Wheat unloading. File photoMOSCOW, July 28.The first batch of Ukrainian grain may leave the port of Odessa today or tomorrow, the United States is counting on a conversation between US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Kyiv is again preparing a provocation. up to 70 Ukrainian military personnel were destroyed in Artemovsk, the RF Ministry of Defense reported. Also, Russian aviation, artillery and missile forces over the past day destroyed nine Ukrainian command posts and six ammunition depots in the DPR, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Nikolaev regions. In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that Ukrainian territorial defense militants shot dead their military during their retreat to the DPR. Meanwhile, temporary departments of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs have been established in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the ministry said. Also on Thursday, Turkey said it was ready to offer a platform for a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers to achieve ceasefire, the head of the country's Foreign Ministry announced Mevlut Cavusoglu.
During the «counteroffensive» Kyiv is losing citiesPreparing for a provocationUkrainian militants want to blow up a dam in Artemovsk of the Donetsk People's Republic and blame the Russian Armed Forces, this will lead to the flooding of residential areas with a population of more than 35 thousand people, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation. In addition, the general added, after the departure of water, damage to life support systems (water supply, sewerage and treatment facilities) is possible, which will lead to a sharp deterioration in the sanitary and epidemiological situation. UN Deputy Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths. The first ship with grain from Ukraine can go to Somalia, the journey will take six weeks, said the UN Deputy Secretary General. State Department spokesman Ned Price said the United States is ready to do everything possible to facilitate the implementation of the «product deal» .
The West is preparing the world for starvation without Ukrainian grain. The world is waiting for Russian grainBlinken requested a conversation with LavrovThe State Department on the eve requested a telephone conversation between US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and still expects that the conversation will take place in the coming days.Price said that this contact will not become negotiations over Ukraine and normalization of Russian-American cooperation. If the conversation takes place, it will be the first since the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine. Blinken, according to a representative of the State Department, is going to discuss the problem of US citizens serving sentences in Russia, indicate support for agreements in Istanbul on lifting restrictions on the supply of Russian products for export and on Russia's assistance the export of Ukrainian grain and call for implementation, as well as warn against the annexation of Ukrainian territories. At the same time, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting on the State Department’s report to RIA Novosti about the request for a conversation between US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said that Lavrov would pay attention to this request when time permits.
