The president of the Russian Tennis Federation, Shamil Tarpischev, celebrated this Saturday the victory of the Kazakh Elena Rybakina in the women’s final of Wimbledon, considering that the player was a pure “product” of his country.

Born in Moscow 23 years ago, Rybakina adopted Kazakh nationality in 2018. The athlete beat Tunisian Ons Jabeur, world number two, in three sets (3-6, 6-2, 6-2) this Saturday in the Wimbledon final.

Wimbledon banned tennis players from Russia and Belarus this year following the invasion of Ukraine.

The pope plans to visit Kyiv in August, according to the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states, Paul Richard Gallagher, who indicated that the pontiff is convinced that the visit “could have positive results”.

“I think when they come back from Canada, they will start to really explore the possibility (of a visit to Ukraine). I wouldn’t rule it out in August, but that depends on the outcome of the trip to Canada. We will see how the pope will resist this trip,” Gallagher said in an interview with Italian television RAI’s Tg1 news program.

Ukrainian officials confirmed this Saturday death of at least five people in the context of a new Russian bombardment in Donetsk. According to the agency AFPthe missile attack took place at Druzhkivkanorth of the eastern region, where it destroyed a supermarket, opened a crater in the ground and injured around ten people, as reported so far.

For its part, Oleksandr VilkulMayor of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, denounced that Russia had attacked the district with cluster bombs with which he killed at least one person and injured two others.

Attacks in different parts of the country were ratified as early as Russian Ministry of DefenseWhat would have inflicted heavy losses in the Mykolaiv and Dnepropetrovsk regionsin southern and central Ukraine respectively, and resumed shelling in Donetsk and the Kharkiv region.

The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, dismissed the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors in five countries, those of Germany, Hungary, Norway, Czech Republic and India. Among the diplomats is Andrii Melnyk, the ambassador to Germany who has repeatedly criticized German authorities for slow arms deliveries to Kyiv. This was reported by the Ukrainian News Agency UNIEN.

Ukrainian defenders were battling on Saturday to repel Russian forces on multiple fronts, officials said, as the United States urged China to align itself with the West to oppose the invasion after a difficult meeting of the G20.

A missile attack on the northeastern city of Kharkov injured three civilians, its governor said, although Russia’s main bombardment appears to have been concentrated in the southeast, on Lugansk and Donetsk .

The two provinces, which were in the hands of pro-Russian separatists before the conflict began in February, are part of the eastern industrial region of Donbass. Ukrainian authorities reported attacks on the two on Saturday, while

The British armed forces have started training Ukrainian soldiers under a new program to help them fight against the Russian invasion, the Ministry of Defense announced today.

Up to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers will arrive in the UK for several weeks of specialized military training.

UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who today ruled out running to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said it was the ‘next phase’ of his country’s support for the Ukrainian army, reported the British newspaper Guardian.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday he raised Russian aggression in Ukraine during more than five hours of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, during which he raised concerns about to Beijing’s alignment with Moscow.

The two diplomats described their first face-to-face talks since October as “frank”, meeting a day after attending a meeting of G20 foreign ministers on the Indonesian island of Bali.

More than four months after the start of the war, the United States promised new military aid to Kyiv. Washington has also increased the pressure at the diplomatic level. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on China to condemn Russian “aggression” in Ukraine, as stated after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

For its part, the United Kingdom has welcomed the first group of 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers who will receive training on British territory. “This ambitious training program is the next phase of British support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in their fight against Russian aggression,” Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said.

Russian forces manage to sow chaos in the industrial heart of Ukraine despite reports that they are taking an operational break, according to a regional official. The Ukrainian government has urged residents of areas occupied by Russian troops in the south to evacuate “by all possible means”.

Deaths caused by Russian shells have been reported in eastern and southern Ukraine. Luhansk Governor Serhyi Haidai said Russia had carried out 20 artillery, mortar and rocket attacks in the province overnight and that his forces were pressing towards the border with neighboring Donetsk.

“We are trying to contain Russian armed formations on the entire front line,” Haidai wrote on Telegram.

As the war escalates in the east, the Ukrainian armed forces seek to maintain the morale of the troops and also the confidence of the citizens on the course of events.

In this sense, the Air Assault Forces Command shared a video on social networks about episodes of one of the last battles against Russian units.

“In this battle, the Ukrainian airborne forces destroyed nine Russian tanks“, recently wrote the Ministry of Defense on its Twitter account.

With these data, the Ukrainian authorities celebrate that soon the number total enemy tanks destroyed will reach 2000.

In its report of Friday July 8, the Ukrainian army had estimated in 1637 the Moscow tanks decommissionedproduces clashes.

The Ukrainian authorities have estimated that in various cities a humanitarian “catastrophe” is underway. The gaze now turns to Sievierodonetsk, a city taken by Russia two weeks ago, which has no running water, electricity or sewage system.

Everything can happen, As the bodies of the dead rot in burning buildingsdepending on the agency PA.

Governor Serhiy Haidai said the Russians were going wild indiscriminate artillery bombardment while trying to secure their profits in the province of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine.

This week Moscow claimed full control of Luhansk, but the governor and other Ukrainian officials said their troops held a small part of the province.

“Lugansk was not fully captured even though the Russians used their full arsenal to achieve this goal,” Haidai said.

The British government has set up a special team to support the families of British citizens who were captured by pro-Russian forces during the war, the channel reported. SkyNews.

Five Britons are currently in custody after being captured in Ukraine. Two of them, Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, were sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Dontesk.

Both have lived in Ukraine for several years and were serving in their regular forces when full-scale war broke out.

David Sharp, co-head of the Ukrainian consular team, said: “We have a team set up to take care of the families of detainees in Ukraine.” However, don’t fuss

After four and a half months of war in Ukraine, the Russian army continues its “incessant” bombardment of the eastern region of Donetsk while the United States promised Kyiv new military aid, including powerful rocket launchers and precision missiles.

”The whole front line is under constant bombardment“, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Friday. “They do not stop bombing in the direction of Donetsk,” he added. Through the Telegram network, the official said that the most punished cities are Bakhmut, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

Earlier, Kyrylenko published a toll of six dead and 21 injured in 24 hours of shelling in the region. He assured that the Russian army “is in the process of regrouping, or rather reconstituting its groups and preparing new actions” in the most important cities of the region in the hands of the Ukrainians.

In the northeast region of Kharkovsecond city of the country, the Russian bombardments left four dead and nine injured among civilians within 24 hours, Governor Oleg Sinegubov said.

Washington authorities have shown cautious optimism with China’s stance on Ukraine, condemning its rhetorical support for Russia while seeing no signs that Beijing has provided material support to Moscow. They did so in the context of the repercussions of the G20 Summit In Indonesia.

“Most impressive was how measured and somehow subtle China was about Ukraine. during Friday’s meeting at the G20 meeting, a senior US official said. The United States is leading efforts to isolate the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrovwho diplomats say walked out of the G20 meeting in the face of Western criticism.

chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, did not offer “firm support or any sign that China and Russia have reached a pactsaid the US official, who requested anonymity.

However, US officials have said the short honeymoon with China could be fleeting as Xi Jinping could make changes to his foreign policy team in the coming months.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky today visited local troops defending the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region in a symbolic gesture of support as Russian forces advance into Donbass and coincide with the meeting of the G20 foreign ministers, which did not reach an agreement for a condemnation of Moscow.