Ukraine’s troops made “tactically significant advances” along the administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts, according to the military analysts at the Institute for the Study of War. There were unconfirmed reports that Kyiv’s troops pushed Russian forces out of the strategically-located village of Urozhaine on the eastern edge of the southern front, potentially opening the door to further advances toward occupied Mariupol and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov.
(Bloomberg) — Ukraine’s troops made “tactically significant advances” along the administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts, according to the military analysts at the Institute for the Study of War. There were unconfirmed reports that Kyiv’s troops pushed Russian forces out of the strategically-located village of Urozhaine on the eastern edge of the southern front, potentially opening the door to further advances toward occupied Mariupol and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov.
Seven people were killed by Russian shelling in the Kherson region, including an infant and a 12-year-old boy, said Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. Moscow earlier vowed to retaliate for attempted missile strikes on Saturday against the Kerch Bridge that connects occupied Crimea with mainland Russia. Separately, Russia’s navy opened fired warning shots at a Palau-flagged cargo ship in the Black Sea to force it to submit to an inspection, the first such incident reported since Moscow pulled out of a key grain transit agreement last month.
Still, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the first “green shoots” toward a diplomatic solution to end the war had emerged during recent talks in Denmark and Saudi Arabia attended by Chinese officials. Speaking to the public broadcaster ZDF, Scholz didn’t rule out the delivery of Germany’s Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv, which Ukrainian officials continue to lobby for.
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