Ukrainian ports “go back to work”. This was stated by the Ukrainian Navy on the day when the Operations Coordination Center opened in Istanbul to allow safe passage of Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea after the agreement of Kyiv, Moscow and the United Nations mediated by Turkey. This is while Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko declared that the agreement brokered by Turkey to cancel the ban on Ukrainian grain exports to the Black Sea could end “if obstacles to Russian agricultural exports are not removed immediately.” Interfax reports. Rudenko says shipments of grain from Ukraine will start soon and he hopes the agreement will remain in place.
In the evening comes the announcement of the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken: will make a “concrete proposal” for the release of the basketball champion Britney GreinerDetained in Russia since February, to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov In a phone call in the next few days. Blinken did not go into details for “security reasons”. Blinken reiterated that it was a “substantial” proposal. deal with Perhaps to exchange prisoners As was the case with former Marines Trevor Reed.
Meanwhile, after 62 years of operations in the country, Tetra Pak leaves Russia The production is sold to a local dealer. According to the multinational company that produces integrated food processing and packaging systems, it was the economic sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine that made trade with Moscow impossible. “The cumulative effect of export restrictions to Russia has resulted in an unsustainable supply chain, which is leading the company to have no alternative to leaving the country,” Tetra Pak wrote. The company was founded in Lund, a city in southern Sweden, in 1951 and today has a global market, and is one of the leaders in the food packaging sector. TT reported that its operations in Russia were valued at €430 million last year.
In Ukraine, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky appoints Andrei Kostin, a lawmaker from his party, the country’s next attorney general. This was reported by the agency Ukrinform. Zelensky submits a formal request to Parliament for a vote on the assembly to confirm the appointment of Kostin who will replace Irina Venediktova, who was removed from the post of prosecutor earlier this month.
Mikhailo Podolak, Zelensky’s advisor, claims on Twitter the attack on the President’s Bridge Kherson He calls on the Russians to leave the occupied city, against which the Ukrainians counter-attacked. “You can call the Antonivs’ky Bridge an air defense device that intercepts all Ukrainian missiles, but you cannot escape from reality: passengers must learn to swim across the Dnipro River. Or they must leave Kherson while it is still possible. There may not be a third warning ” . Then Zelensky adds: “Day after day, our defenders are effectively hitting enemy positions, upsetting the plans of the occupiers. Hemar missiles and other precision weapons are turning the tide of war in our favour. And although the firepower of the Ukrainian army is less than that of the enemy, our fighters still struck with greater skill and accuracy thanks to American-made missiles.
The fight, in fact, is restless. Six people were injured in a Russian attack with S-300 missiles in Kharkiv this morning, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekov said in a Telegram post. According to Terekov, the Novopavarsky district was also attacked: “Fortunately, there were no casualties and there was no fire.” On the night of July 26, Russian forces bombed an area near the center of Kharkiv, as the Ukrainians always say. .
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