kyiv says second freighter left Odessa port, despite end of grain deal

2023-08-27 16:52:13

Ukraine announced on Sunday August 27 that a second cargo ship, blocked in the port of Odessa, had left via a temporary corridor, set up after the failure of the Black Sea grain agreement. “The bulk carrier PRIMUS flying the Liberian flag and belonging to a Singaporean operator has left the port of Odessa”, said the Ukrainian Ministry of Reconstruction. Russia had withdrawn its security guarantees in the Black Sea maritime corridor for Ukrainian exports in mid-July. Follow our live.

A drone crashed into a building in Russia, on the border with Ukraine. The incident occurred in Kursk, capital of the eponymous region, bordering Ukraine, local authorities announced on Sunday. “The windows on several floors were smashed”, regional governor Roman Starovoit wrote on Telegram. “There was no fire, no one among the inhabitants was injured”, he added. For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a press release that it had shot down two Ukrainian drones on Sunday in the Kursk region and in that of Bryansk, which also borders Ukraine.

Evguéni Prigojine was on the plane that crashed, according to genetic expertise. The death of the boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, whose private plane crashed in Russia on Wednesday, has been confirmed by genetic expertise, the Russian Investigation Committee announced on Sunday. At the end of the “molecular genetic expertise”it has been established that the identities of the ten victims whose bodies were found after the crash, “match the list” passengers and crew members of the plane, including Evguéni Prigojine, the Investigation Committee said in a statement. Nine of the ten passengers were linked to the Russian paramilitary group Wagner.

Russian bombardments cause one death in the Kherson region. Shelling left one dead and four injured on Saturday in the Kherson region, according to what Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the regional military administration, wrote on Telegram. About sixty attacks were recorded, including 36 shellings, in particular on residential areas, he detailed.

The Ukrainian army advances on the southern front. The Ukrainian army recently carried out “significant new tactical progress” in the western part of the Zaporizhia region of southeastern Ukraine, the American think tank estimated on Saturday ISW. Ukrainian forces have advanced 1.5 km towards Novoprokopivka, their next objective after taking Robotyne, writes the ISW, based on geotagged images, published on Friday.