A Russian military delegation arrived in Istanbul for the opening, on 27 July, of a Joint Coordination Centre for resuming the export of grain from Ukraine’s ports. Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on grain exports in Istanbul on 19 July after months of negotiations with the mediation of Turkey and the UN. Meanwhile, the first train transporting cement has arrived in Kaliningrad, crossing Lithuania, after the EU lifted the restrictions.
The US announced it was working on Plan B, together with Ukraine, for the export of grain after the Russian strike against the port of Odessa, US Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator Samantha Power told the CNN. “Plan B involves road and rail and river and sending in barges and adjusting the rail systems so that they're better aligned with those in Europe so that the exports can move out more quickly,” she said.
The European Investment Bank has approved EUR 1.59 billion of financial aid to Ukraine, EUR 1.05 billion of which will be allocated immediately.
According to British military intelligence, in the past 10 days there have been no significant changes along the frontline. In the South the Ukrainian army declared two settlements in Kherson region had been cleared and taken definitively. Antonivka bridge over the Dnieper near Kherson, which is of strategic significance for Russia’s defence, has been hit for the second time.
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed Vranchev expressed, in written form, a desire to leave the Movement’s parliamentary group. DPS..
Several European liberal parties have sent a letter to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) to demand that Delyan Peevski be monitored, pointing out that he has been sanctioned for corruption by the US under the Global Magnitsky..
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern flank. “Today my Bulgarian and Romanian counterparts, Mr. Atanas Zaprianov and Mr. Angel..
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed..
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern..
On Friday the weather will be sunny and hot. Clouds will form in the afternoon but there will only be isolated showers in some parts in Eastern..
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