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☆ Russia Gives Ukraine Nuclear Plant Workers Ultimatum to Pick a Side
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Drew Hinshaw | Joe Parkinson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainian technicians working to ensure the safe operation of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant have been told by occupation authorities that they have until Thursday to choose sides in the escalating struggle for control of the reactor complex. Senior officials of Russia’s Rosatom said Ukrainian staff who sign up as employees of Moscow’s atomic-energy company would keep their jobs and could be offered Russian passports, according to plant workers, Ukrainian officials and diplomats posted to the United Nations’ nuclear agency.

☆ Russian Borders Swamped as Putin’s Draft Order Sparks Exodus
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Drew Hinshaw | Kate Vtorygina | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DARIALI, Georgia—On a narrow road high in the Caucasus Mountains, thousands of cars packed with young men have waited three days to inch through a six-mile traffic jam to the Russian frontier, their passengers running low on food and water. North of the Arctic Circle, a sleepy Norwegian border post has been swamped with five times its normal traffic, as potential Russian conscripts trek hundreds of miles to one of the last remaining entry points into Europe. Tens of thousands more cars wait snarled up at border posts along the Mongolian steppe.

☆ NATO Formally Blames Sabotage for Nord Stream Pipeline Damage
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Drew Hinshaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NATO said that a series of leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Europe were the result of acts of sabotage that would be met with a collective response from the military alliance. The statement, from the North Atlantic Council, the decision making body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, didn’t provide details or evidence. But it marks the first time the alliance has formally warned of a military response following the now four documented leaks in the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.

LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - HSBC will undertake a review of whether to keep its global headquarters in London's Canary Wharf financial district, according to a memo sent to staff and seen by Reuters on Thursday. The bank said it had decided to undertake a review "of the best future location in London" ahead of its lease expiring at the 45-floor tower at 8 Canada Square in early 2027. The bank said the review would include the option of staying and renovating the tower, adding it would keep its global headquarters in London. HSBC has occupied 8 Canada Square - which is one of the tallest buildings in Canary Wharf and bears the bank's name - since 2002. It has been home to up to around 8,000 HSBC employees, some of whom refer to it as the 'Tower of Doom'.

☆ Russia’s EU Neighbors Won’t Welcome Conscripts Fleeing Mobilization for Ukraine War
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Drew Hinshaw | Laurence Norman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BERLIN—Russians hoping to flee President Vladimir Putin’s mass mobilization of civilians are facing a cold shoulder from the country’s European Union neighbors, who say they won’t roll out the welcome mat. Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which all share land borders with Russia, have swiftly and collectively ruled out expanding their asylum categories to allow Russians fleeing mobilization to enter their territory. Officials from Poland and the Baltic states said in interviews they wouldn’t compromise their internal security by extending that welcome to the vast number of Russians who could potentially qualify. Those governments also hold little sympathy for Russian citizens who can’t demonstrate a longstanding opposition to their country’s incursions into Georgia, Crimea and other military interventions.

☆ EU Squeezes Hungary Funding While Seeking Its Backing Against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Drew Hinshaw | Laurence Norman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the EU’s longest-serving head of government, has been locked in a range of yearslong escalating disputes with Brussels. The European Union ramped up financial pressure on Hungary’s nationalist prime minister just as it needs his support to extend sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The European Commission on Sunday proposed freezing €7.5 billion, equivalent to $7.51 billion, in EU payments for Hungary. It said the country’s weak democratic institutions could no longer safeguard those funds from corruption, deepening a conflict between Brussels and a government the EU’s parliament claimed last week was an “electoral autocracy.”

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