Romania and Poland firmly supporting the integration of the Rep. of Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia into the EU 

Bucharest, Mar. 22.– Romania and Poland strongly support the integration of the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia into the European Union, President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday, after a meeting with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda.

“Romania and Poland strongly support the integration of the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia into the European Union, and we will continue to work to make this goal a reality,” Iohannis said at the Cotroceni Palace.

Just outside the Parliament gates, another batch of protesters waved Canadian flags and bellowed the Canadian national anthem. They were voicing their displeasure with COVID-19 mandates.

Two sets of protests fighting for different causes gathered on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill on Sunday, March 6.Russian women oppose Putin and his war in Ukraine at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. 22/03/06. File © ParticipatoryDemocracy.net

Dozens of demonstrators waving the yellow and blue flags of Ukraine convened in downtown Ottawa for a solidarity rally to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

They held up signs like “No War” and “I Stand with Ukraine.” Another read “Putin, Hands Off Ukraine.” The protest was organized by the Ottawa chapter of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), the same group that organized last weekend’s march from the Russian embassy to city hall that drew several hundred people.

Production of Hsiung Sheng, Wan Chien missiles could be completed ahead of schedule

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Legislative Yuan has passed a budget to enhance sea and air power, with 18 types of weaponsHsiung Feng III anti-ship missile launchers at 110th National Day. File licensed under CC Attribution: Official Photo by Simon Liu / Office of the President and military equipment to enter mass production beginning this year. The Ministry of National Defense (MND) said that production of these items will last until 2026.

However, some weapons, including unmanned attack platforms, Hsiung Sheng surface-to-surface missiles, and Wan Chien air to ground missiles, can be completed ahead of schedule between 2024 and 2025, the Liberty Times reported.

The Hsiung Sheng missile in particular has garnered a lot of public attention. It is essentially an extended-range variant of the Hsiung Feng IIE cruise missile, with an estimated range of 1,000-1,200 kilometers that would allow it to reach far beyond China’s coastline, according to the MND.

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Kozyrev said, “It’s a barbaric act. Whether I could imagine it when I was theAndrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev -Андре́й Влади́мирович Ко́зырев-, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation 1990~1996 foreign minister, it was completely out of question.”

“But later on, I started to understand that they are going down the hill, so to say, and they feel impunity, both at home and abroad. And that’s kind of increased the appetite unfortunately, not for building Russia. Now they are destroying the future of all brotherly people with this fratricidal war,” he added.

Kozyrev also said sanctions from the West against Russia “should start to target the decision-makers or executers of those decision-makers in the government.

He cautioned that sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are “like doing almost nothing — because nothing, I think, is in their names … You can’t find their assets. It’s all [with] other people.”