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  • At an economic forum dedicated to Asia in Vladivostok, a city located at the eastern end of Russia, Vladimir Putin denied using gas as a “weapon”, while deliveries via Nord Stream are at a standstill for several days.

  • According to the UN Under-Secretary General for Human Rights, there are "credible accusations" of single children being forcibly transferred from Ukraine to Russia to be adopted by Russian families.

  • The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday proposed to member states a cap on the price of Russian gas delivered to the EU.

    The idea is to "reduce the income of Russia", which uses it to "finance this atrocious war", denounces the head of the European executive.

    A sanction that could have serious long-term consequences.

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7:30 am: Washington accuses Russia of "filtering" hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians

The United States on Wednesday accused the Kremlin of coordinating vast "triage" operations in Ukraine with the aim of eventually facilitating the annexation of territories under its control.

“We have information that officials from the Russian presidential administration are overseeing and coordinating these triage operations” of hundreds of thousands of people, said deputy spokesman for American diplomacy, Vedant Patel.

7:20 am: According to the UN, children are forcibly transferred to Russia

There are 'credible accusations' of lone children being forcibly transferred from Ukraine to Russia, the UN under-secretary-general for human rights said on Wednesday, expressing concern about their possible adoption by families Russians.

"There are credible accusations of forcible transfers of unaccompanied children to Russian-occupied territory or to the Russian Federation itself," Ilze Brands Kehris told a meeting of the UN Security Council. UN on forced displacement in Ukraine.

7:10 a.m.: Meeting between US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and allies

This Thursday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will host his counterparts from allied countries at the US base in Ramstein in western Germany to discuss the situation in Ukraine and organize support for kyiv forces.

6:50 am: Ukraine claims progress in the northeast

The Ukrainian army claims progress on the northeastern front, with the resumption of several localities in the Kharkiv region, as a meeting of defense ministers from allied countries opens in Germany on Thursday to organize their support Ukrainian military capabilities.

“This week we have good news from the Kharkiv region,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening video address broadcast on social media.

Refusing to name them, he spoke of “localities where the Ukrainian flag has returned”.

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Tension rose again on Wednesday between Moscow and the EU over Russian gas deliveries, with kyiv warning for its part that a disaster at the Zaporizhia power plant could have consequences beyond Ukraine.

From his side kyiv denounced a “Russian propaganda which is in full swing by threatening Europe with a freezing winter”.

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