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According to the Ukrainian military administration, the air defense systems in Kiev repelled a night attack by Russia. President Zelenskyy seeks support from African countries. All developments in the live blog.
Russia gives the United Nations a deadline to revive the grain agreement. “The UN still has three months to achieve concrete results,” says Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “If there are concrete results, we are ready to negotiate on this issue.” Russia on Monday suspended the grain deal brokered by the UN and Turkey with Ukraine. Among other things, it enabled the export of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea.
After a fire at a military base on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia, Ukraine spoke of a “successful operation”. “A successful operation was carried out in occupied Crimea. The enemy is hiding the extent of the damage and the number of casualties,” head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service Kyrylo Budanov told Telegram. According to Russian sources, a fire broke out in the morning on a military site in the east of the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia. The evacuation of more than 2,000 civilians had been ordered, said the Russian governor of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, in the online service Telegram.
According to British military experts, the Russian occupying forces in Ukraine are faced with a dilemma on the southern reaches of the Dnipro River. There has been heavier fighting there since the beginning of July, according to the daily intelligence report from the Ministry of Defense in London. In addition to heavy fighting on the eastern bank of the river for a small Ukrainian bridgehead, islands in the Dnipro Delta are also fought over. “Both sides use small, fast motor boats and Ukraine has successfully used single-use tactical unmanned aerial vehicles to destroy some Russian boats,” the statement said.
Russia is now faced with the dilemma of whether to respond to these threats and bolster forces on the Dnieper at the expense of already depleted units in Zaporizhia Oblast facing the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The FDP defense expert Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann sees the Russian President Vladimir Putin “permanently weakened” by the uprising of the Wagner mercenary group. From the point of view of the chairmen of the Bundestag Defense Committee, this increases the chance of an end to the war of aggression against Ukraine. “My personal assessment is that for the first time the door to peace is opening a little,” Strack-Zimmermann told Stern magazine.
As an indication, the FDP politician mentioned, among other things, a change of opinion in Russia. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozchin admitted that there was no reason for this war. “In doing so, he publicly questioned Putin’s narrative,” said Strack-Zimmermann. The editor-in-chief of the Kremlin’s propaganda channel Russia Today also asked: “Do we need areas where people don’t want to live with us? I’m not sure.” Strack-Zimmermann said: “That’s interesting. Something might be happening in the Kremlin.”
After a fire at a military site on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia, 2,000 people have to be evacuated from the surrounding area. The residents of four towns are affected, said the local governor Sergei Akjonov via telegram. Because of the fire, the Tawrida highway was closed. The Ukrainian news agency RBC-Ukraine reports that there were explosions at the military compound.
Russia has apparently in the coup plans of the alleged conspirators to Henry XIII. played an important role. The hope for help was nurtured MDR-Research through contacts with Russian government agencies.
According to the military administration, the air defense systems in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev are fending off another night attack by Russia. A Reuters eyewitness said he heard explosions and saw smoke rising near Kiev.
US Chief of Staff Mark Milley does not see the slow advance of the Ukrainian troops in their counter-offensive as a failure, but rather as a tactical approach. The Ukrainian armed forces had a “significant amount of combat capability” that they had not deliberately used in the war before, Milley told reporters at the end of an online conference of the international Ukraine contact group. It is up to Kyiv to decide when to draw on the capabilities and complex training provided by the United States and other allies.
Five people, including two children, were injured in a Russian attack on a village in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. The two boys, aged one and 13, were playing in the courtyard of a residential building, the Internet portal “Ukrajinska Pravda” reported late in the evening, citing local authorities.
After the end of the grain deal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to get Africa on his country’s side in the conflict with Russia. He gave an interview to a number of African media, Zelenskyj said in his daily video address. “We (…) spoke in particular about the grain export situation and Russian aggression against global food stability,” he said.
The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is less harshly criticized in Africa than in western industrial nations. The agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to export Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea ended a naval blockade by Russia that had lasted several months after the start of the war. Since the start of the agreement, which has been extended several times, last summer, almost 33 million tons of grain have been shipped from Ukraine.
The southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa has come under fire again. According to local media reports, explosions were heard in the city during the night. The air defense was active. Russia had already launched airstrikes in the Odessa region on the Black Sea on Tuesday night. The Defense Ministry in Moscow later confirmed the attacks.
According to Ukrainian sources, the port, which is important for grain exports, continues to operate even during the Russian attacks. Russia is trying to “terrify the whole world, especially those who want to work for the grain corridor … Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations,” Serhiy Brachuk, spokesman for the Odessa military administration, said in a voice message on his Telegram channel. “But I think that all normal, reasonable people will look at us and say: Odessa was not afraid, is not afraid and will not be afraid – we will work.”
After the end of the grain agreement, the World Food Program warns of even more hunger in the world. Russia no longer gives security guarantees for the Black Sea. Tuesday’s live blog to read.