Flash Briefing: Biden, Boris condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine; Sapref; order preserve roots

• Russian troops and tanks pushed into Ukraine and airstrikes hit the country’s capital and more than a dozen other cities early Thursday after President Vladimir Putin said he ordered a armed forces operation to “demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine” and bring its leaders to trial. In a televised early-morning deal with, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called on electorate to live nonetheless and said he had ordered the introduction of martial law all the plan through Ukraine and had spoken with President Biden about the assault. Biden called Mr. Putin’s transfer an unprovoked, unjustified assault in Ukraine, pledging extra action in opposition to Russia. “President Putin has chosen a premeditated battle that will teach a catastrophic loss of existence and human struggling,” he said in a commentary. Britain’s high minister, Boris Johnson, tweeted that “President Putin has chosen a route of bloodshed and destruction” and said the U.K. and its allies would “answer decisively.”
• KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala has launched that there are plans to flip the SA Petroleum Refineries (Sapref) refinery in Durban into a order-owned oil company. Zikalala become handing over his order of the province deal with on Thursday in Pietermaritzburg. Two weeks ago, Shell and BP launched a terminate for an “indefinite interval” of Sapref, not ruling out a that it’s possible you’ll perchance perchance per chance per chance recall to mind restart and even a future sale. The Durban-based refinery established in 1963 is the largest low oil refinery within the country and supplies 35% of the country’s gas offer. While announcing that the resolution would don’t gain any terminate on fleshy-time workers, organised labour warned of excessive financial losses. 
• A fresh investigation by News24 has uncovered extra info regarding the crime networks that captured and paralysed the Say Security Agency between 2008 and 2018. The pricetag range of the director-smartly-liked of the company grew by 621% within the midst of his first year as intelligence boss, in response to paperwork submitted to the Zondo Commission. The enlarge in his price range allegedly enabled him to spend a entire bunch of millions of rands in the present day managing covert operations that incorporated tasks for the serve of ragged president Jacob Zuma.

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