Ukrainian ports “go back to work”. This was stated by the Ukrainian Navy on the day in which the center for the coordination of operations opens in Istanbul to allow the safe passage of Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea after the agreement between Kiev, Moscow and the UN with the mediation of Turkey. And this while the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko declares that the agreement brokered by Turkey to unblock Ukrainian grain exports to the Black Sea could be broken “if the obstacles to Russia’s agricultural exports are not promptly removed”. Interfax reports it. Rudenko says grain shipments from Ukraine will start soon and hopes the deal will remain valid.
Meanwhile, after 62 years of operations in the country, Tetra Pak leaves Russia and sells the production to a local dealer. According to the multinational that produces integrated systems for the processing and packaging of food, it was the economic sanctions imposed by the EU on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine that made trade with Moscow impossible. “The cumulative effect of export restrictions to Russia has led to an unsustainable supply chain, which pushes the company to have no alternative to leaving the country,” writes Tetra Pak. The company was founded in Lund, a city in southern Sweden, in 1951 and today has a global market, one of the leading companies in the food packaging sector. The TT agency reports that its operations in Russia last year recorded a value of 430 million euros.
In Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appoints Andriy Kostin, a lawmaker from his own party, as the country’s next attorney general. This was reported by the Ukrinform agency. Zelensky makes a formal request to Parliament for the assembly to vote to confirm the appointment of Kostin who will replace Iryna Venediktova, who was removed from the position of Attorney General earlier this month.
Mykhailo Podoliak, Zelensky’s adviser, claims on twitter the attack on the main bridge in Kherson and invites the Russians to abandon the occupied city on which the Ukrainians have launched a counter-offensive. “You can call the Antonivs’ky bridge an air defense device that intercepts all Ukrainian missiles, but you can’t escape reality: the occupants should learn to swim across the Dnipro River. Or they should leave Kherson while it is still possible. There may not be a third caveat, “he explains. Then Zelensky adds: ‘Day after day, our defenders effectively hit enemy positions, upsetting the plans of the occupiers. The Himars and other precision weapons are changing the course of the war in our favor. And although the firepower of the Ukrainian army is less than that of the enemy, our warriors still strike with greater skill and precision ‘thanks to US-made missiles.
The fighting, in fact, does not subside. Six people were injured in a Russian attack with S-300 missiles in Kharkiv this morning, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a post on Telegram, as reported by Ukrinform. According to Terekhov, the Novobavarskyi district also suffered an offensive: “Fortunately there were no casualties and there was no fire.” On the night of July 26, Russian troops bombed an area near the center of Kharkiv, Ukrainians always say. .
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