International pressure on Vladimir Putin intensifies after the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine and following the UN's overwhelming majority approval of the resolution against Moscow for the invasion, calling for an "immediate" withdrawal of troops and condemning the Kremlin's nuclear threats.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, stressed that one million people have fled since the invasion began while in Ukraine people continue to die under bombs.

Protests against the war multiply in Russia: police arrested a well-known survivor of the siege of Leningrad, 77-year-old Yelena Osipova, during a demonstration in St. Petersburg. Protests organized despite Moscow's war news blackout, which yesterday prompted the US State Department to accuse Russia of launching a "total war on media freedom and truth" by blocking independent news outlets and preventing citizens to access news about the invasion.

New sanctions have been decided from Canada, the Ottawa government has announced imminent measures against 10 key people of two Russian energy companies, Rosneft and Gazprom.

(Unioneonline / ss)

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