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news of the day
Delegations from Ukraine, Russia and Turkey met in Istanbul on Wednesday for the first time in three months to try to unblock Ukraine’s ports of grain exports that are sorely lacking on the world market.
But, after three hours of discussions between military experts on the European side of the Bosphorus, the discussions were lifted at the end of the afternoon without it being possible to assess whether they allowed the slightest progress. Some 20 million tons of cereals are still immobilized in the ports of the Odessa region.
The phrase
The international status of the Donetsk People’s Republic continues to grow. This is a new victory for our diplomacy. »
This sentence signed Denis Pushilin, the leader of the separatist territory of Donetsk, refers to the supposed support given by North Korea to the territory conquered by Moscow in eastern Ukraine. This recognition would be the third, after those of Syria at the end of June and of Russia.
The number
1.6 million. Depopulate Ukraine? The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken assured that 1.6 million Ukrainians had been forcibly moved to Russia, denouncing a deliberate operation on the part of Moscow to empty part of the country of its inhabitants. Among them are 260,000 children, some of whom have been separated from their parents and placed in orphanages for adoption.
The trend of the day
Concern over Russian gas deliveries rose several notches when Gazprom said it was unable to guarantee the proper functioning of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which supplies Europe. European countries fear that Moscow will use a technical reason to permanently halt its deliveries, while the gas pipeline is currently shut down for ten days for maintenance.