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Photo purportedly showing a blood transfusion center on fire in Kupiansk community, north-eastern Ukraine. — courtesy Telegram/Volodymyr Zelensky
Russia hits blood transfusion center, says Zelensky
KYIV — A Russian “guided bomb” has hit a blood transfusion center in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two people and injuring four, Ukrainian officials say.Volodymyr Zelensky posted an image of the building on fire as a result of Saturday night’s attack around Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region.“This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,” he said.Russia has not commented. It has previously denied all allegations of targeting civilians — or war crimes.The city of Kupiansk and nearby settlements were seized by Russian troops in the first few days of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022.The area was liberated during a Ukrainian counter-offensive last September, but comes under missiles and shelling daily.In a post on social media,...
August 06, 2023

Russia hits blood transfusion center, says Zelensky

The Nevsky complex is the main newbuild estate in the city. — courtesy Walk And Talk/YouTube
Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol
MARIUPOL — It is one year since the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was largely destroyed by Russian forces and captured.It is now being transformed and presented as a showcase for rule from Moscow — and some Russians are even hoping to buy homes there.Russia claimed to have annexed Mariupol, along with all other occupied areas, following a series of referendums that have been widely condemned as sham exercises.About 90% of the city’s buildings were damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling during a grueling two-month siege. Thousands of civilians were killed and about 350,000 people left, out of the pre-war population of 430,000, according to the UN.Now, the occupation authorities seem intent on “Russifying” the city, changing Ukrainian-language road signs to Russian ones, introducing...
August 06, 2023

Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol

The Peace Park in Hiroshima. — courtesy UN Japan/ Ichiro Mae
UN pushes disarmament talks amid fears that drums of nuclear war are beating again
GENEVA — As United Nations-led talks on nuclear disarmament continued in Geneva, New York and Vienna, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Sunday that “the drums of nuclear war are beating once again”.In a message to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Guterres urged the international community to learn from the “nuclear cataclysm” that befell the Japanese city on Aug. 6, 1945.“The drums of nuclear war are beating once again; mistrust and division are on the rise,” the UN chief said in a statement to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, delivered by UN’s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu.“The nuclear shadow that loomed over the Cold War has re-emerged. And some countries are recklessly rattling the nuclear sabre...
August 06, 2023

UN pushes disarmament talks amid fears that drums of nuclear war are beating again

Far-right group #BritainFirst is booming on Musk’s X (former Twitter), with its leader’s follower count rising threefold in little over two months.
Conspiracy theories and disinformation mar UK local election
LONDON — Claims circulated online that London would be turned into a “net zero prison” with the introduction of “climate lockdowns”.Conspiratorial narratives and rampant misinformation were used to influence the result of a recent local election in the United Kingdom, Euronews has learned.Ahead of the Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection in July — which saw the Conservatives narrowly beat the opposition Labour Party by some 500 votes — there was a dramatic increase in false claims and conspiracy theories around ULEZ, a controversial environmental policy.Candidates in the vote “directly leveraged” this rhetoric, Maisie Draper, an analyst at Logically, a tech company tackling mis and disinformation, told Euronews, pointing to a “convergence of far-right and far-left...
August 05, 2023

Conspiracy theories and disinformation mar UK local election

A joint inspection team inspects the grain cargo of a ship leaving Ukraine under the Black Sea Grain Initiative. — courtesy UNODC/Duncan Moore
Black Sea deal collapse sparks rise in global food prices: FAO
ROME — Global food prices rose for the first time in months following the collapse of the landmark agreement to ship grain from war-torn Ukraine to the rest of the world, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.The UN agency has issued its latest Food Price Index (FPI), which tracks the monthly international prices of cereals, vegetable oil, dairy, meat and sugar.The Index averaged 123.9 points in July, up 1.3 percent from June, driven by an increase in vegetable oil and rice prices.FAO’s Vegetable Oil Price Index registered a 12.1 percent jump in July after seven months of consecutive declines.Sunflower oil prices rebounded by 15 percent due to uncertainties sparked by Russia’s decision to pull out of the Black Sea Initiative on grain and fertilizer exports.The...
August 05, 2023

Black Sea deal collapse sparks rise in global food prices: FAO

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears on a screen set up at a courtroom of the Moscow City Court.
Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to 19 more years in jail
LONDON — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed a further 19-year jail term at a trial in a remote penal colony.Navalny was found guilty of founding and funding an extremist organization and its activities. He denies the charges.He is already serving a nine-year term for parole violations, fraud and contempt of court. The charges are widely viewed as politically motivated.Since his jailing in 2021, Navalny has been held at a remote penal colony.A hall in the prison, Penal Colony No 6 in Melekhovo, which is 240km (150 miles) east of Moscow, was turned into a makeshift courtroom for the Kremlin's most vocal critic. The proceedings were held behind closed doors.Navalny will serve his time in a maximum-security colony, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said.Russian...
August 04, 2023

Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to 19 more years in jail

Image captured from video supplied by Ukraine's security services shows the drone hitting a Russian vessel
Russian ship hit in Black Sea drone attack, Ukraine sources say
KYIV — A Russian naval ship has been damaged in a Ukrainian naval drone attack in the Black Sea, Ukrainian sources say.The assault reportedly occurred near the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which is a major hub for Russian exports.Russia's defence ministry said it had repelled a Ukrainian attack on its naval base there which involved two sea drones, but did not admit any damage.But Ukrainian security service sources say the Olenegorsky Gornyak was hit and suffered a serious breach.They told the BBC a sea drone was carrying 450kg (992lb) of dynamite when it hit the ship.Russia made no mention of any damage in its report of the incident.Sea drones are small, unmanned vessels which operate on or below the water's surface.A video sent to the BBC by a source with Ukraine's...
August 04, 2023

Russian ship hit in Black Sea drone attack, Ukraine sources say

Electricity poles are seen in the countryside outside Lyon, central France
Baltic states to delink from Russian power grid sooner than expected
BRUSSELS — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have agreed to speed up their integration into the European Union's electricity system in order to desynchronize from the Russian power grid.The three Baltic countries, which are EU and NATO members, still remain a part of the Soviet-era BRELL power system that also includes Belarus and whose frequencies are controlled by Moscow, leaving them vulnerable to possible energy weaponization by the Kremlin.All three agreed in 2018 to decouple from Moscow and join the EU's system by the end of 2025 but Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine prompted calls to accelerate the timeline. An agreement struck this week by their respective electricity transmission system operators will now see them fully separate from BRELL in February 2025.The...
August 04, 2023

Baltic states to delink from Russian power grid sooner than expected

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their joint press conference in Warsaw. 5 April 2023
Diplomatic spat after Poland calls Ukraine ‘ungrateful’
WARSAW — The eastern flank of the European Union — particularly Poland — continues to play a crucial role in helping Ukraine fight against Russia’s invasion. A recent diplomatic squabble over grain imports, compounded by historical issues, puts the once-stable footing at risk.The ongoing invasion of Ukraine has placed a major strain on the entire continent — not least Poland, whose government has maintained a reputation as one of the most steadfast supporters of its neighbor’s defense efforts.On Wednesday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Poland remained committed to defending its domestic interest, despite the invasion.“We will always defend Poland’s good name, its security, and the interest of no other country will ever prevail over the interest of the...
August 04, 2023

Diplomatic spat after Poland calls Ukraine ‘ungrateful’

Firefighters were still fighting the blaze early on Wednesday morning
Russian drones target Odesa grain stores near Romania border
KYIV — A Russian drone strike has hit Ukrainian port facilities at Izmail on the River Danube, a short distance from Nato member state Romania.A grain warehouse, a passenger building and an elevator for loading grain have all been damaged.Russia began targeting Ukraine's ports after abandoning a UN deal that enabled both countries to export grain safely across the Black Sea.A large fire raged from the port area of Izmail early on Wednesday.Video, filmed from the Romanian side of the Danube roughly 3km (1.9 miles) away, showed the extent of the fire.Romanian President Klaus Iohannis condemned Russia's continued attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure "in the proximity of Romania" as unacceptable.Ukraine's air force said during the night that Russian drones were heading...
August 02, 2023

Russian drones target Odesa grain stores near Romania border

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