1. Ukrainian forces hit key bridges, Russian barracks within the south of the nation
Ukraine has struck Russian troop bases and two key bridges throughout the Dnipro river in long-range missile strikes in a single day, Ukrainian officers stated on Monday.
The strikes hit the one two crossings Russia has to the pocket of southern Ukrainian territory it has occupied on the western financial institution of the huge Dnipro river, stated Natalia Humeniuk, spokesperson for Ukraine's southern army command.
"The outcomes are moderately respectable, hits on the Antonivskyi and Kakhovskyi bridges," she stated on home tv.
Ukrainian HIMARS strikes additionally hit a number of army bases in Ukraine's Russian-occupied southern metropolis of Melitopol within the early hours, killing troops and destroying hardware, town's mayor stated.
"In keeping with preliminary estimates, a major quantity of army tools was destroyed," Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
Ukraine's defence minister stated two weeks in the past that fifty Russian ammunition depots had been destroyed by US-supplied HIMARS a number of rocket launchers, which Ukraine began utilizing in June.
2. The primary cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain from Black Sea arrives in Turkey
The primary of the ships to depart Ukraine below a deal to unblock grain provides, the Turkey-flagged Polarnet, arrived at its vacation spot in Turkey on Monday.
The ship carrying 12,000 tonnes of corn docked at Derince port within the Gulf of Izmit after setting off from Chornomorsk on 5 August.
“This sends a message of hope to each household within the Center East, Africa, and Asia: Ukraine received’t abandon you,” Ukrainian International Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted. “If Russia sticks to its obligations, the ‘grain hall’ will preserve sustaining world meals safety.”
A complete of 10 ships have now been authorised to sail below the grain deal between Ukraine and Russia, which was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations — eight outbound and two headed for Ukraine.
The primary ship to depart Ukraine, the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni, which left on 1 August, nonetheless hasn’t reached its vacation spot in Lebanon and was anchored off Turkey’s southern coast on Sunday night, in line with the Marine Visitors web site.
In the meantime, two extra ships carrying corn and soybeans departed Ukraine’s Black Sea ports on Monday, the Turkish Defence Ministry stated.
The Sakura left Yuzhny carrying 11,000 tonnes of soybeans to Italy, whereas the Arizona left Chornomorsk with 48,458 tonnes of corn sure for İskenderun in southern Turkey.
4 ships that left Ukraine on Sunday are anticipated to anchor close to Istanbul on Monday night, the Defence Ministry stated. They're resulting from be inspected on Tuesday.
3. Amnesty 'regrets misery and anger' attributable to Ukraine report as criticism persists
The furore over Amnesty Worldwide's report accusing Kyiv of endangering civilians continued on Monday, drawing offended reactions from Ukrainian officers and criticism from Western diplomats.
The report additionally sparked fears it could function an extra justification for Moscow in its elevated bombardment of civilian targets in latest weeks.
On Sunday, the rights group stated it regrets the ache attributable to the report, which infuriated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and triggered the resignation of its Kyiv workplace head.
Within the meantime, the Russian Mission in Geneva tweeted that if a civilian constructing "is used for army functions, it turns right into a legit goal for a precision strike", inflicting additional reactions towards the report.
The rights group revealed the report on Thursday, saying the presence of Ukrainian troops in residential areas heightened dangers to civilians throughout Russia's invasion.
4. UN chief requires finish to assaults on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
The top of Ukraine's state nuclear energy firm Energoatom referred to as on Monday for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant to be made a military-free zone, warning of the danger of a Chornobyl-style nuclear catastrophe after the positioning was hit by shelling.
He referred to as for a group of peacekeepers to be deployed on the web site in feedback on tv after Ukraine and Russia accused every of shelling the nuclear energy plant -- Europe's largest -- which lies in Russian-controlled southern Ukraine.
"The choice that we demand from the world neighborhood and all our companions... is to withdraw the invaders from the territory of the station and create a demilitarized zone on the territory of the station," Petro Kotin stated.
In the meantime, UN chief Antonio Guterres has referred to as for the tip of army operations round Europe's largest nuclear plant.
Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine has been hit by a collection of bombardments since final Friday, with each Russian and Ukrainian forces blaming each other for the assaults.
"Any assault on nuclear energy crops is a suicidal factor," the UN's secretary-general instructed reporters in Tokyo, including that worldwide inspectors needs to be allowed to entry the nuclear plant instantly.
"I hope that these assaults will finish," stated Guterres. "On the identical time, I hope that the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] will be capable of entry the facility plant."
Russian forces captured the plant in Ukraine's southeast in early March, shortly after Moscow's 24 February invasion of its western neighbour, however it's nonetheless run by Ukrainian technicians.
Reviews from Ukraine on Monday declare that the Russian army has mined the facility plant with explosives, whereas the Russian commanding officer on the web site has allegedly expressed his readiness to explode the plant.
5. No Zelenskyy-Putin assembly in sight, says Kremlin
There isn't a foundation for a gathering between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents in the meanwhile, the Kremlin stated on Monday.
In response to a query about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's gives to dealer peace talks, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters on a convention name that Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy might meet solely after negotiators from each side had "performed their homework".
Negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv have been stalled for months, with either side blaming the opposite for a scarcity of progress.
"The Ukrainian delegation has gone off the radar, there isn't any negotiation course of now," Peskov stated on Monday.
"As for a gathering between Presidents Putin and Zelenskyy, it's potential solely after all of the homework has been performed by the delegations. That is lacking, so there are not any needed conditions for the assembly," he added.
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