Oil rocker. File photoHOUSTON (USA), March 10Ghana sees the current crisis in the global oil energy market in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and calls on the parties to resolve differences for the benefit of the industry, African Energy Minister Matthew Opoku told RIA Novosti Prempe.
"I would like to have a forecast about when the volatility in the oil market will end, but the current global oil crisis is provoked only by a lack of understanding between Russia and Ukraine. Obviously, apart from that, nothing has changed — it's all about this crisis. Therefore, we hope that the parties will be able to find a solution to give us a world that will allow us to do our job", Prempe said on the sidelines of the CERAWeek international energy conference in Houston.
Speaking about the development of bilateral cooperation between the Russian Federation and Ghana in the energy sector, the minister mentioned that Russian companies are already investing in hydrocarbon production in his country. water, we will welcome their investment,» Prempe said.The expert said what would happen to the economy with oil at $300 per barrel. According to him, Russia «has supported the industrialization of Ghana for years.» «In fact, it was the Russian company that found the first oil in Ghana. Therefore, they are part of this process,» the minister concluded. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president stressed. As of March 8, more than 2,500 military infrastructure facilities were destroyed, as well as 897 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 95 multiple launch rocket systems, 84 drones, and so on.
Morales: The US is looking for an opportunity to seize the resources of UkraineThe territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants has been taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, and work is underway to restore water supply to the Crimea. The offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west, the RF Armed Forces have achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates, however, has not yet been officially published. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, as of March 2, 498 Russian servicemen were killed and 1,597 wounded during the operation. Among the Ukrainian side, according to the Russian military department, the losses are many times higher: more than 2870 killed and about 3700 wounded. These statistics take into account, among other things, losses in the territories of the DPR and LPR, which, according to UNHCHR estimates, account for 24 dead and 112 injured. Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages in Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is emerging. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lays responsibility for this on the Kiev authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, in some cases, according to the military department, holding civilians as human shields.
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