Ukraine began the mandatory evacuation of its citizens from Donetsk following president Volodymyr Zelensky’s call on civilians to leave the eastern region for their own safety.
The UK has added former Rosneft management board members Didier Casimiro and Zeljko Runje to its sanctions list, according to aThe first train from the area arrived on Tuesday in the city of Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine, mainly carrying women, children and the elderly, deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on her Telegram channel.
Three ships sailing under the Russian flag and a Syrian vessel have regularly been making illegal entries into Sevastopol sea trading port, the Prosecutor General’s office of Ukraine said on its website. In this way, the Crimean peninsula “is being used by the Russian Federation as a ‘grey zone’ to transport grain which they have illegally appropriated”, the office said.
The vessels, which will be accompanied through the safe corridor by a mine-sweeper, have a capacity of between 10,000 tonnes and 60,000 tonnes, Taras Vysotskyi said in an interview with Ukraine’s 5th TV channel.The governor of the region that includes Mykolaiv said local authorities were working toward possibly having the southern port added to the list of three shipping hubs that have been opened for grain exports.
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