INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia's latest strike on Odesa on Sunday killed two people and severely damaged a historic Orthodox cathedral, drawing a vow of retaliation
from Ukraine's leader.The 18th-century Transfiguration Cathedral, the biggest Orthodox church in Odesa, lies within the UNESCO-protected
hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Belarus counterpart for talks.Putin claimed Kyiv's counteroffensive had "failed" as he
met his closest ally, Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko, in St
rubble inside the badly damaged shrine, which was demolished under Stalin in 1936 and rebuilt in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet
inside," with "only the bell tower intact."Clergymen said a security guard and a priest readying for a morning liturgy were inside during
Just simple beauty salons, a marine agency, a groomer
has vowed to find a way to continue exports from the ports and said Sunday repeated Russian strikes on Odesa this week were an attempt to
rubble from the Russian strikes, Putin hosted his ally Lukashenko in his native city of St
fighters on his territory, after brokering a deal that convinced its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin to end a march on Moscow and exile himself to
to go on a trip to Warsaw, to Rzeszow," Lukashenko said, referring to Wagner fighters, to Putin, who smiled
"But of course, I am keeping them in central Belarus, like we agreed.""We are controlling what is happening (with Wagner)," he said,
from Stalin at the end of World War II, when victorious allies decided on the contours of post-war Europe
Warsaw had summoned the Russian ambassador over the remarks.After their talks, Putin and Lukashenko greeted crowds in the naval town and
since the pandemic, Putin replied: "People are more important than quarantine."Several days after Wagner had ended its mutiny last month,
