Mykolaiv governor Vitaliy Kim just told the Telegram that the city had been hit by seven rockets.
Russian Foreign Ministry: Response to Lithuania’s travel ban “will not be diplomatic but practical”
Moscow’s response to Lithuania’s EU-approved transit of goods to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad will not be purely diplomatic but practical, Maria Zakharova said. “One of the key questions was whether the answer would be purely diplomatic. The answer: no “, said the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in her weekly briefing. “The answer will not be diplomatic but practical.” Reuters reports that Zakharova would not elaborate on the nature of the practical measures Russia planned to take against Lithuania. Map of the Baltic Sea showing the pocket of Kaliningrad Yesterday, hosting a meeting in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said: “Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions. “Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the Lithuanian population.” An EU ban on Russian steel and iron ore entered into force on 17 June, and Lithuania’s state-owned railways have said they will no longer allow these goods to be transported on their lines and imported into Kaliningrad. Jennifer Rankin Granting EU candidate status to Ukraine would be a historic decision that signals Russia that it can no longer claim a sphere of influence from its eastern neighbor, the Kiev ambassador to Brussels said. Vsevolod Chentsov, head of Ukraine’s mission to the EU, said the Russian war had united Kyiv with the bloc and ended what he called a “mistake” about whether his country could belong to the union. Speaking to the Guardian ahead of a historic EU summit on Thursday, he said that for many years Ukraine was considered a bridge or a neutral state rather than a potential member. A decision on candidate status will “finally kill, this ambiguity, what Ukraine is for the EU: whether we are building a common house or not; I think now there is finally clarity.” EU leaders will decide on Thursday whether to grant Ukraine candidate status, following a positive recommendation from the European Commission last Friday. Expectations for a yes have risen since four EU leaders, including France and Germany, who were considered lukewarm, visited Kyiv last week in support. Read more about Jennifer Rankin’s report from Brussels: Kiev’s envoy to EU says Ukraine’s candidacy would send clear message to Russia There is a quick snapshot from Reuters that reports that members of the Russian delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) did not receive a British visa to attend the next meeting, according to Vladimir Jabarov, Russia’s first deputy head. . Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Russia-Ukraine border “worse than the Berlin Wall” – pro-Russian plenipotentiary in Zaporizhzhia
One of the leaders of the authorities imposed on occupied Ukraine described the border between Russia and Ukraine as “worse than the Berlin Wall for the Germans”, according to a RIA Novosti report. Vladimir Rogov states: For us, the border with Russia is worse than the Berlin Wall for the Germans. According to various estimates, 60-68 percent of residents of East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) had relatives in West Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). In Ukraine, depending on the region, 73-85% of the population has relatives in Russia. Therefore, this border should not exist. Rogov went on to say, according to the agency, that the Germans did not hold a referendum on the wall, they took it into their own hands to destroy it and live in a single state. “Our reunification with Russia is inevitable, there should be no borders between us,” Rogoff was quoted as saying. Rogov is a member of the main council of the self-proclaimed military-political administration of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine. Peter Sauer Pjotr Sauer reports about us from Zahaltsy: Since the start of the war, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been found in the Boutsa area, many of whom have been hastily buried in dozens of shallow mass graves. Ukrainian police believe about 650 people were shot in what he described as executions. On Tuesday, local police buried the remains of one – believed to be a local – as the aftermath of the Russian occupation continued to haunt towns and villages around the Ukrainian capital, almost three months after the invading troops withdrew. The body was found next to a police checkpoint used by Russian soldiers during the occupation, leading officials to believe he was killed by soldiers manning the outpost. All indications are that this man was killed by Russian soldiers. “We found more bodies around checkpoints in this area,” said Vyacheslav Tsyliuryk, head of the local police unit. “We believe this man was on his way home when he was shot.” As two men began digging the ground, the outlines of the corpse began to appear and then Tsyliuryk pointed to a gunshot wound to the man’s chest as the possible cause of death. The dead man was wearing a thick winter jacket, which Tsyliuryk said suggests the killing took place in late March or early April, shortly before the Russians left Kyiv. Zahaltsy, like other nearby towns and villages, was occupied for about a month before the withdrawal of Russian forces. Read more from Pjotr Sauer’s report from Zahaltsy: Ukrainians still find corpses in formerly occupied villages outside Kyiv The military authorities of the self-proclaimed breakaway People’s Republic of Donetsk published a post in the Telegram claiming that in the last two hours the Kievsky district of Donetsk has been bombed sixty times by Ukrainian forces. He specifically states that the ammunition used is 155 mm projectiles “supplied by NATO countries”. The allegations have not been independently verified. Maksym Kozytskyi, governor of Lviv, told the Telegram that there had been no airstrikes in his area in western Ukraine overnight. He said 225 displaced people arrived in Lviv yesterday on evacuation trains. Losses in the forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), one of Russia’s proxies in eastern Ukraine, may have amounted to about 55% of the original force, the British secret services claimed. According to the latest report from the United Kingdom Department of Defense: Heavy bombardment continues as Russia pushes to encircle the Sievierodonetsk region via Izium in the north and Popasna in the south. Russia is very likely to try to develop a large number of reserve units in Donbas. He then discusses the situation of the victims, stating: Russian authorities have not announced the total number of military casualties in Ukraine since March 25. However, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) publishes data on the losses of the GDR forces. On June 16, the GDR acknowledged that 2,128 soldiers had been killed in battle and 8,897 wounded since early 2022. The LDR’s casualty rate equates to about 55% of its original strength, which underscores the tremendous damage suffered by Russian and pro-Russian forces in Donbas. It is very likely that the GDR forces are equipped with outdated weapons and equipment. On both sides, the ability to create and deploy backup units on the front is likely to become increasingly critical to the outcome of the war. As a further step, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claims to have killed a total of about 34,100 Russian soldiers between February 24 and June 21. The allegations have not been independently verified. A Ukrainian photojournalist and a soldier accompanying him were “executed in cold blood” when they were killed in the first weeks of the Russian invasion, according to a recent report by Reporters Without Borders. The couple was reportedly searching forests owned by Russia for the photographer’s lost drone, the agency said, citing its findings from an investigation into their deaths. The Freedom of the Press group said it had returned to the site of the bodies of Maks Levin and soldier Oleksiy Chernyshov on April 1 in forests north of the capital, Kiev. The team said it counted 14 bullet holes in the burnt cube of their car that was still on the spot. The report, released Wednesday, states: RSF data show that Ukrainian photojournalist Max Levin and a friend who was with him were cold-bloodedly executed by Russian forces, most likely after interrogation and torture, on the day they disappeared, March 13, 2022. Photographs of the crime scene, information found there by the RSF and RSF observations testify to the fact that journalist Maks Levin and his friend Oleksiy Chernyshov were executed. Levin was probably shot by one of the bullets found by the RSF at the crime scene. “Material evidence of a Russian presence was found very close to the crime scene, including food packaging, plastic cutlery that could still contain traces of DNA.” Ukrainian photographer and documentary filmmaker Maks Levin was found dead near the capital Kyiv. Photo: Genya Savilov / AFP / Getty Images Some of Levin and Chernysov’s belongings, including the soldier’s identity documents and parts of his bulletproof vest and …
