The government said that the people on the list were actively supporting the praise of Hitler’s helpers from the OUN-UPA and the Galicia Division. “CEOs and leaders of companies who provide weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and those who are actively participating in Canada’s campaign against Russia. ”
The OUN-UPA and the Galicia Division were groups of Ukrainian people who fought against the Soviet army during World War Two. The OUN-UPA fought during the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the Galicia Division was a group of Ukrainian volunteers recruited by the German Nazi party to fight the Soviet Red Army.
The government says nearly 1,600 Canadians are not allowed to go to Russia.
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Russia’s defence ministry said that on Sunday, a Russian warship in the Black Sea fired warning shots and boarded a cargo ship that it believes was sailing to Ukraine.
In July, Russia withdrew from a pact that had been negotiated by the UN and Turkey to allow Ukraine to transport its grain across the Black Sea and issued a warning that any ships sailing towards Ukraine would be seen as potentially carrying weapons. Ships heading to Russian ports were threatened in a similar manner by Ukraine.
The dry cargo ship, flying the flag of Palau, was ordered to stop for an inspection, but the skipper allegedly ignored the order and fired warning shots.
According to the statement, the Russian navy “opened warning fire from automatic small arms fire to forcefully stop the vessel.”
The ship, Sukru Okan, according to the ministry, was sailing for the Ukrainian port of Izmail. According to marine traffic statistics, the cargo ship is currently en route to the nearby Izmail port of Sulina in Romania. Regarding whether or not the ship was en route to a Ukrainian port, Kiev did not immediately respond.
The patrol ship Vasily Bykov lifted a Ka-29 helicopter carrying a detachment of Russian servicemen to check the bulk cargo ship, the ministry reported. According to the statement, “Following radio conversations, the ship changed course, and the boarding team landed on the bulk cargo ship.”
This week, Ukraine declared that it would permit temporary humanitarian passage for ships to and from its ports and that registration for commercial ships using the maritime route had begun.
Both Russia and Ukraine are significant grain producers, and their agreement—a rare point of consensus in the midst of a war—contributed significantly to price stabilisation.
Russia’s pullout, according to Kyiv, is equivalent to an embargo of Ukrainian goods. Russia has long lamented its inability to export its own food.
The temporary routes, according to a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy named Dmytro Pletenchuk, aim to address the world food security crisis and will enable shipowners and businesses to “finally take back their merchant vessels that are in humanitarian captivity due to the constant threats of Russians at sea.”
Pletenchuk stated that ship owners and captains have been alerted to the threat and that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will assist in ensuring the security of the merchant ships passing through the passageways, with the Navy “doing everything we can to ensure security.”
Given the risks involved, it is yet uncertain when ships might use the route.
In a recent video, the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) appear to inform the Russian people that various Russian cities will be attacked in less than a month.
The brief video, which was uploaded to the AFU StratCom Telegram channel, depicts a small cartoon child sobbing in front of a demolished house over a picture of a family holding a Ukrainian flag.
He transforms the drawing into a paper aeroplane, a drone, and eventually a fleet of drones.
Then, red lines are displayed travelling from various regions of Ukraine to locations in or occupied by Russia, such as Sevastopol and Melitopol.
Before the screen falls black and the date August 24 is displayed, one last red line is displayed connecting Kyiv to Moscow.
On that day, Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day, which honours the day in 1991 when the nation gained its independence from the Soviet Union.
Threats of attacks on Kyiv marked the day the previous year, and some city residents fled the area.
The year of retribution continues, according to AFU StratCom’s caption in Ukrainian for the video. The dates are flexible.
“And the outcome is still there—the suffering and tragedy of the occupiers.”
There were no fatalities, according to the city’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin, although two office tower facades sustained “slight damage.”
Zelensky did not confirm or deny that Ukraine was responsible for the strikes, but he did state in his nightly speech that the war was gradually returning to Russian soil, including its military sites and symbolic centres, and that this was a natural, unavoidable process that was entirely fair.
In Belgorod, a province in southwestern Russia, Moscow claimed it was engaged in combat with a gang of saboteurs. However, a group of anti-Putin Russian citizens who support the Ukrainian army has taken credit for the attack.
According to regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, there were no casualties, but shelling in the vicinity caused damage to an administrative building, several residential buildings, and a kindergarten.
Groups identifying themselves as the “Freedom of Russia Legion” and “Russian Volunteer Corps” claimed in a Telegram post that they had “liberated” a community in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.
A Ukrainian official acknowledged that the units had carried out an operation in the area but insisted they were acting independently.
“We can confirm that this operation was carried out by Russian citizens,” Andriy Yusov, a representative of Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency, told CNN.
He said the units were “part of defense and security forces” when they were in Ukraine, but were independent from Kyiv when they were not: “In Russia they are acting as independent entities.”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin’s forces were working to push out a “sabotage and reconnaissance group,” according to state media TASS.
The situation in Belgorod marks “the first time” that Ukrainian-aligned forces have launched “a cross-border land operation against Russian targets,” according to CNN’s Sam Kiley.
“This is on a significant scale, and clearly intended to cause considerable consternation among the local authorities at the very least, if not at the level of the Kremlin,” Kiley told CNN’s Lynda Kinkade on Connect the World.
At least eight people had been injured in the attacks, but there were no deaths among civilians in Belgorod, according to Gladkov, the regional governor.
“The situation remains extremely tense. A sabotage and reconnaissance group, the Ministry of Defense and all law enforcement agencies have entered the territory to carry out combat missions to protect our country,” Gladkov said in a live-streamed address on Monday.
Gladkov said that the Belgorod government is “completing a house tour of the border villages” and in the town of Graivoron to ensure the safety of the local population.
He added that “most of the population left the territory” with personal transportation and the local government is providing assistance for those who do not have the opportunity to leave on their own.
He also noted that the head of the district Gennady Ivanovich Bondarev, is working with the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the police to evacuate people.
He said earlier that Russian troops, the border service, the National Guard and the FSB “are taking the necessary measures to eliminate the enemy.”
Air defenses struck down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the region, Gladkov said, adding that there were no victims and Russian authorities are looking into any potential damage on the ground.
Aleksey Baranovsky, a representative of the Kyiv-based Russian Armed Opposition Political Centre – the political wing of the Freedom of Russia Legion – told CNN that the operation had started Sunday night and fighting was “ongoing.”
He would not specify the number of fighters who had crossed the border into Russia.
Baranovsky said the group wanted to “liberate our motherland from the tyranny of Putin.”
In a Telegram post, the groups said they had “fully liberated the settlement of Kozinka of Belgorod region. [The] first groups have entered Grayvoron.”
In a separate incident Monday evening, the Freedom of Russia Legion posted a video on Telegram that appears to show the blue and white so-called flag of free Russia flying over Moscow State University.
Other videos posted by the group also appear to show another Russian opposition flag flying over various areas of the Russian capital.
The group did not claim direct responsibility for the incidents and CNN could not independently verify the reports.
The Freedom of Russia Legion numbers a few hundred of diehard, battle-hardened Russian volunteers fighting their own people as part of theUkrainian armed forces.
Caesar is a member of the group. He is a former teacher, a father and has a wife living in Kyiv. He told CNN last year that he had dedicated his life to toppling Russian President Vladimir Putin and marching into Red Square and the Kremlin itself.
He is a devoted member of the Orthodox Church and is nostalgic for the Tsarist era that predated the Soviet Union. His unit is well-equipped with modern armored vehicles, gunsights and the latest automatic weapons.
The Legionnaires themselves have admitted that they’re often treated with suspicion by Ukrainian soldiers but hope to win them over with gallantry on the battlefield.
Their apparent incursion along a border that is frequently used by Russian mortar teams and artillery as a firebase for attacks inside Ukraine will help further cement their reputation.
It also serves as part of ongoing psychological operations intended to undermine support for the war in Russia and the fighting spirit of Russian soldiers themselves – signaling that they could be attacked at any time and even by their own countrymen.
Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, said: “Russian forces are working to push out the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group from the territory of the Russian Federation and destroy it. There are enough forces and means,” he told reporters.
He made reference to Bakhmut, which has garnered an outsized importance in the conflict as Russian forces battle to capture the eastern Ukrainian city while failing to make gains elsewhere.
