Most of them, 2,343 people, fled Mariupol, Berdyansk, Polohy, Melitopol, and Vasylivka. They arrived by their own cars to Zaporizhzhia, according to Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. 328 people were evacuated from towns in Luhansk Oblast. Buses that left Zaporizhzhia to evacuate people from the cities of Energodar, Tokmak and Berdyansk were blocked by the Russian military.
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"He's won certain property," Trump told Fox News, indicating that Putin would lay claim to Ukrainian lands as part of a U.S.-brokered peace deal.
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Lavrov and Rubio are also scheduled to meet in person on Oct. 23, according to Reuters.
The announcement comes amid long-documented tension between Syrksyi and the 42-year-old Drapatyi, one of Ukraine's most highly-regarded generals.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to attend an upcoming meeting of the "Coalition of the Willing" in London on Oct. 24, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
Only Russia friendly Hungary and Slovakia, refused to back the bill, which terminates Russian pipeline and liquified natural gas imports.
Russian ‘sabotage’ unit that killed civilians in Pokrovsk later eliminated, Ukrainian military says.
According to the 7th Corps of the Air Assault Forces, the Russian soldiers involved in the shooting of civilians have since been eliminated.
The news follows a string of similar cases across Europe in recent weeks, which have already caused air traffic disruptions in Germany, Norway, and Denmark.
Among the projects Kyiv is discussing with the U.S. is a terminal in Odesa to import American liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Ukraine expects Russia to face a nearly $100 billion budget deficit by next year, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct. 19, underscoring Moscow's growing economic challenges amid the war.
Russia has previously rejected freezing the war along the current front lines while reportedly demanding that Ukraine cede the entire Donetsk Oblast.
According to Zelensky, the proposed contract for 25 Patriot systems would be carried out over several years, "with different quantities each year."
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