Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

The leaders of the G7 member states said that they would be with Ukraine for as long as necessary.
The Ukrainian army is trying to leave Lysychansk while the Russian assault forces are already deep in the city.
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Ukraine.

"Putin could attack outside Ukraine"

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he is planning to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the coming days to find a way to export Ukraine's grain to the world markets through the Black Sea.

Over 70% of people surveyed in the EU agree with the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia, with two-thirds feeling that more stringent sanctions should be imposed. Support for economic sanctions is particularly high in Scandinavian countries, the Baltic states, Romania, Poland and Ireland.

"You are our enemy, we are fighting against our own people, you have taken our peaceful life, you have destroyed our state," are some of the words that soldiers and officers are addressing the President of Ukraine, Sputnik reported.

The Ukrainian edition of Forbes compiled the Friends of Ukraine rankings using criteria including the amount of aid, the number of expelled Russian diplomats, the attitude of state leaders - presidents and prime ministers, and the relative share of aid to Ukraine in gross domestic product. Bulgaria is missing from the list of 20 countries.

Shortly afterwards, the Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger spoke up, saying that his country had donated its S-300 air defense system to help Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression.

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution terminating Russia's participation in the Human Rights Council.

"The UN General Assembly has suspended Russia's participation in the UN Human Rights Council," the statement said.

93 delegations voted in favor of the resolution, 24 against and 58 abstentions.

The countries of the Group of Seven (G-7) will increase pressure on Russia, including by imposing additional sanctions on Russian state structures. G7 leaders said this in a statement issued yesterday after the summit.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia wants to focus on capturing Donbass in the coming weeks.
The U.S. Treasury Department today imposed sanctions on the most prominent dark website Hydra, based in Russia and the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, which it claims operates primarily from Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Ministry's website said.