Ukraine challenges Russia with a cargo ship in the Black Sea

Ukraine announced Wednesday that a first commercial freighter left the port of Odessa for a new maritime corridor, challenging Russiawhich threatens to sink those ships after withdrawing from the agreement that allowed Ukrainian grain exports.

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The ship “joseph schulte”, with flag of Hong Kongbegan -according to Ukraine– to navigate the Black Seadespite a new nighttime bombardment of grain and cereal warehouses in the Danubein the region of Odessa (south).

“the container ship ‘Joseph Schulte’ (…) left the port of Odessa and sails along the temporary corridor established for civil ships”said the Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure, Oleksandr Kubrakov.

Ukraine announced on August 10 that it had opened corridors “temporary” in it Black Sea -controlled to a large extent by the Russian navy- to allow the circulation of the ships that transport their grains and cereals.

As a sign of the risks, over the weekend a Russian warship fired warning shots at a freighter heading for izmailport of Danube.

This port has become one of the main exit routes for Ukrainian agricultural products since Moscow ended in mid-July the agreement on the export of grains and cereals, a source of income for kyiv.

On Tuesday night, the Russian army attacked with drones port infrastructures of the Danube.

“As a result of enemy attacks on one of the Danube ports, the warehouses of grains were damaged”announced the regional governor of Odessa, Oleg Kiper.

Romania strongly condemned this Wednesday the new Russian attacks against the port infrastructures of the Danubeafter several attacks on the gates of this country of the NATO in the last weeks.

Ukrainian forces announced that they had shot down 13 drones overnight in the regions of Odessa and Mykolaiv.

And the governor of the region of Donetsk, Pavlo Kirilenkoreported Wednesday morning that Russian forces had killed four people and wounded seven in the region in the past 24 hours.

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“The offensive continues”

Ukraine announced the liberation of a town on the southern front, where most of the efforts of his difficult counteroffensive to liberate the territories occupied by Russiastarted in June.

“Urozhaine was released. Our defenders are entrenched on the outskirts. The offensive continuessaid the deputy defense minister, Ganna Maliar.

Located in an area bordering on the regions of Zaporizhia and Donetskpartially occupied by Russia, Urozhaine, whose pre-war population is estimated at around 1,000, is part of a group of towns that Ukrainian forces have tried to liberate in recent weeks. His reconquest was expected for the weekend.

Ukraine He had already claimed on Monday some advances in the east and south of his territory, especially in the surroundings of bakhmut.

But these gains remain modest after two months of fighting. The Ukrainian army is also experiencing difficulties in the northeast, around Kupiansk.

Russiafor his part, affirms that the Ukrainian troops have run out of resources and that their counteroffensive has failed, despite the help of USA and the countries of the European Union.

“The military resources of Ukraine they are almost sold out”said the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu.

UkraineCalling time and time again for more Western help, he insists that his counteroffensive is advancing methodically in the face of Russia’s defensive lines of trenches, minefields and anti-tank traps.

The bordering Russian territory with Ukraine continues to be the target of Ukrainian attacks, several with drones, some of which have reached Moscow.

One person was killed and two others wounded on Tuesday in a Ukrainian shelling in the Russian region of Belgorodinformed this Wednesday the regional governor, Viacheslav Gladkov.

On the economic front, the difficulties of Russia are real. Its currency has plummeted, inflation has picked up and its foreign trade has plummeted, particularly its oil sales, as a result of the restrictive measures adopted by the countries of West.

After much evasion, the Russian central bank finally decided to raise its base interest rate from 8.5% to 12%.

Source: Elcomercio

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