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2023-06-30 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 29th, 2023
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[Korrespondent] 22:50 Zelensky took part in a meeting of the European Council, said that this year it was time to "strengthen unity in Europe, including the start of negotiations on Ukraine's membership in the European Union."
22:16 The IMF Board of Directors has completed the first revision of the expanded financing program: Ukraine will receive about $890 million, which will be used for budget support.
21:45 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the President of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, thanked for the initiated declaration in support of Ukraine at the General Assembly of the Organization of American States and for the regional leadership in the Core Group to create a special tribunal. "We coordinated efforts before future international events. We discussed the implementation of the Peace Formula, possible formats for the Ukraine-Latin America Summit and security cooperation, in particular, support for Ukraine by specialists and demining equipment," Zelensky added.
21:14 Zelensky will personally attend the NATO summit in Vilnius only on the condition that Ukraine receives a satisfactory result, diplomatic adviser to the president Igor Zhovkva said: "The president will not go if the leaders demonstrate a lack of courage, while Ukraine, with all the courage, will and strength and fights with high morale against Russian aggression."
21:10 Parliament has limited the right to defer from mobilization. Read more in the material New rules for mobilization .
20:02 The United States is close to transferring long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing American and European officials. According to them, the issue is under consideration at the highest level. Amid the insurgency in Russia, US and European officials acknowledged that now might be "the time to step on the gas."
19:59 Stoltenberg said that Ukraine's membership in NATO will be discussed after the July summit in Vilnius. The Secretary General is confident that the allies "will send a very strong signal of support for Ukraine."
19:47 British Minister of Defense Ben Wallace said that Ukraine should be admitted to NATO under a simplified procedure, without the MAP stage.
19:23 Former US Vice President and Trump rival in the upcoming presidential election Mike Pence made an unexpected visit to Kiev, NBC reports. He met with Zelensky, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to do so while on the campaign trail. However, in a commentary on his visit, Pence said he came "simply as a private citizen." He also visited Moshchun, Bucha and Irpin.
19:18 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again rejected calls to join the West's efforts to arm Ukraine. Read more in the article Why Israel does not help Ukraine .
18:55 Zelensky said that he had a meeting in Kiev with members of the International Working Group on Russian Environmental Crimes. First of all, we discussed the catastrophic consequences of the Russian terrorist act at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which led to the largest ecocide in Europe in decades. The group included: eco-activist Greta Thunberg, ex-Deputy Prime Minister and ex-Foreign Minister of Sweden Margot Wahlstrom, Vice-President of the European Parliament Heidi Gautala, President of Ireland in 1990-1997 Mary Robinson.
18:17 Since the beginning of the full-scale war, international partners have allocated about 170 billion euros to Ukraine. This amount includes military, financial and humanitarian assistance from foreign governments, as well as international financial organizations, calculated the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. According to the Ukraine Support Tracker system, 40 countries have become donors to Ukraine, as well as European institutions, the IMF and the World Bank.
In particular, the EU allocated almost 62 billion euros, aid from the United States amounted to 71 billion euros. Another almost 13 billion euros were provided by international financial organizations. Half of the allocated funds is financial assistance, about 40% - military assistance, the rest - humanitarian support.
Ukraine received the largest military support from the United States - more than 43 billion euros. The European Union is a leader in financial assistance: member countries and European institutions have pledged to provide Ukraine with almost 36 billion euros for budgetary needs.
17:49 Norway has made a grant contribution to the Trust Fund for Support, Recovery and Reformation of Ukraine (URTF) of the World Bank in the amount of NOK 2 billion (about $190 million). This is the second tranche provided by Norway to URTF following a $100 million grant agreement signed in December 2022. Thanks to Norway's contribution, the URTF budget exceeded $1.1 billion.
17:28 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said that his country will not be able to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, since this does not comply with the principles of neutrality: "For us, as neutral states, it is clear that we cannot give such security guarantees. Austria, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus made it clear that they objected to this ... It is necessary to take into account the role of neutral states. We will certainly discuss this and find formulations that will be acceptable to us as well."
17:05 Kiev will not feel the consequences in the event of a terrorist attack with a release of radiation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, said Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko. According to him, the Ministry of Health has developed and tested warning systems that will work in the event of an explosion. There is also an algorithm of actions for the authorities to protect the maximum number of people in the affected area. At the same time, Lyashko admitted that in a radiation accident it is impossible to protect everyone 100%.
16:37 After Prigozhin's military riot, purges began in the Russian army, Russian media report. According to their sources, Colonel-General Andrei Yudin, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces, was dismissed today. At the same time, there are different versions of where the chairman of the VKS Sergey Surovikin himself is now. More details - in the material What happened to Surovikin .
16:26 The court sentenced collaborator Yevhen Balitsky to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property, the SBU reported. The former people's deputy from the banned Opposition Bloc party at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation was one of the first to publicly support the occupiers.
16:14 The Office of the Prosecutor General clarified that as a result of today's artillery shelling of Kherson, two people were killed, two more were injured. Warehouses were destroyed by fire, civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged by debris.
16:05 Chief EU diplomat Josep Borrell suggests planning military support for Ukraine as a long-term project aimed at strategic strengthening of its defense capability. He also said that Prigozhin's rebellion weakened Putin's power, and the European Union needs to prepare for new risks arising from the greater instability of the Russian Federation.
15:48 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that Ukraine will not receive "any discounts" on its way to the EU and must fulfill all the criteria for starting accession negotiations.
15:21 Russians fired at the residential quarters of Kherson: two people were injured, residential houses were damaged, a medical deposit was damaged, as well as a school, and the Point of Invisibility was set on fire, having raised the head of OVA Oleksandr Prokudin.
15:14 After Prigozhin's rebellion, Wagner PMC mercenaries will no longer fight in Ukraine, Budanov said in a comment to the UP: "We have received a compromise on the Russian leadership. Once again, the myth of the Russian regime's steadfastness has been destroyed. Losses have been inflicted on the military space forces of the Russian Federation. And also "PMC Wagner will no longer participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. And this is the most effective unit of the Russian Federation, which is able to achieve success at any cost."
14:42 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry showed fresh photos of the destroyed Bakhmut.
14:38 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, the SBU has reported suspicions to more than 200 defendants who illegally disseminated information about the Ukrainian Defense Forces. In relation to 190 of them, indictments were sent to court. Attackers face up to 12 years in prison.
14:16 Investigators from Bellingcat suggest that the Russians are considering the possibility of flooding Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, in order to slow down the advance of Ukrainian troops. Back in early May, they built a dam in the vicinity of the occupied city - it is located within the defensive line that goes around the city. Due to the dam, the Tokmachka River has widened significantly and flooded the surrounding fields - the water level on the eastern side of the dam is steadily rising, which can be seen on satellite images.
13:37 In the village of Nizhniye Serogozy, Kherson region, the occupiers placed about a hundred local residents in custody in order to obtain a ransom. As Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said, the arrests of citizens, mainly from among entrepreneurs and other wealthy local residents, are carried out under the pretext of supposedly counterintelligence activities. Formally, they are accused of possible cooperation with the Ukrainian Defense Forces, and then they demand significant sums from relatives or friends for their release.
13:10 A two-day Council of Europe summit has started in Brussels to discuss, in particular, the situation in Ukraine and its application for EU membership.
13:02 Peskov said that there are no specific decisions and agreements on the initiatives of the Vatican regarding Ukraine, if necessary, the dialogue will continue.
12:19 Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lökke Rasmussen said that the EU should not lower the bar for Ukraine's accession and risks importing instability if it weakens its standards for democracy and corruption to speed up the accession of Ukraine and other candidate countries. According to him, the Danish government supports the membership of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and the countries of the Western Balkans in the EU, but geopolitical circumstances do not justify the postponement of reforms in these states.
12:15 In Ukraine, 78% of citizens have close relatives or friends who were injured or died due to the Russian invasion, according to KIIS. Executive Director of KIIS Anton Grushetsky emphasized that Russia's war against Ukraine formed a tragic collective experience for the vast majority of Ukrainians.
The vast majority of Ukrainians have close relatives or friends who were injured or died due to the Russian invasion.
12:11 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing a shortage of ammunition during the counteroffensive, they are facing serious defensive barriers and superior numbers of the enemy, Podolyak said in an interview with Corriere della Sera. "We have a shortage of large-caliber shells and missiles, we have limited aviation capabilities, and we cannot hit the reinforcement channels of the Russian army," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office specified.
According to him, the front line stretches for more than 1800 km, the area of mined fields exceeds 20 thousand square meters. km. The Russians also set up three lines of defense, he added: "They dug trenches, built bunkers, set up artillery, launch rockets, they have thousands of tanks in protected places. They have about 360,000 soldiers."
11:39 In Belarus, near Osipovichy, Mogilev region, on the territory of the former HF No. 61732 in the village of Target, a camp is probably being built, writes The New York Times, citing fresh satellite images. The size, color and layout of the buildings are similar to other military tent cities that have been built in Belarus and the Russian Federation since early 2022.
The monitoring group of Belaruska Gayun reports that now this is the only place where work has been confirmed. At the same time, it is not yet known whether PMC Wagner will be located there.
11:06 With the bill adopted the day before, the Rada expanded the list of persons subject to mobilization. Thus, amendments were made to the paragraph according to which persons with a wife (husband), parents or parents of a wife (husband) with a disability of the 1st or 2nd group were exempted from mobilization. Now they will be exempt from mobilization only if the disabled relative has no other relatives who are required to look after them by law.
10:48 Papal envoy Zuppi discussed with Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov the possibility of negotiations on Ukraine without stopping hostilities, Leonid Sevastyanov, head of the World Union of Old Believers of the Russian Federation, said: "The participants in the negotiations are in principle formalized, and thus they have begun. Zuppi's mediation will continue. Position in that negotiations must go on, even if the fighting cannot yet be stopped." Today, the Pope's envoy to Ukraine, Zuppi, will also meet with Russian Patriarch Kirill.
10:24 British intelligence believes that the loss of the Il-22M aircraft, shot down during the Prigozhin rebellion, will have a negative impact on the effectiveness of air and ground operations of the Russian army. This aircraft is part of a relatively small fleet of 12 aircraft that played a key role in organizing the actions of Russian troops in the war against Ukraine. Because of their value, the Il-22Ms operated in secure Russian airspace well outside the range of Ukrainian air defense systems.
In the short term, the psychological shock of the loss of the Il-22M and other aircraft will almost certainly hurt the morale of the Russian Aerospace Forces, analysts say. In the long term, there is a possibility that the current task levels will have to be reduced in order to safely manage the fleet. This is likely to undermine Russia's ability to command and coordinate its forces, especially during periods of high pace of operations, intelligence said.
10:20 Polish Deputy Prime Minister Yaroslav Kaczynski announced the strengthening of the country's eastern border amid reports of the alleged arrival of Wagner PMC mercenaries to Belarus. According to him, we can talk about the arrival of about 8,000 militants in Belarus. Therefore, the number of military and border guards who will be permanently stationed there will be increased at the border, as well as more barriers and fortifications will be added.
10:16 Russians shelled Belozerka in the Kherson region in the morning: one person was killed, two were injured, at least 12 residential buildings were damaged, the OVA reported.
10:11 Security guarantees for Ukraine will be formalized in the form of bilateral agreements with France, Germany, Britain and the United States on long-term financing, military supplies, military training and intelligence transfer, writes the Financial Times.
Also, according to the publication, a declaration will be signed that will send Ukraine and Russia a “very clear political signal” that EU members are “ready, together with partners, to contribute to future security commitments to Ukraine, which will help Ukraine defend itself in the long term. perspective, deter acts of aggression and resist destabilizing efforts".
09:45 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, explained why his country would not transfer serious weapons to Ukraine, including the Iron Dome: "If we transferred the systems to Ukraine, they would be in the hands of Iran. Israel is a densely populated country. The number of casualties on our side is not so high for one reason: because the Iron Dome shoots down 95% of the missiles that can hit our population centers. If this system falls into the hands of Iran, then millions of Israelis will be left unprotected and in danger."
09:19 Ukrainian troops continue to advance in the Melitopol, Berdyansk and Bakhmut directions. On Berdyansk they advanced by 1300 m, on Bakhmutskoye - from 1200 m (in the direction of Kleshcheevka) to 1500 m (in the direction of Kurdyumovka), Anna Malyar reported. In the Zaporizhia and Melitopol directions, the Defense Forces are destroying the enemy, who is bringing up all his reserves for defense - "even the marine brigade that fled from Kherson."
In the Bakhmut direction, according to Malyar, "it's hot again, fierce battles are going on, the enemy is pulling up reserves there and clinging to Bakhmut with all their forces."
09:01 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in Serebryanka), two more were injured. In the Kharkiv region, three people died in the village. Volchansky Khutor of the Chuguevsky district, another person was wounded in the Kupyansky district. There are three wounded in the Kherson region, and one in the Zaporozhye region, according to the IVA.
08:56 The defense forces have intercepted the strategic initiative in the Bakhmut direction and are conducting offensive operations on a wide front, said Andrei Kovalev, spokesman for the General Staff. On the flanks of the city of Bakhmut, they continue to put pressure on the enemy, knocking them out of the previously captured lines. They were successful, and are fixed on the achieved frontiers.
On the Rivnopol-Volodino direction, the Ukrainian troops also had partial success, they are fixed on the achieved lines. In the Limansky, Avdeevsky and Mariinsky directions, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops.
08:24 In Kramatorsk, search and rescue operations have been completed at the site of the Russian missile attack. The body of another person was released from the rubble - thus, the death toll increased to 12 (including three children), 60 people were injured (including a child) and 11 people were rescued, the State Emergency Service reported.
08:13 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 29.
- personnel - about 227,780 (+680) people liquidated,
- tanks - 4038 (+2),
- armored combat vehicles - 7857 (+10),
- artillery systems - 4116 (+27),
- MLRS - 627 (+0),
- air defense systems - 388 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+1),
- helicopters - 308 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 3513 (+14),
- cruise missiles - 1261 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 6780 (+6),
- special equipment - 569 (+6).
07:43 In Zaporozhye and the Zaporozhye region, command and staff exercises begin, the purpose of which is to coordinate the actions of all services in the event of a real threat of an emergency at the ZNPP. Temporary restrictions are possible at certain sites, the OVA warned. Also, in the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, actions will be practiced today in case of a terrorist attack at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
07:20 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky and Maryinsky directions - 40 military clashes occurred in a day, the General Staff said in the morning report .
06:02 Ukraine will receive a "powerful support package" at the NATO summit on July 11-12, Blinken said. He specified that the new package will include both political and practical assistance. The US Secretary of State did not disclose details, but expressed confidence that the new package will affect the defense and offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Blinken also noted that the Ukrainian counter-offensive has just begun and the main units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not yet participating in it. "And there is no doubt that it is not easy, because the Russians have had months and months and months to build a defense," he added. According to the Secretary of State, the main events related to the counteroffensive will take place in the coming weeks and months.
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