By the end of August, the UK Ministry of Agriculture is expected to finalize a methodology for verifying grain originating in Ukraine, which will allow determining whether Russians are transporting stolen grain from Ukrainian territories for sale under the guise of their own.
During his first trip outside Bratislava after the assassination attempt, Prime Minister Robert Fico said that Slovakia is not ready to lift the ban on imports of agricultural products from Ukraine.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has strongly condemned missile attacks by Russian invaders against Ukrainian cities this morning, which killed innocent civilians, including children.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with representatives of the Ukrainian community in Warsaw, including volunteers, doctors, teachers, public activists, and members of religious organizations.
Ukrainian MPs and the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada in a joint statement called on international partners to respond to Russia's shelling of civilian infrastructure and the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital and to recognize such actions as a terrorist attack.
A missile strike on the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv and brutal missile and drone attacks on Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine demonstrate Russia's cruelty and that it is utterly insincere about peace or peace negotiations.
More than 600 patients have been evacuated from the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital, including 100 of them to other hospitals, and over 50 people have been injured, including seven children.