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Diamars 2 augustus 2022

1st ship carrying Ukrainian grain leaves the port of Odesa

(AP) — The first ship car-
rying Ukrainian grain set Ukrainian authorities have
out Monday from the port been calling on civilians in
of Odesa under an inter- that region, which was over-
nationally brokered deal run by Russian troops early
to unblock the embattled in the war, to evacuate ahead
country's agricultural ex- of a planned counteroffen-
ports and ease the grow- sive.
ing global food crisis. More shelling was reported
in Kharkiv in the northeast
The Sierra Leone-flagged and Mykolaiv in the south.
cargo ship Razoni sounded Analysts warned that the
its horn as it departed with continuing fighting could
over 26,000 tons of corn des- still upend the grain deal.
tined for Lebanon. "The departure of the first
"The first grain ship since vessel doesn't solve the food
Russian aggression has left crisis; it's just the first step
port," Ukrainian Minister of that could also be the last if
Infrastructure Oleksandr Ku- Russia decides to continue
brakov declared on Twitter. attacks in the south," said
Volodymyr Sidenko, an ex-
Russia and Ukraine signed that Russia will simply refrain nies are not yet rushing to Olena Vitalievna, an Odesa pert with the Kyiv-based Ra-
agreements in Istanbul with from trying to disrupt Ukrai- export food across the Black resident. zumkov Center think tank.
Turkey and the U.N. on nian exports," Zelenskyy said. Sea as they assess the dan- "Finally, life begins to move
July 22, clearing the way for ger of mines and the risk of forward and there are some In other developments:
Ukraine to export 22 million In Moscow, Kremlin spokes- Russian rockets hitting grain changes in a positive direc- — In Washington, President
tons of grain and other agri- man Dmitry Peskov hailed warehouses and ports. tion," she said. "In general, Joe Biden approved an addi-
cultural products that have the ship's departure as "very U.N. Secretary-General An- the port should live its own tional $550 million in mili-
been stuck in Black Sea ports positive," saying it would tonio Guterres, who pro- life because Odesa is a port tary aid to Ukraine, including
because of Russia's invasion help test the "efficiency of the posed the grain deal in April, city. We live here. We want more ammunition for howit-
of Ukraine more than five mechanisms that were agreed said the Razoni was "loaded everything to work for us, zers and for the new Ameri-
months ago. The deals also to during the talks in Istan- with two commodities in everything to bustle." can-supplied multiple rocket
allow Russia to export grain bul." short supply: corn and hope." launchers that are making a
and fertilizer. Under the agreements, ships "Hope for millions of people The resumption of the grain difference on the battlefield.
going in and out of Ukrai- around the world who de- shipments came as fighting The package brings total U.S.
As part of the agreements, safe nian ports will be subject to pend on the smooth running raged elsewhere in Ukraine, military assistance to Ukraine
corridors through the mined inspection to make sure that of Ukraine's ports to feed with Russia pressing its of- to approximately $8.7 billion
waters outside Ukraine's incoming vessels are not car- their families," he said. fensive in the east while since the start of the Biden
ports were established. rying weapons and that out- Ukraine tries to retake terri- administration.
Ukraine and Russia are ma- going ones are bearing only Lebanon, the corn's destina- tory in the Russian-occupied — Ukraine's human rights
jor global suppliers of wheat, grain, fertilizer or related tion, is in the grip of a severe south. ombudsman said he had
barley, corn and sunflower food items, not any other financial crisis. A 2020 explo- Ukraine's presidential office written to his Russian coun-
oil, with the fertile Black Sea commodities. sion at its main port in Beirut said at least three civilians terpart suggesting a joint visit
region long known as the shattered its capital city and were killed and 16 wounded to the Olenivka prison, where
breadbasket of Europe. The The Razoni was scheduled to destroyed grain silos. Leba- by Russian shelling in the dozens of Ukrainian POWs
holdup of shipments because dock early Wednesday in Is- non imports mostly wheat Donetsk region over the past were killed in an explosion
of the war has worsened ris- tanbul, where teams of Rus- from Ukraine but also buys 24 hours. Donetsk Gov. Pav- Friday. Dmitry Lubets said
ing food prices worldwide sian, Ukrainian, Turkish and its corn for making cooking lo Kyrylenko repeated a call the Russian side indicated it
and threatened hunger and U.N. officials were set to oil and animal feed. for all residents to evacuate, would consider it.
political instability in devel- board it for inspection. emphasizing the need to re- Both sides have blamed each
oping nations. Kubrakov said the shipments move about 52,000 children other for the blast at the pris-
President Volodymyr Zel- More ships are expected to will also help Ukraine's war- still there. on, which is in Russian-con-
enskyy sounded a cautious leave from Ukraine's ports shattered economy. trolled territory. Ukrainian
note. Calling the shipment through the safe corridors. "Unlocking ports will pro- Two civilians were killed and officials maintain the explo-
"the first positive signal that At Odesa, 16 more vessels, all vide at least $1 billion in for- two seriously wounded when sion was caused by a bomb
there is a chance to stop the blocked since Russia's inva- eign exchange revenue to the Russian forces fired missiles set off inside the building.
spread of a food crisis in the sion on Feb. 24, were wait- economy and an opportunity at a bus evacuating people The International Commit-
world," he also urged inter- ing their turn, with others to for the agricultural sector to from a village in the southern tee of the Red Cross has also
national partners to closely follow, Ukrainian authorities plan for next year," he said. Kherson region, according to requested access to the pris-
monitor Moscow's compli- said. Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the on, but so far has been turned
ance with the deal. Hearing the ship sound its military administration in the down.
"We cannot have the illusions But some shipping compa- horn as it left port delighted city of Kryvyi Rih.

Dutch mom gets 3 years in US for supporting Somali militants

(AP) — A Dutch woman was a jury at U.S. District Court in Alex- should have been charged in the first
sentenced to three years in pris- andria of conspiring to provide mate- Hassan, a Somali native and moth- place. They said it was overreach for
on Monday for donating several rial support to terrorists. er of six, was granted asylum in the the U.S. to charge a Dutch woman
hundred dollars to a group that Netherlands as a teenager and settled for supporting Somali militants when
supported the militant group al- Prosecutors said she was one of about in the city of Terneuzen. She was she had no connection whatsoever to
Shabab in Somalia. 15 women who gathered in an online initially charged in 2014, but fought the U.S.
chatroom and regularly committed extradition for seven years before she
The sentenced imposed on Farhia small amounts of money to support was brought to the U.S. to face trial. While al-Shabab has been designated
Hassan, 38, was far less than the al-Shabab militants in Somalia and a terrorist organization by the U.S.,
8-year sentence sought by prosecu- Kenya. In all, prosecutors say she do- Two leaders of the group have already it carried no such designation in the
tors. nated about $300 over a three-year been convicted and sentenced to Netherlands or the European Union
period, though they admitted diffi- terms of 12 and 11 years, respectively. at the time the group was active, from
She was convicted earlier this year by culty tracking payments. Hassan's lawyers argued she never 2011 to 2014.