The wheat agreement risks disintegrating even before it comes to light under Vladimir Putin's missile fire . Less than 24 hours after the signing in Istanbul of the agreement mediated by the UN and Turkey on the export of Ukrainian cereals from three Black Sea ports (Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny), Kiev accuses Moscow of having launched four Kalibr cruise missiles against the port of Odessa, and exactly in the place that houses one of the grain warehouses.

"This only proves one thing", that Moscow "will find a way not to implement" the agreement , attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Even harder was the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, who spoke of Putin's "spit in the face of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan , who have made enormous efforts to reach an agreement ".

However, Moscow denies through an intermediary, avoiding direct declarations. " The Russians have told us that they have absolutely nothing to do with this attack and that they are examining the matter very closely", said the Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, although he said he was "worried". And in the exact morning, the attack took place, diplomatic sources say, but "we destroyed military infrastructure", the Defense Ministry specifies " a Ukrainian ship and a US missile depot supplied to Kiev ". Foreign Minister Lavrov reassured in the morning: "We will keep the commitments made on wheat," he said during talks in Cairo, quoted by Interfax.

Initially there was also talk of victims, but in the evening a new budget provided by the head of the regional military administration of Odessa Maksym Marchenko instead spoke of " some injuries and damage to the port infrastructure ".

Meanwhile Zelensky in a post published on Facebook writes that the war “has not broken and will not break Ukraine, it has not stopped life in our country and it will not . And it will certainly not make us hostages of the horror that the invaders have brought to our country. We will resist, we will protect what is ours and we will win ”.

A statement by Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, who, during a meeting with the ambassador of the Arab League countries in Cairo, said today that Moscow "will help the Ukrainian people to get rid of the anti-people and anti-historical regime of Kiev ".

"We stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who deserve a better life. We are sorry that Ukrainian history is being ruined before our eyes and we are sorry for those who have succumbed to the state propaganda of the Kiev regime and for those who support this regime, who wants Ukraine to be Russia's eternal enemy, "Lavrov said.

"The Russian and Ukrainian peoples will continue to live together. We will help the Ukrainian people to get rid of the absolutely anti-popular and anti-historical regime," promised the head of Moscow diplomacy.

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Kiev, "183 religious sites destroyed" since the beginning of the war

"Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 183 religious sites have been completely or partially destroyed." The Kyiv Independent reports, citing the Ukrainian state service for ethnic affairs and freedom of conscience. The sites include churches, mosques, synagogues, schools and administrative buildings of Ukrainian religious communities: five are Muslims, as many are Jewish and the remaining 173 are Christians.

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Russian attacks repelled in the Donetsk region to the east

The "Ukrainian soldiers repelled the assaults of the occupiers in several directions in the Donetsk region". This was stated by the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces on Facebook, specifying that "the fighting continues in two places, in particular near Velika Komyshuvakha and Dibrovny in the direction of Slavyansk". The UNIAN agency reports it. In recent hours, the head of the local military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko, had announced that Putin's soldiers had destroyed two schools and damaged several homes.

The Russian agency Tass, on the other hand, reports Russian attacks on weapons and ammunition depots and against a diesel locomotive repair plant in Mykolaiv, in the south of the country. According to the Moscow Ministry of Defense "Russian forces have carried out attacks on the weapons and ammunition depots of the 28th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade inside a diesel locomotive repair facility".

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Kiev, ahead in grain export despite attacks

"Technical preparations will continue to start exports of agricultural products from our ports" despite the attacks. Thus the Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov, who on Friday signed the agreements in Istanbul for the unblocking of grain from Ukrainian ports, reiterated Kiev's commitment on facebook, as reported by the Guardian.

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Moscow blocks the new Novaya Gazeta site

Russia blocked the website of a new editorial project of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which was forced to suspend publication in March due to the crackdown on voices critical of the war in Ukraine. On July 15, his staff launched a print magazine that can be viewed online via a new website called “Novaya Rasskaz-Gazeta.” This first issue specifically contained an analysis of Vladimir Putin's ideology and authoritarianism. But, a week after its launch, the site was blocked, and today it was inaccessible in Russia without a virtual private network (VPN).

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Lavrov, West remove obstacles it has created to food exports

The West must remove the obstacles it has placed on Russian food and fertilizer exports if it is to resolve the food crisis. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the end of talks with his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, reports Tass. "As far as food is concerned, our Western colleagues are very concerned about this situation. They have to remove the obstacles they have created themselves," Lavrov explained, stressing that, even if no sanctions have been imposed on Russian food and fertilizers, "Sanctions have been imposed against companies that insure food supplies, against companies that insure payments for food."

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Kiev: "We will free Kherson by September"

The Kherson region in southern Ukraine will be "definitively liberated" by September. This was stated by the adviser to the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Sergiy Khlan. "We can say that the Kherson region will be definitively liberated by September and that all the plans of the occupiers will fail," Khlan explained in an interview with Ukrainian TV.

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Lavrov: “Interviews resumed? It depends on Kiev "

"We have no prejudices regarding a resumption of talks with Kiev on a wide spectrum of issues that go beyond wheat, it depends on the Ukrainians". This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov quoted by Russian agencies.

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Lavrov: "We will keep the commitments made on wheat"

"The UN Secretary General in Istanbul said he would pursue the lifting of the restrictions that stop Russian grain exports. I hope he is successful in his efforts." This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in talks in Cairo, reports Interfax. "We will keep the commitments made," he added.

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Moscow: "Ukrainian ship and US missile depot destroyed in Odessa"

In yesterday's Russian raid on the port of Odessa "a Ukrainian warship and a US-supplied Harpoon missile depot in Kiev were destroyed". This was specified by the Moscow Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov to reporters, quoted by Tass. According to the spokesman, the long-range missiles hit "a shipyard" in the port and the production capacity of the Ukrainian Navy's ship repair and modernization facility was put out of service.

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More bombs on Mykolaiv, dead and wounded

Two people were killed and five wounded in an attack by Russian forces on the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, according to local officials quoted by Ukrinform.

In a post published on Telegram and quoted by the same Ukrainian agency, the head of the regional council of Mykolaiv, Hanna Zamazieieva, states that yesterday evening the bombing of the region continued, with "four Kalibr missiles against Korabelnyi, a district of Mykolaiv. Residential buildings were damaged and some people were injured. During the night a part of the city was hit and information on the victims is being verified. " While in another attack - which affected the communities of Halytsynove, Shyroke and Bereznehuvate - two people were reportedly killed, according to Zamazieieva, who also counts five injured in the attacks in the region in the past 24 hours, including a child.

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A Swede and a Canadian were also killed in Donetsk

There were also a Canadian citizen and a Swedish citizen with the two Americans who died in Ukraine in recent days, also killed after a Russian tank fired in battle on the front in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. This was confirmed by their commander to the American newspaper Politico, which also publishes the names of the two US citizens allegedly foreign fighters who went to fight for Kiev.

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London: "Moscow did not extend the war beyond the Donbass"

The statements by Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov on July 20 that Moscow has shifted the objectives of the offensive in Ukraine beyond the Donbass "are almost certainly false: Russia has not 'extended' the war". British intelligence claims this in the usual report released by the London Ministry of Defense.

According to the 007, Lavrov may have made these statements "to pave the way for referendums in the occupied territories beyond the Lugansk and Donetsk oblasts", particularly in the occupied areas of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. "In the Donbass, the small-scale offensive remains focused on the Bakhmut axis, but is making minimal progress," the report added.

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Moscow: "Military infrastructure hit in Odessa"

Russia claims to have destroyed Ukrainian "military infrastructure" in the attack on the Odessa port. This was reported by sources of Russian diplomacy.

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Zelensky: "War won't break us"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is convinced that the war has not broken and will not break Ukraine. He writes it in a post published on Facebook, writes Ukrinform. "Five months. After eight years. The war has not broken and will not break Ukraine. It has not stopped life in our country and it will not. And it will certainly not make us hostages of the horror that the invaders have brought into ours. Country. We will resist. We will protect what is ours. We will win! "Zelensky wrote, also publishing photos of Ukrainian military and civilians.

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Strong explosions in Melitopol

Loud explosions were heard at night in and around Melitopol. This was stated by the mayor of the Ukrainian city, Ivan Fedorov, in a post on Telegram, reports Ukrinform. According to Fedorov's indications, the explosions were heard at the Melitopol airport from where smoke was also noticed rising.

(Unioneonline)

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