2023-08-16 05:11:29
Cover image: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the frontline, visiting the Zaporizhia region, August 15, 2023. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER / via REUTERS
Volodymyr Zelensky encountered Ukrainian forces on the southern front. The Ukrainian head of state met troops engaged in the counter-offensive against the Russian army on Tuesday in the Zaporizhia region, the presidency said. “During a trip to the Zaporizhia region, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, visited the locations of the brigades that carry out offensive operations in the Melitopol sector”the Ukrainian presidency said in a statement.The Russian president and North Korea on Tuesday advocated increased cooperation, especially in the field of defense, a new illustration of the rapprochement between these two enemies of the United States since the beginning of the Kremlin offensive in Ukraine. In the morning, Vladimir Putin was the first to advocate the strengthening of cooperation with Pyongyang, in a congratulatory message addressed to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the occasion of Liberation Day, celebrating, in North Korea as in South Korea, the end of Japanese colonial rule in 1945.Ukrainian Sports Minister Vadym Gutzeit does not exclude that “the Russians are making a gesture of goodwill by renouncing to surrender” at the Paris Olympics next year, he said in an interview with AFP. “If Russian athletes participate in the Olympics, Russian propagandists will try to turn this celebration of sport into a celebration of propaganda, as Hitler did”Gutzeit said, referring to the organization of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin by Nazi Germany.The Russian army said on Tuesday that it had bombed several military industrial sites in Ukraine during the night. “All targeted sites have been affected”assured, as usual, the Russian Ministry of Defense in its daily press release. “The military-industrial complex of Ukraine has suffered significant damage”he added. For his part, Ukraine claimed to have shot down sixteen of the twenty-eight missiles fired during the night by the Russians. A missile that was not intercepted by kyiv’s air defenses killed three people in Lutsk, in the west of the country. The Ukrainian presidency also reported an affected sports complex in Dnipro, a city in central Ukraine. According to AFP journalists on the spot, another missile hit the playground of a kindergarten in Lviv.Russian forces prevented an incursion of a “group of saboteurs” Ukrainians near the village of Kurkovitchy in the Bryansk region, bordering Ukrainesaid Tuesday on Telegram the governor of the oblast, Alexandre Bogomaz. He clarified that ” no one was hurt “ but that industrial premises were damaged in particular by bombardments.The Swedish government on Tuesday presented new military aid of 3.4 billion crowns (286.6 million euros) for Ukraine. This plan notably includes ammunition and spare parts for the CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles, for tanks and for the Archer artillery system. This plan will be submitted to the vote of Parliament on Thursday.
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