2023-08-17 22:06:05
The container ship “Joseph Schulte” left the Ukrainian port of Odessa on Wednesday and arrived in Turkey on Thursday evening, a first since July.
The first freighter leaving Ukraine following the end of the grain agreement arrived in Istanbul on Thursday, August 17, and Turkey also “caution” Russia following warning shots Sunday on another cargo ship. We take stock of what to remember from this day on the side of the war in Ukraine.
The cargo from Ukraine has arrived safely
The container ship “Joseph Schulte”, flying the flag of Hong Kong, left the Ukrainian port of Odessa on Wednesday and arrived in Turkey on Thursday evening. This is a challenge to Russia, which has been threatening to attack such vessels since it ended the agreement in July by which Ukraine might export its cereals.
The container ship borrows “a new humanitarian corridor” established by Kiev, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, while Russia last weekend fired warning shots at a cargo ship heading for Izmail, a port on the Danube in southern Ukraine.
Chief of Staff of the Slovak Army visited the front
The military representative of this NATO member country went to the front in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainian forces announced. According to the General Staff of the Troops of Ukraine, General Daniel Zmeko met with the “Tavria Operational-Strategic Grouping”, which is currently fighting in the southern region of Zaporizhia and in the south of the eastern region of Donetsk. On this occasion, “the Ukrainian side thanked Slovakia for the material and technical assistance provided” in Kyiv, he added.
Ukraine received new German anti-aircraft systems to protect its skies
Kiev has announced that it has received new German Iris-T anti-aircraft systems to protect its skies, at a time when its southern regions, but also in the east, are increasingly targeted by Russian long-range strikes. “A big thank you to our partners”, tweeted the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriï Iermak. “Our skies will be more protected” with these short-range air defense systems, he argued. According to data updated Thursday on the German government website, Berlin delivered “two Iris-T SLS launchers” to Kiev.
Five Ukrainian soldiers sentenced to 22 years in prison by pro-Russian separatists
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have handed down heavy sentences, ranging from 12 to 24 years in prison, to five Ukrainian servicemen accused of “murder” and “cruel treatment of civilians”, the report said. Russian Investigative Committee.
Vladimir Pafitsevich and Evgueni Vakhnenko were thus found guilty of “cruel treatment towards the civilian population”, of “use of prohibited methods during an armed conflict” and of “premeditated group murder”, specified this body in charge of main investigations in Russia. Captured during the Russian offensive in Ukraine, they were each sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Russian strike leaves one dead in northeast
Russian shelling has left one dead and one injured in northeastern Ukraine, local authorities said. “Around 10 a.m. (8 a.m. French time), the occupants shelled Zaoskillia”in the eastern suburbs of the city of Kupyansk, Kharkiv region governor Oleg Synegoubov said on Telegram.
“Unfortunately, a woman born in 1962 has died”he lamented, adding that another woman, “born in 1963”, had been injured “by shrapnel” and that an apartment building had been damaged. The Russians have advanced near Kupiansk, which now finds itself only a few kilometers from the front line.
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