Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday that its forces had repelled Russian attacks on various fronts and were preparing for a new attempt by the enemy to capture Avdiyivka, a key front-line town in the country’s east. A report by the General Staff of Ukraine late on Tuesday indicated that its forces repelled 15 attacks near Kupyansk in the northeast and 18 attacks near Maryinka, further south, where fighting has been going on for months and days. In and near Avdiivka, where the Russian military launched a new offensive campaign last month, 9 attacks were repelled.

Basic information about the war in Ukraine, day 623, LIVETEXT:

07:48 The General Staff of Ukraine said that its forces repelled Russian attacks on the Kupyansk, Maryinka and Avdiyivka fronts, where Moscow forces appear to be preparing for a new attempt to capture the city on the eastern front.

Vitaly Barabas, the head of Avdiyivka’s military administration, said several days of rain had prevented a new Russian assault that would constitute a “third wave,” but Moscow forces fired artillery at the city’s huge coke plant last week.

“We had heavy rains for almost a week. The terrain is too difficult and the equipment cannot move,” he told Public Television.

The last 16 workers who kept the plant running were eventually evacuated, he said, leaving the town of 32,000 with only two doctors and four nurses left before the Russian invasion.

07:04According to the majority of Hungarians, Viktor Orbán’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in China is unacceptable.

00:56 The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is confident that Ukraine will be in the European Union, showing that this result will be achieved through the internal transformation of the country in the interests of the people. “For Ukraine, the EU means economic security and social stability, and for the EU, Ukraine means strengthening the entire community,” he says.

A brief summary of recent events:

• The Netherlands on Tuesday sent the first five F-16 fighter jets to Romania to train Ukrainian pilots, Reuters reports. The planes landed in Fetesh, MApN reports.
• The European Union’s executive council will recommend on Wednesday that the EU block open accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova once those countries meet outstanding conditions, two European officials said.
• Russia has officially pulled out of a key treaty governing Europe’s post-Cold War armed forces: “It has become unacceptable.”
• Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians to remain united, days after his office and the army chief fell out over comments on Kyiv’s summer offensive, but concerns are growing in Ukraine.
• Moscow declares that it sees a “campaign of repression” in the Republic of Moldova. Russian diplomats on Tuesday condemned an alleged “campaign of repression” during recent local elections in the Republic of Moldova, while the ruling pro-European party accused Moscow of meddling.
• Major Gennadiy Chiastyakov, a close associate of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, was killed in the explosion of a grenade he received for his birthday. Kyiv provided an explanation in this case after media coverage of a possible murder.
• Russia has issued an arrest warrant for the judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), who in March issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin on charges of war crimes, TASS reports.
• The United States said Tuesday it supports supporting a “strong” democracy in Ukraine, but appeared to understand Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s reluctance to hold elections early next year.
• The government of Hungary and the new government of Slovakia consider it necessary to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine and do not support the supply of weapons to the Ukrainian army, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary Peter Szijártó at the conference. press conference in Bratislava after a meeting with the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico.

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• Tuesday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro