![]() The meeting with the pope is expected to be the most significant part of Zelenskyy’s time in Italy. “I paid close attention to the importance of providing Ukraine with F-16s and steps necessary to begin training of Ukrainian pilots.” Zelenskyy spoke with Meloni during a meeting with EU leaders in February Zelenskyy to meet the pope Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he discussed the next weapons supplies with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The aid indicated Russia was “bound to lose and sit on the bench of historical shame”, he said. “States declare large defence aid packages for Ukraine,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy. Kyiv said the massive new weapons package was another sign that Russia would lose its war against Ukraine. Germany’s Defence Ministry said the country is preparing a new weapons package for Ukraine worth 2.7 billion euros ($2.9bn), reportedly Berlin’s largest since Russia invaded last year. He is also expected to be the guest of a popular Italian television talk show before heading to Germany. In Italy, he is to meet separately with President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni before heading to the Vatican. He also visited the Netherlands, where he, among other things, delivered a speech at the World Forum. It will be Zelenskyy’s first trip to Italy since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.Įarlier in the month, Zelenskyy met with the leaders of the Nordic nations in Finland. Both Moscow and Kyiv publicly expressed surprise over his comments at the time. In April, the pope announced the Vatican was involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine but declined to give further details. ![]() Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Rome on Saturday for talks with government officials and Pope Francis. It added Russia downed two Ukrainian aircraft – an Su-24 and a MiG-29 – that launched the missiles. “ Storm Shadow air-to-air missiles supplied to the Kyiv regime by Great Britain were used for the strike, despite London’s declarations that these weapons would not be used against civilian targets,” Russia’s defence ministry said. The United Kingdom on Thursday became the first country supply Kyiv with long-range cruise missiles, which will allow it to hit Russian troops and supply dumps far behind the front lines. Russia said Ukraine used British-made long-range missiles to target civilian sites in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, wounding six children. However, a video posted on the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Voyenniy Osvedomitel showed a helicopter high in the sky exploding, then plunging earthwards in flames.Ī Russian Su-34 warplane also crashed in Bryansk, TASS reported. The state news agency TASS cited an emergency services official as saying preliminary information indicated the engine caught fire before the crash near Klintsy, 40km (25 miles) from the border. Videos posted on Russian social media, meanwhile, showed a helicopter apparently being shot down over Russia’s Bryansk region, bordering Ukraine. The ministry often uses the term “assault units” to denote the Wagner private militia, which has been spearheading the assault on Bakhmut at great cost in casualties. ![]() “The units of the Airborne Forces provided support to the assault units and pinned down the enemy on the flanks,” it said. In its latest bulletin, Russia’s defence ministry said its forces gained control over another block in Bakhmut. Russia acknowledged on Friday its forces had fallen back north of Ukraine’s ruined eastern city in a retreat the head of Russia’s Wagner private army called a “rout” not a “regrouping”. “The defensive operation in the Bakhmut direction continues.” “Our soldiers are moving forward in some areas of the front, and the enemy is losing equipment and manpower,” Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, said on social media on Saturday. ![]() Ukraine forces are advancing along parts of the front line against Russian troops near the war-torn eastern town of Bakhmut. ![]()
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