re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Looks like Sean Penn is in Ukraine.

Nothing to fear now. Sean is gonna take down Putin.

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LATEST

• 40m Russian Convoy by Kyiv(Maxar)
• Belarus troops reportedly in Ukraine
• Heavy Bombing of Kharkiv
• Maersk Suspends shipping to/from Russia
• Russian convoys destroyed across Ukraine
• Diplomats walk out on Lavrov
• Zelensky addresses EU
• Australia sending $50m in lethal aid

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Two of the world’s biggest container shipping companies are halting cargo bookings to and from Russia.

“As the stability and safety of our operations is already being directly and indirectly impacted by sanctions, new Maersk bookings to and from Russia will be temporarily suspended, with exception of foodstuffs, medical and humanitarian supplies,” shipping giant Maersk said in a statement on Tuesday.
“We are deeply concerned by how the crisis keeps escalating in Ukraine,” the company added noting that it starts “seeing the effect on global supply chain flows such as delays, detention of cargo by customs authorities across various transshipment hubs, unpredictable operational impacts.”

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will also stop all cargo bookings to and from Russia starting today, “covering all access areas including Baltics, Black Sea and Far East Russia,” the company said in a statement.

MSC will continue to accept and screen bookings for delivery of essential goods such as food, medical equipment and humanitarian goods.

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BREAKING - Russia, Ukraine to hold second round of talks on March 2 - TASS

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Is Poland ruling out giving Ukraine jets or just sending its own aircraft into Ukraine? I keep reading this quote:

President Duda:"We are not sending any jets to Ukraine because that would open a military interference in the Ukrainian conflict. We are not joining that conflict"

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Ukraine asks China to make Russia stop war, says Ukrainian foreign ministry

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Please tell me what a financial analyst that’s never shot a gun in his life or a granny with a Molotov cocktail is going to do the Russian army?

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The Russian military said Tuesday it will carry out strikes against the facilities in Kyiv, warning civilians living near the areas to leave.

The Russians will target the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the 72nd Main Center for Information and Psychological Operations (PSO) in Kyiv, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement Tuesday via Russian state news agency TASS.

"In order to suppress information attacks against Russia, the technological facilities of the SBU and the 72nd main PSO center in Kyiv will be hit with high-precision weapons," the statement said, according to TASS. "We call on Ukrainian citizens attracted by Ukrainian nationalists to carry out provocations against Russia, as well as residents of Kyiv living near relay nodes leave their homes."

Speaking about the "relay nodes," CNN's Clarissa Ward said, "we understand that to mean communications towers. So large antennas, things of that nature."

"This is not a surprise in a sense that people here have been bracing themselves for an uptick in the Russian onslaught. Up until now, most attacks have really been targeting the outskirts of the city. But now it appears that things will move to the center of the capital as so many had feared," Ward said.

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The US is closing in on deciding whether it will join a global release of up to 60 million barrels of crude oil, including from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as President Joe Biden seeks to dampen the effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on gas prices at home.

The total number of barrels released globally could range from 50 million to 60 million barrels, senior administration officials and others familiar with the matter said, though sources cautioned that a decision had not yet been finalized and deliberations were still underway Tuesday morning.

Other allies are also expected to dip into their stockpiles in a coordinated effort to bring down energy costs amid the ongoing Russian invasion. They include Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and other major European countries, as well as Japan and South Korea.

US officials have spent the last several weeks on calls and in meetings with their counterparts in key energy-supplying countries in an effort to secure commitments to backfill any market disruptions. The effort included an in-person visit to Saudi Arabia from two senior administration officials to discuss the need to address the impact on oil markets. The US informed Saudi Arabia ahead of the oil reserve announcement.

The White House has not laid out any specific commitments and White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to say whether any specific request for supply increases had been made when asked this week during a briefing.

Biden signaled his intent to release the oil last week.

"We are actively working with countries around the world to evaluate a collective release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves of major energy-consuming countries. And the United States will release additional barrels of oil as conditions warrant,” he said.
The Paris-based International Energy Agency is holding a last-minute meeting Tuesday on oil supply with the goal of “stabilizing markets," it said earlier this week. The meeting with be chaired by US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.

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