CND Press Digest: Monday 27th February 2023
Posted: 27th February 2023
War In Ukraine/NATO
- Coverage of Saturday’s demonstration in London by The Independent, Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Morning Star, Andalou Agency, Al Jazeera. Tom Unterrainer also spoke to BBC London as part of their coverage of several protests taking place across the city that day.
- The Guardian covers the demonstration that took place in Berlin.
- Nobel peace laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk calls for a the creation of a special tribunal to try Vladimir Putin and senior Russian officials for the crime of aggression.
- US President Joe Biden told ABC News that F-16 fighters won’t be sent to Ukraine“for now.”
- Former NATO deputy secretary-general Rose Gottemoeller said Russia’s suspension of the New START treaty was a “disaster” for arms control.
- The US expanded its Russian sanctions list on Friday to include three nuclear weapons institutes. Also added was Oleg Romanenko, the Russian official put in charge of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
- Dmitry Medvedev has once again raised the prospect of nuclear war if Ukraine’s allies continued to supply it with arms.
AUKUS
- Is AUKUS and the stationing of US bombers getting in the way of a security agreement between Australia and Indonesia?
US Nuclear Weapons
- A report on the recent Nuclear Deterrence Summit, which took place earlier this month, and the costly modernisation of US nuclear weapons.
Iran Nuclear Deal
- CIA director William Burns told ABC News that Iran’s nuclear programme is advancing at a “worriesome” pace.
Best,
Pádraig McCarrick
Press and Communications Officer
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament