North Korean leader to meet Russian president in Vladivostok, on rare trip abroad on his armoured train; recapture of ‘Boyko Towers’ makes Ukraine ‘many steps closer to regaining Crimea,’ Kyiv says
after arriving in the far east of Russia on his armoured train. The US has warned that any such agreement would violate UN Security Council resolutions and that it would respond with fresh sanctions.
. “Russia has been deprived of the ability to fully control the waters of the Black Sea, and this makes Ukraine many steps closer to regaining Crimea,” the Main Intelligence Directorate said. The Biden administration is close to approving the shipment of longer-range missiles packed with cluster bombs to, giving Kyiv the ability to cause significant damage deeper within Russian-occupied territory, Reuters reported citing four US officials.
Russia’s Central Election Commission said that the country’s ruling party had won the most votes in elections held in occupied Ukrainian regions, as Kyiv and the west denounced the ballots as a sham