The Russian Defense Ministry has dispatched a fighter jet to fend off an American drone in the Black Sea. In Odessa, a second cargo ship, blocked in the port of Odessa by Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Export Agreement, set sail and entered Romanian territorial waters. Finally, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said that genetic tests confirmed the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in the plane crash on Wednesday, in which the leadership of the paramilitary group Wagner took place.
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A new freighter leaves Odessa
A second cargo had been stranded in the port of Odessa since February 2022, exiting via a makeshift corridor set up by Kiev after the Black Sea Grains Agreement failed. This new sea corridor in the Black Sea is designed to ensure the safety of shipping for the transportation of grain from Ukrainian ports.
“ The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier PRIMUS, owned by a Singaporean operator, has left the port of Odessa and is using the temporary corridor set up for civilian ships »said Ukraine’s Ministry of Reconstruction, adding that the ship was carrying steel products destined for Africa.
The cargo ship reached Romanian waters “after navigating smoothly through our makeshift corridor”announced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in social networks.
On August 17, the first ship using this new Ukrainian shipping route managed to reach Istanbul. President Zelenskyy described this departure as“Milestone”.
Russia says it repelled a US drone in the Black Sea
Moscow said on Sunday it shot down one of its fighter jets to prevent an American drone from crossing the Black Sea border. “As the Russian warplane approached, the foreign reconnaissance drone turned around and left the border of the Russian Federation said the Russian Defense Ministry.
Since Russia withdrew from the agreement to protect grain exports by sea in mid-July, there has been renewed tension in the Black Sea. In recent months, there have been numerous incidents involving Russian and Western aircraft over the Black Sea and Baltic Sea. The tension was particularly great when an American Reaper drone crashed into the Black Sea in March after a Russian warplane intervened.
The Commission of Inquiry announces that Prigojine’s death has been confirmed by a genetic report
Russia officially confirmed on Sunday that “according to genetic expertise”the death of the head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Evguéni Prigojine, whose plane crashed on Wednesday, raising suspicions of an assassination attempt abroad.
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The private jet aboard Prigozhin and his security guard crashed in the Tver region northwest of Moscow late Wednesday afternoon, killing ten people. At the end of “molecular genetic expertise” It took several days before the identity of the ten victims was clarified “Match List” Passengers and crew members of the plane, the Russian investigative committee said in a statement on Sunday.