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KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine said the “brutal” shelling by Moscow so far of the southern city Mykolaiv killed a grain tycoon Sunday, as Russia claimed an attack from a drone wounded six personnel at the headquarters of its Black Sea fleet. AFP journalists witnessed intense Russian bombardment of the eastern town of Bakhmut after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for civilians to leave the front line Donetsk region bearing the brunt of the Kremlin’s […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Russia said an attack from a drone Sunday wounded six personnel at the headquarters of its Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea, as authorities in Ukraine’s southern city of Mykolaiv reported it had suffered its “strongest” shelling of the war. AFP journalists witnessed an intense bombardment of the eastern town of Bakhmut after President Volodymyr Zelensky called in a late night address for civilians to leave the front line Donetsk […]
by Elias Huuhtanen Agence France-Presse LAPPEENRANTA, Finland (AFP) — Buses of Russian tourists stream into Finland at Nuijamaa border crossing in the country’s southeast, some hoping to enjoy the peaceful Finnish summer and others planning to travel further into Europe. Finland may be seeking NATO membership following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but the Nordic country remains Russia’s only EU neighbor to grant tourist visas to Russian citizens. “I have travelled here for 12 years,” 37-year-old […]
by Shaun Tandon Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States has made a “substantial proposal” to Russia to free Americans including basketball star Brittney Griner, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, as he announced he will speak to his Moscow counterpart for the first time since the Ukraine war. Blinken said he expected a telephone call “in the coming days” with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the offer to free former […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Despite damaging Western sanctions imposed on Moscow in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s economy appears to be weathering the storm better than expected as it benefits from high energy prices, the IMF said Tuesday. The sanctions were meant to sever Russia from the global financial system and choke off funds available to Moscow to finance the war. But the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook upgraded […]
Brussels, Belgium | AFP by Daniel ARONSSOHN / Alex PIGMAN EU ministers debated Tuesday how to reduce gas consumption this winter, an act of solidarity for Germany and a response to Russia’s manipulation of supplies as an economic weapon. The plan, under discussion in Brussels, could see exceptions and carve-outs as European Union countries blanched at making too deep a sacrifice for Berlin and a few landlocked member states. Germany, the EU’s economic powerhouse, is […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France-Presse KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Russia’s state-owned gas company on Monday announced an unexpected, drastic cut in supply to Europe, leading Ukraine to call the West to action over the “gas war”. The gas cuts came amid guarded hope of resuming exports this week of another key commodity — Ukraine’s grain — under a breakthrough deal that was called into question by a strike by Moscow on the key port of […]
Kyiv, Ukraine | AFP Kyiv expects the first grain deliveries under a UN-brokered deal to leave Ukrainian ports “this week”, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister said Monday, despite Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa. “We expect the agreement to start working in the coming days,” Oleksandr Kubrakov, who led Ukraine’s delegation at grain talks in Turkey, told a press conference. “We are preparing for everything to start this week,” he added. Kubrakov also highlighted […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France-Presse KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Russia said its missile barrage on a Ukrainian port central to a landmark grain export deal had destroyed Western-supplied weapons, after the attack sparked an outcry from Ukraine’s allies. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was embarking on a tour of several countries in Africa and on his first stop in Egypt Sunday sought to reassure Cairo that Russian grain supplies would continue. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky […]
Istanbul, Turkey | AFP by Dmitry ZAKS with Frankie TAGGART in Kyiv Ukraine and Russia on Friday ended months of fraught negotiations and signed a landmark deal with Turkey and the United Nations aimed at relieving a global food crisis caused by blocked Black Sea grain deliveries. The first major deal between the warring parties since Russia’s February invasion should help ease the “acute hunger” that the UN estimates say now faces an additional 47 […]
New York, United States | AFP Wheat prices tumbled Friday, retreating to levels last seen prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a landmark agreement to unblock Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports. In Chicago, the price of wheat for delivery in September dropped 5.9 percent to $7.59 per bushel, which is equivalent to about 27 kilograms and the lowest close since Russia invaded its neighbor on February 24. On Euronext, wheat prices for delivery […]
Istanbul, Turkey | AFP Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Friday that conditions were in place to unlock grain exports from Ukraine in the “next few days” and promised Moscow would not take advantage of de-mined Ukrainian ports. “Today we have all the prerequisites and all the solutions for this process to begin in the next few days,” Shoigu said, after signing a landmark deal with the United Nations and Turkey on resuming grain shipments. […]
