Ukraine diplomacy: Turkey stops Russian grain ship - Putin affront to Biden
Created: 07/05/2022 04:46
By: Linus Prien
A Russian grain carrier is being held in Turkey.
Vladimir Putin refused to congratulate the United States on Independence Day.
Britain imposes sanctions on Belarus.
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A
Russian-flagged
grain carrier was stopped in Turkey.
Vladimir Putin
has refused to congratulate the United States on Independence Day.
Great Britain
announces further sanctions against
Belarus
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Update from July 4, 9:26 p.m .:
The British government is planning another package of sanctions against Belarus from Tuesday (July 5) because the country supports Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
This was announced by the British Foreign Office on Monday evening.
The sanctions cover goods worth a total of £60m (about €69m).
A ban on the export of oil refinery products, high-tech components and luxury goods to Belarus is planned, it said.
In addition, imports of iron and steel from Belarus are prohibited and access to the British financial services sector is restricted.
Belarusian ruler Lukashenko threatened the West with an attack on its capitals on Saturday (July 2).
Ukraine-News: NATO ambassadors sign accession protocols for Finland and Sweden on Tuesday
Update from July 4, 7:03 p.m .:
Finland and Sweden’s membership in NATO is one step closer: ambassadors from the 30 NATO member states in Brussels signed the accession protocols for Finland and Sweden on Tuesday morning.
The two countries can thus take part in all NATO meetings, but not vote.
The governments of the 30 NATO countries still have to approve the accession.
In Germany, the Bundestag could agree to Finland and Sweden joining as early as this week.
Ukraine-News: Ukraine wants to finance the country's reconstruction with confiscated Russian funds
Update from July 4, 6:27 p.m.:
It is day 131 in the Ukraine war.
The Ukrainian government now estimates the cost of rebuilding their country, which was devastated by the Russian war of aggression, at at least 750 billion dollars (almost 720 billion euros).
Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal said on Monday at the international reconstruction conference in Lugano, Switzerland, that the reconstruction would be financed largely from confiscated assets from the Russian state and the oligarchs.
Ukraine-News: Turkey stops Russian ship with grain at the Black Sea port of Karasu
First report from July 4, 2022:
Istanbul/Moscow – According to the operator, Turkey has stopped a Russian-flagged ship carrying grain at the Black Sea port of Karasu.
Customs initially refused the freighter "Zhibek Zholy" in front of the Turkish Black Sea city, said a person responsible for the port company IC Ictas at the request of the
German Press Agency
on Monday (June 4).
The Ukrainian ambassador to Turkey, Wassyl Bondar, said on Ukrainian television the day before that the further fate of the ship would be decided on Monday.
Ukraine hopes the ship will be impounded and the cargo confiscated.
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Ukraine-News: Head of occupied Ukrainian region confirms Ukraine as starting point of freighter
According to the online tracking system Marinetraffic, the freighter came from the Russian coastal city of Novorossiysk.
However, the Russian-appointed head of the occupied southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balizki, wrote to the Telegram news service that the freighter left the port of Berdyansk last Thursday.
The international community has been demanding that Russia allow the export of Ukrainian grain for weeks.
Ukraine complains that its ports in the Black Sea are blocked by the Russian Navy.
Both countries are among the largest wheat exporters and play an important role in global food security.
The United Nations recently warned of the worst famine in decades.
Ukraine-News: Putin refuses to congratulate the US on Independence Day
Out of anger at what he sees as anti-Russian US policy, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is not congratulating his colleague Joe Biden on American Independence Day this year.
"No, no congratulatory telegram will be sent this year," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, according to the Interfax agency.
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"That's because this year has become the culmination of unfriendly policies toward our country by the United States," he said, referring to the July 4 holiday in America.
"Therefore, under these circumstances, it can hardly be considered appropriate to send such a congratulatory message."
(lp / dpa)
