BREAKING: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has landed in the US. He will hold a meeting with President Joe Biden before going to Capitol Hill where he will address a joint session of the US Senate and House of Representatives. Latest updates:
Updates from Dominic Waghorn in Ukraine and Diana Magnay in Moscow. Live reporting by Olive Enokido-LinehamJailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private military company that has taken a major part in the Ukraine war, had visited his prison to recruit convicts.
The Wagner Group has become increasingly prominent during the Ukraine war, including during a brutal, long-running battle for the small city of Bakhmut. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has landed in the US.Two US officials also NBC News the Ukrainian president travelled on US military aircraft to Washington.
Ukraine has repeatedly asked its Western partners for air defences, including US-made Patriot systems, to protect it from heavy Russian missile bombardment including against its energy infrastructure. "A former Russian militant commander and critical voice in the Russian information space, Igor Girkin, noted that Putin is awarding 'his heroes in the Kremlin' but not Russian and proxy servicemen who are engaged in combat on the frontlines.
He said:"It's day 301 of Vladimir Putin's 'special military operation' and Putin is not in a good place. The highly sensitive trip marks the first time the Ukrainian president has left Ukraine since Russia invaded on 24 February. With Volodymyr Zelenskyy headed to Washington, here's what we know about his meetings and who he'll be speaking to.
The country's defence ministry said in an update that 99,740 Russians have been killed from 24 February to 21 December. That even extends to every serviceman having access to drones - an interesting nod to the pervasive role drones are playing in Ukraine, in combat and intelligence, on a scale not yet seen in modern warfare.Corruption has long been endemic in Russia's armed forces, part of the reason the last few months have seen regular citizens forking out huge sums for kit like body armour and tourniquets for their mobilised relatives.
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