Cover Photo: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee visit the site of a mass grave in the city of Boutcha on July 15, 2023. YONHAP / via Portal
- Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘agrees with me’ on the extension of the Black Sea Grains Agreement, which expires on Monday evening, said his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, which the Kremlin denied. Russia has not commented on the extension of the agreement allowing the export of Ukrainian grain, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called on Russia to renew the agreement on transit of Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea. “If Moscow threatens [de ne pas proroger l’accord] If implemented, developing countries, including countries in the region, will pay the price, including in the form of price hikes and worsening food shortages,” Blinken told reporters in Jakarta.
- Russian forces attacked Sumy Oblast 110 times in one day. The Russian army repeatedly attacked this border region on July 14 and fired on eight communities along the border, resulting in 110 explosions, the military administration of Sumy Oblast reported on Telegram.
- Ukrainian counter-offensive ‘not progressing anytime soon’, admitted on Friday Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking to journalists. He also ruled out any negotiations with Moscow while Russian troops were on Ukrainian territory. However, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army reported an advance of 1.7 kilometers in one week towards Melitopol on the southern front.
- Wagner Group mercenaries are in Belaruswhere they are responsible for training territorial defense personnel in a camp near Ossipovichi, reports the Belarusian military news channel VoenTV.
- The Russian army has withdrawn almost all of its troops from Belarus, announces Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian border guard. According to him, the Belarusian territory was mainly used as a training ground.
- “At this time we do not see any significant involvement of Wagner’s forces in combat operations in Ukraine.”Pentagon spokesman General Pat Ryder said during a news conference.
- Vladimir Putin claims he offered Wagner Group men to serve under someone else’s official command, and that their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, turned down the offer after his failed mutiny. In an interview with Russian newspaper Kommersant published on Thursday evening, the Russian President gave details of his June 29 meeting in the Kremlin with Mr Prigoyine and the commanders of the Wagner Group.
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