The arrival of U.S. citizens Andy Huynh and Alexander Drueke in the breakaway region will raise fears that the couple, both from Alabama, could face charges there. Britain’s Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin and Moroccan citizen Brahim Saadoun were sentenced to death by a Donetsk separatist court earlier this month. Russia does not carry out the death penalty, but its proxies in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics do. The Kremlin said the two American men were mercenaries not covered by the Geneva Conventions and should be held accountable for their actions. Reuters reported that it could not immediately verify Interfax’s report on the whereabouts of the Americans and that a spokesman in Donetsk declined to comment immediately. Here are some of the latest images sent to us from Ukraine and not just through the news depicting the impact of the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24th. Internally displaced children attend World Refugee Day holidays in Zaporizhia, southeastern Ukraine. Photo: Future Publishing / Ukrinform / Getty Images The flames emerge from a structure after it was hit by a missile on June 20 in Druzhkivka. Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images Volodymyr Zelenskiy (L) with US actor Ben Stiller (R), UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, during a meeting in Kyiv on Monday. Photo: Newsletter of the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / EPAS soldiers throw a salvo in honor of Ukrainian soldiers Vladislav Andreev who were killed in the Donetsk region during his funeral in the Bucha cemetery. Photo: Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko speaks during an interview in the city. Photo: Anatolii Stepanov / AFP / Getty Images The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize has been auctioned off for raising funds for Ukraine. Photo: Jason Szenes / EPA Updated at 10.10 BST European countries are united in their support for granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for membership of the European Union, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg. Reuters reports that Jean Asselborn told reporters before a meeting with other EU ministers: “We are working to the point where we tell Putin that Ukraine belongs to Europe, that we will also defend the values that Ukraine stands for.” Updated on 10.11 BST Andrew Roth The sister of Brahim Saadoun, a Moroccan who was arrested while serving in the Ukrainian army, said she feared he had been abandoned by his own government and called on the international community to “claim my brother”. “I just want any authority, who is willing to help, to come and help,” Iman Saadoun told the Guardian, adding that he was stuck looking for government support for him. Saadoun was one of three men sentenced to death by Russian proxies in eastern Ukraine in a spectacular trial aimed at mimicking the convictions of Russian soldiers for war crimes. The other two were Brits Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner. Foreign Minister Liz Tras said she would do “whatever is necessary” to secure their release. Morocco has tried not to criticize Russia, a member of the UN Security Council, for its invasion of Ukraine. While European countries have largely condemned the war, pro-Russian views are more prevalent in the Middle East and Africa. Iman said the local press and many people on social media celebrated her brother’s sentence. Read more about Andrew Roth’s report here: “She has been betrayed”: Moroccan sister arrested in Ukraine begs for help Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev has arrived in the Kaliningrad region to chair a national security meeting. Disagreement has erupted with Lithuania refusing to allow embargoed goods to be sent to the Kaliningrad enclave through its territory. Reuters reports that the European Union’s ambassador to Russia, Markus Enterrer, has arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he has been summoned for the issue. Updated at 10.13 BST Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported that Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, had begun integration projects with the occupied Kherson and Zaporizhia regions. Georgy Muradov, deputy chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers, reportedly said that close trade and economic ties had been established and that they were seeking to improve transport links. The agency quoted him as saying: “The creation of transport routes will ensure the uninterrupted supply of food, medicine and humanitarian aid to the liberated territories. It will also strengthen interregional ties in various areas. “ Updated at 10.13 BST
Russia: ‘Western regimes’ and ‘illegal sanctions’ responsible for any global grain shortage
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued an opinion on the global situation of cereals by the press secretary, Maria Zakharova. He cited statistics showing that grain production and trade levels were higher than in previous years, saying “there will be more grain in the world”. Zakharova goes on to write: Representatives of the West are using every platform, including the UN, to accuse Russia of reducing the amount of grain available on the market through its actions, saying it is throwing keys at grain companies that the West says have sent prices for wheat and other cereals on. In reality, however, there is more grain on the market than in previous years, and trade is also increasing. She claims that the reasons for the rise in prices and shortages are
“Systematic mistakes made by the West when making predictions about its agricultural policy.” “Global inflation triggered by short-sighted economic and monetary mechanisms used by the West during the pandemic.” “The ill-conceived transition of Europe and North America to green energy based on the forced introduction of biofuel technologies.” “Illegal sanctions that have broken the established basic money chains.”
He goes on to say: “As for whether famine is a realistic scenario, experts are increasingly predicting a pessimistic outcome. They believe that many nations will be affected and even more will be impoverished. “Western regimes that incite and cause disaster must be blamed for this.” Yesterday, a senior European Union diplomat, Josep Borrell, described Russia’s blockade of grain exports from Ukraine as a “real war crime”. Updated at 10.14 BST Reuters reports that Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said at an economic conference in Qatar that his country has pledged to join NATO, but must first resolve its territorial disputes with Russia. Georgia lies between Russia to the north, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan to the south. The breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are internationally recognized as part of Georgian territory, although a handful of states, including Russia, officially recognize them. Updated at 10.15 BST Three people have been killed and seven others injured in Russian bombings in the Kharkiv region in the past 24 hours, according to the Telegram of the region’s governor, Oleh Synyehubov. He claimed that the fire at a gas processing plant in Izium was fought after the strikes and that an educational building in the Kiev region of Kharkov was destroyed by 40% after the attacks. He said fighting was continuing in the Izium region, but that Ukrainian forces were “repelling enemy attacks and holding their ground safely.” The allegations have not been independently verified. Serhai Haidai, governor of Luhansk, Ukraine, has confirmed that the regular free evacuation train from Pokrovsk to eastern Ukraine will travel to Lviv via Dnipro this afternoon.
Russian journalist bids for Nobel Peace Prize, sells for $ 103.5 million
The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for refugee children from Ukraine sold for $ 103.5 million (84 84.5 million), breaking the Nobel Prize record. Muratov, who was awarded the gold medal in October 2021, helped found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was its editor-in-chief when it closed in March amid Kremlin-suppressed journalists and a public outcry over its aftermath. Russian invasion. of Ukraine. Muratov’s idea was to auction off his prize, having already announced that he would donate the accompanying $ 500,000 cash prize to charity. The idea of the donation, he said, “is to give refugee children a chance for a future.” Muratov said the proceeds would go directly to Unicef in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. Once melted, the 175 grams of 23-carat gold contained in Muratov’s medal would be worth about $ 10,000.
Ukraine claims first success with Western-donated Harpoon anti-ship missiles: UK Foreign Office
Ukrainian forces have claimed their first successful use of Western-donated Harpoon missiles to engage Russian naval forces, according to British intelligence. The June 17 attack was almost certainly the Russian naval tug Spasatel Vasily Bekh, which was delivering weapons and personnel to Snake Island in the northwestern Black Sea, according to the latest report from the UK Department of Defense. The crash of the Russian ship on a supply mission “demonstrates the difficulty Russia faces in trying to support its forces occupying Snake Island,” the report added. This is the latest in a series of Russian ships, including the cruiser Moskva, that were damaged or destroyed by Ukraine during the conflict. Ukraine’s coastal defense capability has largely thwarted Russia’s ability to deploy naval control and advance naval power in the northwestern Black Sea. This has undermined the viability of …
