18 June 2022
20:11
Gentiloni: “Threats of net cuts on gas do not scare us”
“We hope that there will be no drastic supply problems in the coming months but at the same time we will not be intimidated”. So Paolo Gentiloni, EU Commissioner for the Economy, in Bologna from the stage of Repubblica delle Idee, on the risks of a gas stop from Russia. “We work so that this does not happen but, if it happens, at the European level we have the levels of collaboration, storage and diversification that are able to withstand even threats of this kind”.
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18 June 2022
20:06
Gentiloni: “Between Russia and the EU it is the end of a great hope”
Between the EU and Russia “it is the end in some ways also of great hope”. So Paolo Gentiloni, EU Commissioner for Economy, in Bologna from the stage of Repubblica delle Idee. At the beginning of the century there were “great illusions”, such as “Russia’s entry into the G8. This great hope for several years now – perhaps we have not valued the annexation of Crimea enough – has faded. Putin is a person with a lucid design. He considers the dissolution of the USSR a historical defeat and thinks it is necessary to rebuild a geopolitical sphere around Russia, and therefore to expand towards the various EU countries ”.
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18 June 2022
19:35
Gentiloni: “All the conditions are in place to avoid ending up in recession”
“There are the conditions to avoid a recession, there are the conditions to prevent the European economy from going into a crisis similar to that of ten years ago again. The steps are narrow and one is to ensure a transition to renewable energies that allow us to diversify supplies and not have too heavy economic consequences in terms of energy ”. So Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economy, speaking in Bologna from the stage of Repubblica delle Idee. “We have to do it – he adds – having our backs straight on what the war in Ukraine means”.
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18 June 2022
19:09
Kiev: “Mariupol takes 14 days to get a coffin”
Mariupol residents under Russian occupation wait up to two weeks to secure a coffin for burial. The Kiev Independent writes, citing the assistant to the mayor of the city Petro Andriushchenko, according to whom the Kremlin delegates offer a waiting time of about two weeks for free coffins made of simple wood and without upholstery. Andriushchenko added that the bodies of the victims of the clashes often disappear, while others continue to lie on the streets in the heat.
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18 June 2022
19:05
Kadyrov: “Conquered Metelkino”. It is at the gates of Severodonetsk
Russian forces have captured the Ukrainian village of Metelkino, a southeastern suburb of Severodonetsk, and demining of the area is already underway, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said, quoted by Interfax. “Akhmat’s special forces units, together with the second corps of the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic, liberated the Metelkino settlement near the city of Severodonetsk,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram. “The Ukrainian side has lost between 600 and 700 fighters, dead and wounded, in the battle for this center over the past week,” he said, adding that Russian forces are clearing mines and booby traps.
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18 June 2022
18:39
Borrell: “Russia uses wheat as a tool of blackmail”
The EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Joseph Borrell denounced in an article on his blog Russia’s maneuvers aimed at “militarizing” wheat exports and “using them as an instrument of blackmail against anyone who opposes its aggression” in Ukraine. The number one of European diplomacy then recalled that “Putin’s troops bomb, extract and occupy Ukraine, attack agricultural equipment” but also “warehouses, markets, roads, bridges in Ukraine and block ports, preventing export of millions of tons of wheat to global markets “.
According to Borrell, Moscow “has transformed the Black Sea into a war zone, blocking shipments of grain and fertilizers from Ukraine, but also affecting Russian merchant shipping”. Russia’s “war against Ukraine threatens to create a global wave of hunger. We must allow “Kiev” to export its cereals across the Black Sea – he later stressed -. We are ready to work with the United Nations and our partners to prevent any unwanted impact on global food security ”.
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18 June 2022
18:10
Russian raid on a gas plant in Izyum: a fire breaks out
“The Russian occupiers fired at a gas treatment plant in the Izyum district”, a city in the Kharkiv oblast, in the eastern part of Ukraine. Ukrainska Pravda reports it, adding that “a large-scale fire has broken out” and that “work is being done to put out the flames”.
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18 June 2022
17:56
German police investigate hundreds of war crimes
The Federal Office of the German Criminal Police (BKA) has announced that it is investigating several hundred potential Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine, also specifying that it is looking for the military and political instigators of these crimes. “We have received more than hundreds of indications so far,” Bka President Holger Münch told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The investigation focuses not only on the perpetrators of war crimes, but also on the military and political leaders of these crimes. “This is the most difficult part of our investigation, a complex puzzle job,” Münch said. “Our clear aim is to identify those responsible for atrocities, prove their acts through our investigations and bring them to justice”, ;; also in Germany, which applies universal justice by allowing certain crimes to be tried regardless of where they have been committed. But “it may take some time” because investigations into the war in Ukraine are only “just beginning,” admitted Münch.
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18 June 2022
17:55
New exchange of civilian prisoners between Ukraine and Russia
Five Ukrainian civilians illegally detained by Russian “invaders” were released from captivity through a prisoner exchange with Russia. This was announced by the main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry on Facebook, reports a correspondent for Ukrinform. “Today the Headquarters of the Coordination for the Treatment of POWs conducted another prisoner exchange according to the formula ‘5 for 5’. Five Ukrainian citizens have returned home ”, states the report. According to intelligence data, four civilians were taken prisoner during the clashes in the Kiev region, three of them during the Battle of Hostomel.
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18 June 2022
16:34
Biden: “I’ll talk to Xi soon. Assessments on the removal of some duties in Beijing “
Joe Biden, speaking to reporters in Delaware, said he will speak “soon” with Chinese President Xi Jinping and is deciding on the removal of some tariffs in Beijing.
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