Russia bombards Zelensky's hometown with missiles

 Russian troops carried out a missile strike on the city of Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in central Ukraine .

Bakhmut under Russian pressure

 After the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was almost completely surrounded by Russian troops, the British Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence analysis posted on Twitter that there was" heavy fighting going on in and around the city " in the eastern region of Donetsk.

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Zelensky extends his tour near the border with Russia

Ukraine’s president  Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Sumy region in northern Ukraine, continuing his tour over recent days of areas of the country that have felt the brunt of Russia’s full-scale invasion and as the stage increasingly looks set for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Zelensky makes a surprise visit to Paris

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy makes a surprise visit to Paris for talks Sunday night with French President Emmanuel Macron, extending a multi-stop European tour that has elicited fresh pledges of military support as his country gears up for a counteroffensive against Russian occupation forces.

Zelensky started an official visit to Poland

 Unlike previous visits abroad in recent months – which were typically announced at a moment’s notice and involved high-stakes travel under cover of darkness –  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is traveling accompanied by his wife to Poland.

Zelensky's European Tour is aimed at "arms shopping" and building political support

 During the three-day visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which included Italy, the Vatican, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, which sought to replenish Ukraine's depleted weapons supplies before the long-awaited counteroffensive aimed at turning the tide of the war, European leaders promised Zelensky an arsenal of missiles, tanks and drones.

Zelenskyy is ‘ready’ for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, to visit

Ukraine’s president invited his  Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to visit his nation, saying they haven’t been in contact since the war began and he is “ready to see him here.”

A new wave of Russian missile strikes and Kamikaze aircraft

 The mayor of Kyiv said that five people were injured in the "largest" Russian kamikaze drone attack to date

In a new wave of Russian missile and drone strikes, after which the sirens sounded in

Explosions were heard throughout Ukraine during the night in the capital Kiev.

Biden arrived in Poland on his second visit since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Polish President Andrzej Duda, welcomes President of the USA Joe Biden at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw who is visiting Poland his second country over his tour in Eastern Europe...

How do you sneak a US president into a warzone without anyone noticing?

President Joe Biden’s motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No big, flashy Air Force One for this trip -– the president vanished into the darkness on an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757 normally used for domestic trips to smaller airports.

Senior Ukrainian officials step down amid corruption claims

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On Tuesday after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for "justice" amid high-level corruption allegations.