Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 249

Because the Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its 249th day, we check out the primary developments.

Right here is the state of affairs because it stands on Sunday, October 30.

Grain deal

Russia has pulled out of July’s UN-brokered grain deal, which allowed main exporter Ukraine to ship agricultural produce, after what it stated was a drone assault on Russian ships in occupied Crimea.
Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov has slammed the US for not condemning what he stated had been the “reckless actions by the Kyiv regime” in concentrating on the port of Sevastopol.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is making an attempt to create a famine in Africa, the Center East and South Asia, calling for a powerful response from the United Nations and the Group of 20 main economies.
Ukraine’s international minister Dmytro Kuleba has accused Moscow of utilizing a “false pretext” to droop its participation within the grain deal, urging “all states to demand Russia to cease its starvation video games and recommit to its obligations”.
US President Joe Biden known as the transfer “purely outrageous”, saying it might improve starvation.
“Any act by Russia to disrupt these vital grain exports is actually a press release that individuals and households all over the world ought to pay extra for meals or go hungry,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated in a press release.

Russia’s defence ministry has stated British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gasoline pipelines final month, a declare that London stated was false and designed to distract from Russian army failures in Ukraine.
Moscow supplied no proof for its declare. The ministry additionally stated “British specialists” directed Ukrainian drone assaults on Russian Black Sea fleet ships in Crimea earlier on Saturday – which it stated had been largely repelled by Russian forces, with minor harm to a Russian minesweeper.

Suspected brokers working for Russian President Vladimir Putin hacked British former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s private cellphone, getting access to “top-secret particulars” of negotiations with worldwide allies, the Day by day Mail reported on Saturday.
Russia stated the accelerated deployment of modernised US B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe would decrease the “nuclear threshold” and that Russia would take the transfer into consideration in its army planning.
The pinnacle of Germany’s Navy Counter-Intelligence Service, Martina Rosenberg, has warned of accelerating exercise

by adversarial intelligence providers.