
Ukrainian troops, who have been on the defensive for months, will soon counterattack as Russia’s offensive appears to be slowing, a military commander said, but Volodymyr Zelenskyi warned that unless they get weapons and ammunition quickly, the war could drag on for years.
The latest on the war in Ukraine, day 394, LIVETEXT:
07:33 Russian troops may have to advance as far as Kyiv or Lviv in Ukraine, former Russian President Dmytro Medvedev said in an interview with Russian news agencies.
“Nothing can be ruled out here. If you have to go to Kyiv, then go to Kyiv, if you have to go to Lviv, then go to Lviv to destroy this infection,” Medvedev said on Friday, RIA Novosti quoted.
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07:00 VIDEO Prigozhin spoke about the plan to return Ukraine to the borders of 1991: “They are preparing 3 strategic strikes”
01:17 Zelensky: In the free territory of the Kherson region, the occupier almost completely destroyed more than 50 villages
00:21 Von der Leyen launches initiative with Ukraine and Poland to repatriate children kidnapped by Russia
A brief summary of recent events:
- The Ukrainian army will “very soon take advantage” of the situation on the Bakhmut front, where Russian attacks are slowing due to heavy casualties, says Oleksandr Sirskyi, Ukraine’s most feared general.
- The head of American diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, opened the door to possible negotiations on Ukraine’s borders on Thursday, stressing that the decision will be up to Kyiv.
- Zelenskyy once again called on Europe to speed up arms deliveries to his country and, in particular, to send long-range missiles and more modern aircraft.
- Ukrainian officials say the Russians have suffered heavy casualties in three hot spots along the front line.
- British military intelligence said Russia had partially regained control of the approaches to the eastern Ukrainian city of Kreminna after its forces were pushed out of the region earlier this year.
- Russian troops have left the town of Nova Kakovka in the south of the Kherson region, the Ukrainian military said, but Russia’s official representative in the region denied this information. European Union leaders held talks with UN chief António Guterres on global food security and sanctions against Russia, and approved a plan to supply Kyiv with additional artillery shells.
- Any attempt to arrest Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Kremlin leader would be tantamount to declaring war on Russia, Dmitry Medvedev said. Hungary would not have arrested Putin if he had entered the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s chief of staff said.
- Slovakia handed over the first four promised MiG-29s to Ukraine, the rest are planned to be delivered in the coming weeks.
- Images that have surfaced on social media lead military experts to believe that Ukraine used a new type of naval drone in an attack on the port city of Sevastopol on Tuesday.
- The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Parliament on Thursday approved the draft law on the ratification of Finland’s membership in NATO.
- Finland’s defense minister said Thursday that he does not want to give Ukraine Hornet fighter jets, despite Ukraine’s request for such aircraft, but will send three more Leopard battle tanks.
- Ukrainian security forces shot down a group of Russian soldiers from a drone when they were preparing to go on a boat trip.
- Russia removed obsolete tanks and armored vehicles from long-term military storage for a number of reasons, not least the most obvious, to use them in attacks, the Institute for the Study of War explains.
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- Information about the Russian aggression was live on HotNews.ro on Thursday
Source: Hot News

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