US agrees to supply more gas to Europe to help reducing reliance on supplies from Russia
KUMASI, 25th March, (Futball Surgery)– The United States is to supply more liquid natural gas to the European Union to help it reduce its reliance on supplies from Russia.
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The United States is to supply more liquid natural gas (LNG) to the European Union to help it reduce its reliance on supplies from Russia, in what President Joe Biden describes as a “joint game plan”.
The Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has been cut off by Russian forces, its regional governor has said.
“The city has been conditionally, operationally surrounded by the enemy,” Governor Viacheslav Chaus said on national television.
Chernihiv is being bombarded by artillery and warplanes, he added.
Ukraine wants to arrange a humanitarian corridor for Chernihiv on Saturday, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, adding that establishing such escape routes was challenging.
In the eastern city of Kharkiv, four people were killed when Russian shelling hit a clinic providing humanitarian aid, regional police said.
In its latest intelligence update, however, the UK Ministry of Defence said Ukrainian forces were re-occupying towns and defensive positions “up to 35 kilometres east of Kyiv”.
It put that down to Ukrainian counter-attacks and Russian forces “falling back on overextended supply lines”.
In the south, “Russian forces are still attempting to circumvent Mykolaiv as they look to drive west towards Odesa”, the MOD added.
But their progress is being “slowed by logistic issues and Ukrainian resistance”.
‘Last refuge for hundreds of innocent people’
In Mariupol, about 300 people died in the bombing of a theatre in the port city last week, its city council has said.
The number is said to have come from those inside the building at the time, outside which was a large sign saying “children” in Russian.
It became the “last refuge for hundreds of innocent people”, a council spokesman said. More than 1,300 people were sheltering inside, according to the Ukrainian parliament’s human rights commissioner.
There is increasing evidence of mass graves in Mariupol – including one that appears to hold 200 bodies – the head of the UN’s human rights team in Ukraine has said.
Some of the evidence is from satellite images, Matilda Bogner told journalists via video link from Ukraine.
Civilian deaths in the country have exceeded 1,035, she added, while the UN team is investigating what appear to be indiscriminate attacks by both sides.
In Boryspil, southeast of Kyiv, and close to an international airport, about 20,000 people have answered appeals to leave, Mayor Volodymyr Borysenko said.
Around 3.7m people have now fled Ukraine since the conflict began, the UN’s refugee agency has said.
‘Strategic failure for Putin’
The United States, meanwhile, is to supply more liquid natural gas to the European Union to help it reduce its reliance on Russia sources.
President Joe Biden said Vladimir Putin uses energy to “coerce and manipulate his neighbours” and takes the profits from its sale to “drive his war machine”.
Cutting Europe’s reliance on Russian energy was not only the “right thing to do from a moral standpoint” but “it’s going to put us on a stronger strategic footing”, Mr Biden said.
He has been meeting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, which hosted a summit of NATO and G7 leaders in Brussels on Thursday.
The aim is to “get rid” of dependence on Russian fossil fuels, Ms von der Leyen said, adding that the war would be a “strategic failure for Putin”.
Mr Biden is visiting Poland this afternoon – home to more than two million Ukrainian refugees – after warning that NATO would respond “in kind” if Russia was to use chemical weapons.
The refugee crisis will be one of the key issues as he meets Poland’s president. He will also visit US troops stationed in Rzeszow, near the border with Ukraine.
Fears have been growing that Vladimir Putin could use chemical weapons to try to speed up Russian military gains, which experts say have been far slower than expected.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned at the NATO meeting of “very, very severe” consequences if Russia used chemical or biological weapons.
NATO has repeatedly insisted it will not send any of the alliance’s troops into Ukraine.
Mr Johnson discussed the situation in Ukraine with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday morning, the PM’s spokesman said, in a call lasting about 50 minutes.
