This Friday marks 240 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Some 2,000 Russian soldiers mobilized by Moscow in recent weeks have arrived in the occupied territory of the Ukrainian region of Kherson to replenish lost personnel and reinforce units on the front line. These data appear in a report issued this Friday by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on its Facebook page and reproduced by local agencies. The document states that the occupation authorities have issued an order to prepare the evacuation of the so-called “banking institutions” brought by the Russians and have prepared transfer lists of medical workers and teachers who had been brought from Russia when they were occupied the area. In addition, the humanitarian facilities in Kherson have ceased to function. “The enemy tries to hold the captured territories temporarily, focuses its efforts on restricting the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions,” the message said.
The regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Lugansk Y Zaporizhiaall of them annexed by Russia, is where in recent weeks the fighting between Ukrainians and Russians who, according to kyiv, are favorable to their military forces, which have managed to reconquer large areas of territory. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army has indicated that the Russians do not stop trying to carry out offensive actions on the front lines of these regions, in the east and south of Ukraine, in towns such as Bakhmut and Avdivka. In fact, this Thursday the units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces “repelled Russian attacks near Bilohorivka, in the Lugansk region, and in Opytne, Bakhmut, Pobeda and Marinka, in the neighboring Donetsk region,” the report reads. “The enemy bombards Ukrainian positions along the line of contact and conducts aerial reconnaissance,” the note stresses, adding that “in violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, the laws and customs of war, the invaders continue to attacking critical infrastructure and the houses of the civilian population”.
US urges Russia to keep communication open
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urged his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, to keep the lines of communication open amid the war in UkraineThe Pentagon reported in a statement on Friday. From the United States they have highlighted on multiple occasions the importance of keeping communication open, especially to avoid accidental clashes that could lead to an escalation with Russia.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported in another statement the telephone conversation between Shoigu and Austin, who addressed the “situation in Ukraine”according to the note, without giving more details.
Ten Iranian soldiers killed in Ukrainian bombings in Crimea
They are members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – the IRGC, the architect of Iran’s foreign expansion – and their mission is to assist Russia in the use of “kamikaze drones”the Iranian-made Shahed-136s, which play a key role in Putin’s new strategy to change the course of the war.
It was on Wednesday that the National Resistance Center of Ukraine notified of the presence of these Iranian instructors on the ground.
Defense officials from Russia and the US hold their first conversation since May
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held this Friday a telephone conversation to discuss the situation of the war in Ukraine, as confirmed by the Kremlin in a statement.
The call has revolved around “international security issues and, notably, the situation in Ukraine”, clarifies the statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense on Telegram. Contact between Shoigu and Austin was interrupted in May, when the American asked his counterpart for an “immediate” ceasefire in the conflict. Until then, the conversations between the two had been punctual.
The European Union studies sending Ukraine an aid of 1,500 million monthly
Ursula von der Leyen said today that the Union is ready to explore how to give Ukraine €1.5 billion annual to finance the basic needs of the country while fending off the Russian invasion.
“The discussion revolved around some 1,500 million euros per month for Ukraine financed by the European Union,” said Von der Leyen at a press conference at the end of the summits of community leaders in which they discussed how to guarantee “a predictable and stable income stream“ for that country.
The Spanish Army contributes to NATO Air Defense with an early warning radar in Romania
Staff of the Air and Space Army Spanish-under national operational control of the Operations Command- has begun its deployment in Romania, near the city of Constanta, together with a long-range aerial surveillance radar, to contribute to NATO’s Integrated Air Defense in the airspace of its Member States.
Russia clarifies that there is still no date for the end of partial mobilization
The Russian authorities have clarified that an exact date has not yet been set for the end of the partial mobilization announced by the president, Vladimir Putin, in the context of the war in Ukraine. This was confirmed this Friday by the Kremlin spokesmanDmitri Peskov, just a few days after the authorities of both the city and the Moscow region announced the end of recruitment.
Russia repels two Ukrainian attacks in Kherson region
Two offensive attempts by the Ukrainian Army during the day in the southern region of Kherson have been repelled by Russian forces, as reported on Friday by the Russian Ministry of Defense. “In the direction of Mikolaiv and Krivoy Rog, the Russian forces have frustrated during the last day two offensive attempts by units of tactical groups of the Ukrainian Army in the vicinity of the towns of Davydiv Brid and Sukhyi Stavok in the Kherson region”, Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. According to the representative of the Russian command, the Russian forces “have thwarted attempts to infiltrate the rear by about 20 sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Ukrainian Army.” “The concentrated fire of the Russian artillery and the active actions of the Russian forces have annihilated more than 120 Ukrainian military personnel, 6 armored vehicles and 13 military trucks,” he added. In addition, he has claimed that the Russian Aerospace Force has destroyed a hangar with foreign-made war equipment with a high-precision missile in the town of Nova Kamianka. The situation around Kherson is one of the most tense on the Russian-Ukrainian front, a fact that Russian General Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, admitted on Tuesday.
Ukraine says it is “in direct contact” with Musk and that telecommunications service is not in danger
The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksii Reznikov, has assured that they are “in direct contact” with the founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, so the proper functioning of the satellite communication terminals is not in danger. star link of your company SpaceX, “essential” for the Ukrainian troops. “I know that we will have no problem keeping the service running,” Oleksii Reznikov confided in a interview for the american media POLITICALwhere he also referred to the “personal communication” between the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov, and Elon Musk.
The war has killed at least 429 children in Ukraine
At least 429 children have died in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24 and more than 800 have been injured, as reported this Friday by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office. According to official information from the juvenile prosecutors published on their Telegram channel, to date 429 children have been killed in different attacks throughout the country, especially in the eastern regions, the most affected by Russian attacks. In addition, more than 817 suffered injuries of various kinds and have needed assistance. These figures are not final, as prosecutors continue to work to establish the number of child victims in places where there are active hostilities, in the territories temporarily occupied by the Russians and in those that have already been liberated by the Ukrainian Army.
Ukraine denounces the discovery of another nine bodies in recovered areas of Donetsk
The head of the Ukrainian Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, denounced this Friday the discovery of the lifeless bodies of another nine civilians in areas recovered by Ukrainian troops in the region in the east of the country. “The security forces have found indications that another nine civilians have been killed by Russian forces during the occupation: seven in Novoselivka and two in Liman.”he explained in a message broadcast through his Telegram account.
Nearly a dozen injured in new attacks by the Russian Army against Kharkov and Zaporizhia
The ukrainian authorities have reported this Friday that about a dozen people have been injured early in the morning in new attacks perpetrated by the Russian Army against the cities of Kharkov and Zaporizhia
At least four killed in a Ukrainian attack on Kherson, according to pro-Russians
At least four civilians were killed this Friday in a Ukrainian rocket attack on the Antonivka bridgenext to which the inhabitants of Kherson are evacuated by ferry to the left bank of the Dnieper River, denounced the deputy governor of that region annexed by Russia, Kirill Stremousov “They have attacked the Antonivka bridge. Residents of Kherson have died. The Americans they have once again attacked the civil crossing next to the Antonivka bridge with rockets,” he wrote on his Telegram channel, alluding to the fact that the action was perpetrated with HIMARS missiles, which the United States supplies to Ukraine. The pro-Russian authorities plan to evacuate a total of 60,000 people until Monday, a measure they have adopted in the face of the advance of the Ukrainian troops.
New Russian attacks in Kharkiv
Russian troops have launched new attacks on the city of Kharkov, in the northeast of the country and the second largest in population, which have caused at least five injuries, Oleh Synyehubov, head of the Regional Military Administration, announced this Friday in his account from Telegram. The authorities have urged all citizens of this city, close to the front line and one of the hardest hit by Russian bombing since the war began, to stay in shelters. “Residents of Kharkov, stay in the shelters! The Russian occupiers are attacking the regional center”. For his part, the mayor of Kharkov, Ihor Terekhov, has said on his social media accounts that several explosions have resounded in the city and that they are the consequence of an air attack that has affected the city, although there have also been attacks in other points in the region, as well as in other areas of Ukraine.
