❗️Overnight, Russia launched over 60 drones and nearly 90 missiles of various types at #Ukraine: the targets are power stations and energy supply lines, hydroelectric power plant dams, residential buildings, even trolleybuses, President #Zelensky said.
📹: Volodymyr Zelensky pic.twitter.com/HA4x8tvm9B
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) March 22, 2024
Day: March 22, 2024
Smoke billows after Ukraine’s SBU drone strikes a refinery, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Ryazan, Ryazan Region, Russia, in this screen grab from a video obtained by Reuters, March 13, 2024. Video Obtained By Reuters/via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
March 22 (Reuters) – The United States has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, warning that drone strikes risk provoking retaliation and driving up global oil prices, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The attacks helped boost oil prices that have risen nearly 4% so far since March 12, when Ukraine first started targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure. A further rally in gasoline prices in the United States would weaken President Joe Biden ratings and undermine his re-election chances.
Russia and Ukraine have both used drones to strike critical infrastructure, military installations and troop concentrations in their more than two-year war, with Kyiv hitting Russian refineries and energy facilities in recent months.
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Reporting by Utkarsh Shetti and Harshit Verma in Bengaluru; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Tomasz Janowski
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Российские власти планируют начать массовый набор в войска для усиления группировки, воюющей с Украиной, и возможного окружения Харькова. Об этом “Вёрстке” рассказали четыре источника, близкие к администрации президента и Минобороны. https://t.co/Ktcy8ivt8K
— Радио Свобода (@SvobodaRadio) March 22, 2024
Financial Times reports that the U.S. has told Ukraine to stop attacking Russian oil refineries
The Americans are allegedly worried that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and could provoke Russian retaliation. pic.twitter.com/t9mck9if5q
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 22, 2024
❗️Бундесрат ФРГ дал зеленый свет частичной легализации каннабиса
Представительство федеральных земель Германии – бундесрат одобрил закон, принятие которого до недавнего времени вызывало споры. С 1 апреля 2024 года совершеннолетние лица, находящимся в Германии, смогут потреблять… pic.twitter.com/LHqftcpAGI
— DW на русском (@dw_russian) March 22, 2024
💥 Russia: Anti-Putin Russian liberation forces continue to shell Belgorod for the 9th day in a row. pic.twitter.com/Toj1aAWo1R
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) March 22, 2024
Tonight’s Russian Missile Attack against Ukraine appears to have been the Largest since at least the First Days of the War and possibly ever, with the Ukrainian Air Force claiming that well over 100 Munitions were involved in the Attack, including:
– 66 Shahed-136/131 One-Way… pic.twitter.com/1ebydPVXdC
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 22, 2024
PUTIN IS WAGING A SUBVERSIVELY ORCHESTRATED WORLD WAR. A war whose military front runs in #Ukraine, but whose battlefield encompasses the entire world. Disinformation, influence on democratic decision-making processes in the West, influence on raw materials markets, cooperation… pic.twitter.com/WjcqMp8jOb
— Immanuel Niven (@ImmanuelNiven) March 22, 2024
United States
Washington embraces broader rules for OSINT under CIA guidance https://t.co/8CWQK42INc— Emin Bred (@emin_bred) March 22, 2024
Sir Geoffrey Tantum, MI6 Middle East controller and noted Arabist who served in the SBS – obituaryhttps://t.co/NGwDKSJ5VX
— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) March 22, 2024