Red Cross seeks access to Olenivka prison, Ukraine fears grain harvest will halve - Business News

2022-07-31 23:46:35 By : Ms. Sandy Guo

Need help?Contact the Customer Service Department of "Verslo žinios".by phone (8 5) 252 6330 or e-mailby mail prenumerata@verslozinios.lt.The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday that it has not yet received permission to visit the Olenivka prison, where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in a bombing."So far we have not received any official confirmation that we are allowed to visit the site or the POWs affected by the attack, and so far our offer of material assistance has not been accepted," the ICRC said in a statement.In a tweet on Sunday, V. Zelenskiy shared his fear that Ukraine's grain harvest this year could be halved compared to last year."Our main goal is to help prevent a global food crisis caused by Russia," stated V. Zelensky's post.Last week, the Prime Minister of Ukraine considered whether it would be possible to raise 65-70 million.t of grain and reach 70% of the previous volume.The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reports that a 40-wagon train with equipment and ammunition transported by Russia from occupied Crimea was destroyed in the Kherson region.According to the representative of the Ministry, the target, which was at the Brilevka train station, was destroyed by American HIMARS salvo missile fire systems, unian.net reports.In the city of Irpiny, located in the Kyiv region, 70% of which was destroyed by Russia's military aggression, life is slowly returning to normal: the population is increasing, the reconstruction of the city is underway, according to the materials of unian.net photo correspondents.According to the mayor of the city, Alexander Markushin, many important infrastructures were damaged, houses and cars were burned.Irpinė was one of the first to be occupied by Russian forces, and it was managed to be liberated on March 28.According to Ukrainian intelligence, there are six battalion tactical groups (BTGs) in Belarus, near the border with Ukraine, where military equipment is being assembled, the movement of which is constantly monitored and the threat would be responded to accordingly, writes unian.net."Our intelligence monitors the movement of Russian soldiers, but we also watch what is happening in Belarus, in which directions and what equipment is moving," says Ukrainian military expert Oleg Zhdanov.The shelling of a prison in the territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists in Olenivka, Donetsk region, in which more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed, was a deliberate Russian war crime, unian.net reports."We have three pieces of evidence, including satellite images, that show the explosion took place inside the building," said Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president.Russia insists, without providing any evidence, that Olenivka was attacked by the Ukrainian armed forces.V. Zelenskiy called on the United Nations and the Red Cross to investigate the death of Ukrainian prisoners of war during the attack on the occupied territory.On Sunday, Vladimir Putin signed a new naval doctrine that says the main challenges and threats to Russia's national security and development are Washington's strategic goal to dominate the world's oceans and NATO's military infrastructure approaching Russia's borders."Russia's independent domestic and foreign policy faces countermeasures from the United States and its allies seeking to preserve their dominance in the world, including in the oceans," the doctrine, signed by Putin on Russian Navy Day, asserts.This year, the support of Polish private individuals and authorities to Ukrainian refugees will exceed 25 billion.PLN (about EUR 5.27 billion), or almost 1% of the country's GDP, was calculated by an analytical center supported by the Polish government.Oleksiy Vadatursky, the founder and owner of one of Ukraine's largest agricultural companies, Nibulon, and his wife were killed in a shooting in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Sunday, according to the head of the regional administration Vitaly Kim.The Vadaturski family was killed in their home when Russian forces shelled the town Sunday night and morning, Reuters reports.The Nibulon company, headquartered in Mykolaiv, specializes in the production and export of grain, growing and selling corn and barley.The company has its own fleet and shipyard.Ships carrying Ukrainian grain should tentatively reach Istanbul on August 3, unian.net reports.The journey of the sixteen-ship flotilla will be monitored and accompanied by drones.First, the cargo will reach the port of Turkey, then it will be distributed and shipped mainly to African countries.It is predicted that the cargo will reach its final destination in one and a half months.The press representative of the Turkish presidency said that there is a high probability that the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain will be able to leave the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday.It was previously announced that up to 25 million goods are blocked in Ukrainian ports.tons of wheat and other grains.Cargo shipping across the Black Sea is blocked by Russian warships, as well as minefields laid by Kyiv to protect against a potential amphibious assault.The conditions for transporting the goods came after Russia, Turkey and Ukraine signed an agreement aimed at easing the global food crisis and allowing grain to be transported through the Black Sea.In order to continue its military aggression in Ukraine, Russia is looking for volunteers to join its ranks.CNN announces that the aim is to attract people without any military experience.Analysts estimate that the goal may be to mobilize about 30,000 volunteers to support the five-month invasion on the territory of a peaceful neighbor.Russian forces shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Sunday, killing one person, officials said."On the night of July 31, after 1 a.m.and around 5 o'clock in the morningMykolaiv was heavily shelled."Preliminarily, one person was killed and two were injured", the head of the regional administration, Vitalijs Kim, reported on the Telegram platform."Many infrastructure objects were damaged during the shelling.Among them are a hotel, a sports complex, two educational institutions and a car repair shop.Residential buildings were also damaged," he added.Earlier, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevich, called Sunday's shelling the biggest since February 24, when Russian forces invaded Ukraine."Many objects were destroyed, residential houses were damaged.Several fires broke out in places where the shells fell.Lifeguards work there.We are gathering detailed information," he added.Russia announced on Saturday it had banned 32 New Zealand officials and journalists from entering its territory, responding to similar measures taken by Wellington against Moscow over its offensive in Ukraine.They include Wellington Mayor Andrew Foster, Auckland Mayor Philip Goff, New Zealand Navy Commander Garin Golding and journalists Kate Green and Josie Pagani, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.The New Zealand government is expanding sanctions that increasingly affect Russian citizens.Five people were injured in a drone attack on the Russian navy in the occupied Crimean city of Sevastopol on Sunday, Moscow-imposed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said, blaming the attack on Ukrainians.Ukraine denies this and calls the Russian report a provocation.Sevastopol is the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in 2014.in the annexed Crimea belonging to Ukraine."This morning, Ukrainian nationalists decided to spoil the Day of the Russian Navy," which was commemorated in Russia this Sunday, Razvozhaev said on the Telegram platform, adding that five people, including employees of the army headquarters, were injured.However, the representative of the Odesa region administration, Serhiy Bratchuk, denied the Russian statements about the "strike of the armed forces of Ukraine" against the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea."The report about Ukraine's alleged attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol is an obvious provocation.Our Crimea will be liberated from the occupiers not in this way, but much more efficiently.There is a time for everything," he wrote in Telegram.On Saturday, V. Zelensky called on civilians to evacuate the Donetsk region, where fierce clashes with Russian forces are taking place.The eastern Donetsk region has seen the brunt of Russia's offensive in the weeks since the February 24 invasion.Zelensky warned in his daily address that thousands of people, including children, were still in the region's battle zones, and on Friday six civilians were killed and 15 wounded, according to the head of the Donetsk administration."The government's decision on the mandatory evacuation of Donetsk has already been made," said V. Zelenskiy, emphasizing calls from officials to leave the region in recent weeks."Leave, we will help you," said V. Zelensky."Terror is Russia's main weapon at this stage of the war."According to official Ukrainian estimates, between 200,000 and 220,000 civilians still live in the unoccupied territory of Donetsk.The mandatory evacuation notice issued on Saturday evening said that due to the approaching winter, it must be done urgently, especially for the more than 50,000 children still in the region."They need to be evacuated, you can't put them in mortal danger in winter without heating, light, without the possibility to warm them," said the statement of the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.Addressing the international community, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on countries to officially declare Russia a "state sponsor of terrorism."The call came a day after a prison holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russian-held Olenivka was bombed, with Russia and Ukraine blaming each other.VŽ wrote that Ukraine's president said late on Friday that the shelling of a prison in the territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists in Olenivka, Donetsk region, in which more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed, was a "deliberate Russian war crime."Read Saturday's tape HERE.Choose the companies and topics you are interested in - we will inform you in a personal newsletter as soon as they are mentioned in "Verslo žinija", "Sodra", "Registrų centura", etc.in the sources.If you want to provide confidential information, write to Mr.to the editor rolandas.barysas@verslozinios.ltThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Sunday that it has not yet received permission to visit...Part of a huge grain storage facility in the port of Beirut, badly damaged in the 2020 drought...The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, accepted 1 million.GBP (1.21 million EUR) donation to his charity from...The spokesperson of the Turkish presidency said that there is a high probability that the first Ukrainian grain...Former Philippine President Fidel Valdez Ramos, a graduate of the US West Point Military Academy, has died...On Sunday, Vladimir Putin signed a new Navy doctrine that says…As the US dollar rises to historic highs, wallets are forced to open wider trade ties with Asian...This year, the support of Polish private individuals and authorities to Ukrainian refugees will exceed 25 billion.PLN...Oleksij Vadatursky, the founder and owner of one of the largest agricultural companies in Ukraine, Nibulon, and his...Governments have promised to increase spending, but companies fear most of the money will be spent in the US...Russian forces shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Sunday.The head of the regional administration...After China's launch vehicle came back to Earth in an uncontrolled manner on Saturday, US officials blamed Beijing for...During a drone attack on the Russian Navy in the occupied Crimean city of Sevastopol on Sunday,...Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi will lead a congressional delegation visiting the Asia-Pacific...After four consecutive days of negative results, the antigen test result of Joe Biden, the President of the United States...Moscow's longtime allies, after the Kremlin attacked Ukraine, not only avoided openly supporting Vladimir Putin,...On Saturday, Ukrainian officials condemned the Russian Embassy in Great Britain's call for the Azov Regiment...On Saturday, the Lebanese Prosecutor's Office ordered the arrest of a man who docked in a northern port with a Syrian flag...The President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda says that Lithuania will not freeze natural gas in the winter, its supply is guaranteed...For the opportunity to sell at this weekend's Sea Festival in Klaipėda, merchants to the city municipality...Moscow's long-time ally turns its back on Russia - reduces economic dependence and increases military budget PremiumA. 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