Live / Three more ships with cereals will leave Ukraine this Friday

The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is the focus of the UK Ministry of Defense’s latest daily report on the war in Ukraine. According to the Ministry, Russian intentions remain “unclear” and “the actions they took” at the site “likely undermined the safety of normal plant operations.”

In addition, it indicates that the Russian forces will be operating in the regions adjacent to the plant and have even used artillery units in these places to attack Ukrainian territory on the western bank of the Dnieper River.

Defense Intelligence latest update on the situation in Ukraine – August 5, 2022

Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/8Uv3JnpVgm

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A team of inspectors from Turkey began this Friday to inspect an empty cargo ship before leaving with the aim of removing grain from the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk, under the agreement negotiated by Turkey and the UN.

The Turkish Ministry of Defense posted several photos on Twitter showing the team heading to the Barbados-flagged cargo ship Fulmar S, docked in the Black Sea.

Ukrayna’nın Çernomorsk Limanı’ndan tahıl almaya gitmek üzere İstanbul’un kuzeyindeki demir yerinde bulunan Barbados bandıralı FULMAR Si isimli boş geminin Müşterek Koordinasyon Merkezi timi tarafından denetimine başlanmıştır. pic.twitter.com/hItI1XYVsb

— TC Millî Savunma Bakanlığı (@tcsavunma) August 5, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet this Friday. On the table will be the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.

The meeting comes after Turkey managed to negotiate a deal for the safe withdrawal of grain from Ukraine through the Black Sea.

This is the second conversation between the two heads of state in just over two weeks. The goal, writes The Guardian, is that the success of this agreement be reproduced in the talks between Putin and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.

But there are caveats on the table: Putin reportedly told Erdoğan last month in Tehran that Russia opposes any Turkish-orchestrated offensive against the Kurdish army in northern Syria.

three boats with 58,041 tons of corn They were allowed to leave Ukrainian ports on Friday under the deal brokered between Turkey and the United Nations, which allowed Ukraine’s grain exports to be unblocked.

The country’s first grain ship since the start of the war left the port of Odessa last Monday for Lebanon under the agreement.

Ship with 16 tons of corn already on its way to Lebanon. There are 17 more grain ships ready to leave Ukraine

According to the Istanbul coordination center, which brings together representatives of Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN, two ships should leave from Chornomorsk and one from Odessa. “It is estimated that the three ships will leave their respective ports in the morning.”, Said the same center.

In the case of Chornomorsk, Polarnet should leave for Karasu (Turkey) with 12,000 tons of corn and the Reden, who wears 13,041 tons of corn is headed to Teesport, UK. Navistar will depart from Odessa, with 33,000 tons of corn to Ringaskiddy, Ireland.

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