MONITORING Do not criticize the Ukrainians for the slow progress of the counter-offensive, asks the chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Bob Bauer. According to him, the Ukrainians are advancing through heavily defended terrain. In addition, the world is now wondering what will happen to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. The Russians and Ukrainians accuse each other of planning an attack at the power plant. In addition, both sides accuse each other of attacks in which children were injured. And an important decision was made in NATO.
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The war in Ukraine has been going on for 497 days and Ukraine continues to press the Russian occupiers with its counter-offensive. Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, announced on July 4 that Ukrainian forces are fulfilling their main task of destroying Russian manpower, equipment, fuel depots, artillery and air defenses. He drew attention to his words Washington’s Institute for the Study of War (ISW) with the fact that Danilov’s words correspond to what can be seen on the front, where the Ukrainians advance only very slowly in order to spare their own soldiers and, on the contrary, exhaust the aggressor’s forces as much as possible.
NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Bob Bauer announced on July 3, according to ISW, that Ukrainian forces are right to proceed with caution and avoid high casualties in a counteroffensive, acknowledging that the counteroffensive is difficult due to mines and other obstacles extending up to 30 km deep into Russian-occupied territory. Bauer said Ukrainian forces should not face criticism or pressure for slow progress.
According to the institute, the current Ukrainian counter-offensive is similar to the attack on Kherson, where the Ukrainians gradually forced the Russians to withdraw from western Kherson. At the moment, the Ukrainians are said to be making similar progress in the vicinity of Bakhmut, but also on the border of the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions.
The situation around the largest nuclear power plant in Europe – the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant – is causing concern, where both sides accuse each other of causing a large-scale disaster.
On July 4, Ukraine’s General Staff announced that Ukrainian officials had begun preparations for a possible Russian provocation at the plant “in the near future,” warning that Russian forces had placed objects “resembling explosive devices” on the outer roofs of the plant’s third and fourth reactors to prevent damage these areas were blamed on Ukrainian shelling. According to the ISW, however, the reactors of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant were designed to withstand significant damage, and any action would only create the impression of a threat rather than a real threat.
In another of his speeches to his fellow citizens, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi declared that “the only source of danger for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is Russia.” He pointed out that Russia has been in full control and control of this power plant for 16 months.
“The whole world must now realize that common security depends entirely on global attention to the actions of the occupiers at the power plant. “Russia must clearly realize that the world sees what scenarios the terrorists are preparing, and the world is ready to react,” Zelenskiy said. “In any case, the world sees – it cannot fail to see – that the only source of danger for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is Russia and no one else,” he added.
American news channel CNN pointed out that before the upcoming NATO summit, Zelenskyy spoke with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, with whom the members of the alliance agreed to extend his mandate by one year. The decision was welcomed by both Zelenskyi and US President Joe Biden, according to whom this decision is proof of the stability of the alliance.
It is expected that the central topic of the upcoming summit in Lithuania will be the situation in Ukraine, and it is no secret that Ukrainian President Zelensky would welcome his country to receive an invitation to the alliance as soon as possible.
According to CNN, both sides accuse each other of shelling civilian objects.
The Russians claim that the Ukrainians shelled Donetsk, also hit a kindergarten and killed 2 people. Ukrainians reported that Russians shelled the Kharkiv region and injured 43 people, including 12 children. According to the BBC they are a ten-month-old baby and a one-year-old baby were among the injured.
“The Russians fired a high-explosive projectile,” which set fire to several cars and damaged high-rise buildings, said Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential office.
Meanwhile, in Russia itself, the security forces of the Russian Federation are being restructured. It shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been dissatisfied with the response of the relevant troops to the Wagner mutiny and is trying to create an effective force that could counter any other similar mutiny.
“The Rostov-on-Don administration has stated that the total damage caused by Prigozhin’s rebellion is 92.5 million rubles (roughly $1 million) and that the administration will not seek damages from Prigozhin or the Wagners. St. Petersburg source Fontanka, citing internal sources, wrote that on July 2, Russian authorities returned to Prigozhin more than 10 billion rubles (roughly $111 million) in cash, five gold bars and hundreds of thousands of US dollars in cash, which authorities seized on June 24 in facilities associated with Prigozhin in St. Petersburg,” the institute said.
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Ukraine (War in Ukraine)
Reports from the battlefield are difficult to verify in real time, regardless of whether they come from any side of the conflict. Both warring parties, for understandable reasons, may release completely or partially false (misleading) information.
You can find brief information regarding this conflict updated by ČTK several times an hour on this page. PL editorial content discussing this conflict can be found on this page.
war in Ukraine
Reports from the battlefield are difficult to verify in real time, regardless of whether they come from any side of the conflict. Both warring parties, for understandable reasons, may release completely or partially false (misleading) information.
You can find brief information regarding this conflict updated by ČTK several times an hour on this page. PL editorial content discussing this conflict can be found on this page.
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