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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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