Russian troops have launched offensive operations in the Avdiyivka region of Donetsk region and southwest of Orikhov in western Zaporizhzhya region, which are likely aimed at pushing Ukrainian forces away from the Robotyn sector, the Institute for the Study of War reports. Ukrainian troops continued counteroffensive actions near Bakhmut and in the west of Zaporizhzhia region and confirmed the offensive in the border area of ​​Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Ukrainian war. Day 595. LIVETEXT:

00:58Zelensky asked when the war will end: I think we are in the last part, the most difficult, because the war was long

00:18The Prosecutor’s Office of Bulgaria announced on Tuesday the indictment of five alleged members of an international network suspected of circumventing the embargo imposed by the European Union on the supply of military equipment to Russia

A quick summary of the latest information:

• On Tuesday, during his first visit to Bucharest after the Russian invasion, Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Romania for the support, including military aid. For his part, Iohannis assured that Romania will continue to support Ukraine, including in the military sphere, “until victory.” Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Tuesday in an interview with several Romanian TV channels that Romania has supported Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia with 15 “packages” of military aid.
• Prior to Zelenskyi’s arrival in Romania, Senator Diana Sosoke, who is often invited to events organized by Russia’s ambassador to Romania Valery Kuzmin, sent a series of scathing messages, claiming that “it will be bad” if the leader from Kyiv goes to parliament. Romania.
• The visit of the Ukrainian president to Bucharest was “conjunctural and related to the transplanting of pieces on the eastern rift,” Arman Goshu, a historian and political scientist from the post-Soviet space, said on Tuesday.
• A gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea have been damaged by what appears to be a deliberate “external” act, the Finnish government said on Tuesday.
• Russia failed to regain its seat on the UN Human Rights Council, from which it was expelled after the invasion of Ukraine, despite receiving 83 votes out of 193 UN member states.
• Russia on Tuesday accused the United States of preparing to resume nuclear tests in the state of Nevada, while Moscow said it would not resume its nuclear test program until a decision was made by the US adversary.
• The chief of the Warsaw General Staff and another high-ranking Polish military commander tendered their resignations on Tuesday, just days before the most tense parliamentary elections in the country’s history.
• Germany has announced a new support package for Ukraine worth about 1 billion euros, the Ministry of Defense reported. The program will cover air defense, weapons and ground-based equipment, it added
• The odds that Slovakia’s next government will be led by former Social Democrat Prime Minister Robert Fico, who leads the Smer-SD party and wants to end Slovakia’s military aid to Ukraine, increased on Tuesday after the leader of another left-wing party, Glas (Vocea ) , Peter Pellegrini, announced that from now on he would only consider the option of a coalition with Fico.
• Russians who leave the country and support Ukraine should be sent to gulags in Siberia if they ever return home, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Tuesday.
• UEFA recently eased its policy of banning all Russian national and club teams from international competition, but the European Forum was forced to reconsider this decision after several federations announced that their teams would not play matches against the country’s national team. .
• The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the Ukrainian army tried three times to liberate the city of Energodar and the Zaporizhzhya NPP from Russian occupation, but without success.

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