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news of the day
The hope represented by the agreement to let Ukrainian cereals be exported from the port of Odessa was marred by Russian strikes in the city on Saturday. Russia on Monday defended its bombings, saying they targeted military targets and did not hamper the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports.
For its part, kyiv remains hopeful and expects to resume its grain exports “as of this week”, for the first time since the start of the war. According to Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, the main obstacle to the resumption of exports is the risk of Russian bombing, as illustrated by the strike that targeted the port of Odessa on the Black Sea on Saturday.
The phrase
We can say that the Kherson region will be definitely liberated by September, and all the plans of the occupiers will fail”
Ukraine is not giving up. Despite the capture of Kherson by the Russians since March, kyiv still hopes to reconquer it by the end of the summer. “We can say that the Kherson region will be definitely liberated by September, and all the plans of the occupiers will fail,” adviser to the head of the Kherson regional military administration loyal to Kyiv, Sergiy Khlan, said on Sunday. an interview on Ukrainian television.
The number
33 million. Gazprom, the Russian gas giant announced on Monday that it would drastically reduce from Wednesday, to 33 million m3 daily, deliveries of Russian gas to Europe via the Nord Stream gas pipeline, arguing the need for maintenance of a turbine. There is “no technical reason” to proceed with the further reductions in delivery, reacted the German Ministry of the Economy. For Berlin, this is a “pretext” and a “political” decision to influence Westerners in the context of the conflict in Ukraine.
The trend
The war is also played out elsewhere than on the ground. The Eurovision final which was to take place in Ukraine, winner of the last edition, will finally take place in the United Kingdom. kyiv was finally satisfied. “Everything will be done so that in Britain we see Ukrainian landscapes and hear Ukrainian narratives. I think that the BBC’s experience will make it possible to present Ukraine at the highest level,” underlined Ukrainian Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkatchenko.
