Fighting around the eastern towns of Bakhmut and Soledar, where Russia just launched a major assault, has been 'really savage,' a U.S. defense official said. Follow our live coverage of the war.
. “There are now tens of thousands of fighters associated not with the Russian military, but with the Wagner Group” in Ukraine, Price told reporters at a briefing. “And if you look at the backgrounds of so many of these fighters, these are not highly trained infantry men, these are convicts. … We have made the point that it reeks of desperation. It’s not going to change the ultimate tide of the battle.
Officials at a vocational school in eastern Ukraine dismissed claims by Russia that hundreds of Ukrainian troops were killed. Russia said Sunday it had targeted the school in Kramatorsk and killed 600 Ukrainian troops. Reporters visited the site Monday, where Yana Pristupa, the school’s deputy director, scoffed at Moscow’s claims. “Nobody saw a single spot of blood anywhere,” she told the AP.despite a delay by Turkey.
the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Stockholm has fulfilled Ankara’s demands. He declined to forecast a timeline for Sweden’s accession — spurred by the war in Ukraine — but noted that the process was moving unusually quickly. Russia President Vladimir Putin is seeking to pull out of an international anti-corruption agreement.
He submitted a bill Monday to Russia’s lower house of parliament that “denounced” the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, according to state wire service Tass. Moscow’s withdrawal from the Group of States against Corruption anti-corruption coalition would “likely serve as another means by which Putin can institute legislation supporting and enabling corrupt practices,”
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