So far Bulgaria has only sent one military aid package to Kyiv, containing mostly flak jackets and helmets, but a pro-EU government took office last month. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, claimed at a meeting with members of the Russian security council that Poland plan ned to occupy part of Ukraine, after Warsaw moved troops nearer the border with Belarus following Minsk’s commencement of exercises with Wagner trainers.īulgaria said it ha d decided to send about 100 armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine in the Balkan country’s first shipment of heavy equipment to Kyiv. The number of ships looking to pick up grain cargoes from the Black Sea area fell 35% week on week amid growing uncertainty over whether commercial traffic could be hit as Russia continues to pound food facilities in Ukraine. Russia arrested Igor Girkin, a former battlefield commander of its proxy forces in eastern Ukraine who was convicted by a Dutch court over the shooting down of MH17, on extremism charges probably fuelled by his criticism of the Russian war effort in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, condemned a Russian artillery attack in Donetsk that he said killed two children and damaged a school. The Ukrainian representative described his Russian counterpart as an “oddball” and accused Russia of “attempting to eliminate a market competitor, to deliberately raise global food prices and make profit at the expense of millions around the world”. He claimed that 70% of the exports entered high- and upper-middle income economies, while barriers to Russian exports remained. The Russian representative accused the western members of the security council of “hiding the truth”. At a meeting of the UN security council, the US representative said: “ It seems every single week, Russia stoops to a new low.” She added that Russia was “waging war on the world’s food supply” and that the country had “upended peace and security around the world”.
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