German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier marked Ukraine’s Independence Day by welcoming the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra to Berlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his first public statement addressing the death of Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Ukrainian service personnel landed in Russian-occupied Crimea overnight, causing losses to Russian troops stationed there and raising the Ukrainian flag on the territory. Steinmeir closed by saying Germany remains “firmly” by Ukraine’s side in its fight against Russian aggression, and on its path to European Union membership. Russia will return to the Black Sea grain deal only if the West fulfills its obligations to Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Can Ukraine win this war ?
