A large-scale fire broke out on Wednesday at a fuel warehouse in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. A Russian news channel reported that explosions were heard. Over the past 19 months, the Ukrainian army has recaptured more than 54% of the country’s territory occupied by Russian troops, US Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley said on Tuesday.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 574, LIVETEXT:

01:00Ukraine has liberated more than 54% of the territory occupied by the Russians since the beginning of the invasion, says the head of the US Army, General Mark Milley.

00:50The Moscow-appointed governor of occupied Donetsk claims that one person was killed as a result of Ukrainian shelling of the region earlier today.

“A man died today in the Kyiv district of Donetsk as a result of shelling by Ukrainian artillery,” Denis Pushylin reported in Telegram. “A total of five people were injured in the regional capital during the day,” he said.

00:01An ardent supporter of additional aid to Ukraine, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is defending Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s request for more money.

This is happening a few days before the visit of the President of Ukraine to the US Capitol. McConnell said Tuesday, according to CNN, that he will attend a Senate hearing Thursday morning.

“I think it is always good to remind everyone that a significant part of the money allocated to Ukraine is spent in this country to rebuild our industrial base. It is also important to remember that we did not lose a single American,” he said.

A quick summary of the latest information:

• Ukraine has liberated more than 54% of the territory occupied by the Russians since the beginning of the invasion – the head of the US army
• At the UN, Zelensky accuses Russia of “genocide”. Russia’s transfer of “tens of thousands” of Ukrainian children to the territories occupied by it in Ukraine is “obvious genocide”, the president of Ukraine accused the UN on Tuesday.
• In his speech at the UN, Joe Biden asks the world to support Ukraine. “Russia thinks that the world is bored and will allow Ukraine to be brutalized without consequences,” Biden said in his speech at the UN General Assembly.
• The war is not standing still, but Ukraine needs additional support, says the head of NATO. NATO’s secretary general insists the conflict in Ukraine is a “war of attrition,” but it has not reached a stalemate, Sky News reports. However, Kyiv urgently needs new air defense equipment
• Ukraine rejects accusations that the explosion in Kostyantynivka was caused by a deflected Ukrainian missile
• Zernovych: Ukraine should remember that it receives help from Poland, – Polish President Andrzej Duda
• More than 25,000 people lost their limbs during the war in Ukraine. Many of them are soldiers who also suffer from the psychological trauma of being on the front lines of the conflict.
• New Defense Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that Britain has just committed to delivering tens of thousands more artillery shells to Ukraine this year.

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