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Ukraine Exported 7,20,000 Tons Of Food Grains Under UN Brokered Deal #t...

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With its abundant natural gas supply, Russia has long wielded its resource riches to bludgeon Ukraine, Europe, and other dependent customers. By continuously threatening the future of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the landmark wartime agreement designed to open up Ukraine’s key farm output for export to world markets, Moscow has also found a way to strangle Kyiv’s agricultural sector—and weaponize resources that aren’t even its own.

Those tactics were on full display this week as negotiators raced to broker a full extension to the grain deal before its scheduled expiration on Monday, the latest scramble to save a key deal that helped ease pressures on vulnerable markets in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since the deal took force in July 2022, Moscow has repeatedly attempted to upend the agreement to extract key concessions, intensifying concerns about the future of Ukraine’s hard-hit agricultural industry and the global food insecurity. 

“This continues to be very much an issue not just for Ukraine producers but also globally,” said Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Ukraine has been a very important supplier, and if they have to continue with diminished production over another year, that means that the world will have to find wheat and corn from others to replace that.” 

It’s still not clear if Russia is ready to blink again and continue allowing exports or if this time it will try to scupper the deal. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Russia had agreed to extend the deal—before the Kremlin said it had decided no such thing.

With just days until the deal would expire, Russian President Vladimir Putin continued to press for concessions and extract leverage. For months, the main sticking point in negotiations has been Russia’s own food and fertilizer exports: While excluded from Western sanctions, Moscow says its exports have been hampered by sanctions targeting insurance and payment companies over its invasion of Ukraine. 

On Thursday, Putin warned that “not one” of its demands had been met. The grain deal is a “one-sided game,” he said in a television interview. “We can suspend our participation in this deal. And if everyone reiterates that all promises given to us will be fulfilled, let them fulfill these promises. And we will immediately join this deal. Again.” 

Western officials and agricultural analysts have pushed back, accusing him of deliberately stymieing the outflow of agricultural exports and driving up prices. Barbara Woodward, the U.K. envoy to the United Nations, said Russia was engaging in “cynical brinkmanship.” 

“In Istanbul, they slow-roll the inspections of the grain ships, bringing down the amount of grain that goes out. Then, by signaling that they are considering refusing to renew the deal, they are also affecting global grain prices,” she said. 

In this game of brinkmanship, diplomats have been scrambling to carve out other concessions to secure the extension of the deal. On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres wrote Putin a letter offering to connect a Russian agricultural bank subsidiary to the SWIFT international payments system, in exchange for the continuation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative; the European Commission also indicated that it was willing to “explore all solutions.”

“The objective is to remove hurdles affecting financial transactions through the Russian Agricultural Bank, a major concern expressed by the Russian Federation, and simultaneously allow for the continued flow of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea,” U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said.

Russia has yet to respond to the letter, although Erdogan, a strong proponent of the grain deal, expressed optimism on Friday that Guterres’s effort would help secure the grain deal’s extension. Both Putin and Erdogan are “of the same mind” in extending the agreement, the Turkish leader added.

Known as the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine once supplied 10 percent of the world’s wheat exports, 20 percent of corn exports, and 40 percent of the global sunflower oil supply. After Russia’s invasion in February 2022 throttled harvests and disrupted those exports—thereby skyrocketing global prices—diplomats rushed to ink an agreement to avert an international food crisis. Since its inception roughly a year ago, the U.N.- and Turkey-brokered initiative has unlocked more than 30 million metric tons of goods, nearly one-quarter of which have gone to China. Almost half have reached developing markets that had been under immense strain.

Failing to renew the deal would jeopardize those exports—which would be bad for Russia’s ongoing efforts to woo the global south and especially its need to stay in good graces with Beijing. China has been one of the major beneficiaries of the grain deal, even naming the initiative in its 12-point peace plan, and has a vested interest in the agreement’s success. The timing of the latest extension fight also matters: The overwhelming bulk of Ukraine’s wheat crop is harvested in July and August, making this extension even more critical than previous standoffs.

But even without suspending its involvement in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Moscow has done what it can to pressure Kyiv, including by shortening the lengths of extensions and exacerbating shipping challenges. As long as Russia works to squeeze Ukraine’s agricultural sector, Glauber said, already hard-hit producers will be the ones who are hurt the most. 

“The real problem with all these increased costs and reduced exports out of the Black Sea [is that] the direct cost of that is being felt by Ukraine producers,” he said. “And that’s sort of the bottom line.”

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Daily Wrap Up October 29-30, 2022

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The Russian government has written to the United Nations telling the international body that “starting today” it is suspending for an “indefinite term” the Black Sea grain deal that allowed vital exports of food from occupied parts of southern Ukraine, Reuters reports.

The deal brokered in July aimed to help avert famine by injecting more wheat, sunflower oil and fertilizer into world markets and to ease a dramatic rise in prices, Reuters reports. The United Nations World Food Programme said at the time the deal was signed that some 47 million people had moved into a stage of “acute hunger” due to fall-out from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which halted Ukrainian shipments.

Russian air defense systems repelled drone attacks on the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Saturday, shooting down all the drones involved, the Russian-backed mayor of the city said.

The Russian army accused Ukraine of a “massive” drone attack on its Black Sea Fleet in Crimea on Saturday, claiming the UK helped in the strike that damaged a ship, AFP reports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had repelled a "fierce offensive" by Russian troops in the eastern Donetsk region. Zelenskiy said a military unit from Chop in western Ukraine had undertaken the action, but did not say where the clash had occurred.

President’s Office Head Andriy Yermak said on Oct. 29 that Russia had released 52 Ukrainian prisoners of war under the prisoner exchange. According to Yermak, two civilians were among the freed prisoners that include medics, officers, and other military personnel. Among the released are the defenders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol and those who were captured at the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast.

“The Russian government has written to the United Nations telling the international body that “starting today” it is suspending for an “indefinite term” the Black Sea grain deal that allowed vital exports of food from occupied parts of southern Ukraine, Reuters reports.

The news agency reports that it has seen the contents of the letter and that, following what Russia has said alleging attacks on its naval fleet in the Black Sea involving British as well as Ukrainian forces – claims that the Ukrainians deny – that Moscow also cannot “guarantee the safety of civilian ships” travelling under the terms of the internationally negotiated grain deal.

Moreover, Russia has now requested a UN Security Council meeting on Monday to discuss its claims that attacks on its Black Sea fleet provoked it to suspend the grain deal.

The July deal was designed to allow essential Ukrainian grain exports, that were backing up in the occupied area even as developing countries faced the threat of starvation without such supplies, to leave Russian-controlled Ukrainian territory.

But Russia has slow-marched the exports amid claims that they were going to developed countries that oppose Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, not to desperately hungry communities in the developing world.”

-via The Guardian

“Here are more details and background on Russia stating it is pulling out of the deal aimed at unlocking Ukrainian grain and fertiliser exports from Black Sea ports and easing global food shortages.

The deal brokered in July aimed to help avert famine by injecting more wheat, sunflower oil and fertilizer into world markets and to ease a dramatic rise in prices, Reuters reports.

The United Nations World Food Programme said at the time the deal was signed that some 47 million people had moved into a stage of “acute hunger” due to fall-out from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which halted Ukrainian shipments.

The deal signed on July 22 was valid for 120 days and the United Nations expected it to be renewed unless the war had ended by then. It ensured safe passage in and out of Odesa and two other Ukrainian ports in what the official called a “de facto ceasefire” for the ships and facilities covered.

Since the deal was signed, more than 9 million tonnes of grains and other food products have been exported, U.N. aid chief Martin Griffith said this week. He added the deal had been successful in bringing food prices down and boosting export quantities.

Russia’s defence ministry said Ukraine attacked the Black Sea Fleet near Sevastopol on the annexed Crimean peninsular with 16 drones in the early hours of Saturday, and that British navy “specialists” had helped coordinate the “terrorist” attack.

Russia said it had repelled the attack, with just minor damage to a minesweeper, but that the ships targeted were involved in ensuring the grain corridor.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, accused Russia of inventing “fictitious terrorist attacks on its own facilities” while Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Moscow was using a “false pretext” to sink the deal.”

-via The Guardian

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“Russian air defense systems repelled drone attacks on the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Saturday, shooting down all the drones involved, the Russian-backed mayor of the city said.

“Today, starting at 4.30 am, for several hours, various air defense systems in Sevastopol repelled drone attacks. All unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were shot down,” Sevastopol Mayor Mikhail Razvozhayev said.

CNN cannot independently confirm or verify Razvozhayev’s claim. There has also been no acknowledgment of the incident from Ukraine’s side.

In a post to social media early Saturday, Razvozhayev said “no facilities in the city were hit.”

“The situation is calm and under control. All operational teams are on standby,” he said.

He urged the city’s residents to not make public what they saw and not post any videos showing Russian defense systems repelling the attacks, claiming such information could be used by Ukraine to understand the city’s defenses.

On Saturday, state-run news agency TASS reported ferries and boats were temporarily blocked from accessing the bay.”

-via CNN

“The Russian army accused Ukraine of a “massive” drone attack on its Black Sea Fleet in Crimea on Saturday, claiming the UK helped in the strike that damaged a ship, AFP reports.

It has also claimed that the targeted ships were involved in a UN-brokered deal to allow the export of Ukrainian grain.

Sevastopol in Moscow-annexed Crimea, which has been targeted several times in recent months, serves as the headquarters for the fleet and a logistical hub for operations in Ukraine.

The Russian army claimed to have “destroyed” nine aerial drones and seven maritime ones, in an attack early Saturday in the port.

Moscow’s forces alleged British “specialists”, whom they said were based in the southern Ukrainian city of Ochakiv, had helped prepare and train Kyiv to carry out the strike.

The claims could not be independently verified.

Earlier today, Britain denied Russian claims that British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month.”

-via The Guardian

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“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had repelled a "fierce offensive" by Russian troops in the eastern Donetsk region.

Zelenskiy said a military unit from Chop in western Ukraine had undertaken the action, but did not say where the clash had occurred.

"Today they stopped the fierce offensive actions of the enemy," Zelenskiy said in his nightly address. "The Russian attack was repelled."

The president also said Ukraine's "exchange fund" had been replenished, meaning Russian servicemen had been taken prisoner. The fiercest fighting in Donetsk region has been around the towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka.”-via Reuters

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“President’s Office Head Andriy Yermak said on Oct. 29 that Russia had released 52 Ukrainian prisoners of war under the prisoner exchange.

According to Yermak, two civilians were among the freed prisoners that include medics, officers, and other military personnel. Among the released are the defenders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol and those who were captured at the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Kyiv Oblast.

"We do not stop and continue to fulfill the president's task to 'bring back all Ukrainians home,'" Yermak wrote on Telegram.

Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar said on Oct. 27 that Ukraine had conducted 28 prisoner swaps with Russia since Feb. 24, returning home 978 Ukrainians, including 99 civilians.

The largest exchange took place on Sept. 21, when 215 prisoners of war, including Azovstal defenders, were returned from Russian captivity.”-via Kyiv Independent 

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Russian drones pounded grain storage facilities and ports along the Danube River that Ukraine has increasingly relied on as an alternative transport route to Europe, after Moscow broke off a key wartime shipping agreement using the Black Sea. At the same time, a loaded container ship stranded at the Black Sea port of Odesa since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than 17 months ago set sail along a temporary corridor established by Ukraine for merchant shipping. Ukraine’s economy, crunched by the war, is heavily dependent on farming. Its agricultural exports, like those of Russia, are also crucial for world supplies of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other food that developing nations rely on. A month ago, the Kremlin tore up an agreement brokered last summer by the U.N. and Turkey to ensure safe Ukraine grain exports through the Black Sea. Since then, Kyiv has sought to reroute transport through the Danube and road and rail links into Europe. But transport costs that way are much higher, some European countries have balked at the consequences for local grain prices, and the Danube ports can’t handle the same volume as seaports.

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8.12.22 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

Sudan: Seasonal floods destroy over 2,500 homes (AP)

“Deadly seasonal floods have collapsed more than 2,500 houses in eastern Sudan, state news has reported, leaving thousands homeless in an already impoverished region. Another 546 houses were partially destroyed by torrential rains in River Nile province, SUNA news agency said late on Thursday. Since the start of the rainy season in May, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that an estimated 38,000 people have been affected by the floods across the East African country.”

Ukraine: Ship heads to Ukraine to get grain for food-starved Africa (AP)

“A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation.”

South Korea: Samsung’s Lee to be pardoned along with other corporate giants (AP)

“Samsung’s de-facto leader secured a pardon Friday of his conviction for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government, an act of leniency that underscored the tech company’s huge influence in the nation.”

US NEWS

FBI: Suspect who tried to breach FBI office dies in standoff (AP)

“Authorities are investigating the motives of an armed man who they say tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati office, fled and died hours later in a rural standoff with law enforcement, a case unfolding as the FBI warns agents to take extra precautions amid increased social media threats to its employees and facilities.”

Cybersecurity: Online privacy in a post-Roe world (AP)

“The case of a Nebraska woman charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy after investigators obtained Facebook messages between the two has raised fresh concerns about data privacy in the post-Roe world. Since before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users have faced new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance amid fears that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people seeking abortions or those who try to help them.”

Trump: Calls for ‘immediate’ release of Mar-a-Lago warrant (AP)

“Former President Donald Trump called late Thursday for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.””

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Two more ships carrying grain leave Ukraine's ports

Two more ships carrying grain leave Ukraine’s ports

One of the ships is laden with the first Ukrainian wheat to be exported under a Türkiye-brokered deal to unblock grain exports. A total 14 ships have now departed from Ukraine over the past two weeks. (AFP) Two more ships carrying food grains have left Ukrainian ports under an Ankara-brokered deal to unblock grain exports, Türkiye’s National Defence Ministry has said. The Belize-flagged ship…

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CIF/FOB Gulf Grain-Corn, soybean barge bids steady-firm May 20 (Reuters) - Basis bids for soybeans and corn shipped by barge to the U.S. Gulf Coast for export were steady to firmer on Monday amid ongoing concerns about flood-damaged crops in Brazil, traders said. The rate of barges heading north from the Gulf Coast has slowed, brokers said, as rising water levels in the Lower Mississippi River make unloading challenging in spots. Concerns over crop losses in Brazil's flood-devastated Rio Grande do Sul lifted soybean futures on the day, and excessive rains and heavy flooding have continued to constrain cargo movement at the Rio Grande port. Argentina soy farmers are waiting for prices to rise in order to sell their rain-drenched crop, slowing the pace of selling. In Ukraine, a major wheat and corn exporter, severe frosts across northern and eastern regions could reduce this year's grain and oilseed harvest, analyst APK-Inform said. CIF Gulf soybean barges loaded in June traded at 50 cents over Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) July futures SN24. CIF Gulf soybean barges loaded in May were bid 1 cent higher, at 48 cents over July futures, while June soy barges were steady - bid at 48 cents over July futures. FOB Gulf soybean export premiums for June loadings held steady at around 56 cents over CBOT July futures SN24, while July loadings were at 59 cents over futures. May corn barges were bid steady at 39 cents over CBOT July futures CN24. June barge bids were up 1 cent at 42 cents over futures. Export premiums for corn loadings in May were steady at around 48 cents over CBOT July futures, while corn loadings in June were down 1 cent at around 47 cents a bushel over July futures.

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Food India Expo 2023 Elevates Rice Export Dialogue with IREF's Dr. Prem Garg as Chief Guest

The Food India Expo 2023 is a major event in India's food industry, serving as the country's largest international platform for bringing together food machinery manufacturers, traders, dealers, and exporters from both India and other countries. This event is set to take place from December 28-30, 2023, at Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan, near ITC Sonar in Kolkata, India.

This expo focuses on a wide array of sectors within the food industry, including rice, pulses, wheat, flour, spices, sugar, fortified products, tea, coffee, and various types of food processing machinery. Notably, the expo also showcases products and technologies like Paddy/Grain Dryers, Parboiling Plants, Color Sorters, Air Compressors, Grain Storage and Material Handling, Packaging Solutions, Dairy Equipment, Poultry/Cattle Feed Technology, Waste Water Treatment, Grain Chillers, and more.

The event is not just an exhibition but also a platform for training the younger generation and promoting well-established businesses. It facilitates networking and brand promotion for these businesses both in India and internationally. Additionally, the expo includes seminars and conferences conducted by professionals, offering insights into the latest trends and technologies in food processing.

The Food India Expo 2023 aims to cater to a diverse range of visitors, including CEOs, managing directors, business heads, owners, employees, managers, brokers, mediators, distributors, researchers, processing experts, scientists, and technologists, among others. It's an excellent opportunity for professionals in these areas to explore new technologies, network with industry experts, and gain insights into the latest market trends.

In terms of exhibitors, the expo welcomes a wide range of participants from various sectors such as rice mills, flour mills, pulse mills, and those involved in processing, distribution, and technology related to the food industry. The event also garners interest from government officials and representatives from industry associations.

The Food India Expo is more than just a trade show; it's a comprehensive platform for learning, networking, and exploring the latest innovations in the food processing industry.

For more detailed information about the Food India Expo 2023, you can visit their official websites at Food India Expo and Food India.

Chief Guest Dr. Prem Garg

Dr. Prem Garg is a notable figure in the Indian rice export industry and is associated with the Indian Rice Exporters Federation (IREF). He is recognized for his innovative approaches and leadership in the rice export sector, contributing significantly to positioning India as a global leader in rice exports. The IREF operates with the motto "One Nation, One Trade, One Policy," striving to foster unity and coherence in India’s rice export sector. The federation plays a key role in policy advocacy, trade negotiations, and ensuring the interests of a wide range of stakeholders in the rice export industry are represented.

However, there's no specific information available linking Dr. Prem Garg directly to the Food India Expo 2023 as a chief guest or in a similar capacity. For the most current information about the expo, including details about guests and speakers, it's recommended to regularly check the official websites of the Food India Expo here and the Indian Rice Exporters Federation here.

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Ukraine Exported 7,20,000 Tons Of Food Grains Under UN Brokered Deal #t...

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An unprecedented wartime deal that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices are pushing more people into poverty was extended just before its expiration date, officials said Saturday.

The United Nations and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the extension, but neither confirmed how long it would last. The U.N., Turkey and Ukraine had pushed for 120 days, while Russia said it was willing to agree to 60 days.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov tweeted Saturday that the deal would remain in effect for the longer, four-month period. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Russian news agency Tass that Moscow “agreed to extend the deal for 60 days.”

This is the second renewal of separate agreements that Ukraine and Russia signed with the United Nations and Turkey to allow food to leave the Black Sea region after Russia invaded its neighbor more than a year ago.

The warring nations are both major global suppliers of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other affordable food products that developing nations depend on.

Russia has complained that shipments of its fertilizers — which its deal with Turkey and the U.N. was supposed to facilitate — are not getting to global markets, which has been an issue for Moscow since the agreement first took effect in August. It nonetheless was renewed in November for another four months.

Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said in a statement that 25 million metric tonnes (about 28 millions tons) of grain and foodstuffs had moved to 45 countries under the initiative, helping to bring down global food prices and stabilizing markets.

“We remain strongly committed to both agreements and we urge all sides to redouble their efforts to implement them fully,” Dujarric said.

The war in Ukraine sent food prices surging to record highs last year and helped contribute to a global food crisis also tied to lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate factors like drought.

The disruption in shipments of grain needed for staples of diets in places like Egypt, Lebanon and Nigeria exacerbated economic challenges and helped push millions more people into poverty or food insecurity. People in developing countries spend more of their money on basics like food.

The crisis left an estimated 345 million people facing food insecurity, according to the U.N.’s World Food Program.

Food prices have fallen for 11 straight months, but food was already expensive before the war because of droughts from the Americas to the Middle East — most devastating in the Horn of Africa, with thousands dying in Somalia. Poorer nations that depend on imported food priced in dollars are spending more as their currencies weaken.

The agreements also faced setbacks since it was brokered by the U.N. and Turkey: Russia pulled out briefly in November before rejoining and extending the deal. In the past few months, inspections meant to ensure ships only carry grain and not weapons have slowed down.

That has helped lead to backlogs in vessels waiting in the waters of Turkey and a recent drop in the amount of grain getting out of Ukraine.

Ukrainian and some U.S. officials have blamed Russia for the slowdowns, which the country denies.

While fertilizers have been stuck, Russia has exported huge amounts of wheat after a record crop. Figures from financial data provider Refinitiv showed that Russian wheat exports more than doubled to 3.8 million tons in January from the same month a year ago, before the invasion.

Russian wheat shipments were at or near record highs in November, December and January, increasing 24% over the same three months a year earlier, according to Refinitiv. It estimated Russia would export 44 million tons of wheat in 2022-2023.

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Daily(ish) Wrap Up September 3-4, 2022

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Ukraine’s and Europe’s largest nuclear plant was once again knocked offline in the early hours of Saturday amid sustained shelling that destroyed a key power line and penetrated deep into the plant’s premises

A fleet of 13 ships carrying more than 280,000 tonnes of grain and agricultural products left ports in Odesa on Sunday, according to Ukraine’s ministry of infrastructure

Russian forces have hit multiple residential targets in the south central part of Ukraine overnight

Russian troops launched overnight rocket attacks on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine

The Russian energy major Gazprom extended the shutdown of gas flows through its key Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany on Friday evening, providing no timeframe for a reopening

“Ukraine’s and Europe’s largest nuclear plant was once again knocked offline in the early hours of Saturday amid sustained shelling that destroyed a key power line and penetrated deep into the plant’s premises, local Russian-backed authorities said.

The claims came barely a day after a team of inspectors from the UN nuclear agency arrived at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been caught in fierce recent fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces, six months after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, ordered his troops to invade Ukraine.

The IAEA’s mission is meant to help secure the site as Moscow and Kyiv trade blame for shelling at and around the nuclear plant.

“The Dneprovskaya power line has been hit. The nuclear power plant has switched to servicing its own needs,” Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Kremlin-appointed regional administration, wrote on Telegram, adding that a shell had struck an area between two reactors. His claims could not be immediately verified.

Late on Friday evening, the Russian-backed authorities reported that the plant had been under fire for about two hours, blaming Ukrainian forces in the latest of a series of similar claims.

As of Saturday morning, neither the Ukrainian government nor the country’s nuclear energy operator, Enerhoatom, had commented on these allegations.

The plant has repeatedly suffered complete disconnection from Ukraine’s power grid since last week, with Enerhoatom blaming mortar shelling and fires near the site.

Local Ukrainian authorities accused Moscow of pounding two cities that overlook the plant across the Dnieper river with rockets, also an accusation they have made repeatedly over recent weeks.

In Zorya, a small village about 20km (12 miles) from the Zaporizhzhia plant, residents on Friday could hear the sound of explosions in the area. It was not the shelling that scared them the most, but the risk of a radioactive leak in the plant.

“The power plant, yes, this is the scariest,” said Natalia Stokoz, a mother of three. “Because the kids and adults will be affected, and it’s scary if the nuclear power plant is blown up.”

Oleksandr Pasko, a 31-year-old farmer, said: “There is anxiety because we are quite close.” Pasko said the Russian shelling has intensified in recent weeks.”-via The Guardian

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“A fleet of 13 ships carrying more than 280,000 tonnes of grain and agricultural products left ports in Odesa on Sunday, according to Ukraine’s ministry of infrastructure.

The ministry said it was the single largest shipment of produce to leave Ukraine since the country brokered an export deal with Russia, the UN and Turkey on 22 July. The grain initiative was signed to try and avert a global crisis and ensure the safe transport of wheat and other essential products, such as sunflower oil.

The delivery from ports in Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdenny on Sunday will go to eight countries. So far, 86 ships have left Ukraine to export produce to 19 countries since 1 August, the ministry said.”-via The Guardian

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“Russian forces have hit multiple residential targets in the south central part of Ukraine overnight, according to Vitaliy Kim, governor of Mykolaiv.

Posting on his Telegram account, he said that Russian shelling had damaged homes, three hospitals, two education facilities, a hotel and a museum in the area.

Kim said the targets included a private house destroyed by a missile in the village of Vysunsk, Bereznehuvate, where one child is reported to have died and three others have shrapnel injuries.

He said the city of Mykolaiv was subjected to “massive rocket fire” overnight from Saturday into this morning, with many municipal buildings damaged and one person reported as injured so far.”-via The Guardian

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Russian troops launched overnight rocket attacks on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine, according to the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

In an update posted to his Telegram account, Kyrylenko said:

In Kramatorsk, a rocket hit a food enterprise, injuring a person. Another one hit a light industry enterprise. A fire broke out there.

Russian forces also struck two enterprises in Sloviansk, damaging several houses, Kyrylenko added.

Vadym Liakh, the mayor of Sloviansk, confirmed the city was under attack, writing on Facebook:

The city was shelled again. There were loud explosions on the outskirts. In Bylbasivka, private houses were damaged on Shkilna and Yaseneva Streets.

-via The Guardian

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“The Russian energy major Gazprom extended the shutdown of gas flows through its key Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany on Friday evening, providing no timeframe for a reopening.

The move came hours after G7 countries agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds to Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Gazprom, the state-owned oil and gas firm, said supplies would remain halted indefinitely after a leak was detected. It said the pipeline would not restart until repairs were fully implemented.

Nord Stream 1 is the single biggest pipeline for gas from Russia to Europe and has the capacity to deliver 55bn cubic metres (bcm) of gas a year. Continued supplies through the pipeline are seen as crucial to prevent a deepening of the energy crisis.”-via The Guardian

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Reuters: Russia faces challenges in exporting its grain

Moscow is facing challenges in exporting its grain products, namely the lack of ships, rising insurance costs, and the unwillingness of Western companies to deal with Russia, Reuters reported on Aug. 8.

Russia’s exports are hindered by the so-called hidden sanctions that “may lead to an increase in freight and insurance costs,” Reuters said with reference to Eduard Zernin, the head of Russia’s Union of Grain Exporters.

Although Russian agricultural exports are not directly sanctioned by the West, the restrictions imposed on the banking sector and Russian individuals contribute to the rising costs, Reuters noted.

Merchant vessels are also more hesitant to sail through the Black Sea following Russia’s unilateral termination of the grain deal, the news agency reported. Russia followed up its withdrawal from the grain deal by strikes against Ukraine’s ports and agricultural infrastructure.

Both Moscow and Kyiv announced that ships sailing to the ports controlled by their opponent will be treated as military targets. The U.K. and the U.S. warned that Russia may also attempt to target civilian cargo ships to further hamper Ukraine’s export capacities.

According to Reuters, the risks associated with sailing through the Black Sea are driving up the costs, specifically in terms of insurance, and pushing Russia toward older and smaller vessels run by less established shipping operators.

According to Reuters' sources, Russia’s Agriculture Ministry predicts that grain exports will fall about 8% during the 2023-2024 season.

The ministry also announced a plan in December to build 61 new cargo vessels, citing sanctions and the refusal of many international carriers to work with Russia, Reuters said.

Russia unilaterally terminated the Black Sea Grain Initiative on July 17. The deal allowed Ukraine to export its grain even amid the ongoing full-scale invasion.

Ukraine’s grain exports are vital to the world’s food supply. Before the full-scale invasion, Ukraine was the fifth-largest wheat exporter globally. The grain deal had allowed for nearly 33 million metric tons of food to be exported through Ukrainian ports while it was in force, according to the U.N.

At the Africa-Russia summit in late July, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia can supplant Ukrainian exports to Africa with its own products, both as aid and on a commercial basis.

Putin presented this plan also to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a phone call, voicing hope for Turkey’s cooperation.

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