Russia’s president criticizes the West as the country faces a new massive wave of sanctions, while Ukraine's president asks to be admitted into the European Union.
When the Bush Administration announced in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia would be eligible for NATO membership, I knew it was a terrible idea. Nearly two decades after the end of both the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War, expanding NATO made no sense. NATO itself made no sense.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), an independent group of experts who advise the UK’s government health departments on immunizations published a report on 16 February stating, ‘JCVI advises a non-urgent offer at two 10mcg doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to children aged 5 to 11 years of age who are not in a clinical risk group.’
In the latest development out of the Donbas, Reuters reports that under its new agreement with separatist leaders, Russia has a right to build and establish military bases in eastern Ukraine.