Cover photo: A wheat field near the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, August 2023. ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP
- The European Commission announced on Friday that it would lift the ban on imports of Ukrainian grain imposed by five EU countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia). to protect their farmers. Brussels made this decision in return for Kiev’s promise to control the flow of grain to neighboring countries.
- Included Hungary has decided to unilaterally tighten the ban on imports of Ukrainian grain. A little bit later, Poland and Slovakia also announced an extension of the embargo.
- Romania, in turn, “regretted” Brussels’ decision and said it would wait for Kiev’s action plan before implementing possible measures. In contrast to his neighbors Bulgaria announced on Thursday that it was lifting the embargo.
- The Parliament of the Latvia approved on Friday the centrist government formed by the new Prime Minister Evika Silina, who promised to strengthen the armed forces and continue to support Ukraine against Russian aggression.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be received at the White House on Thursday, September 21st for talks with US President Joe Biden about supporting Kiev against the Russian invasion, a senior American official confirmed on Friday.
- Russia will not boycott the next OlympicsPresident of the Russian Olympic Committee Stanislav Pozdniakov assured and reiterated this Every Russian athlete was free to decide whether he wanted to participate under a neutral banner or not.
- According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, 300,000 men “willing to sacrifice their lives in the interests of their homeland” have signed a contract with the Russian armed forces for “six to seven months.”. He said this at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.
- The Kremlin expressed satisfaction on Friday with the progress of the investigation into the plane crash that killed the head of the Wagner Group, Evgueni Prigozhin, although no explanation was provided more than three weeks after the accident. Ukraine and the West suspect revenge from the Kremlin, a theory Moscow rejects.
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