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US envoy Keith Kellogg volition question to Kyiv aboriginal adjacent week, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Published On 11 Jul 2025
The United States is erstwhile again delivering subject supplies to Ukraine and volition besides beryllium sending its peculiar envoy, Keith Kellogg, to Kyiv adjacent week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
In his nightly code connected Friday evening, Ukraine’s person said that US assistance shipments had been restored, pursuing the Pentagon’s determination to concisely halt the transportation of definite weapons to Kyiv.
“We person received governmental signals astatine the highest level – bully signals – including from the United States, from our European friends,” helium said.
Zelenskyy added that his state was moving with its allies “on caller supplies, accrued weapons accumulation successful Ukraine and amended enactment for our army”.
“Next week, we volition proceed moving with the US broadside connected a subject level, including betwixt our subject and General Kellogg,” helium said.
At the commencement of July, the Trump medication paused shipments of weapons to Ukraine, including aerial defence missiles, implicit fears that its ain stockpiles were dwindling.
The halt coincided with a spike successful Russia’s aerial bombardment of Ukraine, with Moscow’s subject firing 728 drones and 13 missiles against it connected Wednesday, the largest regular full successful much than 3 years of war.
The US subject assistance intermission besides came arsenic Ukraine suffered its highest fig of monthly civilian casualties successful the full war. In June, 232 radical were killed and 1,343 injured, according to the quality rights ngo successful Ukraine.
After announcing earlier this week that the US would resume shipments to Kyiv, US President Donald Trump said connected Thursday that his state was sending weapons to NATO, which could past beryllium sent connected to Ukraine by its subordinate states.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed connected Friday that European nations could springiness immoderate of their subject supplies to Kyiv and bid replacements from the US.
“It’s a batch faster to determination something, for example, from Germany to Ukraine than it is to bid it from a [US] mill and get it there,” Rubio said during a sojourn to Malaysia.
Meanwhile, connected the beforehand line, the Russian subject struck Ukraine’s confederate larboard metropolis of Odesa connected Friday morning, injuring astatine slightest 8 people, according to Ukrainian section officials.
Overnight Russian attacks connected eastbound Ukraine besides injured 9 and forced the evacuation of a maternity centre successful Kharkiv, President Zelenskyy said.
Drone attacks, shelling
Meanwhile, Russian officials noted that Ukrainian drone and shelling attacks had killed 3 radical successful the Russian regions of Belgorod, Lipetsk and Tula connected Friday.
The Ukrainian subject said connected Telegram that it had targeted a Russian combatant craft works successful the Moscow portion and a rocket accumulation installation successful the Tula portion connected Friday.
Both drone attacks caused explosions and fires, Ukraine added.
The US’s determination to resume assistance deliveries to Ukraine comes arsenic Trump has signalled a increasing impatience with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Amid an evident thaw successful relations, Rubio met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov successful Malaysia connected Friday. “We are talking, and that is simply a start,” Rubio said.
Lavrov aboriginal travelled to North Korea to clasp talks. Pyongyang has been an important backer of Moscow, sending thousands of troops to Russia to assistance it successful its warfare against Ukraine.