Russia has continued a nearly 19-month-long invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Recently, though, the Ukrainians have gone on a counteroffensive, fighting to reclaim occupied territory.
Here's how the news is developing. All times Eastern.
Jul 10, 2023, 6:47 AM EDT
Putin met Prigozhin after Wagner rebellion, Kremlin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin days after the rogue paramilitary leader launched a failed uprising, the Kremlin said on Monday.
The June 29 meeting came about a week after the rebellion failed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 7, 2023.
Alexander Kazakov/AP
"Indeed, the president had such a meeting, he invited 35 people to it -- all the commanders of the detachments and the management of the company, including Prigozhin himself," Peskov said Monday, according to Interfax, a Russian newswire. "This meeting took place in the Kremlin on June 29, it lasted almost three hours."
-ABC News' Anastasia Bagaeva and Joe Simonetti
Jul 08, 2023, 10:28 AM EDT
At least 8 dead in rocket attack in Eastern Ukraine
At least eight people are dead and 13 others are injured after a Russian rocket struck the Ukrainian town of Lyman in the Donetsk Region on Saturday morning, according to the head of the regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
The attack struck a neighborhood with private residences, damaging a home and a store.
As of Kyrylenko's update, police and paramedics were still on site to provide necessary medical assistance.
-ABC News' Tatyana Rymarenko
Jul 04, 2023, 12:13 PM EDT
43 people injured in attack on Kharkiv region, including 12 children
A residential building was damaged and multiple cars were destroyed in the shelling, according to Synyehubov.
-ABC News' Fidel Pavlenko
Jul 03, 2023, 5:49 PM EDT
Top Ukrainian generals say counteroffensive is 'going to plan'
Ukrainian Armed Forces have yet to reach their "full potential," but two top generals exclusively told ABC News the counteroffensive is "going to plan" despite concerns from Western analysts that Ukraine is not making enough progress.
Gen. Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, who is leading the counteroffensive in the south, told ABC News' chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz that the situation is "stable."
"The main thing is that we haven’t reached our full potential," Tarnavskiy said.
ABC News’ Martha Raddatz spoke to the commander of Ukraine’s land forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, about the current state of the war in Ukraine.
Yulia Drozd/ ABC News
Ukrainian troops launched the counteroffensive a month ago, attacking on multiple axes on the southern frontline in Zaporizhzia using Western-supplied vehicles. Ukraine succeeded in piercing Russian lines at two points, liberating a string of villages, but has since been locked in ferocious fighting
Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, told Raddatz that last month's failed rebellion by the Putin-backed PMC, the Wagner Group, wouldn't impact the fighting on the ground.
"It would be better for us if there were some negative consequences in Russia itself, but it doesn't matter for me," he said.
Asked if he was confident of retaking the key city of Bakhmut, Syrskyi said, "Yes, of course. I’m sure."
Both sides have suffered heavy casualties, according to Western officials, particularly in the south where Russia has so far conducted "relatively effective defensive operations" in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia province, the U.K. Ministry of Defense reported.
"The enemy is suffering eight times or even 10 times higher losses, especially with the number of killed troops," Syrksyi said.
