These are the principle developments because the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its 509th day.
Right here is the scenario on Monday, July 17, 2023.
Combating
- Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned Ukraine’s counteroffensive was failing. “All enemy makes an attempt to interrupt via our defences… they haven’t succeeded for the reason that offensive started. The enemy is just not profitable”, the Russian chief mentioned in a televised interview.
- Putin additionally mentioned Russia has a “ample stockpile” of cluster munitions and warned that Moscow “reserves the precise to take reciprocal motion” if Ukraine makes use of the controversial weapons.
- Ukrainian officers mentioned preventing had “intensified” on the japanese entrance, with Russian forces “actively attacking within the Kupiansk sector in Kharkiv” for 2 consecutive days. “We’re on the defensive,” Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “There are fierce battles. The positions of either side change dynamically a number of instances a day.”
- Maliar additionally mentioned the 2 armies had been pummelling each other across the ruined japanese metropolis of Bakhmut, however that Ukrainian forces had been “regularly shifting ahead” alongside its southern flank.
- Individually, the Ukrainian navy indicated it had taken management of a part of a southeastern village within the Donetsk area, close to a string of small settlements Ukraine recaptured in June. “The enemy made an unsuccessful try and regain misplaced positions within the northern a part of Staromayorske,” the overall employees of Ukraine’s armed forces mentioned in an replace marking the primary official acknowledgement of progress on the village.
- A spokesman for Ukraine’s southern command additionally mentioned that Ukrainian forces had superior greater than a kilometre (0.6 miles) in a single a part of the southern entrance.
- Ukrainian officers mentioned one man was killed and 7 wounded after Russia shelled a district of the japanese metropolis of Kharkiv. Two boys, aged eight and 10, had been additionally wounded when an explosive gadget left by Russian forces detonated within the southern area of Kherson, in accordance with the Ukrainian Prosecutor Basic’s Workplace.
- In the meantime, Russia’s defence ministry mentioned its forces had prevented Ukraine from attacking the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, destroying seven aerial and two underwater drones. There have been no casualties and no injury from the assault on the annexed Crimean-peninsula.
- The governor of Russia’s Belgorod area mentioned Ukrainian forces shelled the Russian border city of Shebekino utilizing Grad missiles, killing a lady using her bike. He mentioned Ukrainian shelling of two different Belgorod settlements triggered no casualties however broken three houses, warehouses, a fence, a water tower and an influence line at an agricultural enterprise.
Diplomacy
- South Korea has pledged to offer extra de-mining tools to Ukraine following President Yoon Suk-yeol’s go to to Kyiv over the weekend.
- US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has referred to as for a redoubling of assist for Ukraine, saying “it’s the only smartest thing we will do for the worldwide economic system”. Talking on the sidelines of a G20 finance minister summit in India, Yellen mentioned “budgetary assist was important for Ukraine’s resistance” and that considered one of Washington’s core targets was to “fight Russia’s efforts to evade our sanctions”.
Black Sea grain deal
- The final ship to journey underneath a United Nations-brokered deal that permits the protected Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain left the port of Odesa early on Sunday, in accordance with MarineTraffic.com.
- Russia has not agreed to register any new ships since June 27 and the initiative will expire on Monday until Moscow agrees to increase it.
Financial system
- The Russian state has taken management of French yoghurt maker Danone’s Russian subsidiary together with beer firm Carlsberg’s stake in a neighborhood brewer, in accordance with a decree signed by the nation’s president.
- Carlsberg mentioned it had “not obtained any official info” on the transfer, including that the prospects for full disposal of its enterprise in Russia had been now extremely unsure. Carlsberg mentioned in June it had signed an settlement to promote its Russian enterprise, topic to regulatory approvals.
