Energy
Tuesday 21 May 2024
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“The deposits of JSC Dalur are located on a hill and away from the water. The flood did not affect them. There is no threat of flooding …”
Satellite images of flooded areas in the Kurgan region compared with the maps of Dobrovolnoye uranium deposits show part of Rosatom’s uranium wells covered in water. Environmentalists believe that the radioactive solution has been flowing into the Tobol River. -
“The Cooperative Republic of Guyana recklessly violates international law, taking actions that exacerbate the territorial dispute and add to its illegal conduct of granting oil exploitation rights to Exxon Mobil over a sea area pending delimitation with Venezuela.”
Venezuela disregards the World Court and signals it could use force to settle Essequibo territorial dispute. -
“President Irfaan Ali, enough of lies and of trying to hide the historical truth that weighs on the dispute over the Essequibo territory, whose only means of resolution, as you well know, is the Geneva Agreement of 1966.”
Guyana is adhering to the Geneva Agreement of 1966 in trying to resolve the dispute over Essequibo through the United Nations International Court of Justice. -
“All publicized military and government exercises and activities always provide cover for other activities that are less well publicized, as we have seen with last summer BALTOPS 22, and the subsequent remote detonation of pre-planted explosives designed to sever both Nordstream gas pipelines.”
The investigations into the Nord Stream bombings are ongoing, thus Kwiatkowski’s claim is based on groundless assertions. -
“According to estimates by international arms control experts, the weapons-grade nuclear materials the U.S. and the U.K. plan to transfer to Australia would be sufficient to build as many as 64 to 80 nuclear weapons.”
China’s estimate is based on two assumptions: first, that Australia will receive eight submarines under the AUKUS deal; second, that their reactors contain between 1.6 and 2 tons of highly enriched uranium. Neither of those assumptions can be verified. -
"The Kyiv authorities, at the suggestion of Western curators, continue making a dangerous bet on the escalation of hostilities. A clear example of this is the barbaric action to destroy the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station..."
Russia has fully controlled the Kakhovka plant since early 2022, there is no evidence of outside impact causing the dam’s destruction. -
"Russian-Chinese cooperation is experiencing the best period in its history, bilateral relations ... are built on a solid foundation ... of mutual support in matters affecting each other's fundamental interests. First of all, we are talking about the protection of sovereignty and territorial integrity."
China does not recognize or support Russia's illegal attempts to annex five regions of Ukraine and has been forced to participate in Western sanctions. -
“As you know, an unprecedented sanctions aggression has been launched against Russia… aimed at crushing our economy... As we can see – in fact, this is common knowledge – this plan has fallen through.”
Sanctions are doing what they are intended to do: signal the West’s unified support for Ukraine and limit the ability to supply Russia’s war effort by crippling foreign trade and reducing domestic resources. -
“What countries bypass their own sanctions & continue trading with Russia?”
In fact, European Union imports of Russian oil have sharply declined, and a ban is set to take effect soon. -
“Global power is exactly what the so-called West has at stake in its game. But this game is certainly dangerous, bloody and, I would say, dirty.”
Putin’s war on Ukraine has killed thousands of innocent Ukrainian civilians and soldiers on both sides. Putin initiated the bloodshed without any military provocation from Ukraine. -
"[Economic] development continues here ... Despite the difficult times, the country is developing and will continue to develop."
Western sanctions are punishing Russia’s economic output, which is projected to further shrink in 2023. -
“Washington has never hesitated to use force under fabricated pretexts … using false claims to justify its actions such as the need to protect the lives and well-being of U.S. citizens.”
To defend Russia’s war on Ukraine, Lavrov misrepresents why the United States overthrew Panama’s military dictator, Manuel Noriega, in 1989.