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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky is a Ukrainian artist, screenwriter, producer and politician. Volodymyr (sometimes) again made defiant comments upon his return from Washington, saying his forces were "working for victory" even as Russia carried out new attacks across Ukraine, the Associated Press reported . 

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Zelensky wrote in Telegram from his office in Kyiv that he had secured a new package of US military aid worth $1.8 billion.

The Ukrainian head of state returned to the country amid incessant Russian artillery, rocket and mortar fire and airstrikes on the eastern and southern fronts, as well as targets in Ukraine.

Moscow has reiterated that the war will not end until it achieves its military objectives.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said no Ukrainian peace plan could succeed if "today's realities" were not taken into account.

He refers to the demand that Ukraine recognize Russia's sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed in 2014, as well as other Russian territorial acquisitions.

Peskov announced that today Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit an arms plant in the city of Tula, located about 150 kilometers south of Moscow, where he will chair a meeting on the Russian arms industry.

At the same time, the Ukrainian army said that Russian forces had fired more than 70 missiles against Ukraine that night.

In addition, during the fierce fighting in the area of ​​the city of Bakhmut in the eastern part of the Donetsk region, four people were killed and seven were wounded. 

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The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said Bakhmut and Liman in neighboring Luhansk Oblast, as well as the front line between Luhansk and Kharkiv Oblasts, had come under Russian strikes, but did not provide details. 

Over the past 24 hours, there have been 61 Russian rocket, artillery and mortar attacks against Kherson region, with one person killed and two wounded. 

Russian missile strikes were also reported in Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as repulsed Russian ground attacks in or near 19 settlements in eastern Ukraine, BTA notes.

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