Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 273 of the invasion - The Guardian

The Group of Seven nations are acceptable to soon denote the terms headdress connected Russian lipid exports and the conjugation volition astir apt set the level a fewer times a twelvemonth alternatively than monthly, a elder US Treasury authoritative said connected Tuesday. The G7, including the United States, on with the EU and Australia are slated to instrumentality the terms headdress connected sea-borne exports of Russian lipid connected 5 December, arsenic portion of sanctions intended to punish Moscow for its penetration of Ukraine.

Ukrainians needing basal services if Russia knocks retired powerfulness stations and different facilities this wintertime tin crook to peculiar “invincibility centres,” president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said connected Tuesday. Thousands of centres dispersed crossed the state volition connection electricity, heat, water, net service, mobile telephone connections and a pharmacy, escaped of complaint and astir the clock. “If monolithic Russian strikes hap again and it’s wide powerfulness volition not beryllium restored for hours, the ‘invincibility centres’ volition spell into enactment with each cardinal services,” Zelenskiy said.

Ukrainians are apt to unrecorded with blackouts astatine slightest until the extremity of March, the caput of a large vigor provider said, arsenic the authorities started escaped evacuations for radical successful Kherson to different regions.

Kyiv volition summon the Hungarian ambassador to protestation that premier curate Viktor Orbán went to a shot lucifer wearing a scarf depicting immoderate Ukrainian territory arsenic portion of Hungary, the Ukrainian overseas ministry said connected Tuesday. Ukrainian media showed images of Orbán gathering a Hungarian footballer wearing a scarf which the outlet Ukrainska Pravda said depicted a representation of “Greater Hungary” including territory that is present portion of the neighbouring states of Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Serbia and Ukraine.

Russia’s Gazprom has threatened to chopped its state flows to Europe via Ukraine arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week. In a statement, the Russian state-owned vigor elephantine said immoderate state flows being kept successful Ukraine were really meant for Moldova, and accused Kyiv of obstructing the transportation of 52.52m cubic metres from transiting to Moldova.

In Crimea, Russian aerial defences were activated and 2 drone attacks were repelled connected Tuesday, including 1 targeting a powerfulness presumption adjacent Sevastopol, the determination politician said. Sevastopol is the location larboard of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. Russian-installed Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev called for calm and said nary harm had been caused.

The Polish president spoke to a hoax caller pretending to beryllium France’s Emmanuel Macron connected the nighttime that a rocket deed a colony adjacent the Ukrainian border, his bureau has admitted. “Emmanuel, judge me, I americium other careful,” Duda tells the caller successful a recording of the telephone posted connected the internet. “I don’t privation to person warfare with Russia and judge me, I americium other careful, other careful.”

Additional reporting Reuters and Associated Press