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China's yuan becomes most traded foreign currency on Russian exchange

HONG KONG: The yuan surpassed the US dollar for the first time this week to become the most traded foreign currency on the Moscow exchange as tensions with the West push the Russian economy closer to China.

Bangkok Post

Ukraine decrees N. territories under Russian occupation

KYIV -- The Ukrainian parliament voted to confirm Friday that it regards Japan's northern territories as under Russian occupation, and to support Japan in negotiations over the islands.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Russian troops in Ukraine can get all necessary supplies via land and sea - ministry

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Russian troops fighting in the Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia regions of southern Ukraine could receive all the supplies they needed via existing land and sea corridors, after a bridge linking Russia to Crimea was badly damaged by a blast.

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Blast damages Russia's sole land link to Crimea

Moscow says a truck explosion ignited a huge fire and severely damaged the Kerch bridge — Russia’s sole land link with annexed Crimea — and has vowed to find the perpetrators, without immediately blaming Ukraine.

Bangkok Post

Russian leadership ‘facing internal backlash following Ukraine war setbacks’

Ukraine has been steadily retaking territory occupied by Russia, including in the four regions it illegally annexed recently

Evening Standard

A blast hits the bridge to Crimea, a key supply route in Russia's war

The 12-mile bridge has served as a key auto and rail supply line from Russia into Crimea. A Ukrainian official said the incident was just "the beginning," but stopped short of taking credit.

WEKU

A Ukrainian city struggles after Russian forces blew up its water supply

Russian missiles ruptured Mykolaiv's pipelines. They stretch across territory under Russian control, making it impossible for municipal workers to repair them. With winter coming, worries are rising.

WEKU

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Putin’s war is illegal – and Russians fleeing the draft may have the right to asylum

The 1951 refugee convention should be upheld by Russia’s neighbours as people refusing to fight in Ukraine seek safety, says Oxford University international law lecturer Nicole Stybnarova

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine seeks to rebuild economy with defiant small businesses

Victoriia Maslova abandoned her herbal cosmetics factory in the Ukrainian town of Bucha on the first day of Russia's invasion of the country, fleeing to Poland with her mother and three younger brothers when rockets began hitting a nearby airport.

Reuters

Trudy Rubin: Here’s why Ukraine is winning: It is fighting a modern war while Russia’s army is lost in WWII

As I was watching YouTube videos of Ukrainian forces advancing against Russian troops, my mind flashed back to a conversation I had in a pizza restaurant in Kharkiv in July with a 50-year-old Ukrainian military volunteer whose moniker was Sergo.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

NATO once feared a Putin victory. Now it worries over his defeat

Russia’s latest wave of threats to use nuclear weapons and cut energy supplies even further so far haven’t scared off Ukraine’s allies in the U.S. and Europe, only hardening their will to see Kyiv win.

Tribune News Service

Terrifying footage shows Russian bridge to Crimea hit by huge 'truck bomb' explosion

The footage - which appears to show a truck exploding as it crossed the Crimean Bridge - increases the likelihood that Putin's key crossing was targeted by a Ukrainian attack in the hours after his 70th birthday

Daily Mirror

Huge fire on important bridge in Crimea as US says Ukraine could retake region

The Kerch bridge represens a hated symbol of the Kremlin’s occupation of the southern Ukrainian peninsular

Nottingham Post

Zaporizhzhia plant down to diesel generators as shelling cuts power essential for cooling

Overnight shelling cut power to Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which needs cooling to avoid a meltdown, forcing it to switch to emergency generators, Ukraine's state nuclear company and the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Saturday.

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Ukraine presidential advisor says Crimea bridge 'must be destroyed' following damage

A Ukrainian presidential advisor posted a message on Twitter after conflicting reports of an explosion or fire on Saturday that damaged the bridge connecting the Russian mainland to the occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, calling it "the beginning" but not directly claiming Ukrainian responsibility.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Moscow: Car Bomb Sparked Fire on Key Crimean Bridge

A fire sparked by a car bomb has broken out on a key road and rail bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula to Russia, which annexed the territory from Ukraine in 2014, Moscow authorities said Saturday. "Today at 6:07 am (0307 GMT) on the road traffic side of the Crimean bridge…

Evening Standard

Crimea: Bridge linked to Russia reopens after explosion kills three

Russia’s RIA state news agency reported that a fuel tank caught fire on the Kerch bridge at around 6am on Saturday morning

The Guardian - UK

Football corruption and the remarkable road to Qatar’s World Cup

The most significant day in the history of modern football ended with the award of a tainted event that is now weeks away

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India under no global pressure to shun Russian oil: Hardeep Singh Puri

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday said that India is under no pressure to shun Russian oil. Read more on Dynamite News:

Al Jazeera

Kerch bridge linking Russia to Crimea damaged in explosion

Russia opens criminal probe into the blast that blew up the vital bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to the mainland.

The Independent UK

Steven Seagal calls Putin ‘one of world’s greatest leaders’ in bizarre birthday message for Russian president

‘I am really hoping that he gets the support and the respect that he needs,’ actor said

Asharq Al-Awsat

OPEC Head: Uncertainty Over Demand, Global Economy are the Reasons for the Cut, Not Politics

The reduction in oil production targets more spare capacity in case of any global emergency, OPEC's Secretary-General Haitham al-Ghais has announced. The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and 11 of its allies led by Russia, known as OPEC+, agreed on Wednesday to lower their…

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 227 of the invasion

Blasts rock bridge linking Crimea to Russia; Zelenskiy warns on nuclear weapons; Moscow declares Russian rapper a ‘foreign agent’

The Guardian - AU

Three killed as huge explosion causes key Crimea-Russia road bridge to collapse – as it happened

Blast early on Saturday causes road bridge to collapse and engulfs rail bridge in flames

France 24

Explosion damages Kerch bridge linking Crimea to Russia

An explosion on the Kerch road-and-rail bridge, the sole land link between Crimea and Russia, set oil tankers ablaze and caused the collapse of two car lanes, Russian authorities said Saturday. The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has lost its external power connection as a result of Russian shelling and is…

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