NEWS.am digest: World fears Russia will attack Ukraine Wednesday, Beijing Olympics medal count

Armenian News - NEWS.am presents the daily digest of Armenia-related top news as of 15.02.22:

UKRAINE

The situation in Ukraine remains tense amid fears over Russian invasions.

Several sources, including Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that Russia will invade Ukraine on February 16.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree according to which February 16 was declared the Day of Unity in Ukraine. In a new video message, Zelenskyy noted that some people are sowing panic among Ukrainians and scaring off investors from the country noting that Russia will invade Ukraine on Wednesday. “They scare us with a big war and for the umpteenth time set the date for a military invasion. This is not the first time. We are systematically waging war on all fronts.

Countries globally are now providing aid to Ukraine.

Canada will provide Ukraine with a $500 million loan and $7.8 million worth of lethal weapons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

He said the loan is in addition to the previously announced $120 million loan and non-lethal weapons that Canada has already provided to Ukraine.

Ukraine has already received weapons from the United States, Great Britain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Poland.

UNDP

The media outlet close to the Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev administration demands the expulsion from Baku of the newly appointed UNDP Resident Representative in Azerbaijan, Ekaterina Paniklova, because of her contacts with Armenians.

ARTSAKH PRESIDENT

The Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan has announced that it intends to "catch" and "bring to account" President Arayik Harutyunyan of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).

"Arayik Harutyunyan, the leader of the so-called 'Nagorno-Karabakh,' will be arrested and interrogated in the near future," said Nemat Avazov, head of the investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani media reported.

ARTSAKH

The parliamentary forces of Artsakh propose to give legal status to the territories occupied in Nagorno-Karabakh following the military aggression carried out by Azerbaijan in September 2020.

REAL ESTATE

Azerbaijan citizens own at least six real estates in Armenia.

From 2010 to 2021, Azerbaijani citizens have carried out six transactions of state registration of real estate rights in Armenia, the Cadastre Committee of Armenia told Armenia Sputnik.

UNESCO

UNESCO is working to send an independent technical mission to Nagorno-Karabakh.

TURKMENISTAN

Turkmenistan will hold snap presidential elections after the country’s authoritarian leader announced he is ready to relinquish power to a new generation.

President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s statement that the country should be directed by younger people appeared to suggest that his son Serdar would succeed him;

WHO

The WHO has turned its attention to the rising rates of COVID-19 infection in Eastern Europe, where in six countries, including Russia and Ukraine, the number of cases has doubled in the past two weeks.

The region of 53 countries, which stretches from the former Soviet republics to Central Asia, now has more than 165 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 1.8 million pandemic-related deaths, said WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge.

ELON MUSK

Elon Musk is known for his famous companies like Tesla and SpaceX, but the billionaire also has some unusual ventures.

Now he intends to achieve a "symbiosis" between the human brain and artificial intelligence.

BEIJING

Beijing 2022 Olympics are in full swing now!

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