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When 161 days have passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine beganthe Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas accused Russia in his usual late-night speech of using the food crisis derived from blocking the export of Ukrainian grain as a weapon of war to get political concessions. “Russia caused the food crisis to use the supply of wheat or corn as a weapon, as it also did with oil and gas,” denounces the president. According to Zelenski, Moscow’s strategy consists of causing a deficit of certain products, raising their prices and, when the situation is already causing social unrest, demands political concessions to resolve it, something that, in his opinion, should not happen with food. The president made these statements shortly after the Razoni, the first grain ship that managed to leave Ukraine since the Russian invasion at the end of last February, reached the Turkish coast, thus inaugurating the corridor agreed on July 22 between kyiv and Moscow, mediated by Ankara and under the auspices of the United Nations. The goal now, he said, is to make the export of Ukrainian grain for that runner be done regularly.
Russian economic activity accelerates its expansion in July due to the resistance of domestic demand
The growth of private activity in Russia accelerated its expansion in the month of July, according to the Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index released today, which reached 52.2 points from 50.4 the previous month, its best reading in a year, according to S&PGlobal.
Russia says it has destroyed a foreign weapons depot in Lviv
Russia has assured this Wednesday that it has destroyed a deposit of foreign weapons in the Lviv region, in western Ukraine, a border region with Poland and rarely hit by Russian attacks. “Russian high-precision missiles” destroyed near Radekhiv in the Lviv region a “depot of foreign weapons and ammunition that were delivered to the kyiv regime from Poland,” the Russian military said in a statement.
Schröder affirms that Putin wants to negotiate and insists on activating Nord Stream 2
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has stated that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, wants a “negotiated solution” in Ukraine and has insisted on activating the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, whose entry into operation was suspended due to the conflict. “The good news is that the Kremlin wants a negotiated solution,” said the Social Democratic politician, in an exclusive interview with the weekly Sternwhere he also confirms that he has maintained a new meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week.
Inspection of the first Ukrainian grain ship on the Bosphorus begins
Delegates from Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the UN began this Wednesday, off the coast of the Bosphorus, the inspection of the Razoni, the first grain ship that managed to leave a Ukrainian port since the Russian invasion at the end of February. The Sierra Leonean flag ship, with 27,000 tons of Ukrainian corn and bound for Lebanon, inaugurates the runner agreed on July 22 between kyiv and Moscow, mediated by Ankara, under the auspices of the United Nations. A dozen cargo ships are anchored in the area waiting to receive the go-ahead to start the crossing of the Bosphorus, a 30-kilometer-long maritime strait that connects the Black Sea with the Marmara Sea.
Ukraine warns of preparations for a Russian counterattack in Kherson
The military command of southern Ukraine warned today about the preparations observed among Russian troops to launch a counterattack in that part of the country, presumably with the purpose of occupying the rest of the Kherson region. In agreement with the Southern Operational Command, the Russian Army began to create a strike group in the direction of Krivoy Rog, as reflected by the Ukrinform portal. “The enemy is carrying out hostilities along the occupied defense line,” says the military command, via Telegram, adding that it “probably” prepares a counterattack in the Kherson region. The military command also reports two air strikes in the Kherson and Mikolaiv.
The authorities of Lviv, in the west, reported two explosions in the border region with Poland. A missile hit Chervonograd, in the Lviv region, without an assessment of material or personal damage having been reported so far.
In Kharkovin the northwest, an industrial facility for civil use was damaged, receiving the impacts of several Russian missiles, according to the Ukrainian regional administration.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive causes an interruption of the railway connection between Crimea and Kherson, according to the United Kingdom
Ukraine’s counteroffensive to recapture Kherson in the country’s south has caused a disruption to the rail connection to the Crimean peninsula, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. “Russian forces are likely to repair the service in a few days. However, it represents a vulnerability for logistics supplies”, states the latest report from the british intelligence, issued this Wednesday. London says there will be an increase in the number of civilians trying to flee hostilities in Kherson, while food shortages grow.
Latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 3 August 2022
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More than 10 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the Russian invasion
The UN Refugee Agency reports that the number of border crossings from Ukraine has exceeded 10 million for the first time since Russia invaded the country.
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