Business Saturday, August 20. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine Katya Soldak Forbes Staff Forbes Ukraine Forbes Staff Aug 20, 2022, 07:16pm EDT | Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Tikhon Pavlov, 11, walks past a destroyed gym where he used to take karate lessons, after an early . .
. [+] morning rocket attack hit the Kramatorsk College of Technologies and Design in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022.
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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. Saturday, August 20.
Day 178. By Dmytro Aksyonov Voznesensk. Russian forces launched a rocket strike on the city of Voznesenks, in the Mykolaiv region, which struck a residential building and injured twelve civilians, four of them children, according to the Mykolaiv regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Four of the injured are reported to be in critical condition. Representatives of the Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom have decried the attack as a nuclear provocation , as the city of Voznesensk is located close to the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant and the attack was launched in the plant’s direction. Donetsk.
Ukraine’s Donetsk region continues to be the most active area of the war and fighting is taking a heavy toll on civilians, as local officials report seven deaths and 13 injuries as a result of shelling and bombing. Four deaths were reported in the city of Bakhmut, and one in each of the towns of Druzhba, Kostiantynivka and Pivnichne. A spokesperson for Britain’s foreign ministry said on Friday that Russia has “no moral right” to attend the Group of 20 while it presses on with its invasion of Ukraine.
Indonesia, which will host the G20 Leaders Summit in November, has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will attend. Representatives of the White House have previously said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy must be invited to the summit if the Russian leader is to attend. Recommended For You 1 Pfizer Tests Pill That Could Prevent Covid Infection More stories like this Fewer stories like this 2 Liz Cheney Needles Trump For Bashing Bush: ‘I Like Republican Presidents Who Win Re-Election’ More stories like this Fewer stories like this 3 Covid Pandemic Slashes Life Expectancy — Here’s Where It Fell The Most More stories like this Fewer stories like this U.
S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo held a call with Turkey’s Deputy Finance Minister, Yunus Elitas, in which he warned that Russian entities and individuals were attempting to use Turkey to bypass Western sanctions imposed over Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, the Treasury Department said. Some Western officials have previously suggested that in the event of an increase in financial cooperation between Ankara and Moscow, some sanctions could be applied to Turkey.
The United States has plans to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by Russian naval blockade, the World Food Program chief David Beasley told The Associated Press . The final destinations for the grain are not confirmed and discussions continue, Beasley said. But the planned shipment, one of several the U.
N. agency is pursuing, is more than six times the amount of grain that the first WFP-arranged ship from Ukraine is now carrying to people in the Horn of Africa at risk of starvation. Ukraine was the source of half the grain that WFP bought last year to feed 130 million starving people.
In the 20 days since the start of the U. N. -led grain exports deal operation, 27 ships bearing a total of 670,000 tons of agricultural products left Ukrainian seaports , reports the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure.
Additionally, the Ministry said that 18 ships have entered ports and are currently being loaded, and there are about 40 more applications for shipment under consideration Katya Soldak Forbes Ukraine Editorial Standards Print Reprints & Permissions.
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