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Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine:
– Suspected satellite launch –
A Russian-launched Iranian satellite launches from Kazakhstan and reaches orbit amid suspicions that Moscow could use it to increase its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine.
Russia, increasingly isolated by Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, is seeking new clients for its embattled space program in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Last week, the Washington Post quoted anonymous Western intelligence officials as saying that Russia “plans to use the satellite for several months or more” to aid its war effort before allowing Iran to take control.
Iran’s space agency, which has ties to Moscow and has shied away from any criticism of the invasion of Ukraine, stressed Sunday that the Islamic Republic would control the satellite “from day one,” in apparent reaction to the Post’s report.
– Oil shipments halted to three nations –
The delivery of Russian oil to three European countries through Ukraine has been halted because the transit payment cannot be processed due to sanctions, Russian company Transneft says.
It said that deliveries to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were affected and that the Ukrainian side stopped oil transport “because they do not receive funds for these services”.
Since President Vladimir Putin deployed troops to Ukraine, Washington and Brussels have imposed unprecedented sanctions on Moscow and cut off Russia from international financial institutions.
The EU has sought to reduce its dependence on Russian energy resources and has agreed to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports.
– Explosions at Crimea airfield –
Munitions have exploded at an airfield in Moscow-annexed Crimea, but there were no casualties, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
According to a statement by Russian news agencies, “several aircraft munitions were detonated” near the settlement of Nowofyodorovka. “No one was injured by the explosion.”
– Two more grain ships leave Ukraine –
Two more cargo ships carrying grain have left Ukraine, Kyiv’s infrastructure ministry said, as part of a deal with Russia to facilitate agricultural exports from Ukrainian ports blocked by the war.
One of the ships, the Rahmi Yaggi, was said to be heading to Turkey with 5,300 tons of produce, while the Ocean Lion was carrying about 65,000 tons of corn to South Korea.
With the departures, a total of 12 ships left three different Ukrainian Black Sea ports under the deal negotiated by the UN and Turkey at the end of July.
Exports from Ukraine – one of the world’s largest grain producers – had been halted by a Russian naval blockade and Ukrainian port mining.
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