Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called the departure of the first cargo ship from the Black Sea port of Odesa a “significant milestone,” a challenge to Russia, which has threatened to sink such vessels since Ukraine ended a deal to allow it to export its grain. .
The announcement of the release of the Hong Kong-flagged container ship “Joseph Schulte” came despite new Russian nighttime bombing of Ukrainian grain infrastructure on the Danube in the Odesa region.
US diplomacy responded on Wednesday that the Russian raids across the river showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin “doesn’t care” about delivering essential food to developing countries.
Another Russian bombing in the afternoon killed an 18-year-old and wounded four others in the Dnipro region, according to local authorities.
Kyiv on Wednesday announced the liberation of Urozhaine in Donetsk region on the southern front, the main axis of the Ukrainian offensive.
Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Russia’s neighbor Moscow, confirmed in a rare quantitative estimate that nearly 45,000 Muscovites are fighting on Ukrainian soil.
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