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Russian state media proudly reports that the first (!) traffic light has turned on in Mariupol.

Before Russian attack, hundreds of traffic lights worked in the city. Only in 2020 the city authorities installed 128 modern traffic lights from Austria. pic.twitter.com/rKxpZAimA2

— Денис Казанський (@den_kazansky) August 24, 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Wednesday that France faced "sacrifices" in a new era marked by climate change and instability caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine that signalled "the end of abundance".
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— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2023) August 24, 2022

President Erdogan says that Russia is required by international law to leave Crimea and give it back to Ukraine.

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 23, 2022

Millions of households in Britain must be ready for the “short-term pain” of high energy bills so Vladimir Putin is defeated in Ukraine and future threats from Russia and China are defused, a minister warned on Wednesday.
Armed forces minister James Heappey admitted that a “really expensive winter lies ahead” for many families in the UK and stressed the new Prime Minister’s “first priority” would be a bigger support package.
But he stressed that bowing to Mr Putin’s aggression, including his cutting back on the gas flow to Europe, would ultimately be “catastrophic” for the West’s security.
It would lead to the world becoming in future decades “really uncomfortable, really dangerous and really expensive”.
Households across Britain are seeing their energy bills sky-rocket, as the price of gas has soared following the Russian president’s invasion of Ukraine six months ago.
Regulator Ofgem will set the energy cap on Friday, and it is expected to jump from £1,971 to more than £3,500 in October, and possibly rising even above £5,800 in April.
The spiralling energy bills are fuelling inflation with forecasts that it could hit as high as 18.6 per cent in January.
Speaking on Sky News, Mr Heappey said: “I can understand why lots of people eating their breakfast and worrying about the cost of living will be agreeing...that arguably the most straightforward solution to the cost-of-living crisis is that we re-establish relations with Russia and everything goes back to the way that it was in the European energy market.”
But he stressed: “Every single thing that I have seen in the last six months tells me that that would be catastrophic for security in the Euro-Atlantic...not on some ten or 15 or 20 year horizon.”
“But within just a few years, we would find ourselves in a situation where an emboldened Russia was causing cost-of-living challenges that are a hundred times worse than what we are seeing right now because they might seek to expand their ambitions beyond Ukraine and into Nato territory in the Baltics for example.”
On Ukraine Independence Day, he added: “We have to stand up for Ukraine, with Ukraine, so that this all ends on Zelensky’s terms because if we do not, whatever the short-term pain and cost might be, we set the conditions for security in the Euro-Atlantic, and by the way an emboldened President Xi in the South China Sea, to make the next 20 years on this planet really uncomfortable, really dangerous and really expensive.”