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The first Ukrainian ship loaded with grain arrived in Turkey. Donetsk evacuation started

2022-08-02T17:05:39.232Z


Putin-Erdogan summit confirmed on Friday. Moscow declares the Azov regiment a "terrorist". NATO and Germany ensure support for Kiev. (HANDLE)


The

ship loaded with cereals that left

Odessa

yesterday

arrived near the Turkish coast on the Black Sea north of

Istanbul

.

It is learned from the geolocation site Vessel Finder according to which the boat is already anchored while the Turkish Ministry of Defense has made it known that the ship is expected at the entrance to the Bosphorus around 21 (20 in Italy).

Fifteen other

ships loaded

with grain are technically

ready to go

from Ukrainian ports and two more are nearing completion.

This was stated on TV by the Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy in Ukraine Taras Vysotskyi, quoted by Ukrinform.

"Today it was confirmed that about 15 ships are technically ready and two more are nearing completion. At that point, traffic will be two-way, including approaching cargo ships," the ministry noted.

These ships are mainly intended for the transport of cereal crops (maize, wheat, barley), and subsequently of oilseeds and processed products.

Each ship can carry 10,000 to 60,000 tons. 

DONETSK EVACUATION BEGAN.

EXPLOSIONS ON THE BORDER WITH POLAND

Meanwhile, the governor of the

Lviv

region announced that an explosion was heard in the

Červonohrad

district , on the

border with Poland

, after a Russian missile attack.

The same source announced that a rescue team is on their way to the site of the explosion.

This was reported by the Kiev Independent. 

"The

mandatory

evacuation from the

Donetsk

region has begun . The first train arrived in Kropyvnytsky this morning."

Thus the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the reintegration of temporarily occupied territories,

Iryna Vereshchuk

, on his Telegram channel.

"

We evacuated women, children and the elderly

, there were many people with reduced mobility. Everyone was welcomed, everyone was helped," explained the Deputy Prime Minister.

According to the Ukrainian News Agency between 200,000 and 220,000 residents will have to be evacuated in the coming days.

THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT.

STOLTENBERG HEARS ZELENSKY

A phone call

this morning between NATO Secretary General

Jens Stoltenberg

and Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky

.

"Good conversation with President Zelensky on the priorities of

military support

. It is essential that

NATO

and the Allies provide even more assistance to Ukraine in an even faster time frame. The first shipment of grain since the invasion of Russia and the need to fully implement the agreement sponsored by the UN and our Turkish ally, "Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter.

ANSA agency

Green light of the Chamber for the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO.

The text goes to the Senate - Politics

Meloni: 'The go-ahead from the Chamber is good news' (ANSA)

For his part, German Chancellor

Olaf Scholz

has rejected accusations that Germany has reduced its military support for Ukraine and has promised to continue providing assistance to the country.

In an interview with the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail,

Scholz asked to stick to "the facts", according to which Germany had delivered arms and ammunition to Ukraine from the first days of Moscow's attack on Kiev.

The Chancellor stressed that this was a complete reversal of the trend with respect to "the strict policy of all German federal governments: no arms exports to crisis areas".

Scholz recalled what was provided to Ukraine: anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems, mines, cannons, tons of ammunition and non-lethal aid, then moving on to higher value systems, highlighting that Ukrainians are trained on new and more equipment. sophisticated in different locations in Germany.

"We will continue to provide this support to Ukraine for as long as necessary," he concluded.

, outgoing Ukrainian ambassador to Berlin, said he is

ready to apologize to German Chancellor

Olaf Scholz.

The leader of the Rassemblement National,

Marine Le Pen

, on the other hand, calls for the

lifting of sanctions against Russia

which, in her opinion, "are of no use at all", if not to "make Europeans suffer".

"I hope" that the sanctions against Vladimir Putin's Russia "will disappear to prevent Europe from being faced with a

blackout

, in particular, with regard to gas imports";

she declared the leader of the Rassemblement national, on the occasion of a press conference at the National Assembly in Paris.

"These sanctions - continued the candidate defeated by

Emmanuel Macron

in the French presidential elections last April - they serve absolutely nothing, except to make the European peoples and, among other things, the French people suffer ".

The

Kremlin

has confirmed that Russian President

Vladimir Putin

and Turkish President Recep

Tayyip Erdogan

will meet on Friday.

During the meeting, the two leaders will also discuss

Ukrainian

grain exports .

The ship 'Razoni', which left

Odessa yesterday

with a load of Ukrainian cereals, it will arrive in Istanbul around midnight (11 pm in Italy).

This was announced by the Turkish Ministry of Defense with a statement that the boat will subsequently be inspected by delegates from Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations.

Following the inspection, if no problems are found, the ship will continue its voyage, the final destination of which is Tripoli in Lebanon.

This is the first boat to leave a Ukrainian port with a load of grain since the invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February.

And

Russia

has officially included the Ukrainian

Azov

regiment (former Azov battalion, before its inclusion in the Ukrainian regular armed forces) among the "

terrorist organizations

"So this was decided by the Supreme Court of Moscow, accepting a request from the Russian Attorney General, which asked for this designation.

Source: ansa

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