A Russian bombardment in eastern Ukraine on Saturday killed eight people, on the 500th day of the war, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry announced. “As of today, we are aware of people dead […] as a result of enemy shelling this morning,” the ministry said on Telegram, adding that 13 people were injured. According to him, fires broke out after these strikes in a residential building and the annex of a printing press but could be extinguished.
The city of Lyman, an important railway hub in eastern Ukraine, was retaken in October by the Ukrainian army, which this week reported Russian offensives in this sector. Two people were also killed in a Ukrainian night bombardment on the town of Olechky, under Russian occupation, in the south of Ukraine, according to the local emergency services quoted by the Russian news agency Tass.
In an undated video posted to social media on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated his country’s “courage” by visiting Serpents’ Island in the Black Sea, where his army secured a high-profile victory earlier this year. the war against Russia. This symbolic milestone is crossed while Kiev, engaged in a counter-offensive against Moscow, obtained Friday the commitment of Washington to deliver cluster bombs to it, a few days before the NATO summit in Vilnius.
On Friday, the Ukrainian president secured a diplomatic victory after Washington’s decision to deliver cluster munitions to him, which he called “an indispensable aid package”. On the other hand, Washington showered the hopes of Volodymyr Zelensky who hoped for Western support for his country’s entry into NATO at the next Vilnius summit on July 11 and 12.
