![]() ![]() One mother, Maryna, said she had taken her 11-year-old son Serhii to see the chimpanzees as a birthday treat. Ten of my zoo colleagues are fighting with the Ukrainian army, including three in Bakhmut.” But we’ve held on for more than a year already and won’t give in. They don’t give a shit about international law or norms. In the meantime they would get extra apples and nuts. The animals did not appear distressed but would be monitored over the coming days and if necessary given anti-depressants in their water, he said. Trantin said the debris had already been swept up, with the zoo opening to visitors as usual at 10am. “Police arrived and took away a part of the missile, which was shot down.” Asked what type, he replied: “That’s secret”. There was no fire and fortunately no humans or animals were hurt,” he told the Guardian. The zoo’s director, Kirill Trantin, was in a shelter a few hundred metres away, with about 20 other employees, as the “exceptionally intense” attack unfolded. Ukraine’s air defences shot down the missile, together with 17 others. ![]() Kyiv zoo director Kirill Trantin shows damage shown to foliage in from debris of an overnight missile attack Photograph: Luke Harding/The GuardianĪ Russian rocket from last night’s missile attack on Kyiv fell on the city’s zoo, slicing through trees and landing next to enclosures containing vultures and a family of racoons. Moscow’s conditions also include the resumption of ammonia exports for fertilisers through a major pipeline that goes through Ukraine. Supplies of agricultural machinery, spare parts and services also have to be resumed, and obstacles to granting Russian vessels insurance and access to foreign ports must be lifted, it says. ![]() Russia has laid out a list of conditions for it to agree to an extension, including allowing the Russian Agricultural Bank (Rosselkhozbank) to reconnect to the Swift payment system. Russia has however repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the deal, claiming that obstacles remain to its own food exports.ĭuring recent talks in Istanbul, the Turkish defence minister, Hulusi Akar, said: “We are heading toward an agreement on the extension of the grain deal.” In July 2022, the agreement allowing Ukrainian grain exports to restart was signed, as well as a parallel memorandum on unhindered Russian food and fertiliser exports. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine – both major grain exporters – triggered fears of a global food crisis when major Ukrainian ports were blocked by Moscow’s warships. “There are a lot of unanswered questions regarding our part of the deal … now we have to make a decision,” the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Poland, a NATO member, strongly backed Ukraine after Russia's invasion, and has stepped up the demolition of memorials to fallen Soviet troops across the country.Russia has said it is still undecided on the extension of a landmark Black Sea grain deal with Ukraine, brokered by the UN and Turkey and due to expire 18 May. Most Poles believe the Soviet Union replaced Nazi occupation with another form of repression. Moscow says it liberated Poland when its forces drove out Nazi forces at the end of Worl War II. Relations between Poland and Russia have historically often been very strained. If they want it, let them do it," she said. apart from the need to change all their documents. One woman noted Lithuania had also renamed the city Krolewiec. this is our territory and there can be no Krolewiec whatsoever," said an elderly man who did not give his name. In the city itself, people questioned in the street were split over the Polish move. Kaliningrad was cut off from Moscow when Lithuania became independent during the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. "We know that throughout history, Poland has slipped from time to time into this madness of hatred towards Russians," he told a briefing. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the decision "bordered on madness." "The current Russian name of this city is an artificial baptism unrelated to either the city or the region," Poland's committee on geographical standardization said on Tuesday. ![]() Warsaw says Kalinin's connection to the 1940 Katyn massacre - when thousands of Polish officers were executed by Soviet forces - had negative connotations and that the city should now be referred to as Krolewiec, its name when it was ruled by the Kingdom of Poland in the 15th and 16th centuries. Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave that is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic coast, was known by the German name of Koenigsberg until after World War II, when it was annexed by the Soviet Union and renamed to honor politician Mikhail Kalinin. The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Poland's decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents was a "hostile act," as ties continue to fray over the war in Ukraine. ![]()
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