Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House next week. He’s also tentatively scheduled to visit members of Congress at the US Capitol as the next tranche of US aid to Ukraine faces political headwinds from some Republican lawmakers. Zelenskiy will visit New York for the UN General Assembly.
(Bloomberg) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House next week. He’s also tentatively scheduled to visit members of Congress at the US Capitol as the next tranche of US aid to Ukraine faces political headwinds from some Republican lawmakers. Zelenskiy will visit New York for the UN General Assembly.
Ukraine’s troops captured the settlement of Andriivka in the Donetsk region, pressing ahead with their advance to the south of Bakhmut, the General Staff said on Facebook. The bulk carrier Puma, sailing under the flag of the Cayman Islands, left the Black Sea port of Odesa early Friday, according to a Ukrainian lawmaker. The major grain-loading facility has been mostly idle since Moscow pulled out of the UN/Turkey-brokered safe-transit agreement in July, and the target of several Russian missile attacks since then.
The UK defense ministry said Wednesday’s missile strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula did more damage than Russia has admitted. Open-source evidence indicates the landing ship Minsk was been functionally destroyed, while the submarine Rostov-on-Don incurred “catastrophic damage,” the ministry said in an update on X, formerly Twitter.
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