KYIV — Heavy Russian moves hit the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv on Sunday morning, killing the owner of one of the country’s largest grain exporters, while Russia said a Ukrainian drone hit the headquarters of its Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol.
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.
“It’s those people, those companies, exactly from southern Ukraine, that have ensured global food security,” Zelenskiy said later in his evening speech. “It’s been like this. And it will be again. “
Three other people were also injured in the attacks on Mikolaiv, the city’s mayor, Oleksandr Senkevych, told Ukrainian television, adding that 12 missiles hit homes and educational institutions. He previously described the movements as “probably the most powerful” in the city in the full five. -month of war.
As many as 50 Grad rockets hit residential spaces in the southern city of Nikopol on Sunday morning, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Valentyn Reznichenko wrote on Telegram. One user was injured.
Ukrainian forces attacked the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Russia-controlled Sevastopol early Sunday, the governor of the Crimean port city, Mikhail Razvozhayev, told Russian media.
Five bodies of workers were injured in the attack when what was supposed to be a drone flew into the headquarters yard, he said, adding that Ukraine had to “spoil Navy Day. “
The Sevastopol attack coincided with Russian Navy Day, which President Vladimir Putin marked by pronouncing that the military would get what he called “formidable” Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles in the coming months. These missiles can reach nine times the speed of sound.
He did not mention the clash in Ukraine in a speech after signing a new naval doctrine that makes the United States Russia’s main rival and defines Russia’s global maritime ambitions for spaces such as the Arctic and Black Sea.
Putin sent tens of thousands of troops across the border on Feb. 24, sparking a clash 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 the main suppliers of cereals.
Zelenskiy said Sunday that the country would possibly harvest only a portion of its previous amount this year because of the invasion.
“This year’s Ukrainian harvest threatens to be partly as large,” suggesting in part the same amount above, Zelenskiy wrote in English on Twitter. “Our main goal: to save them from the global food crisis caused by the Russian invasion. way to be delivered alternately,” he added.
Ukraine is struggling to get its goods to buyers at its Black Sea ports because of the war.
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.
There is a possibility that the first grain export vessel will leave Ukraine’s ports on Monday, a spokesman for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.
“But I probably wouldn’t help them there. None of the Russian moves will go unanswered through our military and intelligence officers,” he added.
But Zelenskiy said Saturday that thousands of people are still exposed to intense fighting in the Donbass region, which includes Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, and that Russia must completely control. Parts of Donbass were in the hands of Russian-backed separatists before the invasion.
Russia said on Sunday it had invited UN 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 Russian Defense Ministry had released a list of 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war killed and 73 wounded in what was a Ukrainian army attack with American-made artillery.
The Ukrainian armed forces denied responsibility, Russian artillery attacked the criminal to hide the ill-treatment.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday condemned the attack and said it had not yet obtained permission to stop at the scene, although it added that it is not its mandate to publicly investigate alleged war crimes.
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