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Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

Published 07/19/2022, 08:40 PM
Updated 09/07/2022, 08:16 PM
© Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran, Iran July 19, 2022. President Website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

© Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran, Iran July 19, 2022. President Website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) - Russian President Putin raised the idea of adding limits to a U.N.-brokered deal for Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea and threatened to halt all energy supplies to Europe if Brussels caps the price of Russian gas.

ENERGY

* The European Union's proposed price cap on Russian gas raises the risk of rationing in some of the world's richest countries this winter.

* Ukraine said on Wednesday it might have to shut down the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to avoid a disaster and called on residents in areas nearby to evacuate.

GRAIN

* Senior U.N. and Russian officials met to discuss Russian complaints that Western sanctions were impeding its grain and fertilizer exports despite a U.N.-brokered deal to boost Russian and Ukrainian shipments of the commodities.

* Putin said he would discuss "limiting the destinations for grain and other food exports" with Turkish President Erdogan, who helped broker the deal.

* A Ukrainian presidential adviser said Russia had no grounds to review the deal and that its terms were being strictly observed.

FIGHTING

* Ukrainian forces are making "slow but meaningful progress" on the battlefield and are doing better in the south than Russia, a senior Pentagon official said.

* Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said there was "good news" from the Kharkiv region east of Kyiv, with some settlements recaptured from Russian forces.

* Shelling damaged a backup power line at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has already lost all four of its regular power lines, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.

* In rare public comments Ukraine's military chief warned of the threat of Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, which would create the risk of a "limited" nuclear conflict with other powers.

Moscow has in the past denied speculation of potential nuclear or chemical weapons use.

U.N.

* At the United Nations, the U.S. ambassador accused Moscow of committing a war crime by forcibly deporting Ukrainians to Russia and said it has information that Russian officials are overseeing so-called filtration operations.

© Reuters. Firefighters work at the site of a residential building hit by a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine September 6, 2022.  REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

ECONOMY

* Zelenskiy said next year's budget would be a war budget, devoting more than a trillion hryvnias ($27.40 billion) to defence and security spending.

Latest comments

Russia should just go home.
War has been going on for 7 months the russians still have not found any na..zis in ukraine….what happens if they dont find any, then a lot of dead civilians. Ra….ped women and dead ukraine children are left what happens in russia..any consequences???
Is it still a special operation still looking for nazist from world war 2 maybe they are dead now putin
We will all look forward to see the russian coffers getting empty because not sufficient money will be comming in…
dangerous to rely on china they have their own agenda and india and italy are not rich countries
This year let’s turn to Asia in winter where temperature is better…
Is russia has earned 460 billion dollars from europe the past 6 month what happens in russia if they get 0 dollars.
Exactly ken they are going bankrupt there must be some Russians will wake up and push putin over the mountain ,nordstream 2 have been very expensive it cost bilions to keep that going some many people must get payment that cost billion but putin are ready to offer Russians life’s they only have pipeline no Lng platforms how longtime it will take before the Top in Russia will go against putin we will see 2023 we will celebrate i hope
It’s only putins war but some money on his head now
And god will help us we get a mild winter
What you need to know is that Ukraine gonna win for sure and Russia will go bankrupt late 2023 we gonna celebrate yeeepppa
Russia is a *******state.
Piss of carlos you russian bot
Its time to stop war, already huge loss world economy also with the effect of this war
Russia is the invader so it's up to Putin to stop...
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Angelone feel free to shoot putin in the head
This is Revelation Russia is been sent to end all of this misery on Earth
check your bible edition I am pretty sure it's not the official version
Tre, you just made me laugh out loud. Thanks, I needed that.
Where is the UN? Spineless? No guts to stop the war that has been taking thousands of innocent lives and fuelling inflation, food and fuel crisis? The war must end.
The UN is not working..russia can veto all decisions
feel free to tell us how exactly can UN stop the war?
you mean Iran and Russia
It will end that way i hope it will be the best shot for a decade
This whole problem would be over the moment a russian hero steps up and put a bullit in putins head. For world Peace and end inflation and world hunger
must be tiresome as a russian to see your army loosing to ukraine
Plenty of witneses and video taken where russians try to put blame on ukraine by firing against nuclear plant, i.e why are russia not interested in UN inspection
Ny resistancegroup in Russia is established called national republican army with sole purpose to bring down putin and his followers. Where can we donate money. They where responsible for latest car bomb….states it is only the beginning they will hunt all putin helpers in kremlin, fsb and oligarchs
That my words too 👍👍👍👍👍👍
We will stop you all
Purin is cero and the soldiers are terrorrist
What will you call that the little fat rat have done in ukraine fool and maybe putin have done it
Attack in Russia car bomb it’s the beginning maybe its russians freedoms fighters i said it will happened new it
This history is about power and control of food steel and gas not about nazist how can the Russian people believe in that .the same is going on in china jinping wants control over Taiwan we must not let that happen
Russia is closing the last 20% gas deliveries to europe for 3 days, which is great this means putin will have 0 leverage over europe and we can do whatever we want with all the frozen russian assets….
They should be used to rebuild Ukraine.
What up Brad. I did split my company into thirds. I also just bought the sickness of wake board boats 295k on a tige. I know it's a lot for you but it's 3 weeks for me. joke
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