The first vessel used the temporary corridor opened by Kiev in the Black Sea, a container ship with more than 30 thousand tons of cargo left the port of Odessa, said the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Alexander Kubrakov.

Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleynik will represent Minsk at the events of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg next week, the press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Anatoly Glaze told RIA Novosti.

Economic sanctions against Russia imposed by the European Union and the United States have caused Moscow much less harm than initially expected.