- A team of Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to inspect near Istanbul on Wednesday the first shipment of grain exported by Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion of the country, in application of the agreement signed in July between kyiv and Moscow in order to curb the world food crisis. Cereals have already left Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive, but from Berdiansk (southeast), on the Sea of Azov, an area occupied by the Russians.
- “Our goal now is consistency. (…) Continuity, regularity is a necessary principle for the consumers of our agricultural production”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily address on Tuesday evening.
- HAS Mykolaiva town near the front in southern Ukraine, “powerful explosions” were heard Wednesday around 5 a.m., Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich said on Telegram.
- In the neighboring region of Khersonthe first major city to fall into the hands of the Russian army on March 3, “the situation remains tense”, noted the Ukrainian presidency. But the counter-offensive currently being waged in the south has made it possible to retake 53 localities, she announced on Tuesday.
- In the same region, the head of the military administration of Kryvyi Rih, Oleksandr Vilkoul, reported the death of two civilians who were in a minibus departing from Starossillia, a village in the hands of the Russians. Five other people were evacuated, two of whom were seriously injured and hospitalized.
- The Ukrainian Air Force claimed on Tuesday that Russian forces had fired eight cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea on the territory of Ukraine, one of which “hit an air defense complex in the Lviv region”, in the West. The other seven missiles were intercepted, according to this source. “There is no information on possible victims at the moment”according to the governor of the region.
- On his side, the Russian Supreme Court on Tuesday ranked the Ukrainian regiment Azovfamous for having defended Mariupol, in the south-east of Ukraine, as “terrorist organization”which could be worth very heavy prosecution to its captured fighters.
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