Russia confirms its readiness to provide grain for free to countries in need.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday that Russia continues to prepare to supply countries in need with Russian grain for free, as an alternative to Ukrainian grain, after Moscow's exit from the Black Sea grain initiative, warning of the dangers of resuming the grain agreement without Russia and security guarantees. related to.

Peskov added, "Certainly Russia adheres to its position in this regard, and the issue of providing grain from Russia to Africa will be discussed during the Russian-African summit scheduled for the end of this July, and we are in contact with our African partners, and communication will continue during the St. Petersburg summit." In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had thwarted a Ukrainian attack attempt on targets in Crimea using 28 drones, explaining that the Russian air defense shot down 17 drones, and the remaining 11 were neutralized using electronic warfare.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khosnullin said traffic had partially returned on one of the lanes of the Crimean Bridge after an attack damaged the bridge, during which a Russian couple was killed and their 14-year-old daughter was wounded.

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that its forces destroyed in Odesa, in southern Ukraine, sites used by Kyiv to prepare for the attack that destroyed the Crimean bridge linking Russia to the peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, while the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that the Russian attack damaged the port of Odesa, the main site for the export of Ukrainian grain after Hours from the expiry of the agreement that made it possible to transport them across the Black Sea.

On the other hand, the Ukrainian army announced that the fighting situation in the east of the country is complicated, while the Russian army said that its forces advanced in the direction of the city of Kobyansk in the northeast.

There are conflicting Russian and Ukrainian accounts of the latest battles since Kyiv launched its counterattack early last month, but both sides have indicated the ferocity of the fighting.

The Tass news agency quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying that its forces had advanced up to two kilometers in the direction of Kobyansk, an important railway junction in the Kharkiv region.

On the other hand, the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, General Oleksandr Sersky, said that Russia had concentrated its forces in the Kobyansk sector, but the Ukrainian forces confronted them, while the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister, Hana Malyar, confirmed that Kyiv had regained territory of more than 210 square kilometers since it launched its counterattack. backed by weapons supplied by the West