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* Putin’s maritime ambitions come with the Black Sea, the Arctic
* Russian missiles hit the port of Mykolaiv
* Explosion at the base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet
* Ukrainian grain-rich person Oleksiy Vadatursky was killed in Mykolaiv
Ukraine’s first grain ship could leave port on Monday
By Natalia Zinets
Kyiv, Aug 1 (Reuters) – Russian missiles have hit Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv after President Vladimir Putin signed a new naval doctrine that makes the United States Russia’s main rival and sets global maritime ambitions in the Black Sea and Arctic. .
Putin did not mention the standoff in Ukraine in a speech commemorating Russian Navy Day on Sunday, but said the military will get Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles in the coming months. The missiles can reach nine times the speed of sound, surpassing air defenses.
Navy Day celebrations in the port of Sevastopol were disrupted when five Russian Navy workers were injured in an explosion after a suspected drone flew into the yard of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the governor of the Crimean port city said. Mikhail Razvozhayev, to the Russian media.
Reuters can simply independently determine reports on the battlefield.
Olga Kovitidi, a member of the upper space of the Russian parliament, told Russia’s RIA news firm that the attack “was undoubtedly not carried out from the outside, but from the territory of Sevastopol. “
“Urgent search operations are underway in the city for the organizers of this terrorist act,” Kovitidi said.
Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said on Sunday that more than 12 missile movements, the biggest hit on the city in five months of war, hit homes and schools, killing two and wounding three. Missile movements continued into Sunday night.
Ukrainian grain magnate Oleksiy Vadatursky, founder and owner of the agricultural company Nibulon, and his wife murdered in their home, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram.
Headquartered in Mykolaiv, a strategically vital city bordering the kherson region basically occupied by Russia, Nibulon specializes in the production and export of wheat, barley and corn, and has its own fleet and shipyard.
GRAIN SHIPMENTS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described Vadatursky’s death as “a loss for all of Ukraine. “
Zelenskiy added that the entrepreneur, one of Ukraine’s richest with Forbes estimating his net income in 2021 at $430 million, had built a trendy grain market with a network of transshipment terminals and elevators.
“It is those people, those companies, exactly from southern Ukraine, that have ensured global food security,” Zelenskiy said in his evening speech. “It’s been like this. And so it will be again. “
Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, sparking a standoff that has killed thousands, uprooted millions and created deep tension between Russia and the West.
The biggest standoff in Europe since World War II has also fueled an energy and food crisis that is shaking the global economy. Ukraine and Russia are suppliers of cereals.
Zelenskiy said Ukraine would possibly harvest only a portion of its previous amount this year due to the disruption of agriculture.
But an agreement signed under the auspices of the UN and Turkey on July 22 provides for the passage of ships carrying grain from 3 ports in southern Ukraine.
The shipment could leave Ukrainian ports on Monday, a spokesman for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said.
DANGER IS
Zelenskiy said Russia had transferred some forces from the Donbass region to the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhizhya.
“But I probably wouldn’t help them there. None of the Russian moves will go unanswered through our military and intelligence officers,” he said.
After failing to temporarily capture the capital, Kyiv, at the beginning of the war, Russia directed its forces to the east and south of Ukraine.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and Kyiv says Moscow will do the same with the Donbass region and attach it to Crimea in the south. Russian-backed separatists controlled parts of the region before the invasion.
Russia said it had invited U. N. and Red Cross experts to investigate the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners held by Moscow-backed separatists.
Ukraine and Russia exchanged fees for a missile strike or explosion early Friday that appears to have killed Ukrainian prisoners of war in the town of Olenivka, on the front, in eastern Donetsk.
The International Committee of the Red Cross condemned the attack and said it had not obtained permission to stop at the site, though it added that it is not within its mandate to publicly investigate alleged war crimes. (Reuters reports; Written by Michael Perry; Edited by Roberto Birsel)