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1st ship carrying Ukrainian grain leaves the port of Odesa
The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni sounded its horn as it departed with over 26,000 tons of corn destined for Lebanon. Read more
The Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni sounded its horn as it departed with over 26,000 tons of corn destined for Lebanon. Read more
A Russian lawmaker from Crimea, Olga Kovitidi, told Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti that the drone was launched from Sevastopol itself. She said the incident was being treated as a terrorist act, the news agency said. Read more
After nearly a half-year of fighting, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded on both sides, massive disruptions to supplies of energy, food and financial stability, the world is no longer as it was. Read more
Russia launched nighttime attacks on several cities in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said today as they and officials in Moscow blamed each other for the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a separatist-controlled area of the country’s east. Read more
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited one of Ukraine’s main Black Sea ports Friday, a week after a deal was struck with Russia, Turkey and the United Nations to create safe corridors for ships to export grains that have been trapped in the country since the war began five months ago. Read more
Russia and Ukraine on Friday accused each other of shelling a prison in a separatist eastern region that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war who were captured after the fall of Mariupol in May. Read more
Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced a counteroffensive to take back the occupied Kherson region in the country’s south. Read more
Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the continent since the Cold War. Read more
Ukraine also claimed to have destroyed an enemy ammunition depot, artillery pieces and other military equipment in the region, killing 51 members of the Russian army. There was no immediate confirmation from the Russian side. Read more
Zelenskyy accepted the award by video link during a ceremony at Johnson’s London office that was attended by members of the Churchill family and others. Read more
It was not known whether they had been fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the region. Read more
Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denounced today’s strike as “spit in the face” of Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the agreements. Read more
The Biden administration will deliver four additional truck-mounted, multiple-rocket launchers, bringing the number the United States has sent to 16 Read more
Ukraine needs more air power and more ways to destroy Russian artillery and tanks, and the Warthog was designed during the Cold War for that very purpose. Read more
The U.N. plan will enable Ukraine — one of the world’s key breadbaskets — to export 22 million tons of grain and other agricultural goods that have been stuck in Black Sea ports due to Russia’s invasion. Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office said that he, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and officials from Russia and Ukraine will oversee the signing ceremony. Read more
An investigation finds many Ukrainian refugees moving into Russia are subjected to human rights abuses, stripped of documents and left confused and lost about where they are. Read more
The trip to Tehran has symbolic meaning for Putin’s domestic audience as well, showing off Russia’s international clout even as it grows increasingly isolated and plunges deeper into confrontation with the West. Read more
“In particular, more than 60 employees of the prosecutor’s office and the SBU (state security service) have remained in the occupied territory and work against our state,” Zelenskyy said. Read more
Russia’s military campaign has been focusing on the eastern Donbas, but the new attacks hit areas in the north and south as well. Read more
The explosion killed 4-year-old Liza and gravely wounded her mother, Iryna Dmytriyeva, who lost a leg and who remains unconscious. Read more
