2023-07-24 18:02:26
10:35 p.m .: Zelenskyj: EU import restrictions on Ukrainian grain “unacceptable”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sharply criticized a possible extension of grain import restrictions from his country to EU countries. Any extension of the restrictions is “absolutely unacceptable and frankly anti-European,” said Zelenskyy in his nightly video address on Monday. Europe has “the institutional ability to act more sensibly than closing the border on a specific commodity,” added Zelenskyy.
10:15 p.m .: Ukraine accuses Russia of using cluster bombs
Ukrainian authorities have accused Russia of using cluster bombs in the town of Kostyantynivka in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. A child was killed on Monday evening, according to the head of the local military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko. There are seven injured. The cluster munition exploded near a body of water where people were seeking relaxation.
9:10 p.m .: Former army officer arrested in Ukraine on suspicion of corruption
A former high-ranking officer has been arrested in Ukraine on suspicion of corruption. According to media reports, the ex-officer, who was dismissed at the end of June, is accused of accepting bribes to prevent citizens from being drafted into the army. Yevgen Borisov is accused of “illegal enrichment,” among other things, according to the state investigative agency DBR, which is entrusted with cases of corruption at the highest level. Borisov tried to evade arrest. According to a media report published in Ukraine last week, Borissov is said to have used the bribe to buy real estate worth the equivalent of several million euros in the southern Spanish coastal city of Marbella. Until his release, the officer was responsible for conscripting soldiers in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa.
7:35 p.m .: Russia reports drastic increase in ammunition production
According to Russia, it has drastically increased the production of ammunition and military equipment. Since the beginning of the year, “many types of weapons and military equipment have been produced in quantities far exceeding those of last year,” said Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov on Monday. “In terms of ammunition, we are reaching a level where monthly shipments exceed total orders for the past year,” Manturov claimed.
6.40 p.m .: MPs call for EU protection for Russian conscientious objectors
MEPs from several parties are calling on the EU leadership to do more for Russian conscientious objectors. “We believe that it is the duty of the European Union and the member states to protect Russian conscientious objectors and grant them asylum,” wrote parliamentarians from the SPD, Liberals, Left and Greens in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
6:20 p.m .: AFP journalist injured in drone attack in eastern Ukraine
5:55 p.m .: Guterres calls on Russia to return to grain agreements at UN food summit
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Russia to return to the Ukraine grain deal at a United Nations food summit. The rise in food prices triggered by Moscow’s withdrawal has “particularly devastating effects for vulnerable countries struggling to feed their people,” Guterres said.
5:25 p.m .: Russia attacks Ukrainian Danube port
After the grain agreement with Ukraine expired, Russia specifically attacked alternative routes for the export of agricultural products. According to local authorities on Monday, three grain silos were destroyed in Russian drone attacks in the port of Reni on the Danube opposite the Romanian riverbank. This brings the combat operations into the immediate vicinity of a NATO member.
4:55 p.m .: Navalny’s comrades-in-arms sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony
A colleague of the arrested Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was found guilty on Monday of allegations of extremism. Vadim Ostanin, who previously ran Navalny’s office in the southern Siberian city of Barnaul, was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony. Ostanin was arrested in November 2021, several months following Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and its regional offices were classified as extremist organizations by the Russian government.
4:35 p.m .: Russia threatens retaliation following drone attack on Moscow
A day following another Russian attack on the port city of Odessa, Ukrainian drones have caused damage in Moscow and on Russia’s annexed Crimea peninsula. The Ukrainian secret service carried out “a special operation” in Moscow, Ukrainian defense circles said on Monday. The word is commonly used by the Russian leadership for the aggressive war once morest Ukraine.
4:00 p.m.: Wounded in new Russian drone strikes on Odessa region
At least seven people have been injured in new Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian port region of Odessa on the Black Sea, officials said. According to the regional military administration, two injured people were treated on site and five others were taken to the hospital. The air defense repelled some drones, but there were also hits in Danube ports, said the spokeswoman for the Army Office South, Natalya Humenyuk.
3:18 p.m .: Romania condemns Russian air raids on Danube ports near the border
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has sharply condemned Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian Danube ports near the border. “This latest escalation poses a serious risk to Black Sea security,” he wrote on Twitter. The attack was directed once morest civilian infrastructure very close to Romanian territory. It affects the future transport of Ukrainian grain and thus global food security.
3:04 p.m .: Ukraine wants to increase agricultural exports via the Danube and overland
Ukraine wants to increase the export of grain and oilseeds by one million tons per month even without a grain corridor. “Today we are already able to export regarding 3.5 million tons a month and in the near future there will be improvements up to 4.5 million tons,” said the head of the Ukrainian Grain Union Mykola Horbachev, as reported by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency, citing Voice of America.
2:22 p.m .: More than one billion euros in donations for Ukraine
In 2022, people in Germany donated one billion euros for emergency aid in Ukraine. According to the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI), this is the highest amount that has ever been donated in this country for a single emergency situation.
Donations for the victims of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia and for flood aid in 2021 follow in second and third place with 670 and 655 million euros respectively. The figures do not include the large voluntary commitment to the people affected and the donations in kind, which cannot be specifically quantified, it said.
1:12 p.m .: Africa wants to promote peace between Russia and Ukraine
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa plans to push ahead with a peace plan between Russia and Ukraine during a Russia-Africa summit this week. The meeting, which begins Thursday in St. Petersburg, Russia, “provides an opportunity to continue talks with President (Vladimir) Putin on confidence-building measures that will create conducive conditions for a path to peace between Russia and Ukraine,” Ramaphosa said on Monday.
South Africa’s President is leading an African peace initiative to end Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. This has become even more explosive for Africa as a result of Moscow stopping the grain agreement.
1:08 p.m .: Ukraine – Russia attacks targets along the Danube
According to Ukraine, Russia is attacking targets along the Danube. “Russian terrorists attacked the Odessa region once more during the night. Port facilities on the Danube are the target this time,” writes the region’s governor, Oleh Kiper, on Telegram. After Russia allowed the Black Sea Grain Agreement to expire a week ago, waterways such as the Danube have become more important as an alternative route for exporting Ukrainian grain.
1:00 p.m .: Medvedev – Must expand targets in Ukraine
The top Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev suggests expanding the targets in Ukraine. “We have to choose unconventional targets for our attacks. Not just warehouses, power distribution stations and oil tanks,” writes the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council and former president on Telegram.
12.15 p.m .: London – Russia wants to commit the population to war
According to British intelligence experts, Moscow wants to swear Russian society to war by teaching them weapons and drones in schools. This emerges from the daily intelligence report from the Ministry of Defense in London on Monday. In it, the British quoted a Russian politician as saying that all Russian schoolchildren should learn how to use drones for reconnaissance purposes and how to fend off combat drones.
As early as September 1, Russian schoolchildren in grades 10 and 11 will be given lessons in assault rifles, hand grenades and first aid for the wounded. Real capabilities are less the goal than the cultivation of “militarized patriotism,” according to the British assessment. However, the inclusion of drone instruction in the curriculum also shows that Russia has identified the use of tactical unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine as an enduring feature of modern warfare.
The British Ministry of Defense has published daily information on the course of the war since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow accuses London of disinformation.
11:54 a.m .: Kiev admits to drone attack in Moscow
The Russian Defense Ministry spoke of a “terrorist attack”. According to the military, the drones were brought down with interference radio. Accordingly, a drone was discovered over the center of Moscow, another in the south of the city. According to an emergency services worker, a high-rise office building was hit, possibly also by debris. Mayor Sobyanin spoke of two buildings hit. There were no injuries.
According to the independent Internet portal Astra, a drone hit the roof of the building of the central Russian military orchestra. However, the property damage is minor.
The drone attack came a day following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced “retaliation” for a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odessa. According to Ukrainian sources, among other things, the Transfiguration Cathedral in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed old town of Odessa was destroyed. The Kremlin in Moscow on Monday denied that Russian forces had attacked the cathedral.
11:50 a.m .: Putin approves increasing the age of reservists by five years
Against the background of his war of aggression once morest Ukraine, which began 17 months ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on the new age limit for reservists. Accordingly, the maximum limit for all ranks and categories will be raised by five years, according to the announcement on the official Russian government portal on Monday. In the future, soldiers, sailors and sergeants up to the age of 55 can be called up for reserve service. The age limit for officers up to the rank of captain will in future be 60 years, higher officers serve up to the age of 65 years. Generals can now be reactivated even up to the age of 70.
10.48 a.m .: Pistorius: Procurement of ammunition is a priority
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius wants to give the procurement of ammunition for the Bundeswehr “top priority”. “By 2031 we must and want to invest well over 20 billion euros in ammunition,” Pistorius told the “Spiegel” (Monday). “Without ammunition, the most modern weapon systems are useless, even if they are ready for use in the yard,” he said. In the current year he wants to spend one billion euros on ammunition. In June, the Bundestag passed several framework contracts for artillery and tank ammunition worth billions, which are to be used to supply both the German armed forces and the Ukrainian armed forces.
9:59 a.m .: Ukraine: More than 16 square kilometers recaptured within a week
According to its own statements, the Ukrainian army recaptured more than 16 square kilometers from the Russian armed forces in its counter-offensive last week. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maljar said on television on Monday that more than twelve square kilometers of land had been recaptured in southern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military recaptured another four square kilometers near the embattled town of Bakhmut in the east. At the beginning of June, Ukraine launched its long-awaited counter-offensive to recapture the Russian-held areas in the east and south of the country. Since then, according to Maljar, around 192 square kilometers in southern Ukraine and 35 square kilometers in the Bakhmut region have been “liberated”. In total, Ukraine reclaimed 227 square kilometers. For comparison: 227 square kilometers corresponds approximately to the area of the city of Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Map: The military situation in Ukraine
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