South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the governing African National Congress party has decided that South Africa should exit the International Criminal Court after it issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges last month, accusing him of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children to Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has approved 2 new laws that are designed to remove remnants of Ukraine’s Russian culture and will rename places across the country that carry Russian influence. Local authorities will also be required to “free public space from the symbols of the Russian world.”
Former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, told reporters on Tuesday that a ‘quiet partition’ of Ukraine among its neighbors “would be better than Ukraine in NATO or a World War.”
Beijing is backpedaling and referring to comments made by its ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, as personal views after his statements regarding former Soviet states erupted in controversy and fury across Europe and resulted in the summoning of ambassadors.
Local authorities announced that thousands of individuals living in residential buildings in the Russian city of Belgor close to the border with Ukraine were evacuated following the discovery of explosive devices according to Tagesschau.de.