Current events: 2024-02-28

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russia claims to have captured the village of Petrovske in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Telegraph)
• The Chadian junta accuses Socialist Party without Borders (PSF) supporters of attacking Chadian security services headquarters. The junta then cracks down on the PSF and political enemies, killing dozens. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Oil begins to wash ashore on Bonaire, Leeward Antilles, believed to have originated from the ship {{MV|Gulfstream||2}} with around 35,000 barrels of oil on board that capsized near Tobago earlier in February. (NOS)
• At least 19 people are killed after two buses collide in San Juan de Opoa, Copán, Honduras. (Reuters)

International relations

• China urges the world's largest nuclear states to negotiate a "no first use treaty". China and India are currently the only two nuclear powers to formally maintain a no first use policy. (Reuters)
• Officials in the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, internationally recognised as a part of Moldova, appeal to the Russian Duma for more intervention in Transnistria amid increasing tension with the government of Moldova. (AP)

Politics and elections

• U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell announces he will step down as Senate Minority Leader in November, having served as the Senate GOP leader since 2007. (ABC News)

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