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- “We will rebuild the Antonivsky Bridge”assured Volodymyr Zelensky, Wednesday evening, in his intervention video daily. Ukrainian strikes partially destroyed this bridge in the suburbs of Kherson, a city occupied by Russian forces, the occupation authorities announced on Wednesday. The Antonivsky Bridge is strategic for supplies, as it is the only one connecting the city to the southern bank of the Dnieper and the rest of the Kherson region.
- The three Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhnedesignated for grain exports, have “back to work”although there are still efforts to be made to ensure the safety of convoys, the Ukrainian Navy announced on Telegram on Wednesday. “The exit and entry of ships in seaports will be done by forming a convoy that will accompany the lead ship”, she clarified. kyiv and Moscow reached an agreement in Istanbul, thanks to the mediation of Turkey and under the aegis of the United Nations (UN), to allow the delivery abroad of some 25 million tons of grain stuck in Ukrainian ports.
- KharkovUkraine’s second largest city in the northeast of the country, was hit by a Russian rocket attack on Tuesday. “At 4:25 a.m., the industrial district of Kharkiv was bombarded by two S-300 missiles”wrote the mayor of the city, Ihor Terekhov, on Telegram.
- In eastern Ukraine, the Donbass mining basin was also the scene of intense fighting. Two people were killed and five injured in the bombardment of a hotel in Bakhmout, the Ukrainian emergency services announced. Journalists from Agence France-Presse (AFP) present in this city, one of the last in Donbass to remain under Ukrainian control, heard sporadic artillery fire and saw a house hit by a Russian shell.
- The appointment of Andriy Kostin, a deputy from the President’s political party, as the country’s chief prosecutor was confirmed on Wednesday by the Ukrainian Parliament. Mr. Kostin, a 49-year-old deputy, member of Servant of the People, Mr. Zelensky’s party, won the support of 299 of the 450 Ukrainian parliamentarians. The first task of Mr. Kostin, recalled the Ukrainian President, who had proposed his appointment, will be to “to do everything in his power to prove Russia’s responsibility in the war”, “in cooperation with the International Criminal Court”. He replaces Iryna Venediktova, dismissed as attorney general earlier this month.
- Ukraine will increase its electricity exports to the European Union, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday. The Ukrainian president said he wanted to help his European partners resist Russia’s blackmail with gas. The Twenty-Seven reached, on Tuesday, to an agreement on a reduction in their consumption this winter, in order to limit their dependence on Russian gas, after the new severe drop in deliveries from the Russian industrial group Gazprom, which announced that it would halve its daily deliveries to Europe via the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
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