Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House next week. He’s also tentatively scheduled to visit members of Congress at the US Capitol as the next tranche of US aid to Ukraine faces political headwinds from some Republican lawmakers. Zelenskiy will visit New York for the UN General Assembly.

Ukraine’s troops captured the settlement of Andriivka in the Donetsk region, pressing ahead with their advance to the south of Bakhmut, the General Staff said on Facebook. The bulk carrier Puma, sailing under the flag of the Cayman Islands, left the Black Sea port of Odesa early Friday, according to a Ukrainian lawmaker. The major grain-loading facility has been mostly idle since Moscow pulled out of the UN/Turkey-brokered safe-transit agreement in July, and the target of several Russian missile attacks since then.

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