The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that it is “too early” to be happy about the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports from the port of Odesa, as the Razoni ship with 26,000 tons of corn is expected in the Bosphorus on Tuesday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is “one wrong step” away from nuclear disaster. At the same time, Vladimir Putin stated that no one would benefit from a nuclear war and it should not be started.

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15:20Russia accuses the US of direct participation in the war in Ukraine, because it approves the targeting of HIMARS systems

14:07The “Azov” regiment from Ukraine, recognized by the Supreme Court of Russia as a “terrorist group”.

13:46 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who are scheduled to meet Friday in Sochi, Russia, will discuss, among other things, a Turkish-brokered deal to unblock Ukrainian grain exports from the Black Sea, he said Tuesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov is quoted by Reuters.

He said they will discuss how well the deal, which is slated to be extended in 120 days, is working.

The evacuation of the civilian Ukrainian population from Donetsk has begun

13:26 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk reported that the first train with civilians evacuated from Donetsk region has already arrived in Kropyvnytskyi, the capital of Kirovohrad region, writes The Kyiv Independent. On July 30, Vereshchuk stated that 200,000 civilians must be evacuated from the Donetsk region, away from the bombing.

12:45 pmShoigu claims that Russia destroyed 6 HIMARS missile systems

12:25 pm35% of Russians believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth, not the other way around, according to a survey by the Moscow Institute for the Study of Public Opinion, cited by Nexta.

12:17 pm Turkey expects a ship loaded with grain to leave Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea every day as long as an agreement on “safe corridors” to allow the movement of cargo ships in the Black Sea is in place, Reuters quoted a senior Turkish official as saying.

11:58The General Staff of Ukraine, in the updated information from the front sent on Tuesday, reports that Ukraine has repelled Russian attacks in the direction of Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Kramatorsk of the Donetsk region.

According to a source cited by The Kyiv Independent, Russian forces deployed several units near the villages of Bayrak and Dementiivka in the Kharkiv region, but were reportedly repulsed by Ukrainian forces. Russian troops also withdrew after an “unsuccessful” attempt to storm the area near the village of Trudolyubivka in the Kherson region, the Ukrainian military said.

The first shipment of grain from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion is expected in Istanbul on Tuesday evening

11:43 amThe Razoni, with 26,000 tonnes of corn on board, was expected in Istanbul on Tuesday evening, Turkish authorities said, as quoted by Reuters. This is the first shipment of Ukrainian grain since the beginning of the war, which was initiated by Vladimir Putin.

The final destination is Lebanon, in the context of which the countries of the Middle East are among the most affected by the food crisis.

11:14The head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, published a post in which he called Kazakhstan and Georgia “artificial states”, reports Nexta.

The former president of Russia also says that “all nations that once inhabited the great and powerful USSR will once again live together in friendship.” Medvedev later came back with clarifications and said that he was the target of an attack and that his account on the Telegram platform had been hacked.

11:00 a.m3 civilians died in Donetsk region. Two people died in Maryintsa and one in Bakhmut, the governor of Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on Tuesday. Three more people were injured, Kyrilenko is quoted as saying by the Kyiv Independent.

What losses would the Russian army suffer after the invasion of Ukraine

10:46 amAccording to the latest report of the General Staff of Ukraine, since February 24, Russia has lost 41,170 military personnel in Ukraine.

Russia also lost 1,768 tanks, 4,014 armored fighting vehicles, 936 artillery systems, 259 salvo missile systems, 117 air defense systems, 191 helicopters, 223 planes, 739 drones and 15 boats.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine sent the remainder with the text of the unofficial anthem of the Scots “Scots Wha Hae”, written by the poet Robert Burns. “Tyrants fall in every foe / Liberty in every blow / Let us act or die!”

10:00 a.mThe Border Police reports that 12,068 Ukrainian citizens entered Romania on Monday, which is less than the previous day.

Starting from February 10 (pre-war period) and until midnight on August 1, 1,778,478 citizens of Ukraine entered Romania, the border police reported on Tuesday.

09:36Russia bombed the Dnipropetrovsk region on the night from Monday to Tuesday, Kyiv Independent reports.

The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentin Reznichenko, said that on the night of August 2, Russian troops shelled the Sinelnykivsky and Kryvorizky districts. Several houses and cars were damaged. Reznichenko reported that there were no casualties.

Since the beginning of the war, 5,327 people have died in Ukraine

09:14Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 5,327 people have died, more than 7,000 have been injured, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported.

09:05The US accuses Russia of using the Zaporizhzhia NPP as a “shield”: “The peak of irresponsibility”

08:50US strategic oil stocks fell to their lowest level since May 1985

08:19The operational command “South” of Ukraine reported that three people were killed as a result of an attack by Russians on a minibus near Dovgovoi, Kherson region. It is reported that there were seven people traveling in the minibus, who were traveling from the Russian-occupied village of Starosillia, Kherson region. The survivors were interned in Kryvyi Rih.

08:14On Tuesday morning, explosions rang out in Mykolaiv. Mayor Oleksandr Sienkovych said that on the night from Monday to Tuesday, explosions rang out in different areas of the city. It is known that one person was injured.

08:12Ukraine is investigating 752 cases of treason.

The SBU reported that since August 1, the largest number of cases of treason and cooperation with the Russian occupiers were opened in the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Kyiv Independent writes.

Zelenskyi says that it is too early to rejoice over the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports from the Odesa port

07:26 The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi on Monday assessed that it is “too early” to rejoice after the resumption of the export of Ukrainian grain from the Odesa port, which was unanimously approved.

“At the moment, it is too early to draw conclusions and forecasts,” he said in his video message.

“Let’s wait and see how the agreement will work and whether security will really be guaranteed,” Zelenskyy said, AFP reports, citing News.ro.

For the first time since the start of the Russian invasion nearly six months ago, a ship loaded with 26,000 tons of corn left Odessa on the Black Sea for the port of Tripoli in Lebanon under an international agreement overseen by the United Nations to ease the global food crisis.

00:30VIDEO Guterres: “nuclear annihilation” of humanity is only a “misunderstanding” or “error of judgment”

23:48 Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin states that Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the Olenivskyi camp with the use of thermobaric weapons. “There are many international experts who cooperate with the Prosecutor General’s Office. I would like to inform you that the preliminary conclusions of our international experts indicate that the method of this murder was a thermobaric weapon. These are preliminary conclusions of several international experts. It was definitely not a missile strike – they are sure of that,” he said late Monday.

23:22Gazprom’s daily gas production is at a 14-year low. Daily gas production by Russia’s Gazprom fell in July to its lowest level since 2008, according to data, amid lingering fears that Moscow could trigger an energy crisis in Europe by cutting off supplies.

10:57 in the evening VIDEO Ukrainian weapon strike: a Russian tank was spotted by a drone, and then destroyed from the ground by the Stugna-P system.

10:16 in the eveningA gloomy assessment of the future of the Russian army: lack of professional soldiers, experienced officers and problems for years.

21:27 Donald Trump says Ukraine had to give up Crimea and NATO to make a deal with Putin.