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Moldova is hosting the summit of the European Political Community, EPC, which will be attended on Thursday by 50 European heads of state and government and other high-ranking European officials.

The EU agriculture chief has said that it is necessary to extend restrictions on grain imports from Ukraine until at least the end of October, despite fierce opposition from Kiev.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced the imminent start of a counter-offensive by the country's Armed Forces.
"We approved the dates for the start of the movement of our troops, the decisions were made thanks to the brigades that prepared for it," Zelensky said in a video address.

British electronic music band The Prodigy will be once again perform in Istanbul after many years as part of 'The Prodigy Back on Tour.' The band will take the stage at Küçükçiftlik Park on July 23 and tickets are now on sale.

Although Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut, after a grinding nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died, top Ukrainian military leaders say the battle is not over.

Ukrainian officials acknowledge they now control only a small part of Bakhmut.

He added that they will leave the conflict zone in that area within the next week.
"We conquered the entire territory of Bakhmut, as we promised, until the last centimeter, today we did not conquer anything," Prigozhin said in an audio message on Telegram.
He said that he would hand over the territory of Bakhmut to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Reuters reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russian troops were in Bakhmut -- which Moscow claimed it captured a day earlier -- but insisted the east Ukrainian town was "not occupied".

"Today they (Russian troops) are in Bakhmut," Zelensky said at a press conference during the G7 summit in Hiroshima.

But he added: "Bakhmut is not occupied by Russia today."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky huddled with some of his biggest backers at the Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima on Sunday, hoping to add to the momentum for his country's war effort even as Russia claimed a symbolic victory on the battlefield.

Day 451 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Hiroshima for talks with the G7 Saturday, after winning long-sought access to advanced US fighter jets and training for Kyiv's pilots.

Zelensky's surprise summit appearance - he had previously been expected to appear by video - came after he welcomed a "historic" White House decision to allow Ukraine to get F-16 jets.