It quotes Lt Gen Igor Konashenkov claiming: “The advance amounted to 3km along the front and 2.7km in the depth of the enemy’s defence.” Tass is reporting that Russian forces are claiming to have made an advance near Serhiivka in Luhansk oblast, which is close to the border with Kharkiv oblast. Interfax in Russia is reporting that overnight Russian armed forces claim to have struck at a Ukrainian fuel warehouse and training centre in Donetsk.
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, visited Liberia on Wednesday, the first visit to the country in Ukrainian diplomatic history according to the foreign ministry, in an effort to “ensure” the export of Ukrainian grain to Africa after the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters, however, that Vladimir Putin had made it clear the deal could be revived if its Russia-focused part was honoured. The Kremlin said it was impossible for Russia to return to the Black Sea grain export deal for now, as an agreement related to Russian interests was “not being implemented”. The Ukrainian government plans to invest 40bn hryvnia ($1.08bn) this year into domestic drone manufacturing, the prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, has announced. The lawmaker has not been named and no charges have yet been brought in the case. Private trips abroad by officials have been banned since January, while most Ukrainian men aged 18-60 are also barred from leaving the country under the martial law that was brought in when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukrainian prosecutors have opened a criminal case into a lawmaker suspected of taking a luxury holiday in the Maldives in breach of a wartime ban on private travel abroad, the general prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
The decision must still be finalised and will take effect if none of the bloc’s 27 member states raise last-minute objections by Friday. Spain, the current holder of the EU’s rotating chairmanship, said in a post on social media that the sanctions were a response to “the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine”.
The EU on Wednesday agreed to ban exports of battlefield equipment and aviation parts to Belarus, expanding sanctions on the Russian ally for its involvement in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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