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New sanctions on Russia threaten global food security, says US ambassador
New anti-Russian sanctions from the West threaten supply chains and will affect global food security, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, said.
“We are convinced that perverse restrictive practices will only aggravate the situation in the world, lead to further disruptions in supply chains and affect food security,” Antonov said on the Russian embassy’s Telegram channel.
The diplomat was sure that the economic “fluctuations” will affect the US itself, where the shortage of certain foods is getting worse and worse.
He called the new sanctions a further confirmation of Washington’s “Russophobic hysteria” in its attempts to blame Russia for global economic problems, including rising fuel prices.
The EU adopts sanctions against Russia and confirms exceptions in the oil veto
The European Union (EU) definitively adopted this Friday the sixth package of sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, which includes an embargo on Russian oil that arrives by sea and provides exceptions for oil that arrives by pipeline to countries without access to the sea. such as Hungary, the Czech Republic or Slovakia.
“With today’s package we are increasing the limitations on the Kremlin’s ability to finance this war by imposing more economic sanctions. We are prohibiting the import of Russian oil into the EU and thereby cutting off a huge source of revenue for Russia,” he said in a statement. the high representative of the EU for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell.
The sixth round of community sanctions against Russia and Belarus for the aggression received yesterday the approval at the level of ambassadors of the member countries and, after being formally adopted this Friday, will be published in the next few hours in the official bulletin of the EU, which that will allow them to come into force and know all the details.
Ukraine asks for sanctions, weapons and EU candidacy to win the war
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry listed today on the occasion of the hundred days of the Russian invasion the three requirements for Ukraine to win the war: sanctions, weapons and the status of a candidate for full accession to the European Union (EU).
“The main pillars for our victory remain the same: maximum sanctioning pressure on Russia, supplying the necessary weapons and granting Ukraine the status of a candidate on the path to full accession to the EU,” said the statement, collected by the Ukrinform agency.
He stresses that “in order to stop Russia’s crimes against the Ukrainian people”, the destruction of the Ukrainian economy and “blackmailing the whole world” with famine, “constant support for Ukraine must continue”.
kyiv Says Russian Army Had Significant Losses at Popasna
The Russian army has suffered “significant losses” in the city of Popasna, in southeastern Ukraine, according to the latest part of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These losses reach at least 50% of the Russian troops fighting in that city in the Lugansk region, according to the military report published on Facebook, which adds that the battle also continues in the center of the eastern city of Severodonetsk.
In that area, Russian troops continue to fire on Ukrainian positions and civilian infrastructure, and assault planes have launched airstrikes. In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian army repulsed five enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, destroying five Russian tanks, three artillery systems and two armored fighting vehicles.
The Russian troops, the report adds, have low morale due to the constant postponement of their rotation, which has caused many Russian soldiers to refuse to participate in hostilities.
According to the Institute for the Study of War (USA), the Russian advances are “exhausting and costly”. According to his analysis, “Russian military leaders are likely to use the capture of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk to claim that they have ‘liberated’ the entire Lugansk region before moving on to Donetsk.
“But it is unlikely that the Russian forces will have the necessary forces to take substantial territory in the Donetsk region” because, in his opinion, they are limited by the Siverskyi Donets River.
The UN affirms after 100 days of war that “there will be no winner”
The hundred days that have passed since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been weeks of “suffering, devastation and destruction on a massive scale” that have left a third of the Ukrainian population dependent on humanitarian aid, in a war that “will have no winner”. “, the UN said today.
“This war will have no winner, and instead we have witnessed how much has been lost: lives, homes, jobs and prosperity,” said the United Nations coordinator for Ukraine, Amin Awad, in a statement on the occasion of the hundred days of conflict.
At a press conference from kyiv for the accredited press at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Awad recalled that at least 15.7 million people in Ukraine, equivalent to a third of the population of that country, “urgently require assistance and protection “.