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Separatists report territory gains around town of Soledar as Ukraine hopes for longer-range missiles
Ukrainian tanks fire on frontline positions near the town of Soledar in June
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Zelenskyj sees progress in negotiations on grain +++ rapprochement in dispute over Kaliningrad transit +++ The news on Russia’s war in Ukraine in star-Live blog.
The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is entering its 141st day. In terms of grain exports, hope is burgeoning: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is optimistic about a way out of the dispute over the Russian naval blockade. At the talks between representatives of the United Nations, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey in Istanbul, a “decisive step” was taken towards a solution to the grain conflict, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York.
There could also be progress in the dispute over the Kaliningrad transit. Following protests and threats from Moscow, the EU Commission has drawn up new guidelines for transit traffic between Russia and its Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad.
Meanwhile, fighting in eastern Ukraine continues. In the Donetsk region, the separatists, supported by the Russian army, have claimed territory gains in the small town of Soledar.
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Ukraine hopes for US missiles with high, longer range
Separatists report territory gains around town of Soledar
Thomas Krause
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is optimistic that his country will be back soon export grain can. In Turkey, internationally mediated talks about ending the Russian naval blockade in the Black Sea had brought a breakthrough, according to the UN.
According to Zelenskyy, chances are good that the blocked grain exports will soon be released will. “The Ukrainian delegation informed me that there is some progress,” he said in his video address on Wednesday on the negotiations in Turkey on the lifting of the naval blockade of Ukrainian ports by the Russian Navy. Zelenskyy assured that if the Russian threat to shipping in the Black Sea was successfully ended, the global food crisis would become less acute.
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Yannik Schuller
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, and the judicial authority of the European Union, Eurojust, are also involved. Video messages are planned by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Selenskyj.
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Ukraine hopes for US missiles with high, longer range
Yannik Schuller
Meanwhile, Ukraine is hoping Longer range missiles from the USA. Talks are being held “at all levels” with US officials, said Fedir Venislawsky, a member of the parliament’s defense committee.
So far the army for the Himars rocket launchers only has projectiles with one Range of around 70 kilometers. However, there are also missiles for targets a good 300 and 500 kilometers away.
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Separatists report territory gains around town of Soledar
Yannik Schuller
the war in Ukraine is entering the 141st day. According to their own statements, the separatists, who are supported by the Russian army, have claimed areas around the small town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine.
The separatist representative Vitaly Kiselyov expects the city to be conquered within the next two days. The small town’s chief of military administration, Serhiy Hoshko, has contradicted this. The Ukrainian troops had successfully repulsed the “attempt by the Russian army”.
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