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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends an event for marking Statehood Day in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Friday, July 28, 2023. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)Ukrainian and Russian forces battled for a key village in southeastern Ukraine, with Moscow’s forces pounding it with artillery, amid Kyiv’s grinding counteroffensive. Russia accused Ukraine of firing two missiles at southern Russia near the border and wounding 20 people. Russian forces blasted an unoccupied apartment building and adjacent security services office in the central city of Dnipro. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, marked Ukraine’s Statehood Day holiday by reaffirming its sovereignty as a nation — a direct rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who used his claim that Ukraine didn’t exist as a nation to justify his invasion in 2022.
Originally published at Associated Press