Two cruise missiles were also shot down over Chernihiv and Sumy regions. Air defense forces managed to destroy 16 kamikaze drones «Shahed-136» overnight, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported. Russian strategic missile forces conducted training on the task of a massive nuclear strike «in response to an enemy nuclear strike».
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, day 204. Online updates.
In the Luhansk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated seven settlements, the head of the Luhansk regional military administration, Serhiy Gaidai, said. A critical infrastructure facility in Khmelnytska oblast has been damaged. Air defence is shooting down kamikaze drones in Odesa oblast, and explosions are heard in Ivano-Frankivsk. Energy infrastructure facilities in the Lviv region were targeted by missiles. Part of Kharkiv has no power and public transport is not working.
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The United Kingdom will provide Ukraine with M270 multiple rocket launchers, which can hit targets up to 80 km away. The decision was agreed with the United bond market holidays 2020 States in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expects the speaker of the Hungarian parliament Laszlo Kever to publish a certificate on the state of his mental health, says Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko. Earlier, Laszlo Kever said that Volodymyr Zelensky had «mental problems» and sometimes asked his partners for support. «Any person does not have to pay a debt for a non-existent object,» he explained.
More than 40 countries and more than 20 international organizations are invited to participate in the conference. Ukrainian forces withdrew from Lysychansk, probably retreating to prepared defensive positions. Military analysts believe that now Russia’s attention will almost certainly switch to capturing the Donetsk region, a large part of which remains under the control of Ukrainian forces, according to British intelligence. The Russian army managed to gain a foothold in Lysychansk and cross the Siverskyi Donets river. Russians captured two more settlements nearby – Bilohorivka and Zolotarivka, the head of the Luhansk RMA SerhiI Haidai said on the morning of July 4.
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But they added that in November and December, the Russian Federation launched 127 Shahed-136 and 300 cruise missiles over the territory of Ukraine. Latvia may once again provide Ukraine with Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems as part of military aid, the country’s Defense Minister Inara Murniece said. On the evening of February 1, the Russians hit Kramatorsk with rockets. An apartment building was destroyed, at least three people died and more than twenty were injured.
Severodonetsk and Lysychansk are under fire, Russia used aircraft. More than ten high-rise buildings, private houses and a police station building were destroyed. Mobilization training of the Belarusian armed forces continues in the Gomel region. During it, the Belarusian militaries are trained by military instructors of the Russian Federation, in particular to conduct sabotage and reconnaissance activities. Russian troops will soon try to capture Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, and then Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are ready. These plans are confirmed by the Institute for the Study of War.
- In Donetsk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled several assaults by Russians in the Slavyansk and Bakhmut directions.
- In Belarus, an inspection of the railway infrastructure is being carried out, which may indicate preparations for the reception of military echelons from the Russian Federation.
- Ukraine needs a defense system that would completely close the Ukrainian sky and shoot down drones, said the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov in an interview with Fox News.
- Russia is moving units from the Kherson region to the Luhansk region.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, day 188. Online updates.
The UN disproved the comment made by an unnamed source to The New York Times regarding the shelling of the Odesa port. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine asked the UN leadership for clarifications and was assured that the unofficial comment of an «unnamed source» to The New York Times does not reflect the position of the UN. Only Secretary-General António Guterres’s statements can express the official organisation’s position. Poland has collected 22.5 million PLN (about 5 million USD) for a Bayraktar for Ukraine earlier than expected. In addition, the Polish government handed over PT-91 Twardy tanks which have already arrived in Ukraine.
The press secretary of the UN Secretary General Stefan Dujarrik said this in a comment to Suspilne. The day before, the Russian mass media reported with reference to the «ombudsman of the LPR» that a representative of the UN visited Ukrainian prisoners of war in the pseudo-republic. Since mid-March, Russian troops in Ukraine have lost a territory larger than the territory of Denmark. At the same time, in the last 39 days they managed to get a territory the size of Andorra. On August 24, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian forces are slowing down the overall pace of their offensive operations in Ukraine. On August 26, in the temporarily occupied village of Kamianka in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian military fired at residential buildings for the purpose of provocation.
- And she also addressed a letter to US President Joe Biden about the need to check whether Yermak has so-called «Russian connections».
- In the evening, Russians hit a district in Kharkiv with a C-300 missile.
- Moscow has pressured Beijing at least twice to offer new forms of economic support.
The Russian army launched 11 missile strikes and 10 airstrikes during the past day and carried out more than 65 MLRS attacks against at least 35 settlements. The countries of the European Union approved the eighth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation. Sanctions also deprive the Russian army and its suppliers of additional goods and equipment necessary for waging war on Ukrainian territory. At night, the occupiers used UAVs for the first time to attack Zaporizhzhia. In addition, the city was shelled twice with rockets, targeting residential buildings.
Earlier it became known that Iran decided to provide Russia with surface-to-surface missiles in addition to a larger number of drones. According to Ukrainian intelligence, it is about Iranian short-range ballistic missiles Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar, which are capable of hitting targets at a distance of 300 and 700 kilometers, respectively. As of November 1, the police found 1,367 bodies of civilians killed by the Russians on the territory of the settlements of the Kyiv region that were liberated from the Russian army. 200 bodies remain unidentified, and 384 people are considered missing, Kyiv region police chief Andrii Nebytov said. The USA approved a new military aid package for Ukraine worth 400 million dollars.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, day 229. Online updates.
Two people were killed and five were injured after shelling of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Suspilne gathered the main news of the 110th day of the full-scale war. Suspilne gathered the main news of the 113th day of the full-scale war.
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