Ukraine is working to resume grain exports, Russia is bombing targets in the east

Ukraine on Monday continued efforts to restart grain exports through Black Sea ports under a deal aimed at easing the global food shortage crisis, but said the weekend bombing of Odessa port by Russian forces posed a threat to shipments.

As the war entered its sixth month, the Ukrainian military said it had detected large-scale Russian bombing in eastern Ukraine on Sunday night and said Moscow was continuing to prepare for an attack on Bakhmut in the industrial Donbass region, which Russia wants to control on behalf of the separatists.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said three people were trapped under the rubble of a cultural center in Chuhoyev, near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city in the northeast of the country, and a fourth person was injured.