Poland will unblock the transit of Ukrainian grain through its territory to ports in Europe on Friday, April 21. However, the ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products to the Polish market remains.
Russia is on a spree of promoting pseudo-peacekeeping initiatives across the European Union through its agents of influence, calling for a halt to Ukraine aid and the need to negotiate settlement.
The ruling Romanian Social Democrat Party (PSD) will ask the government to issue an emergency decree to impose a temporary ban on Ukrainian grain imports.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has allocated additional EUR 20 million funding for the development of the water supply and wastewater system in Mykolaiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as part of his working trip to the Donetsk region visited a hospital where Ukrainian defenders are undergoing treatment and presented them with state awards.
The Negmar Cicek ship has delivered 30 thousand tons of wheat to the port of Salif in the Republic of Yemen as part of the humanitarian food program Grain from Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is following with deep concern the ongoing escalation of the situation in Sudan and condemns the violence that has already resulted in a large number of human victims.
The National Security Committee of Kazakhstan is investigating 10 criminal cases related to the participation of Kazakh citizens in Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
The U.S. Department of Defense reported that Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov in a phone call on Monday discussed the current situation in the security sector.
Today, April 17, the Russian army shelled five communities in border areas of Sumy region, including Velyka Pysarivka, Bilopillia, Shalyhyne, Seredyna-Buda, and Hlukhiv communities.