2023-08-17 16:53:38
Cover image: The flags of the European Union and Ukraine wave in front of the European Parliament building, in Brussels, on February 28, 2022. YVES HERMAN / REUTERS
A Ukrainian freighter, the Joseph-Schulteleft Wednesday from the port of Odessa, in the Black Sea, despite threats from Russia to military target any vessel sailing to or from Ukrainian ports. “He is currently on his way to the Bosphorus”declared in the evening the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who greeted “an important step towards restoring freedom of navigation in the Black Sea”.Two drone attacks targeted grain warehouses in the Odessa region. Romania has strongly condemned these new attacks against the port infrastructures of the Danube, crucial for the transport of Ukrainian cereals. For Washington, these attacks are proof that Vladimir Putin “laughs” of global food security.Two dead in Russian attacks on Wednesday in southern and eastern Ukraine. Shell fire on a residential building on Wednesday caused the death of a 54-year-old man in the Kherson region; another Russian bombardment in the afternoon caused the death of an 18-year-old man and injured six, in the Dnipro region, in the Center East.In Russia, a bombing in the Belgorod region on Wednesday caused the death of at least one person and injured at least two others. A man succumbed to his injuries, a woman was hospitalized after being hit by shrapnel, and another man suffered a concussion, according to the governor of Belgorod Oblast.The European Commission is redirecting 135 million euros, initially intended to finance cooperation with Russia and Belarus, to Ukraine and Moldova. Cohesion and Reforms Commissioner Elisa Ferreira said the decision was “the result of Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine”.Belarus denounced Lithuania’s closure of two border crossing points, due to fears aroused by the presence of Wagner Group fighters on its territory. Tensions have been growing for several weeks between Belarus and its neighbors in the European Union, Poland and Lithuania, which plan to completely close their border with the ally of Moscow.
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