2023-08-18 00:09:41
The first freighter departing from Ukraine after the end of the grain agreement arrived Thursday, August 17, as planned in Istanbul, despite the Russian blockade, according to maritime traffic sites. The container ship “Joseph Schulte” left the Ukrainian port of Odessa on Wednesday, a challenge to Russia since it ended in July the agreement by which Ukraine could export its cereals. Turkey has also “caution” Russia after warning shots Sunday on another cargo ship, from a Turkish company, which was heading for the port of Izmail, in southern Ukraine.
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The Chief of Staff of the Slovak Army visited the front. The military representative of this NATO member country went to the front in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainian forces announced. According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian troops, General Daniel Zmeko met the “Tavria operational-strategic grouping”, which is currently fighting in the southern region of Zaporizhia and in the south of the eastern region of Donetsk. On this occasion, “the Ukrainian side thanked Slovakia for the material and technical assistance provided” in Kyiv, he added.
One dead and one injured after an attack in northeastern Ukraine. “Around 10 a.m., the occupiers shelled Zaoskillia”in the eastern suburbs of the city of Kupyansk, Kharkiv region governor Oleg Synegoubov said on Telegram on Thursday. “A woman born in 1962 is dead”he lamented, adding that another had been injured “by shrapnel” and that an apartment building had been damaged. The Russians have advanced near Kupiansk, which now finds itself only a few kilometers from the front line.
Five Ukrainian soldiers sentenced to prison terms by pro-Russian separatists. These soldiers, accused of “murder” and of “cruel treatment of civilians”were sentenced to between 12 and 24 years in prison, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Thursday.
The use of F-16 planes will not be immediate in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army will not have the capacity to use these fighter jets next fall or winter, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat warned on Wednesday (August 16th) in the evening, report The Guardian. In May, the American president, Joe Biden, had given his agreement to the delivery, by the West, of combat planes to Ukraine, including the F-16.
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