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☆ Ukraine gets rid of Soviet symbols on Motherland monument in Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Workers mount a Ukrainian national emblem to the shield of the 'Motherland' monument replacing the Soviet one, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a compound of the World War II museum in Kyiv, Ukraine August 6, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoKYIV, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Workers installed Ukraine's national trident on an iconic monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv on Sunday, replacing old Soviet symbols in one of the most visible examples of breaking away from the past and Moscow's influence. Originally, the shield bore the Soviet Union's coat of arms - a crossed hammer and sickle surrounded by ears of wheat. Kyiv says the invasion appears to be an imperial mission to recreate the Soviet Union. Ukraine outlawed Soviet symbols in 2015, the year after Russia annexed Crimea and backed separatist proxies in the country’s east.

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☆ Ukraine says Russia planning 'false flag' attack at Belarus refinery
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Joint stock company "Mozyr oil refinery" is seen near the town of Mozyr, Belarus January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily FedosenkoKYIV, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The Security Service of Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of preparing to stage a "false flag" attack at the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus in order to blame Ukrainian saboteurs as part of an effort to draw Minsk into the war in Ukraine. Fighters from Wagner, a Russian mercenary group, launched a mutiny against the Russian defence establishment in June and some of its fighters have since moved to Belarus under a deal. There was no immediate comment on the Ukrainian statement from Russia or Belarus. Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Olena Harmash; Editing by Toby Chopra and Nick MacfieOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vasily Fedosenko KYIV, Wagner, Tom Balmforth, Toby Chopra, Nick Macfie Organizations: REUTERS, Security Service, Russia, Minsk, Thomson Locations: Mozyr, Belarus, Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, Russian, Kyiv

Ukrainian, Russian and international officials say there is no prospect of direct peace talks between Ukraine and Russia at the moment, as the war continues to rage and Kyiv seeks to reclaim territory through a counter-offensive. Neither the Jeddah gathering - which is expected to begin on Friday, with the main discussions on Saturday and Sunday - nor the peace summit would involve Russia, officials say. Saudi Arabia, along with Turkey, played a mediation role in a major prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia last September. Zelenskiy attended an Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia in May this year, at which Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed his readiness to mediate in the war. A second senior EU official said Saudi Arabia reached "into parts of the world where (Ukraine's) classical allies would not get to as easily".

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☆ Ukraine hopes to hold peace summit this autumn, Zelenskiy says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks as he attends a meeting with Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar (not pictured) at Horodetskyi House, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 19, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/Pool/File PhotoKYIV, Aug 2 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he hoped a Ukraine "peace summit" could be held this autumn, and that this week's talks in Saudi Arabia were a stepping stone towards that goal. "Autumn is very soon, but there is still time to prepare for the summit and involve most of the world's countries." Zelenskiy and his team are working with allies to build broad support for a "peace summit" that would endorse principles to underpin a settlement to end the war started by Russia's full-scale invasion almost 18 months ago. The summit would build on a 10-point plan outlined by Kyiv last autumn that has been actively promoted by Zelenskiy.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Leo Varadkar, Clodagh, Zelenskiy, Russia's, Olena, Tom Balmforth Organizations: Ireland's, REUTERS, Kyiv, Thomson Locations: Horodetskyi, Ukraine, Kyiv, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Russia

☆ Zelenskiy expects Russia to resume attacks on Ukraine's power grid
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, July 30 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that he expects Russia to resume its attacks on Ukraine's energy system once cold weather returns later this year, and vowed to do everything possible to protect the power grid. Since warm weather returned, strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have subsided in place of attacks on other targets. But Zelenskiy said during a visit to the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk on Sunday he expected attacks on energy to resume. "It is obvious that this fall and...in the winter the enemy will try to repeat the terror against the Ukrainian energy industry. Zelenskiy said the government, security officials and energy workers were working to protect the energy system from physical damage, sabotage or cyberattacks.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, German Galushchenko, Olena, Peter Graff Organizations: Kyiv, Frankivsk, Sunday, Energy, German, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukrainian, Moscow, Ivano, Ukraine

☆ Russian missile kills 2 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Vladyslav Smilianets | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, July 29 (Reuters) - A Russian missile attack killed two people and blew out apartment windows in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, Anatoliy Kurtiev, secretary of the city council, said. "An enemy missile hit an open area," Kurtiev said on Telegram. Men in uniforms examined pieces of shrapnel and stood beside a crater in the earth several meters wide. Kurtiev said the blast wave broke windows in 13 high-rise buildings and an educational institution. Reporting by Vladyslav Smilianets in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Editing by Alistair BellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Anatoliy Kurtiev, Kurtiev, gesticulating, Vladyslav Smilianets, Alistair Bell Organizations: Thomson Locations: ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Zaporizhzhia

If the Black Sea is closed, the Danube is one of the main routes which we will need to use," he told Reuters by phone. Police said Danube grain warehouses had been hit on Monday in a drone attack along with tanks for storing other cargo. Since Monday's air strikes, the Danube channel has seen shipping disruptions, although it was unclear why there was a slowdown of vessel traffic. INSURANCE RATES RISEInsurance sources have said war risk cover for Ukraine's ports that was part of the defunct Black Sea grain deal had been suspended with some insurance providers reviewing provisions for Danube ports. The attack on the Danube infrastructure followed a week of Russian strikes that hit grain-related infrastructure at Odesa's main ports.

Persons: Russia's, Denys Marchuk, Carlos Mera, Mera, Marchuk, Danilov, Olena Harmash, Sybille de La, Tom Balmforth, William Maclean Organizations: Ukrainian Agrarian, Reuters, Police, EU, Romania, Agri Commodities Markets Research, Rabobank, Insurance, Kyiv, Russia, CMA CGM, National Security, Defence Council, Thomson Locations: KYIV, Moscow, Odesa, Reni, NATO, Russia, Izmail, Ukraine, China, Chornomorsk, Ukrainian, Italy, Kyiv, Western, Paris

☆ Ukraine reports more advances in south, battles rage in east
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Olena Harmash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Maliar said the advances brought the territory recaptured since the counteroffensive began in early June to more than 192 square km in the southern sector. In the east, she said, the main focus of fighting was around the small city of Bakhmut captured by Russian forces in May after months of fierce combat. Kyiv's forces continued to advance on Bakhmut's southern flanks but to the north Russian forces were "clinging to every centimetre and meter," she said. Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, still holds swathes of territory in southern and eastern Ukraine. Russia has not confirmed that Ukraine has made territorial gains, and said last week that its forces had advanced in the northeast.

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Port infrastructure on the Danube river is the target this time," regional governor Oleh Kiper wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Global wheat and corn futures rose sharply on concern that Russia's attacks and more fighting, including a drone strike on Moscow, could threaten grain exports and shipping. "Russia has in the past months not attacked Ukraine's overland and inland waterways grain infrastructure," one European trader said. Another European grain trader said: "It’s clearly an attack on additional Ukrainian grain export infrastructure. "Russia hit another Ukrainian grain storage overnight," Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

Persons: Oleh Kiper, Reni, Odesa, Dmytro Kuleba, Valentyn Ogirenko, Michael Hogan, Tom Balmforth, Timothy Organizations: Press Service, Operational Command, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia, Ukraine KYIV, European Union, Romania, Police, Maersk Group, Twitter, Ukraine's National Security, Defence Council, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Odesa Region, Russia, Kyiv, Port, Moscow, Reni, NATO, Romanian, Africa, Asia, Hamburg

☆ Nearly 30 ships stop around Ukraine's Izmail gateway after Russian Danube strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Jonathan Saul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - Almost 30 ships dropped anchor near Ukraine's crucial Izmail port terminal after Russia destroyed grain warehouses on the Danube river on Monday, data showed, although it was unclear exactly what had caused them to stop. Monday's pre-dawn Russian air strikes wounded seven people and hit infrastructure along the Danube, a vital alternative route for Ukrainian grain since the demise last week of a year-old deal allowing safe exports via the Black Sea. Kyiv said the attack was an expansion of an air campaign Russia launched last week after pulling out of the grain deal. Insurance industry sources have said war risk cover for Ukraine's ports that were part of the previous grain deal had been suspended. On Monday, three sources said some providers were also reviewing whether to continue to provide cover for Danube ports.

Persons: Monday's, Odesa, David Smith, Jonathan Saul, Olena, Carolyn Cohn, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: Insurance, McGill, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, Kyiv, Izmail, Reni, Ukraine, London

☆ War reporter's death prompts Russian outrage over Ukraine's alleged use of cluster bombs
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Rostislav Zhuravlev, correspondent for Russia's RIA news agency, poses for a picture at an unknown location in this picture released July 22, 2023. Cluster bombs are in the spotlight after Ukraine received supplies of them from the United States this month. The dead Russian journalist was named as Rostislav Zhuravlev, a war correspondent for state news agency RIA. The entire measure of responsibility will be shared by those who supplied cluster munitions to their Kyiv protégés," she said. Ukraine has pledged to use cluster munitions only to dislodge concentrations of enemy soldiers.

Persons: Rostislav Zhuravlev, Yevgeny Shilko, Maria Zakharova, John Kirby, Konstantin Kosachyov, Leonid Slutsky, Mark Trevelyan, Caleb Davis, Olena, Frances Kerry Organizations: RIA, RIA Novosti, REUTERS, Deutsche Welle, Reuters, Russian Foreign Ministry, Kyiv, House, Russian, Rights Watch, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian, Moscow, German, United States, Zaporizhzhia, Russian, . U.S

☆ Drone attack on ammunition depot in Crimea prompts evacuation, bridge closure
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 22 (Reuters) - A drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea prompted authorities to evacuate a 5-km (3-mile) radius and briefly suspend road traffic on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia, the region's Moscow-installed governor said on Saturday. Ukraine said its army had destroyed an oil depot and Russian army warehouses in what it called the "temporarily occupied" district of Oktiabrske in central Crimea. The attack caused an ammunition depot to explode, said Russian-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov, adding there was no reported damage or casualties. Russia seized and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, eight years before launching its full-scale invasion of the country. "This is the route used to feed the war with ammunition and this is being done on a daily basis," he said.

Persons: Sergei Aksyonov, Aksyonov, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Oleg Kryuchkov, Caleb Davis, Mark Trevelyan, Olena Harmash, Ron Popeski, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Health Ministry, Thomson Locations: Crimea, Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, Oktiabrske, Russian

☆ Russia hits Ukraine's grain for fourth day, practises seizing ships
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Olena Harmash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Moscow has described the attacks as revenge for a Ukrainian strike on a Russian-built bridge to Crimea - the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014. Russia's defence ministry on Friday said its Black Sea fleet had practised firing rockets at "floating targets" and apprehending ships. The president of Turkey, which brokered the deal alongside the U.N. said, he hoped planned talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin could lead to the restoration of the initiative. Western leaders have accused Russia of seeking to loosen sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine, which already exempt exports of Russian food. Russian grain has moved freely through the Black Sea to market throughout the conflict and traders say Russia is pouring wheat onto the market.

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☆ Three killed, Chinese consulate damaged in Russian attack on Ukraine's port cities
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Viktoria Lakezina | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/4] Rescuers work at a site of an administrative building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine July 20, 2023. In Odesa, a security guard was killed and at least eight other people were hurt, including a child, Kiper said. A Russian attack on the port of Chornomorsk on Wednesday damaged grain export infrastructure as well as the agricultural products Zelenskiy said were meant for China. Ukrainian officials see the air strikes as an attack on global food security because Kyiv is a major grain exporter. Authorities in the northeastern region of Kharkiv said separately a 61-year-old man had been killed there by Russian shelling on Thursday.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Oleh Kiper, Zelenskiy, Kiper, Oleksandr Senkevych, Vitaliy Kim, Mykhailo Podolayk, Dan Peleschuk, Timothy Organizations: Press, State Emergency Service of, Companies, Regional, Fire, UN Security Council, Twitter, Authorities, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Odesa, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Handout, Ukrainian, Russia, MYKOLAIV, Black, Beijing, China, Moscow, Mykolaiv, Chornomorsk, Kyiv, Kharkiv

☆ Chinese consular building damaged in Russian attack on Ukraine's Odesa - governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, July 20 (Reuters) - A building at the Chinese consulate in Odesa was damaged in a Russian missile and drone attack on the southern Ukrainian port city, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Thursday. Russia, which is an ally of China, attacked the port cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv overnight for the third successive night. "The aggressor is deliberately hitting the port infrastructure - administrative and residential buildings nearby were damaged, also the consulate of the People's Republic of China. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his daily late-night video address on Wednesday that 60,000 tons of agricultural products destroyed in a Russian air strike on Odesa port had been intended for shipment to China. Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka, Writing by Olena Harmash, Editing by Timothy HeritageOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Oleh Kiper, Kiper, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Anna Pruchnicka, Olena Harmash, Timothy Organizations: Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Odesa, Russian, Ukrainian, Russia, China, Mykolaiv, People's Republic of China

☆ Ukraine to nationalise Sense Bank from its Russian owners
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, July 20 (Reuters) - Ukraine's central bank said it will nationalise Russian-owned Sense Bank, one of the country's top commercial banks, and put it under temporary administration on Friday. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said in a statement on Thursday it decided to "withdraw from the market the systemically important" bank and submitted a proposal to the government on the state's participation in the process. Sense Bank, with 3 million depositors, posted losses of 7 billion hryvnias ($189.75 million) in 2022, central bank said. Mikhail Fridman has a 32.86% stake in ABH Holdings S.A., the majority owner of Sense Bank, while Petr Aven holds 12.4%, the bank said on its website. ($1 = 36.8910 hryvnias)Reporting by Olena Harmash, Writing by Anna Pruchnicka, Editing by Timothy Heritage and Richard ChangOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Andriy Pyshnyi, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, Olena Harmash, Anna Pruchnicka, Timothy Heritage, Richard Chang Organizations: Bank, National Bank of Ukraine, Sense, ABH Holdings S.A, Sense Bank, Thomson Locations: Ukraine

☆ Russia strikes Ukraine grain port after exiting export deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Olena Harmash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Ukraine and Russia are both among the world's biggest exporters of grain and other foodstuffs. If Ukrainian grain is again blocked from the market, prices could soar around the world, hitting the poorest countries hardest. Russia says it could return to the grain deal, but only if its demands are met for rules to be eased for its own exports of food and fertiliser. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called for the grain deal to continue without Russia, effectively seeking Turkey's backing to negate the Russian blockade. Any attempt to reopen Ukrainian grain shipments without Russia's participation would depend on insurance companies agreeing to provide coverage.

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[1/8] Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol shake hands after a joint statement, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 15, 2023. South Korea is a U.S. ally and the world's ninth biggest arms exporter, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think tank. In a press conference, Yoon said South Korea plans to provide "a larger scale of military supplies" to Ukraine this year, following last year's provision of non-lethal supplies such as body armour and helmets. Yoon said South Korea also plans to provide Ukraine with $150 million in humanitarian aid this year, following about $100 million in 2022. Yoon said on Saturday South Korea has delivered safety equipment and humanitarian aid that Ukraine needs, since May, including mine detectors.

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☆ Ukrainian civilians imprisoned by Russia are being treated like livestock and forced to dig mass graves, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukrainian civilians imprisoned by Russia are being forced to dig mass graves, the AP reported. "This means that a window of opportunity is being left to bargain Ukraine's membership in NATO in negotiations with Russia," Zelenskyy continued. Ukrainian civilians have reported family members missing since the early months of Russia's unprovoked military invasion last year. The Ukrainian government now believes Russia has detained a total of about 10,000 civilians, Oleksandr Kononeko, a prisoner exchange negotiator, told AP. She also was beaten and forced to provide statements to a Russian news outlet to show that Moscow was releasing Ukrainian civilians, AP reported.

Persons: They're, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Oleksandr Kononeko, Olena, Yahupova Organizations: AP, NATO, Service, Associated Press, Ukraine, Alliance, United Locations: Russia, Zaporizhzhia, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, gunpoint, Ukraine, NATO, United Nations, Russian, Moscow

☆ Scenes from the NATO summit in Lithuania
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Jillian Kumagai | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife Olena Zelenska walk on the day of a ceremony during which a Ukrainian flag from the frontline of the war with Russia was delivered by activists, on the sidelines of a NATO leaders summit in...moreUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife Olena Zelenska walk on the day of a ceremony during which a Ukrainian flag from the frontline of the war with Russia was delivered by activists, on the sidelines of a NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 11. REUTERS/Kacper PempelClose

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Olena, Pempel Organizations: NATO, REUTERS Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Vilnius, Lithuania

☆ One killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as Zelenskiy talks to NATO
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV, July 12 (Reuters) - Russia launched a drone strike on Kyiv early on Wednesday, and an old man was killed in Russian shelling in southern Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met NATO leaders in Lithuania, Ukrainian officials said. But an 81-year-old man was killed and his 82-year-old wife wounded in shelling of the southern city of Kherson, Kherson region governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. The Russian shelling and heavy fighting did not stop as Zelenskiy was meeting NATO leaders to discuss security threats posed by Moscow, which denounced the Western military alliance's summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. On Tuesday, Russia drones also attacked Kyiv and the southern port of Odesa, and Kherson came under artillery fire. Russia's TASS news agency cited military groupings as saying they had repelled several Ukrainian attacks in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine over the past day.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Oleksandr Prokudin, Yuriy Malashko, Zelenskiy, Olena Harmash, Anna Pruchnicka, Lidia Kelly, Timothy Organizations: NATO, Kyiv, Reuters, TASS, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Russian, Moscow, Lithuanian, Vilnius, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Odesa, Ukrainian, Bakhmut, Luhansk

☆ NATO Summit 2023: Ukraine's wait for membership -- and Zelensky's frustration -- loom over final day of summit, meeting with Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Betsy Klein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

We’re looking for a continued, united NATO,” Biden said in brief remarks alongside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the summit site. Participants of the NATO Summit pose for an official photo in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11, 2023. NATO first welcomed Ukraine’s membership aspirations during a 2008 meeting in Bucharest, Romania, but little progress has been made and the timeline remains uncertain. Biden and NATO leaders have “unanimously agreed” to send a “substantial” new aid package to Ukraine, Sloat told reporters Wednesday — but she declined to provide additional details. Biden is also set to give a foreign policy speech that his aides have described as a “major address” later on Wednesday, reflecting on the strength and power of the NATO alliance.

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☆ Scenes from NATO's leaders summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Jillian Kumagai | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Olena, Pempel Organizations: NATO, REUTERS Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Vilnius, Lithuania

VILNIUS, July 12 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets NATO leaders on Wednesday after they declared his country's future lay inside the alliance but rebuffed his call for a timeline to membership. Zelenskiy will join the NATO leaders on the second day of their summit in Vilnius for an inaugural session of the NATO-Ukraine Council, a body established to upgrade relations between Kyiv and the 31-member transatlantic military alliance. At a rally in Vilnius on Tuesday, Zelenskiy expressed disappointment that NATO had not offered a timeline to membership - a prospect he had earlier branded "absurd". Its leaders on Tuesday reiterated a 2008 declaration that Ukraine would join NATO but also made clear this would not happen automatically after the war ends. Although it did not get what it wanted on membership at the summit, Ukraine has received new pledges of arms from NATO members.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron, Andrius Sytas, Steve Holland, Anna Pruchnicka, Olena Harmash, Lewis Macdonald, Ronald Popeski, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: NATO, U.S, Twitter, Patriot, Thomson Locations: VILNIUS, Vilnius, Ukraine, Kyiv, United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Europe, Russian, Paris

☆ Ukraine's Zelenskiy brings home Azovstal commanders released to Turkey
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks with commanders of defenders of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol Denys Prokopenko, Sviatoslav Palamar, Denys Shleha, Serhii Volynskyi and Oleh Homenko inside a plane as they return to Ukraine from Istanbul, Turkey July 8, 2023. Ukrainian... Read moreKYIV, July 8 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, returning home from a visit to Turkey, brought with him five commanders of Ukraine's former garrison in Mariupol, forced to live in Turkey under the terms of a prisoner exchange last year. The commanders, lionised as heroes in Ukraine, led last year's defence of the port, the biggest city Russia captured in its invasion. "We are returning home from Turkey and bringing our heroes home," said Zelenskiy who met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for talks in Istanbul on Friday. Zelenskiy gave no explanation for why the commanders were being allowed to return home now.

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