Danish Energy Agency: “Stable pressure” appears to have been achieved on Nord Stream pipelines From CNN’s Chris Liakos “Stable pressure” appears to have been achieved on the Nord Stream pipelines, indicating the gas outflow from the leaks has now stopped, the Danish Energy Agency said Sunday. “The Nord Stream AG company has informed the Danish Energy Agency that a stable pressure now appears to have been achieved on the two Nord Stream 1 pipelines,” the agency said on Twitter, indicating that the gas leakage had now ended. The Danish agency on Saturday had already said on Twitter that “stable pressure” had also appeared to have been achieved on Nord Stream 2. Earlier this week, four leaks were discovered on the Nord Stream pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea. Th

Kyiv lays out $750bn ‘recovery plan’Reconstructing Ukraine is expected to cost $750bn, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said, adding that seized Russian assets should be used pay for the recovery.President Vladimir Putin congratulates Russian troops on “liberating” the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk.Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia will respond in kind to Bulgaria’s expulsion of 70 Russian diplomatsLuhansk governor says Russia will shift the focus of its war in Ukraine to trying to seize all of the Donetsk region after capturing LuhanskUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledges to retake lost territory, including the city of Lysychansk after Russia claimed full control of the Luhansk region.

Macron tells France to prepare for Russia to cut off natural gas.French President Emmanuel Macron warned his country's people to prepare for a total cutoff of Russian natural gas by supporting alternatives, having public lights switched off at night and engaging in a period of nationwide energy "sobriety."The Russian invasion of Ukraine and ensuing sanctions have aggravated other factors driving up prices for energy and others goods. With no end in sight for the Ukraine war, Macron said, the French should brace themselves for costs to remain high."This war will continue," he said in a televised interview marking France's national holiday, Bastille Day. "The summer, early autumn will be very hard.""Russia is using energy, like it is using food, as a weapon of war," Macron said. "We should p

NATO says Russia poses a "strategic challenge" in the ArcticFrom CNN’s Paula Newton in Ottawa.NATO’s secretary general called his trip to Canada’s high north "historic" and promised a new era of Arctic defense as the risk of military conflict in the region increases. “NATO’s new strategic concept identifies Russia’s capabilities in the high north as a strategic challenge for the whole alliance. Russia has set up a new Arctic command, it has opened hundreds of new and former Soviet-era Arctic military sites, including airfields and deep water ports. Russia is also using the region as a test-bed for many of its new and novel weapons systems,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a news conference in Cold Lake, Alberta, alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The secr

U.K. announces nearly $47 million in vital food and water to West Africa amid Ukraine food crisis.The British government said that it would provide nearly $47 million in humanitarian funding across Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Nigeria and Niger as Russia's war in Ukraine further exacerbates food shortages."Growing instability and violent extremism across the region and the war on Ukraine have exacerbated existing issues with food insecurity and malnutrition," the British government wrote in a statement."As things stand, there will be close to 20 million people across the region in need of humanitarian aid by the end of the year," the statement added.The U.K. said that a significant portion of the money will focus on feeding malnourished women and children in the region.— Amanda Macias

Germany delivered more heavy weapons to Ukraine, defense minister saysFrom Inke Kapeller in Berlin, Olga Voitovych in Kyiv and CNN’s Vasco Cotovio in LondonGermany has delivered three MARS2 multiple launch rocket systems launchers from its army stocks, as well as five Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and three self-propelled howitzer 2000 to Ukraine, the German Minister of Defense Christine Lambrecht said on Tuesday.“The promised MARS2 multiple rocket launchers and another three self-propelled howitzer 2000 have been delivered. We keep our word,” Lambrecht said.The Ukrainian President’s Chief of Staff, Andriy Yermak, acknowledged the receipt of the weapons and said they would be deployed to the frontlines. “MLRS Mars II have already been transferred to Ukraine by our German allies.

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Russian energy giant Gazprom will halt gas supplies to Dutch gas trader GasTerra starting TuesdayFrom CNN’s Anna Chernova Russian state energy giant Gazprom confirmed Monday that it will cut off natural gas supply to Dutch gas trading firm GasTerra starting Tuesday, May 31. “Gazprom Export has notified GasTerra of the suspension of gas supplies from May 31, 2022 until payment is made in accordance with the procedure established by the aforementioned Decree,” a statement on Gazprom’s Telegram channel read, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree stating gas payments should be made in rubles. On Monday, Danish energy company Ørsted and Dutch gas trading firm GasTerra warned Russia could turn off the taps as soon as Tuesday because they had refused to make payments in rubles —

Russia should look in the mirror if Finland joins NATO, president says.Russia should look in the mirror if Finland decides to join NATO to bolster its own security, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said Wednesday.Speaking at a news conference after he signed a mutual defense cooperation pact with Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Niinistö said his country, along with Sweden, had not aligned with either NATO or Russia “from our own will.”By stating that Finland and Sweden could not join the alliance, Russia was “saying that ‘you don’t have your own will here,’ and that is a huge change,” Niinistö said. “That made us think.”Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “showed they are ready to attack a neighboring country,” he added.Niinistö said that if Finland does join NATO and Russia asks why, his

Russia-Ukraine war: U.S. says Putin ‘failing’ to reach war goals, looks for Moscow to be weakened militarilyThe comments from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin came after their secretive trip to Kyiv, the highest-level American visit since Russia invaded.The United States will deliver more military aid and return a diplomatic presence to Ukraine in a show of support as the war enters a new phase at the start of its third month.The pledges, which came as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made a secretive trip to Kyiv, will seek to bolster faith in Ukraine’s defenses as Russia launches its new offensive in the country’s south and east.Speaking after they met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others in the

Ukrainians say Russians are making no progress in Donetsk offensive From CNN's Tim ListerThe Ukrainian military says the situation in the eastern Donetsk region is virtually unchanged, despite weeks of efforts by Russian forces and their allies in the Donbas militias to take new territory.Russian President Vladimir Putin's declared objective is to take all of the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, but Ukrainian forces still control more than one-third of Donetsk.The Ukrainian military's General Staff said Thursday that once again the Russians had tried to attack in several directions, towards the city of Sloviansk and the towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka.In each instance, the General Staff said, Russian forces had been unsuccessful and had withdrawn.It spoke of heavy attacks with tanks, artiller

Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv rocked by missile strikes as UN chief visits Ukraine capital. Ukraine’s foreign minister has responded to the strikes in Kyiv, calling the attack a “heinous act of barbarism”.Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, called the Russian missile strikes in Kyiv a “heinous act of barbarism” in a tweet Thursday.“Russia [struck] Kyiv with cruise missiles right when UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Bulgarian PM Kiril Petkov visit our capital. By this heinous act of barbarism Russia demonstrates once again its attitude towards Ukraine, Europe and the world,” he said.https://amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/apr/28/russia-ukraine-war-putin-warns-of-lightning-fast-retaliation-if-west-intervenes-war-has-cost-ukraine-600bn-zelenskiy-says-live

Blinken slams Russian claims that sanctions have caused mounting food crisis.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken slammed Russian claims that U.S. sanctions, rather than Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, triggered the worsening global food crisis."Sanctions aren't blocking Black Sea ports, trapping ships filled with food, and destroying Ukrainian roads and railways; Russia is. Sanctions are not emptying Ukrainian grain silos and stealing Ukrainian farm equipment; Russia is," Blinken said before the United Nations Security Council."Sanctions aren't preventing Russia from exporting food and fertilizer," he said. He added that Moscow has chosen to weaponize these commodities.Blinken added that the sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies have deliberately included "exceptions for f

U.S. says Iran is set to supply Russia with drones.U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan said Iran is preparing to provide Russia with hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles.He said there are signs Iran is planning to train Russian forces to use these drones, which could begin as early as this month.Sullivan said the information illustrates the kind of costs Russia has had to endure on the battlefield and how Moscow could turn to countries like Iran for support.The U.S. will continue to work with Ukraine on a strategy that "achieves their objectives both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table," he said.Sullivan made his comments ahead of President Joe Biden's trip to the Middle East, where he is expected to discuss a number of security issues, including a regional policy towa

Zelensky spoke to the UN. Here are the main points he made.He outlines five preconditions for peace during his speech:Punishment for aggression Protection of life Restoration of security and territorial integrity Security guarantees Determination to defend oneself Here are the key lines from Zelensky's remarks:The Ukrainian president called for Russia to be punished: "A crime has been committed against Ukraine and we demand just punishment. The crime was committed against our state borders. The crime was committed against the lives of our people," Zelensky said. "Ukraine demands punishment for trying to steal our territory" and for the murder of thousands of people.Zelensky said the entire world wants peace, with the exception of Russia: "Ukraine wants peace, Europe wants peace, the world

Putin is trapped and desperate. Will his friends in the west rescue him?Simon Tisdall‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” So wrote American author Henry David Thoreau in 1854. It’s a fate that is rapidly overtaking Vladimir Putin as he struggles to escape the disastrous trap he set for himself in Ukraine.Russia’s president keeps understandably schtum about his “special military operation”. But indefinite stalemate is not what he expected. He didn’t expect car bombs in Moscow and humiliating attacks on fortress Crimea, either.Least of all did Putin anticipate 80,000 Russian soldiers dead or wounded. Dying with them is his Peter the Great pipe dream of a “greater Russia”. Extinct already is his reputation as anything other than a killer and a crook.An endless military quagmire

Two vessels carrying more than 58,000 metric tons of agricultural products approved to leave Ukraine.The organization overseeing the export of agricultural products from Ukraine said it approved two vessels carrying grains and other crops to leave Ukrainian ports.The vessels are carrying a total of 58,750 metric tons of grain and food products under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.So far, the Joint Coordination Center, or JCC, has approved the departure of more than 30 ships from Ukrainian ports.— Amanda Macias

Anti-mobilization protests in Russia continue, many arrested: Reports.Protests against Russia's "partial mobilization" drive are taking place around the country, with reports and videos on social media of clashes between people and police in the Russian republic of Dagestan.At least 100 people there have been arrested in the regional capital of Makhachkala, according to OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights group. CNBC has not been able to independently verify the numbers.Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim region in the mountainous Russian Caucasus, and is overwhelmingly poor. The province has suffered the highest death toll among its troops sent to fight in Ukraine than any other Russian province, the BBC reported.At least 2,000 people have been arrested in anti-mobilization prote

Canada's agreed delivery of gas turbine to Germany thwarted Putin's strategy to divide West, leaders sayFrom CNN’s Inke Kappeler in BerlinRussia's efforts to weaponize energy policy have backfired as Canada agreed to deliver a key gas turbine set for use in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that supplies natural gas to Germany, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday."This was an important decision because it exposed (Russian President) Putin's strategy, which is aimed at dividing allies, which is aimed at affecting support for Ukraine, and if we stick together, then we can exclude exactly that,“ German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday.“Russia is no longer a reliable busin

Russian economy to shrink 15% this year, finance group saysHard hit by sanctions since the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Russia's economy will shrink by 15% this year and another 3% in 2023, wiping out 15 years of economic gains, according to the Institute of International Finance, a global banking trade group.The resilience of the ruble — Russia's currency — has partially shielded its economy from the full impact of sanctions. Propping up the ruble are strong oil and natural gas sales and the Russian central bank, which has raised interest rates and imposed capital controls to keep money from fleeing the country.President Vladimir Putin said this week that unemployment and inflation are decreasing, backing up his frequent claims that Russia is succeeding despite Western sanctions.Still, th