Saturday 3 December, 2022
The price cap will come into effect with an EU embargo on Russian crude oil from Monday.
Ukraine has faced an onslaught of Russian artillery fire and drone attacks since early October.
Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg accused Vladimir Putin of targeting infrastructure in a bid to use winter as “a weapon of war” against Ukraine.
With temperatures dipping below zero, repeated Russian attacks have left Ukraine’s energy grid teetering on the brink of collapse.
Analysts predict wintry weather could have an increasing impact on the direction of the nine-month-old conflict.
The Holodomor famine is regarded by Kyiv as a deliberate act of genocide by Stalin’s regime.
The strikes disrupted power supplies in Ukraine’s southern and eastern regions, with water and electricity cuts in the capital Kyiv and elsewhere.
The move by the European legislators is a symbolic political step with no legal consequences.
Taoiseach says scrapping the triple-lock is not in the Programme for Government.
It comes after Ukraine said it had discovered four Russian torture sites in the southern city of Kherson.
The nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, is currently controlled by Russia.
The footage was circulating on Russian social media this week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that over 10 million Ukrainians were without electricity yesterday.
The Ukrainian president was addressing Irish third-level students via video link.
Four large gas leaks were discovered on Nord Stream’s two pipelines off the Danish island of Bornholm at the end of September.
Minister Simon Coveney said the sanctions were “an attempt to unsettle Ireland and our political system”.
The US athlete was convicted in August for possessing vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil.
AFP journalists in several Ukraine cities said the latest strikes coincided with the first snow this season.
Journalist Hannah McCarthy is in Ukraine documenting the training of soldiers.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the move to sanction Irish politicians was “classic Russian propaganda”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this afternoon praised the “important” court ruling.
Russia’s UN ambassador accused Ukraine and Poland of trying ‘to provoke a direct clash between Russia and Nato’.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, however, said Kyiv had seen no proof the missile was Ukrainian.
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued an entry ban on three ministers and dozens of members of the Oireachtas
Fresh air raid alerts were sounding again across the country, raising concerns over new attacks.
Moscow’s defence minister has dismissed reports that Russian missles had landed in Poland.
The security analyst looks at the recent gains for Ukraine and says it must now capitalise on this and win back more territory.
The liberation of Kherson is one of Ukraine’s biggest success so far of the nearly nine-month invasion.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians still under occupation: ‘We don’t forget anyone.’
Residents awoke from jubilant celebrations that broke out after the Kremlin announced its troops had withdrawn to the other side of Dnieper River.
David Ballantyne Smith, 58, is said to have been driven by an intense hatred for his own country.
President Zelenskyy said the strike was ‘a cynical response’ to Ukraine’s recent successes
The names of patients who received treatment for drug abuse and sexually transmitted infections were leaked
In Moscow, Kremlin supporters rushed to justify the decision.
Moscow announced the move this afternoon.
Penn told Zelensky: ‘If I know this is here with you, then I will feel better and stronger for the fight.’
A Russian court rejected an appeal against Griner’s nine-year sentence for drug possession last month.
Attacks by Moscow’s forces have destroyed around 40% of Ukraine’s power stations.
