Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

G7 countries are anticipated to reveal a structure guaranteeing Ukraine’s long-lasting security on Wednesday, bloc member London stated in an emailed declaration.

“The joint declaration, expected to be signed by all members of the G7, will set out how allies will support Ukraine over the coming years to end the war and deter and respond to any future attack,” Downing Street stated.

“As Ukraine makes strategic progress in their counteroffensive, and the degradation of Russian forces begins to infect Putin’s front line, we are stepping up our formal arrangements to protect Ukraine for the long term,” British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated.

He is presently participating in a July 11-12 NATO top in Vilnius, Lithuania, where members of the defense alliance have actually set help to Ukraine at the top of the program.

“Supporting their progress on the pathway to NATO membership, coupled with formal, multilateral, and bilateral agreements and the overwhelming support of NATO members will send a strong signal to President Putin and return peace to Europe,” Sunak stated.

— Ruxandra Iordache

Russian forces introduced an air attack versus Ukrainian capital Kyiv for the 2nd successive night, the Kyiv military administration stated on Telegram, according to a Google translation.

“After a break of more than a week, the enemy launched Iranian drones over Kyiv for the second day in a row. The air alert lasted more than 2 hours,” it stated.

The military force declared it damaged opponent targets and shared no info on casualties and damage sustained at this time.

In Google- equated discuss Telegram, the Ukrainian flying force stated that Russian soldiers assaulted Ukraine over night from the north-eastern instructions, utilizing Iranian- made Shahed-136/131 An overall of 15 drones took part in the strike, the force in-depth, without defining the variety of systems associated with the attack versus Kyiv.

CNBC might not separately validate advancements on the ground.

— Ruxandra Iordache

Russia’s most current military offensives, consisting of air campaign versus Ukrainian capital Kyiv, might be a “demonstrative response” to the Vilnius top of the U.S.-led NATO alliance, which is reuniting today, the Institute for the Study of War stated in its Tuesday report.

“Russia’s drone strikes on port infrastructure also coincide with the first day of the NATO summit in Vilnius and are likely intended to discourage NATO members from providing more military aid to Ukraine,” the think tank stated.

NATO countries have actually all revealed assistance for Ukraine, although Kyiv’s subscription quote has yet to advance.

“Russia may be threatening the Black Sea grain deal to message the deal’s original broker, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that his recent statement of support for Ukraine’s NATO membership and the return of the five Ukrainian Azovstal commanders on July 7 has not gone unnoticed and is not appreciated by the Kremlin,” the ISW included.

Turkey on Monday lastly backed the entry of Sweden into the military union– an accession that the Kremlin has actually alerted might have “negative consequences.”

— Ruxandra Iordache

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and very first woman Olena Zelenska showed up in Lithuania’s capital on Tuesday as the NATO top assembles and leaders talk about continuous assistance for Kyiv in the middle of Russia’s continuous war.

The group’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, worried that Ukraine would get a “strong, positive message on the path forward” concerning its subscription.

But Zelenskyy stays disappointed that NATO has actually stopped working to set out a timeline or provide particular information for his nation’s future NATO subscription, calling it “unprecedented and absurd” on Telegram.

Kyiv has actually been promoting accession into NATO following Russia’s major intrusion, however authorities of the security alliance have actually formerly stated its subscription is not likely to continue while war is waged on Ukrainian areas.

— Michele Luhn and Amanda Macias

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated the Kremlin was “struck” by the speed with which “neutral status” nations such as Finland and Sweden chose to sign up with the NATO military alliance.

“We were struck by the speed that both Finland and Sweden renounced their neutral status, renounced the advantages that this neutral status provided them for many decades, provided them with relatively independent role, provided them with a reputation and authority both in Europe and on the international stage,” Lavrov informed press reporters in Moscow throughout an interview with going to Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi

Lavrov likewise stated that Finland and Sweden have actually quit “special trade and economic investment and other relations with the Russian Federation” by signing up with NATO.

Lavrov’s remarks follow NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s statement that Sweden would end up being the 32 nd member to sign up with the military alliance. Finland ended up being a NATO member in April.

— Amanda Macias

Kyrylo Barashkov, a 43- year-old migration attorney, in his own bunker in Kriukivschina, a town near Kyiv on July 10,2023 After a number of rockets blew up near his home outside Kyiv, Kyrylo Barashkov chose the only method to keep his household safe was to develop his own bunker.

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