Moscow says it has repelled an attack by militias allied to Ukraine that led to a series of chaotic battles in Russia’s Belgorod region in recent days, and Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said late Tuesday that restrictions imposed after the cross-border attack had been lifted. .

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 455, LIVETEXT:

07:02The mystery surrounding the death of Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation Petro Kucherenko / “We were all hostages” / Why he feared for his life

06:45 Conclusions after the G7 meeting in Hiroshima (Editorial Financial Times)

01:09 VIDEO 28 Russian soldiers and officers surrendered to Ukrainians / The command is accused: “They sent us to certain death”

00:57Zelenskyi: Every foreign visit and every negotiation allows Ukraine to become stronger

00:40The name of the city of Bakhmut will be changed to Artemivsk, says Pusilin

A brief summary of recent events:

• Images of several armored vehicles, which were used as captured or destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, began to circulate in social networks
• Russian Prime Minister Mykhailo Mishushin arrived in China on a visit, during which he will meet with President Xi Jinping and sign a series of agreements on infrastructure and trade.
• Training of Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16 aircraft has begun in Poland, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell said. Borrell also reported that since March, EU countries have provided Ukraine with 220,000 artillery shells and 1,300 missiles. The member states are discussing increasing the European military budget by another 3.5 billion euros, of which 1 billion euros will be allocated to Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s Pivdenny port has suspended operations because Russia is not allowing ships there, effectively pulling it out of an agreement that allows safe grain exports from the Black Sea, a Ukrainian official said.
• Ukrainian troops still control the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut, and the intensity of hostilities in the city has decreased, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Malyar said on Tuesday. According to her, Kyiv forces have made some progress “on the flanks to the north and south of Bakhmut.”
• Zelenskyi visited the marines at the Vugledar-Marinka defense line in the Donetsk region as part of the celebration of the Day of the Marines of Ukraine.
• Ukraine is investigating the alleged role of Belarus in the forced transfer of children from territories occupied by Russia, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine told Reuters. The statement was made in response to a report by the Belarusian opposition in exile that 2,150 Ukrainian children, including orphans aged 6 to 15, were taken to so-called health camps and sanatoriums on Belarusian soil.
• Oleksandr Lukashenko appeared in public and rejected statements about health problems. In the video, the 68-year-old Belarusian president told officials: “I’m not going to die, guys.”
• Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Hershkovich, detained in March in Russia on charges of espionage, remains in a pretrial detention center in Moscow until August 30.
• Russia did not start any war, but is trying to end the one unleashed against it with a special military operation, Vladimir Putin said.
• Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday its 2022 net profit fell more than 40% to 1.266 billion rubles ($15.77 billion) from 2.093 billion rubles in 2021.
• Vladimir Putin, on whose name the ICC has issued an international arrest warrant in connection with crimes committed in Ukraine, will be detained if he arrives in the Republic of Moldova, President Maia Sandu said.
• Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has called on the Bashkirs, an ethnic Turkic group that makes up nearly a third of the population of the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan (Bashkiria), to rise up against Moscow and President Putin.
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said again on Tuesday that Ukraine cannot win a war against Russia “with the current numbers”.

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