US President Joe Biden arrived in Brussels, where he will attend the NATO summit and talk with EU and G7 representatives. The Russians are concentrating troops in eastern Ukraine. There is a fear that Belarus could attack Ukraine. Putin ordered that "enemy" countries must pay for Russian oil and gas in rubles. Israel is becoming a haven for Russian oligarchs
According to the Pentagon, the Ukrainian defense forces managed to push back the Russian troops by 30 kilometers east of Kiev and are now about 55 kilometers from the center of the capital. Ukrainians are entrenched in new positions.
APTOPIX Russia Ukraine WarConsequences of the bombing in Kiev / Photo: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda
According to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops were stopped 10 kilometers from Chernihiv and 15 to 20 kilometers from Kharkiv. Both cities were subjected to massive bombing.
Russia's combat power has declined.
APTOPIX Russia UkraineFuneral of the deputy commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol / Photo: AP Photo
The US Department of Defense believes that due to losses in Ukraine, the combat power of Russian units has fallen below 90 percent of its potential.
Respite until the new strategic plan
A military analyst of the German RTL says that the Russians, surprised by the failure of the invasion, temporarily suspended the attempts of the ground troops to advance further until the command takes stock of the situation and makes a new strategic plan. He says that Ukrainian cities are being targeted with water-to-water missiles and wonders if the Russians are already running out of suitable cruise missiles. In contrast, they have large quantities of ammunition for the ground army and classic rockets, and additional mobilization is also possible.
Concentration of Russian troops in the east
Russia Ukraine WarPreparation of the Russian landing in Odessa / Photo: AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
According to the Pentagon, Russian forces are meanwhile concentrating in the east of the country in the separatist areas around Donetsk and Luhansk. The primary objective is obviously to capture Mariupol on the Sea of Azov and establish a land corridor between Crimea and Donbass. Mariupol was completely destroyed, but the port remained intact.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet has not launched a single missile in the last 48 hours. There is a fear that at some point it could make a landing on the strategically important Odessa.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov continues to claim that Russia's "special military operation" is proceeding "strictly according to plan."
Moscow claims that 348.000 Ukrainians sought salvation from the war in Russia.
NATO war summit
Joe BidenBiden's departure to Brussels / Photo: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
US President Joe Biden arrived in Brussels. Although NATO is not at war, some reporters called this meeting at the summit of the Western military alliance "war". We will talk about strengthening NATO's eastern wing and how to provide maximum military aid to Ukraine without crossing the line of direct conflict with Russia.
The NATO summit will also consider options for how to react if the Kremlin crosses red lines and uses chemical or nuclear weapons. There are no indications of the use of chemical weapons, but... nuclear potential mentions it too often.
Biden will also discuss the additional coordinated tightening of economic sanctions against Russia with the leaders of the European Union and the G7.
On Friday, he will travel from Brussels to Poland, which is the most exposed of all NATO members to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and where 2 of the 3,2 million refugees who crossed the Ukrainian border are located.
The news that former US President Donald Trump went to Europe went under the radar.
Belarus' entry into the conflict
The Budapest daily "Magyar Nemzet" claims that within a few days Belarus will attack Ukraine in order to prevent the delivery of weapons from the West. The German "Spiegel" also writes about this possibility, but still expresses doubt that it will happen.
Rubles for Russian energy sources
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that "enemy countries" will have to pay Russian energy suppliers in rubles from now on. The value of the ruble fell by about 80 percent after the introduction of Western sanctions. In this way, Russia, which is cut off from the international financial system, is trying to recover its domestic currency.
After this statement by Putin, energy prices immediately jumped by 20 percent.
Germany will continue to import Russian oil and gas
At the session of the German Bundestag, the issue of the budget was on the agenda, but the discussion about Ukraine prevailed. Chancellor Olaf Scholz emphasized that Germany will give up energy imports from Russia when it can, but that at this moment it would cause a recession in the country and cause the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. He did not refer to Putin's decision that in the future they will have to pay for Russian oil and gas exclusively in rubles, but he spoke with Putin on the phone after the session.
The Bundestag observed a minute's silence in honor of former prison inmate Boris Romanchenko, who was killed by a Russian rocket.
Pimps in Germany
232.462 refugees from Ukraine are registered in Germany, but there are certainly many more, because they can move freely for up to 90 days without the obligation to register.
The police union warned that individuals and entire gangs of pimps who offer accommodation to Ukrainian women with the aim of luring them into prostitution are still lurking at large railway stations, in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main or Munich. That is why it is suggested to organize safe zones under the control of the police until safe accommodation is found. In Munich, it is forbidden to rent out only beds, Ukrainian refugees must be offered whole apartments.
Israel, a haven for oligarchs
America has issued a serious warning to Israel, which is turning into a haven for many Russian oligarchs affected by Western sanctions. 14 planes owned by Russian billionaires are registered at Tel Aviv airport. It is striking how many of them are of Jewish origin and have Israeli citizenship. The most famous is Roman Abramovich.
The chairman of the My Home Israel party, Avigdor Lieberman, says that Russian Jews make up 20 percent of Israel's population. They mostly fled the USSR and Russia due to authoritarian regimes, but many of them have resistance to Ukraine due to the pogroms of Jews during World War II. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, after his video link address to the Knesset, was criticized for comparing the Russian invasion to the Holocaust, which in that context mentioned how the Russians bombed Babin Yar, where Ukrainian nationalists in World War II were directly responsible for the mass killing of Jews. , and that he cannot twist history just because he is of Jewish origin.
The Israeli government verbally supports Ukraine, but does not want to spoil relations with Moscow for its own interests in the Middle East.
Fire around Chernobyl
In Chernobyl, several fires broke out in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant, covering an area of about 2 square kilometers. The power plant itself is under concrete armor and is not in danger of fire, but it would be dangerous if it remained without electricity for a long period of time.
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