Incidents

The US Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on Andriy Portnov, a former deputy head of the administration and adviser to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, as part of the global "Magnitsky Act".

In Ukraine, they proposed to fine for public denial of "the armed aggression of the Russian Federation" and "the occupation of the territory by Russia."

At the meeting of the contact group on Donbass, Kiev took time to prepare an updated version of the project aimed at ensuring the implementation of the ceasefire measures.

There were members of the general's family and his assistants among the passengers.

The Kiev Court of Appeal in Kiev granted permission to detain the former Prosecutor General of Crimea, and now the Russian Ambassador to Cape Verde, Natalya Poklonskaya, who is suspected of high treason in Ukraine.

Eleven confirmed cases of infection with the new omicron coronavirus strain are now registered in Italy.

CIA Director William Burns said that he turned gray while working in Moscow.

Belarus will ban imports of a number of goods from the European Union and the United Kingdom as a response to "illegal external sanctions".

The situation around Ukraine has escalated, in part because of the actions of the European Union, which is acting as a "warmonger" and attempting to disrupt Russia's "sphere of influence".

If the opposition seized power in Belarus, it would bring NATO troops to the Russian border.

The EU has described as speculation the Financial Times' information that a number of its members were initially sceptical of US intelligence about Russia's plans to "invade" Ukraine, the European Commission has said.

The list of Belarusian enterprises that fell under Western sanctions raises bewilderment about the professionalism of those who prepared them, said Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko.

The omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has reached the Australian capital Canberra and has been identified in a fully vaccinated person who has not traveled abroad, ABC reported.

An unprecedented increase in the number of new cases of coronavirus has occurred in the Republic of South Africa in a short period of time amid the spread of a new strain of "omicron".

Sergei Tsekov negatively assessed the statement of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the unacceptability of the thesis that Russia has its own sphere of interests.