Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 323 of the invasion - The Guardian

Russian mercenaries the Wagner Group claimed its forces recovered the assemblage of 1 of 2 British voluntary assistance workers reported missing successful eastbound Ukraine. It did not springiness the sanction of the dormant antheral but said documents belonging to some Britons had been recovered connected his body. A photograph posted alongside the connection appeared to amusement passports bearing the names of Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry, the 2 missing workers. Ukrainian constabulary said connected Monday they were looking for the brace who went missing. A spokesperson for Britain’s Foreign Office added: “We are supporting the families of 2 British men who person gone missing successful Ukraine.”

The latest quality update from the UK Ministry of Defence said implicit the past 2 days dense warring has continued astir the municipality of Soledar, Donetsk oblast, and connected the approaches to Kremina, Luhansk oblast.

The Ukrainian subject has claimed its forces killed much than 100 Russian soldiers successful a azygous onslaught successful Soledar. Ukrainian forces reportedly launched a rocket astatine Russian troops, the bid of Ukraine’s peculiar operations forces said successful an update aboriginal this morning.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, mocked Russian claims to person taken implicit parts of the eastbound metropolis of Soledar, and said that warring is ongoing. “The violent authorities and its propagandists are trying to pretend” to person achieved immoderate successes successful Soledar, Zelenskiy said successful his Wednesday evening address, “but the warring continues”. Ukraine’s subject also denied that Russian forces person encircled and captured Soledar aft claims by the caput of the Wagner mercenary radical that the mining municipality had fallen.

Russia appointed Valery Gerasimov, main of the wide staff, arsenic its wide commandant for the warfare successful Ukraine, successful the latest of respective large shake-ups of Moscow’s subject leadership. Russia’s defence ministry said the changes were designed to “improve the prime … and effectiveness of the absorption of Russian forces” successful a connection connected Wednesday. Gerasimov has faced crisp disapproval from Russia’s hawkish subject bloggers for aggregate setbacks connected the battlefield.

The British authorities is readying to supply tanks to Ukraine to assistance the state support itself, according to a spokesperson for Number 10. Speaking to reporters connected Wednesday the spokesperson said that premier curate Rishi Sunak, has asked defence secretary, Ben Wallace, to “work with partners” and to supply further enactment to Ukraine “including the proviso of tanks”. “It’s wide that conflict tanks could supply a game-changing capableness to the Ukrainians,” helium said. “The premier curate told President Zelenskiy past week the UK volition supply immoderate we can.”

Poland plans to send 10 German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine arsenic portion of an planetary coalition, the Polish president said connected a sojourn to Lviv connected Wednesday. The transportation would necessitate support from Germany, which Kyiv has been pressing separately to proviso Leopard 2s, possibly suggesting a softening of Germany’s stance connected the transportation of main conflict tanks aft caller contacts betwixt Warsaw and Berlin. However, a German authorities spokesperson said it was not alert of immoderate requests from allies to nonstop the tanks to Ukraine.