US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced more than $700 million in support for Ukraine in its war against Russia as he visited Kyiv with his British counterpart David Lammy.
PM Modi went on a historic trip to Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, becoming the first Indian leader to visit the war-ravaged countries in over 30 years of diplomatic relations. However, the journey to Kyiv was filled with many challenges for Indian journalists covering the visit.
A member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine was missing and two others were hospitalised after a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
PM Modi reaches Kyiv: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Kyiv on Friday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. This marks the first visit by an Indian leader to Ukraine since its independence in 1991.
This would mark Prime Minister Modi's first visit to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022, and he will also become the first PM to visit Poland in more than four decades
Prime Minister Modi previously met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Italy on June 14. India has consistently advocated for dialogue and diplomacy in the Russia Ukraine war, which PM Modi reiterated to Russian President Vladimir Putin as well.
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Orban, who is an outspoken critic of Western military aid to Ukraine and has the warmest relations of any EU leader with Russian President Vladimir Putin, held talks with Zelenskyy during his first trip to Kyiv in more than a decade.
According to Alexei Kulemzin, the city's Russian-installed mayor, Ukrainian forces shelled a busy area where shops and a market are located.
At least 24 people were killed and over 110 injured in a retaliatory attack by Ukraine in Russia's Belgorod on Saturday. Putin called it "a terrorist act" that would not go unpunished and promised more strikes on Ukrainian targets.
Russia launched a massive barrage of 122 missiles and 36 drones against Ukrainian targets in what officials called the biggest aerial attack in the 22-month war on Friday, killing at least 31 civilians.
Austin, who travelled to Kyiv by train from Poland, met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and was scheduled to meet with Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and Chief of Staff Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
The deceased in Kyiv were two security guards aged 26 and 36 years, while three people sustained injuries from falling debris, according to the city's Military Administration.
The Russian leader blamed Ukraine for hampering peace talks and that Kyiv has to accept its "new territorial reality" for further negotiations.
The decision comes on the eve of the NATO summit in Lithuania, where allies are likely to ask President Joe Biden why the United States would send a weapon into Ukraine that more than two-thirds of alliance members have banned because it has a history of killing a lot of civilians.
Thousands of civilians and soldiers have been killed in the Russian-Ukraine war, which is set to complete 500 days later this week with both sides refusing to scale down the conflict.
The first known assault on the city since an unsuccessful mutiny launched 11 days ago by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was the drone attack, which followed previous similar raids on the Russian capital.
Russian media reported that they came down close to the village of Lukino, which is administratively part of the city of Moscow. A third drone's wreckage was reportedly discovered 20 kilometers (12 miles) away. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
UK military officials stated in their regular assessment that Russian losses are probably at their highest level since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in March.
Russia Ukraine news: The buzzing of drones could be heard over the city, followed by loud explosions as they were taken down by air defense systems.
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