Ukrainian rescue workers were still recovering bodies from the debris of a five-storey apartment block where at least 47 people were killed, according to the State Emergencies Service. Russian rockets hit the building near Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region over the weekend, in one of the deadliest such attacks of the war. Russian forces continued shelling the Slovyansk area, according to a Ukraine General Staff statement.
Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian troops of abducting, disappearing, torturing and executing thousands of people. Forcibly displacing people is considered a war crime. The Kremlin has said Ukrainians are fleeing to Russia voluntarily and it is offering them aid.Ukraine expects to get $4.4-billion from international partners this month, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said. It will be on par with June, he said in a TV interview.
“We are constantly working to find all available routes for grain export — by trucks, railway and the Danube River,” he said, adding that the Danube won’t compensate for capacity lost at Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. Even if international criminal law typically invokes images of genocide or other crimes against humanity, some offences committed far from an ongoing conflict may still have a direct link to it and “this is especially the case with looting”, he wrote.European natural gas prices gained for a second day as traders remain on edge over what to expect when Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline completes maintenance.
The country now relies on Russia for about a quarter of its gas imports, down from about 40% at the start of the year. Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, still imports about 35% of its needs from Russia. Across the EU, governments are rushing to fill gas storage sites and considering alternative energy supplies, even at a potential cost to the environment.
Let's hope those ports open, Russia's attempts at world domination are glaringly obvious now,it's no longer just about Ukraine
When the Turks start dictating global affairs we will end up with Bakshish.