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current circumstances, any sanctions affecting Russia’s energy sector have not been included into the ninth package of sanctions. And we have also managed not to include nuclear power to the sanctions package,” he said.
EU energy ministers have failed to agree on a gas price limit at a meeting in Brussels, Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto said on December 13. “There was a big discussion at the energy council, no agreement could be reached at the plenary session, so the continuation takes place bilaterally. Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Sikela is chairing, I can only say to him too that the gas price limit is a bad idea,” he said. Sikela said earlier in the day that the EU may postpone a decision on a gas price limit to December 19, if no agreement is struck at a meeting of the energy ministers. European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson said that the opinions and reservations among the EU states differed vastly on the issue, and the discussion would not be easy. On November 22, the European Commission suggested setting the upper limit of the price of monthly gas futures under the TTF index at €275 per MWh. The Financial Times reported that after postponing the decision, the EU states were considering reducing the limit to €220 per MWh.
Ukraine launches production of 152-mm, 122-mm projectiles. Ukraine has launched the production of 152-millimetre and 122-millimetre artillery shells as the stocks of Soviet ammunition are running out, Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the National Security and defence Council, said on Dec. 13.
UK to train 90 Ukrainian judges for war crime trials against Russian soldiers. The first group of judges started training on Dec. 5. They are attending sessions in a secret location, according to a report by Sky News.
Polish parliament recognizes Russia as sponsor of terrorism, says that Kremlin is responsible for ex-president's death. Previously the Sejm had failed to recognize Russia as a sponsor of terrorism because the opposition did not support an amendment by the ruling Law and Justice party saying that Russia was “directly responsible” for the 2010 plane crash in Russia's Smolensk Oblast that killed then Polish President Lech Kaczyński and 95 people onboard. However, on December 14 the Sejm adopted both the resolution and the amendment on the plane crash.
Czech Republic recognizes Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainian people. On Dec. 14, the Czech Parliament recognized Holodomor, the man-made famine of Ukrainians ordered by the Soviet authorities, which killed millions in 1932-1933, as genocide of the Ukrainian people. President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the decision of the Czech Senate: "I am grateful to my Czech friends for affirming the truth and restoring historical justice. Punishment for all past and present crimes of Russia is inevitable," he said in a tweet.
Ukraine’s Rada approved an agreement allowing to launch Bayraktar production in Ukraine. Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has ratified the agreement on Turkey-Ukraine cooperation in the field of high technologies, aviation, and space industries, the Member of Parliament Oleksii Honcharenko said on Dec. 13. The document will allow the construction of a factory in Ukraine to produce Turkish Bayraktar drones.
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