President Volodymyr zelenskyy vowed extra “retribution” in opposition to Russia on Ukrainian Independence Day Saturday, as Kyiv and Moscow introduced the alternate of 230 prisoners simply over two weeks into Ukraine‘s shock offensive on Kursk.
zelenskyy signed a regulation banning the Russian-linked department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and known as the laws a “liberation from Moscow’s devils”, drawing a pointy response from Russia’s Orthodox chief.
Kyiv marked its independence from the Soviet Union at a tense second within the lengthy warfare because it mounts a push into Russia and Moscow eyes extra east Ukrainian cities.
The United Arab Emirates on Saturday mentioned it mediated a prisoner swap deal between Ukraine and Russia that secured the discharge of 230 captives. “The UAE has efficiently mediated a brand new captives alternate between the Russian Federation and the republic of Ukraine, ensuing within the launch of 230 captives,” mentioned a overseas ministry assertion.
zelenskyy revealed a video of him standing in a hilly, forested space mentioned to be close to the place Ukraine launched its shock incursion from on Aug 6. “What the enemy delivered to our land has now returned to its residence”, he mentioned, including that Russia will “know what retribution is”. He known as President Vladimir Putin a “sick man from Purple Sq. who continually threatens everybody with the purple button”, referring to nuclear warfare.
In Russia, President Vladimir Putin held a gathering with military chief Valery Gerasimov, with the Kremlin saying that they had mentioned “countering enemy forces invading the Kursk area and measures being taken to destroy them”. The Kremlin’s alternative of language was a break from earlier statements that downplayed the shock Ukrainian transfer.
Kyiv mentioned a Russian strike on a residential of the japanese metropolis of Kostyantynivka, close to the frontline within the Donetsk area, killed 5 individuals. Ukraine has carried out evacuations from the hub of Pokrovsk amid fears it would fall to advancing Russian forces.
zelenskyy signed a regulation banning the Russian-linked department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and known as the laws a “liberation from Moscow’s devils”, drawing a pointy response from Russia’s Orthodox chief.
Kyiv marked its independence from the Soviet Union at a tense second within the lengthy warfare because it mounts a push into Russia and Moscow eyes extra east Ukrainian cities.
The United Arab Emirates on Saturday mentioned it mediated a prisoner swap deal between Ukraine and Russia that secured the discharge of 230 captives. “The UAE has efficiently mediated a brand new captives alternate between the Russian Federation and the republic of Ukraine, ensuing within the launch of 230 captives,” mentioned a overseas ministry assertion.
zelenskyy revealed a video of him standing in a hilly, forested space mentioned to be close to the place Ukraine launched its shock incursion from on Aug 6. “What the enemy delivered to our land has now returned to its residence”, he mentioned, including that Russia will “know what retribution is”. He known as President Vladimir Putin a “sick man from Purple Sq. who continually threatens everybody with the purple button”, referring to nuclear warfare.
In Russia, President Vladimir Putin held a gathering with military chief Valery Gerasimov, with the Kremlin saying that they had mentioned “countering enemy forces invading the Kursk area and measures being taken to destroy them”. The Kremlin’s alternative of language was a break from earlier statements that downplayed the shock Ukrainian transfer.
Kyiv mentioned a Russian strike on a residential of the japanese metropolis of Kostyantynivka, close to the frontline within the Donetsk area, killed 5 individuals. Ukraine has carried out evacuations from the hub of Pokrovsk amid fears it would fall to advancing Russian forces.
