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news of the day
Finally ! The first authorized shipment of Ukrainian grain since the start of the war on February 24 arrived Tuesday evening off the northern coast of Istanbul on the Black Sea. Leaving Odessa on Monday morning with 26,000 tons of corn destined for Lebanon, the Razoni, a freighter under the Sierra Leonean flag, is to spend the night anchored off the coast of Turkey and will be inspected this Wednesday morning by an international team at the entrance to the Bosphorus, said the Turkish Defense Ministry.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the boat was expected “at the entrance to the Bosphorus around 9:00 p.m.”. The inspection, requested by Moscow, which wanted to be sure of the nature of the cargo, will be “carried out by a delegation made up of Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian and UN representatives, then the Razoni will continue on its way”, specified to the Turkish Admiral Özcan Altunbulak, head of the Joint Coordination Center (CCC) which supervises the operations, press on Wednesday.
The phrase
All the peoples who once inhabited the great and mighty USSR will once again live together in friendship.”
The sentence is signed Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia. A statement that shows all the nostalgia that animates the Russian leaders vis-à-vis the former USSR. However, the person concerned denied having really published these words on social networks, shouting that his account had been hacked.
The number
10 millions. This is the number of people who fled the war in Ukraine and crossed the border to take refuge in another country, according to the United Nations refugee agency. She specifies that it is mainly children, women and the elderly, for whom it is perhaps the most difficult.
The trend of the day
Tension is rising between the United States and China, and Moscow is adding its two cents. Beijing’s ally, Russia has accused the Americans of “destabilizing the world” by causing tensions around Taiwan.
As Nancy Pelosi travels to Taiwan on Tuesday, the Kremlin reiterated its “solidarity” with China. “Instead of respecting the sensitivity [de Pékin sur Taïwan]the United States unfortunately chooses the path of confrontation, which does not bode well,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.