Ukraine Today - 5/07/2022

5/07/2022. The latest news from Ukraine and about Ukraine. The war - Ukraine is under attack. In his national evening address, President V. Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine is approaching fire power parity with the enemy. “Step by step we are moving forward on both the Kharkiv and Kherson fronts and at sea. Snake Island is a good example. There will be a day when we say the same thing about Donbas.” Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has visited Kyiv, just a day after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. More: SBS Ukrainian

Meeting of the President of Ukraine with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden in Kyiv. Source: The Presidential Office of Ukraine.

Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba has said that Ukraine submitted a filing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to prove that Russia violated the Genocide Convention. "Today, Ukraine submitted a major filing at the ICJ. We prove that Russia violated the Genocide Convention by justifying its aggression with a false pretext of a ‘genocide’ that never was. Critical step to hold Russia accountable and make Russia pay for the harm it has inflicted," he said on Twitter