The counteroffensive is getting stronger and Russia is continuing its strikes

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Today’s reality

Good news for the counterattack. The Ukrainian army announced the liberation of the village of Robotyn after weeks of fighting on the southern front. Russia continued its bombings across the country, killing at least three people in the center of a village in the Poltava region.

Since launching their counteroffensive in June, Ukrainian forces have been advancing slowly as they face heavily fortified defensive lines. Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, claims the counteroffensive has failed, saying it will inflict significant losses on its adversary.

Number of days

Two. Like the number of Ukrainian cargoes that reached Istanbul despite the end of the grain deal. On Monday, the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Primus passed the coast of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria after leaving Odessa on Sunday. Russia has threatened to attack ships leaving Ukraine in the Black Sea since Ukraine’s grain export deal expired in July.

Sentence of the day

Our president took the initiative (negotiations to resume the agreement) (…) to prevent the world from facing a food crisis. He will come to Sochi soon. We hope that new developments can take place after this visit.”

These are the words of AKP, Erdogan’s party spokesman Omer Celik. Turkish President Vladimir Putin will travel to Russia “soon” to negotiate the resumption of a grain deal between Moscow and Kiev.

No date has yet been announced by Turkish or Russian officials for the visit. According to the Bloomberg agency, the Turkish head of state may visit Russia on September 8, when he will leave for the G20 summit. Russia cut Ukraine’s grain export deal in July and then threatened to attack ships departing from Ukraine in the Black Sea.

The trend of the day

Ukrainian drones rain down on Russia Russian officials said early Monday that Russia had foiled overnight attacks by Ukrainian drones in the Moscow and Bryansk regions. “According to initial reports, there was no casualty or damage,” he said, adding that emergency services were on site. During the night from Sunday to Monday, two other planes in service over the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine were destroyed by air defenses, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a Telegram.

Drone strikes against the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, have escalated in recent weeks, particularly in the wake of a counteroffensive from Kiev that began in early June, targeting the Russian capital.