Kyiv announced yesterday, Wednesday, the departure of the first cargo ship from the port of Odessa located on the Black Sea via a new shipping corridor, despite earlier warnings from Russia that it could target ships using Ukrainian ports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the ship's sailing as “an important step” for freedom of maritime navigation off the coast of Ukraine.

The United States also considered on Wednesday that the Russian attacks using drones on Ukrainian infrastructure on the Danube River show President Vladimir Putin's indifference to food supplies for developing countries.

The Russian Federal Security Service announced on Wednesday evening that it had killed four Ukrainians who were attempting to infiltrate from Ukraine into the Bryansk border region, according to Russian news agencies.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Thursday that 45,000 residents of Moscow are participating in combat operations in Ukraine, in rare estimates of the number of personnel deployed in Ukrainian territories.