Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the 500th anniversary of the war with a visit to Snake Island, a small patch of land that many Ukrainians have come to symbolize their resistance to the Russian invasion. “I want to thank this place, a place of victory, each of our fighters for these five hundred days,” he said in a video early Saturday, adding that the island is “proof that Ukraine will retake every part of its territory.” .” ”
President Biden defended the move to supply Kiev with cluster munitions, telling reporters that Ukraine is “running out of ammunition” as it attempts to breach Russian defenses. The government’s decision comes amid concerns about the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive and after an internal debate over shipping the controversial weapons, which are banned in most countries and can leave behind unexploded submunitions that can remain deadly for decades.
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But despite the state-controlled media vilifying Prigozhin as a greedy, treacherous opportunist, the Kremlin has allowed him to return to Russia and recover millions in cash and personal weapons, showing that making him disappear is not that easy.
Still, the gaslighting effort appears to be working, putting Russia’s shocked populace back into passive mode and portraying Putin as stronger than ever to be the majority,” said Maria Lipman, a Russia analyst at George Washington University.