Portal:Current events/2022 February 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  • International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
    • Syria voices support for Russia's recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic as independent states. (Reuters)
  • Reactions to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
    • Anti-war protesters gather at the Russian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, to oppose President Vladimir Putin's decision to send soldiers to separatist regions in Ukraine. (CTV News)
    • Protesters also gather at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv to protest ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine. (Firstpost)
    • The United States calls the Russian troop deployments in eastern Ukraine "an invasion". (CTV News)
    • The Russian parliament ratifies the friendship and cooperation treaties with the DPR and LPR, following Putin's request made the previous day. (TASS)
    • The foreign ministers of European Union member states agree on a package of new sanctions against Russia. (Al Jazeera)
  • Germany suspends the Nord Stream 2 project in response to Russia's recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic as independent states. (Deutsche Welle)
• The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a resolution declaring that Iraq is no longer required to pay out to victims of its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Iraq had paid out US$50 billion to 1.4 million claimants, including one claim to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation that totaled US$14.7 billion, by the time of the resolution's passage. (Toronto Star)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
      • Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces a citywide testing campaign due to surge of the cases caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. It is planned to test each citizen three times during the campaign. (ABC News)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
      • Singapore reports a record 26,032 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 622,293. (CNA)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks
  • A public inquiry into the 2020 shootings in Nova Scotia, Canada, that killed 22 people is opened. (CBC News)
• Persecution of Christians in North Korea, Religion in North Korea
  • A South Korean state commission confirms that retreating North Korean soldiers murdered over 1,150 South Korean Christian civilians in the early stages of the Korean War due to a state anti-religion campaign. (The Korea Times)

Politics and elections

• 20th National Congress of the People's Party (Spain)
  • The secretary general of the People's Party, Teodoro García Egea, resigns after a scandal over alleged spying on the President of the Community of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso. (Swissinfo)