The strategy against Russia is working and must continue

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the town of Izium on Wednesday. The area was recently liberated by the Ukrainian military during counteroffensive operations against occupying Russian forces. | REUTERS

BRUSSELS – Russia’s war against Ukraine has entered a new phase. The Ukrainian Army is making spectacular advances, liberating many towns and villages and forcing Russian troops to retreat. While it remains to be seen how far the Ukrainian counteroffensive will go, it is already clear that the strategic balance on the ground is shifting.

A Ukrainian victory may make the Russian war more dangerous

Ukrainian serviceman hands out apples to local residents in the town of Izium, Ukraine, on Friday. The strategically located town in the country's Kharkiv region was recently liberated by Ukrainian forces. | REUTERS

Ukrainian forces have reconquered over several thousand square kilometers of territory over the past week or so — more than all the territory Russia had added to its occupation in the six months since the start of the war. The Ukrainian flag is suddenly flying again over numerous towns and villages, and the offensives in

G7 agree on Russian oil price cap in bid to deplete Moscow’s war chest

Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki takes part in an online meeting of Group of Seven finance chiefs and central bank governors on Friday. | FINANCE MINISTRY / VIA KYODO

TOKYO/WASHINGTON – Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven advanced economies agreed Friday to cap Russian oil prices in their latest effort to squeeze Moscow’s revenues for its war in Ukraine while preventing global energy prices from surging by keeping crude flowing. The measure will take effect on Dec. 5 for crude oil and Feb.

EU backs Ukraine’s membership bid as war brings huge shift

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a news conference in Brussels on Friday.  | REUTERS

The European Union gave its blessing on Friday to Ukraine to become an official candidate to join the bloc, along with its neighbor Moldova, marking a historic eastward shift in Europe’s outlook brought about by Russia’s invasion. Ukraine applied to join the EU just four days after Russian troops poured across its border in February.

EU lawmakers find ‘serious risk of genocide’ in China’s repression of Uyghurs — Radio Free Asia

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Members of the European Parliament on Thursday easily passed a resolution calling the Chinese government’s systemic human rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority “crimes against humanity and a serious risk of genocide.” The EU condemned “in the strongest possible terms that the Uyghurs have been systematically oppressed by brutal measures including mass deportation,

EU spares pipeline oil from Russian embargo plan to break logjam

The Druzhba petroleum pipeline between Hungary and Russia. The European Commission sent a revised proposal to national governments on Saturday that would spare shipments of oil through the giant Druzhba pipeline. | AFP-JIJI

The European Union proposed banning seaborne oil from Russia while delaying restrictions on imports from a key pipeline in an effort to satisfy Hungarian objections and clinch an agreement on a stalled sanctions package that would target Moscow for its war in Ukraine. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, sent a revised proposal to

As EU prepares to halt Russian gas imports, Israel sees energy export opportunities

The Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Haifa, northern Israel in June 2021. Major gas finds in the eastern Mediterranean have in the past decade turned Israel from a natural gas importer into an exporter. | REUTERS

Jerusalem – With Europe aiming to wean itself off Russian fossil fuel, following the country’s invasion of Ukraine, Israel is hoping to help fill the gap with gas from its offshore reserves. EU states remain divided on the time scale for such a move, but European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the

Kishida considering Southeast Asia trip as Russia and China concerns grow

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to visit Southeast Asia during the Golden Week holidays starting in late April, sources have said. | REUTERS

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to visit Southeast Asia during the Golden Week holidays starting in late April, seeking to strengthen cooperation amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s growing assertiveness in the region, diplomatic sources said Tuesday. Kishida is planning to travel to Thailand in early May during his trip that will include

Lack of engine could sink Thai purchase of Chinese submarine — Radio Free Asia

A Chinese navy submarine leaves Qingdao Port, Shandong province, in a file photo. Credit: Reuters

Thailand’s long-planned purchase of three Chinese submarines, which a former top Bangkok diplomat described as “an insult to the Thai-U.S. treaty relationship,” could run into trouble, officials and analysts said. In April 2017, the Thai government approved the Royal Navy’s plan to buy three Yuan-class submarines from China valued at 36 billion baht (U.S. $1.05

U.S. to Boost Gas Deliveries to Europe Amid Scramble for New Supplies

U.S. to Boost Gas Deliveries to Europe Amid Scramble for New Supplies

Western nations desire to end the leverage Russia holds over Europe as the continents crucial energy supplier and cut a lifeline for the Russian economy. Natural gas provides the most significant issue for Europe, since the fuel is much more difficult than oil and coal– Russias other main energy exports to Europe– to import by

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