The head of NATO confirmed that the training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 has already “started”.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Thursday, June 15 that training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 has already taken place. “Begins”. He did not provide any details about the countries’ training, during his statement to the press, on the sidelines of the Defense Ministers’ Summit in Brussels (Belgium), except that the head of NATO indicated that no decision had been taken yet. These devices were delivered to the Ukrainian army. However, many EU countries have expressed their willingness to supply these aircraft. Follow our lives.

Ukrainian army “Progress” on the front despite “strong resistance” Russian forces. Ukrainian forces advanced from “more than three kilometers” During the past 10 days in the Bakhmut region of eastern Ukraine, Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister, Jana Malyar, said at a press conference on Thursday. In the south, she said “Gradual but sure progress” From the Ukrainian army, though “The enemy resists fiercely”.

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency has arrived at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant. Rafael Grossi arrived Thursday noon as part of an inspection visit, the Ukrainian operator Energoatom announced. His visit had to be postponed twice for security reasons. The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who has already visited this giant power plant on several occasions, must determine if it is at risk due to the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam. The water level in the cooling pond will be monitored, and is currently stable.

Moscow claims that local “elections” are taking place in the occupied territories on September 10th. On Thursday, the Russian Electoral Commission announced that local “elections” would be held on September 10 in the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine that it claimed to annex in September 2022. These elections, according to the commission, aim to elect regional councils and municipal councils, even as fighting rages in these regions, Luhansk and Donetsk in the east and Zaporizhia and Kherson in the south.

Kiev announced that it shot down a cruise missile and 20 Russian drones overnight. Three missiles again hit a town in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Kryvyi Rig, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky. They touched “Two industrial companies that have nothing to do with the army”The head of the city’s military department, Oleksandr Filkul, said Thursday, in a telegram. He added that a 38-year-old man was injured and taken to hospital, but his life is not in danger.