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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
22:05 Denmark will stop training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighters after 2024, Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said. According to him, the Danish Air Force is in the process of transitioning from the use of F-16 to F-35 fighters and will use its Skrydstrup airbase for this purpose, where about 20 Ukrainian pilots are currently training. At the same time, the minister stressed that his country will continue to contribute to the training of Ukrainian pilots outside Denmark.
21:28 In Ukraine, after the Russian attacks, there is a critical shortage of internal electricity generation, said YASNO CEO Sergei Kovalenko. According to him, the country now depends on solar and wind generation, in addition, repair work is currently underway at nuclear power plants. According to Kovalenko’s forecasts, in the next 6-8 weeks the situation with the deficit will be difficult, since in addition to problems with generation, consumption is growing. Kovalenko also advised that when planning, proceed from the fact that in the gray zones according to the schedule there will be no light, especially when the time falls during peak hours.
21:17 Lavrov said that “the involvement of the United States in the terrorist attack in Sevastopol is not in doubt.” According to him, weapons supplied to Ukraine from the United States allegedly cannot be used without the “direct participation” of the American military and their satellite capabilities. Pentagon spokesman Charlie Dietz, in turn, emphasized that the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves choose targets when launching strikes.
21:12 Representatives of EU member states have reached an agreement on the use of income from Russian assets in favor of Ukraine, Borrell said. According to him, the first tranche will amount to 1.4 billion euros and will be used to purchase weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The EU's top diplomat added that 1.4 billion euros will become available next month, and another 1 billion by the end of the year. Funds will be provided to Ukraine for air defense, ammunition and support for Ukrainian industry.
21:04 France will not send its troops to participate in hostilities in Ukraine in the near future, Macron said: “I don’t think that war will come to our territory. We also will not directly participate in hostilities on Ukrainian territory tomorrow.”
21:00 In the Nikopol district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, the number of victims as a result of today's Russian shelling has increased to four, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. The infrastructure and agricultural firm, four apartment buildings and the same number of private houses were damaged.
20:56 The United States may announce a new package of military assistance to Ukraine worth $150 million as early as Tuesday, June 25, Voice of America reports, citing an American official.
20:52 The Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces clarified information about the destruction of a warehouse with drones and related infrastructure in the Krasnodar Territory on June 21. According to the Navy, the military training ground of the 726th Air Defense Training Center (military unit 33859, Yeysk) was hit. This institution is engaged in the education and training of military personnel to use UAVs of various types.
As a result of the strike, 20 units of Shahed-136/Geran-2 type drones, 50 units of Lancet attack UAVs, 40 units of ZALA reconnaissance UAVs, and ten units of SuperCam reconnaissance UAVs were destroyed. There are also deaths among the instructors and technical personnel from Yelabuga.
20:49 Chinese leader Xi Jinping, at a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Beijing, said that the PRC will seek to resolve the “crisis in Ukraine” in its own way: “China is ready to continue to play a constructive role in the political settlement of the crisis in Ukraine in its own way and supports all efforts that contribute to the peaceful resolution of the crisis and the construction of an effective and sustainable European security architecture." At the same time, he added that Beijing opposes criticism by other countries of its “regular trade” with Russia.
20:34 Zelensky decided to replace the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Yuri Sodol, with Brigadier General Andrei Gnatov. The president announced this in an evening video message following a meeting with the military.
Zelensky also said that another state - Malawi - joined the peace summit communiqué. And tomorrow accession negotiations between Ukraine and the European Union will begin. In addition, the president announced new humanitarian aid from the United States - the country is providing funding for the urgent printing of 3 million books for children in Ukraine. These are, in particular, textbooks that will be printed at Ukrainian facilities before the start of the school year.
19:10 There is a big scandal in the Ukrainian army. The chief of staff of the National Guard Azov brigade, Bogdan Krotevich, accuses the commander of the Joint Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Yuriy Sodol, of exceeding his official authority and incompetent command of troops, which led to the loss of a significant part of the territory of Ukraine. He also asks to check the commander for possible cooperation with the occupiers. For more details, see the article Azov against the military general.
19:02 The number of victims as a result of the Russian strike on Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, has increased to 41, among them four children aged from nine to 13 years. Five people died, said the head of the OVA, Vadim Filashkin.
18:51 On Thursday, June 27, Zelensky will arrive at the EU summit in Brussels, where he will sign a security agreement with the European Union, reported the Polish RMF FM.
18:46 Ukraine struck more than 30 oil refineries, terminals and oil depots on the territory of the Russian Federation, Zelensky said: “For SBU drones, even a distance of one and a half thousand kilometers is not a problem. Together with the successes of the Main Intelligence Directorate and our Armed Forces, these are very significant results, which bring closer a fair end to this war for Ukraine and ensure real, tangible, painful responsibility for Russia for everything it has done against Ukraine.”
18:27 On Tuesday, June 25, oblenergos will apply hourly shutdown schedules from 00:00 to 24:00. The scope of restrictions will be greater from 02:00 to 05:00 and from 12:00 to 23:00, Ukrenergo reported.
17:59 Work on the 15th package of EU sanctions against Russia will begin immediately, said Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen.
17:32 The Ukrainian army, according to the plan, will receive the first batch of ammunition within the framework of the Czech initiative by the end of June, said Czech Defense Minister Jana Chernokhova. She assured that before being sent to Ukraine, the ammunition will be inspected by Czech specialists and, if necessary, repaired.
17:00 Zelensky introduced the new head of the State Security Department, Alexei Morozov, and stated that he had received carte blanche to make changes in the department. In particular, according to the president, Morozov must ensure that the department employs “exclusively patriotic, professional people who connect their fate exclusively with Ukraine.” In addition, the department needs to modernize its structure and operations to meet wartime requirements.
16:53 The number of victims as a result of the Russian strike on Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, has increased to 40, four people were killed, the regional prosecutor’s office reported. Among the wounded were three children, 11 and 12 years old.
16:37 As a result of a morning missile attack on Odessa, the warehouse of the Tavria V supermarket chain was destroyed, its founder Boris Muzalev said. “There have never been any weapons, missiles, or shells in our warehouse - neither the first time, nor now. Three hundred warehouse employees are witnesses to this,” he emphasized.
16:25 In Fryazino, near Moscow, the building of the Platan Research Institute, which is engaged, in particular, in the development of radio-electronic systems for the Russian army, is on fire. According to preliminary information, the fire started on the fifth and sixth floors, in the offices of the planning and design building. Russian public pages write about nine people who are blocked on the eighth floor.
16:11 In Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, three people have already been wounded as a result of Russian shelling today, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
15:58 In Odessa, as a result of today's missile attack, 70 apartments in two buildings were damaged, the City Council reported.
15:06 The 14th package of EU sanctions included a number of propagandists, as well as relatives of politicians, politicians themselves, companies and others. In particular, the list included singer Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov), singer Polina Gagarina, actor Ivan Okhlobystin, founder of the NewsMedia holding Aram Gabrelyanov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Alexander Moiseev, mother of Ramzan Kadyrov Aimani Kadyrova, international children's center Artek, Sovcomflot, public fund named after Kadyrov, Belarusian Youth Union, etc.
14:57 The Russians struck Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region - at least four people were killed and 34 were injured, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. Among the wounded were two children, 12 and 13 years old. The enemy fired two Iskander-M missiles at the city. One private house was destroyed, 16 were damaged.
In addition, as a result of the morning shelling of Toretsk, one person was killed and one was wounded. In Kurakhovo there is also one dead and one wounded. Another person was injured in Druzhkovka.
14:28 In Kiev, Kiev, Sumy, Poltava, Kharkov, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kirovograd, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk regions, the volume of restrictions on electricity consumption has been increased from 13:00 to 23:00. In addition, emergency shutdowns were applied in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrenergo reported.
14:15 Syrsky said that he discussed the topic of reducing losses among the Ukrainian military with commanders responsible for training in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, representatives of training centers, TCC, the command of the Medical Forces, combat medics, volunteers and public figures. According to the commander-in-chief, the main thing is the high-quality training of fighters, the technological component, including the maximum provision of UAV Defense Forces, as well as the provision of medical care to the wounded directly on the battlefield, timely and as safe as possible evacuation.
13:29 In Odessa, the number of victims as a result of today’s strike has increased to four, said Oleg Kiper, the head of the OVA. Rescuers extinguished the fire on an area of 3,000 square meters. m.
12:53 The head of the Bundesrat, Manuela Schwesig, arrived in Kiev. "This is a sign of solidarity of all 16 federal states with Ukraine. Ukraine must win this war, and Russia must not be allowed to get away with this aggression," she said. The Bundesrat is the state legislative body of Germany, the representation of the federal states at the federal level.
12:11 On June 22, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used HIMARS for the first time to attack the Kursk region, the opposition Russian publication Astra reports, citing sources. In particular, two missiles were fired - at the village of Mirny in the Sudzhansky district and at the village of Dolgiye Bumy in the Belovsky district. Both missiles were shot down, but shrapnel partially destroyed the building of the FSB border department in Sudzha, one employee was wounded.
11:34 As a result of today's Russian strike on Odessa, the warehouses of the retail chain, as well as neighboring residential buildings, were damaged, the prosecutor's office reported.
11:15 In the village of Slobozhanskoye, Lipetsk community, Kharkov region, a car ran over a Russian anti-tank mine - two people were killed, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
10:59 The Wall Street Journal writes that thanks to the unique remote mining of SBU Sea Baby drones, at least four Russian ships were shot down. According to the publication, special forces modified the Sea Baby and installed 180 kg sea mines along the routes of Russian warships. As a result, in the fall of 2023, for the first time in history, the Russian ship Samum was disabled by a mine that was brought 400 km away by an SBU drone. Next, the large patrol boat Pavel Derzhavin and the tugboat that was going to help him, as well as a modern mine countermeasures ship, were damaged. In total, the SBU has 11 Russian warships and the Crimean Bridge.
10:47 At night, the Russian military fired from an MLRS at Stepanovka in the Kherson region - as a result of a direct hit on an apartment building, one person was killed and two were wounded, the prosecutor’s office reported.
10:38 On the morning of June 24, the Russians attacked the Odessa region with two cruise missiles, presumably Iskander-K. One of them was destroyed, the Air Force reported.
10:33 The EU Council announced that it had approved the 14th package of sanctions against Russia. The package is focused on important sectors of the Russian economy, such as energy, finance and trade. The new restrictions also make it more difficult to circumvent previous EU sanctions. The list included 116 legal entities and individuals.
One of the main innovations in this package is a ban on services for transshipment of Russian liquefied natural gas in the EU for the purpose of transshipment operations to third countries. This applies to both ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore transshipment, as well as reloading operations. The bans will also affect investments in Russian gas pipelines that are under construction.
10:25 In Odessa, three people are known to have been injured as a result of today’s missile attack, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OBA.
09:53 In the Donetsk region on June 23, 12 people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling: six in Selidovo, three in Kurakhovo, one each in Toretsk, Pivnichny and Zalizny, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
09:27 In the morning, the Russians launched a missile attack on civilian infrastructure in Odessa, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA. There are known casualties, their number is being clarified. The patrol police showed the consequences of the hit:
The Russians struck Odessa on the morning of June 24
08:51 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and eight were injured, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Two high-rise buildings and eight private houses, an educational institution, a kindergarten, a medical facility, a store, gas pipelines and the port area were damaged.
08:45 The EU has developed a legal scheme to bypass Hungary's veto on arms purchases for Ukraine using proceeds from frozen Russian assets, Europe's top diplomat Josep Borrell said. According to him, since Hungary abstained from a previous agreement to allocate proceeds from frozen assets to Russia, it “should not be part of the decision on the use of this money.”
08:23 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's Russian strikes on Kharkov has increased to 12, among them two children and one rescuer. One person was killed, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. Another person was wounded as a result of enemy shelling. Chopped Kupyansky district.
08:14 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 24:
personnel - about 535,660 (+1300) people,
tanks - 8031 (+12),
armored combat vehicles - 15,413 (+15),
artillery systems - 14,246 (+51),
MLRS - 1108 (+0),
air defense systems - 863 (+0),
aircraft - 359 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
UAVs of operational-tactical level - 11 382 (+27),
cruise missiles - 2323 (+2),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 19,304 (+56),
special equipment - 2397 (+20).
07:46 In the Zaporozhye region, one person was wounded during an enemy air strike on the Pologovsky district, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
07:38 In the evening, the Russians shelled Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, one person was wounded, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. 15 residential buildings, two medical buildings, a store, power lines and gas pipelines were damaged.
07:25 Information from the DeepState public about the occupation by Russians of the settlement of Novoaleksandrovka in the Pokrovsky direction does not correspond to reality, stated the 110th separate mechanized brigade named after Coroner General Mark Bezruchko. The military clarifies that “a significant part of Novoaleksandrovka is occupied by the invaders, but not all of it; the enemy does not control the entire populated area.” Now there are heavy battles on the streets of Novoaleksandrovka.
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