A Russian-based official says Ukraine has made its first breakthrough on this since launching the counteroffensive earlier this month.
Fiona Hancock and her partner, Robert Paliwoda, have volunteered to help women and girls in parts of the country since June last year.
She says Kherson, where they are now, has suffered bombing and missile attacks most of the time, and is facing severe flooding after the attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam this month.
During their year in Ukraine, the Trawden couple in Lancashire basically used Robert’s account, accessing cash through local ATMs “as there was enough electricity to force them and when local curfews allowed it”.
About six weeks ago, when Hancock tried to access his bank account, he discovered that Lloyds had closed it without his knowledge.
A priori, this is normal. This escalation has been going on for a year and a half and to say we are tired in Ukraine would be a lie because we are.
But the fact is that we still have no choice to wake up every day, triumph over this fatigue and continue to fight and stay standing, and in the current state of Ukraine, that means Poland is standing, that means Romania, Slovakia, all the other countries surrounding Ukraine are standing.
Because if Ukraine falls, it will be a green flag for Putin to continue his imperialist aggression and expansion, and necessarily the UK and any other country that helps Ukraine, are helping to combat those who surely have health problems and the imperialist dreams of a power-mad dictator. . This is anything and anything to combat this fatigue.
Ukraine has retaken the village of Piatykhatky in the southern region of Zapororizhzhia, according to reports. It would be his first victory in the area since he launched his counteroffensive earlier this month. A Russian-based official said Ukrainian forces had taken over the deal. and were hiding there under Russian artillery fire, Reuters reports. If confirmed, it would be the first conquest of a Ukrainian village in about a week and marks an obvious escalation of the offensive in the direct maximum direction to Crimea.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Sunday that its forces had repelled a series of Ukrainian attacks on 3 sections of the front line where it said Ukraine was actively pushing to the maximum in the Zaporizhzhia region, Reuters reports. Battlefield reports may not be independently verified.
The EU is accelerating arms deliveries to Ukraine for the counteroffensive opposed to Russian forces, European industry leader Thierry Breton told French newspaper Le Parisien. provided over the next year.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense said heavy fighting remained concentrated in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, western Donetsk Oblast and around Bakhmuth. This indicates that both sides are suffering heavy casualties, and it is very likely that Russian casualties are due to the height of the Battle of Bakhmut in March.
The death toll from flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam rose to 16 in Ukraine and 29 in Russian-controlled territories, according to data provided by Kiev and Moscow. when the dam broke on June 6.
Ukrainian forces destroyed an ammunition depot near the Russian-occupied port city of Henichesk in the southern region of Kherson, a spokesman for the Odessa army leadership said on Sunday.
A Russian-installed official said Sunday that Ukraine had recaptured a village in the southern Zapororizhzhia region, its first victory since launching its counteroffensive earlier this month.
The official, Vladimir Rogov, said Ukrainian forces had taken the Piatykhatky agreement and were entrenching themselves there with Russian artillery fire.
“The enemy’s ‘wave-formed’ offensives have yielded results, despite massive losses,” Rogov said on the Telegram messaging app.
Heavy fighting continues in the area, he added. There is no quick comment from Ukraine and Reuters may simply not independently check the scenario on the battlefield.
Around the Georgian village of Khurvaleti, the Russian profession can advance a few meters at a time, in the middle of the night. It begins with a plowed line through a field. A green sign then materializes, warning other people not to cross. Then the accordion thread appears.
Khurvaleti is in the far south of South Ossetia, a breakaway region occupied by Russian troops since a five-day war with Georgia in 2008, in what turned out to be a dress-training session for Ukraine. Now on the defensive after Putin’s failed invasion. From Ukraine, Moscow has moved troops and apparatus from Ossetia.
There are few infantrymen to see in the two army bases built in the hills on either side of Khurvaleti. But Georgians worry that if Russia were to triumph in Ukraine, Putin’s forces would return to bite Georgia, at most likely with the aim of swallowing the whole country.
For now, the line that marks the reach of the Russian profession is being monitored through EU observers patrolling in dark blue Toyotas, looking for new symptoms of “bordering”, their word for the constant hardening of borders.
“It usually starts with a comfortable delineation — ditches, ribbons on the trees showing the demarcation between the other two sites,” said Klaas Maes, spokesman for the follow-up mission. cordon, and then the barbed cordon is fortified with more watchtowers. “
More than 3,600 people were evacuated from flooded areas of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, while another 31 people remained missing and some 1,300 houses remained flooded, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said Saturday on its Telegram channel.
Andrei Alekseyenko, chairman of the administration installed through Russia in the Moscow-occupied parts of the Kherson region, said on the Telegram messaging app that the death toll had risen to 29.
Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up the Soviet-era dam, which has been under Russian control since the early days of its invasion in 2022.
A team of foreign legal experts assisting Ukrainian prosecutors in their investigation said Friday in initial findings that it is “very likely” that the collapse of Ukraine’s Kherson region was caused by explosives planted through the Russians.
Vladimir Putin on Saturday handed African leaders pushing for negotiations between Kiev and Moscow a list of reasons why he believes many of his peace proposals were wrong, pouring bloodless water on a plan that has already been largely rejected by Kiev. African leaders were seeking to agree on a series of “confidence-building measures,” telling the Russian president it was time to negotiate an end to the fighting, which they said was damaging the entire world.
After presentations by the presidents of the Comoros, Senegal and South Africa, Putin questioned the plan’s assumptions. He reiterated his position that Ukraine and its Western allies had initiated the confrontation and said Russia had never refused to engage in talks with the Ukrainian side, but that those had been blocked through Kiev. Moscow says any peace will have to allow for “new realities,” meaning it declares but largely does not recognize the annexation of five Ukrainian provinces, 4 of which it only partially controls, a red line for Kiev.
The South African president told Putin that the fighting had to stop. “This war will have to be resolved . . . through negotiations and diplomacy,” Cyril Ramaphosa said after talks in the suburbs of St. Petersburg.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar showed that troops were “engaging in active movements” to advance the counteroffensive in the south. Russia officially identified the Ukrainian advances and said it had inflicted heavy casualties on Kiev’s forces over the past 24 hours.
Two other people were killed after a Russian missile attack on a village in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said. Synehubov said on Telegram that Russian forces shelled the village of Huryiv Kozachok. village, which is close to the border with Russia.
Jens Stoltenberg was expected to be invited to remain NATO secretary-general for another year, a Reuters source said. Stoltenberg’s term has been extended 3 times and he is due to step down in September after nine years. Be an effective leader, said the source, who requested anonymity. The chances of Stoltenberg being asked to stay are higher in the run-up to the NATO summit in Vilnius, and allies fear any manifestation of disunity in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited an army factory in western Siberia and, under pressure, wanted to “increase tank production,” the Defense Ministry said. Agence France-Press reported that Shoigu said it was mandatory to “comply with the wishes of Russian forces conducting the army’s special operation” in Ukraine.
Moscow said troops destroyed 3 drones at an oil refinery in the southern border region of Bryansk. Regional Governor Alexander Bogomaz said: “Russian air defense systems repelled a night attack through the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Druzhba oil refinery in Novozybkov district. Thanks to the professionalism of our army. . . Three aerial drones were destroyed.
Vladimir Putin showed that Russia had deployed its first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. He said nuclear weapons would only be used when there was a risk to the Russian state’s way of life. Speaking Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Russian president also said there is a “grave danger” that the NATO military alliance will be dragged into war in Ukraine.