Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday spoke with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna on the expected visit of independent inspectors to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. 5:39pm: Russian foreign minister discusses Ukraine nuclear inspection with French counterpart Unlike most previous packages, the new funding is largely aimed at helping Ukraine secure its medium- to long-term defence posture, according to officials familiar with the matter.Įarlier shipments, most of them under Presidential Drawdown Authority, have focused on Ukraine’s more immediate needs for weapons and ammunition and involved materiel that the Pentagon already has in stock that can be shipped in short order. Several officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the aid before its public release. ![]() The total of the aid package – which is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative – could change overnight, but not likely by much. The money will fund contracts for drones, weapons and other equipment that may not see the battlefront for a year or two, they said. US officials told The Associated Press that the assistance package is expected to be announced Wednesday, the day the war hits the six-month mark and Ukraine celebrates its independence day. 6:45pm: US plans to send $3 billion in military aid to UkraineĪs Russia's war on Ukraine continues, US security assistance is shifting to a longer-term campaign that will likely keep more American troops in Europe into the future, and include an additional roughly $3 billion in aid to train and equip Ukrainian forces to fight for years to come, US officials said. It was not clear from Gladkov's comments whether Tuesday's blaze had taken place in the same depot or among ammunition that had been moved. Last week inhabitants of Timonovo and Soloti, 15 kilometres (9 miles) from Ukraine, were evacuated after a nearby ammunition storage depot caught fire. No one was injured, he said in a statement. Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Belgorod region, said people near the village of Timonovo were evacuated after the ammunition started to spontaneously combust. 9:47pm: Russian official blames high temperatures for border fireĪmmunition being stored in southern Russia near the border with Ukraine caught fire on Tuesday, the second such incident in a week, and a local official said high temperatures were to blame. Ukraine and Russia in July reached a grain exports agreement through the mediation of Turkey and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, with guarantees for ships to sail out of Ukraine's Black Sea ports. ![]() "Thanks to intensive international cooperation, Ukraine is on track to export as much as 4 million metric tonnes of agricultural products in August," a senior US State Department official told AFP. Its exports ground to a trickle after the February 24 invasion, contributing to a spike in global food prices that has hit poor nations especially hard. Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil, shipping around 5 million metric tonnes of grain each month before the war. Ukraine is on course to ship nearly as much grain this month as it did before the Russian invasion following international efforts to ease food shortages, a US official said Tuesday. ![]() 10:30pm: Ukraine grain exports nearing pre-war levels, US says Technical experts from Ukraine continue to operate the nuclear equipment. The Zaporizhzhia plant has been under the control of Russian forces since early March, soon after their invasion of Ukraine. The UN nuclear agency renewed its request Tuesday to assess the safety and security at Europe’s largest nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine which Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of shelling, sparking warnings of a possible nuclear catastrophe.Īt the start of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo announced that Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, requested to send an IAEA mission “to carry out essential safety, security and safeguard activities at the site.”ĭiCarlo said the UN has the logistics and security capacity in Ukraine “to support any IAEA mission to the plant from Kyiv, provided Ukraine and Russia agree.” 11:46pm: UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant For more of our coverage of the war in Ukraine, click here. This live page is no longer being updated.
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