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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis signed an settlement throughout their assembly in Athens on Monday. (Kostas Tsironis/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned at a information convention in Athens that Greece would participate in coaching Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, though he didn’t provide particulars. He appeared alongside Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who mentioned that Athens would keep navy assist for Kyiv for so long as it takes and assist with postwar reconstruction.
The U.S. Embassy in Belarus urged Individuals to go away the nation “instantly,” citing spillover dangers from the warfare in Ukraine.
Right here’s the newest on the warfare and its ripple results throughout the globe.
Mitsotakis “unreservedly condemned” Russian warfare crimes in Ukraine, saying they “have to be punished beneath worldwide legislation.” After their Monday information convention, Zelensky met Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou earlier than attending a dinner with high officers from 9 Balkan nations, European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council chief Charles Michel.
The area round Russia’s capital was focused by drones in a single day for the fifth consecutive day. Regional governor Andrey Vorobyov mentioned Russian air protection forces intercepted two drones close to Moscow on Tuesday. One interception allegedly occurred west of Moscow and the opposite close to Krasnogorsk, Moscow’s satellite tv for pc metropolis, the place the ensuing blast “shattered home windows” in a 25-story house constructing and “broken automobiles” however brought on no casualties, Vorobyov mentioned. Moscow closed three airports early Tuesday, however they resumed operations inside a number of hours, Russia’s state information company Tass reported.
The U.S. Embassy in Belarus mentioned Individuals ought to keep away from touring to Belarus due to a buildup of Russian navy forces there, the “arbitrary enforcement of native legal guidelines” and the chance of detention and civil unrest. The embassy famous that Lithuania closed two border crossings final week, probably limiting methods out of Belarus, and that Lithuania, Poland and Latvia had been contemplating closing extra border crossings.
Ukraine’s forty seventh Separate Mechanized Brigade claimed to have entered Robotyne, a strategic village within the Zaporizhzhia area that Ukrainian and Russian troops have been preventing over for weeks as a part of Ukraine’s counteroffensive. One of many key targets of the counteroffensive is for Ukrainian forces to recapture Melitopol, a southeastern metropolis that serves as a significant Russian transit hub. Taking Robotyne may convey them one step nearer — although the 56 miles that separate them from Melitopol could be difficult for Ukrainian forces to breach. As The Washington Submit lately reported, the U.S. intelligence group has assessed that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to achieve Melitopol and that its forces will as an alternative stay a number of miles exterior of the town.
The British Protection Ministry mentioned there may be proof that some drone strikes in opposition to Russian navy targets “are being launched from inside Russian territory.” The ministry in its day by day intelligence evaluation Tuesday cited a Saturday assault in opposition to a Russian air base greater than 400 miles from Ukraine’s border. Russian authorities mentioned the assault, which “extremely possible destroyed” a Russian bomber plane, was carried out by a so-called “helicopter-style” drone. The British Protection Ministry mentioned these drones “are unlikely to have the vary to achieve [the air base] from exterior Russia,” suggesting that the assault could have been launched inside Russia.
The US is able to authorize the third-party switch of F-16 plane to Ukraine when “sure standards” are met, together with English-language coaching and logistics, Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh mentioned at a Monday briefing. She mentioned america would even be prepared to take part within the coaching of Ukrainian pilots, however solely “if capability is reached in Europe.”
The Russian Protection Ministry mentioned air protection methods detected two drones over the Bryansk area of western Russia in a single day. The ministry mentioned the methods jammed the drones, which crashed within the area, and it blamed Ukraine for the assault. The Submit couldn’t independently confirm the claims.
The Russian Protection Ministry mentioned two different drones crashed within the Black Sea northwest of Crimea on Monday night time after being jammed by digital methods. Moscow accused of Kyiv of being behind the drone assaults. The Submit couldn’t confirm the claims.
Russian shelling broken 4 multistory buildings within the metropolis of Zaporizhzhia in a single day, Zaporizhzhia Metropolis Council Secretary Anatolii Kurtiev mentioned on Telegram. No casualties had been reported.
Zelensky mentioned he had an “open, trustworthy and fruitful assembly” along with his Serbian counterpart at a summit of Balkan nations and Ukraine. Zelensky mentioned in a tweet Tuesday that he and Aleksandar Vucic spoke about “respect for the U.N. Constitution and the inviolability of borders,” about their nations’ “shared future within the widespread European residence” and about “creating our relationships, that’s in our mutual curiosity.” Their assembly is important as a result of Serbia has deep cultural and financial ties with Russia, and Vucic has resisted calls from Western nations to impose sanctions on Moscow. Nevertheless, a leaked U.S. intelligence doc urged a number of months in the past that Serbia had supplied or dedicated to supply deadly support to Ukraine — a declare Belgrade denied.
The U.S. State Division has greenlighted a sale of 96 AH-64E Apache assault helicopters valued at as much as $12 billion to Poland, the Pentagon mentioned Monday. Poland, which has sought to shore up its borders after Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, additionally requested 1,844 Hellfire missiles and 508 Stinger missiles, the Pentagon mentioned.
The corporate that oversees the Domino’s Pizza model in Russia mentioned it’s going to file for chapter there, signaling an finish to its operations almost 18 months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Submit reviews. The U.S.-based Domino’s Pizza has mentioned it lower off monetary assist for the Russian enterprise in December 2022.
Ukraine evacuates civilians as Russia tries to retake liberated metropolis: For weeks, Russia has ramped up its assaults on Kupyansk, attempting to win again a metropolis it misplaced final 12 months. The near-constant shelling is killing between 5 and 10 civilians within the metropolis and surrounding space every week, the regional governor mentioned. Though officers listed below are reluctant to acknowledge the looming threat of a second Russian occupation, they are saying they will now not assure the security of people that select to remain, Siobhán O’Grady, Heidi Levine and Serhii Korolchuk report.
Those that have agreed to filter are being evacuated by a coalition of volunteer teams. Some drove an ambulance by Kupyansk final week to achieve Oleksandr and Natalya Mikolovich of their fourth-floor house on the town’s east facet. On their manner, they handed a house engulfed in flames after a Russian artillery strike. A lot of those that had been nonetheless in Kupyansk when the evacuation order was introduced had been already susceptible. They embody many aged individuals who survived Russian occupation final 12 months and are reluctant to uproot their lives now.
John Hudson and Alex Horton contributed to this report.