Vladimir Putin
Russia in for economic shock with price cap on crude at $60 per barrel & EU's oil embargo
Consequently, Russia is thinking over options on how to counter the price cap, including banning oil sales to some countries, media reports said. While the Kremlin's ruling hierarchy led by President Vladimir Putin's skepticism over the West's several economic sanctions, financial analysts at the country's central bank predicted "new economic shocks", in the wake of the $60 per barrel price cap on Russian oil and the European Union's ban on the country's crude
Threat of nuke war rising, says Putin
Speaking at Russia's annual human rights council meeting, he also said the war in Ukraine could be a "lengthy process", the BBC reported. "Such a threat is growing, it would be wrong to hide it," Putin warned while talking about the prospect of nuclear war via video link from Moscow. But he asserted that Russia would "under no circumstances" use the weapons first, and would not threaten anyone with its nuclear arsenal.
EU new sanctions target Russia's armed forces, drone supply.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday in a statement that the eight packages of sanctions introduced so far were "biting hard" but the Commission was "stepping up the pressure on Russia". The ninth package proposes adding nearly 200 additional individuals and entities to the sanctions list, including the Russian armed forces, as well as individual officers and defence industrial companies, among others.
Putin better informed now about Ukraine war, says US
Speaking at a defence forum, Avril Haines, the US Director of National Intelligence, indicated Putin was no longer as insulated from bad news about the conditions facing his invasion of Ukraine as he was earlier in the campaign, The Guardian reported. Alluding to past assessments that Putin's advisers could be shielding him from bad news, Haines said he was "becoming more informed of the challenges that the military faces".
US and France to form united front to ask Putin to end Ukraine war
French President Emmanuel Macron has underscored his outrage over Moscow's "attoricties" in its war against Ukraine, while the US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he is open for dialogue with Putin to end the war in Ukraine. The war has disrupted essential supplies from Russia and Ukraine to the rest of the world besides restricting crude oil supplies resulting in soaring oil prices breaching the $100 dollar.
Vladimir Putin fell down the stairs at his home and soiled himself, claims report
The 70-year-old Russian leader, whose health has visibly deteriorated since he launched his war in Ukraine, suffered the fall on Wednesday evening when he slipped coming down stairs at his Moscow home, General SVR channel claimed. Vladimir Putin landed on his coccyx, fell down five steps, then rolled on to his side and slid down two more.
Putin is failing in his brutal war of aggression: NATO chief
He made the statement on Tuesday while attending a forum in the Romanian capital of Bucharest. In his opening remarks, Stoltenberg said that in response to Russia's full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, "we are raising the readiness of our troops". "We have doubled the number of NATO battlegroups from four to eight, including one in Romania, led by France," he said.
Vladimir Putin ally Pyotr Tolstoy says Russia will 'send Ukraine back to the 18th century'
Pyotr Tolstoy, the deputy speaker of the Duma, warned that there would be no let-up in the Russian strikes on Ukrainian power stations ahead of winter, Daily Mail reported. "The infrastructure of Ukraine will be destroyed, and Ukraine will be sent back to the 18th century," the member of Putin's United Russia party declared, Daily Mail reported.
G20 leaders adopt PM Modi's message to Putin as Bali Declaration
It went on to add that a majority of members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine, stressing that it is "causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy - constraining growth, increasing inflation, disrupting supply chains, heightening energy and food insecurity, and elevating financial stability risks".
Volodymyr Zelensky, Rishi Sunak discuss defence support for Ukraine
In a social media post, Zelensky said that during the call on Thursday, "we talked about assistance in enduring the winter period".
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