Ukraine – Russia, news from the war today. Kharkiv, university hit.

Wheat, Ukraine: grains stolen from Russia in Lebanon

A Syrian cargo ship, subject to sanctions by the United States and containing barley and wheat from the Black Sea, has docked in the Lebanese port of Tripoli in the last few hours. And according to the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut, the ship is carrying cereals “stolen from Russia from Ukrainian warehouses”.
According to the Beirut press and international maritime traffic detectors, the ship ‘Laodicea’ (Roman name for the Syrian port of Latakia) arrived at the port of Tripoli in northern Lebanon two days ago.
In a statement from the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut and released today by the Lebanese media, we read: “the ship traveled from a port in Crimea closed to international transport, carrying 5 thousand tons of barley and 5,000 tons of flour that we suspect were taken from warehouses Ukrainians “.

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Lavrov: interview with Blinken in preparation

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said preparations are being made for a telephone interview between him and the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Lavrov, quoted by the Tass agency, added that he is ready to listen to “Blinken’s proposals on one exchange of prisoners and onexport of grain“But he said he thought it unlikely that the call will take place today.

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Orbán: “If the EU continues with sanctions, it will be a war economy”

“If Brussels does not change its policy on sanctions against Russia, from October all of Europe will have to prepare for a war economy”. This was stated by the Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán in his weekly public radio interview Mr Kossuth. The sovereign premier assured his people that Hungary will have enough gas for the winter, only the price causes problems, “showing monstrous fluctuations”.

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Pro-Russian: 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war killed in bombing of Kiev

Authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic reported the deaths of 40 Ukrainian prisoners in an attack by the Ukrainian army on a prison in the city of Yelenovka. For now, Kiev has not pronounced itself on the matter.

According to the Russian news agency Tass, the Deputy Minister of Information of the People’s Republic of Donetsk, Daniil Bezsonov, stressed that the attack would have been carried out with the Himars missile system, adding that “the budget for now is 40 dead and 130 injured. We are still removing the rubble and the numbers could increase. “

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Kiev: death toll rises to 8 bombing in Donetsk

The civilian death toll from the bombing by Russian troops rises to 8 Donetsk region happened yesterday, which also caused 19 injuries. This was reported on Telegram by Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, as reported Ukrinform. The Russian bombs resulted in 3 deaths in Bakhmut, 2 in Toretsk, 1 in Orlivka, 1 in Hirnik and 1 in Soledar, Kyrylenko reported.

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Lavrov will speak with Blinken about the release of American detainees “if time permits”

“If time permits”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks, on the release of US detainees, with his US counterpart Antony Blinken. This was stated by the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, quoted by the Russian news agency Tass, responding to the Washington statement that it would have asked for the release of US citizens detained, adding that Lavrov currently has a busy schedule of international meetings.
Blinken said yesterday that “in the next few days” he would face the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, both incarcerated in Moscow, in a phone call with Lavrov. However, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry had previously stated that no tangible results have yet been achieved regarding the release of the two US citizens. A similar conclusion was also communicated by the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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British intelligence: Wagner forces at the front in Ukraine but not decisive

“Since March, the Russian private military group Wagner has been operating in the eastern part of Ukraine in collaboration with the Russian army. The Wagner group has been entrusted with the responsibility of some sectors of the front line, in a similar way to the regular army” . This is what we read on the Twitter profile of the British Ministry of Defense, which reports intelligence updates. “This – reads the post – is a significant change compared to the previous use of the Wagner group up to 2015”. For British intelligence “the role of the Wagner group has changed probably because the Russian general staff is short of infantry forces, in any case the men of the Wagner group will hardly be enough to make a significant difference in the course of the war”.

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Russian bombs on Kerson oblast, at least 7 dead

The toll from the bombing carried out by Russian forces in the last few hours in the southern Ukrainian oblast of Kherson is seven dead and six injured, according to local police quoted by the Kyiv Independent.
Several houses in four settlements were destroyed or damaged in the attacks. Russian forces reportedly stole civilian vehicles and a passenger ship that they allegedly used to cross the Dnipro River in the damaged Antonivsky Bridge area.

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Ukraine: attack on Kharkiv, home and university hit

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that Russian forces hit a two-story house and a university. This was reported by Kyiv Independent. Rescuers are at work on site and there is still no news of victims.

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Kiev: Russians use Ukrainian uniform to mislead our army

To mislead the Ukrainian army, the Russians used the field uniform of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with white bandages on the arms and legs during an assault attempt in the Piskiv area in northeastern Ukraine. This was stated by the Ukrainian General Staff, as reported by theUkrainska Pravda.

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Truss: “Fly against me? Sign of Gb strength”

“The fact that Russia has spread propaganda about me is a sign of the strength that the UK has shown in leading the free world in the fight against Moscow and that, in supporting Ukraine, it has had a real impact.” This was stated by Liz Truss, British Foreign Minister and candidate for the succession of Prime Minister Boris Jhonson, in the debate in Leeds with his rival Rishi Sunak.

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USA: ‘Russia sponsors terrorism’, Senate ok for resolution

The US Senate unanimously passed a non-binding resolution asking Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate Russia as a terrorist sponsor state for its actions in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Ukraine. Actions which resulted in the deaths of thousands of “innocent men, women and children”. A similar measure was introduced in the House, where speaker Nancy Pelosi is in favor. While not binding, the resolution increases pressure on the Biden administration to include Russia on the list of sponsoring countries of terrorism which includes Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria.

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Kiev: ship with stolen Ukrainian barley entered Tripoli

Ukraine’s ambassador to Lebanon Ostash protested in a meeting with Lebanon’s president Michel Aoun denouncing that yesterday a Syrian ship loaded with barley exported from the occupied territories of Ukraine entered the port of Tripoli. TheUkrainska Pravda. The ambassador requested “the adoption of measures to clarify the circumstances of his stay in Lebanese territorial waters”, underlining that “this fact may damage bilateral relations”.

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Zelensky: “Nobody in the world invests in terrorism like Russia”

“In the first half of the day alone, and in Kiev alone, there were four air warnings. The Russian army launched missile attacks on the Kiev region, Kropyvnytskyi, hit Mykolaiv, continued a series of strategically senseless and brutal attacks on the Donbas … I thank all those who have rejected this terror. And I also want to thank the American senators who have unanimously approved the resolution calling on the US State Department to recognize Russia as a sponsor state of terrorism. Just any day in Ukraine – today or any other after February 24 – to see that no one in the world invests more in terrorism than Russia. ” Thus Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his usual evening video.

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