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What has happened in the last hours

On the 138th day of the war initiated by Russia against Ukraine, these are the key data at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, July 11:

Death toll rises to 30 in Russian bombing in Donetsk province. The death toll of the bombing of a residential building this Saturday in the town of Chasiv Yar, 25 kilometers southeast of Jramatorsk, in Donetsk province, already amounts to 30, according to the Ukrainian government. The number of injured remains nine. “We have removed 65% of the rubble,” the Vice Minister of the Presidency, Kirilo Timoshenko, reported through his Telegram account cited by the Ukrinform agency.

kyiv affirms that the advance of its troops in the south of the country is “slow, but sure”. The advance of the Ukrainian troops in the south of the country is “slow, but sure”, as stated on Monday by the head of communications of the southern operational command of the Ukrainian Army, Nataliya Humenyuk. In a meeting with the press in kyiv, Humenyuk stressed that the situation on the southern front remains “stable” and that the Ukrainian forces are advancing positions.

Germany rules out raising the emergency level due to the reduction in Russian gas supply. The German government has ruled out raising the emergency level for the time being while waiting for the reestablishment of the flow of Russian gas once the maintenance tasks on the Nord Stream gas pipeline are finished, while at the same time assuring that the supply is currently guaranteed. “At the moment there is no question of declaring the next level and we cannot speculate on what will happen after the 21st,” said Susanne Ungrad, deputy spokesperson for the Economy at a press conference.

Turkey continues to try to mediate an agreement between Russia and Ukraine for the export of grain. The Turkish government has carried out this Monday a new round of negotiations with Russia and Ukraine to unblock the exit of Ukrainian cereals through its ports in the Black Sea, apparently without progress. First, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has talked with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on the subject. In an official note released by the public agency Anadolu, there was “an exchange of views” in which Erdogan once again called for a United Nations intervention to unblock the situation. Erdogan and Putin also discussed the situation in Syria, where both countries have a military presence.

Putin allows all Ukrainian citizens to apply for Russian citizenship on the fast track. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree simplifying the granting of Russian citizenship for all Ukrainians, according to the text of the document published on the legal information portal. Previously, this right was enjoyed by residents of the Ukrainian breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as residents of the Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson, in the south and partially occupied by Russian troops, among other categories of citizens. “Citizens of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic (…) have the right to apply for Russian citizenship through the simplified route,” reads the document.

Bolsonaro affirms that he has “almost closed” an agreement to buy cheaper diesel from Russia. The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has affirmed today that he has “almost closed” an agreement to buy cheaper diesel from Russia, subject to strong economic sanctions from the West for the war in Ukraine, to which Brazil has not joined. “When I went to Russia [en febrero pasado] I got fertilizers for agribusiness and now an agreement is almost closed for us to buy cheaper diesel from Russia,” the Brazilian president told a group of supporters outside his official residence in Brasilia.

In the photo by Sergei Koslov, for Efe, a group of Kharkov residents mourn after the bombing of their neighborhood.

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