Here are the most recent developments in the warfare in Ukraine:
Putin, Erdogan pledge to spice up cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish chief Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledge to spice up political and financial cooperation, together with in power and commerce, in an announcement adopted following their second talks in 17 days.
“Despite the current regional and global challenges, the leaders reaffirmed their common will to further develop Russian-Turkish relations,”
the Kremlin says in an announcement.
At the beginning of the assembly in Russia’s Black Sea metropolis of Sochi, Erdogan informed Putin he hopes to open a “different page” in ties between Ankara and Moscow.
NATO member Turkey has sought to stay impartial in the face of Moscow’s historic stand-off with the West over Ukraine.
It has hosted peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and in late July brokered a UN-backed settlement to renew grain deliveries from Ukrainian ports.
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Russia accused of strikes on nuclear website
Ukraine accuses Russian forces of strikes close to a nuclear reactor at Europe’s greatest energy plant at Zaporizhzhia in the nation’s south, which has been occupied for the reason that early days of the invasion.
“Three strikes were recorded on the site of the plant, near one of the power blocks where the nuclear reactor is located,” Energoatom, Ukraine’s state-run operator of the nation’s nuclear energy crops, says.
“There are risks of hydrogen leakage and radioactive spraying. The fire danger is high,”
it mentioned, including that originally there have been no casualties.
The world nuclear watchdog IAEA has been attempting for weeks to ship a workforce to examine the plant. Ukraine has thus far rejected the efforts, which it says would legitimise Russia’s occupation of the positioning in the eyes of the worldwide neighborhood.
Three extra grain ships go away Ukraine
Three ships loaded with grain for world markets go away Ukraine, the second departure beneath the deal struck in Istanbul in July between Moscow and Kyiv to raise Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea.
Ukraine is likely one of the world’s prime grain exporters and the halt of just about all of its deliveries after Russia’s invasion on 24 February has despatched world meals costs hovering, making imports prohibitively costly for a few of the world’s poorest nations.
“Our main goal is to increase the transhipment volume in our ports. We have to process 100 carriers per month to be able to export the necessary amount of foodstuffs,”
Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov says.
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Amnesty stands by report
Rights group Amnesty International tells AFP it “fully stands by” its accusations that Ukraine is endangering civilians by establishing bases in residential areas to counter the Russian invasion.
In Thursday’s report, which prompted a livid response from Kyiv, Amnesty listed incidents in 19 cities and cities the place Ukrainian forces appeared to have put civilians in hurt’s method.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky equated the accusations to sufferer blaming. In his night handle on Thursday, he mentioned the rights group had sought to supply “amnesty (to) the terrorist state and shift the responsibility from the aggressor to the victim”.
Curfew, as Mykolaiv pounded
Ukraine’s southern metropolis of Mykolaiv is positioned beneath curfew by the native authorities from 11:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Friday till 5:00 am (0200 GMT) on Monday following Russian bombardments in a single day with widely-banned cluster bombs and heavy artillery.
Mykolaiv — which has been attacked continuously — is on the primary path to Odessa, Ukraine’s greatest port on the Black Sea, and is the closest metropolis to the southern entrance.
Shelling additionally continues in a number of cities and villages in the east, together with Nikopol and Kryvyi Rig, in Zaporizhzhia, and Ukraine’s second metropolis Kharkiv, in the northeast.
© Agence France-Presse
