Ukraine, the first ship loaded with grain left Odessa

left from the Ukrainian port of Odessa

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This was reported by the Russian agency Tass citing the Turkish CNN.   

The first shipment of Ukrainian wheat left the Odessa port this morning, in accordance with the terms of the international agreement with Russia signed in Istanbul.

This was announced by the Turkish Ministry of Defense.

"The Razoni ship has left the port of Odessa for the port of Tripoli in Lebanon. She is expected on August 2 in Istanbul. She will continue her journey to her destination after the inspections that will be carried out in Istanbul", added the ministry. .

There are 26,000 tons of corn in the first ship bound for Lebanon that left the port of Odessa this morning.

"Ukraine, together with our partners, took another step today in preventing world hunger," said Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine's infrastructure minister.

Kubrakov stressed that Ukraine has done "everything" to restore the ports and that lifting the blockade would give the Ukrainian economy $ 1 billion in foreign exchange income.

The Guardian reports it.

 After slow negotiations and a tiring agreement signed more than a week ago, today is the right time: Turkey announces that the first Ukrainian wheat caravan, consisting of 16 ships, will sail from the 3 ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Pivdenny, unlocking a crisis that was creating a world emergency.

It is directly the spokesman of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who carried out a successful mediation with the UN between Russia and Ukraine, to reveal the details of the plan: preparations have been completed at the joint coordination center in Istanbul and finished loading the ships, the boats will leave and should reach Turkish territorial waters on 2 August.

Ships that do not provide transparent port information and disable the movement signal will not be able to enter Turkish territorial waters.

Once in Istanbul, the cargoes will be inspected and then depart for Somalia on a journey that could last up to a month and a half.

Putin: 'Russia will protect' maritime borders by any means'

THE SITUATION ON THE FIELD

- "The total combat losses of the" Russian "enemy from February 24 to August 1 were approximately

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The update of the war bulletin by the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces, reports UNIAN.

According to the same source, 200 tanks, 1,768 armored combat vehicles, 117, airplanes and 223, helicopters were destroyed.

in the Kiev region, while 216 bodies already found have yet to be identified.

This was announced by the head of the police department of the Kiev region, Andriy Niebytov, reports Ukrinform.

"DNA samples have been taken. I hope that thanks to the collaboration with family members we will be able to identify these bodies", he specified.

Niebytov added that while documenting war crimes committed by Russians in the Kiev region, police found that many local residents are currently being held in Belarus.

and three injured in the night raid by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv.

This was announced by the mayor of the city Oleksandr Senkevych, who called the raids "probably the most powerful of the whole war".

Russian missiles hit two residential districts.

The Guardian reports it.

Russian forces

and injured another 16 in the Donetsk region yesterday alone.

This was announced by Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Ukrinform reports.

"On July 31, the Russians killed three civilians in the Donetsk region: two in Bakhmut and one in Soledar. Another 16 people were injured," the report reads.

"Russia is probably reassigning a significant number of its forces from the northern Donbass sector to southern Ukraine."

This was stated by the British Ministry of Defense in the latest intelligence report.

"Over the past four days, Russia has continued to attempt tactical assaults on the Bakhmut axis, northeast of Donetsk, only making slow progress. Russia is likely to readjust its offensive in the Donbass after not being able to take a decisive step forward based on the plan it had followed since April ".

Zaporizhzhia "has been identified as a vulnerable area in need of reinforcement".