Germany "must be ready for an escalation in Ukraine": this is the warning of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, speaking at a conference in Berlin hosted by the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, as reported by the Guardian.
"In light of the developments in the war and Russia's visible and growing bankruptcies, we must be prepared for an escalation," Scholz said.
The reporter of the American agency Associated Press who had written that the missile that fell in Poland last week was Russian has been fired.
The Washington Post reports it.
A few hours after the explosion of a missile in Przewodow, a Polish village near the border with Ukraine, James LaPorta, 35, had quoted "a senior US intelligence official" according to which "Russian missiles had fallen in Poland killing two people".
A story that was later denied by the Warsaw investigations and also by the American administration.
Gazprom is threatening to cut gas flows through Ukraine, the last route of Russian gas to Europe, from Monday in response to the fact that Ukraine would withhold some of the methane destined for Moldova.
"From 10 on November 28, Gazprom will start reducing the supply of gas to the Sudzha gis (compressor station, ed.) for transit through Ukraine by an amount equal to the daily undelivered amount," Gazprom says on its Telegram channel, accusing Kiev of having seized 52.52 million cubic meters of gas.
About 42 million cubic meters of Russian gas pass through Ukraine every day.
"All volumes of natural gas that have been accepted by the Russian federation at the 'Sudzha' entry point for transportation" in Moldova "have been fully transferred to the 'Oleksiivka' and 'Grebenyky' exit points."
This was stated in a statement by the Ukrainian network operator (Gtsou), in reply to Gazprom's accusations, according to which Kiev has seized part of the gas destined for Moldova.
"It is not the first time that Russia has used gas as an instrument of political pressure. It is manipulating the facts to justify the decision to further limit the volumes of supplies to European countries," said Olga Bielkova, head of international affairs at Gtsou.
“The volume of gas supplied by Gazprom to Sudzha for passage to Moldova through the territory of Ukraine exceeds the physical volume delivered to Ukraine's border with Moldova,” accuses Gazprom, which accuses Ukraine of withholding 24,945 November million cubic meters of gas, for a cumulative total of 52.52 million cubic meters.
Gazprom's move, which coincides with the start of the thermal season in Europe, contributes to the rise in the price of gas in Amsterdam, where TTF futures rise by 2.6% to 119.1 euros per megawatt hour.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a document formalizing his country's withdrawal from the Council of Europe, already decided last March.
Indeed, Putin signed a decree for the removal of Ivan Soltanovsky from the post of permanent representative of Moscow to the organization based in Strasbourg.
The news was reported by the Tass agency.
"Today peace is threatened in many regions of the world. Let us recognize together that war, any war, is always, however and everywhere a defeat for all of humanity! I am thinking of the one in the Ukraine, a sacrilegious war which threatens Jews and Christians alike in the same way by depriving them of their loved ones, of their homes, of their possessions, of their very lives! Only in the serious will to get close to one another and in fraternal dialogue is it possible to prepare the ground for peace. As Jews and Christians we try to do everything what is humanly possible to stop war and open ways of peace".
Thus the Pope at the World Jewish Congress.