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Canada allocated $6 million for nuclear security in Ukraine
Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN said on Twitter on August 3 that it allocated 6 million dollars for the implementation of a number of projects to improve nuclear security in Ukraine. Source: Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN “To help strengthen Nuclear security in Ukraine, Canada has provided:$1M to IAEA to strengthen security,...
Switzerland joined the seventh package of EU sanctions against Russia
The Federal Council of Switzerland on August 3 announced its accession to the latest, seventh package of European Union sanctions against Russia, introduced in connection with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Source: The Swiss Federal Council The sanctions include a ban on the purchase, import, and direct or indirect transfer of...
Russia has found a new way to bypass oil sanctions
Russia, probably, has found a new way to transport its oil under Western sanctions, using Egypt’s El Hamra oil terminal. The Bloomberg agency reported that a shipment of about 700,000 barrels of Russian oil was delivered to the El Hamra terminal on the morning of July 24 by the Crested tanker. A few hours later, another vessel, the Chris,...
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant “is completely out of control”, – UN nuclear chief
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said on August 3 that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which was seized by the Russian military on March 4, has gone out of control. Source: Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi...
Russian troops use the civilian population as a human shield in the south of Ukraine
The Ukrainian army launched a counteroffensive on the territory of the Kherson region (south of Ukraine). Due to this, the flow of refugees has increased significantly, but the occupiers do not let the civilian population pass. They want to use civilians as a human shield. Source: Serhiy Kaliman, head of the Vasylivka United Territorial Community...
The USA introduced sanctions against a major Russian metals company and a woman closely linked to Putin
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on August 2 announced new sanctions, targeting Russian collaborators, a major Russian metals company and a woman closely linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Source: US Department of Treasury The sanctions target Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obschestvo Magnitogorskiy...
Canada expanded sanctions against Russia
Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Joly announced on August 2 the implementation of additional sanctions in connection with Russia’s illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. They will affect 43 military officials and 17 organizations. Source: Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Joly “Canada is...
Ukraine called on the UN to close the sky over Ukrainian nuclear power plants
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mykola Tochytskyi, called for closing the sky over Ukraineʼs nuclear facilities at the UN conference dedicated to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on August 1. Source: The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mykola Tochytskyi “For the first time in history,...
US President calls on Russia and China to enter talks on nuclear arms control
US President Joe Biden said on August 1 that Russia should show readiness to resume work with the US on nuclear arms control. Source: US President Joe Biden The President’s administration is ready to “expeditiously negotiate” a replacement to New START, the treaty capping intercontinental nuclear forces in the United States and...
5,327 civilians have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the large-scale war, – UN
At least 5,327 civilians were killed in Ukraine, and another 7,257 were injured from February 24 to July 31 according to UN data. Source: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights “A total of 5,327 killed (2,056 men, 1,400 women, 146 girls, and 165 boys, as well as 41 children and 1,519 adults whose sex is yet unknown). A total of...