{"id":25007,"date":"2022-08-21T06:07:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25007"},"modified":"2022-08-21T06:07:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:07:34","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/08\/21\/russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine War: Latest development"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"ar-n6udcw\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned Ukrainians to be vigilant<\/strong> in the coming week as they prepare to celebrate their independence day on Wednesday. In his nightly video address on Saturday, Zelenskiy said Ukrainians must not allow Moscow to \u201cspread despondency and fear\u201d as they mark the 31st anniversary of independence from Soviet rule. \u201cWe must all be aware that this week Russia could try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious,\u201d Zelenskiy said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">The curfew in Ukraine\u2019s second largest city, Kharkiv, will be extended for the entire day on Wednesday<\/strong>, regional governor Oleh Synehub said on Saturday. The north-eastern city is regularly hit by Russian shelling and normally has a curfew from 10pm to 6am but extra precautions were required on independence day.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Ukraine launched a fresh strike on Russia\u2019s Black Sea fleet headquarters at Sevastopol earlier on Saturday<\/strong>. Officials in the annexed Crimean peninsula said that at least one drone had been shot down and that the city\u2019s air defence system had been called into action again on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Video shared on Twitter<\/strong> appeared to show Russian air defences attempting to destroy the UAV and dark plumes of smoke rising from the city.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Three people with Russian and Ukrainian passports have been arrested for suspected spying<\/strong> after trying to break into a military base and arms factory in central Albania, the Albanian defense ministry said on Saturday. Two Albanian soldiers were injured in the incident at the Gramsh base, the ministry said, adding the conditions of the soldiers was stable. Albania\u2019s prime minister Edi Rama said the three individuals are \u201csuspected of espionage\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">The US is planning to buy about 150,000 metric tonnes of grain from Ukraine<\/strong> in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment of food aid from ports no longer blockaded by war, the World Food Programme chief has said. The planned shipment, one of several the U.N. agency that fights hunger is pursuing, is more than six times the amount of grain that the first WFP-arranged ship from Ukraine is now carrying toward people in the Horn of Africa at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the UN secretary general, said he was moved by the sight of Ukrainian wheat being shipped from Turkey.<\/strong> Russian fertilisers and agricultural products must be able to reach world markets \u201cunimpeded\u201d or a global food crisis could strike as early as next year, he said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Four children have reportedly been injured<\/strong> following a Russian strike on a residential building in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Three people with Russian and Ukrainian passports have been arrested for suspected spying<\/strong> after trying to break into a military base and arms factory in central Albania, the Albanian defense ministry said on Saturday. Two Albanian soldiers were injured in the incident at the Gramsh base, the ministry said, adding the conditions of the soldiers was stable. Albania\u2019s prime minister Edi Rama said the three individuals are \u201csuspected of espionage\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Russian entities and individuals were attempting to use Turkey to bypass western sanctions<\/strong> imposed over Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine, the US deputy treasury secretary, Wally Adeyemo, told Turkey\u2019s deputy finance minister, Yunus Elitas, that the US treasury department said. In a phone call, the department said, the two also discussed efforts to implement and enforce sanctions against Russia, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Ukraine\u2019s defence ministry on Saturday said its forces had killed a total of 44,900 Russian personnel<\/strong> \u2013 a rise of 200 on the day before.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ar-3r54d3\">\n<p class=\"ar-1gzzifj\"><strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Olaf Scholz<\/strong> has praised <strong class=\"ar-in3yi3\">Alexei Navalny<\/strong>on the second anniversary of the jailedRussian opposition politician\u2019s attempted poisoning.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned Ukrainians to be vigilant in the coming week as they prepare to celebrate their independence day on Wednesday. In his nightly video address on Saturday, Zelenskiy said Ukrainians must not allow Moscow to \u201cspread despondency and fear\u201d as they mark the 31st anniversary of independence from Soviet rule. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1648,6850,7739,7738,6349,5522,6573,287,9331,8440,11831,7697,9506,7704,11365,8057,12354,6496,6345,6464,12298,8601,7377,11111,6086,9515,5572,5340,5766,12187,9237,7964,7202,11973,7039,3805,3174,5462,5807,3457,5217,5713,8905,5250,11259,11179,5618,11279,5818,2570,5350,5180,5521,5555,5465,6348,8033,6886,5251,6402,3954,36,6874],"class_list":["post-25007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-africa","tag-aid","tag-albania","tag-alexei-navalyna","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-arms","tag-black","tag-children","tag-city","tag-crisis","tag-curfew","tag-deputy-finance-minister","tag-drone","tag-espionage","tag-factory","tag-fear","tag-finance","tag-food","tag-guterres","tag-horn-of-africa","tag-hunger","tag-independence","tag-independence-day","tag-injured","tag-kharkiv","tag-killed","tag-military","tag-moscow","tag-mykolaiv","tag-n","tag-nio","tag-north","tag-olaf-scholz","tag-one","tag-phone","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-residential","tag-risk","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-sevastopol","tag-ship","tag-shot","tag-smoke","tag-soldiers","tag-spying","tag-strike","tag-turkey","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukrainian","tag-un","tag-us","tag-video","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-war","tag-wheat","tag-will","tag-world","tag-zelenskiy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}