The Russian president said the start of the offensive “is evidenced by the use of strategic reserves. “This live blog is closed
The offensive of the Ukrainian armed forces has begun. This is demonstrated through the use of strategic reserves.
Ukrainian troops did not achieve their goals in any sector, thanks to the courage of Russian soldiers, the intelligent organization of troops.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told a convention in Sochi on Friday that Ukraine had presented its expected counteroffensive opposing Russian forces but had succeeded.
Julian Borger, our global affairs editor, says evidence is developing that the Nova Kakhovka dam exploded after seismic information was published that an explosion appeared to have occurred at the site in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Norsar, Norwegian Seismic Array, said signals from a regional station in Romania indicated an explosion at 2:54 a. m. Norsar did not draw conclusions about who was responsible.
Russia will begin deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus after the comforts are in place on July 7 and 8, President Vladimir Putin told his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at an assembly in Sochi, Russia, on Friday.
Ukraine’s internal security firm said Friday it had intercepted a phone call showing Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant and dam in the Kherson region. He posted a 90-second audio clip of the alleged verbal exchange on his Telegram channel.
NATO allies on Friday condemned Russia to withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).
The White House said Friday that Russia appears to be deepening cooperation with Iran as part of a “broad-based defense partnership” and has gained many one-way strike drones it uses to strike Ukraine.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide a 200 million euro (£170 million/$215 million) loan to Ukraine’s state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsya to help links with the EU, officials said on Friday.
Hungary said on Friday it had won an organization of Ukrainian prisoners of war from Russia, a statement Ukraine welcomed but worried about being informed.
The Netherlands’ supreme court ruled Friday that a priceless collection of gold from Crimea be transferred to Ukraine, the latest ruling in a legal tug-of-war spanning nearly a decade.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked US President Joe Biden for his £21 billion (£1600 million) security aid package. In a tweet, Zelenskiy said the contribution is “more than ever” since the collapse of the Kakhovka dam.
Iceland has announced that from August 1 the operations of its embassy in Moscow will resume.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday that Japan would offer emergency humanitarian aid worth about £5 million (£3. 9 million) after the Nova Kakhovka dam broke, a Japanese government spokesman said.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had summoned Japan’s ambassador over Tokyo’s resolution to the military apparatus in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 10. 5 percent in the first quarter of the year from the same era a year ago, the Economy Ministry said on Friday.
Another eight people have died in Russian-controlled territory and more than 5,800 have been evacuated from their homes following the collapse of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, a senior Russian-appointed official said on Friday. Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-appointed head of Ukraine’s Kherson province, which Russia claims to have unilaterally annexed, accused Ukraine of proceeding to bomb rescuers on the Russian-controlled left bank of the Dnipro River, Reuters reports.
Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Friday that four more people had died and thirteen were missing as a result of flooding in the southern Kherson region after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.
Ukraine’s Internal Security Service (SBU) said earlier Friday that it had intercepted a phone call showing that a Russian “sabotage organization” blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant and dam in southern Ukraine. A minute-and-a-half-long audio clip on his Telegram channel of the alleged verbal exchange featured two unidentified men who gave the impression of talking about the aftermath of the crisis in Russian. One of the men said, “Our organization of saboteurs is here. They wanted to scare with this prey. ” It didn’t go according to plan. More than they had anticipated.
The Kremlin on Friday accused Ukrainian forces of killing civilians victims of flooding caused by the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine in repeated attacks, adding a pregnant woman. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the alleged attacks “barbaric. “He provided no evidence in support of his assertions.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said on Friday that Crimea’s water source would not be affected by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and that the peninsula had enough water reserves for 500 days. A canal in the destroyed reservoir provided drinking water to the peninsula. Kiev cut off the canal in 2014, after Russia illegally seized Crimea and claimed to annex it.
Vitalii Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region, posted on Telegram that for two hours there has been no water at the tip of the Inhulets River and “as a result, there is no water in the entire region. “
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said one user was killed, 3 were injured and 4 buildings were destroyed by falling debris after the latest Russian attack. The Ukrainian military shot down 4 cruise missiles and 10 attack drones in a Russian airstrike overnight, the air force said in a statement. He said Russian forces introduced 16 drones and six cruise missiles in the attack, and two other cruise missiles hit a civilian object in central Ukraine.
Zelenskiy on Thursday praised what he called the “effects” of heavy fighting in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. force dam failure. ” But there are effects and I am grateful to those who have achieved those effects. Congratulations to Bakhmut. Step by step,” he said.
On Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Hannah Maliar said Ukrainian troops were “conducting active combat operations in various spaces in the direction of Bakhmut” and that Russian troops were “conducting defensive operations in the direction of Zaporizhzhia,” where “positional battles continue. “
The Russian military on Friday reported heavy fighting in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, saying more than 21 Ukrainian tanks were destroyed in battles on key sections of the front. A spokesman for the Russian Vostok task force said thirteen Ukrainian tanks were destroyed in battles in Zaporizhzhia. region and 8 in the Donetsk region. Reported artillery, drone and infantry battles. The claims have been independently verified.
Evgeny Balitsky, the acting governor imposed through Russia in the occupied region of Zaporizhzhia, announced the formation of a people’s militia.
Oleh Synyehubov, the governor of Kharkiv, reported that a 33-year-old man was injured when “Shahed” drones hit an infrastructure object in Bohodukhiv.
Voronezh regional governor Alexander Gusev said 3 other people were wounded in an attack in the southern Russian city of Voronezh when a drone hit a residential building.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, said he had repelled an airstrike on the city of Belgorod, with two air defense targets.
Sweden will allow NATO to place troops on its territory even before it officially joins the defense alliance, the prime minister and defense minister said on Friday. joint operations,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Defense Minister Pål Johnson said.
The Allard Pierson Museum will have to hand over the art treasures to the Ukrainian state, not to the museums of Crimea.
It is my human and patriotic duty. . . We brought prisoners of war from Transcarpathia from Moscow.
The offensive of the Ukrainian armed forces has begun. This is demonstrated through the use of strategic reserves.
Ukrainian troops did not achieve their goals in any sector, thanks to the courage of Russian soldiers, the intelligent organization of troops.
In view of the restrictions created by the aggressor for the operation of Ukrainian Black Sea ports, the ministry will pay special attention to the progression of road and rail logistics on the western borders.
Despite the influence of the war, Ukrzaliznytsya maintained its shipping and passenger shipping operations at reduced capacity.
Russia has used Iranian drones in recent weeks to attack Kiev and terrorize the Ukrainian population, and the Russian-Iranian military’s partnership appears to be deepening.
We are also involved in Russia working with Iran to produce Iranian drones from Russia.
We published satellite photographs of the planned location of this drone production plant in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia.
Russia has presented Iran with unprecedented defense cooperation, in missiles, electronics and air defense.
This is a large-scale defense partnership that hurts Ukraine, Iran’s neighbors, and the foreign community. We continue to use any and all tools at our disposal to publicize and disrupt those activities, as well as share them with the public, and we are in a position to do more.
The official said satellites equipped with infrared sensors had detected a heat signal corresponding to a primary explosion just before the dam collapsed.
U. S. intelligence analysts The U. S. suspects that Russia is the cause of the dam’s destruction. . . But he added that U. S. spy agenciesThey still lack falsified evidence about those responsible.
The management official did not rule out the option that previous damage to the dam or an increase in water pressure may have contributed to the collapse.
Experts had warned earlier this week that the available evidence was very limited, but said an explosion in an enclosed space, with all its power deployed as opposed to the design around it, would cause maximum damage. An external detonation via a bomb or missile would exert only a fraction of its force opposite to the bombardment and would require an explosive several times larger to achieve a similar effect.
The Kiev regime did not even give the UN the lists of the other people it declared dead in Bucha [referring to the discovery of mass graves after Russia proclaimed its failed offensive to capture Kiev]. Most likely, they will need an investigation into the terrorist attack on a plant force!
Also, who are the terrorists and their sponsors, and who needs an investigation?Do you know how the US and its vassals blocked the Russian solution at the UN, which called for an independent investigation into the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 fuel explosions?Pipes?