#daily wrap up

[ukrainenews]

Daily wrap up July 22-23, 2022

(If this is formatted differently, sorry, I’m on mobile because I’m traveling.)

-Ukraine and Russia sign a UN backed deal to export Ukrainian grain

-Russia launches cruise missiles at Odesa the day after signing an agreement to export Ukrainian grain

-Three people were killed and 19 others were injured when 13 Russian missiles hit a military airfield and railway infrastructure in Ukraine’s central region of Kirovohrad

-Heavy fighting has been taking place in the last 48 hours as Ukrainian forces continued their offensive against Russia in Kherson province

Ukraine and Russia have signed a UN-backed deal to allow the export of millions of tonnes of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports, potentially averting the threat of a catastrophic global food crisis.

A signing ceremony at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul was attended by the UN secretary general, António Guterres, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s president, who had played a key role during months of tense negotiations.

Guterres said in remarks after the deal would open up grain exports from Ukraine and the UN would work to ensure its success.

It is hoped the agreement will secure the passage of grain and essential goods such as sunflower oil from three Ukrainian ports including Odesa, even as the war continues to rage elsewhere in the country. The UN had warned that the war risked mass malnutrition, hunger and famine.

The deal is also aimed at ensuring the safe passage of Russian-made fertiliser products, essential for ensuring future high yields on crops, amid efforts to ease a global food crisis provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

UN officials said they hoped preliminary shipments could begin as soon as Saturday, with the hope of reaching prewar levels of export from the three Ukrainian ports – a rate of 5m metric tonnes of grain a month – within weeks.

According to UN officials, under the agreement struck between Kyiv and Moscow:

A coalition of Turkish, Ukrainian and UN staff will monitor the loading of grain on to vessels in Ukrainian ports before navigating a pre-planned route through the Black Sea, which remains heavily mined by Ukrainian and Russian forces.

Ukrainian pilot vessels will guide commercial vessels transporting the grain in order to navigate the mined areas around the coastline using a map of safe channels provided by the Ukrainian side.

The vessels will then cross the Black Sea towards Turkey’s Bosphorus strait while being closely monitored by a joint coordination centre in Istanbul, containing representatives from the UN, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey.

Ships entering Ukraine will be inspected under the supervision of the same joint coordination centre to ensure they are not carrying weapons or items that could be used to attack the Ukrainian side.

The Russian and Ukrainian sides have agreed to withhold attacks on any of the commercial vessels or ports engaged in the initiative to transport vital grain, while UN and Turkish monitors will be present in Ukrainian ports in order to demarcate areas protected by the accord.

-via The Guardian

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According to Ukraine's Operational Command “South,” Russian forces attacked the Black Sea trade port in Odesa with Kalibr cruise missiles on July 23.

Two missiles were shot down by Ukraine’s air defense, while the other two hit the port's facilities, the military said.

A minor fire broke out at the port's pumping station, but there was no significant damage to port infrastructure or grain storage facilities, Natalia Humeniuk, spokesperson for the command said. Humeniuk also said the blast waves from the attack damaged nearby homes.

The attack came a day after Russia and Ukraine signed UN-backed agreements to resume exports of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea. The deal aimed to unblock crucial grain exports and ease fears of a looming global food crisis. It envisioned safe passage of Ukrainian grain from three southwestern ports in Odesa Oblast, including the one in Odesa.

-via Kyiv Independent

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Three people were killed and 19 others were injured when 13 Russian missiles hit a military airfield and railway infrastructure in Ukraine’s central region of Kirovohrad, the regional governor has said.

A soldier and two security guards were among those killed at an electricity substation, Andriy Raikovych said on television.

Raikovych said the strikes had disrupted the electricity grid and that one district of the regional capital, Kropyvnytskyi, had been left without power as a result, Reuters reported.

Via The Guardian

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Heavy fighting has been taking place in the last 48 hours as Ukrainian forces continued their offensive against Russia in Kherson province, west of the Dnipro River, British military intelligence said on Saturday.

-via The Guardian

[onlymingyus]

Daily Wrap-Up

Hi loves! I am working on a fic currently but I'm not sure it will be done tonight and I don't think I will post it until tomorrow either way.

Your Mess - Wonwoo x afab reader - smut/angst/fluff

Objectification drabble - Seungkwan x afab reader - smut

Feel free to chat in my asks about the fics from today, leave your thots/fluff thoughts, or just to keep me company while I write. ♥

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dracula stained glass, part 3

[ibrithir-was-here]

Blood of My Blood: Bouquet

The kids have come ashore for a bit on their winding journey to draw Dracula off, still not sure where they’ll end up, but knowing they’re going together

[see-arcane]

I am very full of post-vaccine hurt-ouch and the screen hurts to look at but I just want to say a bleary thank you to Dracula, ala @re-dracula and Matt Kirkland, for making the agonies less painful via 1) A Minute of Mina Harker today and 2) in the mail:

It is finally here :’)

Got so excited I managed to (slowly) drag myself through finishing this little guy:

My very normal Count Dogula fresh from the Demeter. He shall surely bring me comfort between reading and exsanguination sessions.

Anyway. Something something so grateful for art(s) that make the Woe and Pains easier to get through 💕🦇

[moonsun2010]

Ms. Mina Murray, soon to be Harker

Other portraits:

Mina | Jonathan | Dracula | Lucy | Lucy...? | Lucy (Final) | Jonathan (3 Oct) | Mina (3 Oct) | Dracula (Final)

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Okay chat here’s my Spotify wrapped

I find it funny that two of my top artists are The Same Artist

620 out of 621 of those streams for Stuck Inside happened in a single week, which was right before they stopped tracking for wrapped

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i forgot to inflict him upon everyone yesterday

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

Mina *crying*: I'm horribly anxious about Jonathan, there is no reasonable explanation for his not writing something awful must have happened and I don't even know where to inquire about him. Oh look there's Mr. Swales maybe he'll distract me.

Mr. Swales: well I don't want you to be feeling bad miss, you see I'm very close to death myself and that's all us old folks can think about is death death death. I bet my death is in that storm out there. Everyone in the world has got to die. Guess I'm dying tonight. Anyway goodbye lovely to talk to you.

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im kind of a mom against weed i dont think its good for your mental health i think thats a big cope. getting so high you're dissociating through and emotionally numbing yourself isn't treating your mental illness, its abusing drugs. nobody says this about alcohol curing their depression even though it's used in the same way to cope and has (overall ) the same negative effects

[ukrainenews]

Daily Wrap Up July 20, 2022

Under the cut:

Russian missile strikes kill three in Kharkiv, including a 13-year-old boy

The EU accuses Russia of blackmail over gas supplies

Russia may seek to occupy more territory in Ukraine, says foreign minister Lavrov

The US will provide four more precision rocket systems to Ukraine

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense is going to hand over additional M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, as well as ammunition, to Ukraine

Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska asked the United States to send air defense systems to her country in an address to lawmakers in the US Congress in person in Washington, D.C.

“Russian missile strikes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv killed a 13-year-old boy as he waited at a bus stop on Wednesday, according to local officials.

Reuters photojournalists captured the boy’s father kneeling next to his covered body while holding his hand.

Rescue workers carried away another body on a stretcher and a nearby mosque was badly destroyed.

According to Oleh Synehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, three people were killed in Kharkiv on Wednesday – the teenager plus a man and a woman.

It was unclear if all three died at the bus stop together.

He said the dead teenager’s 15-year-old sister had also been wounded but did not give their names.”-via The Guardian

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“The European Union has set out emergency plans to reduce its gas use amid fears Russia could cut off its supply in winter.

It has proposed a voluntary target for countries to restrict its usage by 15% from August until March, accusing the Kremlin of weaponising gas exports.

“Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon,” the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said in a news conference.

“And therefore, in any event, whether it’s a partial, major cut-off of Russian gas or a total cut-off of Russian gas, Europe needs to be ready.”

She warned that almost half of member states were already affected by the reduced gas flow from Russia, which has fallen below 30% of the 2016-2021 average.

Under the plans, the EU would be able to make the cutback mandatory if there seemed a substantial risk of severe gas shortages.

The proposal needs to be approved by a majority of EU countries, with its diplomats set to discuss it on Friday.”-via The Guardian

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“Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has said that Moscow wants to permanently occupy broad swaths of southern Ukraine in the clearest signal yet that the Kremlin is preparing to launch a new round of annexations.

In televised remarks, Lavrov also said Russia may seek more territory along the frontlines in Ukraine, calling it a buffer against the Himars long-range rocket artillery provided by the US.

While Lavrov claimed Russia’s new territorial ambitions were driven by the course of the war, the initial invasion sought to occupy much of Ukraine’s south and capture the capital, Kyiv.

Despite that evidence, the Kremlin has maintained that it launched its attack to protect its proxy governments in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

“Now the geography is different,” Lavrov said, in a change of rhetoric from the Russian government. “It’s not just Donetsk and Luhansk, it’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and a number of other territories. And this is an ongoing process, consistent and insistent.”

His remarkswere also an admission that the invasion was designed as a war of conquest, despite early denials from the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, that Russia planned to occupy any new Ukrainian territory at all.

The Russian government has sought to integrate Donetsk and Luhansk by introducing the Russian rouble, Russian telecommunications networks and other infrastructure, and by crushing protests and local dissent.

John Kirby, spokesperson for the US national security council, said Russia was planning to annex more Ukrainian territory, possibly in September to coincide with regional elections.

“Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014,” he said, referring to when Russia annexed Crimea.

“The Russian government is reviewing detailed plans to purportedly annex a number of regions in Ukraine, including Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, all of Donetsk and Luhansk,” Kirby said on Tuesday, a day before Lavrov’s interview went public.

It was not clear what other territories Lavrov was referring to in his remarks.

In remarks to the RT editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, Lavrov also said Russia would seek more territory due to the western military aid to Ukraine, in particular the delivery of Himars missile systems that have destroyed a number of Russian military command posts.

“The west … in a desire to maximally exacerbate the situation have pumped Ukraine with more and more long-range weapons,” he said, citing a Ukrainian defence minister’s remarks that Ukraine was negotiating for munitions that could strike targets 300 km away. “That means our goal will be to move them back from the current line even further.

“Because we can’t allow that in that part of Ukraine which will be controlled by [Volodymyr] Zelenskiy or whoever replaces him, there were weapons that could present a direct threat to our territory.”

Russia has launched cruise missiles into Ukrainian cities far behind the frontlines. A recent attack on the western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia left 25 dead, including several children.”-via The Guardian

There’s more information in this article from Reuters.

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“The US will provide four more precision rocket systems to Ukraine to assist it in its fight against Russian forces, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, his Ukrainian counterpart requested Washington to send more M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), saying Kyiv’s forces have used them to destroy some 30 Russian command stations and ammunition depots so far.”-via The Guardian

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“The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense is going to hand over additional M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, as well as ammunition, to Ukraine.

"European Truth" writes about this in a statement from the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania.

"In the near future, Lithuania will provide Ukraine with additional military support - M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, which are very much needed by Ukraine, as well as ammunition necessary for the preparation of the reserve," said Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anushauskas at a meeting of the NATO Coordination Group for Ukraine Support.

He emphasized that thanks to the given or promised number of M113s, this armored vehicle is becoming a significant part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Lithuania contributes to this to a large extent.”-via Euro Integration (Ukrainian language source)

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“Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska asked the United States to send air defense systems to her country in an address to lawmakers in the US Congress on Wednesday in Washington, DC.

“Unfortunately the war is not over, the terror continues and I appeal to all of you, on behalf of those who were killed, on behalf of those people who lost their arms and legs, on behalf of those who are still alive and well, and those who wait for their families to come back from the front. I’m asking for something I would never want to ask, I am asking for weapons,” she told lawmakers. “Weapons that would not be used to wage a war on somebody else’s land but to protect one’s home and the right to wake up alive in that home. I’m asking for air defense systems in order for rockets not to kill children in their strollers,” Zelenska continued.

The Ukrainian first lady went on to say that she, like many Ukrainian mothers, craves a sense of normality and wishes they could give their children hope in the future.

“Will my son be able to return to his school in the fall, I don’t know, like millions of mothers in Ukraine. Will my daughter be able to go to university at the beginning of the academic year and experience normal student life? I cannot answer,” she said.

“We would have answers if we had air defense systems,” Zelenska added. Zelenska also thanked the United States for all the aid the country had already sent to Ukraine.

“The American people and American families, Congress and President Biden have already done a lot to help us to stand up to the enemy and protect millions of Ukrainians. We are grateful – really grateful – that the United States stands with us in this fight for our shared values of human life and independence,” she said.

“While Russia kills, America saves and you should know about it, we thank you for that,” Zelenska added.”-via CNN

[onlymingyus]

Daily Wrap-Up

Hey loves! I hope it's been a bit since I've done one but I have a couple things I wanted to talk about. First the fics/drabbles from today/yesterday.

A spicy ask about who in SVT - smut - afab

Fluffy makout with Junhui - fluff - gn

Jun as a sub or a top - smut - gn

Praise kink with Jeonghan and Seokmin - smut - afab

Beautiful - Seokmin - smut/angst/fluff - afab

I would like to offer a reading recommendation from my beautiful @onlyseokmins. If you read Seeing Red you know that Hoshi played a big part and I did make a 4th part called Hoshi's Origins Story well that leads into Elv's story A Tiger's Dominion. I am so so so proud of her and this fic is already so amazing. Please go read it and support my bestie wife.

I have also added a reaction draft count to my master list if you are curious about how many reactions I have that I am working on getting to. I am trying to be better about getting to each review of my fics because I am so thankful for each read and when you take the time to reblog that is everything to me. Then when you take time to tag with your thoughts that is SO SPECIAL. I want you to know that.

I love knowing your thoughts. It fuels my creativity and keeps me here guys. Thank you so much for you kindness and support.

As always my ASKS are open for thots and if you just wanna chat.

Love you - Mars ♥

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[yardsards]

just got tricked into eating his pill↓

↑under the impression that father has just given him a tasty treat that is totally not full of drugs