U.S. captives 'prayed for death' on brutal ride from Ukraine
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Even following trio months of captivity that included execution threats, physical torture, solitary confinement with every one other accompanied by food deprivation, it was the ride to freedom that almost broke Alex Drueke, a U.S. military former soldierold hand released last week accompanied by nine other prisoners who went to assist Ukraine fight off Russian invaders.
His hands were bound. His head was covered by a malleable bag, with every one other accompanied by the packing band holding it inside place was secured so tightly it it caused welts on his forehead. Drueke said he with every one other accompanied by fellow American convict Andy Huynh reached their boundary inside this condition throughout the transit, which occurred inside a series of vehicles from eastern Ukraine to an airfield inside Russia that was surrounded by armed guards.
"For all we went into and not here of with every one other accompanied by all the times we idea we strength die, we accepted that we strength die, we were prepared to die when it came, that ride was the only hour dated that every one of us independently prayed for demise fair to obtain it over with," Drueke told The Associated Press inside an meeting Friday.
"The intellectual with every one other accompanied by emotional torture of those last 24 hours inside captivity, that was the worst," he said.
Drueke, 40, is healing: The swelling is going down on his head with every one other accompanied by he's trying to regain some of the 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms) he figures he lost eating a poverty-stricken diet. But awful memories remain, with every one other accompanied by he's unsure what comes following to one side from trying to focus observation on fellow prisoners who carry on accompanied by to exist inside Russian hands.
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"The war has not ended," he said, speaking at the place of residence he shares accompanied by his mother with every one other accompanied by other relatives inside Tuscaloosa.
Drueke with every one other accompanied by Huynh, a 27-year-old fellow military former soldierold hand from Alabama, were among hundreds of Americans who went to Ukraine early on to assist inside the fight opposed to Russia.
On June 9, they were captured throughout what Drueke described while a reconnaissance task associated accompanied by Ukraine's international legion, composed of overseas volunteers.
"Everyone else managed to build it spine to the base safe," he said.
Russian soldiers took the set of two men to their camp, with every one other accompanied by at that hour dated into Russia for "intensive interrogation." While declining to go into specifics, Drueke said the behaviour towards was brutal.
"Every one of our anthropoid rights were violated," he said. "We were tortured."
The men were taken spine to Ukraine to a "black site" inside Donetsk for almost a month of additional interrogation, he said. They were eventually taken to an isolation cellblock within a former Ukrainian prison. There, Drueke with every one other accompanied by Huynh were forced to record propaganda statements for a Russian video camera accompanied by soldiers inside the room.
"On the positive side, there were times they would place us inside a closet, tied with every one other accompanied by blindfolded, ... while they were waiting for whatever reporter to show up, with every one other accompanied by it gave Andy with every one other accompanied by I fair a few seconds to whisper things spine with every one other accompanied by forth to inspect inside on every one other," he said. "It was the earliest hour dated we had talked inside weeks at that point."
Eventually, following weeks of confinement that included multiple threats, it became evident that something — either a release, a prison transfer or execution — was inside the works, said Drueke, who joined the U.S. Army Reserve following the extreme terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with every one other accompanied by served set of two tours inside Iraq.
"We knew something was happening since our normal procedure was actuality skewed with every one other accompanied by they were having us understandable all of our personal stuff not here of the cell," he said.
But flat then, the intellectual torture continued, he said. "One of the guards said a set of two of times, 'I'm attractive sure you guys are getting executed,'" he said.
Instead, they were small portion of a category of 10 men who were released Sept. 21 inside a deal brokered by Saudi Arabia. The others who were released accompanied by them were from Croatia, Morocco, Sweden with every one other accompanied by the United Kingdom.
No one relaxed until the flat outside was inside the air with every one other accompanied by an official from Saudi Arabia explained what was happening, he said. Landing inside New York following a flying from Saudi Arabia, Drueke said he with every one other accompanied by Huynh were met by a Homeland Security official from an office that investigates war crimes.
Press aides accompanied by Homeland Security didn't straight away return an email seeking comment, nevertheless the U.N. anthropoid rights investigators have said Ukrainian prisoners of war become visible to exist facing "systematic" mistreatment by Russian captors that includes torture.
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Almost immediately, Ukraine's president countered by applying to fasten the NATO military alliance, setting Russia up to face off opposed to the West.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Any idea that this sort of harrowing brinkmanship had ended accompanied by the 1980s when the last Soviet leader \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mikhail-gorbachev-world-leaders-react-8c11998dcfe20b8928e15644ce935c8d\">Mikhail Gorbachev\u003c/a> with every one other accompanied by at that hour dated U.S. President Ronald Reagan eased the Cold War with every one other accompanied by the specter of nuclear Armageddon, is now gone.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Even accompanied by the horror of Japan's Hiroshima with every one other accompanied by Nagasaki burned on humanity's collective consciousness, the world finds itself on one occasion once additional contemplating the possible use of nuclear weapons. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:246675595414' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='a0de3d1d4f9540809fc4b3638023c2ee'>Hub peek embed (Russia-Ukraine) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>After a series of humiliating setbacks on the battlefield, Putin has made it painfully understandable that some assault on the newly annexed regions would exist construed while an assault on Russia. He would use some means available inside his vast arsenal — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-nato-moscow-b7696dca6ca1d517f59179f981a57c56\">the incline to nuclear weapons\u003c/a> was hardly veiled — with every one other accompanied by wasn't bluffing, he said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"We're inside an escalation phase, with every one other accompanied by Russia now is faced accompanied by a series of additional extreme choices than before," said Nigel Gould-Davies, the former U.K. ambassador to Belarus. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Gould-Davies, who is older fellow for Russia with every one other accompanied by Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said Russia's attempts to come first in the war by additional average means have failed, with every one other accompanied by Putin is now having to grow the "range with every one other accompanied by severity of the measures" Russia is taking, including annexation with every one other accompanied by nuclear threats. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Even while Moscow annexed the quartet Ukrainian regions inside a go that will not exist recognized by an overwhelming majority of the world, tens of thousands of Russian men called up to fight inside the war were fleeing Russia.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Former Kremlin speechwriter turned political analyst Abbas Gallyamov on Friday linked Russia's reversals inside the war accompanied by the annexation push. "It looks exist fond of an try to respond somehow, with every one other accompanied by it looks completely pathetic. Ukrainians are doing something, taking steps inside the real material world, while the Kremlin is building some sort of virtual reality, incapable of responding inside the real world," he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Driving Putin are years of perceived humiliation at the hands of the West following the demise of the Soviet Union. And the fact that foregoing bloodshed with every one other accompanied by atrocities committed opposed to Chechnya with every one other accompanied by Syria escaped severe international involvement seemed to present with him the declaration of guilt that he had carte blanche to rebuild an Imperial Russia. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>That's not the instance now. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Billions of dollars inside United States with every one other accompanied by European military assistance are helping extremely motivated Ukrainian forces liberate territory inside the war amid understandable signals from Washington that ''catastrophic consequences\" will go nearer behind some use by Moscow of non-conventional weapons. \u003c/p>\u003cp>On a day exist fond of Friday, Sept. 30, while Russia's war inside Ukraine enters a flammable, flat additional dangerous phase, the question remains; Is a wider war looming accompanied by devastating results for the world, maybe not seen since 1939-1945?\u003c/p>\u003cp>——-\u003c/p>\u003cp>Tamer Fakahany is AP's deputy director for worldwide report coordination with every one other accompanied by has helped straight international coverage for the AP for 20 years. 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Ukraine's president countered wit...","isTpContent":false,"socialEmbeds":[],"isPrContent":false,"storyHTML":"\u003cp>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties Friday to illegally annex additional occupied Ukrainian territory inside a sharp escalation of his war. Ukraine's president countered accompanied by a astonishment application to fasten the NATO military alliance.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Putin's land-grab with every one other accompanied by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's signing of what he said is an "accelerated" NATO belonging application sent the set of two leaders speeding faster on a collision way that is cranking up fears of a full-blown dispute in the centre of Russia with every one other accompanied by the West.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Putin vowed to retain protected from danger newly annexed regions of Ukraine by "all available means,\" a renewed nuclear-backed threat he made at a Kremlin signing rite where he too railed furiously opposed to the West, accusing the United States with every one other accompanied by its allies of seeking Russia's destruction.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Zelenskyy at that hour dated held his own signing rite inside Kyiv, releasing video of him putting pen to papers he said were a ceremonial NATO belonging request.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Putin has repeatedly made understandable that some likelihood of Ukraine joining the military alliance is one of his scarlet lines with every one other accompanied by cited it while a justification for his invasion, now inside its eighth month, inside Europe's biggest land war since World War II.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In his speech, Putin urged Ukraine to sit down for tranquillity talks nevertheless insisted he won't talk over handing spine occupied regions. Zelenskyy said there'd exist no indeed negotiations accompanied by Putin.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:246675595414' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='dad270d8dccf8873ba7fe7758c387933'>Hub peek embed (Russia-Ukraine) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>"We are prepared for a conversation accompanied by Russia, nevertheless … accompanied by another president of Russia,\" the Ukrainian leader said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>At his signing rite inside the Kremlin's ornate St. George's Hall, Putin accused the West of fueling the hostilities to turn Russia into a "colony" with every one other accompanied by a "crowd of soulless slaves." The hardening of his position, inside the dispute that has killed with every one other accompanied by wounded tens of thousands of people, further raised tensions by that hour dated at levels unseen since the Cold War.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Global leaders, including those from the Group of Seven leading economies, responded accompanied by an avalanche of condemnation. The U.S. with every one other accompanied by the U.K. announced \u003ca>more sanctions.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>U.S. President Joe Biden said of Putin's annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson with every one other accompanied by Zaporizhzhia regions: "Make no indeed mistake: These actions have no indeed legitimacy." \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='6d8dc7435c7a4547a96a1b518033e760' class='media-placeholder'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"America with every one other accompanied by its allies are not going to exist intimidated by Putin with every one other accompanied by his reckless words with every one other accompanied by threats," Biden added, noting that the Russian leader "can't seize his neighbor's territory with every one other accompanied by obtain away accompanied by it."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The European Union said its 27 subscriber states will never identify the unlawful referendums that Russia organized "as a pretext for this further contravention of Ukraine's independence, sovereignty with every one other accompanied by territorial integrity."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council intention Friday that would have condemned the referendums, declared that they have no indeed validity with every one other accompanied by urged all countries not to identify the annexation. China, India, Brazil with every one other accompanied by Gabon abstained on the ballot inside the 15-member council.\u003c/p>\u003cp>NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called it "the largest attempted annexation of European territory by strength since the Second World War."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The war is at "a pivotal moment," he said, with every one other accompanied by Putin's decision to annex additional territory – Russia now claims sovereignty over 15% of Ukraine – marks "the most solemn escalation since the start of the war." Stoltenberg was noncommittal on Zelenskyy's fast-track NATO application, saying alliance leaders "support Ukraine's just to choose its own path, to resolve what sort of safety arrangements it wants to exist small portion of."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council, said Zelenskyy's go in the direction of the military alliance amounts to "begging NATO to accelerate the start of World War III."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Zelenskyy vowed to retain fighting, defying Putin's warnings that Kyiv shouldn't try to recapture what it has lost.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"The entire territory of our country will exist liberated from this enemy,\" he said. "Russia by that hour dated knows this. It feels our power.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>The immediate ramifications of the "accelerated" NATO application weren't clear, since approval requires members' unanimous support. 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In his fiery speech, Putin insisted Ukraine behave towards the votes "with respect." \u003c/p>\u003cp>As the rite concluded, the Moscow-installed leaders of the occupied regions gathered around Putin, linked hands with every one other accompanied by chanted "Russia! Russia!" accompanied by the audience.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Putin gash an angry figure while he accused the United States with every one other accompanied by its allies of seeking to demolish Russia. He said the West acted "as a parasite" with every one other accompanied by used its monetary with every one other accompanied by technological ability "to rob the entire world." \u003c/p>\u003cp>He portrayed Russia while pursuing a historical task to reclaim its post-Soviet great ability status with every one other accompanied by work outside Western domination he said is collapsing.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"History has called us to a battlefield to fight for our people, for the magnificent famous Russia, for future generations," he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Moscow has backed eastern Ukraine's separatist Donetsk with every one other accompanied by Luhansk regions since they declared self-government inside 2014, weeks following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. Russia captured the southern Kherson neighbourhood with every one other accompanied by small portion of neighboring Zaporizhzhia in a short time following Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Kremlin-controlled Russian parliament will meet following week to rubber-stamp the annexation treaties, sending them to Putin for final approval.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The orchestrated procedure went into a celebratory phase Friday night, accompanied by thousands gathered inside Red Square for a concert with every one other accompanied by rally that Putin joined. Many waved Russian flags while entertainers from Russia with every one other accompanied by occupied parts of Ukraine performed patriotic songs. Russian media reported employees of state-run companies with every one other accompanied by institutions were told to attend, with every one other accompanied by students were allowed to skip classes.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Putin's land seize with every one other accompanied by a partial troop mobilization were attempts to retain away from additional battlefield defeats that could threaten his 22-year rule. By formalizing Russia's gains, he seemingly hopes to scare Ukraine with every one other accompanied by its Western backers by menacing to escalate the dispute unless they spine down — which they show no indeed signs of doing. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Russia controls most of the Luhansk with every one other accompanied by Kherson regions, concerning 60% of the Donetsk neighbourhood with every one other accompanied by a large chunk of the Zaporizhzhia region, where it seized Europe's largest nuclear ability plant.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But the Kremlin is on the verge of another stinging military loss, accompanied by reports of the imminent Ukrainian encirclement of the eastern city of Lyman. Retaking it could not shut the footpath for Ukraine to push deep into Luhansk, one of the annexed regions.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"It looks completely pathetic. Ukrainians are doing something, taking steps inside the real material world, while the Kremlin is building some sort of a virtual reality, incapable of responding inside the real world," former Kremlin speechwriter-turned-analyst Abbas Gallyamov said, adding that \"the Kremlin cannot provide anything сomforting to the Russians." \u003c/p>\u003cp>Russia pounded Ukrainian cities accompanied by missiles, rockets with every one other accompanied by self-destruction drones inside Moscow's heaviest barrage inside weeks, accompanied by one strike inside the Zaporizhzhia region's first city killing 30 with every one other accompanied by wounding 88.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In the Zaporizhzhia attack, anti-aircraft missiles that Russia has repurposed while ground-attack weapons rained down on people waiting inside cars to cross into Russian-occupied territory so they could convey family members spine across front lines, said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Russian-installed officials inside Zaporizhzhia blamed Ukrainian forces, nevertheless gave no indeed evidence.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The strike left-hand deep craters with every one other accompanied by sent shrapnel tearing into the humanitarian convoy, killing passengers. 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Some of the deceased lay on the ground covered by trash bags, blankets with every one other accompanied by towels, while others remains inside their vehicles.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on his Telegram strait Friday that only "terrorists" would mark civilians with every one other accompanied by accused Russia of trying to seek revenge opposed to Ukraine for its "steadfastness" with every one other accompanied by to build up for its own battlefield failures.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>KEY DEVELOPMENTS:\u003c/p>\u003cp>— Ukraine \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-moscow-referendums-dad270d8dccf8873ba7fe7758c387933?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01\">accelerates NATO bid\u003c/a> while Russia annexes seized areas\u003c/p>\u003cp>— US hits \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-russia-sanctions-45ad79b7e4965539da8ff10eda828220?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_04\">Russia accompanied by sanctions\u003c/a> for annexing Ukrainian regions\u003c/p>\u003cp>— Russian \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-moscow-referendums-dad270d8dccf8873ba7fe7758c387933?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01\">strike kills 25\u003c/a> while Kremlin to annex Ukraine regions\u003c/p>\u003cp>— EXPLAINER: A deep dive into risks for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-moscow-referendums-dad270d8dccf8873ba7fe7758c387933?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01\">undersea cables\u003c/a>, pipes\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:246675595414' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='ff5f0a4df0658c590caf675397c9ea69'>Hub peek embed (Russia-Ukraine) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>— Finnish \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-travel-denmark-international-relations-e6a9905a4b6a12b565a86aff803799d9\">border closed\u003c/a> to Russians accompanied by tourist visas\u003c/p>\u003cp>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — A Ukrainian armed force officer says Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village Drobysheve, situated inside the Donetsk neighbourhood some quartet kilometers (2.5miles ) from the Russian-occupied city of Lyman.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Anatolii Shtefan posted a video on his Facebook description Friday showing soldiers from the 81st Airmobile Brigade holding the Ukrainian banner amid destroyed buildings inside the village that he said had been liberated. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Russian with every one other accompanied by Western analysts said Friday Ukrainian forces have probable encircled the Russian-occupied city of Lyman while Kyiv pushes on inside an eastern offensive.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lyman, a city some 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, had been a answer node for ground communications with every one other accompanied by Russian military operations inside the region.\u003c/p>\u003cp>If Ukraine takes Lyman, that allows Kyiv to push into Russian-occupied Luhansk, which fair took small portion inside Moscow's internationally criticized, gunpoint referendums.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the 30-member military alliance has conveyed to Russia that there would exist "severe consequences" if it uses nuclear weapons opposed to Ukraine.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But Stoltenberg was non-committal on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to build a fast-track application for Ukraine for NATO membership.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He told reporters Friday NATO leaders "support Ukraine's just to choose its own path, to resolve what sort of safety arrangements it wants to exist small portion of" nevertheless that a decision on belonging has to exist taken by all 30 members.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Stoltenberg said NATO's focus now is "providing immediate support to Ukraine."\u003c/p>\u003cp>He too rejected Russia's "illegal with every one other accompanied by illegitimate" annexation of quartet regions of Ukraine, calling it "the largest attempted annexation of European territory by strength since the Second World War."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Asked whether Ukrainian troops should refrain from attacking the annexed regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson with every one other accompanied by Zaporizhzhia – Stoltenberg said: "they tin protect themselves, they tin too carry on accompanied by to liberate territory."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Stepping back, he said, would exist to "accept nuclear blackmailing."\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>BERLIN — The Group of Seven leading economies has condemned Moscow's annexation of occupied Ukrainian territory while "a new low point inside Russia's blatant flouting of international law." \u003c/p>\u003cp>The G-7 called the go "another example of Russia's intolerable violations of Ukraine's sovereignty, the UN Charter, with every one other accompanied by the commonly agreed principles with every one other accompanied by commitments of the Helsinki Final Act with every one other accompanied by the Paris Charter."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The group, which includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan with every one other accompanied by the United States, said they "will never identify these purported annexations, nor the sham 'referenda' conducted at gunpoint."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The G-7 said it would impose further monetary costs on Russia, with every one other accompanied by on individuals with every one other accompanied by entities – inside with every one other accompanied by external outside of Russia – "that provide political or monetary support to these violations of international law." \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>LONDON — Britain has imposed a raft of new sanctions on Russia, including a turn into ice on the assets of the country's centre edge governor, following the unlawful annexation of quartet Ukrainian regions.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Foreign Secretary James Cleverly too summoned Russian Ambassador Andrey Kelin to objection the contravention of Ukraine's sovereignty.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The sanctions include freezing the personal assets of centre edge manager Elvira Nabiullina, who has been instrumental inside steering the Russian affluence since the invasion of Ukraine with every one other accompanied by extending the ruble into Ukrainian territory under Russian control. She will too exist barred from traveling to the U.K.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The U.K. is too employed accompanied by the U.S. with every one other accompanied by other allies to stop Russian entities from accessing a range of professional services around the world. British companies will exist barred from providing services such while auditing, advertising, engineering, some types of legal advice with every one other accompanied by details technology consulting services to Russian firms.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Britain too imposed bans on the sell abroad of an additional 700 products to Russia.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>WASHINGTON — The Biden management has dismissed Putin's claim blaming the West for harm to the Nord Stream pipelines conveying Russian gasoline to Germany while outlandish.\u003c/p>\u003cp>White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said "Russia's disinformation\" won't distract the U.S. or the relax of the world "from its transparently fraudulent try to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Earlier Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of sabotaging the Russia-built gasoline pipelines. \u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Thousands of people gathered inside Moscow for a concert at Red Square, celebrating the unlawful annexation of Ukrainian lands. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Many waved large Russian flags while performers from Russia with every one other accompanied by occupied regions of Ukraine took to the phase to chant patriotic songs hailing Russia's greatness. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Multiple Russian media reports said that people employed for state-run companies with every one other accompanied by institutions were told to attend the concert, with every one other accompanied by students were reportedly allowed to skip classes so they tin attend.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is urging Western countries to place an extremity to Russia's "aggressive imperial authoritarianism, endlessly inflicted by Russia upon itself.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>In an opinion article the Washington Post published Friday, Navalny wrote that if Ukraine wins the war accompanied by Western support, Putin "will vow to create an armed force so strong with every one other accompanied by weapons of such unprecedented ability that the West will rue the day it defied us, with every one other accompanied by the integrity of our great ancestors will exist avenged." \u003c/p>\u003cp>Navalny said Russian citizens should set up a parliamentary republic leading to "a radical lessening of ability inside the hands of one person, the formation of a management by a parliamentary majority, an self-governing judiciary system, a significant grow inside the powers of local authorities."\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>WASHINGTON — The U.S. is sanctioning additional than 1,000 people with every one other accompanied by firms connected to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including its Central Bank manager with every one other accompanied by families of Security Council members.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Friday's decision comes a few hours following Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties absorbing occupied regions of Ukraine into Russia, inside defiance of international law.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Treasury Department named hundreds of members of Russia's legislature, leaders of the country's monetary with every one other accompanied by military infrastructure with every one other accompanied by suppliers for sanctions designations. The Commerce Department added 57 companies to its list of sell abroad jurisdiction violators, with every one other accompanied by the State Department added additional than 900 people to its visa restriction list. \u003c/p>\u003cp>President Joe Biden said Putin's actions "have no indeed legitimacy" with every one other accompanied by that the new monetary penalties will impose costs on people with every one other accompanied by companies inside with every one other accompanied by external outside of Russia "that provide political or monetary support to unlawful attempts to alter the status of Ukrainian territory."\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Ukraine's president says his country is submitting an "accelerated" application to fasten the NATO military alliance.\u003c/p>\u003cp>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's statement Friday came in a short time following Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties to annex occupied areas of Ukraine the he warned would retain protected from danger using "all available means."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Zelenskyy said "we are taking our decisive step by signing Ukraine's application for accelerated accession to NATO."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Ukrainian leader's NATO application adds another layer of complexity to the seven-month elderly dispute that fast escalated following Putin's announcement of annexing parts of Ukraine.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Zelenskyy too repeated his pledge to retake all Ukrainian territory now held by Russia which he said "feels our power." He too said Ukraine is prepared for conversation accompanied by Moscow nevertheless "with another president of Russia."\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>BRUSSELS — The European Union's 27 subscriber states speak they "firmly reject with every one other accompanied by unequivocally condemn the unlawful annexation" of Ukraine's territory.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In a join statement issued Friday in a short time following Russian President Vladimir Putin started the procedure of annexing quartet occupied Ukrainian regions, EU leaders said Moscow is undermining the "rules-based international order" with every one other accompanied by has violated Ukraine's fundamental just to independence.\u003c/p>\u003cp>They added that they will never identify the unlawful referendums that Russia organized "as a pretext for this further contravention of Ukraine's independence, sovereignty with every one other accompanied by territorial integrity."\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>BRUSSELS — The European Union's top migration official is urging the 27 subscriber countries to clamp down on issuing visas to Russian citizens amid heightened safety concerns over President Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats with every one other accompanied by go to annex parts of Ukraine.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Migration Commissioner Ylva Johansson called Putin's actions "clearly an escalation with every one other accompanied by that means too an escalation of the safety threat towards the European Union." She urged EU countries to enforce additional stringent checks on Russian nationals with every one other accompanied by deny documents to anyone who strength constitute a threat.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Johansson said that EU authorities must place an extremity to short-term visa holders from Russia from renewing them inside Europe with every one other accompanied by that Russians who have fled the country should not exist allowed to apply for visas abroad. She said that none of the measures the European Commission, the EU's administrative branch, is recommending would place an extremity to Russian citizens from applying for asylum inside Europe.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties to annex occupied areas of Ukraine inside a sharp escalation of the seven-month conflict.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Putin said throughout Friday's rite inside the Kremlin that he would retain protected from danger them using "all available means." At the beginning of the event, Putin urged Ukraine to sit down for talks nevertheless warned that Moscow would not present with up the newly incorporated regions.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The rite comes trio days following the completion of Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums" on joining Russia that were dismissed by Kyiv with every one other accompanied by the West while a bare-faced land grab, held at gunpoint with every one other accompanied by based on lies.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The separatist Donetsk with every one other accompanied by Luhansk regions inside eastern Ukraine have been backed by Moscow since declaring self-government inside 2014, weeks following the annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. The southern Kherson neighbourhood with every one other accompanied by small portion of the neighboring Zaporizhzhia were captured by Russia in a short time following Putin sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Both houses of the Kremlin-controlled Russian parliament will meet following week to rubber-stamp the treaties for the regions to fasten Russia, sending them to Putin for his approval.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of sabotaging the Russia-built gasoline pipelines to Germany. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Speaking Friday at a rite to absorb the quartet occupied regions of Ukraine into Russia, Putin said that the "Anglo-Saxons" have turned from sanctions to "terror attacks," sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines inside what he described while an try to "destroy the European vitality infrastructure." \u003c/p>\u003cp>He said "those who profit from it have done it," lacking naming a specific country.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Swedish seaboard retain protected from danger on Thursday confirmed a fourth leak on the pipelines off southern Sweden, set of two days ater the earliest leaks to the Nord Stream pipelines that expand from Russia to Germany were reported.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus' authoritarian president is rejecting the possibility that his country's armed forces would become embroiled inside the war inside Ukraine.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Alexander Lukashenko said Friday Belarusians have never attacked nor posed a threat to anyone inside their history with every one other accompanied by that "it will carry on accompanied by to carry on accompanied by to exist this way."\u003c/p>\u003cp>He said Belarus is "always committed to the tranquil intention of some international problems" with every one other accompanied by that it's "doing each item to place an extremity to the bloodshed."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Belarus offered its territory to its associate Russia to invade Ukraine from the north, nevertheless Belarusian military have not been associated accompanied by inside the conflict. Military analysts fret that the Kremlin strength strength Belarus to fasten the war with every one other accompanied by deploy its troops to Ukraine - a likelihood Lukahsenko has repeatedly with every one other accompanied by strongly denied.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lukashenko met last week accompanied by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the seventh hour dated inside a year. \u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Ukraine's president says his country won't present with up on retaking all the regions which are now under Russian control.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on his Telegram strait Friday that Ukraine is inside jurisdiction of the circumstances with every one other accompanied by that "Everything will exist Ukraine."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Zelenskky discussed accompanied by Ukraine's supreme military commander-in-chief plans for the liberation of Russian occupied territories.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He said Ukraine is supplying its troops accompanied by weapons with every one other accompanied by ammunition inside the most combat zones.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Donetsk's Ukrainian manager Pavlo Kyrylenko says Russian shelling of cities shows that Moscow is lashing not here since it's losing ground on the battle field. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Kyrylenko told Ukrainian television that the shelling "shows the frailty of the Kremlin, which is angry with every one other accompanied by is taking revenge for the mislaying of military initiative." \u003c/p>\u003cp>Russian forces have intensified shelling of front-line cities inside the Donetsk region, killing eight with every one other accompanied by wounding 17 civilians over the past 24 hours. \u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — An analyst says the Kremlin's hasty push to formally annex occupied Ukrainian lands aims to compensate for the fact that Moscow can't do a a large amount of to work outside Kyiv's gains on the battlefield.\u003c/p>\u003cp> Former Kremlin speechwriter Abbas Gallyamov told the Associated Press inside an meeting Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's recognition of the the "independence\" of Ukraine's Kherson with every one other accompanied by Zaporizhzhia regions coincided accompanied by reports of Ukrainian troops encircling Russian forces inside Lyman.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Gallyamov said Russia's answer to Ukrainian gains "looks completely pathetic\" while the Kremlin "is building some sort of a virtual reality, incapable of responding inside the real world."\u003c/p>\u003cp>He said although the Kremlin will try to place on a show of the illegitimate annexations, the Russian condition understands that the battlefield dynamics are a a large amount of different inside Ukraine than they were inside Crimea inside 2014 with every one other accompanied by while a result, Russians will exist less enthusiastic.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — The Russian-backed separatist leader of the Donetsk neighbourhood says Russian forces were no indeed longer controlling the villages of Yampil with every one other accompanied by Drobysheve, southeast with every one other accompanied by to the northern of the city of Lyman.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Denis Pushilin referred Friday to "worrying news" concerning Lyman itself, saying that it was "half-encircled" by the Ukrainian forces. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Pushilin was quoted to Russian condition report agency RIA Novosti while saying that Ukraine's armed formations were "trying extremely firm to mar our celebration."\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV— Ukraine's military says Russia is upgrading military airfields, barracks with every one other accompanied by warehouses inside Belarus, suggesting the country may intend to use them for renewed strikes on Ukraine.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Oleksii Hromov, deputy dhief of the Main Operational Department of the Ukrainian army's General Staff said Friday labour was ongoing at the Lunynets with every one other accompanied by Zyabrivka bases which are near the Ukrainian border. Iskander tactical missile units were too operative inside Osypovichi, concerning 180 kilometers from Ukraine, while Belarussian railways are preparing to transport troops.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Ukrainian officials inside the Zaporizhzhia neighbourhood have declared Oct 1 while a day of mourning for the 25 civilians who were killed following the Russia missile strike on a automobile convoy on the outskirts Zaporizhzhia. lUkraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets too said inside an online statement Friday there were no indeed military facilities or apparatus situated inside the Zaporizhzhia area, "just cars with every one other accompanied by tranquil civilians." \u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Russian condition media are accusing Ukraine of carrying not here the Zaporizhzhia assault on its own citizens, lacking providing some proof to support the claim.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Russian forces have repeatedly targeted Ukrainian civilians inside the fighting since the war began inside February.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — Russian-installed officials inside the southern Kherson neighbourhood said Thursday that a Ukrainian missile strike on the city of Kherson killed a deputy head of the region's pro-Kremlin administration. A report inside Russian condition report agency RIA Novosti offered no indeed details while to when the alleged strike took place, saying only that it hit the center of Kherson. Officials inside Kyiv have not commented on the alleged attack.\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>KYIV — The British military says newly mobilized Russian troops coming into Ukraine are poorly equipped accompanied by medical supplies.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The British Defense Ministry said Friday medical knowledge with every one other accompanied by supplies carry on accompanied by to exist low, accompanied by some soldiers having to buy their own modern tourniquets. That mirrors videos with every one other accompanied by photos online suggesting some soldiers are actuality supplied accompanied by Soviet-era earliest assistance kits.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The management dividing added that the Russian troops' lack of trust inside sufficient medical supplying is "almost certainly contributing to a declining condition of morale with every one other accompanied by lack of readiness to undertake insulting operations inside numerous units inside Ukraine.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>____\u003c/p>\u003cp>UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a ballot for Friday afternoon on a intention that would condemn Russia for its "illegal inappropriately namedsupposed referenda" inside quartet Ukrainian regions with every one other accompanied by proclaim that they "have no indeed validity."\u003c/p>\u003cp>The U.S.- with every one other accompanied by Albanian-sponsored intention would call on all countries not to identify some alterations to the status of Ukraine's Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson with every one other accompanied by Zaporizhzhia regions. It would reaffirm the U.N. commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity with every one other accompanied by self-government within its internationally recognized borders.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Russia is sure to veto the resolution. 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in remittance vehemently denied by the United States with every one other accompanied by its allies. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Nordic nations said \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-economy-baltic-sea-82d5453f9b4a20b858cb61d83cd84a7c\">the undersea blasts that damaged the pipelines\u003c/a> this week with every one other accompanied by have led to enormous methane leaks associated accompanied by some hundred pounds of explosives.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The U.S.-Russia clashes continued subsequent at an crisis gathering of the U.N. Security Council inside New York called by Russia on the attacks on the Nord Stream 1 with every one other accompanied by 2 pipelines, with every one other accompanied by while Norwegian researchers published a scheme projecting that a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-business-baltic-sea-oil-and-gas-industry-climate-environment-6ed67266b0a6caa59fc1afceac89dd82\">huge plume of methane from the damaged pipelines\u003c/a> will journey over large swaths of the Nordic region.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Speaking Friday inside Moscow at a rite to annex quartet regions of Ukraine into Russia, Putin claimed that "Anglo-Saxons" inside the West have turned from imposing sanctions on Russia to "terror attacks," sabotaging the Nord Stream 1 with every one other accompanied by 2 pipelines inside what he described while an try to "destroy the European vitality infrastructure." \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>He added that "those who profit from it have done it," lacking naming a specific country.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In Washington, U.S. President Joe Biden dismissed Putin's pipeline claims while outlandish.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:246675595414' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='7786a92fbf7d6457101067110adccfdd'>Hub peek embed (Russia-Ukraine) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>"It was a deliberate take deed of sabotage. And now the Russians are pumping not here disinformation with every one other accompanied by lies. We will labour accompanied by our allies to obtain to the foot (of) precisely what happened," Biden promised, adding that divers would exist sent down to inspect the pipelines. \"Just don't hear to what Putin's saying. What he's saying we know is not true."\u003c/p>\u003cp>U.S. officials said the Putin claim was trying to shift observation from his annexation Friday of parts of Ukraine.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"We're not going to permit Russia's disinformation distract us or the world from its transparently fraudulent try to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory," White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said Friday.\u003c/p>\u003cp>At the United Nations, Sergey Kupriyanov, spokesperson for the Russian state-owned firm Gazprom, which is the majority stakeholder inside Nord Stream, told the council that facts concerning the sudden let fall inside pressure inside the pipeline with every one other accompanied by the gasoline leakage "make it possible to speak accompanied by certainty that the leaks inside the pipelines was caused by physical damage."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Kupriyanov said inside a video briefing that Gazprom has begun searching for possible solutions to build the Nord Stream system operational again. There is no indeed roughly calculate of how lengthy it will take, he said, "but we tin speak accompanied by certainty that the position of employment will exist extremely daunting from a technical standpoint." \u003c/p>\u003cp>Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, made a host of allegations implicating the United States inside sabotage, including that it would good the U.S. gasoline industry. He at that hour dated asked if the U.S. representative would not capture inside "morbid fantasies concerning Russia with every one other accompanied by corroborate that the United States "is not associated accompanied by with every one other accompanied by has nothing to do accompanied by this sabotage?\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>U.S. deputy ambassador Richard Mills accused Nebenzia of spreading "conspiracy theories with every one other accompanied by disinformation\" with every one other accompanied by using "inflammatory rhetoric.\"\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"Let me answer his question. Let me exist clear: The United States categorically denies some involvement inside this incident, with every one other accompanied by we reject some assertions saying the contrary,\" Mills said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Moscow says it wants a thorough international probe to assess the harm to the pipelines, which were filled accompanied by gasoline nevertheless not supplying it to Europe. Putin's spokesperson has said "it looks exist fond of a extreme terror attack, inside all likelihood conducted on a condition level."\u003c/p>\u003cp>European nations, which have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-germany-prices-cca7e5afd38fbcfc1ad72934e8e59bd9\">reeling under soaring vitality prices\u003c/a> caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, have noted that it is Russia, not Europe, that benefits from chaos inside the vitality markets with every one other accompanied by spiking prices for energy.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The U.S. has lengthy opposed to the set of two pipelines with every one other accompanied by had repeatedly urged Germany to halt them, saying they increased Europe's vitality dependence on Russia \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-economy-baltic-sea-82d5453f9b4a20b858cb61d83cd84a7c\">and decreased its security.\u003c/a> Since the war inside Ukraine began inside February, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-germany-07245e4ceae0c0de233d426308827765\">Russia has gash spine supplies of natural gas\u003c/a> sent to Europe to hotness homes, cause power with every one other accompanied by sprint factories. European leaders have accused Putin of using "energy blackmail" to divide them inside their strong support for Ukraine.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Russia stopped gasoline flows into and not here of the 1,224-kilometer (760-mile) lengthy Nord Stream 1 earlier this month, blaming technical problems, while the side by side Nord Stream 2 pipeline had never opened.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Denmark with every one other accompanied by Sweden, meanwhile, said Friday that the explosions that rocked the Baltic Sea ahead of the enormous methane leaks from the pipelines "probably corresponded to an explosive cargo of some hundred kilos (pounds).\" \u003c/p>\u003cp>The leaks occurred inside international waters with every one other accompanied by "have caused plumes of gasoline rising to the surface," the set of two Scandinavian countries wrote inside a letter to the United Nations.\u003c/p>\u003cp>NATO has warned it would retaliate for some attacks on the critical infrastructure of its 30 subscriber countries with every one other accompanied by joined other Western officials inside citing sabotage while the probable source of damage. Denmark is a NATO member, with every one other accompanied by Sweden is inside the procedure of joining the military alliance. Both speak the pipelines were deliberately attacked.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>At the U.N., Russia is a permanent subscriber of the Security Council while neither Sweden or Denmark will exist represented at the gathering Friday while they are not members.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Integrated Carbon Observation System, a European research alliance, said "an enormous amount of methane gasoline has been released into the atmosphere" from the damaged pipelines, concerning the amount of a whole year's methane emissions for a city the dimensions of Paris or a country exist fond of Denmark.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"We assume the wind on the leak area blew the methane emissions northern to the Finnish archipelago, at that hour dated (the emissions) curve in the direction of Sweden with every one other accompanied by Norway," said Stephen Platt, a professor accompanied by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, small portion of the group.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The facts was gathered from ground-based observations inside Sweden, Norway, with every one other accompanied by Finland. Experts speak these methane levels aren't dangerous to condition health nevertheless are a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-business-baltic-sea-oil-and-gas-industry-climate-environment-6ed67266b0a6caa59fc1afceac89dd82\">potent spring of worldwide warming.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The suspected sabotage has produced set of two methane leaks off Sweden, including a large one above Nord Stream 1 with every one other accompanied by a smaller one above Nord Stream 2, with every one other accompanied by set of two leaks off Denmark.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Nord Stream 2 leak "has diminished, nevertheless is still ongoing," the Swedish seaboard retain protected from danger said, increasing its warnings for ships to remain 7 nautical miles (13 kilometers, 8 miles) from the blast areas.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Nordic seismologists recorded explosions preceding the leaks. A earliest detonation was recorded early Monday southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm. A second, stronger blast northeast of the island hit that darkness with every one other accompanied by was equivalent to a magnitude-2.3 earthquake.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Denmark with every one other accompanied by Sweden too said they were worried concerning the blasts' "possible impact on the maritime existence inside the Baltic Sea.\" \u003c/p>\u003cp>Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she would journey to London to talk over the gasoline leaks accompanied by British Prime Minister Liz Truss. She at that hour dated will journey to Brussels to lift the matter accompanied by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with every one other accompanied by European Council President Charles Michel. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The attacks on the pipelines have prompted vitality companies with every one other accompanied by European governments to thew up safety around vitality infrastructure.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The terror of further harm to Europe's vitality infrastructure has added pressure on natural gasoline prices, which are by that hour dated high with every one other accompanied by have caused widespread monetary suffering across the continent.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Authorities inside Norway, a greatest lubricant with every one other accompanied by gasoline producer, have reported at least sextet drone sightings near offshore installations inside the North Sea, prompting the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to "urge increased vigilance.\" Danish paper casual set in print Ekstra Bladet said a 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