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00:00 France begins to evacuate hundreds of European citizens from Niger as tensions rise following
00:06 last week's military coup.
00:10 A further apparent Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow has damaged a building in the city's
00:15 business district.
00:17 No casualties have been reported.
00:20 Croatia has offered Ukraine's grain exporters a lifeline, allowing access to its ports on
00:26 the Adriatic and the Danube.
00:32 France has begun flying hundreds of European citizens out of Niger's capital, Niami, as
00:37 tensions rise following last week's military coup.
00:41 Paris has set up a crisis centre to organise the evacuations amid a deteriorating security
00:47 situation on the ground.
00:48 Separately, Brussels has backed the ECOWAS group of African nations' sanctions against
00:53 the rebel regime.
01:22 As the French cabinet met to discuss the crisis, Mali and Burkina Faso declared their support
01:27 for the coup and issued a stark warning against any African or European intervention.
01:48 Chad's president has met his ousted Nigerian counterpart, Mohamed Bazoum, now under house
01:53 arrest in a mediation effort.
01:56 But so far there seems little prospect of a negotiated settlement.
02:04 There has been a further apparent drone attack on an office building in Moscow.
02:09 The city's mayor claimed on Tuesday that several missiles had been shot down, but debris from
02:14 one smashed into the 21st story of a tower block in the business district.
02:20 The same building was reportedly hit during a similar strike over the weekend.
02:24 There were no reports of casualties.
02:27 Separately, Russia says it shot down Ukrainian drones fired at two of its naval patrol boats
02:34 in the Black Sea.
02:43 Ukraine and Croatia have agreed on the possibility of using Croatian ports on the Danube and
02:47 the Adriatic Sea for the export of Ukrainian grain.
02:51 The deal was part of talks between the two countries' foreign ministers in Kiev.
02:56 Russian airstrikes have destroyed an estimated 180,000 metric tons of grain crops in the
03:01 space of nine days this month.
03:04 Two weeks ago, Moscow pulled out of a grain deal that had allowed safe passage of food
03:08 exports through the Black Sea.
03:12 Ukraine is a major exporter of grain and the deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey
03:16 last year, kept people fed all over the world.
03:20 "We have agreed on the possibility of using Croatian ports on the Danube and the Adriatic
03:27 Sea for the export of Ukrainian grain.
03:31 We will now work to make the most of the routes to these ports on land in order to maximize
03:42 our use of this opportunity.
03:46 But every contribution to the export of grain, every open door is a real contribution to
03:52 the food security of the world."
03:56 The death toll from Monday's Russian attack on an apartment building in Krivy Ria rose
04:01 to six, with dozens injured.
04:03 The UN says Ukraine's humanitarian needs are increasing.
04:07 "Our humanitarian response plan is only 30 percent funded.
04:11 It's almost the first of August, but it gets cold very early in Ukraine.
04:16 We have thousands and thousands of damaged houses, apartment blocks since last winter.
04:23 So this is additional damage on top of what we had to deal with last winter."
04:29 The US is to attend August's Ukraine peace summit in Saudi Arabia, although Russia's
04:34 not invited, it's hoped China will send a delegation.
04:43 The city of Lachin in western Azerbaijan feels like a vast construction site.
04:49 Everywhere you look, efforts to erase the scars of the last all-out war between Armenia
04:54 and Azerbaijan are evident.
04:58 Three years ago, Russia brokered a ceasefire deal that saw Azerbaijan take back parts of
05:03 Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia.
05:06 This area is so strategic that shortly after the agreement, Moscow sent its troops here
05:11 to monitor the deal and stand between the two sides.
05:15 Today, the so-called Lachin corridor no longer goes through here, and the soldiers have largely
05:22 relocated.
05:23 But the importance of the town is undeniable.
05:28 "Tanks have been replaced by construction trucks and a significant investment has been
05:35 made in this city to rebuild but also to build anew with the objective of bringing people
05:41 back to Lachin."
05:42 "Your great-grandfather's house?"
05:44 "Yeah, great-great-grandfather's house.
05:47 This one, my grandfather's house."
05:49 Hikmat's family is among them.
05:52 "Hikmat, you were saying that you were not born here."
05:56 "Yeah, I'm not born."
05:57 "You feel like you are from Lachin, why?"
06:00 "Yeah, because my parents, my grandparents, every time talking Lachin."
06:06 "About Lachin?"
06:07 "About Lachin, yeah, every time."
06:08 "What did they say to you about Lachin?"
06:10 "I don't know, they are just feeling so bad, they are missing every time."
06:18 He takes us to the home he says belonged to his grandparents, where his mother, uncles
06:24 and aunts were born and raised.
06:29 Gülşen says she hopes to celebrate her 60th birthday here next year.
06:36 "The part of this family's journey included more painful moments, like looking for their
06:45 grandparents' grave in a cemetery nearby.
06:49 Here the resentment towards the other side becomes very clear."
06:53 "This is the grave, the second one.
07:02 They took out the grave completely.
07:08 There was a grave under the trees.
07:13 They took out the body from there.
07:16 They were our ancestors, our ancestors, our ancestors.
07:22 This is their grave."
07:25 For now, the incomprehensible pain might be the one thing the two sides have in common.
07:32 While negotiations continue between the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia, the road to lasting
07:37 peace will have to include the people, who still seem overtaken by the indelible marks
07:44 multiple conflicts have left.
07:47 And that will take more than concrete and bricks to hide.
07:51 Annelies Borges in Lachin, Western Azerbaijan, for Euronews.
08:04 Getting around the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh is no simple task.
08:10 And that has very little to do with geography and everything to do with decades of conflict
08:14 and remaining tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
08:39 Armenian soldiers have been monitoring the area since Moscow brokered a 2020 ceasefire
08:44 between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which brought the last war to a halt but hasn`t been enough
08:51 to secure peace.
08:52 "We`re standing in one of the most contentious areas in what is left of the Armenian-Azeri
08:58 conflict.
08:59 This is the Lachin corridor, the only land passage that connects Armenian territory to
09:06 the pockets of the Nagorno-Karabakh that are still under control of ethnic Armenians.
09:11 And Azerbaijan has built this customs border office saying that it`s their right to control
09:18 who goes into their territory.
09:20 Yerevan has repeatedly accused Baku of blocking this road, blocking this corridor and effectively
09:27 holding the population in Nagorno-Karabakh under siege, not allowing food and medicine
09:32 to go through here.
09:33 This is something that Azeri authorities have repeatedly denied.
09:37 And they have brought us here to show that the Lachin corridor is very much open and
09:40 operating what you see in the distance beyond the Azeri border guards and beyond the Russian
09:45 soldiers that are here to monitor this area is a convoy of trucks belonging to the Red
09:51 Cross."
09:54 A group of civilians is being escorted back to the Nagorno-Karabakh after receiving medical
09:59 treatment in Armenia.
10:01 Once the security checks are done, they are through.
10:05 At least today.
10:07 A statement released by the International Committee of the Red Cross a couple of hours
10:11 later warned that that was absolutely not the norm.
10:15 And Armenians inside the Nagorno-Karabakh confirm basic food items, medicine and fuel
10:22 are not reaching them.
10:25 We have here about five, six big supermarkets and all of them are completely empty.
10:31 And even bread, difficult to get bread from the shops.
10:37 Baku insists Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh should use a different route to buy produce
10:42 from the country they are now part of.
10:45 Something the European Union`s top diplomat has warned Azerbaijan against, saying that
10:51 for the benefit of normalization negotiations, which the EU is helping mediate, humanitarian
10:56 access should not be politicized.
11:00 But this week, a convoy of trucks that Armenia says is delivering humanitarian aid to the
11:06 region are stuck not far away from the Azerbaijani checkpoint.
11:11 The alternative route Azerbaijan is offering to bring here some humanitarian aid, if you
11:19 will ask opinion in Karabakh, they would say why someone should create an artificial crisis
11:27 for us and offer food.
11:30 We are free to choose where from we want to get food.
11:35 Let us do as we did before the blockade.
11:39 Annelies Borges from the Lachin Corridor on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border for Euronews.
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