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Ukrainian star fires accusations as WTA reject Mirra Andreeva sanctions | Tennis | Sport

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Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has slammed the decision from the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) not to intervene after seeing her demands for sanctions to be placed against Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva rejected. Yastremska released a statement on Thursday speaking of how she has been left ‘upset’ by the WTA’s refusal to get involved after accusing Andreeva of allegedly ‘liking’ social media posts in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Yastremska was beaten 6-0, 6-2 at the Ladies Open

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African Union calls on Russia to reinstate Ukrainian grain deal – POLITICO

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The African Union called today to urgently reinstate a United Nations-brokered deal allowing Ukraine to export millions of tons of grain that was terminated at Russia’s behest.

“The problem of grains and fertilizers concerns everyone,” Comoros President Azali Assoumani, who heads the 55-nation African Union, told Russian state newswire RIA Novosti. He was speaking in St. Petersburg, where Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting a summit with African leaders.

Putin last week pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative

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Extension of EU ban on Ukrainian agri products causes headaches among member states – EURACTIV.com

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Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to extend a ban on select Ukrainian agricultural products as the deadline for the current temporary arrangement looms – but not everyone is in agreement.

The current temporary ban on select Ukrainian agricultural goods, which expires on 15 September, was put in place to appease frontline countries who unilaterally imposed their own ban back in April after an influx of Ukrainian agricultural products put pressure on their farmers.

Amid concerns the recent collapse

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Poland will introduce own ban on Ukrainian grain if EU does not, says minister – EURACTIV.com

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Poland is prepared to introduce its own unilateral ban on agricultural products imported from Ukraine if the EU decides against extending the protective measures already in place, the Polish agricultural minister told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview. 

“On 15 April, we introduced a ban and, if need be, we will have to do that [again],” Robert Telus told EURACTIV on the sidelines of a meeting of EU agriculture ministers on Tuesday (25 July).

His comments came on the back of

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Ukrainian campaigners call on Europe to ban Russian LNG imports – EURACTIV.com

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Eighteen Ukrainian climate organisations have asked the European Commission on Tuesday (25 July) to ban imports of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) and petroleum gas (LPG) in a bid to slash the country’s revenues from continued fossil fuel exports.

In 2022, the EU banned Russian crude oil shipments and coal imports following the war in Ukraine, while Russia significantly reduced the pipeline gas it supplied to Europe.

However, liquified fossil gas (LNG) shipments increased as Europe struggled to make up

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Amid War, Ukrainian Couples Are Divorcing

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But that same law has also created a lot of pain for men with refugee children. Their wives or former wives may have left Ukraine with their children, and at the moment, there’s no way for the fathers to travel abroad to see them.

After more than a week of driving all day and all night through 10 countries, Tetiana and the couple’s oldest son finally arrived in Turku, Finland, where their youngest son, a semipro hockey player, lives. It

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Inside a Ukrainian baby factory – POLITICO

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KYIV, Ukraine — When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to a surrogacy firm in Ukraine hoping to build a family six years ago, she says she never expected the uncertainty and heartbreak the process would bring.

Tanya desperately wanted a child but found out she would be unable to conceive herself. After discovering how expensive surrogacy in the U.S. can be, she and her husband began pursuing options abroad — and

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Russia Is Making Abducted Ukrainian Children Impossible to Find

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Amid the bombast of Russia’s one-year celebration of its war in Ukraine, a 15-year-old with thick, black hair and a gray hooded jacket was handed a microphone. In front of thousands of cheering people, Anya Naumenko thanked “Uncle Yuri”—a Russian soldier known as Yuri Gagarin—for saving her, her sister, and “hundreds of thousands of children in Mariupol,” the Ukrainian city that fell under heavy attack from the first day of Russia’s cross-border invasion, in February 2022.

Having recited words

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WWII secret agent and Ukrainian resistance fighter discuss female ‘creativity not violence’

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Noreen Riols was once a top World War II spy in Winston Churchill’s so-called ‘Baker Street Irregulars’ who used her feminine charms to test secret agents being sent into occupied France.

‘Maria’ is a glamorous 33-year-old coordinator in the Ukrainian non-violent resistance movement Yellow Ribbon, which battles Russia’s brutal occupation on-the-ground in 2023.

The two women are now meeting to discuss just how important women are to effective resistance – something that hasn’t changed in over almost a century.

Both

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Der britische Boxer ruft Deontay Wilder und Dillian Whyte, nachdem er den „Ukrainian Hulk“ geschlagen hat | Boxen | Sport

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Der britische Boxer Martin Bakole hat Deontay Wilder und Dillian Whyte gerufen, nachdem er am Samstagabend den „ukrainischen Hulk“ Ihor Shevadzutskyi geschlagen hatte. Bakole besiegte den zuvor ungeschlagenen Shevadzutskyi in drei Runden in der G2A Arena in Polen.

„Ich habe eine große Aussage gemacht“, sagte Bakole nach dem Kampf zu Sky Sports. „Ich war der Erste, der aufgehört hat [Shevadzutskyi]. Ich will Dillian Whyte, Daniel Dubois, Oleksandr Usyk. Warum nicht [Oleksandr] Usyk? Warum nicht Deontay Wilder? Ich rufe Leute an,

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