Gas.<\/strong> Romania
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Ukraine.<\/strong>
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Refugees.<\/strong> According to the Border Police, almost 9,000 Ukrainians entered
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Handball.
A roundup of local and international news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":105208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[28918,29572,29237],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-106235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-energy","tag-handball","tag-refugees"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nhas 2.801 billion cubic metres of gas in storage, amounting to a filling level
\nof 90.9% of its entire storage capacity, said the national operator Transgaz.
\nThe 80% minimum mandatory level of gas in storage facilities established under
\na European Commission regulation was reached by Romania on 17th
\nSeptember. The president of the European Commission Ursula
\nvon der Leyen said in September that the European Union’s joint storage levels
\nwere at 84%. Our friends in the Baltics have worked hard to end their
\ndependency on Russia. They have invested in renewable energy, in LNG terminals,
\nand in interconnectors. This costs a lot. But dependency on Russian fossil
\nfuels comes at a much higher price. We have to get rid of this
\ndependency all over Europe. Therefore we agreed on joint
\nstorage. We are at 84% now: we are overshooting our target, said von der Leyen. <\/p>\n
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\nUnit no. 1 of the nuclear power plant in Cernavod\u0103,
\nin south-eastern Romania, will be shut down in a controlled manner in order to
\ncarry out repair works, according to a statement from the Nuclearelectrica
\nNational Company. The controlled shutdown, says Nuclearelectrica, has no impact
\non nuclear safety, the environment, the personnel and the population. After the
\ncompletion of the works, the unit will be reconnected to the national power
\ngrid. Nuclearelectrica accounts for 20% of the country’s energy output, with
\ntwo reactors in operation at Cernavod\u0103. <\/p>\n
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\nUkraine’s president Volodymyr
\nZelensky said in his usual midnight address on Saturday that the situation was
\nthe most difficult for Ukrainian troops near the eastern town of Bakhmut, but
\nthat Ukraine was holding its positions. This comes after the Russian-backed
\nseparatist forces in the Donetsk region said they seized two villages near
\nBakhmut, Opytine and Ivangrad. Bakhmut, a town with 70,000 inhabitants before
\nthe war started, has been under constant shelling from the Russian troops for
\nmonths. In another development, at least 11 people were killed and 15 wounded
\nin a shootout at a military training base in the Russian region of Belgorod,
\nnear the border with Ukraine. The Russian defence ministry says the attack was
\ncommitted by two citizens of one of the countries in the Commonwealth of
\nIndependent States, an organisation bringing together some of the former Soviet
\nrepublics. Advisor to Ukraine’s president Oleksiy Arestovych said the attackers were from Tajikistan
\nand opened fire on the others after an argument over religion. Tajikistan is a
\nmajority Muslim country, while most Russians identify as Orthodox Christians. <\/p>\n
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\nRomania on Saturday, up 1.46% compared with the previous day. From 10th
\nFebruary, two weeks before the Russian invasion, almost 2.6 million Ukrainians
\nhave crossed into the neighbouring Romania. Most of them continued their
\njourney to western Europe, but, according to the interior ministry, 4,300 have
\nrequested and received asylum in Romania and are enjoying all the rights laid
\ndown in the national legislation. 70,000 others have stay permits, enjoying
\ntemporary protection. <\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The Romanian women’s handball vice-champions CSM Bucharest are today facing the
\nCzech side DHK Banik Most in a Champions League Group A match. CSM haven’t lost
\nany of their four matches played so far, with three wins and a draw. On
\nSaturday, in Group B, the Romanian champions CS Rapid Bucharest drew 30-all against
\nBuducnost Podgorica in an away match in Montenegro. Still undefeated after five
\nlegs, with three wins and two draws, Rapid are in the top position in their
\ngroup. Bucharest is the only European capital with two clubs in the group stage
\nof the most important club-level competition in European women’s handball. (CM)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"