Russia-Ukraine Crisis Live Updates | 5 civilians killed, 18 injured in heavy Russian shelling

Ukraine launched long-range rocket attacks on Russian forces in southern Ukraine and destroyed an ammunition store, its military said, as Russia continued country’s former pound,

Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday that 52 people were killed in an attack on Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region. Authorities established in the city’s Russia said that at least seven people were killed and about 70 were injured, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.

“Based on the results of our rocket and artillery units, the enemy lost 5️2 (people), one Msta-B howitzer, one mortar and seven armored and other vehicles, as well as an ammunition depot in Nova Kakhovka,” Ukraine’s Southern Military Command said in a statement.

Pro-Russian officials said civilians were killed in the attack.

Since Russia started in February It is called a special campaign for the demilitarization of Ukraine.Cities have been bombed, thousands killed, and millions displaced. Ukraine and its Western allies say Russia is engaged in unprovoked land grabbing.

Russian forces have occupied a large part of Ukraine’s south and are waging war in the Donbass, the eastern industrial heartland of Luhansk and Donetsk provinces.

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Kyiv

5 civilians killed, 18 injured in heavy Russian shelling

Refurbished Russian artillery barrages across Ukraine killed at least five civilians and wounded 18 others in the past days, Ukraine’s president’s office reported on Wednesday, as Moscow sought to increase its gains in the country’s east and strengthen it. tried to do.

Most of the deaths occurred in Donetsk province, part of the region where pro-Russian separatists have fought for eight years and the Kremlin is bent on taking over. Donetsk’s administrative head Pavlo Kirilenko said the city of Bakhmut suffered particularly heavy shelling as the current focus of Russia’s offensive.

Governor Serhi Haidai said Ukrainian troops struggled to maintain control of two outlying villages in nearby Luhansk province, which has been conquered by Russian and separatist forces.

Luhansk and Donetsk together make up the Donbass region of Ukraine, which is a region of mostly Russian-speaking steel factories, mines and other industries important to the economy.

“The Russians are deliberately turning the Donbass to ashes, and there are no people left in the occupied territories,” Haidai said. , AP

Moscow

Kremlin critic accused of criticizing fighting in Ukraine

Russian prosecutors on Tuesday filed criminal charges against another opposition figure who has criticized Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, his lawyer said.

Ilya Yashin was to be released after spending 15 days in prison for not obeying the police.

Instead, Yashin was charged under a new law, making it a crime to spread false information about the military, his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said.

It carries a possible sentence of up to 15 years in prison. – PTI

Istanbul

Russian, Ukrainian military ready to discuss grain exports

Military officials from Russia and Ukraine were set to hold their governments’ first face-to-face talks during a session in Istanbul on Wednesday dedicated to a UN plan to export Ukrainian grain to world markets via the Black Sea. was dedicated to.

Turkish military officials and UN representatives also planned to participate in the discussion, which focused on finding a way to sit in silos of the millions of tons of grain shipped from the country’s ports to the Mediterranean Sea amid the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but Russia’s invasion and war disrupted production and halted shipments, jeopardizing food supplies in many developing countries, particularly significantly in Africa, and contributed to higher prices.

Turkey has offered to provide a secure Black Sea Corridor and has worked with the United Nations, Russia and Ukraine to reach an agreement. Turkish officials have said the United Nations will set up a center to control shipments in Istanbul. – AP

New York

Barclays Research takes stock of the effects of war

According to the 67th edition of the Equity Guilt Study by Barclays Research, the pandemic and war in Ukraine have forced European states to seek greater financial and political cooperation. It said that this cooperation includes a shared diplomacy and defense policy as well as a shared energy policy.

Barclays analysts note that the war is prompting governments and corporations to re-examine the resilience of their supply chains and other economic relationships. This could at least partially reverse the multi-decade trend of globalization. – AP

Jakarta

G20 host Indonesia expects progress in finance major talks despite conflict amid war

G20 finance leaders will meet in Bali this week for talks due to include issues such as global food security and rising inflation, as host Indonesia tries to ensure friction over the war in Ukraine does not scuttle discussions.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hit a meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of 20 major economies last week, as Russia’s top diplomat walked out of a meeting and accused the West of “frenzied criticism”.

Indonesia expects to issue a communiqué when talks end on Saturday, although its central bank governor said the meeting would be summarized in a chairman’s statement if that is not possible.

“We hope for the best, but certainly prepare for the worst,” said Peri Varajio, governor of Indonesia’s central bank. – Reuters

Kyiv

52 killed in Russian ammunition depot attack in the south

The Ukrainian military on Tuesday reported the destruction of a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine, resulting in a massive outburst on social media, while rescuers said the death toll from a weekend Russian attack in the country’s east rose to turned 52.

One Overnight rocket attack targets Russian-occupied depot in Nova Kakhovka, said the Southern Command of the Ukrainian Army. Nova Kakhovka is about 55 kilometers (35 mi) east of the Black Sea port city of Kherson, which is also occupied by Russian forces.

The accuracy of the attack suggested that the Ukrainian military used the US-supplied Multiple-Launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS. Ukraine has signaled in recent days that it may launch a retaliation to reclaim territory in the south as Russia bombed the eastern Donbass region. – AP

Washington

US, allies aim to limit Russian oil prices to stop aggression

With thousands of sanctions already imposed on Russia to flatten its economy, the US and its allies are working on new measures to starve the Russian war machine, as well as keep oil and gasoline prices from rising to that level. that could crush the global economy.

Oil – the main pillar of the Kremlin’s financial revenue – has kept the Russian economy afloat despite export embargoes, sanctions and freezing of central bank assets. America’s European allies are planning to follow the Biden administration and halt their use of Russian oil by the end of this year, a move that some economists say could collapse oil supplies around the world. and the prices may go up to $200. a barrel.

At that risk the US and its allies are seeking to set up a buyer cartel to control the price of Russian oil. The Group of Seven leaders has agreed to temporarily withdraw a cap on the price of Russian oil. Simply put, the participating countries will agree to buy oil at a price lower than the market.

The idea behind the cap is to lower gas prices for consumers and help prevent war in Ukraine. However, China and India, two countries that have maintained trade relations with Russia during the war, will be required to join the board. The administration is confident that China and India, already buying from Russia at subsidized prices, may be tempted to adopt a price cap scheme. – AP

Sydney

Germany will stop buying Russian coal from August 1 Oil on December 31

Germany will completely stop buying Russian coal on August 1 and Russian oil on December 31, Deputy Finance Minister Georg Kukis told a conference in Sydney, marking a major change in the source of the country’s energy supply.

The major challenge ahead will be to fill the huge gap that will be left when EU isolates itself The 158 billion cubic meters (BCM) per year of gas that Russia supplies, Mr. Cookies said. – Reuters

Washington

Ukraine receives $1.7B in fresh aid to pay health care workers

Ukraine is receiving an additional $1.7 billion in aid from the United States government and the World Bank to pay the wages of its distressed health care workers and provide other essential services.

Money coming Tuesday from the US Agency for International Development, the Treasury Department and the World Bank to ease the sharp budget deficit caused by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brutal war of wrath”, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Is. said in a statement. – AP

Moscow

Putin to visit Iran next week

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran next week, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, a day after the United States warned that Tehran could provide drones to Moscow for its actions in Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that during his visit to Tehran next Tuesday, Mr Putin will participate in a tripartite meeting with the leaders of Iran and Turkey, the so-called Astana format for talks related to Syria.

Mr Putin’s visit to Iran will follow US President Joe Biden’s visits to Israel and Saudi Arabia this week, where Iran’s nuclear program and “malicious activities” in the region will be a major topic of discussion.

Mr. Peskov told reporters that upon his visit to Tehran, Mr. Putin would also hold a separate meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.