• US broadcasters, CBS News and ABC News have joined the ranks of stories outlets suspending their work in Russia after President Putin announced new sanctions for international broadcasters in Russia.
President Vladimir Putin signed the new legislation saying he would impose jail terms of as a lot as 15 years on people charged with spreading “fake news” about the struggle in Ukraine. Specifically, broadcasters would be prevented from sing the time period “war” when discussing the Russian incursion into Ukraine.
BBC, CNN and Bloomberg have additionally suspended their operations in Russia.
• At the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Beijing, the International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons called for peace. But a large chunk of his message was censored by the Chinese broadcaster for the event, CCTV.
“Tonight, I wish to begin with a message of peace. As the leader of an organisation with inclusion at its core, the place diversity is properly known and differences embraced, I am horrified at what’s happening on the planet right now,”
“The twenty first century is a time for dialogue and diplomacy, not warfare and hate.”
CCTV’s stay commentary didn’t present a translation and lowered the amount of Parsons’ speech, pausing the signal language interpreters as well.
• More than 1.2 million folks have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries, based on the UN.
• The US has flown B-52 Stratofortress bombers into Eastern Europe and exercised with the German and Romanian militaries in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They flew over NATO’s eastern flank yesterday.
The huge bombers flew out of RAF Fairford in England and conducted “close air help and integration mission training”.
They then flew on to Romania.
• US and NATO officers say they’ve observed a “pronounced shift” in Russia’s current strategy in Ukraine and claim that Russia now seems “poised to bombard cities into submission”.
According to a NATO strategist…
“The heavier weapons aren’t just heavier in their within the weight, they’re additionally heavier when it comes to the damage that they will inflict. And they’re far less discriminant. So, more casualties.”
“It is a very crude method.”
• Russian forces are now approaching Ukraine’s second-largest nuclear facility.
According to a US official….
“ Nothing to it are now 20 miles (about 32 kilometres), and closing, from Ukraine’s second-largest nuclear facility”.
According to Energoatom, the overseeing physique of Ukraine’s nuclear power vegetation, Ukraine’s second-largest nuclear facility is Yuzhnoukrainsk Nuclear Power Station in the Mykolaiv Oblast, in southern Ukraine.
• A video has been launched from the control room at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy station, the power that was attacked and taken by Russian forces on Thursday night.
An announcement is made on a PA system aimed at the Russian soldiers amassing outside.
“Stop taking pictures at a nuclear harmful facility. Stop shooting immediately! You threaten the safety of the entire world!”
“The work of the important organs of the Zaporizhzhia station may be disrupted. It will be unimaginable for us to revive it.”
“You are endangering the safety of the whole world. Attention! Stop shooting at a nuclear hazardous facility. Stop capturing at Genuine !”
“Stop taking pictures at a nuclear hazardous facility! Attention! Stop it!”
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the NATO choice to rule out a no-fly zone over his country. Zelensky described NATO’s summit on Friday the place the decision was made as, “a weak summit, a confused summit”.
“NATO has intentionally decided to not cowl the skies over Ukraine.”
“We consider that NATO international locations have created a story that closing the skies over Ukraine would provoke Russia’s direct aggression against NATO. This is the self-hypnosis of those that are weak, insecure inside, regardless of the fact they possess weapons many occasions stronger than we now have.”
• British PM Boris Johnson has known as the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The UK leader stated that Brazil was a “vitalal ly” throughout WW2, and that Bolsonaro’s voice was “crucial” in this moment of disaster..
A spokesperson for the British PM mentioned that both leaders agreed on “demanding an urgent ceasefire” and that “peace must prevail”.
• US oil prices have surged to the best level in nearly 14 years. US crude was up another 7.4% yesterday after finishing the turbulent week at US$115.sixty eight a barrel. That’s the highest closing level since September in 2008, only a week after the infamous implosion of Lehman Brothers that led to the final main world monetary collapse..