Ukraine’s top commanders, including Valeriy Zaluzhnyi and Kyrylo Budanov, spoke with US General Christopher Cavoli, NATO’s Supreme Commander for Europe. Defense chiefs from NATO nations are meeting in Oslo through Saturday, days before the Ukraine defense contact group is scheduled to meet in Germany and ahead of a planned trip by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Washington and the UN General Assembly.
(Bloomberg) — Ukraine’s top commanders, including Valeriy Zaluzhnyi and Kyrylo Budanov, spoke with US General Christopher Cavoli, NATO’s Supreme Commander for Europe. Defense chiefs from NATO nations are meeting in Oslo through Saturday, days before the Ukraine defense contact group is scheduled to meet in Germany and ahead of a planned trip by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Washington and the UN General Assembly.
Ukraine said its experimental “Sea Kid” marine drone damaged a Russian navy ship on Thursday near the entrance to Sevastopol Bay on the Crimean peninsula, after Moscow said it had repelled an attack. It would be the third strike on a Russian target in Crimea or off the coast in a matter of days.
The UK defense ministry said Wednesday’s missile strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol did more damage than Russia has admitted. Open-source evidence indicates the landing ship Minsk was been functionally destroyed, while the submarine Rostov-on-Don incurred “catastrophic damage,” the ministry said in an update on X, formerly Twitter. Ukraine’s troops captured the settlement of Andriivka in the Donetsk region, pressing ahead with their advance to the south of Bakhmut, the General Staff said on Facebook.
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