We will return soon with more updates on Ukraine.

Before we go, here’s a look at what happened in the last 24 hours:

In news similar to the update of our previous article, oil exports through a primary Russian port seem to have been stopped, supporting kyiv’s claims of a successful attack at a pumping station.

Bloomberg cited a person with knowledge of the deliveries as saying that oil flows at Ust-Luga fell to zero on Wednesday.

The outlet added that shipping data it had seen showed a tanker left early on that day, but that there was a gap in vessel signals following that.

He said there’s no explanation why it was provided for the obvious decrease, and that there would possibly be regulations where ships aren’t at fault anyway.

If it were confirmed that Ukrainian drone strikes had damaged the pipeline system feeding Ust-Luga – causing a lengthy pause to shipments – it could cause a significant supply threat to the global oil market.

On Wednesday, he followed Ukraine that his drones had hit Andreapol’s pumping station in Russia in the Baltic Pipeline System-2, which feeds UST Luga, which leads to activities.

The Russian pipeline operator has to comment on the reports.

The gas price cap introduced by the EU during its 2022 Russian gas crisis will expire today, signalling the worst of Europe’s energy crisis is over. 

The roof was not activated, however, it would have been implemented if the fuel charges had reached the unusually higher titles, while the energy load is firing, Russia cut the fuel materials after having invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

The cap was designed to kick in if European gas prices hit 180 euros per megawatt hour – a level the benchmark EU price has not reached since the depths of Europe’s energy crisis in 2022, when it surpassed 300 euros/MWh.

On a website, the commission said that the value value had not been activated and did not want to expand, “thanks to points such as the decrease in structural demand, reliable LNG and import imports of reliable partners, and import infrastructure forwards”.

“Fortunately, we never returned to the stage where we can know whether the effective or not,” said an EU diplomat.

A little more now about the news, before Russia, claiming to have captured the Ukrainian village of Novovasylivka (see 9. 53 post).

The town is about 11 kilometers (seven miles) southwest of Pokrovsk, a key city in which Russia would lock down after months of effort.  

While Sky News may not independently determine Russia’s claim to have taken the village, Battlefield Maps released early today via Ukrainian general staff reported that at least in components under Russian control.  

Russia has continued a relentless crusade to take the eastern region of Donetsk.  

More main points have also emerged in the reports of the Russian forces that are closest to the key city of Pokrovsk (see 9. 51 post).

Ukraine declared that the troops had led to 71 Russian army attacks to Pokrovsk in the last 24 hours, which means that almost part of Russia’s attacks along 1000 kilometers (600 miles) took its position around Pokrovsk.

A Russian army command post in the Kursk region has been hit by missile and artillery forces, Ukrainian military has said.

Moscow’s forces have been seeking to counter a Ukrainian incursion into the region since Aug. 6, when Kyiv staged a wonderful offensive on the border with Russia.

The Kremlin has rejected a risk of Donald Trump to impose price lists on the BRICS organization of countries if he created his own currency.

Trump warned BRICS member countries to upgrade the U. S. dollar as a reserve currency by repeating a 100 percent risk from the price lists he had made after winning the November presidential election.

But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Brics, whose Russia is a member, spoke of establishing his own currency, but only to create joint investment platforms.

“This is not the first time Trump has made such statements, it is not new,” he said.

“There were statements like this before, when only he only the president -elect.

The fact is that the BRICS talk about creating a non-unusual currency, and they never have. The BRICS talk about creating new joint investment platforms that would allow joint investments in third countries, mutual investments, etc.

And in what can be considered as a slightly veiled ridiculous of Trump’s reach of foreign affairs, he added: “With all probability, the American mavens will probably have to probably have the BRICs table of the BRICs in more detail to Mr. Trump. ” “

The Kremlin in December said any US attempt to compel countries to use the dollar would backfire, after Trump made the same threat against BRICS.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban has threatened not to approve the next round of sanctions against Russia if Brussels doesn’t help get the flow of Russian gas through Ukraine restored.

“That Ukraine is not willing to let Russian gas through its territory so that it can reach Central Europe, and with this it raises the price of gas … this is unacceptable,” the far-right prime minister said on state radio.

The transit of Russian gas to central Europe via Ukraine was halted on 1 January. 

Gas exports were halted when a public shipping agreement expired and Kyiv refused to negotiate a new one. It is repelling Russia’s “special army operation”, which has been overshooting it since February 24, 2022.

A key to the declaration on the war in Ukraine during the beyond a few months has been the clients of a possible peace agreement following the election of Donald Trump.  

Although the new president of the United States, as advised, did not end the clash in the “first day” of his return to the White House, it has been widely recommended that his leadership will particularly adjust his dynamic, even if only through a very Extensive curtain removal for kyiv.

In turn, beyond a few weeks they have noticed a Moscow signaling wave about the Kremlin position on negotiations.

In this sense, an interview published through the Russian state news firm Tass with Fyodor Lukyanov, director of Studies of Valdai Discussion Club, a foreign forum where Russian and foreign academics meet to talk about global issues.

Lukyanov has continuously moderated Putin’s annual address to Valdai and is a well-connected voice and authority on the Kremlin’s goals, according to the first group of images reflected, the Institute for the Study of War.

Do not have Big Deals is the name of the interview, which highlights the continuous efforts of the Kremlin to shape national and global expectations for long -term negotiations between Putin and Trump.

“Tass’s resolution to take the merit of Lukyanov’s interview to mitigate national speculation on the option of a long -term peace agreement also highlights the relevance of this interview and Lukyanov’s statements when considering the imaginable negotiation positions of Russia against Vis Ukraine and the United States, the United States, “according to ISW analysts.

Lukyanov says in the interview that the “main” for long -term peace negotiations related to Ukraine is not “the territories”, however, the opposite combat to the “root causes” of the war, which Lukyanov explained how the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe in Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Arguing that Ukrainian lands are currently through Russian forces, he said that “with the territories, everything is clear: how much is yours,” suggesting that ISW gives a further indication that the Kremlin has no goal of committing its territorial gains in Ukraine in Ukraine. Ukraine in Ukraine in Ukraine in Ukraine in Ukraine in Ukraine in Ukraine in the long-term peace negotiations.

“This publication suggests that Kremlin probably means that long -term peace negotiations with Trump began with the United States that detect the territorial statements of Russia to Ukraine, adding more spaces that Russia does not recently occupy, before the real negotiations can begin to concentrate on those that concentrate on those in addition, the ‘root causes’ well covered, “analysts say.

Lukyanov claims that Russia’s main request for long-term peace negotiations with Trump is “a replacement in the security landscape in Eastern Europe” and “the abandonment [of] a certain number of provisions on which ‘NATO lifestyles and functioning’ are founded,” adding that Russia may also need to talk about the option of “cutting off the [NATO] army’s point of presence. “

As noted by ISW, Putin issued a series of demands to the United States in December 2021 ahead of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, adding that NATO is dedicated not to settling for Ukraine or any other country as new members, as well as other measures that would restrict NATO’s activities in the region.

“Lukyanov’s statements assume that Trump and his management are weak and most likely they are intimidated through Kremlin force exhibitions that former management [President Joe] Biden,” ISW analysts said.

Lukyanov writes that Trump needs to “pour all other problems” regarding Ukraine into Europe and “respects” European states or NATO more broadly.

He suggests that Trump will abandon Ukraine and NATO.

“Trump only respects those who show steadfastness,” Lukyanov says, while calling on the Kremlin to “never give in” and “to be prepared for a fairly tough conversation, even including elements of [a] bluff.”

ISW concludes: “Lukyanov’s interview supports the Kremlin’s ongoing efforts to force Trump into acquiescing to Putin’s demands that amount to Ukraine’s full capitulation and the weakening of NATO and Putin’s personal efforts to position himself as Trump’s equal on the international stage.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has condemned a Russian drone attack in Sumy which killed nine people when a multi-storey apartment block was hit.

A total of 13 people, including a child, were injured when the building was struck.

“Hex according to the time, we receive updates to In Sumy.  

“Work at the site of the impact of a Russian ‘Shahed’ (drone) are proceeding,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Thursday.

“This has a characteristic of Russian movements: destroying the lives of many families in an entire building.  

“All these movements want a reaction from the world,” he said.

“Terror is unpunished. “