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news of the day
Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Friday of the bombing of a prison in separatist territory in eastern Ukraine. The Russian army reported 40 dead and 75 wounded in the strike on Olenivka prison, while the pro-Russian separatist authorities in the Donetsk region mentioned death tolls of 47 and 53. Ukrainian forces “fired on the prison where members of the Azov battalion are being held, using American projectiles from the Himars system”, the Russian Investigative Committee said.
But Ukraine quickly denied having targeted civilian infrastructure or prisoners of war, stressing that the army “fully adheres to the principles and standards of international humanitarian law”. The Ukrainian General Staff in return accused the Russian army of being behind this “targeted artillery bombardment”, in order to “accuse Ukraine of having committed war crimes and cover up the torture of prisoners and the executions they perpetrated there”.
sentence of the day
Cooperation must be intensified to mitigate the effects in Europe, the Middle East and around the world of the war in Ukraine”
This is a statement by the French President who received the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The meeting was highly criticized but Emmanuel Macron assumes it, insisting on “the importance of continuing the coordination initiated with Saudi Arabia with a view to diversifying the energy supplies of European states” while Russia cuts the floodgates.
The number of the day
9,800. Life goes on in Ukraine and the bombs do not stop couples in love in the capital. On Friday, the deputy head of the Kyiv city administration, Mykola Povoroznyk, said that 9,800 couples had married and 5,795 children had been born in Kyiv since the start of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine.
The trend of the day
Grains from Ukraine are still at the center of global concerns. This Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky supervised a first shipment of cereals, crucial for global food security. Exports could resume “in the coming days”, according to kyiv.
The Head of State went Friday to the port of Chornomorsk, on the Black Sea, to supervise a first loading of cereals on a Turkish ship, under the terms of an agreement reached on July 22 with Russia. “We are fully prepared. We have sent all the signals to our partners, the UN and Turkey, and our military guarantees the security situation,” he said.
The G7 ambassadors traveled to Odessa to “reiterate the importance of the UN-brokered deal allowing food to be shipped out of Ukraine,” says UK Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons.