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Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has offered advice to end the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, drawn from the country’s battle-hardened experience against Russia’s offensive in the Black Sea.

“We raised this issue, because it is a painful and urgent one – as we can all see, for the entire world. There is an energy crisis. They know they can rely on our expertise in this area, and we discussed it in detail,” Zelensky said, speaking to Politico in a conversation on WhatsApp group chat.

Zelensky stated he “shared our experience with the Black Sea corridor and how it operates”.

“They understand that our Armed Forces have been highly effective in unblocking the Black Sea corridor,” Zelensky said.

Ukraine is joining the list of more than 20 nations offering to help the US end the blockade in the critical waters, causing an oil price rise globally. However, Kyiv is not interested in being involved in a war with Iran and has suggested an alternative.

Citing the Black Sea confrontation in 2023 when Ukraine was facing a grain exports blockade from Russian warships leading to a global food crisis, it resorted to naval warfare and sank much of Russia’s Black Sea fleet with naval drones and missiles. The remnants of the Russian Black Sea fleet were chased from its waters.

Andrii Klymenko, head of the monitoring group on the situation in the Black Sea region with the Institute for Black Sea Strategic Studies, pointed to Ukraine’s major success in the critical waters.

“Ukraine managed to create a complex system of cargo ship protection from all kinds of threats on the sea route from the territorial waters of Romania to the Odesa region,” Klymenko told Politico. “I call it a tunnel.”

Ukraine and Bulgaria are getting ready a gasoline ⁠hall able to dealing with volumes as much as 10 billion ⁠cubic ​meters ⁠yearly, president Volodymyr Zelensky introduced yesterday, as ​Kyiv ⁠plans how ‌to get via subsequent winter amid ‌potential Russian ‌strikes on its power system.

Speaking ⁠to reporters in Kyiv alongside Bulgarian prime minister Andrey Gyurov, he added the brand new ‌route ought to ​be prepared by ‌the top ⁠of the ⁠12 months.

Russian assaults on ​central and northern Ukrainian areas yesterday killed two folks and injured greater than 20, ⁠regional officers stated.

Near the central metropolis of Poltava, falling particles from drones killed one individual, injured three ⁠and broken a ​high-rise house ⁠constructing, regional governor Vitaliy Diakivnych stated on Telegram.

Drone assaults ⁠and artillery strikes killed one ​individual ⁠within the adjoining Dnipropetrovsk ‌area close to the city of Nikopol, Regional Governor Oleksandr Ganzha stated ‌on Telegram. Two folks have been ‌injured within the city and 12 all through the area.

Russian forces launched ⁠two strikes with glide bombs within the Sumy area close to the Russian border, injuring 13 folks, together with a 6-year-old little one, regional governor Oleh Hryhorov stated. Fifteen properties have been ‌broken.

Senior Russian army officers ​have stated their forces ‌are dedicated to creating ⁠buffer zones in Sumy ⁠and within the neighbouring Kharkiv area in ‌the northeast.

Ukraine’s struggle has pressured the nation to change into a trailblazer in drone interception. The battle within the Middle East might be its make-or-break second to take the expertise international.

In an effort to export Ukrainian ​techniques and know-how, president Volodymyr Zelensky has criss-crossed the Gulf area this weekend to hash out offers with international locations which were focused by waves of Iranian drone assaults this month.

“Ukraine is sharing expertise that ‌is not available in the Middle East,” Zelensky informed Reuters in an interview final week.

“Expertise is not a drone, but a skill, a strategy, a system where a drone is one part of the defence,” he said.

Indeed, Ukraine has signed framework cooperation deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar in recent days, and has said one is in the works with the United Arab Emirates.

Zelensky has stressed that arms sales must be decided at the government level, warning businesses against engaging with clients directly.

Ukraine’s drone sector is chomping at the bit.

“Everybody is sitting and ready,” said Oleg Rogynskyy, CEO of UForce, a UK-headquartered Ukrainian military ​tech company which says its Magura sea drone has been the subject of intense commercial interest from the Middle East.

The European ​Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas and several EU foreign ministers arrived in Kyiv this morning to mark ⁠the fourth anniversary of the Bucha massacre and to voice their support for Ukraine, amid tensions within the bloc over ⁠blocked EU aid.

Ukraine marks the fourth anniversary this week of the liberation of Bucha, around 25km ‌from the Ukrainian capital, which brought ​to light the atrocities ‌carried out in ⁠the town, where Russian troops killed ⁠more than 400 people.

Moscow denied its troops ‌committed ​the atrocities but international human rights groups found glaring evidence of Russia’s involvement in the crimes recorded in the Ukrainian region.

Ukrainian ​foreign minister Andrii Sybiha greeted Kallas and other senior EU officials ⁠at Kyiv’s central railway station in the early hours, saying that ‌such a strong European presence demonstrated that justice for Russian atrocities was ‌inevitable.

“Today, we commemorate the grim ‌anniversary of the Bucha bloodbath,” Sybiha said.

“Comprehensive accountability ⁠for Russian crimes is significant to revive justice in Europe. And immediately, we’ll advance accountability efforts,” he stated.

Estonia’s defence forces detected “potentially ⁠dangerous air activity” inside ⁠and outdoors ​the ⁠Baltic nation’s ⁠airspace in a single day, ​the ⁠army stated this morning.

“A preventive ‌threat notification ‌was sent ⁠out,” and the threats had since handed, it added in ‌a ​assertion.

A protracted struggle in Iran might be excellent for Russia and really unhealthy for Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky stated.

“I am sure Russia wants long war. They have benefits: the US is focusing on the Middle East and may decrease military help to Ukraine. Sanctions are partially lifted. I see only benefits for Russia from the war with Iran continuing,” the Ukrainian president said in an interview with Axios yesterday.

Asked if he was worried about a prolonged war in Iran as it could hamper Ukraine’s weapons supplies, Zelensky said: “I am not just concerned, I am sure we will have such challenges. Absolutely.”

He also said the US move to issue sanctions waivers on Russian oil would not help Ukraine as it would add more money to Russia’s war-waging economy.

Zelensky claimed that Russia had helped Iran with intelligence inputs.

“I think Russia is supporting Iran directly, 100 per cent. The same format of sharing satellite images like they did in the case of Ukraine,” he stated.

Ukrainian drones have damaged Russia’s ⁠Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga ⁠again, ​Alexander Drozdenko, ⁠the governor ⁠of Leningrad ​region, ⁠said this morning.

He also said three ‌people, including ‌two children, were treated ⁠for injuries, while several buildings were also damaged in the ‌region in ​the ‌drone ⁠attacks, which ⁠were continuing.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has offered advice to end the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, drawn from the country’s battle-hardened experience against Russia’s offensive in the Black Sea.

“We raised this issue, because it is a painful and urgent one – as we can all see, for the entire world. There is an energy crisis. They know they can rely on our expertise in this area, and we discussed it in detail,” Zelensky said, speaking to Politico in a conversation on WhatsApp group chat.

Zelensky said he “shared our experience with the Black Sea corridor and how it operates”.

“They understand that our Armed Forces have been highly effective in unblocking the Black Sea corridor,” Zelensky said.

Ukraine is joining the list of more than 20 nations offering to help the US end the blockade in the critical waters, causing an oil price rise globally. However, Kyiv is not interested in being involved in a war with Iran and has suggested an alternative.

Citing the Black Sea confrontation in 2023 when Ukraine was facing a grain exports blockade from Russian warships leading to a global food crisis, it resorted to naval warfare and sank much of Russia’s Black Sea fleet with naval drones and missiles. The remnants of the Russian Black Sea fleet were chased from its waters.

Andrii Klymenko, head of the monitoring group on the situation in the Black Sea region with the Institute for Black Sea Strategic Studies, pointed to Ukraine’s major success in the critical waters.

“Ukraine managed to create a complex system of cargo ship protection from all kinds of threats on the sea route from the territorial waters of Romania to the Odesa region,” Klymenko told Politico. “I call it a tunnel.”