Putin’s aut aut to the West
By signing the presidential decree grumpy rules of Russian natural gas trade with the so-called hostile countries for the payment in rublesPutin goes to the Gas war with the West. “Nobody is selling us anything for free and neither will we do charity work: this means that existing contracts, in the event of non-payment of gas in rubles, will be terminated,” Putin said.
France and Germany “get ready” in the case of Russia freezes the furniture. “We looked at the contracts, it says that you pay in euros. And I made it clear in the phone call that she will remain that way. ”So the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz answering a question about the yesterday’s conversation with Putin and also on the latest statement from the Kremlin in the late afternoon, which for its part reiterated that gas will have to be paid for in rubles. The decree provides for the possibility that some payments are not made in the Moscow currency, they will be identified by the government commission that oversees investments foreigners based on an authorization procedure that will be launched within 10 days.
And the White House, orders the release of one million barrels of oil per day from strategic reserves Use every 6 months. Moving on to the news of the day, in addition to change of strategy with troops in the Donbass as we have already given you an account to register today, there is to be registered withdrawal of the Russians from the Chernobyl site, announced the Ukrainian nuclear agency. Thus, at least in part, one is included a situation that had been described as ‘catastrophic’ in the afternoon.
Mariupol remains under attack instead: no one ceases to fire on the martyr city. The truce concerned exclusively the humanitarian corridors, specified Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, from Lviv. And it is situation on a Mariupol that insists on president Zelenskyto the Belgian parliament he says “no one is helping us to stop this humanitarian catastrophe“. On the diplomatic front, a new round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, while Turkey announces that the foreign ministries of Russia and Ukraine could meet within two weeks.