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5:23 p.m. : Hello @mimi ! Vessel Razoni is now moored in the Turkish port of Mersin. After its inspection, on August 3, it was due to arrive three days later in Tripoli (Lebanon), with 26,000 tonnes of corn on board. But the buyer finally refused the goods, which would have been delivered five months after the scheduled date. The shipowner is therefore looking for a new client, according to the Ukrainian ambassador to Lebanon, Igor Ostash, quoted by the Ukrainian media Hromadske.
5:16 p.m. : What happens to the maize that should have been landed in Tripoli?
5:01 p.m. : Spain launched a “pilot project” to import 600 tons of Ukrainian corn by train, to demonstrate that rail transport can be “an alternative or a complement” shipping, according to the Department of Transport. The train left Madrid last night for Chelm, Poland, where it is expected to load some 600 tonnes of maize from Ukraine.
4:32 p.m. : The Ukrainian army claimed to have struck a strategic bridge in the region of Kherson, occupied by Russian forces, in the south of the country. It was returned “unusable”, according to the Southern Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. On August 8, the Ukrainian army announced that it had struck another bridge located in the same region.
4:27 p.m. : The Slovak companies Slovnaft and Hungarian MOL offered to the Ukrainian authorities to settle the payment necessary for the transit of Russian oil, explains the Russian newspaper Kommersant (in Russian). This agreement made it possible to relaunch oil deliveries.
4:27 p.m. : Deliveries of Russian oil will again be ensured to Hungary and Slovakia. The Russian group Transneft has just announced the resumption of pumping towards the Druzhba pipeline, in a press release. Yesterday, the company explained that its payment for the right of transit had been refused on July 28, due to European sanctions. The Ukrainian company UkrTransNafta had therefore ceased to provide its services.
4:20 p.m. : Marina Ovsiannikova had been arrested this morning at her home, and a search had been carried out. She faces up to fifteen years in prison for having demonstrated her opposition to the war on July 15 in front of the Kremlin, and in particular described Vladimir Putin as a“assassin”.
4:21 p.m. : Following her interrogation by the investigation committee, the Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova was indicted for “disseminating false information” about the army, franceinfo learned from her lawyer, Dmitri Zakhvatov. She was remanded in custody and faces up to ten years in prison.
3:35 p.m. : American actor Steven Seagal is currently in the Donbass to direct “a documentary”, according to Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin. The latter adds (in Russian) that his host went to the prison of Olenivka, targeted by strikes for which kyiv and Moscow reject responsibility. In recent years, Steven Seagal has often pleaded the cause of Vladimir Putin.
(DENIS POUCHILIN / TELEGRAM)
1:02 p.m. : Russia’s control of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant “endangers the region“the G7 countries said. “We demand that Russia immediately return full control of the plant to its rightful sovereign owner, Ukraine.“, added Western countries. Moscow is accused of wanting to connect the Ukrainian nuclear power plant to the electricity network of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014.
11:26 : Marina Ovsyannikova’s lawyer, on his way to find his client at the investigation committee, confirmed this information to franceinfo. She had already been fined two administrative fines, but this case is criminal this time.
11:24 : “At 6 a.m., while I was still sleeping, ten members of the investigation committee and the police burst into my home” , she wrote on Telegram. Investigators accuse her of a demonstration in front of the Kremlin on July 15, during which she accused Vladimir Putin of“assassin”.
11:26 : Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova announces that she is the subject of a criminal investigation for “false” aimed at discrediting the Russian army.
(AFP)
09:03 : It’s 9 o’clock! Let’s take a look at the news:
• Several fires broke out yesterday in Gironde, near Landiras. The flames have already ravaged 6,000 hectares of pine forests, the prefecture announced this morning. the “Fire is very virulent and has spread to the Landes department. The municipalities of Hostens, Saint-Magne and sectors of Belin-Béliet have been evacuated”, or about 3,800 people, according to a statement.
• About 3,000 campers and residents of two villages in Aveyron had to be evacuated yesterday as a precaution due to a fire which ravaged 700 hectares of vegetation, but which stopped progressing without being brought under control.
•The heat wave regains ground in the southwest with maximum temperatures predicted up to 40 degrees locally. In total, 16 departments are placed in heat wave orange vigilance, from Loire-Atlantique to Hautes-Pyrénées.
• Thirteen civilians were killed last night in Russian bombardments in the Dnipropetrovsk region, in central-eastern Ukraine, announced Governor Valentin Reznitchenko.
Released from the Seine after a perilous operation which lasted all night, the beluga was placed in the back of a truck which took the road to Ouistreham at dawn, the next stage of the race against time to save this cetacean in the state of health “alarming”.
08:28 : Thirteen civilians were killed last night in Russian bombardments in the Dnipropetrovsk region, in central-eastern Ukraine, announced Governor Valentin Reznitchenko.
08:08 : “They finally understood that I will not abandon my beliefs, that I will still use the word war and consider it the most terrible crime that can be committed in the 21st century.”
His courage commands admiration. The Russian journalist who interrupted the state television newspaper in March to denounce the war in Ukraine has returned to live in Russia, despite the danger. In an interview with franceinfo, she explains that it is essential that opposition to the war launched by Vladimir Putin be heard.
(AFP)
08:06 : While Europe officially stops buying Russian coal today, Le Figaro notes that many EU member countries are reopening their power stations, which are large emitters of CO2.
