Five people were injured in a rocket attack on Russia’s Belgorod region carried out from Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have destroyed thirteen rockets fired by Vampire systems over the Belgorod region during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
Two people were injured in the Belgorodsky district and three in the Graivoron district, in the west of the region, local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram channel.
Ukraine is ready to establish a licensing system governing its agricultural exports to provide assurances to Warsaw, Ukrainian Minister of Agriculture Mykola Solsky said on Monday, “disappointed” with the restrictions imposed by the EU on the products of its country. This system will, on the other hand, be “only for four types of cereals. We already have a similar system with Romania and Bulgaria,” he underlined, before a meeting this Tuesday in Brussels with his counterparts from the Twenty-Seven.
Since February, Polish farmers have been blocking border crossings with Ukraine to protest against “unfair” competition from foodstuffs flowing from the country at war, exempt from customs duties by the EU since 2022. And Warsaw is calling for a cap on cereals Ukrainians, after having applied a unilateral embargo to them in 2023.
Ten people were injured on Monday by debris from Russian missiles shot down in kyiv, further proof, according to Ukraine, of its “urgent” need for anti-aircraft defense systems supplied by the West. It was the third air attack on the capital in five days.
Hello everyone. Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the conflict. On the ground, Moscow continues to put strong pressure on kyiv. Russia has thus increased the bombings of its neighbor in recent weeks, targeting in particular energy infrastructure, in retaliation for Ukrainian attacks against its border regions. To defend itself, kyiv constantly reminds its allies of its need for additional weapons.