Poland has announced it will no longer supply arms to Ukraine amid a grain scandal and rising tensions between the two allies. Moscow claims that it shot down almost 20 Ukrainian drones overnight from Wednesday to Thursday.

A Ukrainian soldier on a Leopard-2 tank at the front in Tokmok, Zaporizhzhia regionPhoto: AA/ABACA / Abaca Press / Profimedia

Ukrainian war. Day 575. LIVETEXT:

08:53Belgium is considering the possibility of supplying its F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said, Reuters reports.

Belgium is replacing its F-16s with F-35 fighters, and Belgium’s defense ministry previously said the F-16s were too old for Ukraine to use in combat, although De Croo said they could still be useful, for example pilot training. .

“We asked the Ministry of Defense to see what use our F-16s could have in Ukraine,” De Croo told Belgian broadcaster VRT on Wednesday, speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. “We have to consider all options.”

In recent months, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands have said they will supply Ukraine with F-16s when its air force is ready to use them.

08:29 In the Ukrainian city of Cherkasy, as a result of the fall of the remnants of Russian missiles shot down by anti-aircraft defense during the shelling that began on Thursday morning, the head of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration of the Games reported. Stool, reports RBC.

08:27Several explosions rang out in Kyiv after an airstrike on Thursday morning, witnesses told Reuters, as authorities sent rescue teams to at least two locations in the Ukrainian capital.

Air defense is working, rescuers are moving to possible explosion sites in the south and east of the city, the mayor of the city Vitaliy Klitschko wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to him, fragments of rockets fell in the center of Kyiv, non-residential buildings were damaged in the east, as a result of which a fire broke out, two people, including a child, were hospitalized.

Local authorities and mass media also reported on explosions in the Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of Ukraine.

In the western Ukrainian city of Rivne, as reported by the Suspilne news agency, a partial power outage was reported, indicating that the Russian attack may have targeted the energy infrastructure.

08:22On Thursday morning, signals of air raids sounded in Kyiv and in several regions of Ukraine, the RBC agency reports.

The Air Force of Ukraine has warned of the threat of a new shelling by Russian missiles.

The Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitsiko also warned the residents of the capital about possible new attacks by the Russians.

08:15 The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, reached a consensus with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, bypassing the leaders of the EU countries, regarding the permission to import Ukrainian grain.

07:35Poland announced on Wednesday night that it was no longer supplying weapons to Kyiv, a statement that illustrates rising tensions between the two allies at a key moment in Kyiv’s response to the Russian invasion, AFP writes.

A quick summary of the latest information:

  • “Stop the war, and Zelensky will stop talking” / Tense meeting of the UN Security Council
  • Controversy between Zelenskyi and Lavrov in the UN Security Council regarding Russia’s veto
  • The Ukrainian military said Ukrainian forces struck a Russian Black Sea Fleet command post near Sevastopol in Crimea on Wednesday morning, after the Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol said earlier that a missile strike on the city had been foiled. Reuters reports.
  • Lavrov accuses NATO of refusing dialogue that could prevent tensions in Europe
  • The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, in his speech to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, noted that peoples and governments have lost confidence in the UN’s ability and desire to protect the sovereign borders of countries, and asked the UN to cancel Russia’s veto on security. Council, saying that serious reform is needed, The Guardian reports.
  • Unprecedented tension between Poland and Ukraine. Zelenskyi “overdid it”, accusing Warsaw of “political theater” in the grain scandal.
  • The Bulgarian government has agreed to temporarily stop importing sunflower seeds from Ukraine after protests by farmers, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said on Wednesday, assuring that he would support the production of local farmers, DPA and Agerpres reported.
  • Ukraine wants to agree with neighboring countries on the import of agricultural products through negotiations, trade representative Taras Kachka said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
  • As it makes “enormous” progress on the front in the east and south, Ukraine urgently needs air defenses, including ammunition, spare parts and maintenance for systems that the Ukrainian military already has, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. .
  • Ukraine claims that “unknown saboteurs” attacked a Russian airbase, damaging two planes and a helicopter.
  • Zelensky urges Trump to share a peace plan for Ukraine, but emphasizes that he will not cede territory to Russia.
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  • Russia struck the Kremenchug oil refinery in central Ukraine’s Poltava region overnight in a drone attack that caused a fire, Governor Dmytro Lunin said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
  • On Wednesday, the Kyiv parliament adopted a law according to which declarations about the property and interests of high-ranking persons in Ukraine are made public, AFP reports.
  • Johannis: We have found a solution for managing the export of Ukrainian grain to Romania; authorization system.

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