Kremlin: 'A great global storm is starting'

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov says a "great global storm" stemming from the actions of the West is starting.

This is what Tass reports.

Russia, Peskov adds, "will be able to preserve macrostability in the midst of this storm".

Russian Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Alexander Novak argued that Nord Stream's blockade is solely due to European sanctions that prevented adequate repairs by violating contracts and did not rule out further increases in the price of gas in Europe that could affect "record levels".

Tass always reports it.

 VON DER LEYEN: 'FORWARD WITH THE SANCTIONS IN MOSCOW'

Phone call between European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

This was announced on Twitter by Zelensky stating that "the allocation of the next tranche of EU macro-financial aid was discussed as soon as possible" and "the need to prepare the eighth package of sanctions, including the ban on issuing visas to Russian citizens ".

For the Ukrainian president, the phone call coordinated "measures to limit Russia's profits from the sale of oil and gas".

In the telephone conversation, adds the Ukrainian president, "the possibility of a rapid assessment by the European Commission was considered as soon as Ukraine has fulfilled its seven recommendations" for the

ZELENSKY: 'MOSCOW ON ENERGY PREPARES AN ATTACK ON EUROPEANS'

This winter, Russia is preparing to launch a decisive energy attack on all Europeans.

This was stated by the President of Ukraine

in his evening video message, quoted by UNIAN.

"These days, Russia is trying to increase the energy pressure on Europe even more: the pumping of gas through the Nord Stream is completely stopped. Why are they doing this?

, in all the countries of our continent. He wants to weaken and intimidate all of Europe, every state ", the Ukrainian president observed.

According to Zelensky, where Russia cannot do it with the power of conventional weapons, it does so with the power of the energy weapon and

.

For Zelensky, to protect themselves from this, everyone in Europe needs even more unity, coordination and mutual help.

"This winter, Russia is preparing for a decisive energy attack against all Europeans. And the key answers to this should be two things: the first is our unity,

, and the second is the reinforcement of our pressure on Russia - he then reiterated -. That is the

and the limitation of Russia's oil and gas revenues. The more attacks we launch together, the fewer attacks these terrorists will be able to carry out " .

 BOMBING ON MYKOLAIV

Meanwhile,

, the Kiev General Staff reports that the city of Mykolaiv continues to be at the center of the Russian attack: during the night it was hit

by a massive rocket launch, and explosions also rang out in Kherson.

In Mykolaiv, three medical centers, two schools, a hotel and a museum were badly damaged, as well as residential buildings.

At the moment there are no victims.

In its daily bulletin,

reports on the basis of intelligence information of 'problems of morale and discipline' that are allegedly afflicting the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, adding to the high losses and fatigue.

for the wages and for the high possibility that the 'substantial bonuses for the fighters' will not be paid in the end, according to what London writes, adding that a certain' corruption 'among Russian officers and the' inefficient bureaucracy also play their part military'.

Some Ukrainian media also show

, which, however, according to the Kyiv Independent's own admission, cannot be independently verified and confirmed, which would report the multiple launch of rockets in rapid sequence from the vicinity of the plant. Ukrainian nuclear power station of Zaporizhzhia, occupied by the Russians.