Footage shows citizens of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, queuing for a ration of bread at a food distribution point.
We previously reported that a Russian court heard an appeal by American basketball star Brittney Griner over her nine-year criminal sentence for drug possession and trafficking.
Now it has transpired that he has rejected Griner’s appeal.
Griner, an eight-time midfielder with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and two-time Olympic gold medalist, was sentenced Aug. 4 after police said they discovered vaping cartridges containing hash oil in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.
The Moscow Regional Court today to verify the sentence.
However, in the decision, the court said the time Griner will have to serve will be recalculated, taking into account his time in pretrial detention.
In a statement, the U. S. national security adviser said he said. U. S. Secretary of State Jake Sullivan said, “We are aware of the news from Russia that Brittney Griner will continue to be unjustly detained in unbearable cases after having to undergo a sham legal procedure today. “
“President Biden has been very transparent about Brittney being released immediately. “
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre addressed the country’s parliament about the existing scenario in Ukraine, in a speech that included the Scandinavian nation’s latest assessment of Moscow’s nuclear threat.
“Russia has many nuclear weapons, adding several other categories of so-called tactical nuclear weapons,” he said.
“These are for use in the extension of traditional weapons systems.
“The use of nuclear weapons would cross an unprecedented border.
“We that the probability of use is still low. But it doesn’t suck.
“In light of the language used, we reject the possibility. Although the probability is low, it has increased.
“We have to say that the aim of the threats is to weaken Western solidarity with Ukraine. It’s a form of blackmail. “
Moscow sometimes supports the concept of creating a zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a senior Russian official said, according to Russian news agency TASS.
Speaking to reporters today, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s ambassador to foreign establishments in Vienna, where the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is based, said: “The essence (of the IAEA proposal) in a nutshell is that you can’t fire from the territory of the nuclear power plant and you can’t shoot at the plant.
“A perfectly moderate idea, which we support. The point, as always, is in the details. “
Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and has been occupied by Russian forces since the beginning of the war.
In recent months, fears of a nuclear crisis at the plant have grown steadily, with experts wary about damage to the plant’s reactors.
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy had continuously signaled his own for former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following the leader’s efforts toward his country in the face of Russian invasion.
Now, just seven weeks after receiving Mr. Johnson, he sent his wishes to the last occupant of No. 10, Rishi Sunak.
Ukrainian army intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov gave a desirable interview to the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.
In it, he is asked about the struggle of forces that lately is attributed to the Kremlin in the midst of the conflictive campaign of the Russian army.
Referring to Vladimir Putin’s conceivable successors, he dismissed the chances of former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, believing he had “no chance. “
He says Dmitry Patrushev, son of former FSB leader Nikolai Patrushev, has “hypothetically” a chance of president.
However, he suggests that Sergey Kiriyenko, widely known as the architect of the Kremlin’s policy of annexing Ukrainian territories, update Putin.
But he said the Kremlin’s first deputy leader and former prime minister would likely not seek to remove the existing leader by force.
“Kiriyenko sees herself in the chair,” she said.
“He sees himself as the successor in a more or less nonviolent power. “
Norwegian police have arrested a suspected Russian spy in the northern city of Tromsoe, public broadcaster NRK reports, bringing up the Nordic country’s PST security service.
The man, who worked as a scientist at the University of Tromsoe, posed as a Brazilian citizen, but police are the real identity of Russia, NRK reported.
PST deputy leader Hedvig Moe told NRK that the guy poses a “threat to fundamental national interests” and would be deported from Norway.
By Dominic Waghorn, Editor-in-Chief of International Affairs
Rishi Sunak’s biggest challenge globally is repairing Britain’s credibility. The past few weeks have caused great damage to what remains of the country’s position in the world.
A country that was once known for its solid, calm government has the material to laugh at. Diplomats and foreign officials, however, showed more pity than mockery, as if an intelligent friend was going through a nervous breakdown.
The confusion that began with Brexit, perceived by many as a puzzling act of self-harm, is deeply troubling. That said, there is sympathy and willingness to help a smart friend recover.
The allies will welcome a lively and intelligent addition to their numbers, but they know he has not shown himself to be a statesman. They will be content to settle for stability and predictability above all else and Britain with its political marbles. The role Sunak must play first at next month’s G20 assembly in Bali.
The most sensible of its basket of foreign entries is, of course, Ukraine, where customers are darkening, with Russian discussions about nuclear weapons and filthy bombs.
He will have to see how many spending cuts, if any, will fall on the defense.
An autocratic and assertive China is also a challenge it will face. And the weather.
He said he worried about it in the past, but he can stay focused on his long-term risk as he struggles with so many more immediate urgent concerns.
Russian forces have repelled Ukrainian attacks in the southern Kherson region and the Luhansk region, the Kremlin’s Defense Ministry said today.
As Ukrainian troops continue their counteroffensive in the east, Russian troops have evacuated thousands of civilians from Kherson via the Dnipro.
The regional capital of Kherson is the main city that Russia has captured intact since the invasion began.
And the province controls the gateway to Crimea, which Russia seized and claimed to annex in 2014.
On Monday, the region’s pro-Russian government announced that men remaining in the domain would have the opportunity to enlist in an army self-defense unit.
However, Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the Ukrainian army’s spies, told Ukrainska Pravda: “They create the ghost that all is lost.
“However, at the same time, they are moving new army sets and to protect the streets of Kherson. “
A Russian court is hearing an appeal by American basketball star Brittney Griner over her nine-year sentence for drug possession and trafficking.
Three judges preside over the Krasnogorsk Court of Appeal near Moscow, while Griner participates today via video link from a detention center in the city of Novoye Grishino, on the outskirts of Moscow.
His lawyers, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, have said in the past that they expected a ruling on Griner’s appeal later that day.
Griner arrested Feb. 17 at a Moscow airport with vaping cartridges containing hashish oil, banned in Russia.
She was jailed for nine years on Aug. 4 after pleading guilty to drug possession and trafficking, but said she made a “good faith mistake” and didn’t need to break the law.
Yesterday, U. S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington is racing to lose Griner and former U. S. Marine Paul Whelan, who served 16 years in prison after being convicted of espionage, and that there were “active discussions, adding in recent days. “