Ukrainian troops claim gains in Russia annexed region

Ukrainian troops claim gains inside Russia annexed region

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops continued to push forward Monday accompanied by their insulting that has awkward Moscow, accompanied by Kyiv officials with every one other accompanied by overseas observers hinting at new gains inside the planned southern neighbourhood of Kherson that the Kremlin wants to annex.

Kherson has been one of the toughest battlefields for the Ukrainians, accompanied by slower forward movement when compared accompanied by Ukraine's breakout insulting around the country's following largest city of Kharkiv, inside the northeast, that began last month.

Kherson is one of the quartet regions illegally annexed by Moscow last week following a "referendum" orchestrated by the Kremlin. The foot house of the Kremlin-controlled parliament is place to ratify the treaties Monday, with every one other accompanied by the upper house will go nearer behind the following day.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday that set of two of those regions, Donetsk with every one other accompanied by Luhansk, are joining Russia accompanied by their administrative borders that existed earlier to a dispute erupted there inside 2014 in the centre of pro-Russian separatists with every one other accompanied by Ukrainian forces. He noted that the matter of the borders of the set of two other regions — Zaporizhzhia with every one other accompanied by Kherson — remains open.

"We will carry on accompanied by to talk over that accompanied by residents of those regions," Peskov said inside a conference call accompanied by reporters. He did not provide additional details.

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Ukrainian media outlets on Monday highlighted an likeness of Ukrainian troops displaying flags at a marker for the village of Khreshchenivka, which is inside the same area of Kherson where troops apparently have broken into and not here of Russian lines.

Ukraine has pressed its counteroffensive inside the Kherson neighbourhood since the summer, relentlessly pummeling Russian present with lines with every one other accompanied by making inroads into the areas the occident of the Dnieper River held by the Russians.

The Ukrainian military has successfully used U.S.-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to repeatedly hit the main bridge across the Dnieper inside the city of Kherson with every one other accompanied by a dam that served while a following main crossing. It too has struck pontoon bridges that Russia has used to present with its troops on the western edge of the watercourse following the main crossings were made inoperable.

Despite the victorious strikes on present with lines, Ukrainian insulting operations inside the south so a lengthy way have been slower with every one other accompanied by less victorious compared accompanied by the northeast, while the not shut terrain easily exposed the attacking strength to Russian artillery blaze with every one other accompanied by airstrikes.

Russian military bloggers near to Moscow have increasingly acknowledged that Ukraine has higher-ranking manpower, backed by tank units, inside the area.

A Russian-installed official inside the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, admitted inside a video statement on Monday earlier to noon that the Ukrainian forces "have broken into and not here of a little deeper." However, he insisted that "everything is under control" with every one other accompanied by that Russia's "defense system is working" inside the region.

Russia attacked Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy's hometown with every one other accompanied by other targets Sunday accompanied by self-destruction drones, with every one other accompanied by Ukraine took spine filled jurisdiction of a planned eastern city inside a counteroffensive that has reshaped the war.

Russia's recent mislaying of the eastern city of Lyman, which it had been using while a transport with every one other accompanied by logistics hub, was a new blow to the Kremlin while it seeks to escalate the war by illegally annexing the quartet regions of Ukraine with every one other accompanied by heightening threats to use nuclear force.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's land seize has threatened to push the dispute to a dangerous new level. It too prompted Ukraine to formally apply for fast-track NATO membership

In his nightly address Sunday, Zelenskyy discussed the recent liberation of Lyman, a answer Russian node for logistics on the front dash inside the northeast.

"The tale of the liberation of Lyman inside the Donetsk neighbourhood has now become the most well liked inside the media — nevertheless the successes of our soldiers are not restricted to Lyman," Zelenskyy said.

Lyman, which Ukraine recaptured by encircling Russian troops, is inside the Donetsk neighbourhood near the border accompanied by Luhansk.

In his broadcast, Zelenskyy too thanked troops from his hometown near Kherson.

"To the soldiers of the 129th Brigade of my native Kryvy Rih, who distinguished themselves accompanied by good results with every one other accompanied by liberated, inside particular, Arkhanhelske with every one other accompanied by Myroliubivka," he said.

Those set of two villages are inside the same area where Ukrainian troops have been making advances. A photo emerged at the weekend showing Ukrainian forces' operation southwest of Novovorontsovka on the banks of the Dnieper River.

Ukraine's presidential office said Monday that Russian shelling of eight Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours killed set of two civilians with every one other accompanied by injured 14 more.

It too reported advances inside the Kherson neighbourhood with every one other accompanied by said that the Russian authorities inside response restricted people from leaving the city of Kherson, introducing exceptional permits for those who want to leave.

Since the Russian insulting started inside February, Ukrainian forces have not long ago managed to retake swaths of territory, notably inside the northeast around Kharkiv, inside a counteroffensive inside recent weeks that has awkward the Kremlin with every one other accompanied by prompted infrequent domestic censure of Putin's war.

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{width: 90%;margin: 0 auto;}}@media only screen with every one other accompanied by (min-width: 415px){.htmlEmbedContent {width: 70%;}}.youtube-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .youtube-container iframe { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }\u003c/style>\u003cdiv class=\"youtube-container\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/A1BNn6dATiI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>","caption":"VIDEO: Stolen Ukrainian Grain Fueling Putin's War Machine","display":"se0","maxWidth":"","alignment":"middle","isHeroImage":false}],"isPrContent":false,"storyHTML":"\u003cp>BEIRUT (AP) — When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked inside Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats said the vessel was carrying cereal stolen by Russia with every one other accompanied by urged Lebanese officials to impound the ship. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Moscow called the allegation "false with every one other accompanied by baseless," with every one other accompanied by Lebanon's prosecutor general sided accompanied by the Kremlin with every one other accompanied by declared that the 10,000 tons of barley with every one other accompanied by wheat flour wasn't stolen with every one other accompanied by allowed the ship to unload.\u003c/p>\u003cp>But an investigation by The Associated Press with every one other accompanied by the PBS series "Frontline" has found the Laodicea, owned by Syria, is small portion of a state-of-the-art Russian-run smuggling operation that has used falsified manifests with every one other accompanied by seaborne subterfuge to purloin Ukrainian cereal price at least $530 million — money that has helped feed President Vladimir Putin's war machine. \u003c/p>\u003cp>AP used satellite imagery with every one other accompanied by marine radio transponder facts to track trio dozen ships making additional than 50 voyages carrying cereal from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to ports inside Turkey, Syria, Lebanon with every one other accompanied by other countries. Reporters reviewed shipping manifests, searched communal media posts, with every one other accompanied by interviewed farmers, shippers with every one other accompanied by corporate officials to uncover the details of the massive smuggling operation.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"afs:Medium:286452520985\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>This tale is small portion of an AP/FRONTLINE investigation that includes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/ap-russia-war-crimes-ukraine/\">War Crimes Watch Ukraine\u003c/a> interactive experience with every one other accompanied by and upcoming documentary, "Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes," which premieres 10/9c Oct. 25 on PBS.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>The ongoing theft, which legal experts speak is a potential war crime, is actuality carried not here by wealthy businessmen with every one other accompanied by state-owned companies inside Russia with every one other accompanied by Syria, some of them by that hour dated facing monetary sanctions from the United States with every one other accompanied by European Union. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Russian military has attacked \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-2c2063cd965416a5c5e4e83299391d8a\">farms\u003c/a>, cereal silos with every one other accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-global-trade-c1a004db6eef64d2aea48990a3080017\">shipping facilities\u003c/a> still under Ukrainian jurisdiction accompanied by artillery with every one other accompanied by air strikes, destroying food, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-politics-health-middle-east-58bb99da6bf9fc6af5a5a645022bc4d7\">driving up prices\u003c/a> with every one other accompanied by reducing the run of cereal from a country lengthy known while the breadbasket of Europe. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The Russians "have an absolute duty to build sure that civilians are cared for with every one other accompanied by to not deprive them their ability of a livelihood with every one other accompanied by an ability to feed themselves," said David Crane, a former soldierold hand prosecutor who has been associated accompanied by inside numerous international war crime investigations. "It's fair pure pillaging with every one other accompanied by looting, with every one other accompanied by that is too an actionable offense under international military law."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"97f27069dda048e39b9f67fa62d2ee79\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>The cereal with every one other accompanied by flour carried by the 138-meter-long (453 feet) Laodicea probable started its journey inside the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, which Russia seized inside the early days of the war.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Video posted to communal media on July 9 shows a train pulling up to the Melitopol Elevator, a massive cereal storage facility, accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://t.me/riamelitopol/60999\">green hopper cars\u003c/a> marked accompanied by the name of the Russian firm Agro-Fregat LLC inside large yellow letters, down accompanied by a logo inside the form of a spike of wheat.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Russian occupation official Andrey Siguta held a report conference at the depot the following week where he said the cereal would "provide food security" for Russia-controlled regions inside Ukraine, with every one other accompanied by that his management would "evaluate the harvest with every one other accompanied by determine how a a large amount of will exist for sale."\u003c/p>\u003cp>As he spoke, a masked fighter armed accompanied by an assault rummage stood guard while trucks unloaded wheat at the facility to exist milled. Workers loaded flour into large white bags exist fond of those delivered by the Laodicea to Lebanon trio weeks later.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"social-embed\" id=\"se0:23714a70-2a00-11ed-e6d6-a7c8837718dd\">\u003cdiv class=\"display-block\">\u003cstyle>@media only screen with every one other accompanied by (max-width: 415px){.htmlEmbedContent {width: 90%;margin: 0 auto;}}@media only screen with every one other accompanied by (min-width: 415px){.htmlEmbedContent {width: 70%;}}.youtube-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .youtube-container iframe { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }\u003c/style>\u003cdiv class=\"youtube-container\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/A1BNn6dATiI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003cp class=\"social-caption\">VIDEO: Stolen Ukrainian Grain Fueling Putin's War Machine\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Siguta, down accompanied by quartet other top Russian occupation officials, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/targeting-russias-senior-officials-defense-industrial-base-and-human-rights-abusers/\">sanctioned\u003c/a> by the U.S. management on Sept. 15 for overseeing the theft with every one other accompanied by sell abroad of Ukranian grain.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Putin signed treaties Friday to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-moscow-referendums-dad270d8dccf8873ba7fe7758c387933?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01\">annex quartet occupied regions of Ukraine\u003c/a> into the Russian Federation, inside defiance of international law. The United States with every one other accompanied by European Union straight away rejected "the unlawful annexation."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov told AP the occupiers are moving vast quantities of cereal from the neighbourhood by train with every one other accompanied by truck to ports inside Russia with every one other accompanied by Crimea, a planned Ukrainian peninsula that Russia has occupied since 2014. Despite Russian claims to have annexed Crimea, the United Nations ruled that land seize was too illegal.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>Videos posted on communal media inside recent months show a steady brook of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/maksymeristavi/status/1537457087613132800\">grain transport trucks\u003c/a> moving south into and not here of occupied areas of Ukraine \u003ca href=\"https://t.me/riamelitopol/52964\">with the letter "Z" painted on their sides\u003c/a>, a wartime symbol for Russia with every one other accompanied by its military forces. Agro-Fregat train cars have been recorded \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzdfiF55tUI\">rolling into and not here of the Crimean port town\u003c/a> of Feodosia, where satellite imagery shows trucks with every one other accompanied by trains lined up while cereal was actuality loaded onto ships.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"944747930ad648c486688ce56cd82f44\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cdiv id=\"08915a47310a47d2844f3d2bfb973ac5\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://tass.com/politics/1470421\">The Kremlin has denied stealing some grain\u003c/a>, nevertheless Russia's state-run report agency Tass reported on June 16 that Ukrainian cereal was actuality trucked to Crimea, resulting inside \u003ca href=\"https://tass.com/economy/1465929\">long lines at border checkpoints\u003c/a>. Tass subsequent reported that cereal from Melitopol had arrived inside Crimea with every one other accompanied by that \u003ca href=\"https://tass.com/economy/1468763\">additional shipments\u003c/a> were expected, tied for customers inside the Middle East with every one other accompanied by Africa.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>A July 11 satellite likeness shows the Laodicea tied up at a pier inside Feodosia. The ship's radio transponder was turned off with every one other accompanied by its cargo holds were open, actuality filled accompanied by a white substance from waiting trucks. Two weeks later, when it arrived at the Lebanese port city Tripoli, it claimed to exist carrying cereal from a small Russian port on the other side of the Black Sea.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"afs:Content:599113520016\" class=\"hub-link-embed\">Full Coverage: AP Investigations\u003c/div>\u003cp>A copy of the ship's manifests obtained by AP claimed its port of origin was Kavkaz, Russia. Its cargo was listed while almost 10,000 metric tons of "Russian Barley with every one other accompanied by Russian Flour inside Bags." The shipper was listed while Agro-Fregat with every one other accompanied by the purchaser was Loyal Agro Co Ltd., a wholesale grocer headquartered inside Turkey.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Agro-Fregat didn't respond to emailed questions with every one other accompanied by in a short time following AP's inquiry, the company's website appears to have been taken down. A phone number that had been listed on the website was not here of work last week.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A spokesperson for \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/people/Loyal-Agro-Co-LTD/100054269210362/\">Loyal Agro\u003c/a> said the firm took conveyance of 5,000 tons of flour with every one other accompanied by the relax of the ship's cargo went to Tartus, Syria. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"We reached an accord accompanied by Russia, the flour came from Russia," said Muhammed Cuma, a spokesperson for the company. "If the flour was stolen, at that hour dated the Lebanese authorities would not have allowed it (to exist imported)." \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"2a2b986340874c158197050864c202cf\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cdiv id=\"e655c8b45b4a4e4a8c8a2e7a81226e6b\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>But the Laodicea couldn't have picked up its cargo inside Kavkaz, the Russian port listed on the manifest. The ship's hull, which reaches 8 meters (26 feet) beneath the surface, would sprint aground inside the relatively shallow port, which according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rosmorport.com/\">Russia's transport regulator\u003c/a> tin only accommodate ships accompanied by a greatest depth of 5.3 meters (17.5 feet).\u003c/p>\u003cp>The port inside Feodosia is additional than twice while deep — easily intelligent to accommodate the large ship.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Laodicea is one of trio bulk cargo vessels operated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.syriamarshipping.com/\">Syriamar Shipping Ltd\u003c/a>., a Syrian government-run company under U.S. sanctions since 2015 for its ties to the management of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. \u003c/p>\u003cp>AP tracked 10 voyages made by the Laodicea with every one other accompanied by her female sibling ships — Souria with every one other accompanied by Finikia — from the Ukrainian seaboard to ports inside Turkey, Syria with every one other accompanied by Lebanon.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>Syriamar didn't respond to emails to its headquarters inside Latakia, Syria. A call to the phone number on the company's website went unanswered.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"8442b91539ac43d5a1250a11c2d4196c\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>___ \u003c/p>\u003cp>Another firm associated accompanied by inside smuggling cereal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.aoosk.ru/en/\">United Shipbuilding Corp\u003c/a>., a Russian state-owned protection contractor that builds warships with every one other accompanied by submarines for Russia's navy. In April, the firm with every one other accompanied by its older executives were \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/additional-state-department-designations-targeting-russian-state-owned-defense-shipbuilding-enterprise/\">sanctioned\u003c/a> by the United States for providing weapons to the Russian war effort.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The company, into and not here of its subsidiary \u003ca href=\"http://www.cmc-heavylift.ru/ru/about/\">Crane Marine Contractor\u003c/a>, bought trio cargo ships fair weeks earlier to Putin invaded Ukraine, inside a departure from its centre work providing heavy lift platforms to the lubricant with every one other accompanied by gasoline industry. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The trio ships have made at least 17 trips in the centre of Crimea and ports inside Turkey with every one other accompanied by Syria.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A spokeswoman for United Shipbuilding Corp. inside Moscow didn't respond to questions sent via email. When AP called Crane Marine Contractor a receptionist answered by saying the company's name. A male she transferred the call to, however, insisted AP had the incorrect number.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"You have reached the incorrect place, we do not have such information," said the man, who refused to present with his name. "I have no indeed clue what you are talking concerning with every one other accompanied by no indeed clue who I tin fasten you with, do you understand?\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>During a representative voyage inside mid-June, a 170-meter-long ship (560 feet) called the Mikhail Nenashev was captured on satellite actuality loaded at the Russian-controlled Avlita Grain Terminal inside Sevastopol, Crimea, while its radio transponder was turned off. The ship's sailors turned the signal spine on set of two days subsequent while underway inside the Black Sea.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>It turned south in the direction of the Mediterranean with every one other accompanied by arrived on June 25 inside Dörtyol, Turkey where exclusive video obtained by AP shows it set of two days subsequent at a pier owned by MMK Metalurji, a steel producer. Cranes at the dock tin exist seen scooping up large bucket loads of cereal with every one other accompanied by dropping it into waiting trucks that operate away. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://mmkturkey.com.tr/\">MMK Metalurji\u003c/a> is the Turkish subsidiary of \u003ca href=\"https://mmk.ru/en/\">Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works\u003c/a>, a greatest Russian steel conglomerate controlled by Viktor Rashnikov, a Russian billionaire who is \u003ca href=\"http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53351\">close to Putin\u003c/a>. Rashnikov with every one other accompanied by his firm have been \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0905\">sanctioned\u003c/a> by the United States, European Union with every one other accompanied by United Kingdom for providing income with every one other accompanied by apparatus inside support of Russia's war effort. \u003c/p>\u003cp>In an email to AP, the firm said the cereal came from Russia: "The place where the said cargo is loaded is PORT KAVKAZ … according to the customs declaration with every one other accompanied by the written declaration made by the shipping agency to us." \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"ac5eddd511214da6a1965989c5be90d1\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>As accompanied by Laodicea, Nenashev's draught is excessively deep to dock at the Kavkaz port. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Ami Daniel, CEO of the marine facts analytics firm Winward, said ships running black is a scarlet banner that unlawful activity is occurring. He said it is too ordinary for smugglers to falsify shipping manifests with every one other accompanied by customs declarations to hide the accurate origin of their cargo. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Illegally falsifying documentation is a tactic used by bad actors to disguise the origin of the goods they are transporting, exist it for the motive of evading sanctions, trafficking illicit goods, or other crimes," said Daniel, a former Israeli naval officer.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Rashnikov, who has a personal fortune estimated at additional than $10 billion, appears to have anticipated the sanctions.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Days earlier to Russia launched its February invasion, his 140-meter-long superyacht (460 feet), the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6odEZEQ3LE\">Ocean Victory\u003c/a>, cruised from Dubai to the Maldives, a faraway archipelago inside the Indian Ocean where the management hasn't enforced Western sanctions. Ocean Victory's sailors turned off its radio transponder on March 1, with every one other accompanied by the $300 million communal gathering barge has been running black at some time since. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>Since the invasion, worldwide cereal prices have skyrocketed, boosting profits for Russian smugglers, while triggering what U.N. World Food Program director David Beasley on Sept. 15 called a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-africa-united-nations-199c33c4a572902d03b5d5c6075c90ee\">"tsunami of hunger"\u003c/a> affecting at least 345 million people.\u003c/p>\u003cp>While there is little proof Ukrainians themselves are under threat of famine, Russia's war of aggression has starved its affluence of sell abroad revenue. In 2021, earlier to Russia's most recent invasion, Ukraine exported $5 billion price of wheat, corn with every one other accompanied by vegetable oils — primarily inside the Middle East, Africa with every one other accompanied by Asia. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"8ea736693563435f86d1fe5a8f87452a\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>The high prices haven't helped Ukrainian farmers inside the occupied regions, who have been forced to sell their harvests to Russian-controlled companies for fifty per cent of of what they would have been paid earlier to the war, according to Fedorov, the Melitopol mayor. If a farmer refuses, he said, the Russians fair lay clasp of the cereal anyway, paying nothing. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"It is a extremely low price, with every one other accompanied by our farmers don't comprehend what they tin do," said Fedorov, who evacuated to Ukrainian-controlled territory following the invasion nevertheless keeps inside be in touch accompanied by people spine home. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Ukrainian agricultural holding firm \u003ca href=\"https://harveast.com/en/\">HarvEast\u003c/a> reported that Russians had taken concerning 200,000 metric tons of grain, which CEO Dmitry Skornyakov said cost his firm concerning $50 million. He said his employees in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol reported the cereal was trucked across the border into Russia. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"To purloin it, they fair operate to Rostov with every one other accompanied by Taganrog, small Russian ports, at that hour dated mix it accompanied by the Russian cereal with every one other accompanied by speak that that is Russian grain," Skornyakov said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The same appears to exist happening at sea. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Satellite imagery with every one other accompanied by transponder facts shows large cargo ships anchored off the Russian coast rendezvousing accompanied by smaller ships shuttling cereal from both Crimean with every one other accompanied by Russian ports, obscuring the accurate origin of the cargo. Those larger ships then carried the blended cereal to Egypt, Libya, Iraq with every one other accompanied by Saudi Arabia. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Daniel, the former naval officer whose firm tracks ships globally, said ship-to-ship transfers of cargo at ocean are rare, with every one other accompanied by are normally tied to smuggling. "When you're a sanctioned country, you have a a a large amount of additional restricted market," he said. "So if you don't blend your cargoes or if you don't hide your origin, you inside all likelihood have a a a large amount of smaller market with every one other accompanied by therefore a a large amount of foot price." \u003c/p>\u003cp>High request for cereal makes it uncomplicated for Russians to find buyers, said Oleg Nivievskyi, subordinate professor with every one other accompanied by vice president for economics education at the Kyiv School of Economics. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"There will exist no indeed difficulty to sell the stolen cereal from Ukraine whatsoever," he said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.yaylaagro.com/\">Yayla Agro\u003c/a>, which makes packaged dried goods with every one other accompanied by ready-to-eat meals regularly stocked on the shelves of Turkish supermarkets, said it bought 8,800 metric tons of corn delivered by the Russian ship Fedor to the Turkish port of Bandirma on June 17. The cargo would exist price concerning $2.7 million.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In a statement to AP, Yayla Agro denied it had at some time purchased cereal from the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, with every one other accompanied by said the invoice of lading, guarantee of origin with every one other accompanied by other official documents show the ship had been loaded inside the port of Kavkaz. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"f843338e7701447daef537fda90acb4b\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cdiv id=\"8c31efd2bff84999903a9c08319daf90\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>"We would exist fond of to stress that our firm is associated accompanied by inside international trade, abides by ethical rules with every one other accompanied by considers abiding by international rules and regulations while an absolute priority," the firm said. "In the same vein, (Yayla Agro) meticulously examines whether its commercial partners are the theme of some international sanction."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Satellite imagery from June 12 shows the Fedor was actually loaded inside Sevastopol, Crimea.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://anrusstrans.ru/\">AnRussTrans\u003c/a>, the Russian firm that owns the ship into and not here of a subsidiary, didn't respond to emailed questions. Sergey Dubrov, who answered the phone at the company's headquarters inside Moscow, denied receiving AP's email with every one other accompanied by said he would only respond to written questions.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"I tin speak one thing,\" he added. \"The ships exclusively labour on legal transportation with every one other accompanied by do not contravene international law."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>Yayla too confirmed purchasing 7,000 metric tons of corn from another Russian ship, SV. Nikolay, on June 24. Satellite imagery shows the ship had docked at the cereal terminal inside Sevastopol sextet days earlier, nevertheless the firm said its documentation showing the cereal had go nearer from Kavkaz. \u003c/p>\u003cp>As accompanied by the other smuggling ships, both the Fedor with every one other accompanied by SV. Nikolay are excessively large to dock at Kavkaz. \u003c/p>\u003cp>___ \u003c/p>\u003cp>Turkey's part inside the theft of Ukrainian cereal is mainly sensitive since the NATO country has tried to amuse oneself the part of mediator in the centre of the set of two warring countries.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Turkey helped broker an accord in the centre of Russia with every one other accompanied by Ukraine inside July to permit both countries to sell abroad cereal with every one other accompanied by fertilizer into and not here of protected from danger corridors inside the Black Sea. The deal did not address the cereal Russia has taken from occupied areas. In the last set of two months Ukrainian officials said additional than 150 ships carrying cereal have departed from ports they still control, including shipments to Somalia with every one other accompanied by Yemen, war-torn nations currently facing famine. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Yet there are too indications the Turkish management itself may exist a recipient of disputed cereal from Ukraine. AP with every one other accompanied by "Frontline" tracked trips from Crimea to Turkey by the smuggling ships Mikhail Nenashev, Laodicea with every one other accompanied by Souria to docks accompanied by seaside silos operated by the Turkish Grain Board, a government-run entity that imports with every one other accompanied by exports cereal with every one other accompanied by other agricultural products. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The board's press office with every one other accompanied by executives did not respond to emails accompanied by comprehensive questions concerning the have a suspicion shipments. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"84d45fca70f34100a43b436da733e499\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>Though Turkish authorities have pledged to place an extremity to unlawful smuggling, Turkey's overseas minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said inside a June report conference his country had not found some proof of theft.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"We've received such claims," he said. "And such details is coming from the Ukrainian side from hour dated to time. We lay clasp of every one claim solemnly with every one other accompanied by inquire into it seriously. ... In our investigation on ships' ports with every one other accompanied by goods' origins, following claims concerning Turkey, we saw the origin records to exist Russia."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>Whatever the records say, the smuggling operation continues.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Crane Marine Contractor's ship Matros Koshka — named for a Russian sailor lauded while a national courageous male for his bravery throughout the Crimean War of 1854 — cruised northern last week into the Black Sea accompanied by a listed destination of Kavkaz earlier to turning off its transponder with every one other accompanied by running dark.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Satellite imagery taken Thursday showed the 161-meter-long ship (528 feet) had docked on one occasion once additional at the cereal terminal inside the occupied Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, little additional than a mile from a \u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monument_to_sailor_Pyotr_Koshka_in_Sevastopol.jpg\">Soviet-era statue\u003c/a> honoring its namesake.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id=\"a83a36efce894542972c043811969452\" class=\"media-placeholder\">\u003c/div>\u003cp>___ \u003c/p>\u003cp>AP investigative reporters Sarah El Deeb reported from Beirut with every one other accompanied by Michael Biesecker reported from Washington, with every one other accompanied by report verification reporter Beatrice Dupuy was inside New York. 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The Russian military call-up came while some Russian troops have been forced to retreat amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Last week changed each item for hundreds of thousands of other people who decided to depart from Russia," he said. "The main source is the danger of actuality drafted into the Russian army."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Turkey, which has maintained air links accompanied by Russia while other countries blocked flights with every one other accompanied by does not impose visa restrictions on Russian visitors, has been a well liked destination for those leaving for "any place" they tin reach.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Turkish officials have not released facts on how numerous Russians may have arrived inside Turkey to run the draft, nevertheless Russia is near to the top of a list of countries that sends tourists to Turkey, following Germany. Some 3 million Russians have visited the country so a lengthy way this year. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:246675595414' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='b54f8daecb866d048494903078aad5f2'>Hub peek embed (Russia-Ukraine) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>Turkish media have too reported an grow inside the number of Russians purchasing or renting houses inside Turkey.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The NATO-member country, which relies on Russia for its vitality needs with every one other accompanied by tourism, has not joined U.S. with every one other accompanied by EU sanctions opposed to Moscow. It has tried to stability its relations accompanied by both Russia with every one other accompanied by Ukraine, positioning itself while a mediator in the centre of the two. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Proshin, a YouTube vlogger originally from the Siberian city of Omsk, said setbacks on the battlefield inside Ukraine had eroded Russian support for the war, flat among "patriotic" Russians.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Right now, when the Russian armed force is having some problems with every one other accompanied by the Ukrainian armed force is pushing them not here of their lands, people who were supporting this war are saying they don't comprehend why this war is happening," he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"They don't want this war with every one other accompanied by they don't want to mislay their friends, husbands, brothers or themselves inside this futile war."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Proshin said his family were "very relieved" that he left-hand Russia with every one other accompanied by now plans to remain for his girlfriend to fasten him earlier to leaving for another country.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Eva Rapoport, the Istanbul coordinator for The Ark, a category helping Russians fleeing their country, said there had been a significant grow inside the numbers arriving inside Turkey since Putin's mobilization declaration.\u003c/p>\u003cp>While those who left-hand Russia inside the immediate aftermath of its February invasion of Ukraine were a "well-educated, Western-oriented, cosmopolitan crowd," now her organization was seeing "just concerning everyone who tin get away the country."\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Many of these people used to support Putin, they used to cheer for the war," she said. "When it was from the safety of their homes with every one other accompanied by there was nothing at stake for them it was fine. But now they don't want to support this by their actions.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"They don't want to support it accompanied by their lives. They don't want to go with every one other accompanied by fight with every one other accompanied by die inside this war."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Still, she described the decision by the Baltic states with every one other accompanied by Poland to chunk entry for such Russians while "unjust."\u003c/p>\u003cp> "It's literally a existence or demise circumstances for them, it's a humanitarian issue," Rapoport said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Many Russians arriving inside Turkey following the start of the war were suffering from shock caused by the invasion, she said, while well while difficulties inside finding a place to exist or ways to pay for goods due to sanctions on the Russian monetary affairs sector.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Everyone was discussing symptoms of psychological distress. They could not eat, could not nap with every one other accompanied by could not focus,\" she said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>New arrivals inside Istanbul described the circumstances inside Russia while "rapidly deteriorating," with every one other accompanied by numerous feared actuality trapped. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"If you stay, you may never exist intelligent to leave, with every one other accompanied by if you want to (leave) you better take deed fast," she explained.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Likening the circumstances to the aftermath of Russia's 1917 revolution, when hundreds of thousands of "white Russians\" found refuge inside Istanbul while fleeing the Bolsheviks, Rapoport said those fleeing felt they no indeed longer had a future inside their homeland.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Maxim Bocharov, 38, is one of those disillusioned accompanied by Putin's Russia. Speaking at an anti-war demonstration near the Russian consulate inside Istanbul, he said he had taken small portion inside protests opposed to the invasion of Ukraine when he was still inside Moscow.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"This mobilization was the last step for me," the former sales executive said. 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Much of that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-germany-prices-cca7e5afd38fbcfc1ad72934e8e59bd9\">cutback would have to go nearer from purchaser behavior\u003c/a> such while turning down thermostats by 1 degree with every one other accompanied by adjusting boiler temperatures while well while manufacturing with every one other accompanied by utility conservation, the category said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The EU on Friday \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-prices-european-union-b03b8def6fc18bb033177bc551a42a21\">agreed to mandate a lessening inside power consumption\u003c/a> by at least 5% throughout summit cost hours.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Just a trickle of Russian gasoline is still arriving inside pipelines into and not here of Ukraine to Slovakia with every one other accompanied by across the Black Sea into and not here of Turkey to Bulgaria. Two other routes, under the Baltic Sea to Germany with every one other accompanied by into and not here of Belarus with every one other accompanied by Poland, have shut down. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Another hazard inside the learning was a late winter chilly snap, which would exist mainly challenging since underground gasoline reserves run additional slowly at the extremity of the time due to less gasoline with every one other accompanied by foot pressure inside the storage caverns. The EU has by that hour dated filled storage to 88%, ahead of its goal of 80% earlier to winter. The IEA assumed 90% would exist needed inside its Russian cutoff scenario. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:246675595414' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='66a4bbc879a0782418abbd1555fdfbfc'>Hub peek embed (Russia-Ukraine) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-restaurants-brussels-7a89319e734168255100198d8fef3e49\">Businesses inside Europe have by that hour dated gash back\u003c/a> natural gasoline use, occasionally simply by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-france-76497f77e62b20168de3c15f8b66afa0\">abandoning energy-intensive activity\u003c/a> such while making steel with every one other accompanied by fertilizer, while smaller businesses exist fond of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-inflation-germany-prices-cologne-7d5b4292d9e16a3722a011a031db3a76\">bakeries are touch a severe crimp\u003c/a> inside their costs. \u003c/p>\u003cp>High prices for gas, which is used for heating homes, generating power with every one other accompanied by a host of manufacturing processes are feeding into and not here of to record \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inflation-business-economy-prices-cb9941a0423df3116a90aefd388c1642\">consumer inflation of 10%\u003c/a> inside the 19 EU subscriber countries that use the euro with every one other accompanied by sapping so a a large amount of purchaser purchasing ability that economists predict a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-inflation-covid-health-2f23aa3df0f2f6916ad458785dd52c59\">recession at the extremity of this year\u003c/a> with every one other accompanied by the beginning of next. \u003c/p>\u003cp>European governments with every one other accompanied by utilities have made up a a large amount of of the Russian shortfall by purchasing costly supplies of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, that comes by ship from countries such while the U.S. with every one other accompanied by Qatar with every one other accompanied by by obtaining increased pipeline present with from Norway with every one other accompanied by Azerbaijan. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The goal is to stop storage levels from falling so a lengthy way that governments must \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inflation-russia-ukraine-covid-health-923304026448bda234d6890592f55463\">ration gasoline to businesses\u003c/a>. Gas storage must carry on accompanied by to exist above 33% for a firm winter, according to the IEA, while levels beneath that chance shortages if there's a late chilly snap.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lower levels too would build it harder for Europe to refill storage following summer, while higher reserves from conservation would assist foot extremely high prices. \u003c/p>\u003cp>European leaders speak the cutback inside Russian gasoline is vitality blackmail aimed at pressuring governments over their support for Ukraine with every one other accompanied by sanctions opposed to Moscow. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Since Russia halted flows this month into and not here of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline running under the Baltic Sea to Germany, it with every one other accompanied by the side by side Nord Stream 2 — built nevertheless never operated following Germany refused to certify it — were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-nato-technology-denmark-sweden-7786a92fbf7d6457101067110adccfdd\">damaged inside underwater explosions\u003c/a> that European governments speak are sabotage.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Demand for liquefied gasoline has driven up prices with every one other accompanied by tightened present with to the area that poorer countries inside Asia cannot pay for it. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-bangladesh-covid-global-trade-33c74e143358d10db75eb3511e385732\">Bangladesh is experiencing widespread ability blackouts\u003c/a>, while Pakistan faces rolling blackouts with every one other accompanied by has introduced reduced employed hours for shops with every one other accompanied by factories to save electricity. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Interregional competition inside LNG procurement may create further tension, while additional European needs would place additional pressure on other buyers, mainly inside Asia, with every one other accompanied by conversely chilly spells inside Northeast Asia could boundary Europe's access to LNG," the agency said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The gasoline crisis inside Europe has too deprived Asian countries of the restricted number of floating regasification terminals, which were expected to amuse oneself a greatest part inside LNG imports inside Southeast Asia. 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It too has struck pontoon bridges that Russia has used to present with its troops on the western edge of the watercourse following the main crossings were made inoperable.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Despite the victorious strikes on present with lines, Ukrainian insulting operations inside the south so a lengthy way have been slower with every one other accompanied by less victorious compared accompanied by the northeast, while the not shut terrain easily exposed the attacking strength to Russian artillery blaze with every one other accompanied by airstrikes.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Russian military bloggers near to Moscow have increasingly acknowledged that Ukraine has higher-ranking manpower, backed by tank units, inside the area. \u003c/p>\u003cp>A Russian-installed official inside the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, admitted inside a video statement on Monday earlier to noon that the Ukrainian forces "have broken into and not here of a little deeper." 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Ukrainian troops claim gains inside Russia annexed region