Key occasions
At this time thus far
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The Donetsk oblast was hit exhausting up to now day, with no less than 15 Russian strikes killing seven civilians and injuring three extra. The Ukrainian nationwide police mentioned the strikes additionally destroyed 19 residential buildings and one energy line.
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Additional south, a automobile explosion close to the workplace of Russian propaganda channel ZaTV in Russia-occupied Melitopol has injured no less than 5 folks, together with some firm staff, authorities mentioned. Whereas investigators are nonetheless trying into the blast, Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-appointed occupied Zaporizhia oblast official, has purportedly informed Russian state media that the automobile explosion close to the workplace of Russian propaganda channel ZaTv in Russian-occupied Melitopol was a terrorist assault stemming from an “improvised explosive gadget”. He wrote on Telegram that the facility of the explosion was the equal of two kilograms of TNT.
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Amid air raid sirens, Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, arrived in Kyiv for his first journey to Ukraine since Russia invaded. His shock go to comes six months after the Ukrainian authorities snubbed the Social Democrat’s provide of a go to over his previous function in brokering nearer financial ties between Germany and Russia.
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In the meantime, in Berlin, European leaders convened for a convention on Ukraine’s reconstruction. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy informed the convention in a video deal with that greater than a 3rd of the nation’s power sector has been destroyed by rockets and Iranian drones. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Fee, spoke strongly about the necessity to help Ukraine in its reconstruction, particularly because it pertains to the nation’s ascension into the European Union.
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Ukrainian authorities at the moment are estimating that Russian forces have misplaced almost 68,420 personnel for the reason that begin of the invasion.
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15 Russian strikes in final day kill seven in Donetsk oblast
Seven civilians had been killed and three wounded amid 15 Russian strikes on eight settlements within the Donetsk oblast up to now day, authorities mentioned.
The Related Press is reporting that the assaults got here as Russian forces pressed their offensive on the strategically positioned cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in Ukraine’s industrial heartland of Donbas. Ukrainian nationwide police mentioned the strikes destroyed 19 residential buildings and one energy line.
Philip Oltermann
The shock go to by the German president to Kyiv on Tuesday comes six months after the Ukrainian authorities snubbed the Social Democrat’s provide of a go to over his previous function in brokering nearer financial ties between Germany and Russia.
Solely final week, Steinmeier had aborted a visit to Kyiv as a consequence of safety considerations, which led to the previous international minister being criticised as cowardly by opposition events in Germany.
“I’m trying ahead to my assembly with [Ukrainian] President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv,” he mentioned, based on a affirmation despatched by his spokesperson.
Earlier than assembly Zelenskiy, Steinmeier will go to a city within the north of the nation close to the Belarusian border, which Ukraine says has been liberated from Russian troops however left with its infrastructure destroyed.
Steinmeier will present help to the municipality for its power infrastructure, he mentioned. “My message to Ukrainians: you may rely on Germany”, Steinmeier mentioned.
The German president has proven contrition for the reason that begin of the warfare in Ukraine. “My sticking to [the Baltic Sea pipeline project] Nord Stream 2, that was positively a mistake,” he mentioned in Berlin on 4 April. “We held on to bridges that Russia not believed in, and of which our companions warned us.”
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Fee, spoke strongly about the necessity to help Ukraine in its reconstruction, particularly because it pertains to the nation’s ascension into the European Union.
Zelenskiy: greater than a 3rd of Ukraine’s power sector has been destroyed
In the meantime, whereas German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is in Ukraine for his first journey for the reason that Russian invasion, European leaders are convening in Berlin for a convention on Ukraine’s reconstruction.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy informed the convention in a video deal with that greater than a 3rd of the nation’s power sector has been destroyed by rockets and Iranian drones, Reuters is reporting.
However regardless of Ukraine’s nice want for funds to rebuild, Kyiv has not acquired a cent of the $17bn fast restoration funds that the European Fee and World Financial institution decided that Ukraine would want for the primary stage of restoration.
German president arrives in Kyiv amid air raid sirens
Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is in Kyiv for his first journey to Ukraine since Russia invaded and Moscow has since escalated with unsubstantiated warnings of a “soiled bomb”.
He touched down in Kyiv as air raid sirens started to sound across the capital.
Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-appointed occupied Zaporizhia oblast official, has purportedly informed Russian state media that the automobile explosion close to the workplace of Russian propaganda channel ZaTv in Russian-occupied Melitopol was a terrorist assault stemming from an “improvised explosive gadget”.
He wrote on Telegram that the facility of the explosion was the equal of 2kg of TNT.
A automobile explosion close to the workplace of ZaTV in Russian-occupied Melitopol has injured no less than 5 folks – together with some firm staff, officers mentioned.
ZaTv is a Russian propaganda channel that started broadcasting to the occupied components of the Zaporizhzhia oblast on 1 August. It’s unclear but if the blast was an accident or deliberate, or if anybody is taking duty for the incident.
Nobody informed the 108 feminine Ukrainian prisoners of warfare, why, after 5 months in essentially the most infamous jail in occupied Ukraine, their Russian captors had been main them to a bridge within the small south-west village of Kam’yans’ke.
However after they noticed their very own troopers, heard their very own language being spoken, and realised that they had been to be participating in a prisoner trade, they might not maintain again their feelings, mentioned 25-year-old Alina Panina, one of many Ukrainian troopers. “They shouted glory to Ukraine. Some ladies started to sing the nationwide anthem of Ukraine,” Panina mentioned. “Some ladies might not maintain again tears and cried. They fell to their knees on the bottom.”
Panina spoke solely to the Guardian’s Daniel Boffey. Learn extra of her extraordinary account right here: