The Pentagon has confirmed that US-supplied cluster munitions to Kiev have been handed over to Ukraine , Ukrainian General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi told CNN yesterday.

" There are cluster munitions in Ukraine right now ," said Lieutenant General Douglas Sims, director of joint operations of the US General Staff, at a press conference quoted by American media, reiterating that Ukraine does not intend "to use the munitions clustered close to the civilian population, unlike the Russians» but that «the Ukrainians intend to use them in the tactical environment, against the Russians, not against civilians».

And while Ukrainian forces continue their offensive operations and have made progress in the last 24 hours in Bakhmut's direction, advancing south of the eastern Ukrainian city, Putin returns to Wagner's case, speaking publicly about the mercenary militia for the first time since the mutiny of 24 June last .

"Well, the Wagner does not exist!" Putin exclaimed in response to a reporter from the Kommersant newspaper who asked him if the group will remain as a combat unit. “We don't have a law for private military organizations! It just doesn't exist!" he added. “There is a group, but legally it doesn't exist!”, the clarification.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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