Ukraine new Grain sea export route IS working it seems right now….
The use of other countries flag shisp’s staying close to Romania, a NATO country, has keep the Russian’s from attacking cargo ships…
Drone wars continue….
Ukraine President had meetings with Western business people while in New York City, including Mike Bloomberg about investing in the reconstruction of his country….
The Ukraine forces are making gains against the Russian dug in defensive lines…
Several countries bordering the Ukraine report finding pieces of Russian drone in their territory…..
Australia is questioning the veto power of the five permanent members which includes Russia….
Some in Europe and a few US Republicans have talked about the Ukraine having a General election in the Ukraine in the middel of the current conflict/war….The idea has been looked at as ridiculous by the Ukraine….
….Last week Kyiv successfully tested a new sea route, as two cargo vessels loaded with wheat sailed along the coast from Romania and then crossed back over the maritime border of Romania. As Romania is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, vessels in its waters are considered much less likely to be attacked. The second vessel carrying Ukrainian wheat reached Turkey via the Black Sea on Sunday, maritime traffic monitoring sites showed.
Three more cargo vessels — the Azara, the Ying Hao 01 and the Eneida — have entered the temporary corridor, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, said Friday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Mr. Kubrakov said that the ships were “using the temporary corridor established by the Ukrainian Navy” and would export 127 metric tons of Ukrainian agricultural products and iron ore for China, Egypt and Spain….
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Ukraine is a major exporter of wheat and other food crops and its agricultural sector is a vital part of the country’s economy.
In the past week, it appears that Russia has made no public attempt to impede the progress of commercial vessels along the new route. Moscow’s navy, the pre-eminent military force on the Black Sea, has faced increasing pressure from Ukrainian missile and drone strikes in and around Crimea, the peninsula Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
Ukraine has targeted Russia’s Black Sea Fleet since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion 19 months ago, sinking the fleet’s flagship, the Moskva, in April last year. But since July, Ukraine has escalated its attacks. In the latest major strike on Friday, it used long-range missiles to target the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean city of Sevastopol.
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Two people were killed in attacks by Russian forces in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region on Sunday, according to the Ukrainian head of the region’s military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin. In a post on the Telegram messaging app, Mr. Prokudin said a woman was killed in an attack on the city of Beryslav, and a man was killed in a strike on the nearby village of Lvove.
In a separate incident on Sunday, Russian shelling wounded six people in the regional capital, according to a post on Telegram from the city’s mayor, Roman Mrochko.
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A Ukrainian drone hit a government building Sunday morning in Russia’s Kursk region, which borders northeastern Ukraine, according to the regional governor, Roman Starovoit. He said on Telegram that the building’s roof had been slightly damaged and local air defenses had been activated. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine’s military, and the claim could not be independently verified. On Sunday evening, Russia’s defense ministry said another drone had been intercepted over the Kursk region.
In an increasingly bold campaign, Ukraine has launched attack drones at military and civilian infrastructure facilities in Russia in recent months, on several occasions hitting buildings in Moscow.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine discussed investments in “the reconstruction of Ukraine” with some high-profile American business leaders during his trip to the United States last week, according to a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday.
The message said Mr. Zelensky held meetings with Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City; Larry Fink, the chief executive of the giant asset manager BlackRock; and Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google; among others.
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The Russian state news agency Tass reported that a Ukrainian attack on the occupied city of Tokmak in southern Ukraine killed one civilian and injured more than a dozen others. The report could not be independently verified and there was no comment from Ukraine’s military, which is pressing a counteroffensive to drive Russian forces from the southern part of the country…..
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Kara-Murza has been placed in a tiny “punishment cell” in a maximum-security facility in Omsk after being transferred from a detention center in Moscow, his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said in a Facebook post. According to Kara-Murza’s Washington Post author page, the politician, historian and author has led diplomatic efforts to denounce Russia’s human rights abuses and contributed to the adoption of targeted sanctions on Russian human rights violators in the United States.
Kara-Murza has been poisoned twice, in 2015 and 2017, in attacks that his family and lawyers believe were retaliation for his political activity against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime. The 2017 attack left him temporarily comatose, and as a result of the poisonings, he developed a rare disease called polyneuropathy, a condition in which peripheral nerves are damaged. Since he was detained, his health has deteriorated and it has been extremely difficult to treat the disease, making his imprisonment “a death penalty,” Prokhorov, his lawyer, previously told The Post.
Ukraine waged another attack in Sevastopol on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula over the weekend, according to a Kremlin-installed official, one day after a Ukrainian strike on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Russian air defenses intercepted missiles headed toward Sevastopol, the largest city on the peninsula, Gov. Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote Saturday on Telegram.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with U.S. business leaders to discuss private-sector investment in Ukraine, he said Sunday. While on his trip to the United States, Zelensky said, he met with Mike Bloomberg, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. According to Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Zelensky discussed the ways in which large American businesses could contribute to Ukraine’s reconstruction after the war.
The internet is being censored in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk region after a decree from its Russian-backed leader, according to an exiled Ukrainian official. Petro Andrushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol’s Ukrainian mayor, said Sunday that the Kremlin’s spy agency has control of web traffic in the eastern region and that a Monday-through-Friday curfew has been reinstated and demonstrations must be approved by Russian-backed authorities.
A Ukrainian drone struck an administrative building in Russia’s Kursk region, regional governor Roman Starovoyt saidSunday on Telegram, adding that the roof was “slightly damaged.”
Russian airstrikes killed at least one person in the city of Berislav, in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, the governorsaid Sunday on Telegram. The hit comes amid an intensification of airstrikes by Russian forces in the area, said Nataliya Gumenyuk, founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab. “The enemy is attacking significantly by air,” she said.
Ukrainian forces and their armored vehicles have pushed through Russia’s main defensive line on the war’s southern front, known as the “Surovikin line,” a local commander told The Post. The line, named for the former head of Russia’s forces in Ukraine, comprises several defensive belts — and Russia has more significant defenses behind it — highlighting the slow advancement of Ukraine’s months-long counteroffensive.
Latvia, a NATO member, has lost contact with one of its unmanned aerial vehicles used for surveillance along the Latvian-Russian border and warned it is likely the aircraft landed on Russian territory, the Defense Ministry said Sunday. Throughout the war in Ukraine, allegations that war materiel has crossed borders have periodically been raised by various countries, including NATO members, sometimes raising fears of spillover and saber-rattling. Since the Ukraine invasion, Latvia has increased surveillance of its airspace, land and territorial waters, the ministry said.
Russian consumers are probably experiencing localized diesel and gas shortages, Britain’s Defense Ministry said Sunday, noting how Moscow had suspended almost all fuel exports last week. “The shortages are unlikely to be a direct result of the war,” officials said, suggesting that there were probably multiple causes, including seasonal maintenance of refineries and an increase in demand from the agriculture sector.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicated little hope of resuming a Black Sea grain deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations to export grain by sea from Ukraine. After a speech at the United Nations, he described proposals to revive the deal, which Russia pulled out of this summer, as “not realistic.”
Lavrov also said he will visit Pyongyang in October. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a rare summit this month in Russia’s Far East, signaling that they will support each other in the face of broad condemnation from the West over their military and nuclear activities. In his speech Saturday, Lavrov criticized the United States and the West, accusing Washington of “whipping up hysteria on the Korean Peninsula.”
Australia is calling for changes to the U.N. Security Council to make it more representative and to constrain veto powers. Russia, as one of five permanent members with veto power, “mocks the United Nations every day it continues its illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine,” Foreign Minister Penny Wong said. Canberra wants more representation for Africa, Latin America and Asia, and permanent seats for India and Japan.
Western officials press Ukraine to hold elections despite war:Some officials in the West are pushing for Kyiv to hold general and presidential elections, even as it remains in the grip of war, an idea that is perplexing Ukrainian officials.
The proposal was initially raised in Europe but now has been taken up by some U.S. Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) during a visit to Kyiv last month, write The Post’s David L. Stern, Catherine Belton and John Hudson.
“The Russians are pushing for this through their secret channels,” said a Ukrainian official in the security apparatus, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. “There is no situation in which it is possible to have a democratic election during the war.”….
image……The bulk carrier Eneida approaching a seaport near Odesa, Ukraine, on Friday.Credit…Igor Tkachenko/EPA, via Shutterstock