We’ll be back soon with more updates on the war in Ukraine.
Before leaving, here is a review of what has happened in 24 hours beyond 24 hours:
In the news similar to the update of our previous article, oil exports through a giant Russian port seem to have stopped, supporting Kyiv’s claims of a successful attack at a pumping station.
Bloomberg quoted a user knowing the deliveries that flow oil at UST-Luga fell to 0 on Wednesday.
The outlet added that shipping data it had seen showed a tanker left early on that day, but that there was a gap in vessel signals following that.
He said there’s no explanation why it was provided for the obvious decrease, and that there would possibly be regulations where ships aren’t at fault anyway.
If it were confirmed that Ukrainian drone strikes had damaged the pipeline system feeding Ust-Luga – causing a lengthy pause to shipments – it could cause a significant supply threat to the global oil market.
It follows a claim from Ukraine on Wednesday that its drones had struck Russia’s Andreapol pumping station on the Baltic Pipeline System-2, which feeds Ust-Luga, causing activity there to halt.
Russia’s pipeline operator has still commented on the reports.
The gas price cap introduced by the EU during its 2022 Russian gas crisis will expire today, signalling the worst of Europe’s energy crisis is over.
The limit was not activated, however, it would have implemented if the fuel charges had unusually increased high -level titles as the energy load rises as Russia cuts the fuel materials after invading Ukraine in February 2022.
The cap was designed to kick in if European gas prices hit 180 euros per megawatt hour – a level the benchmark EU price has not reached since the depths of Europe’s energy crisis in 2022, when it surpassed 300 euros/MWh.
In a statement on its website, the Commission said the price cap had not been triggered and did not need extending, “thanks to factors such as structural demand decline, reliable LNG and pipeline imports from trusted partners, and enhanced import infrastructure”.
“Fortunately, we have never entered the stage where we can know if the effective or not,” said an EU diplomat.
A little more now about the news, before Russia, claiming to have captured the Ukrainian village of Novovasylivka (see 9. 53 post).
The town is about 11 kilometers (seven miles) southwest of Pokrovsk, a key city in which Russia will close after months of effort.
While Sky News may not independently determine Russia’s statement to have taken the village, Battlefield Maps published early today through Ukrainian general personnel reported that at least in components under Russian control.
Russia has continued a relentless crusade to take the eastern region of Donetsk.
More main points have also emerged in the reports of the Russian forces that are closest to the key city of Pokrovsk (see 9. 51 post).
Ukraine general personnel said the troops had repelled 71 Russian army attacks against Pokrovsk in the last 24 hours, almost part of Russia’s attacks along 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) took its position around Pokrovsk.
A Russian army command post in the Kursk region has been hit by missile and artillery forces, Ukrainian military has said.
Moscow’s forces have been seeking to counter a Ukrainian incursion into the region since Aug. 6, when Kyiv has staged a wonderful offensive on Russia’s border.
The Kremlin led a risk of Donald Trump to impose on the BRICS organization in countries if he created his own currency.
Trump warned BRICS member countries to upgrade the U. S. dollar as a reserve currency by repeating a 100 percent risk from the price lists he had made after winning the November presidential election.
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Brics, whose Russia is a member, spoke of establishing his own currency, but only to create joint investment platforms.
“This is not the first time Trump has made such statements, it’s not new,” he said.
“There were statements like this before, when only he was the president-elect.
“The fact is that the BRICS talk about creating a non -unusual currency, and has never done so. BRICS talk about creating new joint investment platforms that would allow joint investments in third countries, mutual investments, etc.
And in what can be noted as a thinly veiled ridicule of the scope of Trump’s foreign affairs, he added: “In all likelihood, American experts probably want the BRIC time table in more detail for Mr. Trump. “
The Kremlin in December said any US attempt to compel countries to use the dollar would backfire, after Trump made the same threat against BRICS.
Hungary’s Viktor Orban has threatened not to approve the next cycle of sanctions opposed to Russia if Brussels does not help Russian fuel through restored Ukraine.
“This Ukraine is not willing to leave the Russian fuel through its territory so that it can succeed in Central Europe, and with that, the value of Fuelarray increases . . . it is unacceptable,” said the state -of -the -art minister.
Russian fuel traffic to Central Europe through Ukraine interrupted on January 1.
Gas exports stopped when a public shipping agreement expired and Kyiv refused to negotiate a new one. It is repelling the “Special Army Operation” of Russia, which has been in its surpass since February 24, 2022.
A key target of the declaration of war in Ukraine in recent months has been clients for a peace deal after the election of Donald Trump.
While the new US president has not, as he suggested he would, ended the conflict on “day one” of his return to the White House, it has been widely suggested his leadership will significantly alter its dynamics – if only through a substantial withdrawal of material support for Kyiv.
In turn, beyond a few weeks they have noticed a Moscow signaling wave about the Kremlin position on negotiations.
In that vein, an interview has been published by Russian state news agency TASS with Fyodor Lukyanov, research director with the Valdai Discussion Club – an international forum where Russian and foreign officials and scholars meet to discuss global issues.
Lukyanov has continuously moderated the annual discourse of Putin to Valdai and is a well -connected voice and authority on the Kremlin objectives, according to the first group of images reflected, the Institute for the Study of War.
It Depends on Primary Agreements is the name of the interview, which highlights the Kremlin’s nonstop efforts to shape national and global expectations regarding long-term negotiations between Putin and Trump.
“Tass’s resolution to take credit for Lukyanov’s interview to mitigate domestic speculation about the option of a long-term peace agreement also highlights the relevance of this interview and Lukyanov’s statements when considering Russia’s conceivable negotiating positions vis-à-vis Ukraine and the United States, United States,” according to ISW analysts.
Lukyanov declares in the interview that the “main thing” for long-term peace negotiations regarding Ukraine is “the territories,” but the combat opposite the “root causes” of the war, which Lukyanov explained as NATO’s ‘expansion in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Discussing the recently retained Ukrainian lands through the Russian forces, he said that “with the territories, everything is clear: how much is yours”, which suggests that ISW gives an additional indication that the Kremlin has no goal of committing to his profits Territorial in Ukraine in Ukraine. Long -term peace negotiations.
“This post suggests that the Kremlin likely means that long-term peace negotiations with Trump began with the United States detecting Russia’s territorial claims to Ukraine, adding more spaces that Russia does not occupy recently, before the actual negotiations can begin that focus on those who concentrate on those who are in the United States. ” the ‘root causes’ well covered,” the analysts say.
Lukyanov says that Russia’s main call for long -term peace negotiations with Trump is “a replacement in the security scene in Eastern Europe” and “abandonment [of] a series of provisions on which the styles are based of life and the functioning of NATO “, adding that Russia would do possibly also need to talk about the option to” reduce the presence point of the army [of NATO] “.
As noted by ISW, Putin published a series of requests in the United States in December 2021 ahead of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, adding that NATO is committed not to settle for Ukraine or any other country as new members, as well as other measures that would restrict NATO activities in the region.
“Lukyanov’s statements assume that Trump and his management are weak and most likely they are intimidated through Kremlin force exhibitions that former management [President Joe] Biden,” ISW analysts said.
Lukyanov writes that Trump needs to “dump all other problems” related to Ukraine on Europe and “does not respect” European states or NATO more broadly.
He suggests that Trump will abandon Ukraine and NATO.
“Trump respects only those who show consistency,” says Lukyanov, while calling the Kremlin to “never give in” and “prepare for a complicated conversation, even adding elements of [a] cliff. “
ISW concludes: “Lukyanov’s interview supports the Kremlin’s ongoing efforts to force Trump into acquiescing to Putin’s demands that amount to Ukraine’s full capitulation and the weakening of NATO and Putin’s personal efforts to position himself as Trump’s equal on the international stage.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sentenced an attack on Russian drones to Sumy, who killed nine other people when a construction of several plots of land affected.
A total of 13 people, including a child, were injured when the building was struck.
“Hex according to the time, we are getting updates on the In Sumy.
“The paintings on the site of the Russian” Shahed “(drone) are carried out,” Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video on Thursday.
“This has a characteristic of Russian movements: destroying the lives of many families in an entire building.
“Every such strike needs an answer from the world,” he said.
“Terror is unpunished. “