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17,000 inmates “disappear” from Russian prisons during war in Ukraine

Pravda Ukraine Correctional facilities in 35 regions of Russia have lost 17,000 inmates during the war in Ukraine. Source: Russian online media outlet Mediazona Quote: “Neither the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (FPS), nor Prigozhin (Evgeny Prigozhin, the Russian financier and founder of the infamous Wagner Group) or the Ministry of Defence of Russia published…

Hungary considers prolongation of ban on import of Ukrainian grain

Pravda Ukraine The Hungarian government may prolong the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain after 30 June if the EU does not take sufficient measures to protect local farmers. Source: European Pravda, with reference to the Reuters news agency and Sandor Farkas, the State Secretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture Farkas states that…

Slovakia temporarily bans grain import from Ukraine

Pravda Ukraine https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7159972/

Zelenskyy hears reports about situation on fronts and Ukrainian ammunition at Commander-in-Chief’s meeting

Pravda Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on Monday, 17 April. The main topic on the agenda was the supply of Ukraine-produced armaments and ammunition to Ukraine’s defence forces. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398217/

UK Foreign Ministry summons Russian ambassador over sentencing of opposition activist Kara-Murza

Pravda Ukraine The UK has condemned the politically motivated conviction and sentence handed down today in a Moscow court to British dual-national Vladimir Kara-Murza, a human rights activist and critic of the Kremlin. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398216/

EU to discuss Poland and Hungary ban on grain imports from Ukraine this week

Pravda Ukraine European Union member state ambassadors in Brussels will this week discuss a move by Poland and Hungary to ban grain and other food imports from Ukraine. Source: A senior EU official, speaking under condition of anonymity, in an interview with Reuters “We expect Poland and Hungary to provide some explanation and there will…

Chief of “Luhansk People’s Republic” quarantined in Moscow for a week before shaking hands with Putin

Pravda Ukraine Leonid Pasichnik, the so-called leader of the “Luhansk People’s Republic” terrorist group, has spent a week quarantined in a hotel in Moscow without the right to leave his room before a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398210/

Germany sees suspicious boom in exports to countries neighbouring Russia: allegedly circumventing sanctions – Media

Pravda Ukraine https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7159969/

Ukraine’s ombudsman confirms even greater deterioration of Ukraine’s cooperation with Red Cross

Pravda Ukraine Public criticism by the Ukrainian authorities against the International Committee of the Red Cross has not eliminated problems in the work of this organisation to resolve problems caused by Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398212/

Value of Energoatom’s property destroyed in Ukraine reaches US$872 million

Pravda Ukraine OLEKSII PAVLYSH The preliminary estimates show that the value of the property of the State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom, destroyed and damaged in Russia’s war against Ukraine, has reached 32 billion hryvnias (circa US$872 million). https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398207/