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The Spanish Air Force will deploy

from Wing 14 (Albacete) and a detachment of

in Bulgaria for a month and a half in NATO's surveillance mission on the eastern flank.

The Spanish fighters will take off this Friday from the Los Llanos base to the Graf Ignatievo base, from where the contingent will operate, as confirmed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense.

The main mission will be to intercept Russian aircraft flying unidentified over the Black Sea, in the vicinity of allied airspace, at a time of great tension in the region due to the crisis between

and

.

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16:41

Robles guarantees that Spanish fighters will not take on offensive missions in Bulgaria

The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, has guaranteed this Thursday that the

that Spain will deploy in Bulgaria will be dedicated to "surveillance and patrolling" tasks and in no case will they assume offensive missions.

In statements to the media, after a tribute to the victims of the pandemic with the Military Emergency Unit (UME), the minister confirmed that the fighters of the 14th Wing of the Air Force will leave this Friday from the base of Los Llanos (Albacete). ) to monitor Black Sea airspace between February 15 and March 31.

In Bulgaria there is already a logistics team that has previously traveled there with the necessary material for the mission of some 130 Spanish troops at the Graf Ignatievo base.

When this operation ends, the four Spanish Eurofighters will travel to Lithuania, where they will be joined by two other aircraft, to continue there with the Baltic Air Police mission, reports Europa Press.

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15:49

Denmark is open to hosting US troops on its territory

Denmark could host

, the Danish government announced Thursday, which will open a negotiation with Washington to strengthen defense cooperation between the two countries.

"We are happy that the United States has reached out to Denmark with a proposal for bilateral cooperation. We have not yet agreed on how it will be, but it may include US soldiers and military equipment on Danish soil," the prime minister told a news conference. social democrat, Mette Frederiksen.

The negotiations will begin in the coming months and, according to Frederiksen, have nothing to do with the current crisis in Ukraine, reports Efe.

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14.50

Ukraine's ambassador in Geneva: "Our Euro-Atlantic integration will continue"

The integration of

in the Euro-Atlantic sphere (through organizations such as NATO) is included in the country's Constitution and will continue despite pressure from

so that the Alliance does not expand, as the Ukrainian ambassador assured on Thursday for the United Nations in Geneva, Eugenia Filipenko.

"Euro-Atlantic integration is supported by the majority of Ukrainian citizens and will continue," the ambassador stressed at a press conference organized by the Association of Accredited Correspondents to the United Nations (ACANU).

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14.25

Russia says a collective EU response does not satisfy it

The Russian Foreign Minister,

has assured that

is not satisfied with a collective response from the European Union (EU) on the interpretation of the principle of the indivisibility of security in Europe, and expects an individual response from each of its member countries.

"As I have heard, instead of honest answers from each country, the EU wants to present a collective role, which will not reflect the nuances of national positions," Lavrov said at a press conference at the end of the talks with his British counterpart, Liz Truss.

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13.26

Eastern Europe is wary of diplomatic games between Russia and Western countries

Witnesses of the tension between

and Western countries, unknown since the end of the

, the countries of the former communist bloc maintain firm positions and warn of the risks of making concessions to

.

French rhetoric about "legitimate" Russian concerns, coupled with Germany's and Russia's close energy ties, have made countries like Poland and the Baltic states wary of great-power diplomacy.

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13.14

Lavrov assures that the troops will return to their bases after the maneuvers in Belarus

Russian Foreign Minister

today assured that Russian troops will return to their bases after joint military exercises in Belarus, something that, he said, does not happen with the deployment of allied soldiers and weapons in Eastern Europe.

"The fact that after military maneuvers the troops return to their barracks is normal. As far as duration is concerned, it is a sovereign right of each government," Lavrov said at a press conference after meeting with his British counterpart, Liz Truss. .

Lavrov described as "drama" that every day reminds more of a "comedy" the Western reaction to the maneuvers "Allied Determination-2020" that started on Thursday in several Belarusian military ranges, some along the border with Ukraine.

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12.50

NATO sends a letter to Lavrov to continue the dialogue on Ukraine

Secretary

General

has assured

this Thursday that he has sent a letter to the

Foreign Minister , Sergei Lavrov, in which he invites him to continue the dialogue to resolve the crisis due to Moscow's military concentration around

.

"This morning I have sent a letter to Foreign Minister Lavrov in which I reiterate my invitation to Russia to continue our dialogue in a series of meetings of the NATO-Russia Council (forum for meeting between the two parties) to find a diplomatic way of move forward," Stoltenberg said at a press conference with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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12.23

Borrell responds on behalf of the EU to Lavrov's letters to the states

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs,

, announced this Thursday that he had responded "on behalf of the EU Member States" to the letters sent individually by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, so that take a separate position on the crisis in Ukraine.

"I have responded on behalf of the EU Member States to the letters they had received from Minister Lavrov," confirmed Borrell through his Twitter account.

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12.20

Albares addresses security in Europe with the Secretary General of NATO

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain,

, has addressed this Thursday in Brussels the new Strategic Concept and the security situation in Europe with the Secretary General of

, Jens Stoltenberg, with whom he has also discussed details of the summit of Alliance in Madrid in June.

"With the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, we discussed the Madrid Summit, the new Strategic Concept and the security situation in Europe," Albares said on his official Twitter account.

This meeting takes place coinciding with the beginning of the Russian military maneuvers in Belarus, near the border with Ukraine, and one day after Albares visited Kiev to transfer the support of the Spanish State to the Ukrainian authorities at a time of great tension with the neighboring Russia.

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12.13

The president of Ukraine tries to calm European companies due to the tension with Russia

The President of

,

has sent a message of calm to the European business community amid tensions with

to encourage it to continue investing in the country, describing the deployment of Russian soldiers on the border as "psychological pressure". ".

The president has met with representatives of the European Business Association (EBA) to whom he has informed of the security situation in Ukraine and its borders, since it is a concern for both national and foreign companies.

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12.10

Spain will deploy four Eurofighters in the NATO surveillance mission in Bulgaria

The Spanish Air Force will deploy

from Wing 14 (Albacete) and a detachment of

in Bulgaria for a month and a half in NATO's surveillance mission on the eastern flank.

The Spanish fighters will take off this Friday from the Los Llanos base to the Graf Ignatievo base, from where the contingent will operate, as confirmed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense.

The main mission will be to intercept Russian aircraft flying unidentified over the Black Sea, in the vicinity of allied airspace, at a time of great tension in the region due to the crisis between

and

.

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12.06

UK asks Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine border to defuse tension

The British Foreign Minister,

, has asked

on Thursday to withdraw the troops deployed on the

border to start a de-escalation between Moscow and Western countries, which fear a military invasion.

"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told me today that Russia does not contemplate invading Ukraine, but these words must be followed by action and we need to see troops and equipment stationed on the Ukrainian border moved elsewhere," he said. stressed Truss after a meeting with his Russian counterpart.

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12.00

Russia begins naval maneuvers in the Black Sea amid crisis with Ukraine

The Black Sea Fleet of the

has begun tactical naval exercises in these waters in which ships from the Northern and Baltic fleets will also participate, amid tensions with

, which is threatened by the increase in military activities. russians

According to a statement from the press service of the military entity cited by Interfax, these are "planned maneuvers" that will practice the joint work of mixed naval groups in the Black Sea region, within the framework of the largest Russian naval exercises since the disappearance of the Soviet Union.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Nikolai Yevménov, said on the 4th that these maneuvers, in which a total of more than 140 ships and almost 10,000 soldiers will participate, will take place both in territorial and international waters, from the Mediterranean, the North Seas and Okhotsk, to the Pacific Ocean and the northeastern part of the Atlantic.

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11.48

The ECB asks banks to prepare for possible sanctions on Russia

The

(ECB) asks the banks of the euro area to prepare for possible economic sanctions against

in the event that a détente in the crisis with

is not achieved .

The president of the Supervisory Council of the ECB, Andrea Enria, said this Thursday in a virtual press conference that the direct exposures of the banks of the euro area to Russia are "contained", they are not very high and therefore they are not a major concern.

The concern is more about sanctions and possible turbulence in the financial markets if tensions between Ukraine and Russia increase, according to Enria.

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11.45

Russia, after the negotiations with the United Kingdom: "It has been a dialogue of the deaf"

Foreign Minister

, Sergei Lavrov, has assured this Thursday that the conversations with his British counterpart, Liz Truss, on the situation in

have been a dialogue of the deaf.

"It seems that we hear, but we do not listen," said the head of Russian diplomacy at a joint press conference with Truss, referring to the differences on the situation around Ukraine.

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11.37

The NATO Secretary General assures that the Russian military deployment represents a "dangerous moment" for the security of Europe

The Russian military deployment in

and on the border with

represents a "dangerous moment" for the security of Europe, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, warned on Thursday in Brussels.

"This is a dangerous moment for European security (...) We will defend and protect all our allies. A new aggression by Russia (against Ukraine) will bring about a strengthening of NATO's presence, not a decrease," Stoltenberg said at a news conference with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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11.24

The United Kingdom defends favoring dialogue in the Ukrainian crisis

The British Defense Minister,

has assured that he wishes to favor dialogue with Russia to resolve the

although he warns that NATO would not hesitate to act if necessary.

"We want to talk, we want to find a way out, but Russia is also deploying half of its combat troops ... on the borders of

and in

, and we are not going to let that happen without a reaction from NATO to defend its own members," he stressed in an interview on BBC radio.

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11.10

Kiev asks the OSCE to increase the effectiveness of the observer mission in Donbas

Foreign Minister

,

has defended the need to increase the effectiveness of the observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the Donbas regions occupied by pro-Russian separatist militias since 2014.

"I presented (...) proposals to increase the effectiveness of the OSCE observer mission. It is especially important that its work in the occupied territories be unblocked", he stated at a press conference with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau, who exercises the rotating chairmanship of the OSCE.

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11.07

The head of Russian diplomacy assures that the ultimatums and threats against Russia "do not lead anywhere"

The ultimatums and threats from Western countries against

within the Ukrainian crisis "do not lead anywhere", according to the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergueï Lavrov, on Thursday.

"Ultimatums and threats lead nowhere", but "many of our Western colleagues love this way (of communicating)," he assured, at the start of his meeting in Moscow with his British counterpart, Liz Truss.

If London wants to improve its relations with Moscow, "we will respond in the same way, of course, because we cannot be satisfied with relations that are at their lowest level," Lavrov added.

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10.32

Russian espionage chief assures that Russia has no aggressive plans against Ukraine

The head of the Russian Foreign Espionage Service (SVR), Sergei Naryskin, assured today that

has no aggressive plans against

and has described the information about Russia's alleged plans to invade Ukraine as a "dangerous lie".

"Russia has not had and does not have any aggressive plans in relation to Ukraine," Naryshkin told state television channel Rossia-24.

According to the head of the SVR, the "dangerous lie" about Russia's plans to invade Ukraine began to be spread "from across the Atlantic" and was later joined by European media.

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10.29

London urges Russia to abandon Cold War rhetoric and engage in dialogue

La ministra británica de Exteriores, Liz Truss, ha instado hoy a Rusia a elegir la diplomacia como alternativa a una guerra que sería "un desastre" para la población rusa y ucraniana, y a abandonar la retórica de la Guerra Fría para entablar un diálogo con la OTAN para mejorar la seguridad europea.

"Estoy aquí en el Día del Trabajador Diplomático para urgir a Rusia a elegir el camino de la diplomacia", señaló al inicio de su reunión con el ministro ruso de Exteriores, Serguéi Lavrov.

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09.09

Francia denuncia que las maniobras conjuntas de Rusia y Bielorrusia son "un gesto de gran violencia"

El ministro francés de Asuntos Exteriores, Jean-Yves Le Drian, ha calificado este jueves de "gesto de gran violencia" las maniobras militares que han comenzado a realizar Rusia y Bielorrusia cerca de las fronteras ucranianas.

"Son extremadamente masivos. Hay una acumulación muy importante de ejercicios, en particular en las mismas fronteras de Ucrania", ha relcado Le Drian en la radio France Inter. "Todo nos lleva a pensar que es un gesto de mucha violencia, que nos preocupa", ha sentenciado.

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08.57

Maniobras entre Rusia y Bielorrusia: el presidente de Ucrania denuncia "presión psicológica"

El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, ha denunciado este jueves que los soldados rusos que se aglutinan en masa en las fronetras de su país son un medio de "prisión psicológica", en el día del lanzamiento de maniobras militares conjuntas entre Rusia y Bielorrusia.

"Creemos que la acumulación de tropas cerca de nuestras fronteras constituye un medio de presión psicológica por parte de nuestros vecinos", ha declarado Zelensky en un comunicado.

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08.38

Los dirigentes bálticos se reúnen en Berlín para tratar la crisis de Ucrania

El canciller alemán, Olaf Scholz, recibe este jueves en Berlín a los líderes de los países bálticos, antiguas repúblicas soviéticas que ahora son miembros de la OTAN, para tratar la crisis entre Ucrania y Rusia. "La misión es garantizar la seguridad en Europa y creo que lo conseguiremos", aseguró este miércoles el canciller, que se mostró optimista.

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08.05

Fuerzas rusas siguen llegando a la frontera con Ucrania, según el Pentágono

Estados Unidos dijo el miércoles que Rusia sigue reforzando su presencia militar en la frontera con Ucrania, en un momento en que Francia afirma haber recibido garantías del Kremlin de que no habrá más "escalada" de la crisis.

"Hemos seguido observando, incluso en las últimas 24 horas, capacidades adicionales que llegan desde otras partes de Rusia hacia la frontera con Ucrania y Bielorrusia", dijo el portavoz del Pentágono, John Kirby, durante una rueda de prensa.

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07.32.

Rusia y Bielorrusia inician ejercicios militares conjuntos

Rusia y Bielorrusia iniciaron el jueves ejercicios militares de 10 días, en medio del temor de países occidentales de que Moscú planee una escalada en el conflicto ucraniano.

El ministerio ruso de Defensa anunció en un comunicado el inicio de las maniobras de entrenamiento que deben continuar hasta el 20 de febrero en Bielorrusia y consisten en "suprimir y repeler una agresión externa".

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07.00.

Reino Unido, dispuesto a desplegar 1.000 soldados más por la crisis ucraniana

El Reino Unido está dispuesto a desplegar 1.000 soldados más en caso de una crisis humanitaria relacionada con las tensiones en Ucrania, ha anunciado el primer ministro británico, Boris Johnson, que viaja hoy a Bruselas y Varsovia.

"La Alianza tiene que trazar líneas en la nieve y ser clara sobre el hecho de que hay ciertos principios en los que no transigiremos", declaró el dirigente británico en un comunicado, citando "la seguridad de todos los aliados de la OTAN y el derecho para cualquier democracia europea a aspirar a pertenecer a la OTAN".

Prohibir que Ucrania se adhiera a la Alianza es una de las principales exigencias en materia de seguridad del presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, en la crisis actual.

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