The 170th day of the war opens in Ukraine, with Russian forces last night bombing two districts of the Dnepropetrovsk region - Nikopol and Krivoy Rog , not far from Zaporizhzhia , causing at least three injuries , according to the president of the regional military administration, Valentin Reznichenko, according to UNIAN reports.
According to Reznichenko, the Nikopol district was hit 10 times with Grad rocket launchers and artillery fire. In addition, up to 40 rockets were fired in the direction of Marganets and three people were injured , including a 12-year-old boy. Shooting also in Zelenodolsk, in the Krivoy Rog district, as confirmation arrives that over six tons of ammonia have leaked from a tank of the cooling system of a brewery in the Donetsk region of Ukraine damaged yesterday by a bombing by Ukrainian forces.
In the meantime, two other cargo ships loaded with cereals will leave Ukraine today for Iran and Turkey: the ship bound for Iran is the Star Laura, with 60,150 tons of corn, while the one bound for Turkey - the Sormovskiy - will carry 3,050 tons of grain.
In Italy, in Ravenna, the Rojen, the first ship with cereals from Ukraine, has landed : the cargo is made up of 15 thousand tons of corn seeds. She left Chornomorsk, near Odessa, on 5 August. "A very important day", commented the mayor of Ravenna Michele De Pascale, because it represents "a small step towards a return to normality" in commercial exchanges, although at the moment the possibility is limited to agri-food traffics. Sacura, with 11 thousand tons of soybeans destined for animal feed. It is already on its way and its arrival is scheduled for August 16. Another ship from Ukraine, the Mv Mustafa, should arrive in Italy by the same date. Necati, with a cargo of 6 thousand tons of crude sunflower oil, bound for the Apulian port of Monopoli At the moment this cargo is stopped in Turkey, in Istanbul.
