Your Wednesday briefing: Zelensky visits Bakhmut

In addition, Japan's central bank is easing policy and Fiji is preparing for a change in leadership.< /p>
ImagePresident Volodymyr Zelensky speaks with Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut, Ukraine.Credit...Ukrainian Presidential Press Service, via Agence France -Press — Getty Images
Zelensky visits the frontline
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bakhmut, a town in the eastern Donbass region that has been suffering for decades month of ferocious attacks from Russia. It was perhaps his most dangerous trip to the front line since the start of the war.
"The East is resisting because Bakhmut is fighting", Zelensky told troops there yesterday. “It is the fortress of our morale. In fierce battles and at the cost of many lives, freedom is being defended here for all of us."
Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, also reported that he did not stop his military campaign, now in its 10th month, as he presided over an awards ceremony in the Kremlin to honor Russian occupation figures and propaganda chiefs. were "difficult and unusual times" and hailed Russian soldiers as "heroes". The besieged city is at the heart of the struggle to control all of Donbass. Zelensky's visit came as Ukrainian troops said that they had pushed the Russians out of certain positions on the edge of...

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Your Wednesday briefing: Zelensky visits Bakhmut

In addition, Japan's central bank is easing policy and Fiji is preparing for a change in leadership.< /p>

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Zelensky visits the frontline

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bakhmut, a town in the eastern Donbass region that has been suffering for decades month of ferocious attacks from Russia. It was perhaps his most dangerous trip to the front line since the start of the war.

"The East is resisting because Bakhmut is fighting", Zelensky told troops there yesterday. “It is the fortress of our morale. In fierce battles and at the cost of many lives, freedom is being defended here for all of us."

Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, also reported that he did not stop his military campaign, now in its 10th month, as he presided over an awards ceremony in the Kremlin to honor Russian occupation figures and propaganda chiefs. were "difficult and unusual times" and hailed Russian soldiers as "heroes". The besieged city is at the heart of the struggle to control all of Donbass. Zelensky's visit came as Ukrainian troops said that they had pushed the Russians out of certain positions on the edge of...