2023-07-07 19:02:19
Washington tempers the ardor of kyiv. Ukraine “will not join NATO” at the end of the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, scheduled for July 11 and 12, said White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Friday July 7. This statement comes at a time when the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, is leading an international tour aimed in particular at obtaining more support for kyiv’s ambition to join NATO. Earlier today, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said “to expect” that the leaders of the 31 member states of the organization “reaffirm” that Ukraine will one day become a member of the Atlantic Alliance, without a specific deadline. Follow our live.
The United States promises Ukraine cluster munitions. With this announcement, the White House crosses an important threshold in the type of armaments offered to kyiv to defend itself once morest Russia. “It’s a difficult decision. We postponed it” a while, Jake Sullivan said, adding that it was “the right thing to do”. Humanitarian organizations have expressed their fear, recalling the monstrous impact of these weapons on civilians.
For Zelensky, it is “difficult” to fight Russia “without long-range weapons”. “Without long-range weapons, it is difficult not only to carry out offensive missions but also, to be honest, defensive operations”said the Ukrainian president during a visit to Prague on Friday. “We are discussing it with the United States, it only depends on them at the moment”he added.
The AEIA says it is making progress in gaining access to the Zaporijjia power plant. That’s what said Friday the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, during a visit to Tokyo. He said inspectors had visited several sites, including the cooling pools, but had not had access to the roof, where Ukraine suspects Russian forces, which occupy the plant, of having placed mines. or explosives.
The balance sheet of the strike on Lviv increases. The night from Wednesday to Thursday was marked by a Russian strike on Lviv, a large western city rarely targeted. A “tenth body has just been discovered. It is a woman”, wrote on Telegram on Friday, the mayor of Lviv, Andriï Sadovyi, who also announced the end of the search operations. According to a new report communicated Friday morning by the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, 42 people were also injured, including three children.
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