Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s port of Odesa on Saturday, a day after the 2 nations signed a deal on restarting grain shipments by means of the Black Sea to avert widespread international meals shortages. Ukrainian officers stated two missiles struck infrastructure targets on the port whereas one other two had been shot down by air defences. Learn in regards to the day’s occasions as they unfolded on our dwell weblog. All instances are Paris time (GMT+2)
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10:56pm: Blinken says US strongly condemns Russian missile assault towards Odesa
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the US strongly condemns the Russian missile assault on Saturday towards Ukaine’s port of Odesa and stated Russia bears accountability for deepening the world’s meals disaster.
The assault “undermines work of the UN, Turkey and Ukraine to get essential meals to world markets” Blinken stated in a press release.
10:51pm: Ukraine’s Zelensky says armed forces are transferring into occupied Kherson area
Ukrainian forces are step by step transferring into the japanese Kherson area, which was taken over by Russia firstly of the warfare, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in a video deal with on Saturday.
“The occupiers have been making an attempt to determine a foothold there … however how did it assist them? The Ukrainian armed forces are transferring into the area step-by-step,” he stated.
7:24pm: ‘Folks injured’ in Russian strikes on Odesa port, says regional governor
Russian missile strikes Saturday on the port within the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Odesa prompted accidents, the regional governor stated, with out specifying how many individuals had been harm.
“Sadly, some persons are injured. Port infrastructure is broken,” the Odesa regional governor Maksym Marchenko stated in a video assertion on social media with out giving particulars relating to the severity of the accidents.
6:35pm: UK govt calls Odesa assault ‘completely appalling’
UK International Secretary Liz Truss on Saturday known as a Russian assault on the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa “completely appalling” and “fully unwarranted”.
Truss stated the strike, which occurred only a day after Ukraine and Russia signed a deal to unblock grain exports, confirmed that Russia’s Vladimir Putin couldn’t be trusted.
“We have to urgently work with our worldwide companions to discover a higher approach of getting the grain out of Ukraine that does not contain Russia and their damaged guarantees,” she added.
4:21pm: Russia advised Turkey it had ‘nothing to do’ with strike on Ukraine’s Odesa port, says Turkey’s defence minister
Turkey’s defence minister stated on Saturday that Russian officers had advised Ankara that Moscow had “nothing to do” with strikes on Ukraine’s Odesa port.
“In our contact with Russia, the Russians advised us that they’d completely nothing to do with this assault, and that they had been analyzing the difficulty very intently and intimately,” Defence Minister Hulusai Akar stated in a press release.
“The truth that an incident like this occurred after the settlement we made yesterday … actually makes us involved,” he added.
3:15pm: Zelensky says Odesa strike proves Russia will discover methods to not implement grain deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Russia’s missile strike on the port of Odesa on Saturday demonstrated that Moscow would discover methods to not implement the grain deal struck with the UN, Turkey and Ukraine.
“This proves just one factor: it doesn’t matter what Russia says and guarantees, it can discover methods to not implement it,” Zelensky stated in a video posted on Telegram.
2:45pm: Ukraine getting ready to export grain from ports regardless of Russian strike, says Ukrainian infrastructure minister
Ukraine’s southern army spokesperson says the Russian missile strike on Saturday didn’t trigger vital harm to the Odesa port’s infrastructure, as solely a pumping station was hit.
Consequently, Ukraine continues to organize to restart grain exports from its Black Sea ports, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov stated.
“We proceed technical preparations for the launch of exports of agricultural merchandise from our ports,” Kubrakov wrote on Fb.
2:31pm: EU’s Borrell condemns ‘reprehensible’ Russian strike on Odesa
EU international coverage chief Josep Borrell Saturday slammed what he known as Russia’s “reprehensible” missile assault on Ukraine’s Odesa, after Kyiv and Moscow penned a deal to permit grain exports from the Black Sea port.
“Placing a goal essential for grain export a day after the signature of (the) Istanbul agreements is especially reprehensible and once more demonstrates Russia’s complete disregard for worldwide regulation and commitments,” he wrote on Twitter.
EU strongly condemns Russian missile strike on Odesa’s seaport. Placing a goal essential for grain export a day after the signature of Istanbul agreements is especially reprehensible & once more demonstrates Russia’s complete disregard for worldwide regulation & commitments#StopRussia
— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) July 23, 2022
2:14pm: UN chief ‘unequivocally condemns’ assault on Ukraine’s Odesa port
UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres “unequivocally” condemned missile assaults earlier within the day on Saturday on Ukraine’s Odesa, a port that’s key to a UN-brokered grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine.
“The Secretary-Basic unequivocally condemns reported strikes in the present day within the Ukrainian port of Odesa,” his deputy spokesman Farhan Haq stated in a press release, including that: “Full implementation (of the deal) by the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Turkey is crucial.”
12:13pm: US envoy says Russia ought to be held to account for strike on Odesa
The US ambassador to Kyiv stated that Moscow ought to be held to account for what she stated was an “outrageous” Russian strike on the port metropolis of Odesa on Saturday.
Russian missiles hit infrastructure in Odesa a day after Russia and Ukraine, with mediation by the United Nations and Turkey, signed a deal to reopen Black Sea ports and resume grain exports.
“The Kremlin continues to weaponize meals. Russia should be held to account,” US Ambassador Bridget Brink wrote on Twitter.
Outrageous. Russia strikes the port metropolis of Odesa lower than 24 hours after signing an settlement to permit shipments of agricultural exports. The Kremlin continues to weaponize meals. Russia should be held to account.
— Ambassador Bridget A. Brink (@USAmbKyiv) July 23, 2022
12:06pm: Orban urges new EU technique on Ukraine, says sanctions have failed
The European Union wants a brand new technique on the warfare in Ukraine as sanctions towards Moscow haven’t labored, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated on Saturday.
“A brand new technique is required which ought to focus peace talks and drafting a very good peace proposal, as a substitute of successful the warfare,” Orban stated in a speech in Romania.
Orban, reelected for a fourth consecutive time period in April, reiterated that Hungary, a NATO member, would keep out of the warfare in neighbouring Ukraine.
12:02pm: Ukraine says Putin ‘spits within the face’ of UN, Turkey with Odesa assault
Ukraine accused the Kremlin of not complying with grain deal signed in Turkey and stated it could be liable for any meals disaster if the deal to export Ukrainian grain from Odesa collapsed after Russian missiles struck the Black Sea port.
“The Russian missile (strike) is (Russian President) Vladimir Putin’s spit within the face of UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep (Tayyip) Erdogan, who made huge efforts to achieve the settlement,” stated international ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko.
“If the reached settlement will not be fulfilled, Russia will bear full accountability for deepening the worldwide meals disaster,” he added.
The UN chief, Antonio Guterres, in addition to EU’s Joseph Borrell, condemned the assault on Ukraine’s Odesa port.
11:40am: Ukraine urges UN, Turkey to drive to Russia adjust to grain export agreements
Ukraine has known as on the United Nations and Turkey to make sure that Russia fulfills its commitments beneath the settlement for a protected hall for grain exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, the international ministry stated on Saturday.
Russian missiles hit infrastructure in Ukraine’s port of Odesa on Saturday, a day after Russia and Ukraine, with mediation by the United Nations and Turkey, signed a deal to reopen Black Sea ports to renew such exports.
11:15am: Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa
Russian missiles hit infrastructure in Ukraine’s port of Odesa on Saturday, a day after Russia and Ukraine signed a deal to reopen Black Sea ports to renew grain exports, the Ukrainian army stated.
“The enemy attacked the Odesa sea commerce port with Kalibr cruise missiles; two missiles had been shot down by air defence forces; two hit the infrastructure of the port,” the Operational Command South wrote on Telegram.
9:46am: Russian strikes kill three in central Ukraine, says governor
13 Russian missiles hit a army airfield and railway infrastructure in Ukraine’s central Kirohovrad area on Saturday, killing and wounding a variety of folks, the native governor stated.
Governor Andriy Raikovych wrote on Telegram that rescue groups had been working on the impression websites and that one small district of the regional capital, Kropyvnytskyi, had been left with out electrical energy.
“9 Ukrainian servicemen had been injured and one serviceman is useless. Two guards of {an electrical} substation had been additionally killed,” Andriy Raikovych, the top of the Kirovograd area, advised Ukrainian media.
7:58am: UK says Ukraine continues offensive towards Russia in Kherson
Heavy preventing has been going down within the final 48 hours as Ukrainian forces continued their offensive towards Russia in Kherson province, west of the Dnipro River, British army intelligence stated on Saturday.
Russian forces are utilizing artillery hearth alongside the InguletsRiver, a tributary of the Dnipro, the UK’s Ministry of Defence stated.
“Provide strains of the Russian forces west of the river are more and more in danger,” the ministry stated in an intelligence replace. It added that further Ukrainian strikes have prompted additional harm to the important thing Antonivsky Bridge, although Russia has carried out non permanent repairs.
5:50am: Washington declares $270 million in further army support to Ukraine
The USA has introduced a brand new package deal of army support to Ukraine value $270 million, together with 4 new HIMARS precision artillery techniques.
Washington can even ship 36,000 further shells, as much as 580 Phoenix Ghost kamikaze drones and 4 armoured command posts.
The USA can have offered Kiev with a complete of 20 items of those a number of rocket launchers mounted on mild armoured automobiles after this new supply, stated John Kirby, White Home spokesman on strategic points.
2:50am: Settlement signed in Istanbul on grain exports
Russia and Ukraine signed an settlement in Istanbul with the UN and Turkey to unblock grain exports in mild of the famine threat worldwide, whereas bombing continued in japanese and southern Ukraine.
The 2 sides initialled two similar however separate texts on the request of the Ukrainians who refused to signal with the Russians.
The signing of the settlement, which had been painstakingly negotiated beneath the auspices of the United Nations and Ankara, occurred on the Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus Strait within the presence of UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The circumstances are in place for its software “within the subsequent few days”, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu assured shortly afterwards.
(FRANCE 24 with Reuters, AP and AFP)
