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WORLD NEWS Monday 8 august 2022

Shift in war's front seen as grain leaves Ukraine; plant hit

By SUSIE BLANN The cause of the delay was
Associated Press not immediately clear.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Six Ukrainian officials were ini-
more ships carrying agricul- tially skeptical of a grain
tural cargo held up by the export deal, citing suspi-
war in Ukraine received au- cions that Moscow would
thorization Sunday to leave try to exploit shipping ac-
the country's Black Sea tivity to mass troops off-
coast as analysts warned shore or send long-range
that Russia was moving missiles from the Black Sea,
troops and equipment in as it has done multiple
the direction of the south- times during the war.The
ern port cities to stave off a agreements call for ships
Ukrainian counteroffensive. to leave Ukraine under mili-
Ukraine and Russia also ac- tary escort and to undergo
cused each other of shell- inspections to make sure
ing Europe's largest nuclear they carry only grain, fertiliz- The Star Helena bulk carrier, centre, makes its way from the port
power plant. er or food and not any oth- in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022.
The loaded vessels were er commodities. Inbound Associated Press
cleared to depart from cargo vessels are checked
Chornomorsk and Odesa, to ensure they are not car- Moscow separatists have tank. Citing local Ukrainian
according to the Joint Co- rying weapons. controlled some territory officials, it said the prepara-
ordination Center, which In a weekend analysis, Brit- as self-proclaimed repub- tions appeared designed
oversees an international ain's Defense Ministry said lics for eight years. Russian to defend logistics routes
deal intended to get some the Russian invasion that forces have made gradu- to the city and establish
20 million tons of grain out started Feb. 24 "is about al headway in the region defensive positions on the
of Ukraine to feed millions to enter a new phase" in while launching missile and river's left bank.
going hungry in Africa, the which the fighting would rocket attacks to curtail the Kherson came under Rus-
Middle East and parts of shift to a roughly 350-kilo- movements of Ukrainian sian control early in the
Asia. meter (217-mile) front line fighters elsewhere. war and Ukrainian officials
Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and extending from near the The Russians "are continu- have vowed to retake it.
the United Nations signed city of Zaporizhzhia to Rus- ing to accumulate large It is just 227 kilometers (141
the agreements last month sian-occupied Kherson. quantities of military equip- miles) from Odesa, home
to create a 111-nautical- That area includes the Za- ment" in a town across the to Ukraine's biggest port,
mile sea corridor that would porizhzhia Nuclear Power Dnieper River from Russian- so the conflict escalating
allow cargo ships to travel Station which came under held Kherson, according to there could have repercus-
safely out of ports that Rus- fire late Saturday. Each the Institute for the Study sions for the international
sia's military had block- side accused the other of of War, a Washington think grain deal.q
aded and through waters the attack.
that Ukraine's military had Ukraine's nuclear power Glamping Aruba
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the deal, which is in effect om, said Russian shelling
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first ship embarked on Aug. storage facility for spent
1. nuclear fuels and that one
Four of the carriers cleared worker was injured. Rus-
Sunday to leave Ukraine sian news agencies, citing
were transporting more the separatist-run admin-
than 219,000 tons of corn. istration of the plant, said
The fifth was carrying more Ukrainian forces fired those
than 6,600 tons of sunflower shells.
oil and the sixth 11,000 tons Russian forces have oc-
of soya, the Joint Coordi- cupied the power station
nation Center said. for months. Russian soldiers
Three other cargo ships there took shelter in bunkers
that left Friday passed their before Saturday's attack,
inspections and received according to Energoatom.
clearance Sunday to pass Rafael Grossi, director gen-
through Turkey's Bosporus eral of the International
Strait on the way to their fi- Atomic Energy Agency,
nal destinations, the Center recently warned that the
said. way the plant was being
However, the vessel that run and the fighting going
left Ukraine last Monday on around it posed grave
with great fanfare as the health and environmental
first under the grain exports threats.
deal had its scheduled ar- For the last four months of
rival in Lebanon delayed the war, Russia has con-
Sunday, according to a centrated on capturing
Lebanese Cabinet minister the Donbas region of east-
and the Ukraine Embassy. ern Ukraine, where pro-