Agreement in principle between Russia and Ukraine with the mediation of Turkey on a
grain corridor from Odessa
.
Meanwhile, Borrell denounces: "The forces of Moscow have destroyed the second largest Ukrainian terminal for cereals, in Mykolaiv".
Blinken calls information that Russia is trying to make a profit by selling grain stolen from Ukraine "credible".
THE UNDERSTANDING SCHEME
There is already a preliminary scheme: first the demining of the Black Sea by the Turkish engineers - an operation that could take a month -, then the escort of the Ankara Navy to the cargo anchored in Ukrainian ports up to neutral waters, with a coordination and monitoring center in Istanbul.
Erdogan's bet to
unblock the world wheat crisis
comes to the test of facts.
The general agreement, limited for now in Odessa, would have been reached by Moscow and Kiev with Turkish mediation, says the Russian daily Izvetsia, and will end on Wednesday at the center of the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov.
RUSSIAN SHIPS IN THE BLACK SEA
Ships of the Russian Black Sea fleet withdrew more than 100 km from the Ukrainian coast due to attacks by Kiev forces with missiles and drones.
This was stated by the Ukrainian Navy, taken over by CNN.
In an attempt to regain control of the northwestern parts of the Black Sea, the Russians had deployed coastal missile systems in the Crimea and Kherson regions, the Navy explains, noting that the threat of missile attacks from the sea, however, remains.
Meanwhile, Moscow begins to deliver to Ukraine the bodies of dozens of soldiers who died in the defense of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
FIGHT ON LONG RANGE ROCKET ROCKETS
If Ukraine were delivered multiple long-range rocket launchers, Moscow could
hit the heart of power
in Kiev, targeting strategic infrastructure and government institutions.
After the United Kingdom also announced the dispatch of missiles with a range of 80 km, the M270 multiple rocket systems to "strike deep into Russian positions by placing batteries farther from the front", which add to the Himars promised by the USA, Russia raises the bar.
The warning came from the head of the Defense Committee of the Duma, the lower house, Andrei Kartapolov, citing the airport of the Ukrainian capital and the Verkhovna Rada, the seat of Parliament, as possible targets.
Russian ambassador Razov summoned
yesterday at the foreign ministry .
'We reject the
accusations of amorality
of institutions and the media', says the Secretary General of Foreign Affairs Sequi, who reiterates the Italian condemnation of the aggression, and the urgency of an agreement to unblock the grain.
But the ambassador insists, and attacks the 'hostile media propaganda' and 'unacceptable statements by senior officials'.
Russia has begun to deliver to Ukraine the bodies of dozens of soldiers who died in the defense of the
Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol
.
The corpses will now have to be identified through DNA, explained Maksym Zhorin, former leader of the Azov regiment now commander of a Kiev army unit.
He reports the AP on his site.
The consequences of the missile attacks on Kiev: buildings destroyed