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Odesa port for Lebanon Monday under an accord brokered by Turkey and the United Nations that it is hoped will get millions of tons of
soaring food prices, hitting the world's poorest nations especially hard.Kyiv says at least 16 more grain ships are waiting to depart but
President Volodymyr Zelensky cautioned it was too early to celebrate."Let's wait and see how the agreement works and whether security will
mandatory evacuations from the eastern region of Donetsk bearing the brunt of the Russian offensive after Zelensky urged the estimated
people, many people with reduced mobility" arrived in the central city of Kropyvnytskyi on Tuesday morning.Officials have said they want to
get residents out of the battered region before the start of winter as gas pipes for heating have been severed.In the south of the country,
the head of Ukraine's Kryviy Rih military administration said Russian shelling had killed two civilians in a minibus trying to leave the
the city of Mykolaiv, the closest to where Ukrainian forces are looking to launch a counter-offensive in Kherson, said Russian strikes had
that a looming Ukraine counter-offensive for the neighboring Kherson region "will result in a decrease of shelling."Ukraine was bolstered by
United States announced a new tranche of weapons worth $550 million for Ukraine's forces, including ammunition for increasingly important
rocket launchers and artillery guns."Our artillerymen are ready to turn night into day to expel the Russian invaders," Ukraine's Defense
Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said.On the diplomatic front, Washington, London and Paris used a review of a key United Nations nuclear treaty to
rebuke Moscow for "irresponsible and dangerous" talk about possibly deploying nuclear weapons.Russian President Vladimir Putin rebuffed the
accusation, telling the Tenth Nuclear Proliferation Treaty Review Conference there could be "no winners" in a nuclear war and it should
"never be unleashed."The Kremlin nevertheless accused Britain, one of Kyiv's most vocal supporters, of deliberately worsening relations
Cameron, saying they "contribute to the hostile course of London, aimed at the demonization of our country and its international isolation."
