{"id":481804,"date":"2025-12-31T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481804\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:47:11","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-attack-on-global-food-security-as-russia-hits-wheat-ships-and-ports-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481804\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: \u2018Attack on global food security\u2019 as Russia hits wheat ships and ports | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Russia launched waves of drones to attack the Black Sea ports of Pivdennyi and Chornomorsk with two civilian ships hit as they arrived to load wheat<\/strong>, the Ukrainian navy and government officials said. The Panama-flagged civilian vessels Emmakris III and Captain Karam were struck, said the navy, adding that the attacks on Tuesday \u201cthreaten the lives of civilians and undermine global food security.<\/strong> Targeted strikes on civilian objects are a deliberate war crime\u201d. Ukraine<\/a> is a major agricultural producer and exporter. Oil storage tanks were also hit, said Oleksiy Kuleba, the Ukrainian deputy prime minister, who added that both ports continued to operate.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Russia\u2019s continued and intensifying strikes on Ukraine are \u201can act of defiance\u201d against the US plan to end the Ukraine war, a French presidential source said on Tuesday. Additionally, Moscow\u2019s allegations of a Ukrainian drone attack against a residence of Vladimir Putin are not backed \u201cby any solid proof<\/strong>, including after cross-checking information with our partners\u201d, the source said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said: \u201cRegarding the attack on [Putin\u2019s residence at] Valdai<\/strong>, our negotiating team connected with the American team, they went through the details, and we understand that it\u2019s fake<\/strong>. And, of course, our partners can always verify thanks to their technical capabilities that it was fake.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    A Ukrainian drone attack damaged port infrastructure and a gas pipeline in Russia\u2019s Black Sea port of <\/strong>Tuapse<\/strong>, the regional administration said on Wednesday, adding no injuries were reported. Tuapse and its refinery comprise one of Russia\u2019s key Black Sea outlets for oil products that Ukraine targets because they are exported to finance the war or used directly to power the Russian military<\/strong>. The port and refinery have been hit repeatedly by Ukrainian drone attacks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Ukraine also launched drone attacks on Tuesday targeting Moscow, parts of western Russia<\/a> and annexed Crimea<\/strong>, injuring one person near the capital, Russian authorities said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Zelenskyy said Ukraine would convene a meeting with leaders of Kyiv\u2019s allies next Tuesday, 6 January, in France<\/strong>, as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict intensified. The summit would be preceded by a meeting of their security advisers, planned for this Saturday, 3 January<\/strong>, in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Germany accepted \u20ac10m to drop its investigation of the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov for alleged EU sanctions violations<\/strong>, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The agreement was made on the basis of the \u201cpresumption of innocence\u201d, the prosecutors said. Usmanov is a close ally of Putin and head of the International Fencing Federation. He had been accused of using funds frozen under EU sanctions to pay for two properties in Germany to be monitored by a security company. In a separate investigation, prosecutors in Frankfurt had accused Usmanov of money laundering. That case was settled in November after Usmanov paid \u20ac4m.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The US meanwhile removed sanctions from <\/strong>Alexandra Buriko<\/strong>, the former chief financial officer of Russia\u2019s state-owned Sberbank<\/strong>, according to a post on the US treasury department website. Buriko was among senior executives and directors who resigned from western-sanctioned Sberbank shortly after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Buriko went to court in December 2024 seeking the sanctions\u2019 removal, arguing she had severed ties with Sberbank. She and the US government were known to have been in negotiations to resolve the case.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia launched waves of drones to attack the Black Sea ports of Pivdennyi and Chornomorsk with two civilian…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-481804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115812843185086662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}