Ukraine claims “successful attack on Russian Black Sea Fleet command center”

The Strategic Communications Directorate of the Ukrainian Army confirmed on Telegram, on Friday, attacked the Russian naval command headquarters in the city of Sevastopol. The Russian Defense Ministry had previously announced this “Five rockets [avaient] were shot down by anti-aircraft defense over the city, and that the building in question was on fire “damaged”. Sevastopol is located on the Crimean Peninsula, a Ukrainian region annexed by Moscow since 2014.

Russia has resumed its campaign of “energy terror” before winter, denounces Ukraine

“The phase of energy terror has already begun. » With this expression, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyhal on Friday condemned the resumption of Russian bombing attacks on infrastructure, cutting off water and electricity supplies. “We see it in the destruction of the infrastructure” Production and storage of fuels and “First Strikes” against electricity pylons “The last two weeks”he said at an economic forum in Kiev, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

The first ships loaded with wheat leave the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk

The bulk carrier Aroyatloaded with more than 17,000 tons of wheat, crossed the Black Sea via a “temporary humanitarian corridor”, Friday, towards Egypt. Three more cargo ships entered the ports of Chornomorsk and Pivdenny for loading “127,000 tons of agricultural products and iron ore for China, Egypt and Spain”said Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure. Since Russia did not extend the agreement on the safe export of Ukrainian agricultural products to the Black Sea, Kiev has tried to defy Russian threats and establish maritime corridors along the coasts of allied countries up to the Bosphorus.

According to Russian separatists, the Ukrainian army has carried out repeated attacks on the Eastern Front in the last 24 hours

“Over the past twenty-four hours, the enemy has conducted a series of actions toward Lyman and conducted combat reconnaissance in several directions simultaneously.”said the head of the Russian occupying force in the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, on Friday. The situation is in Bakmout, a city under Russian control since May “relax[ait] burning » and Ukrainian soldiers also tried to advance further north, near the towns of Sakko i Vantsetti and Rozdolivka, Pushilin also said. None of this information could be independently verified.

Zelensky in Canada, the country with the second largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world

The Ukrainian president continued his tour of North America with a visit to Canada, where he was greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who assured him of Canada’s “unwavering support” towards Russia. Mr. Zelensky is then scheduled to deliver a speech to the Canadian Parliament and then travel to Toronto, where the two leaders will meet business leaders and members of the Canadian-Ukrainian community. With around 1.4 million people, Canada has the second largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world after Russia.