury will continue to “go after oligarchs or Russian elites who are key to President Putin’s corrupt power,” she said.
Washington is preparing a sanctions package targeting more Russian oligarchs as well as their companies and assets, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The original Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yellen-says-us-will-address-potential-leakages-russia-sanctions-2022-03-02/
Russian police have also reportedly detained a well-known survivor of the Siege of Leningrad,
Yelena Osipova, at an anti-war protest in St Petersburg.
https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1499080826599919633
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