ARTICLE
Ukraine exported 100 million tonnes of goods through Solidarity Lanes
European Commission President
Economichna Pravda
Saturday, 4 November 2023, 19:40
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/4/7427216/
Ukraine exported more than 100 million tonnes of goods through Solidarity Lanes, most of which are agricultural products.
SOURCE: This was stated by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at a joint meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
QUOTE: “Solidarity Lanes allowed Ukraine to export more than 100 million tonnes of goods. Most of them are agricultural products. Therefore, Ukraine feeds the world in these times of deficit,” said the head of the European Commission.
Von der Leyen also added that in 16 months, the Solidarity Lanes have brought Ukraine €42 billion.
According to her, Solidarity Lanes are important, as 65% of Ukrainian agricultural products are exported through them. That is why the EU continues to invest in railway, road and border crossings with Ukraine in order to expand them.
BACKGROUND: US$1 billion will be raised from EU states and international partners within the framework of the Solidarity Lanes initiative, announced by the European Union in May 2022 in order to facilitate export of Ukrainian grain.
VIDEO
ATACMS missiles put Russian air defense in difficult situation
Kanal13
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11-4-2023 11:00 p.m.
2:10 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t9VhQrLBNc
Following Ukraine’s use of recently provided US artillery missiles in long-range attacks of airfields, air defense systems, ammunition facilities and other infrastructure in Russian-occupied areas, the Kremlin has now begun conducting simulator missions throughout its air defense forces.
The Kyiv Post media outlet wrote this:
İt is recalled that on Oct. 17 Ukraine carried out attacks against two airfields in occupied Berdyansk and Luhansk, using the M39 cluster munition variant of the US-supplied MGM-140 ATACMS.
The attack destroyed or damaged over a dozen Russian helicopters, air defense systems and ammunition dumps at the sites.
Russia claimed a second attack using ATACMS on Oct. 25, against another airfield to the south of the Luhansk region, had been foiled with two missiles being shot down.
That said, there is mounting evidence that Ukraine’s missiles had actually struck a Russian S-400 air defense complex.
On Oct. 30, Ukraine struck a Russian air defense system on the Black Sea in occupied Crimea with a series of combined missile and special forces attacks on the peninsula.
Despite Russia’s claims to have brought down the missiles during these attacks it was soon being reported that Moscow’s forces were moving logistics and command facilities farther from the front line and out of range of the ATACMS.
İt was further announced that air defense units throughout Russia were starting to train on simulators, specifically to intercept and destroy ATACMS.
Former Deputy Commander-in-Chief for Integrated Air Defense throughout the CIS, Lieutenant-General Aitech Bizhev, said: “Combat teams of all air defense weapons in service with the Aerospace Forces are training on simulators as part of the combat preparation of the entire air defense system across the country.”