Former vice chairman Mike Pence made an unannounced go to Thursday to Ukraine, the place he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky within the capital.
Pence is the one GOP presidential candidate to have visited Ukraine. The journey got here simply days after Russian President Vladimir Putin confronted an armed revolt by the chief of the Wagner mercenary group.
In jap Ukraine, not less than three kids have been amongst 12 individuals killed when a Russian missile struck a pizzeria in Kramatorsk throughout dinnertime, Ukrainian officers stated.
Right here’s the newest on the warfare and its ripple results throughout the globe.
Battleground developments
On this a part of the jap entrance, Russia remains to be on the assault: As Ukraine continues to report small positive aspects on a number of fronts in its counteroffensive, Russia is driving the combating within the forests close to the jap Russian-occupied city of Kreminna, Francesca Ebel and Kamila Hrabchuk report. The Kremlin has strengthened forces within the area in a bid to retake cities and cities that Ukraine has liberated, in line with Ukrainian fighters.
“They’re actually attacking extra intensely and advancing on this route,” one soldier stated. One other famous that the jap areas of Donetsk and Luhansk have all the time been necessary to Russia.
Emily Rauhala, Mary Ilyushina and Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report.