kyiv continues its counter-offensive operations in at least three directions

• “Heavy fighting” is currently taking place on the front, according to the Ukrainian deputy defense minister. A “serious showdown” opposes the Russian and Ukrainian armies on the front, said Wednesday evening Hanna Maliar on Ukrainian television, also mentioning “fierce fighting”.
• Kyiv’s counter-offensive is showing results on the front line. Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations in at least three directions and advanced on the frontline on Wednesday, the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) analyzes in a note released overnight. from Wednesday to Thursday.
• The NATO Secretary General wants to strengthen military support in kyiv. Jens Stoltenberg pleaded on Wednesday for increased military support from the Alliance to Ukrainian forces to enable them to carry out their counter-offensive against Russia. The supply of arms and the reconstitution of the ammunition stocks of the countries of the Alliance will be at the heart of the discussions, Thursday, of the ministers of defense with their Ukrainian counterpart.
• The visit of the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporizhia power plant postponed to Thursday. The IAEA said on Sunday that it needed access to the area around the plant to check the level of the vast reservoir contributing to the cooling of the installations.
• The International Committee of the Red Cross was able to see 1,500 prisoners of war “from both sides”. The ICRC did not say how many it saw on the Russian side. The organization had come under repeated criticism from Volodymyr Zelensky, who blamed it for not doing enough to gain access to Russian-held soldiers.
• The Russian border regions of Kursk and Belgorod were shelled overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday by the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian authorities announced on Wednesday. Authorities did not report any casualties.
• Alexander Lukashenko announces that Belarus has received its first Russian tactical nuclear weapons. Some of these weapons are “three times more powerful” as the bombs dropped in 1945 by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, announced Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

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