Ukrainian experts have been talking about the risks of class struggle evolving into street riots or even a full-scale uprising”. So far it was only street cars and trolleybuses that were blocked in protest, but the people are already talking about the elite neighborhoods reserved for the officials, the members of parliament and the high-ranking military which are well-lit and heated. The playbook remains the same: drive a wedge between the people and the elites: “Urban residents who haven’t had power, heat and water for days, are starting to suspect that not everyone is having to go through the same hardships. In line with this narrative, Russian disinformation media have been claiming that social tensions are one the rise in Ukraine. Some of the disinformation media went one step further calling the consequences of Russia's terror attacks “ an energy crisis” pretending that the Ukrainian energy system had reached such awful state of decay all by itself. Unfortunately, this way of presenting news, which borders of schizophrenia, has long become the norm for the Russia of today. The manipulators did quote the actual statements and commentaries from Ukrainian officials while forgetting to mention what exactly had caused such calamity. “Ukrainian officials report damage to more than 50% of the country's critical infrastructure”, “Kyiv re-introduces the emergency power shutdown schedule” - such were the headlines that dominated the news feeds of leading Russian media. Last week, Russian media paid a keen attention to the state of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Follow the trending topics of Russian disinformation on our interactive dashboard “Disinformation about the War in Ukraine” Here we go again: Russians predict “riots” in Ukraine over the “energy crisis” This monitoring report covers these and other topics of the disinformation spread by Russian state media and online parajournalists to manipulate public opinion. With no battlefield success to report, Russian propagandists have been gloating about the discomfort caused by the recent blackouts in Ukraine and once again attempting to sow the seeds of discord among the Ukrainian people. We see a significant supply shortage by the end of the decade.The new sanctions which target Russia’s energy sector are making Russian economy suffer. "Lithium itself isn’t rare (25th most abundant element)," he told the news service, "but the industry needs more mining and processing capacity. Disruptions to the electric grid in Sichuan-where one-fifth of China’s lithium processing takes place-have contributed to the soaring prices.ĭoug Mehl, an analyst with consulting group Kearney, told Yahoo News that the price spike is "a result of constrained supply and should be rather temporary as additional supply comes on board." He argued, however, that supply issues may persist in the near future. That represents roughly a tripling of lithium prices in that country over the past year. Lithium "hit a fresh record of 500,500 yuan ($71,315) a ton in China Friday, according to data from Asian Metal Inc," Bloomberg reported this week. Lithium prices are skyrocketing worldwide, driving up the cost of electric vehicle manufacturing at a moment when car developers are re-orienting huge portions of their output to developing EVs.
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