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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 26, 2024, p. 29
kyiv. Ukraine yesterday accused Belarus, a neighboring country that is an ally of Russia, of concentrate troops on the common border, and warned that Minsk should avoid unfriendly actions.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that intelligence services had detected that Belarus Concentrates a significant number of personnel in the Gomel region, near the northeastern border of Ukraine, under the pretext of conducting exercisesand urged the Belarusian armed forces to stop unfriendly actions.
We warn Belarusian officials against making tragic mistakes for their country due to pressure from Moscowthe Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
He said he had seen the presence of fighters from the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, some of whom fled to Belarus after their leader’s failed rebellion last year.
In 2022, Belarus allowed Russian troops to be stationed in its country during what that nation and Russia called exercisesbefore the invasion began, at the end of February of that year.
Furthermore, Belarus allowed Russian troops to use its territory as a launching pad for their invasion of Ukraine.
On the war front, Ukrainian troops continue their incursion into the Russian region of Kursk, which they entered on the 6th, and Russian troops continue their advance in the east of the former Soviet republic.
Reuters loses worker in bombing
A security adviser working for the Reuters news agency was killed and two other employees were wounded in a bombing at the hotel where they were staying in Kramatorsk, a town in eastern Ukraine.
The advisor He was part of a Reuters team staying at the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk when it was hit by a missile.Reuters reported in a statement on X.
Five people have been killed in a Ukrainian offensive against the Russian border region of Belgorod, officials said, while 12 were wounded in the Russian village of Rakitone, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from the Ukrainian border. Another man was killed in a drone strike in the border village of Solovevka, officials said.
Pope Francis has slammed Ukraine’s law banning the Moscow-linked Orthodox Church in the country. The churches are not touchedsaid the Argentine Pope during the Angelus.
The day before yesterday, Zelensky signed into law a law banning the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which has long been the country’s main religion.
The tomb of the Romanian-speaking Chernovtsi-Bukovina diocese in western Ukraine, which belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, was closed yesterday.
It is the first parish to be sealed off after the law was passed.