Ukraine Conflict: Updates on Reserves, G20, and Putin’s Grain Agreement

2023-07-18 18:00:26

While Vladimir Putin felt that the Ukrainian counter-offensive had no “achieved success”the American chief of staff declared, Tuesday July 18, that Ukraine had reserves “important” of armed forces that are not yet engaged. “They are advancing through these minefields, slowly, deliberately and steadily, and it is an uphill battle”, he added. For him he is “way too soon” to say if this counter-offensive is a failure. And warn: “It’s going to be long, it’s going to be difficult, and it’s going to be bloody.” Follow our live.

Divided over the conflict, the G20 fails to draft a joint declaration. Gathered in India, the leaders of the G20 did not find a compromise, due in particular to differences over the conflict in Ukraine. They failed to agree “because’[ils n’ont] still no common language on the war between Russia and Ukraine”explained Nirmala Sitharaman, the Indian Minister of Finance, who chaired the meeting.

Vladimir Putin made “a huge mistake” by ending the grain agreement, judge Emmanuel Macron. This was stated by the French President speaking at the end of a summit in Brussels (Belgium) between the leaders of the countries of the European Union and Latin America.

“Offensive operations” in Kupyansk. The Russian army reported a rare advance of a kilometer and a half on Tuesday. The Russian Ministry of Defense also indicated that it had hit, in Odessa, the sites used by kyiv to prepare the attack the day before once morest the important Crimean bridge. “Overnight, the Russian Armed Forces launched a retaliatory strike (…) on facilities where terrorist acts once morest Russia were being prepared using naval drones”the ministry said.

Downed Ukrainian drones. Russian air defense shot down 28 Ukrainian drones over Crimea overnight Monday-Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said. On Telegram he added that “eleven other drones were neutralized” et “having not reached their target, they crashed”. “There were no casualties or damage”, according to the same source. The Ukrainian army announced that “port infrastructure” had been damaged in a Russian missile attack overnight.

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