Gazprom, the state-run energy giant, owns the station, but has long allowed it to operate with some degree of independence in what analysts saw as an attempt by the Kremlin to maintain a facade of pluralism amid its creeping authoritarianism. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said the European Union would finance the purchase and delivery of weapons for Ukraine, a shift from leaving the processes to individual member nations. With shame.”Ĭivilians have built a large barricade on the road to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar, on the front line of Russian advances from Crimea in southern Ukraine.
He acknowledged that Russian forces had taken control in some cities, but said they would be driven out: “I am sure of this: If they entered somewhere, it is only temporarily. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine claimed in a broadcast early Thursday that the Ukrainians had thwarted the Russian invasion plans. It had previously said that the athletes would be allowed to compete as neutrals.
The International Paralympic Committee said on Thursday that athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus would be barred from competing in the Beijing Paralympic Games, which begin on Friday. Russia continued its attacks on Kyiv, the capital, and Russian forces surrounded the key port city Mariupol, whose fall would enable two flanks of Russian and Russian-backed fighters to trap Ukraine’s forces in the southeast. The Russian invasion appeared to be making its biggest gains in the south, with the capture of the strategic port of Kherson on Wednesday, though it was unclear how they planned to hold the city and govern a population that has resisted them at every turn. A vast network of Ukrainian volunteers has emerged to help those stranded in the cities under siege, but with each passing day their situation grows more grim as Russia steps up its bombardment of civilian areas and infrastructure.
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