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The fact of the day
Missiles are raining down (on Odessa again). kyiv claims to have foiled Russian missile and drone attacks that injured three people. According to the Kiev army, the dormitory of a training establishment as well as a store were damaged by debris resulting from the destruction of missiles “directed towards the center of Odessa”.
On Sunday, Russia struck in the Kherson region. Six people were killed, including an infant, during a Russian bombardment, deplored kyiv. “The terrorists must be stopped. They must be stopped by force,” insisted Igor Klymenko, the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior.
sentence of the day
These actions illustrate Russia’s deliberate policy of threatening the freedom of navigation and the safety of merchant shipping in the Black Sea.
Ukraine on Monday denounced Russian warning shots fired the day before towards a cargo ship heading for the Ukrainian port of Izmail in the Black Sea. The river port of Izmail, in the Odessa region, has become one of the main exit routes for Ukrainian agricultural products since Moscow ended the agreement on grain exports.
In mid-July, Moscow put an end to the agreement which, since last summer, had allowed Ukrainian cereals to leave the ports in the south of the country despite the blockade put in place by Russia. A few days later, on July 19, Moscow warned that any ship heading to or leaving Ukrainian ports would be considered a potential target. kyiv had reacted the next day by affirming the reciprocal for the Russian ships.
The number of the day
100 to 1. The ruble continues to fall, and the Russian central bank announces an emergency intervention. If the leaders of the central bank were still hammering in recent days that they had not planned to raise the main interest rate, despite the weakening of the national currency and the return of inflation, they seem ready to change course. notice.
One of the main causes of the fall of the currency is the state of foreign trade. Russia is suffering in particular from the considerable fall in income linked to the sale of its hydrocarbons, under the effect of the sanctions and the determination of the Europeans to get out of their energy dependence vis-à-vis Moscow.
The trend of the day
Russia said it sent a fighter jet to intercept a Norwegian military plane on Monday approaching its border over the Barents Sea in the Arctic Ocean. “No violation of the border of the Russian Federation has been allowed”, added the ministry, assuring that the interception had taken place in compliance with international rules “without cutting air trajectories” or “dangerous rapprochement”.
Interception is an operation aimed at meeting an aircraft deemed too close to an airspace or having entered it. Incidents involving Russian aircraft and aircraft from NATO countries, including Norway, are relatively frequent and occurred even before the start of the conflict in Ukraine.