7:08 am: Ukraine prepares to resume grain exports
Ukraine continued its preparations on Sunday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for the resumption of grain exports, the day after a Russian strike on Odessa.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky condemned "barbaric" attacks, which he said cast doubt on compliance with the agreement reached on Friday under the aegis of Turkey and the United Nations for the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports.
6:54 am: Pyongyang accuses Washington of waging biological warfare in Ukraine
North Korea has accused the United States of manufacturing biological weapons in Ukraine, echoing an accusation already made by Russia and dismissed by the United Nations in March.
Washington has "installed numerous biological laboratories in dozens of countries and regions, including Ukraine, in defiance of international treaties", the official North Korean news agency KCNA said, referring to elements "detected". by Russia.
Pyongyang, an ally of Moscow, has also accused Washington of being "a vicious sponsor of biological terrorism throwing humanity into destruction" and of waging "bacterial warfare" during the Korean War in the 1950s. that Pyongyang, Beijing and Moscow have done repeatedly in the past.
5:50 am: several injured in strikes on the Ukrainian port of Odessa, according to the governor
Saturday's Russian missile strikes on the port of the city of Odessa - widely condemned by kyiv's western allies - in southern Ukraine caused injuries, the region's governor announced, without specifying how many. .
"Unfortunately, a few people are injured. Port infrastructure is damaged," Maksym Marchenko said in a video message posted on social media.
With Reuters and AFP
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