Ukraine war reside updates: Blinken urges Moscow to conclude Black Sea ‘blackmail’ Russia suggests it thwarted assault on important oil export hub

Ukraine war reside updates: Blinken urges Moscow to conclude Black Sea ‘blackmail’ Russia suggests it thwarted assault on important oil export hub


Explosions were being noted at Russia’s port of Novorossiysk, a important hub on the Black Sea for Russian oil exports. Russia’s Defense Ministry claims it repelled at attack by unmanned Ukrainian sea drones, and ship motion at the port was halted, in accordance to emergency personnel and pipeline products and services cited by Reuters.

Ukraine’s armed forces said that 40 clashes with Russian troops took location Thursday and that its air defenses shot down 15 Iranian-designed Shahed drones.

The Ukrainian Danube Shipping and delivery Corporation creating, harmed by a Russian drone assault, on Aug. 2, 2023, in southern Ukraine’s Odesa region.

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Meanwhile, intercontinental leaders go on to urge Russia to return to the Black Sea grain offer, with U.S. Secretary of Condition Antony Blinken contacting on Moscow to conclusion its “blackmail” about world-wide food supplies. Considering that Russia’s withdrawal from the humanitarian initiative in July, it has released attacks on quite a few Ukrainian ports keeping grain provides established for export, and destroyed or ruined food storage and export infrastructure.



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