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In New York, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba discussed the issue of support for Ukraine with Republican Jim Risch, who chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 2019-2021. In a commentary to Ukrinform, Kuleba noted that he thanked Risch for the support for Ukraine from the side of the Congress. The interlocutors discussed the next steps that the Congress plans to take, including after the elections that are scheduled for November. According to Kuleba, they also "talked frankly about the supply of weapons." The minister emphasized that Ukraine is grateful to the United States for the military…

In Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, the Russian invaders left behind destruction, decay and pain, but as Ukraine regained control of the city, the confidence returned that everything will be rebuilt. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. "Our Kupiansk. It is difficult to look at what the occupiers have done here. Ruin, decay, pain in everything. But together with the Ukrainian flag, the confidence returned here that what was destroyed will be rebuilt, and normal life will be restored. Because this is what distinguishes us from the occupiers. Order and civilization return with Ukraine," he said. Zelensky…

More than 90 bodies of victims of Russian aggression have already been exhumed in the recently recaptured city of Izium, Kharkiv region. Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said this in an interview with the Fox News channel during his visit to the United States, Ukrinform reports, referring to the Telegram channel of the Prosecutor General's Office. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated more than 8,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory. "That's about the size of the state of Connecticut. In each of the cities, we find new evidence of war crimes, including the killing of civilians and…

The Russian invaders struck Zelenodolsk community in Dnipropetrovsk region with heavy artillery, injuring a 58-year-old woman. "The Russians struck Zelenodolsk community with heavy artillery. The destruction scale is being specified. A 58-year-old woman was injured. She was just riding a bicycle when the Russian shells slammed into the road," Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, posted on Telegram. According to Reznichenko, the woman is now in the hospital. Doctors assess her condition as moderate. As reported, the Russians shelled Nikopol and Marhanets communities with heavy artillery and Grad MLRS three times at night. ol

The Spanish army will train Ukrainian soldiers in the use of tanks, artillery ammunition and anti-aircraft batteries. That's according to the Spanish defense news site Infodefensa, Ukrinform reports. "The first group of 20 soldiers will arrive early next week. Training will focus on the use of tanks, artillery ammunition and anti-aircraft batteries," the report said. It added that the training of Ukrainian soldiers would take place at the San Gregorio training camp, Europe's largest, near Zaragoza. "The [Spanish] Ministry of Defense confirmed this Thursday the launch of a training mission on Spanish soil for soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,"…

A total of 390 children have been killed and 757 wounded in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said this in a Telegram post, Ukrinform reports. "As of the morning of September 18, 2022, more than 1,147 children in Ukraine were affected as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 390 children were killed and more than 757 sustained injuries of varying degrees of severity," the report said. These figures are not final as efforts are ongoing to establish casualties in areas of…

Exhumation and identification of bodies found in mass graves near Izium, Kharkiv region, continue, and some of the dead have already been identified. Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, said this during the nationwide telethon. Vereshchuk noted that she talked with Commissioner for Missing Persons Oleh Kotenko, who is currently in Izium, every day. "He tells terrible things, it's true. Exhumation is carried out, then identification, some bodies have already been identified. Relatives of those identified, who took DNA tests, are informed. It is a very difficult process and I…

Iranian Shahed-136 drones supplied to Russia carried out several devastating strikes on Ukrainian troops. Over the past week, Shahed drones, repainted in Russian colors and rebranded as Geranium 2, started appearing over Ukrainian armor and artillery positions in the northeastern Kharkiv region, said Col. Rodion Kulagin, commander of artillery of Ukraine’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade, The Wall Street Journal reports. In his brigade’s operational area alone, the Iranian drones have destroyed two 152-mm self-propelled howitzers, two 122-mm self-propelled howitzers, as well as two BTR armored infantry vehicles, he said. Earlier, Russia struck a U.S.-supplied M777 155-mm towed howitzer with the drone.…

After several weeks of hesitation, the German government granted Ukraine's request for additional artillery weapons. As Ukrinform reports with reference to Die Welt, Kyiv asked for the delivery of howitzers in mid-July. In particular, 18 RCH-155 weapon systems worth 216 million euros, which Ukraine wants to order from the Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) defense company, were requested. As Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk said on Friday, the German government had agreed to export and finance the weapons. "This will be a significant contribution to the strengthening of the Ukrainian army. I hope that the German government will continue to…

NATO and individual allies will provide Ukraine with military assistance as long as it is necessary. That’s according to Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, who spoke at a press conference in Tallinn on Saturday following the meeting of the allied chiefs of defense and chiefs of staff, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. "The Chiefs of Defence also discussed how they will sustain and increase Allied support to Ukraine. The ammunition, equipment, and training that Allies are delivering are all making a real difference on the battlefield. With its successes on the ground and online, Ukraine has fundamentally…