Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the 500th day of war with Russia on Saturday by hailing his country's soldiers in a video from a Black Sea island that became the symbol of Ukraine’s resilience.
PUBLISHED 9:07 AM EDT Jul. 08, 2023KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the 500th day of war with Russia on Saturday by hailing his country's soldiers in a video from a Black Sea island that became the symbol of Ukraine’s resilience.
Azovstal's more than 2,000 defenders left the steelworks in mid-May 2022 and were taken into Russian captivity. The five leaders, some of whom were part of the Azov national guard regiment that Russia denounces as neo-Nazi, were freed in a September Under the exchange, the leaders were to remain in Turkey until the end of the war under the Turkish president's protection. There was no immediate official explanation from Ankara or Kyiv about why they were allowed to return to Ukraine.
The island’s defenders were captured by the Russians but later freed as part of a prisoner exchange. After the island was taken, the Ukrainian military heavily bombarded the small Russian garrison there, forcing the Russians to pull back on June 30, 2022. The retreat reduced the threat of a seaborne Russian attack on Odesa and helped pave the way for a deal to resume Ukrainian grain exports.
A private residence, a shop and a few cars were damaged in the attack on Lyman, which is just a few miles from the front line, where Russian troops have recently intensified fighting in the forests of Kreminna. The head of the United Nations nuclear agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, told The Associated Press on Friday that International Atomic Energy Agency experts had recently to more of the site, including the cooling pond and fuel storage areas, and found no mines there. Grossi said he was still pushing for access to the rooftops of reactors where Ukrainian officials accused Russia of planting explosives.
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