News Bulletin at 11:00 ATHENS 9.84
Britain is questioning the withdrawal of troops from the Crimean region, which was formerly Russia. “We do not have any evidence at the moment about this withdrawal. “We do not dispute what Russia is saying, but we will judge by its actions,” British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told British media.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry released a video showing its tanks and military vehicles leaving the Ukrainian peninsula, which Moscow resorted to in 2014, after completing military exercises in the region. At the same time, in a statement, the ministry points out that “the units of the Southern Military District, which have completed their participation in regular high schools in test areas of the Crimean peninsula, are headed by trains back to their permanent bases.”
However, the size of the withdrawal remains unclear and may include only a small number of Russian forces on the border, countries that Western officials estimate have more than 130,000 troops, according to international media.
Meanwhile, in a televised address yesterday, US President Joe Biden insisted that “a Russian invasion remains a strong possibility” and called on Russia to withdraw from the brink of war, while the Russian president reiterated that Moscow does not want war.
The energy crisis pre-existed two months before the Ukrainian crisis. Europe has been caught unread, unprepared and has not yet found a way to deal with it. It will be difficult to find to face future crises that will break out on the way to the act of transition, stressed in Athens 984 Giannis Maniatis, former Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change. He added that Europe gives billions. euros for investment in green growth, but at the same time has forgotten about energy security. As for our country, he said that he could develop policies and exploit the gas fields in the south of Crete, which in recent years do not seem to be interested.
It meets at 2 noon of the Committee of Experts which will enter on whether or not there will be further relaxation of restrictive measures in stadiums, restaurants and school trips.
“Greece will follow the trend of relaxation and return to normalcy that exists in other countries, but we will have to wait for the imports of specialists,” government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou told SKAI. Regarding the response events, he said that “we will not be there”.
According to the professor of Analytical Chemistry, Nikos Thomaidis, a small and slow reduction in the load of Attica is shown by the basin. Speaking in Athens 984, he said that in general, the epidemiological indicators of the country have a slight decrease and that the hard indicators are stable, however the positivity remains high at 4-4.5 so we are not allowed to be in a relaxed mood this two months. . without restrictive measures. As Mr. Thomaidis underlined, the measurements show that the delta mutation is on the run and the omicron is almost universal.
Employees with fixed-term contracts in hospitals will perform three-hour work twelve to three in the afternoon and gather at the Ministry of Health.
Scientists warn of an “endemic delusion” after the hasty lifting of restrictive measures in many countries of the world with the optimistic reasoning that it is time to “coexist” with the coronavirus.
The discussion of the bill for the modernization of EFKA continues in the Plenary Session of the Parliament, which will be completed tomorrow with its vote. With 24-hour work today and a gathering in a few hours outside the Ministry of Labor, the employees of the insurance funds that make up the institution react.
The establishment of special forest service units that will exist in the Fire Brigade, to cover which is expected to employ 500 people up to 28 years, provides for the amendment of the Ministry of Climate Crete and Civil Protection submitted to Parliament.
WEATHER
Cloudy skies with local rain overnight in Attica. The temperature in Athens will reach 17 degrees Celsius. 12 points at this time in the Technopolis in Gazi.