Friday, July 15. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine

Business Friday, July 15. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine Katya Soldak Forbes Staff Forbes Ukraine Forbes Staff Jul 15, 2022, 04:37pm EDT | Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A Ukrainian serviceman carries toys to lay at the site of a Russian shelling on Thursday, in . .

. [+] Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Friday, July 15, 2022. Russian missiles struck the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 100 others, Ukrainian officials said.

(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Dispatches from Ukraine, provided by Forbes Ukraine’s editorial team. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues and the war rages on, reliable sources of information are critical.

Forbes Ukraine’s reporters gather information and provide updates on the situation. Friday, July 15. Day 142.

By Dmytro Aksyonov Mykolaiv. Russian forces have continued their shelling campaign on the city of Mykolaiv, leading to the destruction of two of the city’s universities and damage to civilian infrastructure, according to Hanna Zamazayeva, Head of Mykolaiv’s regional council. Four civilians were reported injured as a result of the shelling.

Odesa. Russian forces launched three rockets on infrastructure targets in the region, one of which was shot down by Ukrainian air defense, according to Sergiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the regional administration of the Odesa region. Russian forces continue to strike Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kremenchuk with rockets.

According to Regional Military Administrations, as of 9:27 P. M. Kyiv time, in the last 24 hours, Russian troops shelled Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Vinnytsia, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson regions.

27 people have been killed, including 3 children. 210 citizens have been injured. – A British aid worker named Paul Urey has died in Russian captivity in the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk People’s Republic.

He was detained on accusations of conducting “mercenary activity,” despite being officially registered as an aid worker. The British Foreign Office has summoned the Russian envoy for an explanation while blaming Urey’s death on Russia. MORE FOR YOU Pfizer Tests Pill That Could Prevent Covid Infection Liz Cheney Needles Trump For Bashing Bush: ‘I Like Republican Presidents Who Win Re-Election’ Covid Pandemic Slashes Life Expectancy — Here’s Where It Fell The Most According to Kherson regional administrator Dmytro Butriy, Ukrainian forces have pushed the Russian forces out of 44 settlements in the Kherson region as they prepare to mount a large-scale offensive to take back control of the southern region.

Butriy provided no timeframe for the operation. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba held a phone call communication with Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian. They discussed that Iran will not supply Russia with military aid and would not purchase stolen Ukrainian grain.

The conversation comes after several sources have reported that Iran was considering selling a large number of UAVs to Russia. T he European Commission has proposed a new round of sanctions on Russia, according to a statement released by the EU executive. The new package, which is significantly more limited in scope than the earlier six, would ban imports of Russian gold and seek to close loopholes used by Russia to oppose sanctions already in place.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed that the European Union “shot itself in the lungs” with ill-considered economic sanctions on Russia, which, unless rolled back, risk destroying the European economy. While Orban has been known to be a vocal skeptic of sanctioning Russia, particularly with regards to sanctions on Russia’s hydrocarbons, his comments imply that Hungary might not back further sanction packages which risks handicapping their effectiveness as EU sanctions require unanimous approval from all member states to be introduced. The International Monetary Fund expects Ukraine to continue to service its foreign debt, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday.

At the moment Ukraine is servicing its debt in an orderly way, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said during a scheduled news briefing. “We would expect that to continue. ” He said the Fund sees international community grant financing as a priority for the near-term, as “that would allow the Ukrainian government to remain operational without incurring further debt.

” Rice’s comments come as speculation mounts that Ukraine could default on its debt as a result of the economic fallout of the Russian invasion, which was further fueled by the de-facto default of the Ukrainian state energy company, Naftogaz. International debt-rating agency Moody’s MCO issued a comment on July 14 suggesting that a payment on eurobonds in national currency by Belarus, a key Russian ally, “constitutes a default. ” The Belarusian Finance Ministry has described the statement as a “provocation” aimed at creating an “artificial shock” around Belarusian eurobonds.

Farmers of the Voznesenka-Agro farm harvest with their combine in a wheat field not far from . . .

[+] Melitopol, south Ukraine, now occupied by Russia. Thursday, July 14, 2022. About 300,000 tonnes of harvest have been collected in Melitopol district of Zaporizhzhia region.

Russia took control of part of the Zaporizhzhia region quickly after the launch of the military operation in Ukraine. This photo was taken during a trip of the occupied areas, organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo) Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

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