RT News - June 16 2022 (09:00 MSK)

Contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars are already signed on the opening day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. With much more to come as the event, which sees thousands of VIPs gather, enters its second day. RT visits positions used by Ukrainian forces before they retreated into a chemical plant in Severodonetsk where Moscow says a humanitarian ceasefire was violated by Kiev. Mixed messages from Kiev. Ukraine's armed forces threaten to shell Russia's Kerch Strait Bridge to Crimea despite President Zelensky claiming there will be no attack on Russian territory