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Ukraine Live Briefing: First grain shipment leaves Ukraine under deal to ease food crisis

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Updated August 1, 2022 at 12:40 p.m. EDT|Published August 1, 2022 at 3:35 a.m. EDT
A firefighter works to douse flames in a building hit by Russian shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, July 31, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Reuters)
A firefighter works to douse flames in a building hit by Russian shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, July 31, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Reuters)
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ODESSA, Ukraine — A ship carrying grain left the Ukrainian port of Odessa for the first time since Russia’s invasion under a U.N.-backed deal meant to ease the global food crisis.

Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the world.

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Key developments

  • The cargo vessel is carrying more than 28,000 tons of corn. It is expected to arrive in Turkish territorial waters Tuesday, en route to Lebanon. A Russian missile strike on Odessa a day after a U.N.-brokered grain-export deal was signed in late July had raised fears that the arrangement would crumble.
  • The key Black Sea port of Mykolaiv was hit over the weekend by “one of the most brutal shellings” since the war began, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after dozens of Russian rockets destroyed homes, schools and infrastructure. Among those killed in the city was one of Ukraine’s richest business executives, who founded an agriculture company that helped facilitate the country’s grain exports.
  • Finger-pointing continues over an attack on a detention center in Russian-occupied Donetsk that killed 50 Ukrainian prisoners. Russia claimed that it invited international monitors to investigate the Olenivka prison site, but the International Committee of the Red Cross said its request to do so has not been granted. “Granting ICRC access to POWs is an obligation of parties to conflict under the Geneva Conventions,” it tweeted.
  • The European Commission on Monday announced that $1 billion in financial aid for Ukraine, out of a package totaling $9 billion, will be delivered by Tuesday.

Battlefield updates

  • Ukraine on Monday confirmed the delivery of precision Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) from Germany, bolstering a growing arsenal of such systems that have been credited with the destruction of dozens of strategically important Russian targets, The Washington Post’s Rick Noack reports. German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht recently said an initial delivery of German Gepard antiaircraft tanks had arrived in Ukraine, and that Germany was sending more self-propelled howitzers than initially planned. Several German IRIS-T air defense systems are also slated for delivery in autumn.
  • Russia is making slow progress in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, probably a result of redirecting troops to southern Ukraine, Britain’s Defense Ministry said in its latest intelligence update Monday. It added that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces were “probably adjusting” operations after failing to make a significant breakthrough in recent months.
  • Ukraine reports casualties following a strike by Russian forces in Kharkiv. Governor Oleh Synyehubov confirmed the attack on Telegram, saying that at least two people were injured in shelling that targeted Kharkiv’s Saltivskyi District early Monday.
  • Overnight Russian shelling destroyed part of a trauma center in Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said Monday as he posted photos purporting to show the scale of destruction on his official Telegram channel. Recent Russian attacks have also obliterated homes and killed civilians, Ukrainian officials said.

Global impact

  • Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Monday announced his plans to vote against adding Sweden and Finland to NATO, a posture at odds with virtually all of his Senate colleagues from both parties. In a piece for the National Interest, which Hawley’s office blasted out to reporters, the senator argues that the United States needs to prioritize standing up to “Chinese imperialism” over Russian aggression.
  • Tensions flared between Kosovo and Serbia over the weekend, raising concerns about the possibility of fresh unrest in the Balkans at a time when Western allies are focused on the war in Ukraine. Putin in recent months has tried to justify his invasion by citing the Western Balkans, pointing to the legacy of the 1999 NATO intervention in the former Yugoslavia. But Kosovo’s president, Vjosa Osmani, sees an altogether different parallel, writes Ishaan Tharoor in Today’s WorldView newsletter.
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has stirred wider tensions in the region. Analysts say Moscow’s nationalist and revisionist worldview has found a receptive audience in Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, The Post’s Rachel Pannett reports.

From our correspondents

As Putin squeezes gas supplies, Germany is falling back on coal. The last coal pits around Bexbach, Germany, were closed a decade ago, leaving the power plant puffing plumes of pollutants as a relic of a dying regional industry. But now plant equipment is being repaired, contractors have come out of retirement, and manager Michael Lux is faced with a novel prospect: expanding the head count, write The Post’s Loveday Morris and Vanessa Guinan-Bank.

The push is part of a Pan-European dash to ditch Russian natural gas and escape Putin’s energy chokehold. While the war in Ukraine has simultaneously turbocharged the European Union’s race to renewables, fossil fuels still provide the quickest fix.

Hassan reported from London, Fahim from Istanbul and Nichols from Seoul.

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