Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of potential meals provide shortages brought on by Russian strikes on cargo vessels within the Black Sea. “Ukraine is one in all the biggest meals suppliers to Egypt and to a big quantity of different international locations in Africa and the Center East. These provides at the moment are beneath critical risk due to Russia’s battle,” Zelenskyy stated on X. “We’re already seeing a big discount in provides, and this might have very disagreeable penalties as a result of rising costs and shortages,” he stated, including that the 2 international locations had agreed to work on options.
Russia on Friday dismissed the thought of a ceasefire with Ukraine within the Black Sea, saying it noticed no grounds for “half-measures” that will supply a respite to the opposite aspect. In a press release, international ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of “brazen acts of terrorism” towards delivery, whereas making no point out of Russia’s personal assaults. “We view these assaults (by Ukraine) as a deliberate coverage aimed toward destabilising civilian delivery within the Black Sea area,” Zakharova stated. “On the identical time, we see no indicators of enchancment within the state of affairs and, consequently, no grounds for half-measures that merely grant the Kyiv regime a brief respiration house.”
Each Russia and Ukraine have stepped up assaults in latest weeks towards industrial ships within the Black Sea, driving world grain costs increased. Zakharova’s feedback adopted an earlier Ukraine proposal for each side to halt their assaults on civilian ships within the Black Sea in an obvious try and reopen a vital grain hall. Kyiv is alleged to have made the supply via a 3rd celebration.
Russia has intensified its on-line disinformation marketing campaign in Poland, utilizing a dispute between Warsaw and Kyiv over second world battle massacres to inflame tensions between Ukraine and its key ally, Polish officers and researchers say. The messaging, principally posted on social media accounts in Polish, additionally tries to foment anger in Poland towards refugees, as opinion polls present assist for the far-right rising forward of intently contested parliamentary elections in 2027.
The long-running second world battle dispute between Poland and Ukraine centres on the Volhynia massacres, during which Poland says Ukrainians killed about 100,000 Poles between 1943 and 1945. The dispute intensified after Zelenskyy named a military unit after insurgents who perpetrated the massacres, prompting hard-right president Karol Nawrocki to strip his Ukrainian counterpart of a prime Polish honour in June.
Russian authorities acknowledged Friday that some areas face new petrol shortages, as Ukraine continues to assault the nation’s oil refineries to blunt Russia’s capability to pursue the battle. Russia has shut down one large refinery at Orsk – about 1,300km (810 miles) from the frontline – for six months after it was attacked this week. “The state of affairs stays tense in a number of areas of the nation relating to gas provides to service stations,” the federal government stated in a social media put up. Oil firms are “taking the required measures to extend deliveries to essentially the most susceptible areas”, it stated.
Russian jet-powered drones have struck a house in northern Ukraine, killing a 29-year-old girl and her 9-year-old son. This assault comes after the United Nations reported that July was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians because the early weeks of Russia’s invasion. At the very least 437 civilians have been killed and a pair of,610 wounded final month. In the meantime, Ukrainian drones have focused Russian infrastructure, together with a serious port north of Moscow.
Romania discovered a second drone in nationwide territory on Friday, within the south-eastern village of Plauru close to the Danube border with Ukraine, the defence ministry stated on Friday, after a low flying drone undetected by radar methods crashed earlier. The ministry didn’t specify the origins of the drone. The Nato state has seen Russian drones repeatedly breach its airspace over the final 4 years.
Russian president Vladimir Putin instructed North Korean chief Kim Jong-un that Moscow and Pyongyang have been cooperating throughout all areas to make sure regional safety and stability, North Korean state media KCNA reported on Saturday. Putin stated in a message to Kim marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule that he was assured Russia and North Korea would proceed “constructive joint work” on bilateral and worldwide points, KCNA stated. Kim had visited Pyongyang’s Liberation Tower on Friday to pay tribute to Soviet troopers who fought Japan within the second world battle, KCNA reported.
