We are closing in on the third moth of the Russian/Ukraine War/Conflict….
The Russian military seems close to getting it’s paired down goal of annexing most of the South East Ukraine…
They sent a few missiles back into Kharkiv…
Ukraine wheat production and imports have dropped as the Russian close the Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and gobble up wheat to ship back to Russia…
Talks go on between Turkey , Finland and Sweden as the Turkish leader tries to get as much as he can before agreeing, as he win , to admitting the two countries to NATO in the end…
While Russia is still getting paid by countries for natural gas imports?
The departure of Western companies form the country IS being felt by everyday Russians…
Russians are attempting to surround Ukrainian forces defending key towns — and appear to have seized the northeastern part of Severodonetsk — as they make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, the Pentagon said Thursday.
A senior U.S. defense official said Russian forces, which have recently scaled down ambitions and shifted to smaller objectives, are working on an “encirclement effort” meant to cut Ukrainian forces off from any reinforcement, including from additional supplies of Western weapons. As attacks continues to ravage the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar warned Thursday that “fighting has reached its maximum intensity.”
Meanwhile, Russia said it will open ports on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to let foreign ships through, but that Western governments must cancel their sanctions for exports of Ukrainian grain to resume. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has accused Russia of “weaponizing hunger” and said Thursday that sanctions should not be lifted, as Russian blockades of seaports in Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain exporters, fuel fears of a global food crisis.
Here’s what else to know