2023-07-19 02:03:34
04:03
New Russian strikes on Odessa
Russia has launched air attacks on Odessa for a second consecutive night. According to a spokesman for the city’s military administration, air defense systems repelled fire, including “Kalibr missiles from the Black Sea”, reports CNN.
03:08
Joe Biden receives Vatican envoy to discuss Ukraine
Joe Biden had an interview with Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi “at the request of Pope Francis”, indicates the White House. The US president and the Vatican’s envoy for peace in Ukraine discussed the papacy’s efforts to provide “humanitarian aid in response to the widespread suffering caused by the continued aggression in Ukraine, as well as the Vatican’s commitment to the return of forcibly deported Ukrainian children”, details a press release.
As part of his mission, Cardinal Zuppi went to kyiv in early June, where he met President Volodymyr Zelensky. He then went to Moscow at the end of June, where he met Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian commissioner for children, targeted by an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for “illegal deportation” of Ukrainian minors, as well as than the Russian Orthodox Patriarch.
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