Kyiv (AFP) The Ukrainian military said on Sunday that it had repelled an attack in the Vlahodatne region in the eastern Donetsk region, but the Russian private military group Wagner said it had taken control of the village.Â
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A tearful mourner in Kyiv on Sunday paid tribute to a British volunteer who was killed while attempting a rescue mission from the eastern Ukraine city of Soledar.
British volunteer worker Andrew Bagshaw and his colleague Chris Parry, who served, died in a humanitarian evacuation attempt in eastern Ukraine, Parry’s family said. Putin is open to ‘contact’ with Germany’s Scholz, Kremlin spokesman tells RIA.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted contact with Prime Minister Olaf Scholz but is not planning a phone call with him, a Kremlin spokesman told state news agency RIA Novosti on Sunday.
Germany, which has been a major Western holdout to supply Ukraine with modern main battle tanks to fend off a Russian invasion, said last week it would send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv and also allow shipments of Leopards by allies. rice field.
The announcement enraged the Kremlin with the US promise to deploy his M1 Abrams tanks to Kyiv soon after.
North Korea on Sunday refused to supply weapons to Moscow after the US said the nuclear-armed state had supplied rockets and missiles to the Russian private military group Wagner.
Earlier this month, Washington designated the Wagner Group as an “international criminal organization” for engaging in arms deals with North Korea in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. Ukraine repels attacks around Vlahodatne while Russian Wagner rules.The Ukrainian military said on Sunday that it had repelled an attack in the Vlahodatne region in the eastern Donetsk region, but said the Russian private military group Wagner had taken control of the village.
“Units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repulsed an attack by the occupiers in the … Brahodatne area of ​​the Donetsk region,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff said in a daily morning report, referring to Saturday’s fighting. .
Its troops repelled Russian attacks on 13 other settlements in the Donetsk region, he added. The Wagner Group, classified by the US as a transnational criminal organization, said Saturday via messaging app Telegram that its forces control Vlahodatne.
182 Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian companies, 3 people sanctioned
Ukraine has imposed sanctions on 182 Russian and Belarusian companies and his three individuals, and President Volodymyrzelensky has taken a series of measures to cut ties between Moscow and Minsk with Ukraine.
“Their assets in Ukraine have been frozen and their property is used for our defense,” Zelensky said in a video speech.
According to a list published by the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, the sanctioned companies are mainly engaged in goods transportation, vehicle leasing and chemical production.
The list includes Russian potash fertilizer producer and exporter Uralkali, Belarusian state potash producer Belarus, Belarusian Railways, and Russian companies VTB-Leasing and Gazprombank Leasing, both of which are engaged in transport leasing. there is Zelensky said on Friday that Ukraine will launch an international campaign to keep Russia out of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.
Russia said any attempt to kick it out of international sport was “destined to fail”.
