Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting a Ukrainian port on the Black Sea to attend the loading of the first ship to export Ukrainian grain. “We are ready to export Ukrainian wheat, we are waiting for signals from our partners to start transport,” the president wrote in a post on Facebook. “The first ship, the first cargo since the beginning of the war is underway. It is a Turkish ship,” Zelensky announced in a note from the Ukrainian presidency posting a video of the president in the port of Chornomorsk in front of the ship ‘Polarnet’, noting that the president will oversee the resumption of grain exports in accordance with the agreements signed on July 22 in Turkey. Meanwhile, the attacks between the Ukrainian and Russian fronts continue unabated. The Russian Defense Ministry, quoted by the Interfax agency, speaks of a bombing by Ukrainian forces on a penal colony in Donetsk in which they would be 40 Ukrainian prisoners died detained by pro-Russians and another 75 would have been injured. The Ukrainians, however, deny the circumstance and speak of an action carried out by Russia “to put the blame on Ukraine”. According to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podolyak it was a matter of “a classic, cynical and elaborate operation conducted under a false flag”. “The bombing – says Podolyak in a tweet – was planned to blame Ukraine for it. We know that the Russians transferred part of the Ukrainian defenders to this barracks a few days ago, before the bombing took place. “” The aim – Podolyak continues – is to discredit Ukraine in the eyes of its partners and stop the supply of weapons. But this is a deliberate, cynical and calculated massacre of Ukrainian prisoners, which requires careful investigation. We ask for a reaction from the UN and international organizations “.
The governor of the Kiev region then accuses the Russian forces of having killed 4 people at a bus stop, injuring 7 in an attack on a city in southern Ukraine. As they rise 8 civilians died and 19 those injured in the Russian bombing last night in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, in the Donbass. This was declared on Telegram by Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, quoted by the news agency Ukrinform.
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To make up for the losses of the Russian infantry, says a report by British Intelligence (ANSA)
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Russian forces bombed the center of Kharkiv last night, hitting a two-story building and a school, local authorities denounce, quoted by the Ukrinform agency.
“The state emergency service is working to clear the rubble and look for any trapped people. There are currently no reports of deaths or injuries or killed,” said Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
On the other hand, the toll from the bombings carried out by Russian forces in the last few hours in the southern Ukrainian oblast of Kherson is seven dead and six wounded, according to local police cited by the Kyiv Independent. Several houses in four settlements were destroyed or damaged in the attacks. Russian forces reportedly stole civilian vehicles and a passenger ship that they allegedly used to cross the Dnipro River in the damaged Antonivsky Bridge area.
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Russia accused of abandoning the bodies of its dead soldiers to avoid paying compensation to their families. Turkey, ‘The first ship with Ukrainian grain will soon depart’ (ANSA)
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The US Senate unanimously passed a non-binding resolution asking Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate the Russia as a sponsor of terrorism for its actions in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Ukraine. Actions which resulted in the deaths of thousands of “innocent men, women and children”. A similar measure was introduced in the House, where speaker Nancy Pelosi is in favor. While not binding, the resolution increases pressure on the Biden administration to include Russia on the list of sponsoring countries of terrorism which includes Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian armed forces say they have hit Russian ammunition depots in the Donetsk and Kherson regions. This was reported by the Directorate for Strategic Communications of the Army on Telegram, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda, specifying that “most” of the Russian military personnel in the Ilovaisk depot (in Donetsk Oblast) were killed and the ammunition depot was razed to the ground. Before the Ilovaisk depot, the Ukrainian armed forces hit another one in Brylivka (in the Kherson region).
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