Ukraine War Escalation: Russia Just Threatened the Lives of EU Diplomats Still in Kyiv

Russia brushes off US call not to launch ‘systemic strikes’ on Kyiv

By Jonathan Landay and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday leveled unusually harsh criticism against Russia and called for it to refrain from its promised “systematic strikes” against Kyiv, ​but Moscow brushed off the appeal and reiterated a warning ‌to foreign diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital. The statements came during a U.N. Security Council session requested by Ukraine in response to Russia’s…

Ukraine War Escalation: Russia Just Threatened the Lives of EU Diplomats Still in Kyiv

Summary and Key Points: Russia launched one of its heaviest aerial assaults on Kyiv in months, firing hundreds of drones and missiles, including Iskanders and a rare Oreshnik. Security Council deputy chair Dmitry Medvedev threatened EU diplomats remaining in Kyiv, and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned of more ‘retaliatory strikes.’ Tu-160 bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons. -Yet Russia’s May offensive was its slowest since …

EU weighs gravity of Russia’s threat to bomb diplomats in Kyiv

Ritual condemnation of death threats against EU diplomats in Kyiv masks concern Russia could bomb a European embassy and get away with it.

EA on WION: Worried Kremlin Threatens to Obliterate Kyiv

Analyzing threats of concerned Kremlin to obliterate Ukraine's capital Kyiv, its residents, & diplomats in city -- and calling out war crimes The post EA on WION: Worried Kremlin Threatens to Obliterate Kyiv appeared first on EA WorldView.