Russia-Ukraine war latest updates – The Washington Post
North Korea’s foreign ministry on Friday denied providing weapons to Russia, following a Japanese newspaper report that North Korea had shipped munitions to Russia, and recent White House claims that North Korea has been covertly supplying Russia with artillery rounds.
Pyongyang said that no “arms transaction” between North Korea and Russia had ever happened, calling it a “groundless theory” by Japanese media. The White House has accused North Korea of secretly transferring artillery shells to aid Russia, and of making a separate sale and delivery of missiles to Russia’s Wagner group for use in Ukraine. “We can confirm that North Korea has completed an initial arms delivery to Wagner, which paid for the equipment,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Thursday.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
3. From our correspondents
The price of fuel has increased dramatically since Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion, leading to rising bills for consumers — and some of the most vulnerable are turning of their heating completely.
For others, the decision to keep the temperatures down at home is a point of pride: to ensure that Europe doesn’t face fuel shortages this winter, or to symbolically stick it to Russian President Vladimir Putin.