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- Thursday passed without any major movement on either side.
- After announcing that the Russians were leaving the city located in southern Ukraine, Kyiv backtracked, citing a communication error.
- Zelensky went to the front on Thursday, in the partially occupied Kherson region (south)
- He urged EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday to provide him with missiles and fighter jets.
- Ukraine received on Thursday four of the thirteen MiG-29 fighter jets promised by Slovakia.
- Russian troops are “disappearing” in Bakhmut, Ukrainian General Oleksandr Syrsky said on Thursday, assuring that “very soon” Kyiv will seize “this opportunity.”
US diplomacy does not rule out further talks on Ukraine’s borders
The head of American diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, opened the door to possible negotiations on the contours of Ukraine, while reiterating that it would be the Ukrainians who would decide.
Speaking before a parliamentary committee in Washington, he reaffirmed that any possible peace with Russia must be “just and lasting,” meaning it must respect the country’s independence and territorial integrity. land, we expect the Ukrainians to tell us.”
Thus, he seemed to confirm the fact that it would be difficult for Ukrainians to return all the territories annexed by Russia, in particular Crimea. “I think there will be territories in Ukraine that Ukrainians will be determined to fight for on the ground, and perhaps territories that they think they will have to try to reclaim in other ways.”
Zelensky asks Europeans for missiles and combat aircraft
From the Kherson region (south), the Ukrainian president made a video conference call on Thursday to European leaders gathered at a summit in Brussels, asking them to provide him with missiles and combat aircraft. Zelenskiy also called for new sanctions against Russia, progress on his country’s EU membership, and progress on his peace plan.
The EU will try to find Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
The EU is organizing a conference to find Ukrainian children abducted by the Russians and return them to their country, Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday evening. “In cooperation with the Ukrainians, Prime Minister (Poland) Mateusz Morawiecki and I took the initiative to repatriate these children abducted by Russia. To do this, we are organizing a conference (…) we want to exert international pressure so that all possible measures are taken to find the trace of these children,” she said.
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