According to the governor, a Russian attack in southern Ukraine killed a grain export mogul

July 31st, 2014 in KYIV The owner of one of Ukraine’s leading grain exporters was killed in Russian airstrikes early Sunday in Mykolaiv, a southern Ukrainian port city, while Russia claimed a Ukrainian drone attacked its Black Sea navy headquarters in Sevastopol.

Vitaliy Kim, the Mykolaiv governor, claimed on Telegram that Oleksiy Vadatursky, the founder and owner of agricultural firm Nibulon, and his wife were assassinated in their house.
Since it is based in the strategically vital city of Mykolaiv, which borders mostly Russian-occupied Kherson area, Nibulon is well-versed in growing crops for export as well as manufacturing them domestically.

“A big loss for all of Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said of Vadatursky’s death, noting the entrepreneur’s efforts on creating an integrated grain market with several terminals for grain transshipments as well as grain elevators.

After Zelenskiy’s evening talk, he said: “It is these people, these enterprises, specifically the south of Ukraine, which has secured the world’s food security.” “This has always been the case, and it has never changed. And it’ll be that way again soon.”

“Our people, our skills, are undoubtedly more powerful than any Russian missiles or shells,” he said of Ukraine’s social and economic potential.

Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych of Mikolaiv informed Ukrainian television that three persons had been injured and that 12 missiles had been fired at residential areas and educational institutions in the city. This was his second time calling these airstrikes on a city, and he said they were “perhaps the most powerful” in the war’s first five months of action.
Grad missiles pounded Nikopol’s suburbs early on Sunday, Dnipropetrovsk Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said through Telegram. Only one person was hurt in the attack.

Day Strike by the Navy

Sevastopol’s governor Mikhail Razvozhayev confirmed to Russian media that Ukrainian troops had struck Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters early on Sunday.

According to him, a drone flew into the headquarters courtyard, injuring five people. He further said that Ukraine had intended to “spoil Navy Day for us.”

Reuters was unable to independently verify the accounts from the battlefield.

Russian President Vladimir Putin commemorated Russia’s Navy Day by declaring that the navy will soon acquire “formidable” hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles, which he labelled “formidable.” Nine times the speed of sound, these missiles can be launched.

After adopting a new navy doctrine that positioned the United States as Russia’s principal enemy and laid out Russia’s global maritime objectives for critical regions including the Arctic and the Black Sea, Putin did not mention the crisis in Ukraine.

Thousands of Russian forces crossed the border into Syria on February 24, sparking an outbreak of violence that has resulted in the deaths of thousands and the displacement of millions, as well as severely strained ties between Russia and the United States.
Conflict in Europe has triggered an energy and food catastrophe that has sparked a worldwide economic disaster. Grains come from Ukraine and Russia, two of the world’s top exporters.

HARVEST COULD BE HALFED.

On Sunday, Zelenskiy predicted that the nation will only harvest half of what it usually does this year because of the invasion.

On Twitter, Zelenskiy remarked, “Ukrainian crop this year is under the prospect of being twice less, implying half as much as normal.” “In order to avoid a worldwide food catastrophe precipitated by the Russian invasion, this is our primary objective. Despite this, grains are still transported in other ways “he said, adding.

The crisis in Ukraine has made it difficult for Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to ship its goods to customers.

However, on July 22, a deal was made between Turkey and the United Nations, ensuring the safe passage of grain ships departing from three southern Ukrainian ports.

A spokeswoman for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated on Sunday that the first grain-exporting ship might depart Ukraine’s ports on Monday. read on to learn more

DANGER IN THE EAST.

Some Russian soldiers have been moving from the eastern Donbas area to the southern Kherson and Zaporizhizhya districts, according to Zelenskiy.

“Nonetheless, it won’t assist them. Our military and intelligence officials would retaliate to any Russian aggression “she said.

Even though Russia is attempting to seize total control of the Donbas area, Zelenskiy said on Saturday that hundreds of thousands of civilians were still subjected to heavy warfare in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Russian-backed rebels occupied large swaths of the Donbas before the Russian invasion.

There were scores of Ukrainian detainees who died while being detained by rebels supported by Russia, and on Sunday, Russia stated it had asked United Nations and Red Cross specialists to investigate the murders.

Allegations of a missile strike or explosion that killed Ukrainian prisoners of war in eastern Donetsk have been circulated between Ukraine and Russia.

In what it said was an attack by Ukrainian forces using U.S.-made artillery, the Russian defense ministry issued a list of 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war who had been killed and 73 who had been injured.

Ukraine’s military denied involvement for the strike, claiming that Russian artillery had been used to cover up the prison’s abuses.

While the ICRC denounced the assault and stated it had not yet been granted permission to attend, it added that it was not its job to publicly examine suspected war crimes.

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