Live/ Zelensky says US does not want Ukraine to join NATO immediately: “It’s a 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 Investigator. The President of Ukraine even described American 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 US National Security Council stated that Ukraine must win the war against Russia before it can join NATO.

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

However, 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 July 9 and 11 in Washington.

A four-year-old boy was killed and four other members of his family were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Belgorod region, the governor of the region was quoted as saying by the Russian media. TAS.

The FPV drone, which was launched on Sunday, hit the car in which the Russian family was travelling. According to Vyacheslav Gladkov, the boy’s grandfather was seriously injured. The child’s mother, grandmother and father were also travelling in the vehicle, and the boy died.

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 great losses.“Vladimir Saldo was quoted as saying by TASS.

A Russian missile attack aimed at the city of Dnipro caused at least seven injuries, including a teenager, according to information provided by the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, cited by 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 city of Nikopol (in the extreme south of that region) damaged several residential buildings and also affected energy and gas infrastructure.

There will now be more than three thousand Ukrainian prisoners who have been paroled 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.