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The former energy minister was suspended amid an investigation into alleged corruption in the sector
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Ukraine\u2019s government suspended its justice minister<\/a> on Wednesday, amid an investigation into corruption in the energy sector<\/a>.
Prime minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said the decision to suspend<\/a> German Galushchenko was taken after an \u201cextraordinary session of the government\u201d.
Galushchenko, who previously served as energy minister, was the subject of investigative actions, his ministry said on Tuesday, without specifying whether this was in relation to the energy corruption case.
Anti-corruption agencies are stepping up an investigation into a $100 million kickback and money-laundering scheme<\/a>, implicating senior officials.
Galushchenko said on Wednesday that he agreed that a suspension pending investigation was the \u201ccivilised and correct scenario\u201d, adding that he would \u201cdefend myself in the legal arena and prove my position\u201d.
Ukraine\u2019s anti-corruption bureau NABU<\/a> said yesterday it had also implicated a former deputy prime minister, identified by the nickname \u2018Che Guevara\u2019.
The Kremlin, meanwhile, indicated on Wednesday that it was ready to resume talks with Kyiv in Istanbul towards ending the war.
Alexei Polishchuk, head of the Second CIS Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told TASS the \u201cball is in Ukraine\u2019s court\u201d, asserting that the Russian side was \u201cready\u201d to pick up negotiations.
Ukrainian forces have pulled back from several positions in the southern Zaporizhzhia region amid heavy fighting, a military spokesperson said.
The retreat marks another shift in the front line as Russian troops push forward in south-eastern Ukraine.
Vladyslav Voloshyn, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Southern Defense Forces, told public broadcaster Suspilne that troops had \u201ccompletely withdrawn\u201d from the villages of Uspenivka and Novomykolaivka.
\u201cVery fierce fighting continues for Yablukove and several other locations,\u201d he said.
\u201cThe defensive operation is ongoing, and the contact line remains dynamic.\u201d
Russia’s defence ministry has said that its forces had pushed Ukrainian troops out of Sukhyi Yar, a small settlement south of the embattled cities of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad.
Reuters reported the development but could not independently verify the battlefield report.
Russian air defences destroyed 22 Ukrainian drones overnight, the RIA news agency reported on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s government has suspended Justice Minister German Galushchenko amid an investigation into corruption in the energy sector.
Galushchenko, who had previously served as energy minister, was the subject of investigative actions, his ministry said on Tuesday.
It did not specify whether this was in relation to the energy corruption case investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).
Australia\u2019s highest court blocked Russia from building a new embassy in its capital on Wednesday, upholding a law that cancelled its lease on national security grounds.
Russia intended to build a new embassy building some 300 metres from Parliament House in Canberra, replacing an older building elsewhere in the capital.
Moscow had challenged a 2023 law that cancelled the lease following \u201cvery clear security advise as to the risk presented by a new Russian presence so close to Parliament House\u201d. Russia argued that parliament was not constitutionally authorised to pass such a law.
But on Wednesday, the court ruled unanimously that the Home Affairs Act 2023 validly invoked parliament\u2019s constitutional power to seize land on \u201cjust terms\u201d, though said Moscow could be compensated.
Moscow is ready to resume negotiations with Kyiv in Istanbul, a Russian foreign ministry official said.
“The Russian team is ready for this; the ball is in Ukraine’s court,\u201d Alexei Polishchuk told the TASS news agency on Wednesday, accusing Kyiv of stalling.
No face-to-face talks have taken place between the two sides since they met in the Turkish city on July 23.
Romania must take control over the Romanian local company of Russia’s Lukoil to ensure the national energy system is stable, international sanctions are enforced and jobs are protected, energy minister Bogdan Ivan said.
Lukoil has 320 petrol stations in Romania, operates the country’s third largest refinery and holds offshore exploration rights in a section of the Black Sea. Ivan did not elaborate which assets the state must take control over or how.
Lukoil, along with Rosneft, was targeted by US sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine. Those sanctions are to take effect on 21 November and Ivan said Romania would not seek an extension.
“I will say it clearly: I will not request an extension of the 21 November deadline given by US authorities,” Ivan said in a Facebook post late last night. “Moreover, I will support fully applying sanctions initiated by the United States at the level of the entire European Union.”
Lukoil’s Petrotel refinery accounts for about a quarter of the Romanian fuels market. Former energy ministers have said the country’s national fuel stocks could make up for any missing supplies until new sources were found.
Britain plans to ban companies from providing services such as shipping and insurance for Russian liquefied natural gas exports, in its latest attempt to help Ukraine in its war against Russia by trying to choke off Kremlin revenue.
In October, the European Union approved new sanctions against Russia that ban Russian LNG imports from 1 January 2027, and Britain and the US targeted Russia’s two largest oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft.
The UK government said yesterday it wanted to go further, by cutting off Russian access to companies that provide services for LNG exports.
“The ban will be phased in over 2026 in lockstep with our European partners,” Britain’s foreign office said in a statement ahead of a Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Canada.
Britain also announced \u00a313m ($17.5m) of funding to help repair Ukraine’s energy sector and deliver support to Ukrainians worst-hit by the loss of heating and power.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian and British spies to tempt Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile for $3m , state media reported.
The RIA news agency cited the FSB as saying that the hijacked jet was to be flown toward a Nato air base in the Romanian city of Constanta, where it could have been shot down by air defences, the agency reported.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said Ukraine and Britain had planned a large-scale “provocation” using the hijacked aircraft, and that Ukrainian military intelligence had sought to recruit Russian pilots for $3m to steal the fighter.
“The measures taken have thwarted the Ukrainian and British intelligence services plans for a large-scale provocation,” RIA cited the FSB as saying.
State TV showed pictures of messages and recordings of a man who they said was working for Ukrainian and British intelligence and had offered $3m to a Russian pilot to fly a MiG to Europe and that the pilot had also been offered citizenship.
Russia\u2019s Kinzhal is an air-launched ballistic missile that Moscow calls hypersonic, capable of very high speeds and manoeuvring flight paths intended to make it difficult for air defences to track and intercept.
Russia imposed entry bans on 30 Japanese individuals, including a foreign ministry official, in response to sanctions introduced by Tokyo as part of moves to denounce Moscow’s actions in its more than three-year-old war in Ukraine.
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a list of affected Japanese nationals, which included several journalists and academics. It described the prohibition as “indefinite.”
Included among those barred was Japanese foreign ministry press official Toshihiro Kitamura.
The Japanese government in September placed sanctions on Russian companies, individuals and several other entities.
Japan also lowered its cap on Russian seaborne crude, following similar moves from Western countries.
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