Sunday, July 24. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine

Business Sunday, July 24. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine Katya Soldak Forbes Staff Forbes Ukraine Forbes Staff Jul 24, 2022, 09:33pm EDT | Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A farmer collects harvest on a field around a crater left by a Russian rocket in the Dnipropetrovsk . .

. [+] region, Ukraine, on July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File) 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.

Sunday, July 24. Day 151. By Dmytro Aksyonov Mykolaiv.

Russian shelling on the city of Mykolaiv has resulted in five civilians injured , a ccording to Mykolaiv mayor Oleksandr Senkevych. Senkevych says that the strikes on the city rendered civilian infrastructure, factories, storage facilities and residential buildings unusable. The Ukrainian state logistics company, Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, has reported that following an agreement between Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, and the U.

N. on Friday regarding safety guarantees for Ukrainian grain exports, several Ukrainian ports, including the Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdennyi ports, are currently being prepared for grain export. As part of the deal, the arrival and departure of ships will be conducted in the form of a caravan accompanied by a lead ship.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Health has stated that since the start of Russia’s full-scale military invasion on February 24, at least 18 medical personnel have been killed, and over 50 have been injured. The ministry also said that 123 medical facilities in Ukraine have been totally destroyed by the invasion, while another 746 need repairs. While Russia has denied deliberately targeting medical facilities, several international humanitarian organizations have accused it of carrying out intentional strikes on hospitals, which is prohibited under international humanitarian law.

Speaking to journalists in Canada, Pope Francis said on Sunday that he has a “great desire” to visit Ukraine, restating his offer to serve as moderator to facilitate peace talks between the warring sides. While the Pope was quick to condemn Russia’s invasion, slamming it as unjust and cruel, he has also hinted that Western countries could be partly responsible for the start of the war, in comments that have been interpreted by some as an attempt to portray himself as a neutral party in the conflict. 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 The European Commission has announced that 492,647 Ukrainian children have been integrated into the national school systems of EU countries since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

EU member states, chief among them Poland, have faced the full force of the refugee crisis that resulted from the war, and while in the past few months the amount of people returning to Ukraine has slowly surpassed the amount of people leaving it, the fate of refugees still remaining in European countries remains uncertain. Following a report by The New York Times NYT that cited an unnamed U. N.

official as saying that Russia’s strike on the port in the city of Odesa could have “technically not broken” the rules of the grain export agreement signed by Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the U. N, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that U. N.

representatives denied the statement represented the organization’s official position. In Kharkiv region, State Emergency Service reports that on 24 July, a tractor blew up after running over an unidentified explosive device while working in a field on the outskirts of Kharkiv. The tractor driver, a man born in 1982, was killed on the spot, and the tractor caught fire.

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