Two months after the start of the war, the road of exodus is still very busy. Nearly 5.3 million Ukrainian refugees have fled their country since the invasion by Russian troops, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Wednesday, April 27. Lhe UN estimates in its new projections that 3 million additional refugees could be added to the cohort of those who have already fled fighting and incessant bombardments, by the end of this year. Follow our live.
Gazprom is closing the floodgates in Poland and Bulgaria. The Russian oil group Gazprom will interrupt, on Wednesday, its gas deliveries to these two countriesalmost that Warsaw and Sofia refused to pay Moscow in rubles. A strong and worrying decision for the rest of Europe which comes the day after the evocation of a “real danger of World War III” by the head of Kremlin diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov.
Moldova is strengthening its security. Authorities in Chisinau have stepped up security after explosions in the separatist region of Transdniestria. kyiv accuses Moscow of seeking “destabilize”. US warns against attempts to“escalation of tensions” in this pro-Russian Moldavian separatist region bordering Ukraine.
Putin has the “political space” to withdraw from Ukraine. “Given the massive Russian support for what he is doing, the apparent indifference of the Russian media to what is really happening in Ukraine, the paradox is that Putin has plenty of political space to back up and withdraw”said Boris Johnson on TalkTV.
The UN now imposes the obligation to justify any veto. The United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus on Tuesday a resolution requiring the five permanent members of the Security Council to justify their use of the veto. A rare reform that was revived by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Directly targeting the United States, China, Russia, France and the United Kingdom, the only holders of the veto, the measure initiated by Liechtenstein is intended to “to pay a higher political price” when they use it, summarizes an ambassador from a country that does not have one and asks to remain anonymous.