Because you are the former boss of yukos energy. you were once arguably russia s richest energy oligarch, you know that sector better than anybody. if europe in particular stop buying russian oil and gas, how quickly would teutons war machine and the russian economy collapse, or at least no longer be able to function in the way it functions today? in the meantime, what we see as europe discusses oil and gas but frankly does very little about it, what we see is some limited
Moving forces out of the north, to reinforce them, to redeploy them, to rearm them and move to the east where we are expecting a major offensive, president putin s aim is to try to control the whole of donbas, and to establish a language between donbas and russia. we have seen no indication that president putin has changed his admission to control the whole of ukraine, and also to rewrite the international order, so we need to be prepared for long haul. we need to support ukraine, sustain our sanctions, and strengthen our defences and our
Has been speaking to the ukrainian prime minister, denys shmyhal, who said the west must respond with much tougher sanctions, and that russia s forces are trying to wipe ukraine, off the face of the earth. iam i am absolutely sure that this is genocide. against the ukrainian nation from russia. absolutely. d0 nation from russia. absolutely. do ou nation from russia. absolutely. do you think now there is a moral imperative to stop buying russian oil and gas? oil and gas? bringing money to russia and oil and gas? bringing money to russia and paying oil and gas? bringing money to russia and paying money i oil and gas? bringing money to russia and paying money to i oil and gas? bringing money to i russia and paying money to russian budget to finance this genocide, the crimes, the killings from russia s side. crimes, the killings from russia s side. , ., ., , , , ., side. they have to stop buying oil and as? side. they have to stop buying oil and gas? absolutely side. they have to st
This is bbc news, i m yalda hakim. the headlines. nato foreign ministers are to meet as images of destruction, and allegations of war crimes continue to emerge from towns surrounging kyiv, following the retreat of russian forces. the uk, us and the eu are expected to impose fresh sanctions on russia. they re likely to target strategic industries, including energy, oil and gas. ukraine s president accuses russia of hitting infrastructure in the country in efforts to starve the population. translation: to them, hunger is also a weapon. a weapon against us ordinary people, as an instrument of domination. millions of people in the uk will now pay more national insurance, as an increase to contributions comes into effect today.