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Russian Fertilizer Seized in Latvia Sent to Kenya by UN Agency

26 April 2022, Brazil, Balsa Nova: A farmer shows fertilizers on his farm. (dpa)
26 April 2022, Brazil, Balsa Nova: A farmer shows fertilizers on his farm. (dpa)
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Russian Fertilizer Seized in Latvia Sent to Kenya by UN Agency

26 April 2022, Brazil, Balsa Nova: A farmer shows fertilizers on his farm. (dpa)
26 April 2022, Brazil, Balsa Nova: A farmer shows fertilizers on his farm. (dpa)

Russian-origin fertilizer which Latvia seized due to European Union sanctions is being sent to Kenya by the United Nations' World Food Program, Latvia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

The first shipment of part of the 200,000 tons of the seized fertilizer left the port of Riga on Friday and several more are due to follow, it added.

"The Latvian Government decided to facilitate the donation, with support from the UN World Food Program, of mineral fertilizers owned by companies sanctioned by the European Union," the statement said.

"Together with its foreign partners and international organizations, Latvia continues providing support for the countries that have been affected by the food crisis triggered by Russia’s war on Ukraine."

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Russia Says it Thwarts Ukrainian Plots to Kill High-ranking Officers, their Families

A woman sits on a bench with a dog on a leash and surrounded by snow outside the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery in Zvenigorod, 30 km west of Moscow, Russia, 25 December 2024. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
A woman sits on a bench with a dog on a leash and surrounded by snow outside the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery in Zvenigorod, 30 km west of Moscow, Russia, 25 December 2024. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
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Russia Says it Thwarts Ukrainian Plots to Kill High-ranking Officers, their Families

A woman sits on a bench with a dog on a leash and surrounded by snow outside the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery in Zvenigorod, 30 km west of Moscow, Russia, 25 December 2024. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
A woman sits on a bench with a dog on a leash and surrounded by snow outside the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery in Zvenigorod, 30 km west of Moscow, Russia, 25 December 2024. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had foiled several plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill high-ranking Russian officers and their families in Moscow using bombs disguised as power banks or document folders.
Ukraine's SBU intelligence service killed Lieutenant General Kirillov, chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, on Dec. 17 in Moscow outside his apartment building by detonating a bomb attached to an electric scooter.
An SBU source confirmed to Reuters that the Ukrainian intelligence agency had been behind the hit. Russia said the killing was a terrorist attack by Kyiv and vowed revenge.
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has prevented a series of assassination attempts on high-ranking military personnel of the Defense Ministry," the FSB said.
"Four Russian citizens involved in the preparation of these attacks have been detained."
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said that the Russian citizens had been recruited by the Ukrainian intelligence services.
One of the men retrieved a bomb disguised as a power bank in Moscow that was to be attached with magnets to the car of one of the defense ministry's top officials, the FSB said.
Another Russian man was tasked with reconnaissance of senior Russian defense officials. One plot involved the delivery of a bomb disguised as a document folder, the FSB said.