Assault on hospital in Mykolaiv described as ‘cynical terrorism’ by mayor
The mayor of Mykolaiv has stated an assault on medical amenities within the metropolis right this moment is “nothing greater than cynical terrorism by Russian troops”.
Oleksandr Syenkevych described the injury on Telegram, informing residents:
For a while, our emergency hospital will be unable to just accept sufferers.
There it’s essential to dismantle the rubble of the destroyed trauma centre and take away harmful buildings from the surviving half, dismantle the frames of broken home windows and take away all the rubbish.
A part of the hospital’s essential constructing was additionally destroyed. There, too, it’s crucial to place every thing so as. In these departments that survived, we are going to take away all of the particles, block the home windows and examine the tools.
He added: “That is an bizarre hospital, which each day acquired residents of town, together with victims of Russian shelling. Due to this fact, right this moment’s assault on this medical facility is nothing greater than cynical terrorism by Russian troops.”
Photographs have emerged of firefighters tackling a blaze on the hospital, and of a crater left by the assault.
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Russian lawmakers on Monday tabled a invoice that might ban the adoption of Russian youngsters by residents of “unfriendly” nations as tensions soar over Moscow’s navy intervention in Ukraine.
If handed, the invoice would develop a 2012 legislation that prohibited US households from adopting Russian youngsters, AFP stories.
On the time the ban provoked an outcry, with Kremlin critics saying made Russian orphans – many with bodily or psychological difficulties – the victims of a standoff between Washington and Moscow.
The brand new invoice printed on the web site of parliament’s decrease home, the State Duma, proposes extending the ban to residents of nations “that commit unfriendly actions” in opposition to Russia.
After the West piled unprecedented sanctions on Moscow following President Vladimir Putin’s determination to ship troops to pro-Western Ukraine on February 24, Russia expanded the listing of what it calls “unfriendly” nations.
They now embody the US, Australia, Canada, Britain, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and all EU member states.
The invoice must be authorized by each chambers of Russian parliament and signed into legislation by Putin.
In 2012, Moscow banned the adoption of Russian youngsters by American households to punish Washington over its passing of a legislation sanctioning Russian officers implicated within the loss of life in jail of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
Because the legislation was launched, the variety of Russian youngsters adopted by international households has dropped drastically.
State information company TASS stated 240 Russian youngsters have been adopted overseas in 2019, in contrast with 2,604 in 2012.
Full story: Grain ship leaves Ukraine port for first time since Russia blockade
Isobel Koshiw
A ship carrying Ukrainian grain has left the port of Odesa for the primary time because the begin of the Russian invasion below an internationally brokered deal to unblock Ukraine’s agricultural exports and ease a rising world meals disaster.
The Sierra Leone-flagged ship Razoni, carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn, lastly set sail for Lebanon on Monday morning, in keeping with Ukraine’s infrastructure ministry, after weeks of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, led by Turkey and the United Nations.
The Russian blockade of Ukraine’s ports because the begin of the conflict in February has stoked a worldwide grain scarcity that has triggered the UN to warn of a looming starvation disaster.
“Ukraine, along with our companions, has taken one other step right this moment in stopping world starvation,” stated Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister. He stated Ukraine had executed “every thing” to revive the ports and stated the lifting of the blockade would give Ukraine’s financial system $1bn (£820m) in international change income.
The Kremlin stated the information of the departure was “very constructive”, and Turkey’s defence ministry stated extra ships would comply with. Kubrakov stated 16 loaded vessels had been caught in Ukraine’s ports because the Russian invasion started, and officers deliberate for the ports to regain full transport capability within the coming weeks.
In the meantime, combating continued throughout Ukraine’s frontlines, in keeping with Ukraine’s normal workers, as 4 further US-supplied Himars long-range rocket techniques in addition to a 3rd German Mars II, one other long-range rocket system, arrived in Ukraine.
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Russia bans 39 extra Britons together with Labour chief Keir Starmer
Moscow has blacklisted one other 39 Britons together with the Labour occasion chief, Keir Starmer, and the previous prime minister David Cameron.
Russia’s international ministry stated the residents listed, together with journalists, “contribute to the hostile course of London aimed on the demonisation of our nation and its worldwide isolation”.
Russia has banned 39 extra British journalists and politicians from getting into the nation, together with Starmer, Cameron and Piers Morgan pic.twitter.com/BaCcpSydCx
— Pjotr Sauer (@PjotrSauer) August 1, 2022
The ministry added:
The selection in favour of confrontation is the acutely aware determination of the British political institution, which bears all accountability for the results.
Russia has banned a number of dozen British residents – principally politicians and journalists – from getting into Russia because the begin of its navy marketing campaign in Ukraine.
The brand new additions embody a number of Labour MPs, Scottish politicians and members of the Home of Lords.
Among the many media names is the top of the BBC newsgathering, Jonathan Munro, the TV presenter Piers Morgan, ITV Information’ political editor Robert Peston, The Sunday Instances’ political editor Caroline Wheeler and the BBC Information presenter Huw Edwards.
The listing additionally options shadow communities secretary Lisa Nandy, shadow worldwide commerce secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds and Conservative former cupboard minister Liam Fox.
Reacting to the information on Twitter, Morgan stated:
It wasn’t on my fast trip to-do listing.
Assault on hospital in Mykolaiv described as ‘cynical terrorism’ by mayor
The mayor of Mykolaiv has stated an assault on medical amenities within the metropolis right this moment is “nothing greater than cynical terrorism by Russian troops”.
Oleksandr Syenkevych described the injury on Telegram, informing residents:
For a while, our emergency hospital will be unable to just accept sufferers.
There it’s essential to dismantle the rubble of the destroyed trauma centre and take away harmful buildings from the surviving half, dismantle the frames of broken home windows and take away all the rubbish.
A part of the hospital’s essential constructing was additionally destroyed. There, too, it’s crucial to place every thing so as. In these departments that survived, we are going to take away all of the particles, block the home windows and examine the tools.
He added: “That is an bizarre hospital, which each day acquired residents of town, together with victims of Russian shelling. Due to this fact, right this moment’s assault on this medical facility is nothing greater than cynical terrorism by Russian troops.”
Photographs have emerged of firefighters tackling a blaze on the hospital, and of a crater left by the assault.
A crew member onboard the Razoni, which left Odesa this morning, has stated the information that the ship would depart was the “finest feeling” of the 12 months. Abdullah Jendi, a junior engineer from Syria, had been caught in Odesa for a while, and stated that due to his work at sea he had not seen his household for greater than a 12 months.
“It was a fantastic feeling,” he stated in regards to the information they might go away. “Everybody on the ship was very completely happy. I can say that it was the most effective feeling we now have had in 2022.”
He admitted some concern, nonetheless. He advised Reuters: “To be trustworthy, I’m scared from the truth that there are naval mines. That is the one factor that I concern throughout this journey. As for the opposite issues, we’re used to them as sailors.”
Jendi stated alarms would go off in Odesa each day and the crew had feared they’d by no means get to go house. “We didn’t know once we could be launched, so we lived each day on the hope of being launched,” he stated. “At first there was a scarcity of meals and water provides reaching the ship, as there was a lockdown when the conflict began. When the restrictions have been eased, we have been in a position to go to town and purchase what we wanted and clear our minds from the stress.”
The journey to Lebanon will take a few week.
“The sensation is indescribable. It’s so necessary to dwell in safety, as a result of I spent some time experiencing the sensation of hazard, the good concern realizing that at any second one thing may occur to us due to the air strikes,” Jendi stated.
“We couldn’t even activate the lights at evening. We couldn’t be outdoors at evening for our security. The port could be fully darkish for safety causes.”
Ukrainian forces have recaptured greater than 40 settlements in the important thing southern area of Kherson, as Kyiv seems to be to drive again Russian troops in a counteroffensive, the native governor stated Monday.
Moscow seized nearly all of the territory of the economically and strategically necessary area bordering the annexed Crimea peninsula in the course of the first days of its invasion, Reuters stories.
However in current weeks the Ukrainian military, bolstered by deliveries of western-supplied long-range artillery, has sought to stage a counteroffensive within the space.
Kyiv’s forces have been finishing up strikes on Russian navy warehouses and positions behind the frontline and hit bridges performing as essential provide routes for Moscow’s troops within the metropolis of Kherson.
“Right now, 46 settlements have already been de-occupied within the Kherson area,” Dmytro Butriy, the top of the Ukrainian regional administration, advised nationwide TV.
Butriy added that almost all of the regained villages lie within the northern a part of the area, whereas some others are positioned in its southern half, near the Black Sea and the closely bombarded Mykolaiv area.
The governor stated a number of the recaptured villages “have been 90% destroyed and right this moment are nonetheless below fixed fireplace”.
Butriy stated the humanitarian scenario within the area was “essential” and he reiterated authorities’ name to those that stay within the space “to evacuate to safer areas”.
Ukraine has acquired a batch of 4 extra US-made excessive mobility artillery rocket techniques (Himars), Ukraine’s defence minister stated on Monday.
Oleksii Reznikov wrote on Twitter that he was grateful for the assistance strengthening the Ukraine military.
4 further HIMARS have arrived in🇺🇦. I’m grateful to @POTUS @SecDef Lloyd Austin III and 🇺🇸individuals for strengthening of #UAarmy
We have now confirmed to be sensible operators of this weapon. The sound of the #HIMARS volley has grow to be a high hit 🎶 of this summer time on the entrance strains!
🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/iOBoxfjV7e— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) August 1, 2022
Himars have an extended vary and are extra exact than Ukraine’s Soviet-era artillery, permitting Ukrainian forces to hit Russian targets that have been beforehand unreachable, Reuters stories.
Shaun Walker
My colleague Shaun Walker has seemed into Dmitry Medvedev’s journey from liberal to anti-western hawk. Critics say the previous Russian chief’s livid tirades are a determined try to retain political relevance.
Joe Biden is a “unusual grandfather with dementia”. The EU management are “lunatics”. Russia will be sure that Ukraine “disappears from the map” within the close to future.
Welcome to a different week as seen by way of the eyes of Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and prime minister, and the deputy head of the nation’s safety council.
Medvedev has been on fairly a political journey lately. Again in 2008, when he grew to become Russia’s president, he promised modernisation and liberalisation, and steadily spoke of his love for running a blog and devices. He even visited Silicon Valley and acquired a brand new iPhone 4 from Steve Jobs.
Now, he’s an enthusiastic participant within the macho posturing and genocidal rhetoric which have grow to be the primary forex of political discourse in wartime Moscow.
“I’m usually requested why my Telegram posts are so harsh,” wrote Medvedev not too long ago. “Nicely, I’ll reply: I hate them. They’re bastards and degenerates. They need us, Russia, to die. And whereas I’m nonetheless alive, I’ll do every thing to make them disappear.” He didn’t specify whether or not the “they” in query referred to Ukrainians, western politicians, or each.
Medvedev’s bodily transformation is as extraordinary as his ideological shift: a decade in the past he was boyish, nerdy and appeared nearly charmingly awkward sporting a swimsuit and conducting the enterprise of state. Now he seems to be jaded and puffy-faced, his eyes glazed over as he launches tirades in opposition to the west.
Medvedev’s rebooted persona is an obvious try to retain political relevance in a local weather that has darkened considerably within the decade since he left the presidency.
“He’s making an attempt to avoid wasting himself from political oblivion by out-Heroding Herod, and consequently posturing as a candidate in a Kremlin Apprentice present,” stated Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist on the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.
Maria Pevchikh, an affiliate of the imprisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, interpreted Medvedev’s shift in additional private phrases: “While you really feel you’re a pointless and pathetic particular person, like Dmitry Medvedev, you attempt to reinvent your self once in a while. He may have shaved his head, or gone to the fitness center … however as an alternative he determined to reinvent himself as a hawk,” she stated, in a video dialogue dedicated to Medvedev’s unusual behaviour in Might.
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The EU and Nato on Monday welcomed the departure of the grain cargo from Ukraine as a “first step” in direction of easing the meals disaster brought on by the Russian invasion.
However an EU spokesperson, Peter Stano, stated Brussels nonetheless anticipated the “implementation of the entire deal and resumption of Ukrainian exports to the shoppers world wide”, Agence France-Press stories.
Individually, the Nato secretary normal, Jens Stoltenberg, stated western allies “strongly help the total implementation of the deal to ease the worldwide meals disaster brought on by Russia’s conflict in Ukraine”.
Earlier the Razoni, a Sierra Leone-registered cargo ship, had left the Ukrainian port of Odesa sure for Lebanon with an important cargo of 26,000 tonnes of grain.
It was the primary vessel to go away a Ukrainian port since Moscow and Kyiv signed an settlement brokered by Turkey and the UN to allow meals shipments regardless of the battle.
Talking to the EU international service, Stano accused the Kremlin of blocking the shipments for months and famous that Russia had fired missiles on the port of Odesa a day after the deal was signed.
He blamed the meals shortages affecting elements of the Center East and Africa on “the unprovoked Russian aggression on February 24 and the blocking of Ukrainian ports and grain exports”.
Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February and have seized or bombarded a number of ports, a few of which Ukrainian defenders have since mined to guard them.
Underneath the deal signed in Istanbul on 22 July, Ukraine is to take away the mines and Russia to elevate its blockade, however shipments have been gradual to restart and combating on land continues.
As well as, in keeping with Stano, Russia is “destroying the fields in Ukraine, destroying the silos in Ukraine, burning the grain or looting and making an attempt to promote it on behalf of Russia”.
The European Union has despatched Ukraine €1bn (£837m) in monetary assist to help its funds and assist it sort out the monetary penalties of the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian prime minister stated on Monday.
Denys Shmyhal wrote on the Telegram messaging app:
The €1bn is part of a big package deal of help for Ukraine … totalling €9bn. The funds will assist finance precedence budgetary wants.
He stated the primary tranche, amounting to €500m, was already within the account of the Ukrainian central financial institution, whereas the rest is anticipated to be there on 2 August.
Adam Gabbatt
Twitter accounts which have promoted QAnon and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are switching focus and more and more spreading disinformation in regards to the world meals disaster brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in keeping with a brand new research.
The analysis by the Community Contagion Analysis Institute (NCRI) discovered that conspiracy theorist social media accounts have began pushing the concept western nations are liable for the interruption of wheat, barley and maize exports from Ukraine.
The Russian authorities has made the identical claims in current weeks, blaming western sanctions for a slowdown in grain exports. Russia has blocked Ukraine’s transport ports, which has prevented the export of tens of tens of millions of tonnes of grain. The UN has advised 49 million individuals could possibly be pushed into famine or famine-like situations due to Russia’s actions.
The NCRI, which tracks misinformation and manipulation on social media, discovered that conspiracy communities and influencers linked to QAnon, the extremist conspiracy motion whose followers imagine Donald Trump is waging conflict in opposition to the “deep state”, are shifting from conspiracy theories round Covid-19 to meals disaster disinformation.
In keeping with NCRI, the accounts steadily hyperlink rising meals insecurity to a “cabal of shadowy, and infrequently Jewish elites, for bringing in regards to the ‘New World Order’”, slightly than to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a single instance GhostEzra, an antisemitic QAnon social media influencer who has declared Covid “pretend”, wrote on Telegram: “By no means imagine for one second there’s a scarcity of something. Meals. Water. Oil. They create and manufacture these shortages. These aren’t naturally occurring in anyway.”
The “they”, the NCRI stated, referred to Jewish individuals.
“There’s a important overlap between QAnon and different anti-vax and on-line conspiracy communities,” stated Alex Goldenberg, the lead intelligence analyst on the NCRI and a analysis fellow on the Rutgers Miller Middle for Neighborhood Safety and Resilience.
“Among the extra vibrant food-mandate conspiracies intermingle with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.”
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Abstract of the day to this point …
- The Sierra Leone-flagged ship Razoni, carrying 26,000 tons of corn, has left the port of Odesa, destined for Lebanon. It’s the first such departure because the begin of the Russian invasion, in keeping with Ukraine’s infrastructure ministry. “Ukraine along with our companions has taken one other step right this moment in stopping world starvation,” Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, stated in a press release on Monday. Kubrakov pressured that Ukraine had executed “every thing” to revive the ports and stated the lifting of the blockade would give Ukraine’s financial system $1bn in international change income.
- Russia agreed to permit grain ships to go away Ukraine and to not assault them, in a deal signed on 22 July in Istanbul. However lower than 24 hours later, the veracity of the deal was forged into doubt when Russian forces struck Odesa port. When questioned by Turkey’s defence minister, Russia at first denied it was concerned within the assault. However the subsequent day it issued a press release saying it had struck a Ukrainian vessel carrying western weapons that was within the port. Ukraine’s authorities rejected Russia’s rationalization.
- Russia is shifting giant numbers of troops to Ukraine’s south in preparation for a Ukrainian counteroffensive, in keeping with Ukraine’s deputy head of navy intelligence. “They’re growing their troop numbers, getting ready for our counteroffensive [in Ukraine’s south] and maybe getting ready to launch an offensive of their very own,” Vadym Skibitsky stated. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, stated Russia was relocating a few of its troops from their positions within the east to the south in an effort to push in direction of Kherson’s regional capital in addition to the Zaporizhzhia area.
- Tons of of hundreds of civilians have been urged to evacuate the frontline japanese Donetsk area, the scene of fierce clashes with the Russian navy. Greater than 50,000 youngsters are nonetheless within the area, in keeping with native officers. “They have to be evacuated, you can not put them in mortal hazard within the winter with out heating, gentle, with out the flexibility to maintain them heat,” Kyiv’s ministry of reintegration of quickly occupied territories stated in a press release.
- Russia claims 5 individuals have been injured after a Ukrainian drone strike on its Black Sea fleet headquarters, prompting officers to cancel festivities deliberate for Navy Day. “Early this morning, [Ukraine] determined to spoil our Navy Day,” stated Mikhail Razvozhayev, the top of the native Russian administration in Sevastopol in Crimea. “An unidentified object flew into the yard of the fleet headquarters. In keeping with preliminary knowledge, it was a drone. 5 individuals have been injured.”
- Russian strikes hit the southern Ukrainian port metropolis of Mykolaiv early on Sunday, wounding three individuals and damaging properties and colleges, in keeping with town’s mayor, Oleksandr Senkevych. Zelenskiy described the strikes as “in all probability essentially the most brutal” on town and area of your entire conflict.
- Russian shelling on Mykolaiv reportedly killed considered one of Ukraine’s wealthiest males, Oleksiy Vadatursky, and his spouse, Raisa. Vadatursky headed the grain manufacturing and export enterprise Nibulon, which included a fleet of ships for sending grain overseas. A presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, stated Vadatursky was particularly focused and his loss of life was “not an accident, however a nicely thought out and organised premeditated homicide”.
That’s it from me, Martin Belam for now. I will likely be again in a while. Nicola Slawson will likely be with you for the subsequent few hours.
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