Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his command in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow says it has annexed, as Russian forces stepped up artillery fire and airstrikes on the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi also visited the front line in the small eastern town of Avdiyivka on Tuesday, encouraged the soldiers and received information from the command about the situation on the battlefield, his office said.

Main information about the war in Ukraine, day 420 LIVE-TEXT:

07:26 Russian drones struck the Odesa region at night and caused a fire at an infrastructure facility, Yuriy Kruk, the head of the military administration of the Odesa region, reported on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

According to him, there are no victims, firefighters are working at the scene.

Synthesis of the last 24 hours of the war:

• Blocking Ukrainian grain helps Putin, warn the two largest political groups in the European Parliament
• President Klaus Iohannis, who is on an official visit to Brazil, said at a joint press conference with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that he discussed with him, including the war in Ukraine, presenting Romania’s position on this conflict.
• The head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, who is a supporter of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is included with his family on the list of Western sanctions, flew over the airspace of Romania, a NATO member, on a luxury plane without any problems. , before arriving in Chisinau, writes Deutsche Welle. We will remind that the delegation headed by Rustam Minnikhanov, which was supposed to take part in the forum organized in the semi-autonomous region of Gagauzia of the Republic of Moldova, was rejected by the Chisinau authorities.
• In a statement released on Tuesday by the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow condemned the “blatant interference” of the United States, Great Britain and Canada in the “internal affairs” of Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry warned US Ambassador Lynn Tracy that “any actions of the American side aimed at inciting discord and enmity in Russian society and using the diplomatic mission as a cover for subversive activities will be strictly prosecuted.”
• The Ukrainian army on Tuesday afternoon unveiled the AMX-10 RC armored personnel carriers it received from France, with Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov saying the Kyiv military has nicknamed them “sniper rifles on wheels.”
• The disclosed American documents will not affect the actions of NATO allies regarding Ukraine, the head of NATO believes. The leak of information from Pentagon documents will not affect the actions of NATO allies regarding Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told CNN on Tuesday.
• Macron wants China’s help to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table. Emmanuel Macron is going to approach China with a plan that he believes could lead to talks between Russia and Ukraine, Bloomberg reports.
• Former McDonald’s restaurants in Belarus will be renamed Mak.by. Restaurants that previously operated under the McDonald’s brand in Belarus will be renamed Mak.by, the local company announced today, while retaining access to the recipes, Sky News reports.
• Poland, which, together with Hungary and Slovakia, blocked the import of grain and other agri-food products from Ukraine over the weekend, announced that they had reached an agreement to restore the transit of Ukrainian grain through its territory from Friday, writes Reuters.

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