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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that he reached an agreement with Poland on the delivery of 200 Rosomak armored vehicles, Trend reports citing TASS.

“There are new agreements on armored personnel carriers – over 100 vehicles. As for the armored vehicles – 200 Rosomak vehicles. One hundred now and one hundred later,” he said during his evening address.

Additionally, Ukraine’s Ukroboronprom state concern reported that the Bumar-Labedi arms manufacturer in Poland’s Gliwice would repair and service Ukrainian T-64 tanks, citing an agreement concluded between the two parties.

Source: Trend News Agency

Israeli jets hit Syrian military targets on Sunday in response to rockets launched towards Israeli controlled territory overnight, Israel’s military said, as violence flared again following cross-border exchanges of fire during the week, APA reports citing Reuters.

State media in Syria reported explosions in the vicinity of the capital Damascus as Israel said its forces continued to hit Syrian territory after six rockets were fired overnight towards the Golan Heights.

Israel said artillery and drone strikes hit the rocket launchers and were followed by airstrikes against a Syrian army compound, military radar systems and artillery posts.

The Israeli military “sees the State of Syria responsible for all activities occurring within its territory and will not allow any attempts to violate Israeli sovereignty,” the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement.

The Syrian defence ministry said its air defences had responded to the Israeli attacks and intercepted some Israeli missiles. It said no casualties had been reported with only material damage caused by the strikes.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency

Hungary has decided to toughen controls of the transit of Ukrainian grain via its territory to make sure that supplies get to the countries of destination rather than remain on Central European markets, Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy said on Saturday, Trend reports citing TASS.

Nagy, who also made a proposal to reinstate customs fees and quotas on Ukrainian grain, said the measures were needed to protect the interests of European farmers who suffer losses amid Ukrainian food being supplied to EU markets at dumping prices.

“The European Commission said no to the general reinstatement of customs duties on Ukrainian agricultural products,” so Hungary is taking the initiative “to re-introduce customs duties and quantitative limits on a group of products, imports of Ukrainian grain and oilseeds, at least temporarily,” he said.

Also, Hungary will “continue to strengthen the inspection of imports, paying special attention to transit shipments in order to ensure that shipments designated for transit actually leave the country,” Nagy said in a written statement circulated by his ministry.

Source: Trend News Agency

At least six people were killed and eight others wounded on Saturday as a microbus collided with a farming tractor in Egypt’s Giza province adjacent to the capital Cairo, an Egyptian Health Ministry official said, Trend reports citing Xinhua.

“The accident took place early in the morning as the microbus crashed into the tractor near an exit on Al-Kurimat Road in Giza,” Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, spokesman of the Health Ministry, told Xinhua, noting the injured people were taken to a nearby hospital.

Egyptian local media said that most victims were passengers of the microbus that was severely damaged.

Road accidents claim thousands of lives in the most populous Arab country every year. Most of the accidents are caused by human errors including speeding and negligence of traffic rules, as well as poor maintenance of roads.

Source: Trend News Agency

“Official Chisinau is interested in attracting Azerbaijani investors and diversifying sources of gas supply at the expense of Baku,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova, Niku Popescu wrote on the Telegram channel, APA reports.

He met with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov in Chisinau.

“I emphasized that Moldova is interested in attracting as many Azerbaijani investors as possible to the country for the implementation of joint projects. “Our country is interested in diversifying natural gas supply sources and routes,” he said.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova highly appreciated the results achieved after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and also declared that Chisinau is open to the development of cooperation in energy, economic and agricultural fields with Baku.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency

Seven people, including a two-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, died late Saturday night when a fire swept a residential community in Rizal province, east of Metro Manila, Philippine police said on Sunday, Trend reports citing Xinhua.

The fire broke out before 10 p.m. local time on Saturday in Taytay town and spread fast in the densely packed neighborhood of old houses, engulfing over 40 houses before it was declared under control more than an hour later.

The victims were trapped in their house at the end of the street, and the bodies were found on the kitchen floor and inside the bathroom, according to the police.

The fire also left more than 60 families homeless.

The Bureau of Fire Protection is investigating the cause of the fire.

Source: Trend News Agency