Russia and Ukraine blamed each other on Friday (July 29) for bombing a prison in the breakaway region of eastern Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelensky oversaw the first shipment of grain, critical to global security.
Strike in Olenivka prison
The Russian army reported 40 dead and 75 wounded in the Olenivka prison strike, while pro-Russian separatist authorities in the Donetsk region reported 47 and 53 dead. Ukrainian forces haveshot at the prison, where the members of the Azov battalion are kept, using the American projectiles of the “Himars” system.said the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the main investigative body of the Russian Federation.
The Azov regiment, which Moscow accuses of being a neo-Nazi organization, distinguished itself by defending the city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine from the Russian army. After weeks of siege and resistance at the Azovstal steel site in Mariupol, some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters surrendered in May. The Russian authorities indicated that they would be imprisoned in Olenivka. “This scandalous provocation aims to scare Ukrainian soldiers and prevent them from surrendering“, – assured the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
But Ukraine quickly denied that it had targeted civilian infrastructure or prisoners of war, stressing that the army “fully adheres to the principles and standards of international humanitarian law“. The General Staff of Ukraine, in turn, accused the Russian army of being behind it.targeted artillery bombardment“, for”accuse Ukraine of committing war crimes and torturing and executing prisoners there“. Russian public television broadcast images of what appeared to be jagged images of charred barracks and destroyed metal beds. He showed blurry images of human bodies. AFP was unable to independently verify all of these statements.
The bus stop was damaged
Also on the military ground, at least five people were killed and seven others were wounded in a Russian strike that hit a bus stop in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region, according to the region’s governor, Vitaly Kim. He blamed the Russian forces.bomb the city in broad daylight when everyone is going about their business“. According to the Ukrainian presidency, at least eight people were killed and 19 were injured in the Donetsk region during the last 24 hours. This region, located in the Donbass mining basin, has been partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014, and Moscow is seeking to take it over completely.
According to the same source, at least one person was killed and seven others were injured in Kharkiv region, in the northeast. The Ukrainian army, in turn, destroyed the railway station in the village of Brilivka, located in the southern occupied Kherson region, where the Ukrainians launched a counterattack in order to complicate the supplies of the Russian army, said local deputy Sergey Khlan.
Separately, a life sentence for a Russian soldier for killing a civilian in Ukraine in May was reduced to 15 years on appeal by a court in Kyiv. 21-year-old Sergeant Vadim Chichimarine admitted that on February 24, during the first days of the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine, he shot 62-year-old civilian Oleksandr Chelipov in the northeast of the country. Admitting his guilt, he was sentenced on May 23 for war crimes and intentional murder.
Export near grain
The export of grain, which has been blocked in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, can be resumed.”in the next few days“, according to Kiev. President Zelensky visited the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk on Friday to oversee the first shipment of grain to a Turkish ship under an agreement reached with Russia on July 22. “We are fully prepared. We have sent all signals to our partners, the UN and Turkey, and our military is guaranteeing the security situationsaid Vladimir Zelensky. According to him, Kiev is only waiting.signal“From Ankara and the UN, the guarantor of the agreement.start“.
Ukraine, like Russia, is one of the grain exporting countries in the world. Kiev says it wants to sell about 20 million tonnes in a deal worth around $10 billion to ease a global food crisis that has sent prices soaring in the world’s poorest countries.
In the energy sector, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Ben Salman, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, wished.activate cooperation“for”mitigate impacts in Europe, the Middle East and around the worldAbout the war in Ukraine, according to the French presidency. Since the Russian invasion, Western countries have been trying to convince Saudi Arabia to open the doors to ease the markets. Rising oil prices are fueling US inflation, which has hit a 40-year high.
Source: Le Figaro
