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2024-07-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 4, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:51 The death toll from yesterday's attack on the Dnieper has risen to seven - another person has died in hospital. The number of injured has risen to 58, with 21 wounded remaining in hospital, OVA chief Serhiy Lysak reported.
21:46 Zelensky said in an evening video address that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters, with drones and electronic warfare among the main issues. Following the reports, "very important decisions were made, time will show these decisions at the front," the president promised.
In addition, Syrsky reported on the situation in the main directions, the head of state said: "There are most of the battles in the Pokrovsky direction, but we are now strengthening each direction, from the Kharkov region to the southern ones."
Zelensky also announced "good things, including on air defense" following the NATO summit in Washington next week. In addition, according to him, a new security agreement has been prepared - "a strong agreement that will truly support our entire architecture of security agreements. And this is what will guarantee our security until Ukraine joins NATO - a decision that is irreversible."
21:40 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense attacked the Tambov Gunpowder Plant in the Russian city of Kotovsk with kamikaze drones, Ukrainian media reported, citing an intelligence source. One of the UAVs successfully hit the enemy's military-industrial complex, the consequences are being clarified.
21:37 Ukrainian fighters from the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Daniel showed a photo of the destroyed city of Chasov Yar in Donetsk Oblast: "Chasov Yar. Hell on earth. The Russians continue to destroy the city with all possible types of weapons... The Kanal microdistrict near the Seversky Donets Canal - Donbass has turned into a pile of ash - this is what it looks like now."
20:19 Russians launched a missile attack on the port infrastructure of the Odessa region, OVA head Oleg Kiper reported. As a result of the attack, one person was killed and seven were wounded. Port buildings and administrative and household premises were damaged.
19:31 Peskov said that Putin has repeatedly said that the Istanbul agreements could be the basis for dialogue with Ukraine, but this does not mean that they "will become the basis point by point." The Kremlin spokesman also noted that Erdogan cannot currently be a mediator because "Ukraine rejects any negotiations."
19:25 One of the Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups attempted to enter the village of Sotnitsky Kazachok in the Kharkiv region, located directly on the border line, and now the Defense Forces are carrying out measures to detect and destroy the remnants of the group, the Kharkiv operational-tactical group reported. They also noted that Russian troops are concentrating their main efforts in the areas of Vovchansk and Liptsy.
19:18 Putin said that a ceasefire on the contact line is impossible until peace talks with Ukraine begin. According to him, "Russia cannot declare a ceasefire because it is not sure of the Ukrainian side's response." In addition, "to ceasefire, Ukraine must agree to steps that would be irreversible and acceptable to the Russian Federation," the head of the Kremlin said.
19:13 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will travel to Moscow on Friday, July 5, after his visit to Kiev, journalist Szabolcs Pani reports, citing sources. According to him, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, who was not in Orban's delegation in Kiev, will also travel to the Russian Federation.
19:02 On Friday, July 5, the hourly power outage schedules will be in effect throughout the day, Ukrenergo reported. From 00:00 to 03:00 and from 23:00 to 24:00, two stages of the outage schedules will be in effect, and during other hours, three stages.
18:54 As a result of shelling of the Novogrodivka community of Donetsk region, one person was killed and eight were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. Among the wounded are four children. In particular, in the village of Zavetnoye, Russians killed a woman with a drone, and in Novogrodivka they hit a two-story building with an FPV drone, and a little later they shelled the center with Uragans.
18:21 There are still about 10,000 local residents in the Toretsk community of the Donetsk region, said the head of the GVA, Vasyl Chinchik. He called for evacuation, since the enemy is using scorched earth tactics, carrying out 10-20 airstrikes on the community daily.
17:43 More than 60 foreign policy experts urged NATO countries to avoid moving toward Ukraine's membership at a summit in Washington, warning that it would endanger the U.S. and allies and tear apart the coalition. The letter, seen by Politico, warned that if Ukraine were admitted to NATO, Russia would attack it in the future, triggering Article 5.
Analysts believe that Kyiv's push for NATO membership could backfire by "turning Ukraine into a site of prolonged confrontation between the world's two leading nuclear powers" and playing into Putin's hands.
17:12 Russia is using the Kerch Bridge to transport stolen minerals from occupied Ukraine, British intelligence writes. According to analysts, one of the reasons why Russia is seeking to improve transport networks in the occupied part of Ukraine is that it wants to extract more Ukrainian minerals. For example, south of Dneprorudnoye in the Zaporizhia region, Russia continues to extract minerals, transporting ore by rail. Trains go through Crimea, across the Kerch Bridge to Russia.
16:38 Erdogan told Lukashenko that it is possible to stop the war in Ukraine if there is a "solid peaceful basis," the Turkish president's office reported. And in a conversation with Xi Jinping, Erdogan drew attention to the threat of the conflict spreading to a "global level."
16:23 Russians struck Russkaya Lozovaya in Kharkiv Oblast with a KAB - one person was killed, one was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
15:56 A powerful explosion has thundered in Sevastopol and a column of smoke is now visible in the area where the Russian electronic warfare unit is deployed on Cape Fiolent, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reports. The "governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev stated that the fleet allegedly conducted training in the area of the Northern Mole - one training shot was fired. The explosion occurred at the time when an air raid alarm was declared in the city.
15:11 Putin said that the Istanbul agreements remain "on the table." According to him, in 2022 they "suited Ukraine" and could form the basis of the negotiation process.
14:45 As a result of the Russian strike on Poltava Oblast on July 3, a Ukrgazdobycha facility was damaged, the company reported. As a result of the attack, a company employee was killed, and there are also other injured workers. Work is underway to localize and eliminate the consequences of the emergency. The Ministry of Energy specified that an Ukrgazdobycha electrician was killed, and three more employees were injured.
14:38 As of today, there are about 11.1 million men aged 25 to 60 in Ukraine who are potentially subject to mobilization. Of these, 565 thousand have been reserved, said MP Dmytro Natalukha.
13:57 The Cabinet of Ministers adopted a resolution according to which the state will be able to purchase Ukrainian-made drones through the closed functionality of Prozorro, said the head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. He called this "a logical step in developing transparency and increasing the efficiency of drone procurement." The minister explained that manufacturers will have equal access to government contracts, and thanks to competition, the state will be able to purchase drones more profitably. For manufacturers, this is an opportunity to develop more actively, create jobs and scale up production dozens of times.
13:09 Ukraine is ready to launch a counteroffensive when the West helps staff 14 new Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades, Zelensky said in an interview with Bloomberg: "We have unarmed brigades. We have reserves. We have 14 understaffed brigades that do not have the appropriate weapons that we have already voted for, that we have already talked about. The packages should arrive, but they are, unfortunately, coming slowly."
13:03 Zelensky commented on the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO without occupied territories: "I am the president and the guarantor of the Constitution. And if we talk about any changes regarding our territories, these are changes to the Constitution and this is a crime. And therefore, if we are offered a German model or some other, Korean, etc., in any case, we must understand what is being offered to us, who is offering it to us, why it is being done. And after that, understand the opinion of all of us. Not only mine, but first of all the society, the people of Ukraine."
The president also believes that many would benefit from a weak Ukraine: "A Ukraine that no one talks about and no one hears about would satisfy many. A strong Ukraine is a problematic Ukraine, and many do not need it."
12:42 Zelensky said that it is impossible to simply talk about a ceasefire, a plan is needed. This is how he commented on Orban's proposal: "We cannot trust Putin in principle, because for us he is a murderer and an aggressor. It is important that Hungary recognizes that Russia is an aggressor, recognizes the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine." The President recalled that Ukraine had "hundreds of meetings" since the Minsk agreements with ceasefire agreements, but Russia violated these agreements each time.
The president also said in an interview with Bloomberg that Ukraine is striking Russian oil refineries in response to attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure: "Our position is simple: the world is hurt that we are striking at Russia's energy sector - make sure that Russia does not strike at our energy sector."
11:35 Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces Wieslaw Kukula arrived in Kiev. The Polish General Staff reported that the visit took place at the invitation of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky.
11:29 Ukrainian presidential spokesman Serhiy Nikiforov denied information from scandalous American journalist Tucker Carlson that Zelensky would allegedly give him an interview: "Mr. Tucker Carlson should check his sources in the FSB more carefully. The Ukrainian president has a completely different schedule, and Tucker Carlson is not there."
11:16 Since May 2023, after Ukraine received the Patriot air defense system, not a single Russian Kinzhal has reached Kiev, Serhiy Yaremenko, commander of the 96th anti-aircraft missile brigade, told Ukrinform in an interview. According to him, all these missiles were successfully intercepted. In total, the enemy has already fired more than 20 Kinzhals at Kiev.
10:47 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's attack on the Dnieper has increased to 55, six people have died, the Prosecutor General's Office reported.
10:36 In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, seven people were wounded as a result of today's shelling, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
10:32 Ukrainian troops have retreated from the Kanal microdistrict in Chasovy Yar, confirmed Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the OSGV Khortitsa. According to him, it was inappropriate to hold the microdistrict, and the positions of the defense forces there were destroyed.
09:58 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and seven were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:27 In Donetsk region on July 3 as a result of Russian shelling three people were wounded - in Druzhkovka, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
08:46 In the Zaporizhia region, over the past day, two people were killed as a result of enemy shelling of the Vasilievsky and Pologovsky districts. Another person was wounded as a result of Russian attacks on the Zaporizhia district, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
08:40 In the Chernihiv region, during a night attack, an enemy "shahed" hit one of the objects, 5963 consumers were left without electricity, reported the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus.
08:31 Russians shelled the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the evening and morning, one person was wounded, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak. In addition, a woman who was wounded during yesterday's attack on the city died in the hospital. In total, six people died as a result of the attack.
08:19 Over the past 24 hours, 161 combat clashes have been recorded at the front, the General Staff reported. The enemy has significantly increased its activity in the Toretsk direction - it has carried out 25 attacks, including in the areas of the settlements of Dilievka, Toretsk, Pivnichnoye and New York in the Donetsk region. Another 37 attacks have been repelled in the Pokrovsk direction - near the settlements of Kalinovo, Novoaleksandrovka, Vozdvizhenka, Evgenyevka, Progress, Yasnobrodovka, Umanskoye, Karlovka in the Donetsk region. In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled 32 enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Grekovka, Makeyevka, Nevskoye in the Luhansk region, Terny in the Donetsk region and Serebryanskoye forestry.
According to the military public DeepState, Russian troops captured the villages of Sokol and Voskhod in the Pokrovsk direction, and in Toretsk they advanced in Pivnichnoye and in the Druzhby area. And in the north of the Kharkov region, according to analysts, the enemy almost completely captured the village of Sotnitsky Kazachok.
ISW analysts report that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had success in Volchansk near Kremennaya, but the enemy is putting pressure on the Toretsk direction.
08:13 Air defense destroyed 21 of 22 Shahed-131/136 UAVs that Russia used to attack from the Kursk region at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down within the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zhitomir, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.
07:34 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 4:
- personnel - about 547,470 (+1200) people,
- tanks - 8132 (+9),
- combat armored vehicles - 15,600 (+17),
- artillery systems - 14,777 (+65),
- MLRS - 1115 (+0),
- air defense systems - 878 (+2),
- aircraft - 360 (+0),
- helicopters - 326 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 11,694 (+26),
- cruise missiles - 2342 (+6),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 19,923 (+73),
- special equipment - 2468 (+4).
05:28 Russia attacked Kiev with drones. As the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko said, the attack drones approached in waves and from different directions, all of them were destroyed on the approaches to the capital. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties or damage.
02:56 At the NATO summit in Washington next week, Ukraine will be offered "concrete paths" to accelerate its future membership in the alliance, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Douglas Jones told Voice of America. The final declaration is expected to confirm Ukraine's membership in NATO.
01:22 American journalist Tucker Carlson, who interviewed Putin, said Zelensky agreed to talk to him. Carlson claims that he had been trying to invite Zelensky for an interview for two years, and "especially actively" after a conversation with Putin in February.
"It seems we got Zelensky's interview. The point is to provide the Americans with much-needed information about a conflict that is completely changing their country's position in the world. Hopefully it will be out soon," the journalist noted.
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