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More Russian stuff blowing up, plus cargo ships challenge the Black Sea blockade [1]

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Date: 2023-07-31

Three ships reportedly ran the Russian blockade of Ukraine’s ports, according to Forbes, and landed at a port on Ukraine’s side of the Danube River, the border with Romania.

Twenty-two days after Moscow canceled a deal with Kyiv—which had allowed Ukraine safely to export tens of millions of tons of grain—and then threatened to halt maritime traffic to Ukrainian ports, the world has called the Russians’ bluff. “Reports of three civilian ships sailing to Ukraine unhindered may suggest that Russia is either unwilling or unable to enforce such searches at this time,” the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C. noted A flock of NATO aircraft carefully monitored the ships as they sailed toward Izmail, a small Ukrainian port just across from Romania on the Danube River. The vessels presumably will load grain in Izmail then sail back into the Black Sea and onward to foreign ports. The Israeli vessel with the ship-tracking handle Ams1, as well as the Greek vessel with the handle Sahin 2, sailed north from the Bosporus Strait, while the Turkish-Georgian Yilmaz Kaptan sailed west from northern Turkey. Overhead, no fewer than four NATO warplanes patrolled: a U.S. Navy P-8 patrol plane, a U.S. Army Challenger with a surface-scanning radar, a U.S. Air Force RQ-4 drone and an E-3 early-warning plane from NATO. None of the planes routinely carries weapons, but NATO fighters— including Italian Eurofighters and Romanian F-16s —were nearby in Romania.

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The death toll from this Russian missile attack on a residential building in Kryvyi Rih is at least 6.

x The number of victims in Kryvyi Rih has increased to 73, including eight children, reported the head of the City Military Administration Vilkul#RussiaIsATerroristState pic.twitter.com/3okA47JiBu — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) July 31, 2023

x Mom and daughter killed by a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih today. RIP.



Search and rescue operation in Kryvyi Rih is finished - head of National Police.



6 people died and 75 wounded by the missile strike.#RussiaIsATerroristState pic.twitter.com/vHFCxvVbgY — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) July 31, 2023

The ongoing shelling of Kherson has claimed more victims. Warning: The video shows a victim.

x Today, 4 people were killed and 17 were wounded in Kherson Oblast as a result of Russian indiscriminate shelling. pic.twitter.com/vFpUfUMBIW — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) July 31, 2023

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Another Russian heavy mortar bites the dust.

x 2S4 Tyulpan goodbye 👋 pic.twitter.com/ss5XstSvld — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) July 31, 2023

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Good shooting.

x Air defense units of the 10th separate mountain assault brigade shot down a ZALA Lancet kamikaze UAV. pic.twitter.com/m4LjU8On9N — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) July 31, 2023

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Haven’t heard much from the Kinburn peninsula lately.

x Ukrainian artillery hit and destroyed an entrenched observation and firing post of Russian forces north of Pokrovka on the spit. pic.twitter.com/cbbbKUYfr6 — WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3) July 31, 2023

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He fucked around. He found out.

x Only Putin’s war... https://t.co/Ks45NMlUVb pic.twitter.com/oIV2LfYhir — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) July 31, 2023

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Military recruitment in St. Petersburg is literally booming.

x In St. Petersburg, a man threw a Molotov cocktail at the door of a military recruitment office. pic.twitter.com/Vs2r4oQSXu — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 31, 2023

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Georgians turned out in force to protest the stop in Batumi, Georgia, of a Russian cruise ship.

x Batumi, Georgia 🇬🇪

TCH reports that meanwhile, nine protesters were detained in Batumi, who came to give the Russians a "hospitable reception". Among those detained is a citizen of Ukraine. It is also reported that some of the tourists did manage to get off the liner and get on… pic.twitter.com/Gctg9emASU — LX (@LXSummer1) July 31, 2023

And they got results.

x Amid ongoing protests in Batumi condemning docking of Russian cruise ship Astoria Grande carrying Russian pop stars and journalists supporting the Ukraine invasion, the tourist company has removed Batumi from its future cruises. pic.twitter.com/WgZnjLBTiQ — Formula NEWS | English (@FormulaGe) July 31, 2023

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The missile strike over the weekend that hit the Chonhar Bridge is now confirmed to have hit the adjacent rail bridge instead, causing extensive damage.

x A photo of the Chonhar bridge after a Ukrainian strike on it on 29th July, 2023.



Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed a strike on Chonhar bridge (one of the key elements in Russian military logistics in the South of Ukraine).



Russian media did not mention the strike at all.… pic.twitter.com/1cfi8JWpKB — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) July 31, 2023

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The Russian milblogger cited here also says that Russian artillery in Urozhaine has been attrited to the point that it can no longer provide counter-battery fire.

x Russian Vatnik Romanov: He is one of the few TG bloggers who actually visits the front frequently and has channels of communication with Russian mid-level commanders. Underlying his comments is a growing sense of fear about what is really happening...



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Vermeevsky… pic.twitter.com/Bgrt5dc6Si — OSINT (Uri) 🇺🇦 (@UKikaski) July 31, 2023

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Looks like Ukraine has a new summer uniform.

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Heroes come in all forms.

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