Lalrp.org:
September 17, 2023 at 1:52 a.m. EDT
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is about to journey to Washington this week, The Washington Publish has reported. His go to to Capitol Hill is tentatively anticipated on Thursday, the place he’ll make an attraction — backed by the Biden administration — for extra support. The journey can be his second to the US because the struggle started.
Right here’s the newest on the struggle and its ripple results throughout the globe.
Two service provider ships approached Ukrainian ports on Saturday, the primary civilian vessels to journey by way of a short lived delivery hall within the Black Sea following the collapse of a grain cope with Russia. Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the Palauan-flagged ships, Resilient Africa and Aroyat, are headed to Chornomorsk, the place they may load practically 20,000 tons of wheat for Africa and Asia.
Poland will ban Russian-registered automobiles from coming into its borders beginning Sunday, Inside Minister Mariusz Kaminski announced. Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have additionally imposed related restrictions. An replace to European Fee guidelines has requested member states to cease Russian residents from bringing automobiles and different items into the European Union in an effort to forestall sanction-dodging.
Jewish pilgrims have gathered in central Ukraine to mark Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new yr, which started at sundown on Friday and ends Sunday at sunset. Greater than 35,000 pilgrims — largely from the US, Israel and Europe — have gathered within the metropolis of Uman, which holds historic significance for the Hasidic group, in accordance with the regional governor, Ihor Taburets. Ukrainian and Israeli police had been patrolling the realm, which was beneath air raid alerts Sunday morning.
An house in Crimea owned by Zelensky is amongst 100 properties on the peninsula that Russian authorities there plan to promote, in accordance with an announcement Saturday by Volodymyr Konstantinov, the speaker of Crimea’s parliament. He wrote on Telegram that eight auctions had already concluded, producing about $8.8 million. The opposite gross sales will happen quickly, he added. Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 from Ukraine.
Protection corporations from 21 international locations will take part in Ukraine’s upcoming Protection Industries Discussion board, Zelensky stated in his nightly tackle Saturday. The occasion, which is about to happen this fall, is the primary of its variety to be held in Ukraine, he stated. “Our activity is completely clear — to offer Ukraine with all of the alternatives to provide weapons and ammunition, to offer fashionable know-how to have dependable safety towards any type of aggression,” Zelensky stated. Ukraine’s overseas minister beforehand stated prime corporations inside France and the Czech Republic’s protection business have been invited to attend the discussion board.
U.Okay. officers are supporting the household of a British man who reportedly died in Ukraine and are in touch with native authorities, a British International Workplace spokesman instructed The Publish. Daniel Burke, 36, a former British soldier, was reported missing by his household on Aug. 16 after touring to the Ukrainian entrance line to combat towards Russian forces, in accordance with BBC Information. Burke’s household instructed the outlet that Ukrainian authorities not too long ago recovered the previous paratrooper’s physique within the Zaporizhzhia area.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers on Saturday stated he was skeptical that any munitions North Korea may present to Russia can be decisive in Moscow’s struggle towards Ukraine. “Wouldn’t it have an enormous distinction? I’m skeptical,” Gen. Mark A. Milley stated following North Korean chief Kim Jong Un’s uncommon journey exterior his nation to fulfill with President Vladimir Putin in Russia. “The affect, I wouldn’t wish to downplay it an excessive amount of, however … I doubt that will probably be decisive,” Milley instructed reporters touring with him abroad.
Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky beneath stress in legal instances: The struggle in Ukraine has vastly curtailed the affect of the nation’s oligarchs, however maybe none extra so than Ihor Kolomoisky, an oil, banking and media mogul who was as soon as valued at $2 billion.
Kolomoisky is presently behind bars, going through authorized troubles together with allegations that he skimmed property from Ukraine’s richest financial institution, which he as soon as owned, as David L. Stern reviews from Kyiv. Kolomoisky additionally owned a tv channel that carried the favored present “Servant of the Folks,” about an unlikely president, performed by Volodymyr Zelensky, the onetime actor turned real-life wartime president who’s now spearheading the nation’s marketing campaign towards alleged corruption amongst its oligarchs.
