The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, arrived in Ukraine for the first time, a leader who has never taken a stand since the beginning of the war and has not turned back on Vladimir Putin. Meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev, Modi did not condemn Moscow’s attack but denied any accusation of secrecy: “With full conviction, we stayed away from the war, but this never meant that we were just passive observers”, he said, “we made sure. that we were never neutral. And from the first day we were on one side, the side of peace.” Modi then praised his country as a potential mediator in the talks between Moscow and Kiev: “India is ready to make its proactive contribution over and I personally, as a friend, if there is a role that I can play, I would very much like to play that role for peace”, clarified the Prime Minister of India: “Two years ago in Samarkand, when I met with President Putin, I told him, looking at him in the eyes of the media, that this is not a time for war. Zelensky explained Modi as “historic” and emphasized with pleasure: “India supports the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. And this is fundamental because everyone in the world needs respect.” to the United Nations Charter.
Zelensky can also be satisfied with the land that, according to his army, was redeemed in the Kharkiv region, equal to about 2 square km. Moscow countered by estimating Ukraine’s losses in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kiev’s troops launched the latest offensive. At least 5,137 soldiers were reported killed and 69 tanks destroyed. Still in Kursk, however, the Ukrainian Air Force said it had launched an air strike with US GBU-39 high-precision bombs to hit military targets. His attack and claim worried the vice-president of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who, in a message on Telegram, threatened: “Ukraine will be destroyed, like Sodom and Gomorrah, and inevitably the demons fall. The earthly punishment will be cruel, painful and it will happen soon.”
However, in the meantime, Moscow had to deal with a riot in prison colony No. 19 in the Russian region of Volgograd, where 4 prisoners took 8 prison guards and 4 prisoners hostage. The maximum security colony is located on the outskirts of the city of Surovikino, 860 km from Moscow, and houses about 1000 prisoners. After about 3 hours, the Russian Special Forces, with the help of snipers, attacked the prison, freeing the hostages in a little more than half an hour and “neutralizing” the rebels, who had declared their allegiance in a video to ISIS. One of them, the 23-year-old Tajik Rustamchon Navruzi, tried to blow himself up with a vest full of explosives during the attack but it did not go off. A total of 3 guards died inside the colony, and the fourth died in hospital from his injuries.
