​On Sunday, Ukraine entered the 256th day of a war launched by Vladimir Putin, heralding bloody battles in the coming weeks for control of a strategic port on the west bank of the Dnieper. Russian troops are looking for residents of Kherson who refuse to leave the Russian-controlled territory before its troops withdraw from the western bank of the Dnieper, reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which also notes that infrastructure has been destroyed and the city destroyed. robbed, writes The Guardian.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyi says that this week it was possible to continue the operation of the “grain corridor”, in seven days 28 ships with more than 800 thousand tons of food left the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdenny, bound for Egypt, Libya, Morocco. , Algeria, Oman, Turkey, China and Ethiopia. In addition, the ship that went to Ethiopia with 30,000 tons of wheat is part of the UN Food Program, he says.

“This was an example of the fact that the world can guarantee the stability of the initiative, despite threats from Russia. The world did not give in to Russia’s blackmail, key actors acted harshly, and as a result, the food crisis worsened. This is one of the most outstanding international results of the fall. When the world is united, terrorists have no chance,” said the Kyiv leader in an address to the people on Saturday evening.

The main thing for Sunday, the 256th day of the war in Ukraine, TEXT OF THE LIVE MODE:

08:03 Kyiv authorities are doing everything possible to ensure that electricity, heat and communications do not disappear due to Russia’s actions, Mayor Vitaly Klitsiko said, writes The Guardian with reference to Ukrinform.

“We are doing everything to prevent this from happening, but to be honest, our enemies are doing everything to leave the city without heat, without electricity, without water supply,” he said, answering a question about a possible blackout in Kyiv.

Klitsiko noted that the authorities of Kyiv take into account various scenarios in order to be ready for any events – there are stocks of fuel, generators, food and drinking water, as well as heating points.

At the same time, he asked the citizens of Kyiv to prepare: “We will do everything to prevent such a scenario from happening, but we cannot guarantee it, so each of us must be ready to react as quickly as possible. perhaps”.

A brief summary of recent events:

• Iran on Saturday admitted for the first time that it had supplied drones to Moscow, but said they were sent to the war in Ukraine, where Russia has used drones to target power plants and civilian infrastructure, Reuters reported.
• Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said a “small number” of drones were delivered to Russia months before Moscow’s forces invaded Ukraine on February 24.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by accusing Iran of lying about sending a limited number of drones to Russia, saying forces in Kyiv were shooting down at least 10 Iranian drones a day.
• Russian troops are looking for residents of Kherson who refuse to leave the territory controlled by Russia before its troops withdraw from the western bank of the Dnieper, reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which also notes that infrastructure has been destroyed and the city destroyed. robbed, writes The Guardian.
• Planned power outages took place in seven regions of Ukraine and major cities, including the capital Kyiv, “to avoid repeated accidents after damage to power grids due to Russian missile attacks and drones”, reports the state operator “Ukrenergo” Kyiv. Independent.
• About 500 power generators were sent to Ukraine by 17 EU countries to solve power supply problems caused by Russia’s attacks.
• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that he does not believe that Russia will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, but he takes this option “very seriously”, writes The Guardian.
• Next week, Ukraine will launch a campaign to raise funds for a fleet of maritime drones through the online platform United24, which was launched in May to raise funds in support of Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, The Kyiv Independent quoted.
• Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted on Saturday, rejecting “statements made by the President of the Russian Federation in a speech on the occasion of the Day of National Unity, which falsely suggest that Romania has territorial claims against Ukraine.” We will remind you that Vladimir Putin stated that the idea of ​​the Polish authorities to “absorb” the territory of Ukraine has not disappeared, he accused the West of “putting historical nonsense into the heads of millions of people, including regarding the real conduct” of the Second World War and the role of the Soviet Union in the victory over the Nazis Germany”.

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