A night bombardment on a poultry farm in the occupied Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine left at least five people dead and 19 injured, Russian authorities said on Wednesday, accusing Kiev of carrying out the strike. “The bombardment of the village of Karpaty (located 35 kilometers west of Lugansk, editor’s note) by Ukrainian armed groups (…) caused 24 victims – five killed and 19 wounded”, indicated on Telegram the Center of Russian control of the security situation in the Luhansk region.
The poultry farm and a site where workers lived temporarily were damaged, according to the same source, which does not specify whether the victims are soldiers or civilians. But in a first assessment, published a few hours earlier, it had indicated that four workers had been killed.
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- A bombardment on a farm killed at least five people in the Lugansk region
- Brussels considers extending restrictions on Ukrainian grain imports
- At least one dead in Ukrainian bombardment on a center for displaced people in the border region of Belgorod
Brussels considers extending restrictions on Ukrainian grain imports
EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said on Tuesday it was necessary to extend “at least” until the end of October the restrictions imposed by five EU states on the import of Ukrainian cereals, despite opposition of Kiev and resistance from part of the Twenty-Seven.
While the lifting of customs duties in May 2022 boosted the influx of Ukrainian agricultural products into the EU, several neighboring countries (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria) unilaterally banned the import of grain from Ukraine in mid-April. Ukraine faced with the saturation of silos on their territory and the collapse of local prices.
Guardian of EU trade policy, the European Commission concluded an agreement with these four states and Romania at the end of April providing until June 5 for “safeguard measures” to allow them to block the marketing of wheat on their soil. , Ukrainian corn, rapeseed and sunflower, provided that they do not prevent their transit to other countries. “It is necessary to extend (these restrictions) at least until the end of October, and ideally until the end of the year, after the harvest, otherwise we will have a huge problem,” Janusz Wojciechowski told AFP. from a meeting of EU agriculture ministers.
One dead in a Ukrainian bombardment on a center for displaced people in a border region
One person was killed and two others injured on Tuesday in a Ukrainian bombardment on a center for displaced people in the border region of Belgorod, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced. “Ukrainian armed forces fired artillery at a center for displaced people housing elderly civilians and children (…) a security guard was killed and two people injured,” Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. According to him, the two injured are “in serious condition in intensive care” with “penetrating injuries to the abdomen” for one, to the chest for the other.
He accompanied his message with photographs of a damaged building with shattered windows, a ditch caused by an impact near the cabin of the security guard, and adults and children being evacuated in buses . The region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, has been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian bombardments, as well as by attempted incursions by armed groups from Ukraine.