2023-08-16 21:52:20
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called the departure of a first cargo ship from the Black Sea port of Odessa a “significant step”, a challenge to Russia, which has threatened to sink such vessels since it ended to the agreement allowing Ukraine to export its cereals.
The announcement of the release of the container ship “Joseph Schulte”, flying the flag of Hong Kong, took place despite a new Russian night bombardment of Ukrainian grain infrastructure on the Danube, in the Odessa region.
These Russian raids along this river show that Russian President Vladimir Putin “doesn’t care” regarding the supply of essential foodstuffs to developing countries, American diplomacy reacted on Wednesday.
Another Russian bombardment in the followingnoon caused the death of an 18-year-old man and injured four in the Dnipro region, in the center-east, according to local authorities.
kyiv announced on Wednesday the liberation of Urozhaine, a locality in the Donetsk region, on the southern front, the main axis of attack for the Ukrainians.
Rare quantified estimate of part of the forces deployed by Russia in its neighbor, the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, affirmed that nearly 45,000 Muscovites were currently fighting on Ukrainian soil.
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