2023-08-23 14:50:19
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August 23, 2023
16:50
Russian bombardments on Ukrainian port infrastructure began following Russia pulled out of the grain deal in July.
Since the end of grain dealwhich allowed Ukraine to safely export its crops via the Black Sea, Russia increases attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure. According to Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, these repeated strikes destroyed “270,000 tons of grain” in one month.
“In total, 270,000 tons of cereals were destroyed during the month of attacks on ports,” the minister said on Facebook, denouncing strikes ” once morest African and Asian countries, who are already starved of food“.
Ships affected
During the night, the Russian army carried out a new strike once morest the port of Izmail located on the Danube, which flows into the Black Sea, where the forces of Moscow are largely present: “13,000 tons of cereals have been destroyed”, lamented Mr. Kubrakov. “Several grain terminals and private warehouses were damaged, as well as freight infrastructure,” detailed the minister.
On Tuesday, Russia said having “destroyed” two Ukrainian military vessels in the Black Sea, the latest maritime skirmishes since she slammed the door in mid-July of the agreement to export Ukrainian cereals. kyiv, on the other hand, denied the loss of one of its military ships. “In fact, the Russian missile fell into the water,” the Defense Ministry said.
Summit of Brics
On the eve of Independence Day on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean.
Vladimir Putin has for his part attended by videoconference at a Brics summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to which he was unable to go, being the subject of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.
Once once more, while the invasion he ordered between Thursday in his 19th month, the Russian president on Tuesday blamed the West, saying that Americans and Europeans started the war by supporting a pro-Western revolution in 2014. “Our actions in Ukraine are dictated by one thing: the desire to end the war unleashed by the West and its satellites in Ukraine,” he said.
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