The Ukrainian city of Izyum was recaptured from the Russians earlier this week. Sky's security and defence editor haynesdeborah sent this video report from there. Follow the latest on Ukraine:
Putin unrepentant but Xi more careful
Alexey Kuzmichev, one of the main shareholders of Russia's Alfa-Bank, was sanctioned by the EU in March for his ties to President Vladimir Putin. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova added that Russia"reserves the right to defend its territory". Ms Zakharova said:"If Washington decides to supply longer-range missiles to Kyiv, then it will be crossing a red line, and will become a direct party to the conflict," When asked on 19 August, a senior Ukrainian official did not say whether Kyiv now had ATACMS.
There are reports that some Russian soldiers fled in panic from the Kharkiv region after Moscow gave the order to withdraw, abandoning equipment after causing widescale destruction. "So he's still resorting to recruiting from the poorest areas in Russia and trying to bring mercenaries."But his plan is to continue with this hybrid aggression of sorts and then probably freeze the current conflict until the winter, so that he can rebuild his forces and then relaunch an attack at a later date.
The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan on Thursday in their first face-to-face meeting since before in invasion on 24 February. "On the surface, of course, publicly, from what I've seen recently, they're trying to assert, maintain the position that China has its own interests and it wants to maintain good relations with Russia but I'm sure that under the surface and in the context of the meetings between Putin and Xi there will be a lot of hard talk and many questions asked on the part of Beijing."He added:"Putin...
But Air Vice Marshal Bell, who worked for the Chief of Air Staff on RAF strategy, says the pull-back should also be viewed from the perspective of what Russia gets out of it. " was an area that they took early on in the campaign. But now that the Ukrainians have pushed back, the Russians are faced with a choice: do you either stay there and risk losing soldiers, particularly around Izyum, or you do withdraw and focus on your actual priorities?"Now, admittedly, some of the forces do not seem to have conducted an orderly withdrawal, but that was undoubtedly the reason why they pulled away.
But he added:"Thanks to high operational efficiency and appropriate management decisions, we were able to ensure business continuity and demonstrate stable results."
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