Resumption of traffic. Six cargo ships loaded with grain left Ukrainian ports on Thursday (November 3rd), the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced. The boats will use the secure humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea which has already made it possible to export 9.7 million tonnes of cereals from Ukraine despite the conflict, thanks to the international agreement signed in July under the aegis of Turkey and the UN. According to the Turkish Ministry of Defense quoted by the official Anadolu agency, 426 boats have already followed this secure route since August 1. Follow our live.
“There is no nuclear imminence”. This is what Lova Rinel, associate researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research and specialist in particular in questions relating to nuclear deterrence, told franceinfo about an article published in October by the New York Times. The American newspaper indicated that senior Russian military officials discussed, in mid-October, when and how Moscow could use a tactical nuclear weapon on Ukrainian soil. The United States say “increasingly concerned”.
Anti-Semitism amplified by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Disinformation and hatred of Jews have “flowered” on the Internet since the start of the Russian invasion, aggravating a process already set in motion by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a European report published Thursday, November 3. “The coronavirus epidemic and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine have further fueled anti-Semitism, which remains a serious problem”says Michael O’Flaherty, director of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights.
An envelope in the face of “distress”. The Swiss government announced Wednesday, November 2 the granting of humanitarian aid of 100 million euros to Ukraine to restore the supply of drinking water and damaged energy infrastructure, at the approach of a winter that will promises to be “rigorous”, explained the Swiss Federal Council. This aid is in addition to the funds already released in recent months by the European Union (more than 500 million euros in total) or by Saudi Arabia (400 million euros).
Moscow will hand over to London “evidence” of British involvement in recent attacks. Russia will summon the British ambassador to give him “evidence”, according to it, of London’s involvement in recent attacks against the Russian fleet in Crimea, Moscow said on Wednesday. “There is of course no doubt about the involvement of the British secret service” in the attack on Russian ships at the end of October in the Black Sea and in the sabotage of gas pipelines in September, the spokeswoman told the press. of Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova.