War in Ukraine Russian corpses at the gates of Limán: "This was hell"
The new phase of the
war in Ukraine
is also fought legally.
The Duma, the Russian
chamber of deputies
, addresses this Monday the ratification of the international annexation treaties signed by the
Russian Federation
with the Ukrainian regions of
Donetsk
,
Lugansk
,
Kherson
and
Zaporizhia
.
Meanwhile, and with the taking of Limán by flag, Ukraine continues to recover territory.
According to the analysis of military experts, Russia has lost in the last two days the nine percent of the territory of Ukraine that it illegally annexed on Friday.
In Russia, the head of military recruitment in a Far Eastern region has been suspended after thousands of people were mistakenly called up to fight in the
Ukraine war
.
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10.35
A Russian rapper commits suicide to avoid going to war in Ukraine: "I have no right to pull the trigger"
Russian rapper
Ivan Vitalievich Petunin
, known as
Walkie
, decided to take his own life to avoid being called up to fight in the war in Ukraine.
His body was found next to a high-rise building on
Krasnodar 's Congressnaya Street, the
Daily Mail
reports
.
Shortly before he died, the 27-year-old artist posted a message on his Telegram channel in which he assured that he is not prepared to kill.
"If you are watching this video, then I am no longer alive.
I cannot accept the sin of murder in my soul and I do not want to do it. I am not willing to kill for any ideal
," he recounted.
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10.30
Ukraine tries to break the defense line in Kreminna, in its advance on Lugansk
The Ukrainian
Armed Forces
try to break the Russian defense lines in the area of the town of
Kreminna
, in the eastern region of
Lugansk
, after retaking the city of
Liman
and the city of
Torske
this weekend, both in neighboring
Donetsk
. , assures a military spokesman for the pro-Russian separatists.
"After we had to leave
Liman
, our military entrenched itself on the outskirts of
Kreminna
and the situation is quite hot there," says the military spokesman for the self-proclaimed
Lugansk
People's Republic ,
Andrei Marochko
, on the Soloviev Live channel.
"The enemy does not stop trying to break through our defenses, but our heroes are facing these attempts right now," he says.
The spokesman for the Eastern Group of the
Ukrainian
Armed Forces ,
Serhiy Cherevaty
, has announced on Ukrainian television that, after liberating the strategic city of
Limán , the
Kiev
troops
have also taken control of
Torske
, to the west of the first town already short distance from the administrative border of
Luhansk
.
One of the first cities in
Lugansk
as the crow flies is
Kreminna
.
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9.15
The International Energy Agency warns: in Europe, saving gas will be "crucial" to get through the winter
Gas saving measures in
Europe
will be "crucial" this winter to keep stocks at sufficient levels in the event of a total gas cut in
Russia
and a "late cold snap", the
International Energy Agency
(IEA ) said on Monday.
) in your quarterly report.
The depletion of Russian gas, in response to the sanctions imposed on Moscow for the
war in Ukraine
, has triggered prices on world markets and has led Europeans to obtain supplies from other sources, massively importing liquefied natural gas, in particular US gas. and Norwegian.
Thanks to this diversification strategy, "gas stocks were almost 90% full at the end of September", indicates the IEA, based in Paris, while warning Europe of the consequences, starting this winter and the next year, of a possible complete shutdown of the Russian tap.
In its report, the agency thus establishes winter projections for these
stocks
"in the event of a total closure of the Russian supply as of November 1" and based on the supply of LNG, a resource that is now the subject of "global competition".
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9.03
Russia suspends a military official after recruiting thousands of people for the Ukraine war by mistake
The head of military recruitment in a Russian Far Eastern region has been suspended, a local official confirms, after thousands of people were mistakenly called up to fight in
Ukraine
.
"The military commissar of
Khabarovsk Krai
,
Yuri Laiko
, is suspended from his duties. This will not influence the objective that the president set for us," Governor
Mikhail Degtyariov
explained in a video on Telegram, who has not given the exact reason for this suspension but has hinted that it was related to numerous errors.
"In ten days, several thousand of our compatriots have received summonses to go to military police stations. About half of them we have sent home because they did not meet the selection criteria to enter the 'army' says the governor.
"The partial mobilization concerns only the categories designated by the Ministry of Defense and the president. Any abuse must be repressed," he adds.
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8.35
The Eurogroup debates how to contain inflation at all-time highs
The ministers of Economy and Finance of the euro zone (the
Eurogroup
) debate this Monday how to face a record inflation of 10%, in particular the increase in the electricity bill, while fears of a recession grow if the problems of energy supply.
The discussion on the economic situation has become a fixed item on the agenda of the ministers since the beginning of the
war in Ukraine
and on this occasion they will be accompanied by the secretary general of the
OECD
,
Mathias Cormann
, after the organization has worsened its forecasts for
Europe
.
The
OECD
believes that in 2023 the GDP of the eurozone will grow by 0.3% and warns that if a gas shortage occurs, many economies would be doomed to recession, a picture similar to that painted by the
European Central Bank
(
ECB
). ), which projects a growth of 0.9% next year but a fall of the same magnitude if
Russia
completely closes the gas tap.
Despite the increased risk of recession, the
Eurogroup
believes that the "most immediate" problem to deal with is inflation, which reached double digits in September.
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7.22
Russia ratifies today in the Duma the illegal annexation treaties of four regions of Ukraine
The Russian
Duma or Chamber of Deputies
addresses on Monday the ratification of international annexation treaties signed by the Russian Federation with the Ukrainian regions of
Donetsk
,
Lugansk
,
Kherson
and
Zaporizhia
.
In addition to the treaties, on Sunday the constitutional bills for the entry of these territories into their new state were also sent to the Duma.
According to the documents, in these four regions the official language will be Russian, although the use of Ukrainian will be allowed, and the national currency, the ruble.
The people's republics of Donetsk
and
Lugansk as well as the
Kherson
and
Zaporizhia
regions
will keep their name
.
Russia
does not yet control all the annexed territory, where there is fighting and
Ukraine
continues its offensive.
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7.20
Russia loses nine percent of the annexed territory in two days
Russian suicide drones have attacked the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, who on Saturday night predicted new advances in the counteroffensive of his forces.
According to calculations by various military experts,
Russia has lost nine percent of the land it annexed last Friday in just two days
.
More details in
this chronicle by Lluís Miquel Hurtado
.
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7.19
The taking of Limán, a problem for the Russian occupation forces in Ukraine
The taking this Sunday by the Ukrainian army of the city of Limán, an important railway hub in the Donetsk region (east) annexed by Moscow, poses a
serious problem to the Russian forces,
on the defensive and forced to establish a new line head on.
In the Kharkov region (northeast), the rail network converges at a point at the Kupiansk Vuzlovyi station, and then heads south to Svatove in the Russian-annexed Luhansk region.
During the six months of Russian occupation, the trains carried supplies to Moscow troops stationed further south, making the station a vital logistics hub for Russian military operations.
But the situation has changed in recent days.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive has allowed kyiv to retake large swathes of territory in the region, forcing the Russians to withdraw.
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7.18
Pro-Western parties win elections in Latvia and pro-Russian parties are weakened
The centrist party of
outgoing Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins
prevailed in the
Latvian
parliamentary elections held on Saturday, according to the final results, while parties close to the Russian minority were weakened.
Karins' Nueva Unidad
party
obtained 18.97% of the votes and became the largest parliamentary force, with 26 deputies, according to the central electoral commission.
The results of the elections, which were held against the background of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, increase Karins' chances of being appointed by President
Egils Levits
to form the next coalition government.
This Baltic country of 1.8 million inhabitants is a member of the
European Union
and
NATO.
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