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As the war in Ukraine rages on, Russia launched an airstrike on Odesa city early Sunday (July 23), killing two and injuring 22 others. The airstrike destroyed six houses and apartment buildings, and Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church was severely damaged. A video released by the Odesa police showed emergency services workers taking out religious items from the cathedral.
The airstrike comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in St Petersburg. Putin said that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had failed.
Putin and Lukashenko met a crowd of people in Russia’s Kronstadt town on Kotlin Island, in a rare walkabout for the longtime leaders a month, following a deal to end the dramatic mutiny by Russian mercenary group Wagner.
As the war in Ukraine rages on, Russia launched an airstrike on Odesa city early Sunday (July 23), killing two and injuring 22 others. The airstrike destroyed six houses and apartment buildings, and Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church was severely damaged. A video released by the Odesa police showed emergency services workers taking out religious items from the cathedral.
The airstrike comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in St Petersburg. Putin said that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had failed.
Putin and Lukashenko met a crowd of people in Russia’s Kronstadt town on Kotlin Island, in a rare walkabout for the longtime leaders a month, following a deal to end the dramatic mutiny by Russian mercenary group Wagner.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, on Sunday that Moscow draw attention of Western public information about the losses of foreign mercenaries from these countries fighting for Ukraine.
“As for foreign mercenaries, they also suffer significant losses,” Putin told Lukashenko, as quoted by Russian news agency TASS. To which the Belarusian president said “Big [losses] because of their tactics,” and his Russian counterpart said “Yes…because of their stupidity.”
In an interview with CNN, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ukraine has taken back about 50 per cent of the territory that Russia seized. However, the Ukrainian counteroffensive will extend several months.
“It’s already taken back about 50% of what was initially seized,” Blinken told CNN. He added, “These are still relatively early days of the counteroffensive. It is tough.”
“It will not play out over the next week or two. We’re still looking I think at several months,” said Washington’s top diplomat.
The Polish government announced on Saturday that a maintenance hub for tanks damaged in Ukraine during the ongoing war with Russia begun operating in its southern city of Gliwice.
“The maintenance hub in Gliwice has started operating! The first two Leopards have already arrived from Ukraine to the Bumar plant,” Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak tweeted.
Russian special forces on Saturday (July 22) killed a man who broke out into a private house in the suburbs of Moscow and fired at them. According to a report by the news agency Associated Press, the assailant was spotted by guards after he broke into an unoccupied house located in an elite village in Istra, about 45 kilometres west of Moscow. Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised to strike back at Russia for the deadly airstrike in Odesa, which killed two people and inuring 22 others.
“Missiles against peaceful cities, against residential buildings, a cathedral. There will definitely be a retaliation against Russian terrorists for Odesa,” President Zelensky said.
Putin and Lukashenko met a crowd of people in Russia’s Kronstadt town on Kotlin Island, in a rare walkabout for the longtime leaders a month after a deal to end a dramatic Wagner munity in Russia.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that he was keeping Russian Wagner mercenaries in central Belarus and that Minsk was “controlling” the situation with the notorious fighters on its territory.
“They are asking to go West, ask me for permission… to go on a trip to Warsaw, to Rzeszow,” Lukashenko told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.