So we know there will be damage on both sides", he stressed during a press briefing at the end of a meeting of members of the Ukraine contact group, where Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and Ukrainian military commanders updated western allies on the situation and outlined their military requirements. Ukraine still has sufficient capacity and firepower to carry out its counter-offensive despite initial losses, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday after a meeting at Nato headquarters with the Ukrainian defence minister. US says Ukraine has sufficient supplies for counteroffensive
The fact that fighting is taking place over these villages means that the Russian lines have been pushed back a few kilometres to the south and east around this exposed area of Vremivka, on the border of the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions, both of which are partially occupied by Russia. Moscow has been insisting since the start of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in early June that the Ukrainian military is failing in its efforts and that all attacks have been repulsed, while Kyiv claims to have liberated a handful of towns and around a hundred square kilometres, mainly on the southern front. However, the Russian army separately admitted on Friday that fighting was underway for control of two towns on Ukraine's southern front, an for the first time that it had ceded territory.
The appearance also saw Putin claim that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has "no chance of success" in the southern part of the country.
In remarks delivered on stage in St Petersburg, Putin commented: "I have a lot of Jewish friends, since childhood. Putin calls Zelensky a "disgrace to the Jewish people"Īppearing at an economic conference in Russia today, Vladimir Putin has shared some of his thoughts on Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he, his government and Kremlin-backed media outlets have repeatedly said is leading a "Nazi" regime despite being Jewish.
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