The UN secretary general, António Guterres, announced on Tuesday that he will meet Zelenskiy and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, in Lviv on Thursday.
Ukraine has received six more M109 howitzers from Latvia, its minister of defence, Oleksii Reznikov, announced. Shoigu added that the Aukus bloc of Australia, the UK and US had the potential to develop into “a political-military alliance”. During a speech at the Moscow international security conference, he alleged that Ukrainian military operations were being planned by the US and Britain, and that Nato had increased its troop deployment in eastern and central Europe “several times over”, Reuters reports. The Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, has said Russia has no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Russian state media are reporting that 38,297 cars crossed the bridge on 15 August. Mykhailo Podolyak, a key adviser to the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told the Guardian in an exclusive interview that there could be similar attacks in the “next two or three months”.Ī record number of cars have crossed the Crimea Bridge that links Crimea to Russia – which suggests that a number of Russians who settled in the region after the annexation in 2014 are now fleeing. Ukraine hinted at involvement but has not explicitly claimed responsibility. The first one, at an ammunitions depot near Dzhankoi in the north, severely disrupted railway services and wounded two people.
Explosions erupted across Crimea on Tuesday, with reports of smoke and fire in at least three different areas where military bases or munitions depots are located.