2023-08-28 00:45:42
According to Kiev, almost six weeks after the failure of the grain agreement with Russia, a second cargo ship left the port of Odessa in southern Ukraine. According to the government in Kiev, the Liberian-flagged freighter “Primus”, which is owned by a Singapore shipping company, is using a temporary corridor set up for civilian ships in the Black Sea. The ship is on its way to Bulgaria, Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko said on Telegram.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked “everyone who made this possible”. According to him, the ship was loaded with steel for the African market.
Container ship “Primus” on the way to Varna in Bulgaria
Source: AFP/STRINGER
On August 16, the container ship “Joseph Schulte” was the first freighter to cast off from Odessa since the end of the Grain Agreement. A day later the ship, which had been in the port of the Black Sea city since the beginning of the war, reached Istanbul.
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In mid-July, Moscow withdrew from the grain agreement that had allowed Ukraine to transport grain across the Black Sea despite the war. Ukraine then opened sea lanes to merchant ships from several Black Sea ports in early August, despite Russia’s announcement that it would target any ship originating from Ukraine or heading to Ukraine in the Black Sea after the grain deal expires.
All developments in the live ticker:
02:39 am – Flight operations resumed in the Moscow region
Air traffic at the two Moscow airports Domodedovo and Vnukovo has returned to normal after an interruption. The airports had meanwhile been closed for take-offs and landings, as reported by the Russian state news agency Tass, citing the air traffic services. It was later said that the capital’s Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports and the Zhukovsky military airport had resumed operations. A reason for the suspension of flight operations was not initially given.
01:47 a.m. – air traffic in the Moscow region is again suspended
Air traffic at the two Moscow airports Domodedovo and Vnukovo has again been suspended. The airports for take-offs and landings are temporarily closed, the Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing the air traffic services. A reason for the suspension of flight operations was not initially given. Most recently, air traffic in the Moscow region was repeatedly interrupted at night due to drone attacks.
00:00 – Ukraine expects combat deployment of F-16s in spring
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov assumes that the F-16 fighter jets will be used against Russia from spring. “I would say that could be in the spring of next year,” he said, according to “Bild”. The Western jets are likely to prove to be a “serious ‘game-changer'” in the fight against Russian troops.
Ukraine has started training pilots, engineers and technicians. Now the infrastructure for the F-16 in Ukraine must be prepared. “It should take at least six months, maybe a little longer. That’s why I think it will be in the spring of next year,” Resnikov said on the Ronzheimer podcast.
8:54 p.m. – Zelenskyj wants stricter anti-corruption laws
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he wants to call on parliament to introduce stricter penalties for corruption next week. He will send a draft to the MPs, according to which corruption in the event of war is to be equated with high treason, he explains in a video shared via Telegram.
Ukraine ranks 116th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index.
7:13 p.m. – Russian fighter jet intercepts US reconnaissance drone over Black Sea
Russia says it has prevented a US Air Force reconnaissance drone from penetrating its airspace over the Black Sea by sending a fighter jet. “As the Russian warplane approached, the foreign reconnaissance drone made a U-turn and moved away from the state border of the Russian Federation,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
Moscow reported a similar incident on Tuesday. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, two fighter jets were dispatched to intercept two drones over the Black Sea. Moscow did not provide any information on which country these drones came from.
18:00 – At least three dead after Russian attacks in Ukraine
According to the authorities, at least three people were killed in Russian artillery attacks in Ukraine on Sunday. A 35-year-old woman was killed and a man injured near the southern Ukrainian city of Cherson, the regional military administration said. A little later, the public prosecutor’s office reported another dead person and another injured person – this time in Cherson itself. The investigators assumed a Russian artillery attack.
In a village near the eastern Ukrainian industrial city of Kharkiv, a woman died after her house was hit by Russian artillery, according to the regional military administration.
The current situation in Ukraine
Source: Infographic WORLD
16:49 – Ukrainian Army: “We are advancing south from Robotyne”
According to a spokesman, the Ukrainian army is working its way south after breaking through the Russian defense line at Robotyne. The next targets are the villages of Novoprokopivka, Mala Tokmachka and Ocheretuvate. Officer Oleksander Shtupun, spokesman for the troops in this sector of the front, said this on Ukrainian television on Sunday.
Although the Russian air force was stepping up its attacks there, Schtupun interpreted this as a sign that the exhausted Russian artillery and infantry no longer had much to oppose the Ukrainian advance.
16:00 – Elite Ukrainian pilot “Juice” among the victims of the fighter jet collision
According to information from Kiev, three pilots of the Ukrainian Air Force were killed in a collision between fighter jets in north-western Ukraine, including the well-known fighter pilot “Juice”. The fatalities are Vyacheslav Minka, Serhiy Prokasin and Andriy Pilschchykov alias “Juice”, said the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade.
In the accident, two L-39 training aircraft collided in the Zhytomyr region on Friday, the Ukrainian Air Force announced a day later.
Pilschchykov, known by the aviator name “Juice”, was “courageous, principled and uncompromising”, his brigade explained. The three victims had been “involved in air operations in defense of Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s aggression,” including “tactical tasks in the east and in the Zaporizhia region.”
A spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force described Pilshchykov as a pilot with “mega-knowledge and mega-talent”. “Rest in peace, you have done so much for us,” said the spokesman in online networks. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid tribute to the dead in a speech on Saturday as a defender of the “free skies of Ukraine”.
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1:32 p.m. – Russian paramilitaries threaten to disobey orders
A force of right-wing Russian paramilitaries is said to be threatening to disobey orders in the Ukraine war because one of their leaders is imprisoned in Finland. The Russian government should force the 36-year-old to leave the country, the Rusitsch militia is demanding. The US Institute for War Studies ISW reported on this on Sunday. “If a country doesn’t protect its citizens, why should citizens protect the country?” it said on Telegram.
The detained Russian is suspected of committing atrocities against Ukrainian soldiers during fighting in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and 2015. Ukraine is therefore demanding his extradition. The district court of Vantaa near Helsinki extended the man’s detention on Friday, according to Finnish radio Yle. The well-known right-wing extremist had already been arrested in July for violating residence regulations. According to Russian paramilitaries in the Finnish prison, he is said to have already been questioned by officials from the Ukrainian secret service SBU.
13:04 – Russian investigators: DNA test confirms death of Prigozhin
Four days after a private plane crashed in Russia, the death of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was confirmed by DNA tests, according to Russian investigators. The Russian investigative committee said on Sunday that all ten people who died in the crash were identified during the genetic tests. These are the people named on the passenger list of the flight.
A portrait of Prigozhin in Moscow. The mercenary leader died in the plane crash
Source: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/dpa
According to the authorities, Prigozhin was on the list, as well as his deputy Dmitry Utkin. The investigative committee did not initially provide any further information. The investigators also did not comment on the traces examined.
12:03 pm – Ukraine investigates deadly collision of fighter jets
In Ukraine, a collision between two fighter planes with three dead is under investigation. Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat told Ukrainian television on Sunday that the duration of the investigation was unclear. According to the Air Force on Telegram, two L-39 military aircraft collided during a combat mission over the western Ukrainian region of Zhytomyr on Friday. Three pilots are said to have been killed, including the well-known Andriy Pilshchykov, who campaigned for the country to receive F-16 fighter jets.
10:40 am – Russian authorities report drone crash on residential building
According to local authorities, a drone crashed on a residential building in the Russian city of Kursk near the border with Ukraine. No one was injured in the incident on Saturday night, regional governor Roman Starowoit said in the online service Telegram. Windows were broken on several floors, and a nearby university building was also damaged.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said two Ukrainian drones had been shot down in the Kursk region and in the Bryansk region, which also borders Ukraine.
08:42 – Russian cruise missile attack
Several regions in Ukraine reportedly came under fire from Russian cruise missiles early Sunday morning. Among other things, air defenses were activated in the outskirts of Kiev, as the military administration of the Ukrainian capital announced on Telegram.
The current situation in Ukraine
Source: Infographic WORLD
The Ukrainian Air Force said the cruise missiles were launched by Russian fighter jets near the town of Engels on the Volga. A total of eight missiles were observed. Four of them were shot down over northern and central Ukraine. Despite this, no impacts or damage were reported. Some of the guided missiles could have been dummies, it said.
08:27 – Two drones shot down over border area with Ukraine
According to the Defense Ministry, Russian armed forces have repelled drone attacks on areas bordering Ukraine. One drone each was shot down over the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the ministry announced on the Telegram news service. It was not initially announced whether there were casualties or damage.
04:38 – Attacks on Kiev and Cherkasy
Several regions in Ukraine have reportedly come under rocket fire. Among other things, air defenses were activated in the outskirts of Kiev, as the military administration of the Ukrainian capital announced on Telegram. The governor of Cherkasy, Ihor Taburez, also wrote in his Telegram channel that the central Ukrainian region had activated air defenses. Nothing was initially known about damage or victims. The information could not be independently verified.
20:55 – Ukraine prepares further mobilization
According to the Ukrainian leadership, they are preparing further conscriptions for the defensive fight against Russia. “Yes, the military have contacted us and there will probably be an additional convocation,” Secretary of the National Council for Security and Defense Oleksiy Danilov told Ukrainian radio on Saturday. However, he assured that the mobilization would not go beyond the parameters already set at the beginning of the war on February 24, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers during an exercise (picture from June 2023)
Quelle: picture alliance/ZUMAPRESS.com/Madeleine Kelly
According to Danilov, this is not an unscheduled measure. The mobilization has been going on for a year and a half, and several stages have already been completed. “You don’t have to make a fuss about it, everything is going according to the plan that we are currently pursuing,” said the top Kiev official.
8:15 p.m. – Ukraine reports two dead in Russian shelling of cafe
According to the local government, two civilians were killed and another injured in a Russian attack on a café in north-eastern Ukraine. Governor Oleh Synyehubov told Telegram that the attack on the facility in Podoly, a suburb of the city of Kupyansk, happened on Saturday morning. Rescue workers are on site.
British military intelligence believes it is possible that Russia could try to retake the Kupyansk area after Ukrainian troops recaptured it in a counter-offensive last September. Before that, the area was under Russian occupation for more than six months.
5:02 p.m. – Russia reports shooting down a drone near Belgorod
The Russian Defense Ministry has reported the shooting down of another drone near the city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border. The drone was approaching the city, the ministry said, but did not comment on possible casualties or damage. Belgorod is about 45 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
Meanwhile, the governor of the region of the same name, Vyacheslav Gladkov, accused the Ukrainian military of shelling a border village with cluster munitions, injuring six civilians. Gladkow provided no evidence of the use of these controversial weapons, which scatter shrapnel over a large area. Ukraine received cluster bombs from the US for the first time last month, but has pledged to use them only to disperse enemy soldiers.
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