Cover photo: Ukrainian border guards patrol the closed Slavutych checkpoint on the Ukraine-Belarusian border in the Chernihiv region on July 14, 2023. SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP
- Russian President Vladimir Putin “agrees with me” on extending the Black Sea Grains Agreement, which expires Monday night, his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday., which the Kremlin has denied. Russia has not commented on the extension of the agreement allowing the export of Ukrainian grain, Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency.
- Ukrainian counter-offensive ‘not progressing anytime soon’, admitted on Friday Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking to a group of 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.
- The mercenaries of the Wagner group are in Belarus, There they are responsible for training members of the territorial defense 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- The Russian army has withdrawn almost all of its troops from Belarus, announces Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian border guard.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 claimed to have offered the Wagner Group men to serve under someone else’s official command, but 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.
- The Ukrainian Air Force announces on Telegram that it has shot down 16 “Iranian-made Shahed 136/131 combat drones”. of the 17 fired by the Russian army during the night.
- A Ukrainian drone crashed overnight on an apartment building in Kurchatov, a city in western Russia that is home to a Chernobyl-like nuclear power plant, report this to the local authorities. “Fortunately, no residents were injured. Critical installations were not damaged by the drone’s impact and the subsequent detonation,” Roman Starovoit, governor of the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, writes on Telegram.
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