“Today I especially want to praise the soldiers who are returning to Ukraine step by step what is hers, especially in surroundings Bahmut,” said Zelensky in regular night video call. At the same time, he added that Kiev is preparing a new defense strategy for Ukraine, in which they will in air defense in the foreground and artillery.
“Cliché is purged of Russians,” however, the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces announced on social networks Oleksandr SyrianDeputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hannah Painter however, she shared a video of the Ukrainian army, which in hung the Ukrainian flag in the village. The Ukrainian government announced just a few hours later that it had fired Painter and five other deputy ministers.
Village Cliché was captured by Ukrainian forces a few days after liberating the village as well Andrijivkawhich also lies south of Bahmut.
Spokesman of the Ukrainian army Ilya Yelling he explained that he could control over Cliche Helped Ukraine encircle Bahmut. “We got an outpost that will be for us in enabled the offensive to continue in the future and liberation ours lands from the occupiers,” he added.
Cliche, in which was home to several hundred people before the start of the Russian invasion, was captured by Russian troops in January.
Before Zelensky’s visit in The White House
The victories on the battlefield are especially important for Ukraine, as Zelensky will visit Washington this week to seek further US support. This will be his second visit in White House since Russia invaded Ukraine last February.
In Kiev, they added that they shot down all 17 Russian missiles during the night, as well as 18 out of 24 drones Shahed.
Drone fell in near the Bulgarian resort
Bulgaria announced that it had sent a special team to the area of the Black Sea resort Seal’swhere it is in sunday night fell drone with explosives. After the examination, they will decide how to remove it.
Wang at the talks in Moscow
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Ji is through conversations with a Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov began a four-day visit in Russia, where he emphasized that both Beijing and Moscow bear responsibility for maintaining stability in the world, and confirmed China’s willingness to cooperate with Russia in the design multipolar Holy.
“China and They have Russia as the leading world power and permanent members of the UN Security Council have a special responsibility in maintaining global strategic stability and of global development,” Wang said. He emphasized that China must and Russia to respect its international obligations due to “the intensification of unilateral measures by forces that strive to maintain hegemony and block confrontations”. At the same time, Wang also confirmed China’s readiness to cooperate with Russia in the design multipolar Holy and establishing a more just world order.
The head of Chinese diplomacy will in to Russia until Thursday, and the purpose of his visit, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, will primarily be Russian-Chinese strategic security consultations, which he will attend at the invitation of the Secretary of the Russian National Security Council Nikolai Patrusheva.
According to the BBC, the Kremlin announced before his visit that Vang and Lavrov discussed on Ukraine, the expansion of forces and infrastructure of the NATO alliance in Asia-Pacific the region and strengthening coordination in international organizations such as the United Nations. According to the Russian media, the visit of the Chinese diplomat will also be aimed at preparations for the trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing.
At the beginning of the month, Putin said that he was planning a meeting with the Chinese president Sew to Jinping, but did not say when. According to the British BBC, analysts believe that he could attend the third forum in under China’s Pas initiative and road, which will take place in October in Beijing.
