- Turkey’s representative at the Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) in Istanbul says the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Russia’s blockade was expected to anchor at Istanbul on Tuesday night.
- More than 10 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in late February, the UN Refugee Agency reports.
President Vladimir Putin has announced his planned expansion of Russia’s naval power, singling out the US as the biggest obstacle.
Putin signed a new naval doctrine on Sunday, accusing Washington of trying to dominate the world’s oceans.
The 55-page document states that NATO’s movements threaten Moscow’s borders and details a plan to strengthen Russia’s geopolitical position.
In a speech to mark Navy Day, Putin did not directly mention the war in Ukraine. Instead, he thanked military personnel, and pledged to defend Russian interests in the Black and Azov seas. How will this be viewed in Washington?
German utility Rheinenergie, the energy supplier to the city of Cologne, says prices to some customers would more than double from October 1, due to a 450 percent jump in gas procurement costs.
Rheinenergie said it was raising natural gas prices to 18.30 euro cents per kilowatt hour (Kwh) from 7.87 cents currently.
“In a Cologne apartment with 10,000 Kwh of annual consumption, the annual cost increases to around 2,002 euros ($2,057) (previously: around 960 euros),” Rheinenergie said in a statement.
The price increases will apply to customers who do not have fixed-price contracts, the company told Reuters.
More than 10 million people have fled Ukraine towards neighbouring countries since Russia invaded the country in late February, the UN Refugee Agency reports.
A total of 10,170,875 border crossings have been recorded, the agency’s tally showed.
Turkey’s representative at the Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) in Istanbul has said that the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Russia’s blockade was expected to anchor at Istanbul on Tuesday night.
At a briefing held at the JCC, Rear Admiral Ozcan Altunbulak said the course of the ship was going as planned.
One vessel each day is expected to leave from Ukrainian ports to export grain as long as an agreement that ensures safe passage holds, a senior Turkish official told Reuters news agency.
“The plan is for a ship to leave … every day,” the senior Turkish official said, asking to remain anonymous. “If nothing goes wrong, exports will be made via one ship a day for a while.”
The remarks came a day after the Razoni, the first ship being allowed to export tonnes of maize since a deal was signed in July between Ukraine and Russia, departed from the Black Sea port of Odesa towards Tripoli, Lebanon.
The official added that the Razoni’s departure was delayed by a couple of days by “technical problems” that are now fixed, and NATO member Turkey expected the safe-passage corridor to function well.
Before reaching its final destination, the boat is expected to stop in the early hours of Wednesday off Turkey’s coast for an inspection by Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian and United Nations officials.
