🇬🇧 UK Ministry of Defence:
🇺🇦 With #nuclear energy supplying approximately half of Ukraine’s electricity, Energoatom’s success in sourcing and installing Western fuel is a major waypoint in Ukraine’s long-term decoupling from #Russia, whose influence over Ukraine’s energy supply is severely diminished.
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1702198009365209559
#ukraine
🇩🇪 🇺🇦 #Germany provided #Ukraine with 20 #Marder infantry fighting vehicles, reconnaissance and surveillance equipment, munitions, and other aid in the latest military assistance delivery, the #German government said on Sept. 13.
https://kyivindependent.com/germany-hands-over-20-marder-armored-vehicles-to-ukraine/
#russia #russiaukrainewar
🇲🇩 🇷🇺 #Moldovan authorities have expelled the director of Russia's Sputnik state news agency in #Moldova, Vitaly Denisov, saying he poses a national security threat.
https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-expels-director-russia-sputnik-news-agency/32590818.html
#russian #propaganda
🇸🇦 🇷🇺 Oil cuts by #Saudi Arabia and #Russia will cause a “significant” global supply shortfall through the end of the year, raising the risk of further market volatility, the International #Energy Agency said Wednesday.
https://www.digitaljournal.com/business/saudi-russian-oil-cuts-to-cause-big-supply-shortfall-iea/
#saudiarabia #oilandgas
🇪🇺 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected on Wednesday to underscore just how fundamentally Russia’s war in #Ukraine has altered the #European Union when she delivers her state of the union address.
#europe #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇦 The #Ukrainian government has taken legal action against at least two Western military firms that have failed to fulfill equipment contracts, or offer a refund of fees paid by Kyiv to secure the deals, Newsweek can reveal.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-sues-western-companies-failing-deliver-military-equipment-1826312
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Kyiv said Monday its forces had recaptured an oil and gas drilling platform in the Black Sea that had been controlled by Moscow since 2015.
The platform is roughly halfway between the Moscow-annexed #Crimean peninsula and the coast of Ukraine's southwestern #Odesa region.
#ukraine #crimea #blacksea #oilandgas #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇪🇺 #Russia said on Monday a #European Union ban on #Russians bringing their cars and some personal goods into the bloc was racist 🙄, and one ally of Putin suggested that all diplomatic relations should be severed in response.
#europe #sanctions
🇷🇺 🇰🇵 #Russia and North Korea have confirmed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia.
A brief statement on the Kremlin’s website said Kim’s visit is at the invitation of #Putin and would take place “in the coming days."
#northkorea
🇺🇲 🇦🇲 As Washington seeks to exploit cracks in Russia’s traditional sphere of influence, U.S. forces began joint military exercises with troops from #Armenia, the small South Caucasus country that has been a close #Russian ally for nearly 200 years.
#usa #russia
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine reported on Monday its troops had regained more territory on the eastern and southern fronts in its military #counteroffensive against #Russian forces.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-regains-more-territory-east-south-2023-09-11/
#russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia’s armed aggression is becoming synonymous with torture and other inhuman cruelty, a UN expert said today.
https://ukraine.un.org/en/245333-russia%E2%80%99s-war-ukraine-synonymous-torture-un-expert
#unitednations #humanrights #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇦🇹 🇷🇺 #Austrian officials insist that the country’s continued reliance on #Russian gas is only temporary and that it will wean itself off by 2027.
Some experts question the viability of that plan, considering that OMV, the country’s dominant oil and gas company, signed a long-term supply deal with #Gazprom under former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz that company executives say is virtually impossible to withdraw from.
https://www.politico.eu/article/austria-martin-selmayr-blood-money-russia-row/
#austria #russia #oilandgas
🇭🇺 🇷🇺 The government of #Hungary plans to alter #Russian to French #nuclear fuel at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in the future.
This move aims to reduce Budapest's #energy dependence on #Russia, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban, Telex reports.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/end-of-partnership-hungary-aims-to-reduce-1694357875.html
🇹🇷 🇦🇲 #Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he would hold talks with #Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as tensions mount between #Armenia and Ankara's ally #Azerbaijan
#Turkey has already condemned the election of a new president in Azerbaijan's separatist Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday.
#karabakh #nagornokarabakh #russia
🇰🇷 🇺🇦 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged Sunday to provide an additional US$2.3 billion in aid for #Ukraine to help the nation restore peace and rebuild following its war with #Russia
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230910000200315
#southkorea #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇴 🇷🇺 Romania's foreign ministry summoned the #Russian charge d'affaires after the discovery on #Romanian soil of new fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian military, the Agerpres website reported on Sunday.
#romania #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇦 Kyiv’s military leaders say they could have #Ukrainian pilots flying F-16s in combat as early as this winter, a more optimistic timeline than previous estimates.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-expects-to-fly-f-16s-in-combat-this-winter-7c0e29f9
#ukraine #f16 #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇺🇲 A #Russian hit man serving a life sentence in #Germany is central to a possible prisoner swap that could include U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
https://www.wsj.com/world/putin-wants-his-hit-man-back-5bd759f8
#russia #usa
🇺🇦 Kyiv on Saturday criticised the #G20 leaders' statement on the #Russian invasion, which denounced the use of force for territorial gain but refrained from direct criticism of #Russia by name.
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar