This morning the first ship loaded with grain left from the Ukrainian port of Odessa . This was reported by the Russian agency Tass citing the Turkish CNN.
"The departure of the Razoni merchant ship, flying the flag of Sierra Leone and loaded with corn, will leave the port of Odessa for Lebanon," the Turkish defense ministry announced in a statement. Other convoys will follow "along the maritime corridors", because the "procedures are completed".
After slow negotiations and a tiring agreement signed more than a week ago, the crisis that was creating a world emergency seems to be unblocked. "Our main objective is to prevent the global food crisis caused by the Russian invasion", clarifies once again the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, embittered because the next harvest, which will start shortly, "risks being twice as low" as the previous one. Last year.
The hope is that the more than 25 million tons of wheat stuck in Ukrainian silos for months can take off to free up space for the new crop.
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Kiev, destroyed railway in Kryvyi Rih, the city of Zelensky
Russian bombings destroyed the railways of the Kryvyi Rih district in southern Ukraine, the region where President Volodymyr Zelensky was born. The movement of trains has been suspended. "The Russians fired missiles on the Kryvyi Rih district, hitting the communities of Zelenodolsk and Hrushivka. The railway infrastructure was destroyed," the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration wrote on Telegram. Ukrinform reports it. Russian troops have been bombarding the region with Mlrs Grad multi-launch systems for several days. In particular, Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka were targeted last night.
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Moscow bans entry to 39 politicians, entrepreneurs and GB reporters
The Moscow Foreign Ministry has announced that it has decided to ban 39 British citizens from entering Russia, including politicians, journalists and entrepreneurs: Tass reports, according to which the former British Prime Minister David Cameron also appears among those sanctioned. . The Russian ministry presents the measure as a response to London's actions aimed, according to Russia, to "isolate" Moscow.
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Kiev, "Mars air defense systems delivered by Germany"
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov announced on Twitter the arrival of a batch of the Mars II anti-aircraft missile defense system from Germany. Reznikov thanked Germany and personally his German counterpart Christine Lambrecht: "Our gunners salute our German partners," he wrote. On 23 June the minister announced that American Himars systems had been delivered to Ukraine and on 5 July he said that Kiev had received the first M270 long-range multi-launch rocket systems.
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Di Maio: "All the leaders support Draghi on the gas roof in the EU"
"At the international tables now we must take our points forward with a government that is there for current affairs. The only way to bring the government to the EU tables in a strong way is to have all parties write a letter to Brussels in support of Dragons on the roof over the gas. Families cannot wait for the vote. It is my first proposal in the electoral campaign ". Luigi Di Maio affirms this at the presentation of the new political subject, Civic commitment.
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EU: "We are pleased with the departure of the ship from Odessa, now implement the entire agreement"
"We are delighted for the departure of the first ship" from Odessa. "This is a first step and it is necessary to implement the agreement in its entirety." This was stated by the spokesman of the EU Commission, Eric Mamer, in the briefing with the press.
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"No more ships with cereals will leave today"
No other departures from Ukrainian ports of grain exporting vessels are scheduled for today. This was announced, as reported by CNN, by the coordination center on the export of cereals through safe corridors in the Black Sea set up in Istanbul last week where delegations from Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations are present. Times and dates for new departures will be established after the arrival in Istanbul, scheduled for tomorrow, of the first ship left in the morning from Odessa which will be inspected here before heading to Lebanon.
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Turkey: "We would like to work to unblock Russian wheat too"
Turkey "would be happy" to give its contribution to unblock the situation also with regard to wheat waiting to be exported from Russian ports. This was announced by the Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar during an interview with Anadolu.
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Kiev: "300 people reported missing in the capital region"
About 300 people are considered missing due to hostilities in the Kiev region, while 216 bodies already found have yet to be identified. This was announced by the head of the police department of the Kiev region, Andriy Niebytov, reports Ukrinform. "DNA samples have been taken. I hope that thanks to the collaboration with family members we will be able to identify these bodies", he specified. Niebytov added that while documenting war crimes committed by Russians in the Kiev region, police found that many local residents are currently being held in Belarus.
At least two killed in a Russian night raid on Mykolaiv
The death toll from the night raid by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv is at least two dead and three injured. This was announced by the mayor of the city Oleksandr Senkevych, who called the raids "probably the most powerful of the whole war". Russian missiles hit two residential districts. The Guardian reports it.
(Unioneonline)