President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a telephone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned that Ukrainians would never accept Canada’s decision to return turbines to Germany “in violation of the sanctions regime” against Russia.
The phone calls are the first between Zelenskiy and Trudeau since Canada decided to ship turbines from Russian oil giant Gazprom’s Nord Stream gas pipeline to Germany after repairs, which the Ukrainian president has sharply criticized as “unacceptable.”
In a daily speech posted on the president’s website, Zelenskiy said he assured Trudeau that “Ukrainians will never accept Canada’s decision on the Nord Stream turbines.”
“It’s a question of compliance with the sanctions,” he said. If a violation happens now, then there will be others (violations) soon,” accusing Russia of blackmailing the gas dossier, pointing out that there are other ways to deliver Russian gas to Europe.
At the same time, there were demonstrations in Ottawa and Montreal against sending turbines to Europe.
In Quebec, dozens of people gathered in a square in the city center with Ukrainian flags and banners reading “Russian gas money is killing Ukrainians” and “Continue sanctions.”
Clothing group H&M leaves Russia
AFP – Stockholm
Swedish clothing group H&M, which has suspended sales in Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, announced yesterday that it will gradually withdraw from the country where it employs 6,000 people.
“After careful consideration, we consider it impossible to continue our operations in Russia in the current situation,” said Elena Helmsson, CEO of the Group. And H&M, which began operations in Russia in 2009, employs about six thousand people.
“We are deeply saddened by the impact this will have on our colleagues and we are very grateful to them for their hard work and dedication,” Elena Helmerson added.
Six killed in Russian bombing of Torick, EU minister: Resuming grain exports ‘a matter of life or death’ Brussels-Kyiv-Moscow-continued
EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said yesterday that the resumption of grain exports from Ukraine is “a matter of life and death” and there is “hope” that an agreement will be reached this week to open the port of Odessa.
“The lives of tens of thousands of people depend on this agreement,” which is being negotiated between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN, Borrell said after arriving in Brussels to attend a meeting of European Union foreign ministers to discuss the war in Ukraine.
The draft agreement is aimed at exporting about 20 million tons of grain stuck in Ukrainian elevators due to Moscow’s attack across the Black Sea. This would ease Russian exports of grains and fertilizers, which have been hit by Western sanctions that have hit Russia’s logistics and financial chains. Russia has announced that the “outcome document” will be ready for a meeting this week in Turkey.
The European Union continues to put pressure on Moscow, imposing new sanctions on the one hand, and providing financial and military support to Ukraine on the other, Borrell said. Orban on Friday denounced the sanctions, saying they were a “mistake” because they “didn’t achieve their goals and even, on the contrary, had side effects.” “At first I thought we were just shooting ourselves in the foot, but the European economy was shot in the chest and suffocated,” Orban said.
On Friday, the European Commission introduced new punitive measures, including a ban on buying gold from Russia.
The ministers express their opinion on the allocation of the sixth tranche in the amount of 500 million euros to the European Peace Fund to finance military equipment and weapons provided to Ukraine.
On the ground, six people have died in a Russian bombardment of the city of Toritsk in Donbass in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Service said yesterday.
“In Toritsk, a building that was bombed in the morning was destroyed by a rocket,” reads a message posted on the device’s Facebook page, accompanied by photos showing the rubble. Rescuers found five bodies. Also, three people were removed from the rubble, one of whom died in the hospital.
In addition to Donbass, shelling was recorded yesterday morning in Nikolaev (south), Kharkiv region (northeast) and Dnepropetrovsk (center-east).
And the channel of the regional governor Vitaly Kim stated in Telegram that “Nikolaev was subjected to powerful rocket fire on the night from Sunday to Monday. The car dealership and the salon of agricultural machinery were damaged. According to preliminary data, no one was injured as a result of the strikes.
According to Oleg Senegubov, Governor of the region, two people were killed as a result of shelling by the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv region per day.
In the Dnepropetrovsk region, “during the night, the enemy bombed Nikopol several times,” according to the morning briefing of the Ukrainian president.
“Earlier, a man was wounded and taken to the hospital, about ten private houses were destroyed, a hospital, two local factories and a port were damaged,” the same source said. The “new” police chief of Liman, who was captured by Moscow forces, appeared smiling in a video broadcast by a Russian channel and said residents of the city in eastern Ukraine greeted them with cries of “Finally! Russia is here! Thanks!”
And 42 kilometers to the south, in Kramatorsk, Igor Ognivenko laughs while watching the video: “I don’t know who this person is.”
“Look at him, he is sitting at my table, on the chair that my wife gave me!” he says. Look at the badge on his jacket: USSR!” “Soviet Union!” he adds, shaking his head in disbelief. This is madness!”.
Major Igor Ognivenko still calls himself Liman’s police chief, although he left the city on May 23 after weeks of targeted bombing and a furious Russian offensive that forced Ukrainian troops to retreat.
About 8,000 people still live in the city, which had a population of about 25,000 before the war.
Ukrainian Liman ‘returns to the past’ under Russian occupation
Russian journalist Marina Ovsinikova, who became famous after storming a live TV broadcast condemning the war in Ukraine, said yesterday that she was released hours after her arrest in Moscow.
She wrote on Facebook: “I am at home. Everything is fine. Now I understand that it is better to leave the house with a passport and a briefcase.”
Her lawyer, Dmitry Zakhvatov, said his client was arrested on suspicion of “slandering the army” while she testified in a Moscow court she went to last week to support opposition figure Ilya Yashin, who is imprisoned for criticizing Russia’s offensive in Ukraine. . Ovsyanikova was arrested and interrogated for 14 hours, after which she was released and sentenced to pay a fine of 30,000 rubles ($280).
The case attracted international attention and raised concerns about press freedom in Russia following President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send his troops to invade Ukraine. Russian journalist Ovsyanikova released
