@West - Its not "Unacceptable" that should be in Quotation Marks either - Rather look yourself in mirrors as far as using issue such as "Humanitarian" corridors that should really be withing quotation marks.
From https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-declares-cease-fire-opens-083345498.html
Russia reveals harsh demands for ending war; Ukraine calls evacuation routes 'unacceptable: Live updates
Russia's military said it would cease fire and open humanitarian corridors in several Ukrainian cities Monday – yet continued to pound residential areas of battered cities with rocket attacks.
A third round of talks were planned for Monday after two previous negotiations proved fruitless.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Russia is demanding Ukraine halt its military activity, change its Constitution to include neutrality so it can't join the EU or NATO, recognize Crimea as Russian territory and recognize independence of the separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Russia had promised a cease-fire to allow safe passage for evacuees from the capital of Kyiv, the southern port city of Mariupol, and the cities of Kharkiv and Sumy. Some of the evacuation routes, however, would funnel civilians toward Russia or its ally Belarus, a plan that Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk called unacceptable.
U.K. Europe Minister James Cleverly agreed, saying that "evacuation routes into the arms of the country that is currently destroying yours is nonsense,”
Ukraine Defense Secretary Aleksey Danilov said Russia "violates the agreements reached, blocks the opening of green corridors, does not allow humanitarian supplies –but at the same time tries to create a false picture of a 'joyful meeting' of the occupiers by local residents."
Latest developments:
►President Joe Biden will discusses the latest developments in a secure video teleconference today with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
►The International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said he is "extremely concerned" that Russian forces are beginning to assert authority over operation of Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, Ukraine’s largest, that they seized last week.
►The death toll of the conflict has been difficult to measure. The U.N. human rights office said at least 364 civilians have been confirmed killed since the Feb. 24 invasion, but the true number is probably much higher.
►Netflix said Sunday that it’s suspending service in Russia, joining the growing list of companies shunning the country. Earlier in the day, TikTok and American Express said they would suspend operations in the country, which followed announcements by Visa and Mastercard Saturday. TikTok also said it will start labeling content from accounts used by state-controlled media.
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Ukrainian couple marries amid invasion
A Ukrainian couple exchanged vows Sunday near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kyiv amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Lesia Ivashchenko and Valerii Fylymonov, Ukrainian territorial defense members, said they have been together for more than 20 years. Their 18-year-old daughter watched the ceremony on a video call. The bride carried flowers and wore a white veil during the ceremony.
"We decided – who knows what will happen tomorrow – we should get married in front of the state, in front of God," said Ivashchenko, the bride.
Fylymonov, the groom, said, in a video translated by The Guardian said they live in "challenging times... that’s why it is better do it sooner than later.” Read more here.
– Marina Pitofsky
Biden to confer with France, Germany and England on Ukraine
Biden, who will confer via video teleconference Monday with the leaders of France, Germany and England, has worked for weeks in close consultation with European allies over how to respond to Russia’s aggression. Macron, pressing ahead with diplomatic efforts to end the war, spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, their fourth conversation since Russian forces attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will go to Paris on Tuesday to hear from Macron, who holds the European Union's rotating presidency.
Russian and Ukrainian officials planned to meet Monday for a third attempt at negotiations. While Russia announced it would cease fire and open humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave Ukraine, it has continued to attack some Ukrainian cities.
– Maureen Groppe
EU official warns refugee total could reach 5 million
The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine surpassed 1.7 million on Monday, and an EU official warned the number would likely reach 5 million. More than 1 million have crossed the border into Poland, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
EU foreign affairs policy chief Josep Borrell called on mobilizing “all the resources” of the bloc of 27 nations to help countries welcoming the refugee. "If they continue to bomb Ukrainian cities in an indiscriminate manner, we can expect 5 million migrants," EU foreign affairs policy chief Josep Borrell said. "Not migrants, we can't call them migrants. These are exiled people."
36 hours with a team building a field hospital in Ukraine
USA TODAY spent 36 hours with a team of overseas nurses, engineers and logistics personnel invited by Ukraine's authorities to build a field hospital for emergency and specialized trauma care in Lviv. It is being established to serve an expected wave of people – military and civilian – impacted by Russia's assault on Ukraine as Moscow counters resistance to its invasion with more firepower. The location of the planned hospital is on the fringes of Lviv in western Ukraine – identified as a potential capital if Kyiv falls to the Kremlin.
"I've set up hospitals in war zones, and we've deliberately marked ones that have been bombed and we've left them unmarked and gotten bombed," said Ken Isaacs, the American who is leading the effort to construct the hospital. "When an airplane wants to bomb you, they bomb you." Read more here.
– Kim Hjelmgaard and Jessica Koscielniak
Russia snubs UN court hearings in case brought by Ukraine
Russia has snubbed a hearing at the United Nations’ top court into a legal bid by Kyiv to halt Moscow’s devastating invasion of Ukraine. A row of seats reserved for Russian lawyers at the International Court of Justice was empty Monday morning as the hearing opened. The court’s president, American judge Joan E. Donoghue, said Russia’s ambassador to the Netherlands informed judges that “his government did not intend to participate in the oral proceedings.” The hearing went ahead without the Russian delegation.
The International Court of Justice is opening two days of hearings at its headquarters, the Peace Palace, into Ukraine's request for its judges to order Russia to halt its invasion. Ukraine is scheduled to present its arguments Monday morning and Russia has the opportunity to respond on Tuesday.
A decision is expected on the request within days, though that does not mean Russia would abide by any order the court might issue.
Blinken travels to Baltic states
Blinken has begun a trip to the three Baltic states that are increasingly on edge as Russia presses ahead with its invasion of Ukraine. The former Soviet republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are all members of NATO and Blinken aims to reassure them of the alliance’s protection. Since the invasion of Ukraine last month, NATO has moved quickly to boost its troop presence in its eastern flank allies.
Blinken’s Baltic tour opened Monday in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, where support for Ukraine’s resistance to the invasion government is palpable with signs of solidarity with Ukrainians in many businesses and on public buildings and buses.
New Zealand will rush through a new law to sanction Russia
New Zealand's government said Monday that it plans to rush through a new law that will allow it to impose economic sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Unlike many countries that have already introduced sanctions, New Zealand's existing laws don't allow it to apply meaningful measures unless they're part of a broader United Nations effort. Because Russia has U.N. Security Council veto power, that has left New Zealand hamstrung.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the new legislation would allow it to target people, companies and assets connected to those in Russia associated with the invasion, including oligarchs. It would allow New Zealand to freeze assets and stop superyachts or planes from arriving.
The bill will be specific only to the Ukraine invasion but could allow New Zealand to impose sanctions on countries seen to be helping Russia, such as Belarus.
Australian missiles on the ground in Ukraine
Australia’s prime minister says Russia and China’s closer relationship is opportunistic rather than strategic. Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday labeled the alliance an “Arc of Autocracy” and said Russia and China would prefer a new world order to the one that has been in place since World War II.
Morrison has criticized Beijing’s failure to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s expansion of trade in Russian wheat while other countries are imposing sanctions. Australia last week promised Ukraine $50 million in missiles, ammunition and other military hardware to fight Russian invaders.
“Our missiles are on the ground now,” Morrison said Monday.
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Russia is forcing Ukrainians from occupied Crimea and Donbas to fight in its invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian soldier outside a Zhytomyr school destroyed by Russian enemy shelling (one of the crimes that Russia is forcibly mobilizing Ukrainians from occupied territory to commit). Photo Viacheslav Ratynsky, Reuters.
Russia is illegally mobilizing Ukrainian men from occupied Crimea and Donbas to take part in its invasion of Ukraine and kill fellow Ukrainians. Human rights groups and the President’s Representative Office on Crimea are circulating in Ukrainian; Russian and Crimean Tatar a clear guide explaining to young Ukrainian citizens how to try to avoid being forcibly mobilized and what to do if this proves impossible.
Ukraine began sounding the alarm over forced conscription in occupied Crimea soon after Russia’s invasion and annexation, and there has been international condemnation of Russia’s open violation of international law. Article 51 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states unambiguously that “the Occupying Power may not compel protected persons to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces. No pressure or propaganda which aims at securing voluntary enlistment is permitted”.
Do not obey illegal orders that could lead to civilian casualties or destruction of civilian infrastructure If you do so, your actions will be classified as crimes that have no time bar and you will eventually be held accountable, according to Ukrainian and international law. The advice ends with an unequivocal warning that those voluntarily enlisting in Russia’s armed forces and taking part in the aggressor’s war against Ukraine will face up to 15 years’ imprisonment in accordance with Ukrainian legislation. If a person held a commanding post, they could be tried by the International Criminal Court.
Russia is certainly using occupied Crimea as a military platform for its war against Ukraine, with military formations brought by railway via Russia’s illegal Crimea bridge from Russia. The President’s Representative Office reports that witnesses have seen such formations, made up of 23 carriages with servicemen for three days running. It reports also that at the very beginning of its war, Russia installed launch pads on the roofs of private homes in northern Crimea.
According to the Representative Office’s information, the hospitals in norther Crimea (Armyansk; Krasnonerekopsk and Dzhankoy) hospitals are full of wounded Russian (or forcibly mobilized Ukrainian) soldiers, with each having around 1,000 to 1,500 men
From https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/-deportation-of-crimean-tatars-in-1944-was-genocide-/1865274
‘Deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 was genocide’
Crimean Tatars were kept in extremely harsh conditions, and half of them were killed, says foreign policy expert
Gozde Bayar |04.06.2020
The
Soviet Union’s brutal 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars bears all the
hallmarks of genocide, according to a foreign policy expert.
Hakan
Kirimli, a political scientist at Bilkent University in Turkey's
capital Ankara, told Anadolu Agency that on May 18, 1944, the Soviet
Union exiled all the Tatars from Crimea, leaving not a single one.
“They were kept in extremely harsh conditions where they were sent, and half of them were killed,” Kirimli added.
Describing
the deportation as a “genocide,” Kirimli said: “They wanted the Crimean
Tatars to completely disappear from history, and they even removed the
phrase 'Crimean Tatar' from the records, saying that there would be no
such people again.”
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a bill calling on the UN and international organizations to recognize the deportation of the Crimean Tatars as genocide.
Genocide was first recognized as a crime under international law in 1946 by the UN General Assembly, saying it involves “killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
Kirimli,
who is of Crimean Tatar descent, said that during the deportation,
groups of about 300 Crimean Tatars were put in a covered wagon “like a
sack of potatoes” with no room to move.
“Imagine that your child,
brother, or grandfather is dying in front of your eyes. His dead body
continues standing with you because there’s no room on the floor,”
Kirimli said, adding that these deportation journeys took nearly 20-25
days.
The aim was to completely destroy these people and turn Crimea into purely Russian territory, he stressed.
Underscoring
that the Crimean Tatars struggled democratically and non-violently
against the Soviet Union for 30-40 years, he said they returned to their
homeland in harsh conditions, especially after the dissolution of the
USSR.
Russian annexation of Crimea
Kirimli went on to say
that commemorating the 1944 events without condemning the recent Russian
occupation of Crimea shows “great insincerity.”
Denouncing
the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, he said the “inhuman and
illegal” occupation has continued in Crimean territory for six years
now.
“Nearly 50,000 Crimean Tatars used to gather in
Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, to commemorate the deportation. Now,
not even three people could come together to commemorate it,” he added.
He said Crimean Tatars are not allowed to commemorate or talk about the exile on pain of 15-20 years in prison as penalty.
“Almost
all schools and media outlets of the Crimean Tatars were closed,” he
said, underlining that opinion leaders were either deported from Crimea,
detained, or jailed.
The annexation was a crime against humanity
and violation of international law, he said calling on the
international community to toughen sanctions against Russia.
“If
there were no real sanctions and Russia were not punished by the
international public, these people [native Crimeans] would disappear and
international law would be trampled on,” he added.
Six years
have passed since Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine the Crimean
Peninsula on the northern end of the Black Sea, largely populated by
Crimean Tatars.
Russian forces entered the peninsula in February
2014, with Russian President Vladimir Putin formally dividing the region
into two separate federal subjects of the Russian Federation the
following month.
Since then, Crimean Tatars have continued their struggle for Ukraine's territorial integrity against Russian occupation.
Crimea's ethnic Tatars have faced persecution since Russia’s 2014 takeover of the peninsula, a situation Turkey has decried.
Turkey and the U.S., as well as the UN General Assembly, view the annexation as illegal.
From Stalin to Putin: The Crimean Tatars face a new era of Kremlin persecution
This week marks 76 years since Stalin deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars from their homeland, but there will be no major commemorative events in their native Crimea. Ever since Russia’s illegal annexation in 2014, the peninsula’s indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars, have been denied the right to publicly remember their mass deportation. This ban on remembrance is just one particularly visible aspect of a far broader persecution campaign by the Russian occupation authorities that offers distressing echoes of Soviet crimes against humanity.
When the shock of Vladimir Putin’s Crimean crime was still fresh, the plight of the peninsula’s Crimean Tatar population generated considerable international attention. However, as the Russian occupation enters its seventh year with no end in sight, the fate of Crimea’s indigenous people is now in danger of fading from view. Despite grand promises made at last year’s deportation anniversary events, there has been little or no progress over the past twelve months towards addressing the ongoing attacks on the Crimean Tatars’ fundamental freedoms and the smothering of their collective memory, culture, and heritage.
Today’s low levels of international awareness reflect Crimea’s general disappearance from the geopolitical radar. Indeed, merely getting reliable information about the current situation on the peninsula is immensely challenging. Journalists, writers, and other truth-tellers have been silenced over the last six years. Ukrainian human rights NGOs have documented 369 cases of violations of free expression; the number of independent media outlets has decreased by around 90 percent; Ukrainian TV channels and radio stations have been denied the right to broadcast; and dozens of Ukrainian news websites have been blocked. Meanwhile, the international media is denied access altogether or closely chaperoned and prevented from challenging official Kremlin narratives.
Nevertheless, the fragmented and partial picture that does emerge is enough to set alarm bells ringing. The Russian occupation authorities in Crimea have detained and physically abused Crimean Tatars, raided their homes, and created an atmosphere of fear, trauma, and intimidation. Human rights organizations have officially documented at least 1500 violent incidents. Alongside a campaign of political persecution targeting today’s Crimean Tatar community, the Russian authorities have also sought to wipe out Crimean Tatar culture, heritage, identity, and memory.
Why is Russia persecuting the Crimean Tatars?
Ever since the Russian operation to seize control of Crimea began in February 2014, the Crimean Tatar community has consistently opposed the Kremlin takeover. Most Crimean Tatars boycotted the fig leaf “referendum” staged by Russia in March 2014 to legitimize the military seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula. Alim Aliev, director at Crimean House, an institution dedicated to preserving and promoting Crimean Tatar culture, explained this opposition by commenting, “Accepting the occupation of Crimea for us is like cutting off our right hand and saying that it is not needed.”
The Russian government, in need of pseudo-legal cover for its attacks on Crimean Tatars, has tarred them as terrorists and extremists. Many Crimean Tatars identify as Muslim. In 2016, Russia declared the Crimean Tatars’ historic self-governing body, the Mejlis, an extremist organization and abolished it. Dozens of Crimean Tatars have faced what Human Rights Watch calls “trumped up terrorism charges.” Authorities claim some Crimean Tatars are members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic organization banned in Russia but not in Ukraine.
Despite claiming to be confronting militant Islam and other forms of extremism, Russia has launched attacks on a wide variety of Crimean Tatars who have spoken out against the occupation including journalists, photographers, and activists. These groups have formed the most visible and direct opposition to Russia’s occupation. Many have self-organized in the Crimean Solidarity movement. According to Freedom House, there are currently ten civic journalists imprisoned under spurious charges.
How has the Ukrainian government reacted to this ongoing repression of its citizens? With so many Crimean Tatar political prisoners behind bars, families were disappointed when the last prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia in April this year did not include a single Crimean Tatar. In response, some members of the community initiated an online flashmob asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to finally “talk to them.”
Despite Russian attempts to paint Crimean Tatars as terrorists, the parents, wives, and relatives of those imprisoned have chosen non-violent ways to resist. They have organized robust support campaigns and rallies for their loved ones. Several prominent women activists have played key roles in these efforts. Lutfiye Zudiyeva is a children’s rights activist who has advocated on behalf of children whose fathers have been illegally imprisoned. Zudiyeva has been vocal about the need to reestablish investigative and professional journalism in Crimea, and has endured harassment and detention after participating in international advocacy campaigns.
Mumine Saliyeva, the coordinator of the Crimean Childhood NGO and wife of political prisoner Seiran Saliyev, was charged in 2019 alongside Zudiyeva for spreading “propaganda using extremist symbols” after organizing solidarity events. For years, these women have continued their advocacy around the world, fighting both for the return of their loved ones and the preservation of their traditions and culture.
Crimean Tatars now desperately need allies in Ukraine, in the rest of Europe, and around the globe. The US and European governments must acknowledge that Russia, as part of its annexation strategy, is ruthlessly repressing the rights of Crimean Tatars and attempting to quash their identity. And people all over the world need to speak out in defense of the many Crimean Tatars who are currently being held as political prisoners by Russia.
As the Crimean Tatar community marks the seventy-sixth anniversary of their Soviet deportation this week, an entire generation faces the prospect of another year living in terror at home or forced into exile. Much as the community had feared in 2014, history is indeed repeating itself. It is now up to the outside world to hold Putin accountable and prevent a sequel to one of twentieth century totalitarianism’s darkest chapters.
Population of Crimea increased by one million due to migration from Russia during occupation – expert
"Instead of the pre-war permanent population of the Crimean peninsula of 2,350,504 people, we are currently dealing with a de facto population of at least 3,100,000 people. During the years of occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the existing population of the peninsula has grown by at least 1 million people due to migration from the Russian Federation," Andrii Klymenko, head of the Monitoring Group of the Institute for Black Sea Strategic Studies, posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.
According to him, already more than 1 million "colonizers" account for 2 million "pre-war" Crimeans, remaining out of almost 2.4 million people.
According to the expert, the "colonizers" will make up the vast majority of the population in the occupied Crimea in a few years.
"This is the policy of the Russian Federation. "Migration weapons" and socio-cultural alteration of the population in the process of colonization of new territories by the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union have a long history. Modern Russia uses these patterns from historical experience," Klymenko explained.
In accordance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the transfer by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies is a war crime.
Shell Says It Bought Russian Oil After Government Talks
- Company will divert Russia profits to humanitarian fund
- Urals deal shows lack of Russia alternatives for energy buyers
After taking a barrage of criticism for buying a cargo of Russian crude, Europe’s largest oil company Shell Plc says it’s navigating the market with government guidance.
“We will continue to choose alternatives to Russian oil wherever possible, but this cannot happen overnight because of how significant Russia is to global supply,” Shell said in a statement on Saturday. “We have been in intense talks with governments and continue to follow their guidance around this issue of security of supply.”
Shell, which is based in London, didn’t specify which governments it had been speaking to. An official at the U.K.’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy declined to comment.
Shell bought a cargo of Urals crude oil from Trafigura Group on Friday, at a record discount to benchmark prices in a signal that major buyers will likely continue to make purchases of Russia’s energy products despite its increasingly deadly war against Ukraine.
The deal also underlined the stark situation facing European and world energy buyers. They need to work out how to deal with the potential loss of one of the market’s top suppliers, as a raft self-sanctioning effectively removes Russian product as an option.
The purchase sparked intense criticism; Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba took to Twitter to ask the company whether Russian oil smelt like “Ukrainian blood for you?”
For its part Shell, which moved to divest its stake in the Sakhalin-2 LNG project soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, has said it will donate profits from its Russian business to humanitarian aid agencies.
“Without an uninterrupted supply of crude oil to refineries, the energy industry cannot assure continued provision of essential products to people across Europe over the weeks ahead,” it said. “Cargoes from alternative sources would not have arrived in time to avoid disruptions to market supply.”
Pakistan flouts Russia sanctions, plans to import 2 million metric tons of wheat and natural gas from Russia
While NATO and its allies are sanctioning Russia and calling on other countries to do the same, “Pakistan will import 2 million metric tons of wheat and natural gas from Russia.”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Russia at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Khan made light of the attack, calling the Russian invasion “exciting.” “Islamophobia” was also on the agenda during the visit. In December, Khan “welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks against ‘Islamophobia’, saying that Putin reaffirmed the stance that ‘insulting our Holy Prophet (PBUH) is not freedom of expression.’”
The two countries have formed a close partnership, strengthening the red-green axis.
During his visit to Russia, Khan also stated that “Islamabad would toe an ‘independent’ foreign policy, and no longer join ‘anyone’s’ war.” What he meant was that he would no longer aid the U.S. in anything akin to the war on terror. But Khan isn’t remaining independent, as he claims. He is supporting Russia in a united war effort against the West.
The Chechen Mufti has also endorsed the Ukraine invasion, backed by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, saying that the invaders are “on the path of Allah.”
“Pakistan to import wheat, natural gas from Russia,” Anadolu Agency, March 2, 2022:
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Oil Price Surge: Petrol prices soar as Brits fear ‘eye-watering’ energy bills
GAS and Oil prices in the UK reached another high as Russia's escalating invasion of Ukraine continues to cause turmoil in the energy markets.
The average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts was at a fresh high of 151.67p on Tuesday, up from 151.16p on Monday, according to the data firm Experian Catalyst.
The average cost of a litre of diesel is also at a record high, reaching 155.23p.
As the prices continue to soar, searches for ‘can’t afford energy’ exploded to the highest point in history as customers face skyrocketing bills.
Analysis of Google search data reveals that searches for ‘can’t afford energy’ exploded 2300 percent from February 2022 - the highest level in internet history.
In February, Ofgem announced its energy price cap increase of £693, meaning the UK will see bill increases of 50 percent from April 2022.
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The analysis, by energy experts Boiler Central, reveals that searches for ‘can’t afford energy’ exploded to over 20 times the average volume within the past month, an unprecedented increase in people searching for ‘can’t afford energy’, according to Google search data analysis.
The data also reveals that searches for ‘help with energy’ and ‘energy bill help’ skyrocketed 1000 percent and 2300 percent respectively in February.
Myles Robinson, energy expert at Boiler Central said: “The UK has already dealt with eye-watering bills over the past few months due to inflation and the soaring costs of wholesale oil.
“Now, we’re having to face the stark reality of the energy price cap increase in April, with many customers receiving messages from their energy companies informing them of how much extra they will pay – for some, this amounts to hundreds of pounds more than their original bills.
“While the government is offering an ‘energy bill rebate’ where energy customers will have £200 knocked off their bills, this functions as more of a ‘loan’ or a ‘buy now pay later scheme’, according to Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis, as families will have to repay the loan eventually.
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“Many households in the UK are balancing their budgets on a knife-edge and having to pay even a few pounds – let alone hundreds of pounds - extra could knock them into debt and poverty.
“Some energy suppliers do offer hardship funds, where customers can get up to £750 off your energy bills if they are living in fuel poverty, so if you are struggling, it’s worth checking if your supplier offers this”
Russia is the world’s third-biggest oil producer behind the US and Saudi Arabia and it typically exports about 5m barrels b/d of crude oil and around 2.7m b/d of products such as diesel.
It sends 2.5m to 2.6m b/d of crude oil to Europe either via pipelines or tankers, and sells 2m b/d of oil products in Europe, the US, and Canada.
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