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☆ Russia is 'more dangerous' now than when it first invaded, former general reports after returning from Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Ella Sherman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Retired Australian Army Maj. Gen. Mick Ryan advocates for a change in Ukraine's war strategy. Ryan suggests Ukraine needs to push its narrative in Western media to counter Russia's influence. The Russian military has changed its warfighting capabilities, and the defense industry has been kicked into gear. Ukraine, he argued, must push its narrative to get through to Western media and dispute Russia's declarations of expected victory. Ryan said NATO and other partner nations should consider switching their perception of providing support from "defend Ukraine" to "defeat Russia in Ukraine."

Persons: Mick Ryan, Ryan, —, Jose Colon, Kurt Campbell, Chris Cavoli, Cavoli, Ukraine's Da, Kostiantyn Organizations: Australian Army, Service, Lowy Institute ., Russian Army, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, AP, Ukraine, NATO, Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves, Kyiv Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Australian, Australia, Lowy Institute . Russia, Lyman, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian, United States, Washington

☆ Prominent Ukrainian Army Unit Launches Own Recruitment Drive to Strengthen Ranks
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

By Dan PeleschukKYIV (Reuters) - A year after the founding commander of Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves Battalion was killed fighting Russian forces, his portrait adorns an airy new recruitment office in Kyiv casting a watchful eye over would-be members. With its military ranks wearing thin, Ukraine is struggling to overhaul mobilisation and broaden recruitment as the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion approaches. For the Da Vinci Wolves, led by war hero Dmytro "Da Vinci" Kotsiubailo until his death near the eastern town of Bakhmut last March, it means relying on a well-honed public image to attract new recruits. 'THE BEST'The Da Vinci Wolves have received more than 1,000 applications and are seeking around 500 new members, Filimonov said. Candidates include Anatoliy Kvasha, 48, who said he wanted a greater say over where he ended up after facing bureaucratic headaches at his local draft office.

Persons: Dan Peleschuk, Ukraine's Da, Dmytro, Da, Kotsiubailo, Serhii Filimonov, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Filimonov, Anatoliy Kvasha, Kvasha, Kyrychenko, Anna Voitenko, Timothy Heritage, Toby Chopra Organizations: Dan Peleschuk KYIV, Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves Battalion, Da Vinci Wolves, Vinci Wolves, 59th Motorized Brigade, Reuters, Separate Assault Brigade, Service Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Bakhmut, Russian, Lviv

☆ Moldova Police Find Russian Drone Fragments Near Ukraine Border
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Feb. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

CHISINAU (Reuters) - Police on Sunday found fragments of a Russian drone alongside the Moldova border with Ukraine, prompting pro-European President Maia Sandu to renew her support for Kyiv in its nearly two-year-old war with Moscow. The war has buffeted Moldova, with periodic reports of weapon fragments found on the territory of the ex-Soviet state lying between Ukraine and Romania. A police statement said the fragments were found near the village of Etulia. The Latest Photos From Ukraine View All 91 Images"Russia’s war on Ukraine hits close to home in Moldova — again," Sandu wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Reuters could not independently verify the incident and Russian authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Maia Sandu, Sandu, Ronald Popeski, Mark Porter Organizations: Police, Kyiv, European Union, Reuters Locations: CHISINAU, Russian, Moldova, Ukraine, Moscow, Soviet, Romania, Russia, Etulia, Ismail, Moldova —

☆ The EU has sent less than a third of the 1 million rounds of ammo it promised Ukraine, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The EU pledged to send Ukraine one million rounds of ammunition by March 2024. But it has only sent 300,000 so far, an EU official told Politico Europe. AdvertisementThe European Union will likely fall short of sending the one million rounds of ammunition it pledged to Ukraine, an unnamed senior EU official told Politico Europe. Politico's report said that EU countries had sent 300,000, less than a third of their promise. Other European and Ukrainian senior officials drew the same conclusion this week after Bloomberg reported that the EU was "very unlikely" to hit its 1 million rounds target by March.

Persons: —, Boris Pistorius, Dmytro Kuleba, Rob Bauer Organizations: Politico, Service, EU, Politico Europe, Bloomberg, Germany's, Guardian, Ukraine's, European Pravda Locations: Ukraine, Politico Europe, Netherlands

☆ Putin marks anniversary of annexation of Ukrainian regions as drones attack overnight
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday insisted that the residents of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed a year ago "made their choice — to be with their Fatherland." A concert was held in Red Square on Friday to mark the anniversary, but Putin did not participate. Serhii Borzov said that air defenses shot down 20 drones over his central Ukrainian region, but that a "powerful fire" broke out in the town of Kalynivka when a drone struck an unspecified infrastructure facility. Russia's Defense Ministry said Saturday that it had shot down nine Ukrainian rockets fired at its southern Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine. Drone strikes and shelling in the Russian border regions are a regular occurrence.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Josep Borrell, Borrell, Malashko, Serhii Borzov, Vyacheslav Gladkov Organizations: Senezh, Russia's, Commission, Russia's Defense, Ukraine, EU Foreign Affairs, Security, Gov, Romania's Ministry of National Defense, Romanian Army, NATO, Belgorod Gov, Local Locations: Russia, Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region, Moscow, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Red Square, Ukraine, EU, Odesa, Russian, Ukraine's, Matviivka, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Ukrainian, Kalynivka, Romania, Galati, Tulcea, Belgorod, Russia's Bryansk, Pogar

The Romanian government has said it aims to double the monthly transit capacity for Ukrainian grain through its Constanta port to four million metric tons in the coming months from virtually zero before the Russian war started. In August, roughly 2.7 million tons of Ukrainian grain passed through Constanta, Comvex manager Viorel Panait said in an interview with Reuters. Port operator SOCEP S.A. (SOCP.BX) said it had paid 10 million euros for new equipment at its grain terminal silo and ship loader. "I would say more than half of the port's 13 grain operators are already authorized or in the process of being so." A government source told Reuters Constanta now had a logistics capacity of 40 million tons of grains per year, sharply higher than its annual record high 25 million tons set in 2021.

Persons: George Calin, Viorel Panait, Panait, Gabriel Techera, Luiza Ilie, Sharon Singleton Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Union, NATO, Moldovan, Decirom S.A, SOCEP S.A, Constanta Port Business Association, Thomson Locations: Constanta, Romania, Rights BUCHAREST, Romanian, Black, Ukraine, Moscow, Ukraine's, Russia, Ukrainian, Vadul Siret, Dornesti, Reuters Constanta

☆ Cargo ship crew evacuated after explosion near Romanian Danube port
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BUCHAREST, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The crew of a Togo-flagged general cargo ship bound for one of Ukraine's Danube river ports were evacuated early on Wednesday after an explosion on board near the Romanian port of Sulina, Romanian officials said. The Seama ship reported an explosion early on Wednesday and requested the evacuation of the 12-person crew near Sulina, where the Danube flows into the Black Sea. "At the moment the causes ... are unclear, whether it was a mine or merely an explosion in the engine room," Romanian Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu told reporters. The crew were evacuated by the Romanian Agency for Saving Life at Sea (ARSVOM), which is coordinated by the transport ministry. Moscow has also been intensifying attacks on Ukraine's Danube river ports across from Romania since it abandoned a deal to lift a de facto Russian blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports.

Persons: Sorin Grindeanu, Luiza Ilie, Alex Richardson Organizations: Romanian Agency for, European Union, NATO, Thomson Locations: BUCHAREST, Togo, Romanian, Sulina, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgarian, Moscow, Romania, Ukraine's, Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, U.S

☆ Video shows Ukrainian special forces retaking control of gas drilling platforms in the Black Sea during daring raid
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine said on Monday it had recaptured several offshore drilling rigs in the Black Sea. The two-day raid, dubbed "Battle for the Sea," was part of a special forces operation. The platforms were occupied by Russia since 2015 and used for military purposes, according to Ukraine. The 13-minute-long edited video, released on Monday, shows special forces regaining control of the Petro Godovanets and Ukraina drilling rigs, as well as the self-elevating Tavrida and Syvash drilling platforms. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: The true cost of Ukraine's dam disaster"On the drilling platforms, the Russians set up warehouses with ammunition and fuel for helicopters," the video says, according to a BBC translation.

Persons: Petro Organizations: Service Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Crimea, Odesa

Moscow has conducted long-range air strikes on targets in Ukraine since the start of its invasion last year. The Romanian Defence Ministry said Romania was not hit. "The ministry of defence categorically denies information from the public space regarding a so-called overnight situation during which Russian drones would have fallen in Romania's national territory," it said. "We heard the drones, the booms and the air defence systems across the river," she told Reuters by telephone. Ukraine has reported suspected Russian weapons flying over or crashing into neighbours, including NATO members, several times during the war.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Tayyip Erdogan, Oleg Nikolenko, Nikolenko, Daniela Tanase, Oksana Savchuk, Erdogan, Putin, Andriy Yermak, Yermak, Pavel Polityuk, Olena Harmash, Tom Balmforth, Luiza Ilie, Timothy Heritage, Peter Graff Organizations: Russia, NATO, Reuters, Facebook, Romanian Defence Ministry, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Romania, Bucharest, KYIV, BUCHAREST, Moscow, Ukraine's, Izmail, Romanian, Plauru, Russia, Poland, Ukrainian, Russia's Black, Sochi, Turkey, Kyiv

☆ Russia hits grain facilities at Ukrainian Danube River port
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Odesa Authorities/via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsSummary Ukraine says Russia carried out drone attacks overnightRussia quit Black Sea grain export deal in JulyGrain facilities hit at Danube River port of IzmailKYIV, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Russian drones struck Ukrainian grain facilities at the Danube River port of Izmail overnight in what a senior official said on Wednesday was a systematic attempt by Moscow to prevent Kyiv exporting grain to the world. Grain facilities in the Odesa region on the Black Sea also came under fire in the eighth wave of attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure since Russia quit a U.N.-brokered deal last month that had allowed Kyiv to ship its grain via the Black Sea. He said the grain that was destroyed had been destined for Egypt and Romania, and that a total of 270,000 tons of grain had now been destroyed in attacks since Russia quit the Black Sea grain deal. Russia did not immediately comment on the attacks, but blames Ukraine and its Western allies for the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal. Ukraine's Danube ports accounted for around a quarter of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia pulled out of the deal to provide safe passage for the export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea in July.

Persons: Oleksandr Kubrakov, Kubrakov, Oleh Kiper, Kiper, Reni, Izmail, Anna Pruchnicka, Pavel Polityuk, Timothy Organizations: Odesa, REUTERS Acquire, Russia, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Black, Izmail KYIV, Russian, Moscow, Odesa, Kyiv, Romania, Izmail, Egypt

☆ Live updates: Three drones downed in Moscow region, mayor says; Russia strikes Ukraine's Danube grain facilities
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A building of the Moscow International Business Center, Moskva City, damaged after a drone attack on Aug. 23, 2023. Russia's Defense Ministry on Wednesday thwarted an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow, downing three drones, the city's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. No casualties and only minor damage were reported in the sixth consecutive day of similar reported incidents on the capital. "This night, air defense shot down a drone in the Mozhaisk district of the Moscow region. The Defense Ministry said air defense forces had shot down two of the three drones over the wider Moscow region's Mozhaisky and Khimki districts.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Sobyanin, — Karen Gilchrist Organizations: Moscow International Business, Russia's Defense, Defense Ministry, Mozhaisky, Moscow City Locations: Moskva City, Moscow, Mozhaisk, City, Khimki, Ukraine

☆ Russia attacks grain facilities in Ukraine's Danube region - military
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"The enemy hit grain storage facilities and a production and transhipment complex in the Danube region. Firefighters continue to work," the Ukrainian military said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. The damage includes grain storage facilities," Kiper said on Telegram. The Danube ports accounted for around a quarter of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia pulled out of the deal to provide safe passage for the export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea in July. Global grain prices rose earlier this month, when Russia attacked Izmail - Ukraine's main inland port across the Danube River from Romania, and the port of Reni.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Moscow, Oleh Kiper, Kiper, Reni, Izmail, Pavel Polityuk, Himani Sarkar, Simon Cameron, Moore, Timothy Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Firefighters, Russia, Reuters, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Romanian, Constanta, Kyiv, Ukrainian, Romania, Reni

☆ Warehouses, grain silos damaged in Russian attacks on Ukraine's Danube port
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] A grain warehouse heavily damaged by a Russian drone attack is seen at a compound of a port on the Danube, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa region, Ukraine August 16, 2023. "Russian terrorists attacked Odesa region twice last night with attack drones," Governor Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app. "The main target is port and grain infrastructure in the south of the region." Ukraine's Air Force said that it had destroyed 13 Russia-launched drones over the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions in the south. read moreThe drone attacks destroyed buildings in the port and halted ships as they prepared to arrive there to load with Ukrainian grain in defiance of a de-facto blockade Russia reimposed in mid-July.

Persons: Oleh Kiper, Izmail, Pavel Polityuk, Lidia Kelly, Stephen Coates Organizations: Press Service, Operational Command, Ukrainian Armed Forces, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Reuters, Ukraine's Air Force, Russia reimposed, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Odesa region, Odesa, Russia, Mykolaiv, Constanta, Romania

☆ Ukraine's daring nighttime raid across a river was likely a 'distraction' as it seeks to punch holes in Russia's defenses, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine's nighttime raid across the Dnipro was likely a 'distraction,' a defense expert said. Ukraine is seeking to breach Russian defenses at several points across the front line. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. The Dnipro raid was mentioned on Tuesday by US think tank The Institute for The Study of War, having initially been reported by Russian military bloggers. In an interview with the Kyiv Independent, a Ukrainian military commander said that Ukrainian forces were conducting regular raids across the Dnipro to probe weaknesses in Russian defenses, and to distract Russian forces from shelling the nearby Ukrainian-held city of Kherson.

Persons: Michael Clark, They've, they've, Clark, Mick Ryan, Ryan Organizations: Service, King's College London, Sky News, Australian Army, Financial Times, The, Russian, Kyiv Independent Locations: Dnipro, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Zaporizhzhia, Bakhmut, Ukrainian, Kherson

☆ Ukraine says Russians fail to advance but are well dug in
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Ukrainian service members of the 35th Separate Marines Brigade attend a military drill near a frontline, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine July 31, 2023. Much of Russian military activity focused on air attacks that damaged grain infrastructure in Ukraine's Danube port of Izmail. Kyiv also says it has retaken areas near Bakhmut, an eastern city seized by Russian forces in May after months of battles. Deputy Ukrainian Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Russian forces had "tried quite persistently to halt our advance in the Bakhmut sector. Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of Ukraine's Security Council, said Russian forces had ample time in months of occupation to prepare defences and lay extensive minefields.

Persons: Viacheslav, Hanna Maliar, Oleksiy Danilov, Danilov, Volodymyr Zeleskiy, Chasiv Yar, Ron Popeski, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Marines Brigade, REUTERS, Russia's Defence, Russian, Ukrainian, Ukraine's Security, Russia's, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Donetsk region, Donetsk, Izmail, Ukrainian, Russian, Azov, Crimean, Kyiv, Bakhmut

☆ Russia strikes Ukraine's Danube port, sending global grain prices higher
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Ukraine's defence ministry said a grain silo was damaged in the Danube port of Izmail in the Odesa region: "Ukrainian grain has the potential to feed millions of people worldwide," the ministry wrote on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Russian terrorists have once again attacked ports, grain, global food security." "The enemy... is trying to destroy Ukrainian grain, attacking industrial and port infrastructure. Ukrainian officials have said Moscow has hit 26 port facilities, five civilian vessels and 180,000 tonnes of grain in nine days of strikes since quitting the grain deal. Ukraine's Air Force reported that Russia also launched a drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight.

Persons: Oleh Kiper, Kiper, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Izmail, Ukraine's, Serhiy Bratchuk, Pavel Polityuk, Jacqueline Wong, Tom Hogue, Simon Cameron, Moore, Peter Graff Organizations: REUTERS, Ukrainian Volunteer Army, United Nations, Ukraine's Air Force, Air, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Odesa, REUTERS KYIV, Russia, Romania, Moscow, reimpose, Izmail, NATO, Ukraine's, Chicago, Constanta, Turkey, Kyiv

☆ Russia strikes Ukraine's Danube port, driving up global grain prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Kubrakov, writing on Facebook, said the Danube ports' infrastructure had been "devastated". "Ukrainian grain is indispensable for the world and cannot be replaced by any other country in the coming years," he wrote. "The port of Izmail suffered the most damage, including the terminal and infrastructure of the Danube Shipping Company." Russian state news agency RIA said the port and grain infrastructure hit was housing foreign mercenaries and military hardware. Seaport authority head Yuriy Lytvyn said on Facebook that repair work had already begun and the port infrastructure continued to operate.

Persons: Oleksandr Kubrakov, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, RIA, Oleh Kiper, Yuriy Lytvyn, Nina, PUTIN, Vladimir Putin, Tayyip Erdogan, West, Putin, Erdogan, Ukraine Bridget Brink, Russia's, Farhan Haq, Pavel Polityuk, Peter Graff, Hugh Lawson, Daniel Wallis, Michelle Nichols, Simon Cameron, Moore, Philippa Fletcher, Giles Elgood, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: NATO, Romania Kyiv, Ukraine's, Russia reimposed, Facebook, Danube Shipping Company, Reuters, REUTERS, United Nations, Kremlin, International, Court, TASS, U.S, Rih, Thomson Locations: Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Izmail, Africa, China, Israel, Moscow, NATO, Russian, Odesa, Turkey, Soviet, Tehran, Kerch, Crimea, Ports, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Constanta

☆ Ukraine's farmers fear the worst after grain deal collapses
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Max Hunder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Of the 60,000 tons of produce grown on Huizinga's land last year, 50,000 tons was sent abroad through the grain deal. In total, Ukraine has been able to export 33 million tons of agricultural products through the deal. Some of Ukraine's western neighbours have restricted imports of Ukrainian grain under pressure from their farmers, who said they were suffering from the added competition. Ukraine expects to harvest 44 million tons of grain this year, down from a record 86 million-ton harvest in 2021. Both Marchuk and Huizinga believe grain shipments should continue through the Black Sea even without Russia's participation in the deal.

Persons: Artem Nechai, Kees Huizinga, Huizinga, Denys Marchuk, Max Hunder, Timothy Heritage, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: REUTERS, Agricultural, Reuters, United, Ukrainian Agrarian Council, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Cherkasy region, Russia, Netherlands, Cherkasy, Eastern, United Nations, Turkey, Russian, Groningen, Romania, Izmail

☆ Zelenskyy honors victims of World War II massacres of tens of thousands of Poles carried out by Ukrainian nationalists
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

They honored the Polish victims of World War II massacres carried out by Ukrainian nationalists. Images shared by Zelenskyy's Twitter account showed him and Polish President Andrzej Duda in a church in Lutsk, a city in western Ukraine. Polish civilian victims of March 26, 1943 massacre committed by Ukrainian Insurgent Army assisted by ordinary Ukrainian peasantry. Wikimedia CommonsEstimates for the death toll during the World War II ant-Polish massacres range from 20,000 to 100,000, The New York Times previously reported. Even as Vladimir Putin uses "denazification" to justify the ongoing conflict, the Ukrainian president is confronting Ukraine's dark history during World War II.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's, Andrzej Duda, Zelenskyy, Poland —, Ukraine's staunchest, Mateusz Morawiecki, Vladimir Putin, Morawiecki Organizations: Sunday, Russia, Service, Twitter, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Hitler's, New York Times, Polish, Associated Press, Poland Locations: Poland, Wall, Silicon, Lutsk, Ukraine, Volyn, Volhynia —, Ukraine's Volyn Oblast, Polish, Poland's, Russia, Ukrainian

Romanian port operators shipped 8.6 million tonnes last year, and 6.3 million tonnes in the first five months of 2023, the Constanta Port authority told Reuters. The port handled 12.17 million tonnes of grains overall in the first five months, a 21% jump on the year. "There are premises that Constanta Port will see a new traffic record," the authority said. As a result, the port could be overwhelmed, even if Black Sea grain initiative is extended, according to Cezar Gheorghe of Romanian grain market consultancy AGRIColumn. The port has a storage capacity of 2 million tonnes, but flows need to be stringently separated for origin certification.

Persons: Cezar Gheorghe, Gheorghe, Luiza Ilie, Marek Strzelecki, Pavel Polityuk, David Evans Organizations: United, Constanta Port, Reuters, AGRIColumn, European Union, EU, Thomson Locations: BUCHAREST, Constanta, Romania, Ukraine, United Nations, Turkey, Romanian, Constanta Port, Moldova, Odessa, Istanbul, Russian, Suez, Western Ukraine, Bucharest, Europe, Warsaw

☆ The true cost of Ukraine's dam disaster
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Raphael Sanis | Robert Leslie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam emptied a reservoir that supplied water to much of southern Ukraine. Thousands were forced to flee as water flooded parts of Kherson, damaging wildlife, washing away property, and contaminating drinking water — a catastrophe that could be felt for years. But the biggest effect may be transforming southern Ukraine's fertile farmland into a desert.

Locations: Nova, Ukraine, Kherson

☆ Ukraine's dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Alexander Ermochenko | ReutersThe destruction of the Kakhovka Dam was a fast-moving disaster that is swiftly evolving into a long-term environmental catastrophe affecting drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea. The Kakhovka Dam was the last in a system of six Soviet-era dams on the river, which flows from Belarus to the Black Sea. When Russian forces seized the Kakhovka Dam, the whole system fell into neglect. Rainbow-colored slicks already coat the murky, placid waters around flooded Kherson, the capital of southern Ukraine's province of the same name. "The canal that supplied our water reservoir has also stopped flowing."

Persons: Alexander Ermochenko, Zelenskyy, Trudeau, Putin, Kateryna Filiuta, Dmytro Neveselyi, we'll Organizations: Ukraine Nature Conservation, Russian, Associated Press, Agriculture, Farmers Locations: Nova, Russia, Ukraine, Hola, Kherson, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarus, Ukraine's province, Kherson province, Maryinske

☆ Ukraine's dam disaster is 'unlikely' to derail its plans for a counteroffensive against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the dam, while the Kremlin denied the attack and said Kyiv intentionally sabotaged the dam to distract attention from its counteroffensive. The dam breach comes amid months of buildup to Ukraine's counteroffensive, a phase of the war that many see as potentially pivotal in Kyiv's pursuit of victory. A spokesperson for the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Friday, however, dismissed reports that a counteroffensive had begun, according to Reuters. Ukraine's government has repeatedly said there will be no public announcement of the start of the counteroffensive. Andrius Tursa, central and Eastern Europe advisor at Teneo, a political risk consultancy, said the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam may alter Ukraine's offensive plans — but was "unlikely to derail" them.

Persons: Andrius, Tursa Organizations: Kremlin, CNBC, NBC, General Staff, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Reuters Locations: Donetsk region, Russian, Ukraine, Kyiv, Eastern Europe, Nova, Crimea

☆ Ukraine's dam break disaster likely won't stop the big counter-offensive that has Russian troops on edge
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Sam Fellman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The humanitarian disaster of the burst dam may only amount to a setback for Ukraine's military. Even before the dam break, the Dnipro River was a formidable obstacle for Ukrainian forces. Ukraine might have chosen to avoid a risky river crossing anyway for their counter-offensive. Ukraine accused Russian forces last October of mining the Russian-controlled dam. Instead of crossing the Dnipro, another option for Ukraine is to attack east of the river entirely.

Persons: —, Michael Kofman, Kofman Organizations: Service, Institute for, Russia, CNA, Twitter, Russian Locations: Dnipro, Ukraine, Nova, Kherson, Russia, Ukrainian, Zaporizhia, Ukraine's, Russian, Crimea

☆ Zelenskyy meets with Pope Francis at Vatican, says he sought backing for his peace plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Pope Francis meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Studio of Paul VI Hall on May 13, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. Francis, using a cane for his knee problem, came to greet the Ukrainian president before ushering him into a papal studio near the Vatican's audience hall. And he said he asked Francis to come aboard Ukraine's peace plan. "I also talked about our Peace Formula as the only effective algorithm for achieving a just peace,″ Zelenskyy said. Zelenskyy, who also met Italian President Sergio Mattarella, is a one-day trip in Rome, including an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican.

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