[キーウ(キエフ) 18日 ロイター] – The Ukrainian army announced on the 18th that it had beaten off Russian forces in southern Kherson. Meanwhile, in northern Kharkiv, seven people were killed in artillery shelling by Russian forces.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Erdogan in the western city of Lviv on the same day.
“Since last month, the advance of the Russian army has been minimal, and there have been occasions when we have advanced,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arrestovich said in the video. “What we are seeing is a ‘strategic stalemate,'” he said.
Ukrainian officials said seven people were killed and 16 wounded when Russian artillery shelled a residential area in the second largest city of Kharkiv on Saturday night. “This is an unjustified attack on civilians,” Zelensky said on the messaging app Telegram.
According to Ukrainian military analyst Oleg Zhdanov, Ukrainian forces blocked the Russian advance near the town of Bilohirka, northeast of Kherson.
The Ukrainian army said it had killed 29 people and destroyed artillery, armored vehicles and munitions depots.
Archyde.com might not independently verify the war report.
The United States, Albania, France, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom have called for a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday, six months following Russia’s invasion, to discuss the consequences of the war in Ukraine. This was confirmed by several diplomatic sources.
Meanwhile, Russian news agency RIA reported on the 17th that Viktor Sokolov was appointed as the new commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, citing sources familiar with the matter. If confirmed, it would be the highest-ranking military commander since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In addition, three new grain ships departed from Ukraine on the 17th under a grain export agreement brokered by the United Nations. Twenty-four ships have left Ukraine under the agreement.