2023-04-20 10:28:21
09:56
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrived in Kyiv
09:19
The origin of the flash in the sky of kyiv not due to the use of a weapon, according to the military administration
The origin of the flash in the sky of Kiev on Wednesday evening which triggered an anti-aircraft alert, is unknown but is not due to the use of a weapon, assured the military administration of the Ukrainian capital Thursday morning.
“It’s up to the experts to find out what exactly it was. The most important thing is the safety of kyiv and its inhabitants. It was not a missile attack and our anti-aircraft defense did not use its weapons,” said Serguii Popko, head of the city’s military administration.
09:10
Denmark and the Netherlands to donate 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine
Deliveries should take place next year. The two countries will share the costs estimated at 165 million euros.
08:53
South Korea’s military aid to Ukraine will depend on Russia’s attitude
To supply arms to Ukraine or not? For Seoul, the decision “will depend on Russia”, the Korean presidential office said.
Yesterday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol raised this hypothesis before being threatened by the Kremlin. “South Korea could not sit idly by in the event of massacres being taken seriously by the international community,” the presidential official said, adding, “What happens next will depend on Russia.” South Korean policy is generally not to supply arms to countries in active conflict. Currently, South Korea supports sanctions against Russia and sends humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
08:44
Pakistan buys Russian oil
Pakistan has placed its first order for discounted Russian crude oil under a new deal between Islamabad and Moscow, according to the country’s oil minister. The first delivery is expected to arrive at the port of Karachi in May. According to this agreement, Pakistan will buy only crude oil but no refined fuels. In total, imports should reach 100,000 barrels per day if the first transaction goes well.
08:15
Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to stop using US-produced nuclear fuel
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant will stop using US-produced nuclear fuel as soon as possible, the Interfax news agency quoted a Russian official as saying. According to Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of Russian nuclear energy company Rosenergoatom who is now responsible for the plant, US nuclear fuel reserves are about four years old. Except that Russia wants to replace it as soon as possible because it considers its own technologies superior.
07:47
For the White House, Putin’s recent visit to the field proves ”
For White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during her briefing in Washington, Putin’s visit to the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine says proves that “things are not going well for Russia” . According to her, Putin is aware of the situation but tries to obtain the support of his population. “He knows that the Russian military is underperforming and struggling to achieve its goals through this invasion,” she added.
07:35
Reorganization of Russian secret services after leaks to Ukraine
According to the American Institute of the war, Moscow would have carried out an “overhaul” of the security service following data leaks towards Ukraine. “Russia’s federal security service, the FSB, appears to be conducting a large-scale overhaul of internal security organs,” the ISW said. This reorganization seems to be linked to data leaks to Ukraine. According to the Russian agency TASS, the FSB and the Main Directorate of the Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) are carrying out mass checks at the Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Central District of Moscow and at several police offices in the district of Moscow. Russian media reported that the alleged police officers leaked personal data about Russian security forces to outsiders, some of whom are Ukrainian citizens.
07:30
Cypriot president calls on banks to respect sanctions against Russians
The Cypriot government has called on local banks to comply with sanctions against Russia. “The authorities will not tolerate violations of EU restrictions,” said government spokesman Konstantinos Letimbiotis.
In April, the United States imposed sanctions on several Cypriot companies, as well as Cypriot citizens and residents, whom Washington associates with Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov. “We must protect the credibility of our country,” added Letimbiotis. At the same time, the head of the Central Bank of Cyprus said that all banks on the island “have started freezing the bank accounts of those on the sanctions lists”. Additionally, according to Bloomberg, Bank of Cyprus, the largest bank in Cyprus will close the accounts of approximately 4,000 Russian customers who do not have EU citizenship.
07:18
Arrival of Russian Foreign Minister in Cuba
Sergei Lavrov arrived Wednesday evening in Havana after a visit to Nicaragua, where he had spoken with the president, Daniel Ortega. Lavrov is due to meet during the day with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who has just been re-elected.
In Nicaragua, Ortega and Lavrov denounced the sanctions imposed the same day by the United States on three Nicaraguan judges who stripped of their nationality 316 opponents, described as “terrorists” by Daniel Ortega. “Hundreds of senior state officials have already been sanctioned, but that doesn’t scare us at all, it doesn’t worry us at all,” the Nicaraguan president said.
07:12
Ukraine’s agricultural sector has already suffered over $8 billion in war damage
Damage to Ukraine’s agricultural sector and land resources has cost $8.7 billion since the invasion began, according to a report by the Kyiv School of Economics. The greatest proportion of damage results from the destruction of agricultural machinery, the cost of which the KSE estimates at more than 4.65 billion dollars. KSE also estimates that 109,600 units of agricultural machinery were damaged or destroyed during the war. The other cause of losses in the agricultural industry is the result of the destruction and theft of manufactured goods, the loss of which is estimated at $1.87 billion. Agricultural infrastructure also suffered huge losses, mainly granaries and other storage facilities. KSE estimates the restoration of these facilities at $1.33 billion. Damage was heaviest in Luhansk, Kherson, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia regions.
06:57
Ukrainian Nobel Peace laureate asks Pretoria not to host Putin
South Africa refused to condemn the invasion of Ukraine, saying it wanted to remain neutral and preferred dialogue to end the war.
06:34
Questioning the origin of the huge flash seen in the sky of kyiv during the night
A flash in the Kyiv sky overnight sparked a lot of reactions on social media. Satellite? Meteorite?
“Around 10 p.m. (local time), the glow of an aerial object was observed in the sky of Kiev,” the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, Sergiy Popko, said on Telegram. And to add: “According to initial information, this phenomenon is the consequence of the fall of a NASA satellite on Earth”. It is true that the American space agency had announced earlier in the week that a satellite used to observe solar eruptions of some 300 kg was to return to the atmosphere.
Except that NASA claimed that its Rhessi satellite had not yet entered the atmosphere at the time of the light flash observed above Kiev. “No other Nasa satellite reentered the atmosphere earlier today,” the agency added. The thesis of a meteorite is privileged. At the time of this flash, the city of kyiv was not on air raid alert.
06:30
More than 3,000 cyber defense specialists gathered in Tallinn
More than 3,000 specialists from 38 countries have been taking part in the world’s largest cyber defense exercise in Tallinn since Wednesday, says NATO’s Center of Excellence for Cooperative Cyber Defense (CCD CoE), headquartered in the Estonian capital. . During the four-day exercise titled “Locked Shields,” participants will protect computer systems “against real-time attacks and train in tactical and strategic decision-making in critical situations.” “Locked Shields is a training exercise that pits an attacking red team against defending blue teams, made up of NATO CCD CoE member states and partner nations,” a statement read. “This past year has shown us how important cyber defense strength is,” Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said, referring to the Ukrainian conflict.
06:25
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