The Russian missile cruiser Moskva, hit yesterday in the Black Sea by a Neptune anti-ship missile of the Kiev forces, capsized and is sinking after a powerful explosion of ammunition on board. This was announced by the press office of the Ukrainian Southern Operational Command. On board were 16 Vulkan anti-ship carriers with a range of at least 700 km, the crew, according to some sources, more than 500 sailors were evacuated. “The cruiser remains afloat”, had communicated Moscow which is investigating to ‘establish the causes of the fire that caused the explosion of ammunition’.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon announces the sending of new weapons to Ukraine in less than a week, “Kiev’s forces will take them to the east of the country” where the Russians are preparing to launch a new offensive, spokesman John Kirby said. at Cnn.
The US Defense Department does not confirm or deny it has already begun on the Russian attack in the Donbass.
From the war of bombs and missiles to the economic one with Putin threatening the West over gas. “Now there is no possibility of replacing Russian gas in Europe”, assured Putin according to which the attacks by European partners on the refusal of Russian energy supplies destabilize the situation and drive up prices. Not only. Attempts to give up Russian energy sources ‘will inevitably affect the entire global economy’. Meanwhile, the Russian president has announced that he has asked the government to redirect energy exports from Western countries and Europe to Asia and to the south and east.
For its part, the ECB announces that it will take whatever action is necessary to fulfill its mandate to pursue price stability and to help preserve financial stability. Because the war in Ukraine is “heavily affecting” Eurozone confidence, and energy prices are reducing demand and holding back production. And economic developments will crucially depend on how the conflict evolves. President Lagarde assures that the ECB’s monetary policy decisions “will depend on economic data and the evolution of the situation” which “will maintain options, gradualness, and flexibility” from now on. And she admits that the upside risks to the inflation outlook are increasing, especially in the short term.
The exchange of accusations between Russia and Ukraine on the attacks continues.
According to Moscow, Ukrainian helicopters have carried out at least six air strikes in the Russian region of Bryansk. In addition, two Russian villages in the Belgorod region, on the border with Ukraine, were allegedly bombed by Ukrainian forces, according to the governor of the region quoted by Tass. There would be no civilian casualties, residents evacuated. According to reports from Kiev, however, Moscow missile attacks continue on military and civilian infrastructures in the regions of Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia, while some marines of the 36th brigade were taken prisoner by the Russians as they tried to break through the front in Mariupol to reach the regiment Azov, but they are far fewer than the thousand declared by Moscow.
Altolà of the Kremlin to the projects of Finland and Sweden entered in pressure for their entry into NATO. In the event, Russia will strengthen its western borders, because “the length of the land border of the alliance with Russia will be more than doubled. Statements that Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė defines as” rather strange “, given that” everyone knows that since before the war in Ukraine, the Russians kept their weapons 100 kilometers from the Lithuanian border. Nuclear weapons have always been kept in Kaliningrad, “and are used as a threat.
Local authorities, on the other hand, are denouncing bombing by Ukrainian forces on the Russian town of Klimovo, not far from the border, where residential buildings and people were injured. In the attack on the Kramatorsk railway station, in eastern Ukraine, 59 victims, including 7 children. Kiev claims to have killed nearly 20,000 Russian soldiers since the start of the war. And he recommends citizens to wait to return to abandoned homes due to the high likelihood of missile attacks and a large-scale offensive. In Italy, initiatives for the reception of Ukrainian refugees are multiplying. The Court of Milan has made available 30 apartments in the Grosseto area stolen from an entrepreneur deemed “socially dangerous” for serial “fiscal violations” and financial crimes.
Source: Ansa
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