US President Joe Biden has issued a warning to Vladimir Putin. 'The United States is prepared to defend every inch of NATO territory,' he said, hours after Mr Putin made another nuclear threat. Latest:
The World Bank has said it will provide an additional $530 million in support to Ukraine, bringing the total aid by the bank to $13 billion.Of the total aid of $13 billion to Ukraine to date, $11The World Bank's most recent analysis puts the total long-term cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine over the next three years at well over $100 billion, said Arup Banerji, World Bank Regional Country Director for Eastern Europe.
A huge plume of highly concentrated methane was detected in an analysis this week of satellite imagery by researchers associated with UNEP's International Methane Emissions Observatory , the organisation said. "This is really bad, most likely the largest emission event ever detected," Manfredi Caltagirone, head of the IMEO for UNEP, told Reuters news agency.
Russia pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles, rockets and suicide drones on Friday in Moscow’s heaviest barrage in weeks. “The United States is prepared to defend every inch of NATO territory. Mr Putin, don’t misunderstand what I am saying,” the American President said, looking straight towards the camera ahead of him.Putin had sought to remind the world that the nuclear weapon precedent had been set by the Americans in Japan in 1945. He added phrases like “western hegemony will be smashed” and “we will do this for our people, for great historical Russia”.On the battlefield Russia is losing.
He signed decrees formally annexing the regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson earlier today. An elderly man's hand was still clasping his steering wheel, frozen in time, his body slumped sideways onto the passenger seat.Russia accuses UN chief of being 'instrument of propaganda'
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