the first city and the only major city that the russians have taken over. the ukrainians are really putting the russians in a hard place here, especially by attacking the supply lines, and trying to take out the major bridges that crossed the river that supply that. it is causing problems for the russians, and they re also taking out a lot of command centers including some very high ranking russian military officials. so the ukrainians are already making some progress there, and so i do think that there is high potential that a counteroffensive can make some progress, maybe not claw back all that land, but some progress in the south. but i also think, you know, over the long run, that it is going to be very hard for ukraine to take back all of that territory. and i am kind of on zelenskyy s same page with zelenskyy, in saying that, you know, if you do a cease-fire, that the russians
damage any grain storage facility. hot on what is going on. it sounds like they are saying they attacked the poor but they were going for weapons, not anything to do with exports. the point is that the agreement reached yesterday was quite explicit you don t attack any cargo ship carrying grain and you don t attack the port those ships are coming from, so this would seem superficially to be completely in breach of that agreement. earlier i spoke to evgeny popov, member of parliament for president putin s united russia party. he insists russia is abiding by the grain deal. we are following every letter of the istanbul deal which my government have signed a few days ago. you can do with this ukrainian grey whatever you want and you can exported from ukraine in porch right now, right now. ukrainian cargo ships, civilian ships, are safe. ukrainian ports.
i will deliver tax cuts but tax cuts you can believe in. i will make that happen. what i m about is about cutting people s taxes, reversing the national insurance increased to put more money in people s pockets and making sure those who work hard and go out to work are rewarded. there s been widespread condemnation of a russian missile attack on the ukrainian port city of odesa only one day after moscow signed a deal with kyiv to enable the export of grain through odesa and other ports. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky said russia would always find ways
not to keep its promises. the un secretary general, antonio guterres also condemned the missile strike, saying that full implementation of the grain deal made between russia, ukraine and turkey was crucial. evgeny popov is a member of parliament for president putin s united russia party. he claims russia is abiding by the grain deal. we are following every letter of the istanbul deal which my government have signed a few days ago. you can do with this ukrainian grey whatever you want and you can exported from ukrainian portsright now, right now. ukrainian cargo ships, civilian ships, are safe. the grain is safe and we are not going to do anything with that. well, earlier i spoke to ukraine s mp for odesa oleksiy honcharenko and i started by asking him if he felt the grain
the grappling with high food prices. fr? the moment, it is not critical, but we have another critical line, the collection hasn t started any ukraine, and is 20 million tonnes are more 50 60,000,000 are coming, and that means that ukraine doesn t have enough capability and capacity to store this grain. so that is why it was so crucial and pushing the deal now. the head of the world health organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern the highest level of alert the who can issue. dr tedros adhanom ghebreyesus was speaking at a news conference in geneva. he said his scientific advisory committee had been divided on whether to declare an emergency but he d taken the decision based on the rapid spread of the virus. 16 thousand cases of the disease have been reported in more than 70 five countries, and five people have died. dr tedros says monkeypox represents a high risk in europe, with a clear risk of further international spread.