Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on June 16. For the fourth month in a row, Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion.
14.08. French President Emmanuel Macron praised Ukrainian heroism in the fight against Russian invaders during a visit to Irpina in the Kiev region on Thursday.
“It’s here among other places where the Ukrainians stopped the Russian army’s attack on Kiev,” the French president said. “It represents the heroism of the Ukrainian army, but also the heroism of the entire population of Ukraine. And with that, you have the traces of barbarism.”
13.42. In the Russian-occupied Kherson region, children born after February 24 are granted Russian citizenship, reports the Russian propaganda publication RIA Novosti.
“Children born in the Kherson Oblast after February 24 will automatically receive citizenship of the Russian Federation,” said Kirill Stryemousov, a spokesman for the occupation administration.
12.52. Slovakia has donated one Mi-2 and four Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine, as well as several thousand Grad missiles, Slovak Defense Minister Yaroslav Nadi said on Thursday.
11.53. Some 10,000 civilians have been stranded in Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, where fierce fighting with the Russian army has been going on for several weeks, Serbian Chief of the Luhansk Oblast War Administration said on Thursday.
11.39. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office reports that 318 children have been killed by Russian troops since the start of the war until the morning of June 16. In total, more than 581 children were injured, reports pravda.com.ua.
10.14. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 32,950 soldiers by Thursday morning, the Ukrainian Army General Staff reports.
Since the beginning of the repeated invasion on February 24, the Russians have lost 1,449 tanks, 3,545 armored personnel carriers, 729 cannons, 233 multi-barrel jet launchers, 97 anti-aircraft guns, 213 airplanes, 179 helicopters, 591 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1394 autopilots, 129 hydrofoils. and 55 specialized vehicles.
09.43. Between 200 and 500 Ukrainian soldiers are killed every day in the battles in Donbass, said David Arraham, chairman of the Ukrainian parliamentary faction in the Sluha narodu party, who is leading the delegation in talks with Russia.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 60 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers were killed every day. According to Araham, this figure has risen significantly in the last two weeks.
08.37. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi traveled by train from Poland to the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Thursday, German and Italian media reported.
07.51. Russian troops in southern Ukraine are concentrating on defense operations in preparation for a possible counterattack by the Ukrainian army, according to the US Institute of War Studies (ISW).
The Ukrainian headquarters has said that a radio-electronic combat complex has been deployed in Melitopol, occupied by Russian troops, which will strengthen defense capabilities in Zaporizhia and help fight partisans.
ISW reports that Russian forces continue to face difficulties in implementing their programs in the occupied territories. Thus, on June 9 and 11, unknown Ukrainian partisans persecuted employees of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Mariupol.
07.19. In Ukraine, two Americans who fought with Ukrainian forces disappeared near Kharkiv last week, and there are fears that they have been taken prisoner by Russian forces, their relatives and comrades-in-arms said. Aladama’s 39-year-old Alexander John Robert Druke and 27-year-old Andy Tai Ngok Huin are U.S. Army veterans missing.
07.09. The Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) in the second half of this year will focus on tackling the European refugee crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and supporting Ukraine’s reconstruction, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in Prague on Wednesday.
“After this Russian aggression against Ukraine, the world is no longer what it used to be,” Fiala said two weeks before the start of the Czech EU presidency.
03.34. More than 40 countries are providing direct defense support to Ukraine, said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in connection with a new US arms and ammunition package for Ukraine.
02.56. The Russian army has concentrated its main forces in the north of the Luhansk region and is trying to attack in nine directions, said the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.
“There is a heavy struggle for the Luhansk region. The enemy has concentrated its main impact forces in the north of the region and is trying to attack in nine directions at once,” the statement said.
00.14. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Twitter on Wednesday that he had accepted invitations to the G7 and NATO summits in southern Germany and the Spanish capital, Madrid, this month.
Zelensky wrote on Twitter that he “gratefully accepted the invitation” from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who will host G7 leaders at Elmava Castle in Bavaria from June 26-28, and from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, whose alliance summit will take place from 29 to 30 June. June in Madrid.
00.05. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded 7 air military units, reports pravda.com.ua.
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