The Russian’s are reminding Europe that they can turn natural gas flows to them anytime they want to….
And that this shouild push them to make Zelensky settle with them keeping what thye have taken from the Ukraine….
The Russian’s (And Turkey) will go ahead and make money from the Ukraine grain exports….
The battle for Kerson continue’s with the Ukraine forces pressing….
Russian contiues to try an d brain wash captured Ukrainans….
Those who left the Ukraine war fronts are slowly returning due to no were to go or lack of money to live elsewhere…..Or?…Being Russian speaking in a country at war with Russia….
The move came just days after Russia turned the critical pipeline back on, offering some relief to global energy markets.
Here’s the latest on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its ripple effects across the globe.
Key developments
- Russia said on Monday that missile strikes on the Black Sea port of Odessa should not undermine the recent grain deal signed by Moscow and Kyiv. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted that Saturday’s strikes, a day after the deal, were “in no way related to infrastructure that is used for the export of grain.” Lifting the blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports is seen as key to easing global food shortages.
- Ukraine says it is pressing ahead with preparations to resume grain exports from Odessa, including a call for shipping companies to take part in a caravan to transport grain. Deputy Infrastructure Minister Vasyl Shkurakov expects the agreement to come into force in the coming days and the first shipment to be this week.
- Global wheat prices have risen — after falling Friday — over fears the deal might not stick.
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in the Republic of Congo as part of a four-day tour to try to shore up African support for the war in Ukraine. In Cairo late Sunday, he laid out the Kremlin’s war goals for the invasion, saying Moscow is determined to topple Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government. Before Arab League summit envoys, Lavrov said Moscow “will certainly help Ukrainian people to get rid of the regime, which is absolutely anti-people and anti-historical.”
Battlefield updates
- U.S.-supplied HIMARS — High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems — have destroyed 50 Russian ammunition depots since Ukraine received them in June, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on national television. The Washington Post could not independently verify his remarks. Russia, meanwhile, said it had destroyed an ammunition depot used for the HIMARS systems in the western Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine.
- Ukraine says it is within range of targets in the Kherson region as part of a counteroffensive in the south. All three bridges controlled by Russia leading into the occupied city of Kherson have been damaged over the past week, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War said.
- Russia is struggling to extract and repair vehicles damaged by fighting, according to British military intelligence. A repair facility in Barvinok, near the border with Ukraine, had some 300 damaged vehicles, including tanks and trucks inside, Britain reports.
- Rescue teams in the city of Chuhuiv have been digging through the rubble of buildings destroyed in overnight attacks in a search for survivors, Oleh Synyehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, said in a Telegram post….