WAR IN UKRAINE: NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrives in central Kherson for flag-raising on November 14.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has caused a large amount of warming gases to be released into the atmosphere, Ukraine has claimed at the UN COP27 climate summit in Egypt. The amount is the equivalent of adding nearly 16 million cars to the UK's roads for two years. Ukraine said it is collecting evidence of environmental crimes with which to sue Russia. It also claimed precious animal and plant life has been destroyed. The war has led directly to emissions of 33 million tons of greenhouse gases that warm the Earth's atmosphere, claimed Ruslan Strilets, Ukraine's environmental protection minister."Russia has turned our natural reserves into a military base. Russia is doing everything to shorten our and your horizons. Because of the war, we will have to do even more to overcome the climate crisis," he said - BBC
US President Joe Biden has promised there will be no "new Cold War" with China, following a conciliatory meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He also said he did not believe China would invade Taiwan. It was the first in-person meeting between the two superpower leaders since Mr Biden took office. The pair also discussed North Korea and Russia's invasion of Ukraine at the talks in Bali, a day before the G20 summit on the Indonesian island. In a three-hour meeting held at a luxury hotel shortly after Mr Xi's arrival, the leaders discussed a wide range of topics including Taiwan. A readout to Chinese state media on Monday said Mr Xi had stressed that Taiwan remained "the core of China's core interests… and the first red line in US-China relations that cannot be crossed -BBC
“Reporting From Ukraine” describes Ukrainian artillery strikes against Russian bases around Melitopol and near Crimea, and one near the Left Bank of the Dnipro that apparently killed several hundred Russian soldiers. There is also an account of a mutiny at one of the bases
inside Russia where newly mobilized conscripts are being trained.
Espreso tv - former Minister of Defense of Moldova: Ukraine is the only country that will fight for us if necessary. "The only country and partner that can help us quickly resolve the issue with Transnistria now is Ukraine. This is the only country that, if necessary, will fight for Moldova against Russia, the Russian army in Transnistria. Ukraine is the only country that is currently interested in resolving this issue, because this "Moldovan Kaliningrad" is like a knife in the back of Moldova and Ukraine," he said.