Saudi state-owned oil giant Aramco doubles its profit
With oil prices soaring, Saudi giant Aramco announced that its annual net profit more than doubled in 2021. Net profit reached $110 billion for the year ending Dec. 31, from $49 billion. billion dollars a year earlier.
For Zelensky, Russia is waging a campaign of “terror”
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said Russia’s siege of Mariupol port was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries”. “Over the past week, several thousand residents of Mariupol have been driven into Russian territory,” the city council wrote in a statement posted on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. Information that is difficult to verify.
Australia bans alumina and bauxite exports to Russia
Australia has adopted new economic sanctions against Russia by banning exports of alumina and bauxite. This export ban is aimed at hurting aluminum production in Russia, which depends on Australia for 20% of its alumina.
Impact of war in Ukraine will be global and widespread, says EBRD
According to the chief economist of the European Development Bank (EBRD), Beata Javorcik. “This conflict will reverberate around the world and its consequences will be felt not only this year but next year at least,” she said. This concerns the price of raw materials, metals… Consequence: “all this will accelerate inflation, with more serious consequences for the poorest countries”, she warns
Zelensky blames Nestlé and the banks
In a live video address from Kyiv to thousands of people gathered outside the Swiss Parliament in Bern, the Ukrainian president criticized Swiss companies, including Nestlé, for continuing to operate in Russia. ” Eat well. Living well is Nestlé’s slogan. Your company refusing to leave Russia. Even now, when Russia threatens other European countries. Not just us,” he says.
One of Europe’s largest steelworks damaged
The Azovstal steel and metallurgical plant in Mariupol, one of the largest in Europe, was heavily damaged by bombing.
“One of the biggest metallurgical factories in Europe is destroyed. The economic losses for Ukraine are immense,” said MP Lesia Vasylenko, who posted a video on her Twitter account showing thick columns of smoke rising from an industrial complex.
Another MP, Serhiy Taruta, wrote on his Facebook page that the Russian forces, besieging Mariupol, “virtually destroyed the factory”.
Azovstal Managing Director Enver Tskitishvili said in a video message posted on Telegram that his company took precautionary measures at the plant from the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 to prevent any damage to the plant. ‘environment.
“All recognized war criminals must be punished”, says Mélenchon
In our Facing the readers, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is also again questioned about the war in Ukraine, while his competitors accuse him of positions deemed pro-Russian.
Would he call Vladimir Putin a war criminal like US President Joe Biden did? “A war crime is legally defined. If it is, it is. I’m glad the US wants to see war crimes brought to justice. Because they have not signed the international convention for the international criminal court, ”he criticizes.
“For Mr. Putin to be sent there, the United States would first have to sign this convention. They too have been accused of war crimes in various circumstances. All recognized war criminals must be punished. It must be the universal law of the human people”.