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View all search resultsUkraine to resume grain exports despite attack
Kyiv continue with shipments as West condemns strikes on Odesa.
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kraine pressed ahead with efforts to restart grain exports from Odesa and other Black Sea ports on Sunday after a missile attack that cast doubt over whether Russia would honor a deal aimed at easing global food shortages caused by the war.
President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the strikes on Odesa as blatant “barbarism” that showed Moscow could not be trusted to implement Friday’s deal, mediated by Turkey and the United Nations.
However, a government minister said preparations to resume grain shipments were ongoing, and public broadcaster Suspilne quoted the Ukrainian military as saying the missiles had not significantly damaged the port.
The deal signed by Moscow and Kyiv was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough that would help curb soaring global food prices, but as the war entered its sixth month on Sunday, there was no sign of a let-up in the fighting.
While the main theater of combat has been the eastern region of Donbas, Zelensky said in a video posted late on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were moving “step by step” into the occupied eastern Black Sea region of Kherson.
The Ukrainian military reported Russian shelling on Sunday in numerous locations in the north, south and east, and again referred to Russia’s operations as paving the way for an assault on Bakhmut in the Donbas.
The strikes on Odesa drew strong condemnation from the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy. On Friday, UN officials had said they hoped the agreement would be operational in a few weeks.
