It was the first reported strike against offshore energy infrastructure in Crimea since Russia launched its invasion. Three people were injured and seven more missing after Ukrainian forces attacked oil drilling platforms in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, Moscow-backed Crimea leader Sergey Aksyonov said. "Every town and village under Ukrainian control in the Lugansk region is under almost non-stop fire," he said on Ukrainian TV.
Sergiy Gaiday - governor of the Lugansk region, which includes Severodonetsk - said the situation on the frontlines was "extremely tough". Read | 'So much pain in my heart': Tennis star Svitolina helping Ukraine The settlement is adjacent to Severodonetsk, which has been the focus of fighting for weeks and is now largely under Russian control.Ī chemical plant in Severodonetsk where hundreds of civilians are said to be sheltering was being shelled "constantly", Ukraine said. Ukraine said it had lost control of the village of Metyolkine. With the European Union set to decide at a summit this week on whether to grant Ukraine candidate status - allowing them to vie for membership - Kyiv has warned that attacks are escalating. In an address to the African Union, he also warned that the continent was a "hostage" of the conflict, and rising food prices "have already brought (the war) to the homes of millions of African families". Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv was engaged in "complex negotiations" to unblock grain exports, although cautioned that there was no progress as yet. Growing concerns about a food crisis are "the fault of Western regimes, which act as provokers and destroyers," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Moscow denies responsibility for the disruption to deliveries and, following Borrell's comments, took aim at the "destructive" stance of the West for surging grain prices. Read | No nukes? Ukraine-Russian war will shape world's arsenals
Prior to the war, Ukraine was a major exporter of wheat, corn and sunflower oil.ĮU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called the Russian blockade "a real war crime", which was happening "while in the rest of the world people are suffering hunger". Its navy is blockading ports, which Ukraine says is preventing millions of tonnes of grain from being shipped to world markets, contributing to soaring food prices. Since being repelled from Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine following their February invasion, Moscow is focusing its offensive on the eastern Donbas region. In New York, Dmitry Muratov, the Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize gold medal for $103.5 million to benefit children displaced by the war in Ukraine. Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports sparked fresh tensions with Europe as fears grow of a global food crisis, while Kyiv accused Moscow of stepping up attacks in the east of the country.
0 kommentar(er)
