Live/ Zelensky says the US does not want Ukraine to immediately join NATO: “It is the policy of one step forward and two steps back”

The United States is not ready to invite Ukraine to join NATO today, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with The Philadelphia InvestigatorThe Ukrainian President even described the US policy on this issue as “one step forward and two steps back.”

“We listen to opinions from both parties [Partido Democrata e Partido Republicano]. And this suggests that none of them see Ukraine in NATO today.”Zelensky said in an interview with the American newspaper, as cited by Kyiv Independent.

“If the United States is afraid of angering Putin, and that is why they did not invite us, then we ask the United States to give us everything possible so that we can protect [da agressão russa]”Zelensky stressed.

Recall that, in mid-June, the spokesman for the United States National Security Council stated that Ukraine must win the war against Russia before it can join NATO.

“This is the so-called policy of one step forward, two steps back. And I don’t think this is the policy of world leaders,” Zelensky said.

Still, and even after John Kirby’s statements, Ukraine publicly expressed the expectation that a more definitive signal on the country’s accession to the Atlantic alliance could be given at the NATO Summit, which will take place between the 9th and on July 11, in Washington. .

A four-year-old boy died and four other members of his family were injured after a Ukrainian attack using a drone in the Russian region of Belgorod, says the governor of that region, quoted by TAS.

The FPV drone, which was launched this Sunday, hit the car in which the Russian family was traveling. According to Vyacheslav Gladkov, the boy’s grandfather was seriously injured. The mother, grandmother and father of the child who ended up dying were also traveling in the vehicle.

For months, Ukrainian forces have been deployed in movements along the Dnieper River, in an attempt to begin to recapture territory in the southern part of the Kherson region, occupied by Russia since 2022. However, Ukraine has still not been able to do more than establish some bridgeheads on the south bank, without great practical results.

On Monday, the Russian governor of the Donetsk region said that the latest Ukrainian attempts to cross the river near the village of Dnepryany had been repelled, causing serious losses among the Ukrainian military.

“After Krynki [zona a 15 quilómetros onde as forças ucranianas já tinham tentado atravessar o rio]Ukrainian units attempted to land on the left bank near Dnepryany, but these attempts They were repelled, causing them great losses.“said Vladimir Saldo, quoted by the TASS agency.

A Russian missile attack on the city of Dnipro has injured at least seven people, including a teenager, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region said, as cited by the Russian media. News from heaven.

Serhiy Lisak said one of the injured had to be hospitalized. The attack damaged residential buildings in the city.

Another Russian offensive, in the town of Nikopol (in the far south of that region) damaged several residential buildings and also affected energy and gas infrastructure.

There will now be more than 3,000 Ukrainian prisoners who have been released on parole to enlist in military units and fight in the war, according to the Associated Press.

The AP was at a prison in southeastern Ukraine where an army recruiter gave a presentation to prisoners. There will be 27,000 inmates eligible for this program.

The war with Russia had already been going on for more than two years when, last May, the Ukrainian parliament passed the law allowing certain prisoners to enlist to fight in the war.

Anyone who wants to enlist must qualify and undergo an interview, a medical examination and a review of their conviction, Sky News explains. But not all prisoners can do this. Those convicted of rape, sexual assault and murder of two or more people cannot enlist.