Ukraine, Zelensky creates the “Ministry of Unity”. Moscow: “In Kursk the raiders stopped, situation under control”

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the creation of the Ministry of Ukrainian Unity. “We are preparing to launch a new institution that will ensure sufficient strength of global Ukrainian unity,” Zelensky said in Dnipro at a meeting of heads of Ukraine’s foreign diplomatic institutions. The new institution, he explained, will be responsible for managing “the ties and relations” of “millions of people in other countries” with Kievaiming to protect Ukrainian “national interests.” “I believe we should strengthen our institutional presence in partner countries,” Zelensky said, adding that “Ukrainian unity” goes hand in hand with “countering Russian influence on Ukrainians, first of all abroad.”

Meanwhile, from the front, Moscow announced on Tuesday that Russian special forces soldiers Akhmat They destroyed the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that were moving towards Kursk. “The enemy has already been stopped and the situation is under control,” the deputy head of the Main Military-Political Department of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Sergei Shoigu, told Tass. Apty Alaudinov. Authorities in the Russian region said they had confirmed the deaths of 17 people “as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian army.” The statement also said that “of the more than 140 injured, 75 were hospitalized, including four children.”

On the night from Monday to Tuesday, around 3 am, the Russian army struck an industrial plant in Ternopilin western Ukraine, causing a fire. Emergency services are currently working on the scene, according to local media. More than 90 rescuers and more than 20 vehicles were deployed to put out the fire. No casualties were reported in the raid. Kiev said it had shot down 25 of the 26 Russian drones.