Yuri Ushakov
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Age | 78 |
| Date of birth | March 13,1947 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Born | Moscow |
| Russia | |
| Job | Diplomat |
| Education | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Presidents | Vladimir Putin |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Soviet | |
| Previous position | Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States of America (1999–2008) |
| Children | 1 |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 474482 |
Yuri Ushakov Life story
Yuri Viktorovich Ushakov is a Russian and former Soviet diplomat who served as the Ambassador of Russia to the United States from 1998 until 2008. Since 2012, he has been an advisor to the President of Russia on foreign policy issues.
Ukraine war: US confirms 'communications' with Kremlin
... The Wall Street Journal reports that Mr Sullivan has held confidential discussions with his Russian counterpart, Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, and senior Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, over the past several months...
Ukraine war: Putin to visit Iran in rare international trip
... " The contact with Khamenei is very important, " Yuri Ushakov, Mr Putin s top foreign policy adviser, told a media briefing on Monday...
Ukraine seeks meeting with Russia within 48 hours to discuss build-up
... On Sunday, senior foreign policy official Yuri Ushakov characterised the US warnings of imminent invasion as " hysteria has reached its peak"...
Ukraine tensions: US defends evacuating embassy as Zelensky urges calm
... The Kremlin s top foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov, has dismissed US warnings of an attack, saying " hysteria has reached its peak"...
Ukraine tensions: Putin tells Biden new sanctions could rupture ties
... Although the two sides exchanged warnings during the call, Russian foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters shortly after that Mr Putin was " pleased" with the conversation...
Ukraine is cooling reports of the upcoming Russia-prisoners swap
... Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told Tass news agency that the interaction is taking place on this topic, behind closed doors, but I can confirm some progress ...
Ukraine tensions: US defends evacuating embassy as Zelensky urges calm
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the " imminent" threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kyiv.
His words came after Ukraine 's president urged calm, saying the biggest enemy was panic.
More Than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine .
Moscow, with More Than 100,000 troops near The Border , has denied it plans to invade.
The Kremlin's top foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushakov , has dismissed US warnings of an attack, saying " hysteria has reached its peak".
The Crisis comes eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine 's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine 's military has been Locked In A War with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia 's borders.
Saturday saw further attempts to de-escalate tensions in the region. In a phone call, President Joe Biden warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin of " swift and severe costs" if Russia sends in troops.
Mr Biden will speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later on Sunday by phone.
UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace , meanwhile, compared recent Western diplomatic efforts to stop an invasion to the appeasement of Nazi Germany .
Mr Wallace newspaper " there's a whiff of Munich in the air" a reference to an agreement with Hitler that failed to prevent World War Two.
Ukraine 's ambassador to the UK Vadym Prystaiko however criticised Mr Wallace's comments.
" It's not the Best Time for us to offend our partners in The World , reminding them of this act which actually [brought] war, " he told BBC Radio 4 's Broadcasting House programme.
'The prudent thing to do'The UK, US and Germany are among several countries who have urged their nationals to Get Out of Ukraine immediately.
The US decision to evacuate most of its embassy staff in Kyiv was followed by similar moves by Canada and Australia. All three nations have instead shifted operations to the Western City of Lviv, near the Polish border, although the UK ambassador has said she will stay in the Ukrainian capital with a core team.
Mr Blinken said The Risk of military action was " high enough and The Threat [was] imminent enough" that the evacuation was " the prudent thing to do".
But earlier Ukrainian President Zelensky had urged calm, saying: " Right now, The People 's biggest enemy is panic. "
Mr Zelensky said that if Western powers had any firm evidence of an impending invasion, he had yet to see it.
The Bbc 's Zhanna Bezpiatchuk says there are no major signs of panic in Kyiv or other major Ukrainian cities. However, she added that Ukrainians are starting to take The Threat from Russia increasingly seriously and are taking their own contingency measures.
An emergency evacuation plan for Kyiv's three million residents has been drawn up by the capital's mayor's office as a precaution.
The White House has warned that an invasion could happen at any time, and could begin with bombing from the air.
Meanwhile it would indefinitely halt all flights to Ukraine in light of the tensions. The airline has not flown over eastern parts of Ukraine or Crimea since 2014. German carrier Lufthansa has said it is considering suspending flights.
An adviser to the Ukrainian president's chief of staff told Reuters news agency the country " sees no point" in closing its airspace, calling the idea " nonsense".
But later on Sunday The Head of Ukraine 's Air Traffic control advised airlines over The Black Sea - where Russian forces are holding their largest naval drills in years - Between 14-19 February.
He stressed however that Ukrainian airspace " is currently open and available for flight planning".
Tensions have steadily increased as Russia has continued to deploy troops along Ukraine 's eastern border.
The Kremlin says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet Republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could One Day join the Western defence alliance Nato, and has demanded that this be ruled out.
The US has rejected that, saying that as a sovereign nation Ukraine should be free to decide its own security alliances.
Source of news: bbc.com
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