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Ukraine’s first grain export in months left the port of Odessa, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov confirmed and showed knowledge of MarineTraffic. com.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the Russian Navy would soon be armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Ukrainian civilians still living in Ukraine’s Donetsk region to evacuate on Saturday.
“The more people leave the Donetsk region now, the less time the Russian army will have to kill,” Zelenskyy said in a video edit on Saturday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was “deeply concerned” by reports that Russian forces had seized nuclear facilities in Ukraine.
“There are credible reports, which add today in the media, that Russia is this plant as the equivalent of a human shield, but a nuclear shield in the sense that it is shooting at Ukrainians from the vicinity of the plant,” Blinken told reporters in the United States. The United Nations, adding that it was “the height of irresponsibility. “
“And, of course, the Ukrainians cannot and will not retaliate, for fear that there will be a terrible twist of fate involving a nuclear power plant,” he said.
Blinken said it’s important for the International Atomic Energy Agency to have access to nuclear facilities to protect against an accident.
—Amanda Macias
Growing fears about the effect of a possible Russian fuel shutdown are fueling debate in Germany over whether the country deserves to shut down its last three nuclear power plants as planned later this year.
It opens the door to a kind of extension after the Ministry of Economy announced in mid-July a new “stress test” on the security of electricity supply. It is intended to take into account a more delicate situation than a previous test, it concluded in May, which revealed that the materials were insured.
Russia has since reduced the nord Stream 1 pipeline’s herbal fuel source to Germany to 20% of its capacity amid war tensions in Ukraine. He cited technical disorders that Germany says are just an excuse for a game of political force. Russia has recently accounted for about a third of Germany’s fuel source, and it is feared that it will turn off the tap completely.
The main opposition bloc, the Union, is calling for an extension of the useful life of nuclear power plants. Similar appeals come from the smaller party in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government, the pro-business Free Democrats.
– Associated Press
French President Emmanuel Macron told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call that war crimes committed by Russian forces “will go unpunished. “
“As war crimes multiply, the President of the Republic reaffirmed his commitment to the rest of the Ukrainian people and his resistance and declared his determination to ensure that those crimes do not go unpunished,” a source in the French-language presidential office wrote in a reading of the statement. appeal.
During the call, the 36th exchange between the two leaders since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Macron said France would send a team of forensic experts and a cellular DNA research laboratory to Ukraine.
—Amanda Macias
The White House has announced a new $550 million military aid program to Ukraine.
With its 17th assistance program, the United States has committed more than $8. 8 billion to arms purchases, training and other aid since Russia invaded Ukraine in February expired.
The new package will come with 75,000 rounds of 155mm howitzer artillery cartridges, as well as high-mobility artillery rocket systems, or HIMARS. The HIMARS, manufactured by defense giant Lockheed Martin, is designed to fire a variety of 5-ton missiles. cell truck.
On Friday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shared the latest security package with his Ukrainian counterpart.
—Amanda Macias
Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov told NBC News that the first shipment with agricultural products that left the country’s port is expected to be successful in Tripoli, Lebanon, in two days.
Kubrakov said only one shipment has left the port because all parties involved are conducting a “test” to make sure an agreement on a sea room to restart agricultural shipments from Ukraine works. He added that 16 shipments are in a position to depart, still only 3 ships will leave the port each day for the next two weeks.
Kubrakov said that over the next two months, Ukraine expects to export up to 3 million tons of agricultural products through the sea in a month.
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, blocking shipments from major ports, Ukraine exported five to seven million in a month.
—Amanda Macias
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the departure of the first shipment with agricultural products since Russia invaded his country is a “positive sign. “
“The port has to work, the export traffic has Array and this can be called the first positive sign that there is a possibility of preventing the advance of the food crisis in the world,” Zelenskyy said in an evening speech on the messaging app Telegram.
“It’s also a huge advantage for our state. The challenge is just billions of dollars in foreign exchange earnings. About a million Ukrainians are interested in developing export agricultural crops and if we go up similar industries, then that’s more than a million jobs. “, went up.
—Amanda Macias
The head of the United Nations warned Global that “humanity is just a misunderstanding, a miscalculation of nuclear annihilation. “
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has given the dire warning at the opening of the long-delayed high-level assembly to review the landmark 50-year-old treaty to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and, in the end, achieve a nuclear-weapon-free country. He cited the war in Ukraine and the risk of nuclear weapons in the conflicts in the Middle East and Asia, two regions “towards catastrophe. “
Guterres told many ministers, officials and diplomats who attended the month-long nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review convention that the assembly is being held “at a critical time for our collective peace and security” and “at a time of unprecedented nuclear danger since the height of the Cold War. “
The convention is “an opportunity to scale up measures that will prevent certain mistakes and put humanity on a new path to a world without nuclear weapons,” the Secretary-General said.
– Associated Press
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said four U. S. -made high-mobility artillery rocket systems, or HIMARS, had arrived to fight in Ukraine.
“We turned out to be skilled operators of this weapon. The sound of himarS barrage has one of the most productive punches of this summer on the front,” he wrote on Twitter.
The HIMARS, made by defense giant Lockheed Martin, is designed to fire a series of missiles from a 5-ton cell truck.
—Amanda Macias
The leader of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s workplace said he had spoken with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and the chairman of the U. S. Army’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the U. S. , General Mark Milley.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and senior Ukrainian army officer Valery Zaluzhny were on the call.
“Every verbal exchange with Ukraine’s friends leads to new effects in the fight against the enemy. Big surprises await the Russian aggressors,” Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s bureau chief, wrote on Twitter.
—Amanda Macias
A modular space is installed to upgrade the space of a family destroyed by bombing by Russian troops in Makariv, in northern Ukraine.
– Volodymyr Tarasov | Long-term | fake images
Russia can do little with the urgent maintenance needed for the faulty apparatus of the Nord Stream 1 fuel pipeline, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
Russia reduced Nord Stream 1 fuel materials, its main pipeline to Europe, to just 20 percent of capacity last week, saying a turbine sent to Canada for maintenance had not yet returned and that other aircraft also needed repairs.
It marked the deepening of a row in which Moscow cited turbine problems as an explanation for why cutting fuel materials through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
“There are failures that require urgent maintenance and there are some synthetic difficulties that have gone through sanctions,” Peskov said.
— Reuters
Europe is facing an unprecedented energy crisis that is pushing the economy into recession and raising serious questions about the region’s meteorological replacement ambitions.
CNBC takes a look in 3 charts at how Russia is cutting Europe’s fuel source and what will happen in the future. Take a look here.
—Silvia Amaro
Russia is most likely to reuse a significant amount of its forces from the northern donbass sector to southern Ukraine, Britain’s Defense Ministry said on Monday, echoing the Ukrainian government’s comments last week.
“Most likely, Russia is adjusting the operational design of its Donbass offensive after failing to achieve a decisive operational breakthrough under the plan it has been following since April,” the ministry said on Twitter.
“He knew his Zaporizhzhia front was a vulnerable domain that needed reinforcements. “
The ministry noted that over the past four days, Russia has continued to attempt tactical strikes on the Bakhmut axis, northeast of Donetsk, but has controlled itself to advance slowly.
Several southern cities suffered Russian shelling over the weekend, in addition to Mykolaiv and Odessa.
On Sunday night, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said that “now the Russian army is looking towards its positions in the occupied spaces of the south of our country, expanding activity in the affected spaces. Part of the Russian forces move from their positions in the east to the south, to the Kherson region and the Zaporizhzhya region. . . But it will not help them there,” he said, adding that the Ukrainian armed forces “are in a position to respond to any new activity by the occupiers. “
—Holly Ellyatt
The Joint Coordination Center, a framework established through Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations to coordinate and oversee shipments of important goods from Ukraine, said it was tracking the passage of the merchant ship.
A JCC on the so-called “Black Sea Grain Initiative” issued on Monday said it had “authorized M/V Razoni to leave the port of Odessa today. “
The JCC accepted the coordinates and express restrictions of a humanitarian maritime lounge and communicated those main points in accordance with foreign navigation procedures, he said.
He added that he “asked all its participants to inform their respective armies and other competent governments of this resolution to guarantee the passage of the vessel. “
The Razoni will bring more than 26,000 metric tons of corn, the JCC said, and after leaving Odessa this morning, it is expected to arrive for inspection in Turkish territorial waters tomorrow, August 2.
After the inspection, you will go to your final destination in Tripoli, Lebanon.
The JCC agreed in late July and was established through Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN with the aim of taking important exports, such as wheat, fertilizers and cooking oils, out of Ukraine after months of blockade of Ukrainian ports. Ukraine blamed Russia for the blockade, while Moscow accused Ukraine of exploiting the waters of the Black Sea which it said impeded navigation.
The agreement will see ships guided through those waters, through what the JCC calls “the humanitarian maritime corridor. “Ukraine’s infrastructure minister said the shipment would help avert global famine.
—Holly Ellyatt
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that the Russian Navy would soon be armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles.
“We will provide coverage of the company and by all means,” Putin said in a speech on Sunday on the sidelines of Russia’s “Navy Day,” saying that “the key detail here is the capability of the Russian Navy. “
He said its combat readiness is “constantly improving,” adding that newer Zircon hypersonic missile systems, “which have no countertypes in the world or barriers,” would be added to the Navy’s arsenal.
“Dear comrades, your surrender to the Russian armed forces will begin in the coming months,” Putin said in a speech in St. Petersburg. Zircon missiles, intended to be used by the Russian Navy in opposition to enemy ships and ground targets, can supposedly fly. at nine times the speed of sound and have a diversity of just over six hundred miles.
Putin said mastery of his deployment would be counted on Russian interests. He mentioned Ukraine in his speech.
Celebrations planned for Navy Day in Sevastopol, in Russia-annexed Crimea, were canceled on Sunday after officials accused Ukraine of carrying out a drone strike on the Headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet, injuring five people.
“An unidentified object flew into the courtyard of the fleet headquarters,” Mikhail Razvozhayev, governor of Sevastopol (the Russian Black Sea fleet is stationed), wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“According to the initial information, this is a drone. “Ukraine has not officially commented on the explosion amid reports that it may have been a homemade device made through Ukrainian insurgents in the city.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukraine’s first grain export in months left the port of Odessa, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov confirmed and showed knowledge of MarineTraffic. com.
The Shipment of Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni loaded with corn will head to Lebanon, the Turkish Defense Ministry said, according to a Reuters translation of a ministry statement.
“Following the intensive work of the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul and the talks of (Turkish) Defence Minister Hulusi Akar, the ministers and the relevant parties: it was agreed that the dry shipment with Sierra Leone Razoni flag loaded with maize will depart from the port of Odessa. on 1 August at 08:30 for Lebanon”.
This comes after Turkey and the United Nations negotiated an agreement between Ukraine and Russia to allow the resumption of Ukraine’s key exports, such as grains and fertilizers, of which both countries are the main producers.
The agreement aims to allow the passage of grain shipments to and from the ports of Chornomorsk, Odessa and Pivdennyi. More ships are expected to leave Ukraine in the coming days.
—Holly Ellyatt
One of Ukraine’s richest men, agricultural tycoon Oleksiy Vadatursky, and his wife Raisa were killed in the Russian bombing of the southern city of Mykolaiv over the weekend.
Video footage released Sunday through the local emergency showed firefighters attacking burning buildings after an extensive bombardment of the city, a key target for russian invading forces seeking to gain ground in southern Ukraine from Saturday night until Sunday morning.
Vadatursky, founder and owner of the Nibulon Agricultural Society, and his wife murdered in their home, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram.
On Sunday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered his condolences to the circle of relatives and friends of the businessman and his wife, saying that “people like them, corporations and our southern Ukraine guarantee global food security. “
Zelenskyy then thanked the citizens of Mykolaiv for “their indomitable and for the coverage of the city and the region,” as well as other southern cities that have faced intense shelling in recent weeks.
“I also thank Nikopol, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih and the entire Dnipropetrovsk region, the other strong people of Zaporozhzhia and the region, all Ukrainians in the Kherson region, all those who protect access to Odessa and the region. . . Thank you for your bravery,” he said.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Ukrainian civilians still living in Ukraine’s Donetsk region to evacuate on Saturday.
Russian bombardment of towns and settlements in the region has intensified in recent weeks as its forces seek to advance after capturing the nearby town of Luhansk, the two regions that make up Donbass to the east.
“The more people leave the Donetsk region now, the less time the Russian military will have to kill,” Zelenskyy said in a video interview on Saturday. “We will use any and all opportunities that come our way to save as many lives as possible. “as much as possible,” he added.
—Holly Ellyatt
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