"And that's why we understand that we won't be a member of NATO while this war is ongoing. "But we are adequate people and understand that we will not pull any NATO country into a war," Zelenskyy said. In a joint briefing in Kyiv with Estonian President Alar Karis on Friday, he said joining the alliance was the best security guarantee for Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pressed NATO to let Ukraine join, but members of the Western defense alliance are divided over how fast that should happen, many wary of any move that might take the alliance into war with Russia. At the same time, Ukraine's military has been hugely strengthened by Western equipment and training. 24, 2022, while millions have fled their homes and towns and cities have been devastated, particularly in Russian-speaking areas. Thousands of people in Ukraine have been killed since Russia's invasion began on Feb. "We must do everything we can to make sure that under no circumstances will they be allowed to do this," Putin said. Putin told his Security Council on Friday that "ill-wishers" were increasingly trying to destabilize Russia. Along with the Russian Volunteer Corps founded by a far-right Russian nationalist, it says they are Russian volunteers attacking under their own steam, and not on the orders of Ukraine. The group describes itself as Russians fighting President Vladimir Putin's government to create a Russia that would be part of the "free world". At least two civilians were killed, and this is a direct consequence of the lack of professionalism of Putin's army," the Legion said on the Telegram messaging app. "Near Tavolzhanka, the enemy destroyed a Renault car with civilians, mistaking it for a car with our sabotage group. The Freedom of Russia Legion blamed Russia for the shelling of cars on Telegram, while posting images of what it said was one of its tanks in the nearby Russian village of Novaya Tavolzhanka and soldiers taking cover behind a wall during a gunfight. Russia said on Thursday it had repelled a second attempted incursion into the Belgorod border region in just over a week by what it casts as pro-Ukrainian militants. Shebekino suffered heavy bombardment on Thursday as well as a cross-border incursion, Russian officials said. Gladkov said two people had been wounded and an industrial facility had caught fire after shelling in the town of Shebekino. They died from their injuries on the spot," governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. "Two women were travelling in one of them. The governor of Russia's Belgorod region said two people had been killed and four wounded when Ukrainian forces shelled a road in the town of Maslova Pristan near the Ukrainian border. Russian officials reported cross-border shelling from several areas of northern Ukraine on Friday in the latest sign that Kyiv is starting to push back beyond its borders after more than 15 months of all-out Russian assault.
"The occupiers are not stopping their attempts to terrorise the Ukrainian capital with strike drones and missiles," the Ukrainian government said. Russia has launched about 20 waves of attacks on Kyiv since the beginning of May, in a surge that Ukraine says appears aimed at derailing its preparations for a major counter-offensive to try to end Russia's invasion.Ī child was one of two people injured by falling debris in a region outside the Ukrainian capital as air defenses shot down what the air force said on Friday were 15 Russian cruise missiles and 21 drones.
Ukraine fended off 36 Russian air attacks in and around the capital Friday while pro-Kyiv Russian fighters said they were battling Russian forces for a second day inside Russia, trading blame with Moscow for the deaths of two civilians.
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