The Nobel Foundation said its decision to invite all ambassadors to the Nobel Prize award ceremony provoked “strong reactions", thus, it canceled invitation for Russia, Belarus, Iran and Sweden's far-right party.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine issued a comment in connection with the latest reports on Russia’s attempts to regulate the export of grain in the Black Sea without resuming the export of Ukrainian grain from Ukrainian ports.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive is making progress and opening a pathway to cutting off Russia’s supply lines to Crimea, as well as the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces have denounced a false report by Russia’s Defense Ministry claiming Ukrainian navy boats were destroyed and a group of soldiers were killed off the coast of Crimea.
Despite high salaries and additional benefits, which are a strong incentive for those from the poorer areas of Russia to join up, Moscow is still unlikely to meet its targets for recruiting volunteers to the ranks.
In 2022, tobacco companies Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International received $7.9 billion and $7.4 billion in revenue from the sale of their products in Russia.
Slovakia has signed an agreement with the Swiss branch of the American company Westinghouse to supply nuclear fuel for its nuclear power plants. The country is also looking for another source in France. This will allow Slovakia to get rid of its dependence on fuel from Russia.
The captured invader told about how Russian military enlistment offices "encourage" people to go to war with threats and about the low level of training of military instructors in Russia.
On the morning of August 26, 2023, the bulk carrier PRIMUS left the water area of Odesa Port, which is the second vessel to have departed from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports since Russia terminated the Grain Deal.
On August 25, 2023, a strike was launched on the 126th separate guards coastal defense brigade of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, which is headquartered in the temporarily occupied Crimea’s village of Perevalne.