Ukraine war latest: Zelenskyy visits Ukraine's 'free island' on war's 500th day - as cluster bombs deal 'risks fracturing NATO'

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Dr YuraSak, adviser to Ukraine's Minister of Defence, says that the US sending cluster munitions to Ukraine is an 'important' move. He said that the country is exercising its right to defend itself. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Wagner fighters are preparing to move to Belarus under the terms of a deal that defused their mutiny against Russia's military leadership, a senior commander of the group has said.

Anton Yelizarov, whose nom de guerre is"Lotus", was quoted by a channel on Telegram as saying the fighters were now taking holiday until early August, on Prigozhin's orders, before moving to Belarus. "For 500 days, Moscow has brought death and destruction to the heart of Europe," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.Russian war ship go f*** yourself

It was of little strategic importance, but became a symbol for Ukrainian defiance, forcing Russia to take heavy casualties if it wanted to advance westward.On 6 June, a huge dam collapsed, unleashing a vast amount of water into Kherson and ripping thousands of homes from their foundations. During his visit, President Zelenskyy laid flowers and left an inscription reading"Glory to Ukraine" on the island's sign. Russia has requested a new meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss last September's Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions.

Moscow has said the West was behind the blasts but Western governments have denied involvement, as has Ukraine. A Ukrainian military unit has urged people to donate money for it to buy drones. A residential area in the small eastern city was hit, and police are still at the scene, said Donetsk's regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. "Around 10 am, the Russians struck the city with multiple rocket launchers, targeting the private sector," he wrote on Telegram. Here is one of them...The Ukrainian military said in its daily military update that it had repelled Russian troops' assault attempts near the city.

He was speaking at a joint news conference with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the two parties met to discuss the fate of the arrangement. When making the announcement, the US president said he decided to send the controversial weapons, which have been banned by 120 countries, because Kyiv is"running out of ammunition".

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