Around sixty children were evacuated from several localities in the Zaporizhia region, in southern Ukraine.
Children from several towns and villages close to the front line were evacuated to the Zaporizhia region (Ukraine), the Ukrainian authorities announced on Wednesday September 27. At the same time, Moscow claimed that the Ukrainian strike on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea on Friday had summer “implemented at the request of American and British intelligence services”. Franceinfo looks back at the highlights of the day.
Ukrainian children evacuated near the front line
“We have completed the task set by the Ukrainian government” And “evacuated all the children with their families” of the localities of Gulyaipole, Preobrazhenka, Yegorivka, Stepnogirsk and Novopavlivka in the Zaporizhia region, Deputy Governor Yevgen Myronenko announced on Wednesday. According to Ukrainian media, around sixty children were evacuated.
Ukrainian forces have reported limited gains in recent weeks in the Zaporizhia region, where they are facing fortified positions of the Russian army. However, Ukrainian troops managed to retake the town of Robotyné at the beginning of September, located very close to the towns and villages affected by the evacuations. The fighting is now taking place east of this village, near Verbové.
Moscow accuses Washington and London after kyiv strike in Crimea
“There is not the slightest doubt” that the attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet “was planned in advance with the use of Western intelligence assets, NATO satellite equipment, reconnaissance aircraft.accused Russian diplomatic spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Wednesday.
Ukraine claimed to have killed around thirty Russian officers during this attack, including the commander of the Black Sea fleet, Viktor Sokolov. The Russian Defense Ministry, however, published images showing this official participating in a video conference. As of Wednesday evening, London and Washington had not yet reacted to the accusations from Russian diplomacy.
Talks to continue on Ukrainian grain
On Wednesday, Poland’s Agriculture Minister said his country remained open to Ukraine’s proposal for a licensing mechanism for grain imports, adding that discussions on this thorny subject would continue in the coming weeks.
Kiev has proposed issuing licenses to exporters of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower, based on the needs expressed by Poland, Robert Telus said after an online meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart; Mykola Solskii. “It’s a question we need to look at, but from the outside the proposal seems like a good thing.”, he stressed. The minister, however, noted that the Polish position on the refusal of grain imports remained “farm”, and that the Ukrainian side “accepted our argument”.
He reiterated Poland’s request to kyiv to withdraw its complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO).