Russia threatens to reduce its oil production due to the price ceiling

United States will send another $275 million in military aid to Ukraineespecially focused on improving the country’s anti-aircraft defenses, which in recent weeks has been the victim of constant attacks by Russia against energy and civilian infrastructure.

The package includes ammunition and anti-aircraft defenses from the Pentagon inventoryJohn Kirby, one of the White House spokesmen, announced at a telephone press conference.

Following this announcement, the value of aid sent by the United States to Ukraine amounts to $20 billion in security assistance since Biden’s arrival at the White House in 2021.

Bulgaria has approved sending military aid to Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion began. A month has passed since the National Assembly showed its willingness to deliver said aid, but it was not until this Friday when the deputies agreed on a list of weapons to send, as stated Guardian.

The vote has gone ahead with 148 votes in favor of a total of 240, finding opposition between the socialists and the pro-Russian formations. The selection of weapons, although classified, implies the shipment of light weapons and ammunition, according to government sources.

The Polish Defense Minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, has announced in an interview in a Polish media outlet that, finally, the Patriot missile launchers that Germany offered to Poland will be integrated into the defense system of this country within the framework of NATO. in an interview published on a Polish news portal that, finally, the Patriot missile launchers that Germany offered to Poland will be integrated into the defense system of this country within the NATO framework.

The arrival of the defense system occurs in response to the impact of a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile in the country, in a town near the border with Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia can reduce oil production in response to the cap of 60 dollars per barrel imposed by the European Union (EU), the G7 and Australia to Russian crude.

“As for our reaction, I already said it: just we will not sell to those countries that make such decisions. We will perhaps even think about the possibility (…) to reduce production“, he pointed out at a press conference after participating in the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union (UEE) in Bishkek.

The Russian president has stated that although they have an agreement with OPEC+ on their extraction levels, they could think “something extra”. The Kremlin chief indicated that the price cap imposed by the West does not affect only Russia, but “all producers”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted at a press conference that agreements will have to be reached on Ukraine. The Russian president has also reiterated that on many occasions Russia has tried to do so. Now, however, he says doubt the position of the West after the failure of the Minsk peace agreements for Donbas eight years ago, the rupture of which he considers a “betrayal”.

Putin has also indicated his dissatisfaction with statements by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with whom he had a productive relationship, in Der Spiegel magazine. Merkel stated in it that she believed that the Minsk agreements would allow Ukraine to gain time to better defend itself against a Russian attack. “Honestly, it was completely unexpected for me, it’s disappointing,” the Russian leader said.

Vladimir Putin has recognized in a press conference, vaguely, the problems that Russia has had to supply equipment and clothing to the 300,000 recruited men to fight in Ukraine in recent months, according to the daily Guardian.

The Russian president has acknowledged the problem by stating that the situation is being resolved now.

The Ukrainian Atomic Energy Agency accuses Russia of kidnapping two senior officials from the Zaporizhia power plant. As reported by Al Jazeera, the two plant employees were beaten before being driven in an “unknown direction” on Thursday. From Ukraine they also denounce the arrest of a third worker in charge of the security of the plant.

In the statement, the agency talks about the treatment of “pro-Ukrainian” staff at the plant, which is under Russian rule.

The Russian Justice has sentenced the opposition leader to eight and a half years in prison this Friday Ilya Yashin for denouncing the war crimes allegedly committed by the Russian Army in the north of kyiv. The judge has considered fully proven the guilt of Ilya Yashin for spreading “false information” about the Armed Forces disclosed by foreign media motivated by “political hatred”.

The illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is continuing.

The map below is the latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 09 December 2022

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this Friday that he will speak separately this Sunday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian, Volodimir Zelensky, to reinforce the Black Sea pact to export cereals. “While we strongly defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine, we are opposed to fueling the tension in the region with irrational policies towards Russia,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a forum on state television. TRT.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Friday of turning Ukraine into a virtual “colony” and of using the Ukrainian people as “cannon fodder, as a battering ram against Russia.” “By continuing to supply you armament and ammunition, by sending mercenaries, pushes Ukraine onto a suicidal path,” the president warned in a video message to the defense ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, meeting in Moscow. Thus, he has stressed that “certain Western elites” consciously seek “the multiplication of chaos and the worsening of the international situation”. Vladimir Putin has denounced that “the United States and its satellites bet on the force factor” and that ” they have practically destroyed the architecture of strategic stability created for decades”, in addition to “aggressively expanding the geography of NATO’s expansion”. “We see the consequences of these actions today in Ukraine”, added the head of the Kremlin, which has accused the West of “shamelessly plundering” Ukrainian resources. The West, it has concluded, “has practically turned this country into a colony and now cynically uses the Uk people Ranian as cannon fodder, as a battering ram against Russia”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his usual late-night speech on Thursday that Russia will face charges of “terrorism” and “aggression” against the Ukrainian people for mines planted in the occupied territory, such as those that killed Wednesday. four policemen. “Terrorists deliberately try to leave behind so many deadly traps as possible. Buried land mines, booby traps, mined buildings, automobiles and infrastructure… There are more than 170,000 square kilometers of dangerous territory,” the president said.

Russian forces have installed several rocket launchers at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday, raising fears that Europe’s largest atomic power station could be used as a base for firing on Ukrainian soil and increasing the dangers of radiation. Ukrainian nuclear company energoatom said in a statement that the Russian forces occupying the plant have placed several Grad multiple rocket launcher near one of its six nuclear reactors. He also claimed that the offensive systems are located in new “protective structures” that the Russians secretly built, “violating all conditions of nuclear and radiological safety.”