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2 minutes ago
(14:01 GMT)What does Russia’s gas cut mean for Europe?
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9 minutes ago
(13:54 GMT)Ukraine celebrates counterattack ‘success’
Russian forces lost territory on all fronts during the 28th week of the war, as a counteroffensive spread from the southern Kherson region to the eastern and northern fronts of the country, demonstrating Ukraine’s ongoing ability to seize the initiative.
North Ukrainian forces launched a new counterattack in the northern Kharkiv region on September 6.
Despite radio silence from the country’s political and military leadership in Kyiv, Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers reported heavy fighting in Verbivka and Balakliia, 70km (44 miles) southeast of Kharkiv city, which Ukraine recaptured in early May.
Ukrainian forces appeared to have reclaimed Verbivka, where they posted geolocated footage showing dead Russian soldiers.
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18 minutes ago
(13:45 GMT)Putin plans new gas project to replace Europe as its main customer
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was discussing a major new infrastructure project to deliver gas to China via Mongolia, as they look to Beijing to replace Europe as its major gas customer.
In an appearance on state TV, Putin also said state-controlled oil company Rosneft had agreed with the Mongolian government to expand cooperation over the supply of oil products.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene 2022. [Egor Aleev/Sputnik/Pool via Reuters] -
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(13:22 GMT)Drop in global wheat prices partly due to resumed grain exports from Ukraine
A drop in global wheat prices in August was partly due to grain exports from Ukraine, and ensuring food and fertiliser supplies was critical to sustaining a downtrend, a UN spokesperson for the Black Sea Grain Initiative said on Wednesday.
The spokesperson’s comments, sent to the Reuters news agency, came after President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he wanted to discuss amending the UN-brokered deal that allows Ukraine to export its grain via the Black Sea.
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2h ago
(12:33 GMT)IAEA report fails to set out next steps, says Ukrainian presidential adviser
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) report on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant describes the Russian presence at the facility but fails to set out what should happen next, a Ukrainian presidential adviser said on Wednesday.
“The key part is missing in [IAEA director general] Mr Grossi’s report: There is no definite algorithm of what we must do,” Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters news agency.
“It says both sides have to negotiate, but it doesn’t say that Russian troops must vacate the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. It doesn’t mention a 10-15km demilitarisation area,” he added
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2h ago
(12:09 GMT)Erdogan says Western nations are provoking Russia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he did not think the West’s “provocative” policies towards Russia were correct after the European Union (EU) proposed a price cap on Russian gas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had threatened to halt all supplies if the EU took such a step, raising the risk of rationing in some of the world’s richest countries this winter.
Erdogan was speaking at a news conference with the Serbian president in Belgrade.
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2h ago
(11:52 GMT)European Commission to propose price cap on Russian gas
The European Commission will propose a price cap on Russian gas, alongside measures including a mandatory EU cut in electricity use during peak hours and a cap on the revenues of non-gas power generators, the bloc’s chief said on Wednesday.
“We will propose a price cap on Russian gas … We must cut Russia’s revenues which Putin uses to finance this atrocious war in Ukraine,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters.
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(11:25 GMT)Ukraine says Russia has no grounds to review grain export deal
A Ukrainian presidential adviser said on Wednesday that Russia had no grounds to review the landmark deal allowing Ukraine to export grain from ports in the Black Sea and that the terms of the wartime agreement were strictly observed.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told the Reuters news agency after President Vladimir Putin said he would discuss amending the deal to limit the countries receiving cargo shipments.
“Of course, there are no objective reasons for revising the grain deal, not even close,” Podolyak said.
“The deal, in our view and in the view of intermediaries, is being strictly observed.”
“I believe that such unexpected and groundless statements rather indicate an attempt to find new aggressive talking points to influence global public opinion and, above all, put pressure on the United Nations,” he said.
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3h ago
(11:02 GMT)Who controls what in Ukraine?
Here are three maps, which Al Jazeera updates daily, charting the war
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3h ago
(10:55 GMT)Putin calls Western sanctions a ‘threat to the entire world’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Western sanctions imposed on his country following the invasion of Ukraine a “threat to the entire world” while saying efforts to isolate Russia were in vain amid a pivot towards Asia.
Putin made the comments during a speech at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Russia’s Pacific port city of Vladivostok on Wednesday, shortly before it was announced that the Russian leader would meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, next week in Uzbekistan.
Decrying what he described as “sanctions fever” in the West, Putin called the measures “undisguised aggressive attempts to impose behaviour patterns on other countries, deprive them of their sovereignty and subordinate them to their will”.
The remarks come after the Kremlin on Monday said gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany would not resume in full until Western countries lifted sanctions against Russia.
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(10:36 GMT)Ukraine vows to ship grain to Somalia as Putin accuses Kyiv of prioritising Europe
Ukraine’s president says tonnes of grain will arrive in the coming weeks in Somalia, where famine, the global food security crisis and climate change are putting millions at risk.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comment comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the West of sending most of the grain from Ukraine’s reopened ports to Europe, instead of poorer and hungrier parts of the world.
Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum that “with the exclusion of Turkey as a mediator, practically all the grain exported from Ukraine was sent to the (European Union) nations instead of the poorest countries.”
“It’s obvious that with an approach like that, the magnitude of the food problem in the world will keep growing, and that could lead to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.”
“Maybe it’s worth thinking about restricting the exports of grain and other products on that route? I will certainly discuss the issue with the president of Turkey.”
The MV Brave Commander carrying wheat grain from Yuzhny Port in Ukraine to the Horn of Africa docks. [File/Hugh Rutherford/World Food Programme/Handout -
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(10:13 GMT)Russia says it has taken Kodema in the Donetsk region
Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken the settlement of Kodema in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region from Ukrainian forces.
Kodema, which has a population of fewer than 600 people, is claimed by the Russian-backed Donetsk People’s Republic as part of its territory.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decries Western “provocations” against Russia.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the Ukrainian government an “illegitimate regime”, saying it was founded after a “coup” in 2014.
