The European Union has warned Russia it will not bend to 'blackmail' over its support for Kyiv after the Kremlin cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland.
Russia cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland.Vladimir Putin said Russia may use nuclear weapons.
As the war, which has already claimed thousands of lives, entered its third month, Kyiv conceded that Russian forces had made gains in the east. "It comes as no surprise that the Kremlin uses fossil fuels to try to blackmail us... Our response will be immediate, united and coordinated.The era of Russian fossil fuels in Europe will come to an end.
Putin has attempted to turn up the pressure by insisting that Russia will only accept payments for gas in rubles - hoping to force his foes to prop up his currency. An IMF report issued on Wednesday said the war had"significantly" impacted the Middle East and North Africa, with the crisis dealing a heavy blow to low-income countries dealing with surging inflation driven by rising food and fuel costs.
In Kharkiv, whose northern and eastern districts are less than 5km from the front, at least three people died and 15 were injured in shelling, Governor Oleg Synegoubov said on Wednesday. Local authorities denied that weapons had been stored at the factory, which they said had not been operational for six years.
Moldovan Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu called the events a"dangerous deterioration of the situation".
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