Before meeting Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of South Korea paid a surprise visit to Bautza

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Saturday, July 15, when he visited the town of Butsa, the site of a massacre of civilians blamed on the Russian military. “The president first visited the site of the Bautza massacre near the capital Kiev and the city of Irbin, where missile attacks on civilian areas were carried out.”, the South Korean president said a meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Yoon Suk Yeol would take place later that day. Follow our life.

Wagner militia mercenaries serve as “instructors” of the Belarusian army. Fighters from the Wagner paramilitary group have begun serving as “instructors” for Belarus’s regional security forces, Minsk announced Friday, three weeks after Wagner’s failed insurgency in Russia. “Training sessions with units of regional troops take place near Asipovichi”, in the east of the country, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense explained. According to him, “Wagner’s fighters act as instructors in many military units”.

The counter-attack “didn’t progress so quickly”, kyiv admits. The Kyiv counteroffensive, met with resistance by Russian forces, “Don’t go so fast”Andriï Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, agreed on Friday. “If we see something is not right, we will say so. No one is going to make it up.”, he added. Ukraine will not negotiate with Russia as long as Moscow’s troops remain on Ukrainian territory, Andriï Yermak argued. “Our position is very clear. Even thinking about these talks is possible only after Russian troops leave our territory.”said the official.

Towards Renewal of the Black Sea Grain Agreement? The Russian President is Vladimir Putin “all right” The Turkish president said on Friday that the agreement on grain exports will be renewed (expiring on Monday). Asked by Russian press agencies, a Kremlin spokesman did not confirm Ankara’s strongman’s statements.

Westerners attack the head of Russian diplomacy. Americans and Europeans on Friday condemned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s approach during talks with Southeast Asian nations in Jakarta. His participation was absent “Not creative or productive”, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken noted. European diplomatic chief Joseph Borrell said Sergei Lavrov had lost his temper in his criticism of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.