Russia-Ukraine war latest updates – The Washington Post
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed documents Wednesday for the illegal annexation of four regions of Ukraine, though the exact borders of the attempted land grab remain unclear. Despite the move, a breach of international law, Ukrainian forces were making a “fast and powerful advance” in the country’s south and liberating “dozens of settlements” from Russian control, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
In remarks Wednesday, Putin called for steps to Russianize education in illegally annexed parts of Ukraine. “It is necessary to prevent a situation where the teaching of history is distorted; it is necessary to pass on the moral and cultural code of the Russian people to children,” he said, noting that Moscow would begin imposing Russian textbooks.
In Vienna, the OPEC Plus group of oil-producing nations, which includes Russia and Saudi Arabia, announced Wednesday it would slash oil production by 2 million barrels per day, in a rebuke to President Biden that could push up gas prices worldwide and worsen the risk of a global recession, The Washington Post reported.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.