Ukraine war: US blames Russia for attack on Odessa
Created: 07/24/2022, 06:33
By: Sandra Kathe, Moritz Serif, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nadja Austel, Vincent Büssow, Nail Akkoyun, Marvin Ziegele, Jan-Frederik Wendt, Lucas Maier
Just one day after the grain deal, Russia shelled the port of the city of Odessa, according to information from Kyiv.
Ukraine attacks in the Kherson region.
The news ticker on Saturday, July 23.
Russia shells port of Odessa:
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Report from London:
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Editor
's note: You can read all the news about the Ukraine conflict in this news ticker.
Some of the information comes from warring factions and cannot be directly checked independently.
Update from Sunday, July 24, 6:33 a.m .:
The United States blames Russia for the shelling of the Ukrainian port city of Odessa and strongly condemns the attack.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia broke its commitment just one day after the grain deal.
"This attack raises serious doubts about the credibility of Russia's commitment to yesterday's agreement," Blinken said.
The shelling undermines the work of the United Nations, Turkey and Ukraine to get essential food products to world markets.
Russia bears responsibility for worsening the global food crisis.
According to Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Russia has said it has nothing to do with the attack on Odessa.
Russia has not officially commented on the attack.
Odessa Port (March 2022) © Rick Mave/Imago
+++ 8.30 p.m .:
Ukraine says it has fired rockets at a strategically important bridge in the Cherson region.
The Darivskyi Bridge over the Inhulets River is of great importance for Russian supplies.
A representative of the Ukrainian regional administration said it was an important step towards recapturing Kherson.
Counter-administration deployed by Russia said the bridge was still intact.
But she was hit by seven rockets from the Himar rocket launcher system.
+++ 6.30 p.m .:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj accused Russia of breaching the contract after the rocket attack on the port city of Odessa.
"Whatever Russia promises, it always finds a way not to fulfill it," said the head of state, referring to the agreement on export of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea.
Russia always has different options for action, Zelenskyy said in a video distributed on his Telegram news channel of a meeting with representatives of the US Congress.
At the meeting, as before, Zelenskyy repeatedly called for the delivery of heavy weapons in order to stop the Russian attacks.
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+++ 17.00:
Russia has denied responsibility for the rocket attack on the port of the Ukrainian city of Odessa, according to Turkey.
Turkey is in contact with Ukraine and Russia, and Moscow has given assurances that it has nothing to do with the attack and wants to investigate the incident, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said.
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Ukraine war news: Russia shells Odessa port despite grain deal
+++ 3.30 p.m .:
The rocket fire at the port in Odessa (see update from 11.55 a.m.) caused great outrage in Ukraine.
"Yesterday, an agreement was reached on export by sea, and today the Russians are attacking the port of Odessa," said Andriy Yermak.
The head of the Ukrainian presidential office accused Russia of "hunger terror".
"The world must act." What is needed are "effective sanctions against Russia and more weapons for Ukraine."
+++ 11.55 a.m .:
One day after the agreement to resume blocked grain deliveries, the port of Odessa, which is important for exports, was hit by Russian missiles.
"The enemy attacked the port of Odessa with Kalibr cruise missiles," said Serhiy Brachuk, a representative of the Odessa region.
Two rockets hit the infrastructure of the port.
The information cannot be independently verified.
News about the Ukraine war: Russian soldiers apparently surrounded in the Cherson region
Update from Saturday, July 23, 6:48 a.m .:
Ukraine says it has surrounded more than 1,000 Russian soldiers in the Cherson region.
Zelenskyi adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said that Putin's forces were "tactically surrounded" near the Vysokopillya settlement.
Russia has not commented so far.
The information cannot be independently verified.
+++ 10:00 p.m .:
The USA has promised Ukraine further help.
Overall, the package has a volume of 270 million US dollars, as announced by the White House on Friday (July 22).
Tactical drones will also be part of the assistance, as
thewashingtonpost
reports.
Also on board the package are four HIMARS artillery systems.
According to the information, it also contains 36,000 shots for the HIMARS systems.
Russia recently described the HIMARS artillery as a major problem.
+++ 8.45 p.m .:
In the east of Ukraine, the city of Kharkiv was again attacked by Russian troops.
The attack took place on Thursday evening (July 21), as reported by the
governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov
.
According to Ukrainian sources, three people were killed and 23 others injured.
Five of the wounded are said to be in intensive care units.
The information has not yet been independently confirmed.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia probably loses an entire artillery division
+++ 3.30 p.m .:
Ukrainian troops report the destruction of a Russian artillery division.
A video posted on Twitter shows an airstrike that destroyed eight Russian Msta-B howitzers, vehicles, ammunition and fortifications at an unspecified location in Ukraine, according to the military.
This is reported, among other things, by the news portal
Kyiv Independent
.
However, the information cannot be independently verified.
+++ 2.15 p.m .:
In Kramatorsk (Donetsk region) the clean-up and salvage work on a destroyed school has been completed.
Russian troops had bombarded the civilian building with rockets.
The news portal
Kyiv Independent
reports that the bodies of three people were found on Friday.
A total number of victims is currently not known, the situation is unclear.
According to the report, 250 tons of rubble were cleared.
The Russian Defense Ministry in the Kremlin justified the attack with the elimination of Ukrainian "nationalists from the Black Hundreds".
The information from the Ukrainian news portal and the information from Russia cannot be independently verified.
+++ 1:15 p.m .:
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov left for Turkey to sign the grain agreement with Ukraine.
This was announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to the Russian news
agency Interfax
.
“We can confirm that the signing is being prepared.
But let's wait and see, we won't act too quickly," said the spokesman.
+++ 11.15 a.m .:
According to a report from Russia, Ukrainian troops are attacking the city of Donetsk.
This is reported by the state news agency
Tass
with reference to information from the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic".
The information is not independently verifiable.
Tass
quoted the mayor of the city of Lysychansk in the neighboring Luhansk region, Andrei Skory, as
saying that the city was experiencing difficulties with food deliveries.
The reason for this is that Ukrainian troops destroyed bridges when retreating from Lysychansk.
This too cannot be verified independently.
News on the Ukraine war: "Massive rocket attacks" reported on Friday morning
+++ 9:00 a.m .:
Russian troops probably attacked the south of the Dnipropetrovsk region with rockets on Friday morning.
According to a report by the Kyiv Independent news portal, one person was killed and nine others injured.
According to the report, Governor Walentyn Reznichenko said it was a matter of “massive rocket attacks”.
The rockets apparently hit the city of Nikopol specifically.
Eight other people were apparently injured outside the town of Nikopol.
The information cannot be independently verified.
Update from Friday July 22 07:00
: Ukraine's Corruption Agency identifies 215 potential collaborators among local MPs and officials.
This is reported
by The Kyiv Independent.
According to the National Agency for Corruption Prevention, it has a database with more than 1,500 possible employees.
The largest groups are law enforcement officers and private individuals.
News on the Ukraine war: "Russia uses Ukraine as a test field for attacks on other countries"
First report from Thursday, July 21, 2022, 7 a.m.:
The armed forces from Russia in eastern Ukraine seem to be learning from their military mistakes at the beginning of the attack on their neighboring country, at least according to CIA representative William Burns.
In a way, the Russian military has receded into a more comfortable position — using its advantage and long-range firepower to distance and effectively destroy Ukrainian targets, and to address the military vulnerabilities that they still have , to compensate,” he said at a panel discussion on Wednesday (July 20) in Colorado, USA.
(marv/nak/tvd/ska/na with dpa/AFP/mse)