![]() A helicopter crashes near Burton, North Yorkshire, England, killing two people onboard.It is announced that Cape Verde will allocate a budget of $85 million to combat the effects of the war in Ukraine, which has caused an increase in the prices of gasoline and food, as 9% of Cape Verdeans are currently facing a food crisis.Canadian defence minister Anita Anand announces an increase in defence spending to $5 billion in order to upgrade continental defence.The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry demands that Lithuania "immediately reverse" new restrictions on shipments of Russian goods to Kaliningrad, saying that the restrictions were "unprecedented" and "illegal", while also suggesting that Moscow could "take actions to protect its national interests".Kaliningrad Governor Anton Alikhanov calls for calm, while Russia condemns the ban. ![]() Panic buying is reported in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad after Lithuania banned the transit of some goods through its territory by rail.International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War.The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack. Eleven soldiers and two civilians are killed in an attack on a bus travelling from Raqqa to Homs.Islamist militants kill at least 40 civilians in a series of attacks on three villages in the Bankass Cercle of Mali's Mopti Region, including Segue.A bazaar in Nangarhar Province is bombed, which the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan says has killed and injured "scores of people." The ruling Taliban confirm that at least ten people have been injured but cannot yet confirm if anyone has been killed.Russia launches missile strikes on Odessa in retaliation for the attack. Ukrainian forces fire missiles at a Chornomornaftogaz drilling oil facility in the Black Sea, off Crimea, injuring three workers, with seven others missing.Pro-Russian forces of the Luhansk People's Republic claim to have taken the key town of Toshkivka, 25 km south of Sieverodonetsk.A fisherman of the Mekong River in Cambodia catches the world's largest known freshwater fish, a stingray weighing almost 300kg.Egypt rejects two World Trade Organization agreements which would have forced it to export domestically needed food to alleviate the global food crisis, also citing proposals it considers harmful to developing countries and noting 30 other WTO states which restrict food exports.Russia becomes China's biggest supplier of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia and making up over half of its neighbor's oil imports.Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.The RMT says industry bosses have only offered a 2% rise in pay, well below rising inflation levels. Railway transport workers go on a nationwide general strike in the United Kingdom after talks on a 7% pay rise for workers collapse.Collective action in the United Kingdom.A second American volunteer fighter dies in Ukraine, after triggering a landmine.
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