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The war in Ukraine began with Crimea and will have to end with its liberation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week. Zelensky was speaking after a series of explosions hit a Russian air base on the occupied peninsula on Tuesday.
At least 8 Russian fighter jets appear to have been broken or destroyed in the attack on Saky airbase, contrary to Russian claims that none were broken. On Wednesday night, the Ukrainian Air Force said at least nine Russian jets were destroyed on the floor as a result. of the blasts, which Russia says killed one person, injured 14 others and destroyed dozens of nearby homes.
Kyiv has not publicly claimed responsibility for the attack, and an adviser to the president suggested that supporters may have been involved.
Crimea is identified worldwide as part of Ukraine, but the peninsula was annexed to Russia in 2014 after a referendum that the global network condemned as illegitimate.
The G7 countries are involved in the recent launch of artillery and rockets around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Russian forces killed at least thirteen civilians and wounded 11 others in a missile attack Tuesday night, in an escalation of fighting around the factory.
The Russians used Grad missiles in the attack on the Nikopol district, on the other side of the Dnipro River from Zaporizhzhia.
The G7 said on a joint Wednesday that the Russian strikes increase the threat of “a twist of fate or a nuclear incident” and endanger “other people in Ukraine, neighboring states and the foreign community. “
The G7 urged Russia to immediately return from the plant to Ukraine.
The first grain ship to leave Ukraine under a U. N. -backed deal last week docked in Turkey on Wednesday, following a report that it nevertheless found a customer for its corn. On August 1, it was carrying 26,000 tons of corn and was scheduled to dock in the Lebanese port of Tripoli last weekend.
But Ukrainian officials said the five-month delay in shipping caused by Russia’s invasion led the Lebanese customer to cancel the deal once the shipment was already at sea.
The UN said it now expects to see a “huge increase” in requests for vessels to export Ukrainian grain after transit procedures through Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations were agreed.
The number of incoming vessels is expected to “increase in the near future” as grain deals are reached, said Frederick Kenney, acting U. N. coordinator at the Black Sea Initiative’s Joint Coordination Centre.
A European Union ban on imports of Russian coal went into effect on Thursday. All Russian coal bureaucracy is now banned in the European Union, a move that the European Commission says will affect around 8 billion euros of Russian exports a year.
The EU banned coal imports from Aug. 10 as part of a package of sanctions against Russia it announced in April, one of the first to directly target Moscow’s energy industry.
European Commission leader Eric Mamer’s spokesman said last week in Brussels that he expected member states to stick to sanctions, given that their leaders approved them unanimously at the European Council.
Kosovo is in a position to oppose an imaginable attack through Serbia, as worsening conflicts with the Serb minority could lead to a new armed conflict, Prime Minister Albin Kurti told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday. Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo erupted earlier this year. This month Pristina said it would force Serbs living in the north, who receive support through Belgrade and do not recognize Kosovo’s institutions, to start using the plaques issued in Pristina.
Tensions between Poland and the European Commission erupted this week after leaders of Poland’s ruling conservative party accused Brussels of failing to meet its obligations to Warsaw and threatened to retaliate. A commission spokesman said on Tuesday that Poland had still done enough to ensure the democratic precept of justice independence. The Commission has blocked billions of euros in Poland’s pandemic recovery budget, arguing that the country’s government is eroding democratic standards.
Russian pipeline flows resumed wednesday to Central Europe, ending a six-day shutdown, after Hungary’s MOL organization paid transit fees owed to Ukraine, providing a transitional solution to the latest disruption in Russia’s energy supply. The MOL said oil circulating back into the southern branch of the Druzhba, or Amistad, pipeline that had happened in Slovakia and is expected to arrive in Hungary on Thursday. However, oil flows are not expected to resume into the Czech Republic.
Hundreds of others took part in a momentary demonstration this week to call for Bulgaria to continue on the path to push for Russia’s independence. fuel and maintain the policies of the previous pro-Western government. Atanas Sharkov, one of the protest organizers, insisted that Gazprom prevent it from being Bulgaria’s sole fuel supplier.
Moldova cannot afford Gazprom’s herbal fuel in August and will have to wait for a postponement, the head of its state-owned fuel company said on Wednesday. Moldova and Gazprom agreed to a five-year contract that began on November 1. last year and requires prepayment until the 20th of each month. “I can tell you right away that we can’t pay,” Moldovagaz President Ion Ceban told Moldovan news site NewsMaker. Don’t make the August prepayment. Is that clear?
The Armenian government announces that in October it will conduct the first census of the Caucasus country in more than a decade and the third since post-Soviet independence, following two postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Questionnaires will be completed electronically for the first time. The government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced that the census will take place from October 13 to 22, and its effects will be summarized in one year.
Kyrgyzstan’s president has given his final approval to the creation of a park for the arts industries that the government hopes will attract IT, film, music and design professionals through tax breaks. The incentives approved through Sadyr Japarov will cover 20 other types of activities and make foreign corporations and entrepreneurs, as well as those in Kyrgyzstan, bigger. The main criterion is that the entities founded in what will be known as the Creative Industries Park must show that 90% of their operations are founded. on artistic activities.
UN experts on Wednesday denounced Belarus’ resolve to withdraw from a foreign agreement that upholds people’s right to information, as well as justice, in environmental matters. The Aarhus Convention, followed in 1998, also calls for persons exercising these rights not to be persecuted, punished or harassed for doing so. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree on July 18 ending the country’s involvement. The withdrawal is expected to take effect on October 24.
Dua Lipa appointed Kosovo’s honorary ambassador last Friday in a rite at the president’s workplace in Prishtina. The 26-year-old singer, born in London to Albanian parents, spent much of her formative years in the Balkan state. Lipa moved to Prishtina with her circle of relatives. after Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008, he returned to London at the age of 15 to pursue a career in music. “make a difference” for the independent nation.
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