The Anglo-Dutch company Shell will stop buying gas and oil from Russia and will close its gas stations in that country, it announced on Tuesday in a statement in which it also presented its “apologies” for having acquired Russian hydrocarbons after the invasion of Ukraine. “Shell announces its intention to withdraw from its involvement in […]
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The number of refugees from Ukraine already exceeds two million, according to UNHCR
The number of people who have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 exceeded two million on Tuesday, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The organization’s website states that 2,011,312 people left the country and that Poland received more than half (1,204,403). “Today, the outflow of refugees […]
Food is crucial to national security
By Amanda Little While Putin’s war in Ukraine shakes the energy market and pushes up fertilizer prices, a bigger problem now is rising wheat prices. Russia is leading the world into a deepening food security crisis, worsening shortages already caused by the pandemic and climate change. More than 70% of Ukraine is agricultural land that […]
EU aims to reduce dependence on Russian gas by 80% this year
The European Union’s executive arm is charting a path to end the bloc’s reliance on Russian gas, which could cut import needs by almost 80% this year, according to two officials with knowledge of the matter. The European Commission is reviewing its energy strategy following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in an effort to […]
Ukraine and Russia, key countries in strategic raw materials
Russia and Ukraine play a key role in the world’s supply of raw Materials strategic for industrial and food use. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the prices of many of these raw materials have stopped at levels never seen before. gas and oil Russia is one of the world’s largest oil and gas […]
War in Ukraine: impacts of the rise in the price of copper in Peru
The intensity of the war in Ukraine caused a great impact on the financial markets this Monday, March 7, after the prices of the metals broke new records. One of them was the copper pricewhich reached a record high of US$ 10,845 a ton on the London Metal Exchange (LME), before closing at US$10,730, a […]
The United States seeks international support to ban the purchase of Russian oil
The United States is rallying international support to ban the import of Russian oil as an additional measure to increase the cost of the invasion of Ukraine and, in turn, seeks alternatives to guarantee energy security, reported the EFE agency. Within the framework of these contacts, the US president, Joe Biden, held a new video […]
Anonymous claims to have hacked Russian television signals
Updated on 03/07/2022 08:51 pm The group of hackers who call themselves anonymous claims to have hacked several broadcasts of the main television channels russians to avoid official censorship, according to the Twitter account of this group. The intervention in state channels has allowed, according to Anonymous, to broadcast images of the war in Ukraine […]
Kremlin demands a neutral Ukraine and a Russian Crimea
Updated on 03/07/2022 08:41 pm The Kremlin declared that Russia will stop its military offensive in Ukraine if Kiev accepts his conditions, which include the recognition of Crimea as Russian territory and the independence of Donbas, the pro-Russian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. The Russian military operation in Ukraine can end “at any time” if […]
There is still “a lot of room” to put pressure on Russia, experts say
The magnitude of the sanctions adopted against Russia by Western countries after the invasion of Ukraine it is “unprecedented”, but there is still “a lot of room” to increase them, experts told the British parliament. “We are in uncharted territory. The use of sanctions against a country so integrated with the West is unprecedented,” said […]