War in Ukraine, live: Mykolaiv hit by rocket fire

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Cover photo: A grain dump continues to burn more than 3 weeks after the bombing. Pervomaisk, Mikolaiv Oblast, July 27, 2022. ADRIEN VAUTIER / LE PICTORIUM FOR “DIE WORLD”

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• “We will rebuild the Antonivsky Bridge”, assured Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday evening in his daily video intervention. Ukrainian strikes partially destroyed this bridge in the suburbs Kherson, a town occupied by Russian forces, occupation authorities said on Wednesday. The Antonivsky Bridge is strategic for supplies as it is the only one connecting the city to the south bank of the Dnieper and the rest of the Kherson region.
• The three Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhne, Ships destined for grain export have “resumed work” although efforts still need to be made to ensure the safety of the convoys, the Ukrainian Navy said via Telegram on Wednesday. “Vessels departing from and arriving at seaports are carried out by forming a convoy that accompanies the lead ship,” she said. Thanks to Turkey’s mediation and under the aegis of the United Nations (UN), Kyiv and Moscow have reached an agreement in Istanbul to allow about 25 million tons of grain stuck in Ukrainian ports to be shipped abroad.
• Kharkov, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the north-east of the country, was hit by a Russian missile attack on Tuesday. “At 4:25 a.m. the Kharkiv industrial zone was shelled [par] two S-300 missiles,” the city’s mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote on Telegram.
• In eastern Ukraine At the same time, the Donbass mine basin was the scene of intense fighting. Two people were killed and five injured in a bombing of a hotel in Bakhmout, Ukrainian emergency services said. Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists who were in the town, one of the last in Donbass to remain under Ukrainian control, heard sporadic artillery fire and saw a house hit by a Russian shell.
• The appointment of Andriy Kostin, an MP from the President’s political party, as the country’s Attorney General was confirmed by the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday. Mr Kostin, a 49-year-old MP who is a member of Mr Zelensky’s party, Servant of the People, won the support of 299 of Ukraine’s 450 MPs. Mr. Kostin’s first task, recalled the President of Ukraine, who proposed his appointment, will be “to do everything in his power to prove Russia’s responsibility for the war”, “in cooperation with the International Criminal Court”. . He replaces Iryna Venediktova, who was fired from her post as Attorney General earlier this month.
• Ukraine will increase its electricity exports to the European Union, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. The Ukrainian President said he wanted to help his European partners fight back against Russia’s gas blackmail. The Twenty-Seven on Tuesday agreed to reduce their consumption this winter to limit their reliance on Russian gas after supplies from Russian industrial conglomerate Gazprom fell sharply again and announced a halving of its daily supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream gas pipeline .

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