Live / Three more grain ships left Ukraine this Friday

On the day three more grain ships left Ukraine, the country’s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said he expected food exports to “become stable and predictable” for all market players.

On social media, he even added that he plans to ensure that Ukrainian ports have the capacity to supply more than 100 ships a month.

The goal is to export another three million tons of agricultural products per month, writes The Guardian. “Such measures are necessary not only for the Ukrainian economy, but also for the world. The sooner we can export 20 million tons of last year’s crop and start exporting the new ones, the faster the situation in the world will improve,” the official said.

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— Oleksandr Kubrakov (@OlKubrakov) August 5, 2022

The three grain ships have already left the Ukrainian ports, as scheduled for this Friday. Two came from Chornomorsk and one from Odessa with a total of 58,000 tons of corn. They are destined for Ireland, the United Kingdom and Turkey.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today called for a reaction to what he described as violations of the principle of sovereignty by the United States, in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

“I am convinced that our strategic association is one of the pillars of the movement for the triumph of international law (…) above all, of the Charter of the United Nations, which proclaimed the principle of equal sovereignty of States. The United States violates this principle everywhere and this requires a reaction,” Lavrov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

The Russian minister accused the US of trying to “impose its dominance” in different corners of the world, during the meeting with Wang, which took place in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, on the sidelines of a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

According to Lavrov, the United States decided to “turn Ukraine into a threat to the Russian Federation and ignored for years the racist policy of the kyiv regime, which destroyed everything Russian.”

“They did the same in the case of the visit of Nancy Pelosi (leader of the House of Representatives of the US Congress) to Taiwan, ignoring their own publicly proclaimed principles, and of whose adherence they tried to convince everyone,” added the diplomatic chief. .Russian

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that Russia is available to discuss a possible exchange of passengers with the US through an existing diplomatic channel. The charge comes a day after American basketball player Brittney Griner was sentenced by a Russian court to nine years in prison and fined one million rubles (more than 16,000 euros) for drug trafficking.

Lavrov admitted that Russia is “ready to discuss this topicof the prisoner exchange, “but within the framework of the channel agreed upon by Presidents Putin and Biden.” “If the Americans decide to resort to public diplomacy again … that is their problem and I would even say it is their problem.”

Russia has already warned the US that what it says is “megaphone diplomacy” will not work in the Brittney Griner case and will only undermine efforts at an eventual exchange. US President Joe Biden has already described Griner’s sentence as “unacceptable” and demanded the basketball player’s release.

Basketball player Brittney Griner sentenced to nine years in prison for criminal drug trafficking

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 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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