Anadolu Agency's Morning Briefing - Oct. 12, 2022

ANKARA

Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments around the world.

• Ukraine’s State Emergency Service sent alerts Tuesday due to the threat of Russian missile strikes across the country's territory.

• Lebanon and Israel said Tuesday that their demands in a US draft for a maritime border agreement have been fulfilled.

• Russia’s military doctrine allows only defensive use of nuclear weapons, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday.

• Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday announced reaching a "historic deal" with Lebanon on their maritime border dispute.

• Citing the latest rise in tensions between Ukraine and Russia, the Turkish foreign minister said Tuesday that Türkiye is the "only NATO country that has visited" the two warring countries since the war started in February.

• Russia's armed forces continued hitting objects of Ukraine's military and energy infrastructure, the Defense Ministry’s spokesman said Tuesday.

• The Russian and Turkish presidents will meet in the Kazakh capital of Astana this week, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Tuesday.

• Russia is losing on the battlefield and its attacks on Ukrainian civilians and cities are signs of weakness, the NATO secretary-general said Tuesday.

• The Spanish government agreed on a new energy contingency plan Tuesday to drive down natural gas consumption by between 5% and 13% this winter.

• Ukraine's leader in an extraordinary G7 virtual meeting Tuesday accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of "blocking peace," noting that "there can be no dialogue with this leader of Russia, who has no future."

• The leaders of G7 countries on Tuesday condemned Russia’s latest military strikes on Ukraine in the “strongest possible terms,” saying these “indiscriminate attacks” constitute a “war crime.”

• Britain’s King Charles III’s coronation will be held on May 6, 2023, Buckingham palace announced Tuesday.

• Two amendments introduced by Democratic Senators Bob Menendez and Chris van Hollen making potential F-16 sales to Türkiye contingent on a series of conditions were removed from the Senate version of the annual US defense spending bill.

• Russian troops in Ukraine are running out of weapons and the Russian people now realize that the invasion of Ukraine was a badly judged move, the head of Britain’s cyber intelligence unit GCHQ said Tuesday.