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| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Korrespondent] 23:46 Zelensky in an evening video message: "The EU decision on the status of a candidate for Ukraine has been discussed all day long. They say how difficult it will be. But let's rejoice a little. There is no need to be ashamed of our achievements. <...> The EU's seven requirements do not scare us, because we have completed a hundred. We will definitely overcome this path." 23:22 Blinken believes that the requirements of the Russian Federation regarding the inspection of every ship leaving Ukrainian ports are “devoid of common sense”: “What right, by what logic does Russia insist on checking sovereign Ukrainian ships leaving Ukrainian ports for other countries? meaning." 22:35 The status of a candidate for membership in the European Union will not be taken away from Ukraine, Kuleba said on the air of the telethon. He stressed that the decision on the candidacy says: "These reforms are important for the transition to the next stage, that is, to membership. <...> Let's move away from this narrative. We started discussing this even before we received the candidacy. Nobody has this status won't take it." 22:16 Over the past month and a half, Ukraine has received about 200 155-mm caliber barrels, Reznikov said in an interview with Military Television, which was broadcast on the air of the UA telethon Razom: "And this is already powerfully changing the picture of the battle, because they are very accurate, very effective, and our gunners use them very skillfully." According to Reznikov, the issue of supplying Ukraine with modern tanks and aircraft has not yet been resolved - this is being discussed with partners, but there has not yet been a political decision. The head of the Ministry of Defense recalled that earlier Stingers had not been provided to Ukraine either. The minister also noted that some of the weapons are supplied in such a form that they still need to be prepared for use. 22:04 An anti-government rally took place in Tbilisi - the participants demand that the authorities comply with the EU requirements for the country to receive the status of a candidate for membership. The protesters were approached by Zelensky and Arakhamia, whom the Prime Minister of Georgia accused of blocking the candidate status for the country. Arakhamia called on the people of Georgia to evaluate the actions of the current government. 21:43 In the Donetsk region today, five civilians were killed, four more were injured, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. 21:15 Since March, Moscow has known about the blockade of the transit of goods through the Kaliningrad region, the former Minister of Defense of Lithuania, Rasa Yuknyavichene, said on the air of the telethon. According to her, the fourth package of EU sanctions, which included, among other things, a blockade of transit, has been in effect since June 17, so it is not Lithuania, but the European Union that blocks transit. But Russia has waited for a convenient moment and is launching an information campaign. 21:03 Ukraine needs fire parity with the Russians in order to stabilize the situation in the Luhansk region, Zaluzhny said in a telephone conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley: “We discussed the operational situation and the progress in the supply of international technical assistance to the Ukrainian Defense Forces. I focused on the need to establish fire parity with the enemy, which will allow stabilizing the situation in the most threatening Lugansk direction. 21:00 Russian troops are trying to destroy Western weapons entering Ukraine, but they cannot target them, Sky News writes, citing a Pentagon spokesman. The official noted that weapons, including long-range systems, entered Ukraine without being stopped by Russian missiles. 20:56 From Monday, June 27, the Ukrainian side with European colleagues in Brussels will find out in detail the possibilities and features of the status of a candidate in the EU, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Olga Stefanishyna said on the air of the telethon. According to her, today we can already say that the restoration of Ukraine will begin in September this year, and the European Union will take an active part in this process, because the status of a candidate means the joint responsibility of the EU and Ukraine in this matter. That is, the EU, by granting Ukraine the status of a candidate, thereby assumed responsibility for the further development of our country, Stefanyshina noted. 20:53 Volunteer and presenter Serhiy Prytula said that in three days Ukrainians had collected 600 million hryvnias - for four Bayraktar drones. 20:44 The Canadian Senate has approved a bill by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allowing the confiscation of Russian assets, reports Reuters. The document, which will become law after formal royal assent, proposes a range of measures, including a two-year ban on the purchase of housing by foreign nationals, as well as the right to confiscate and sell the assets of those responsible for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yermak noted that the norms of the bill also provide for the transfer of confiscated property to another state: "In the case of Ukraine, this means that Canada will be able to confiscate Russian assets frozen on its territory and transfer them to Ukraine." According to him, this is the first precedent for fixing such a mechanism in the legislation after the start of the war. 20:36 The leaders of the G7 will consider at the summit in Bavaria on June 26-28 the US idea of introducing a world ceiling on oil prices, said the head of the European Council Charles Michel. At the same time, he acknowledged that a global coalition is needed for such a step - wider than the EU and the US. Also, according to him, Europe needs confidence that there is a complete understanding of all the possible side effects of such a decision. 20:08 London will be the first city that the Russians will bomb in the event of another world war, said Putin's ally, State Duma deputy General Andrei Gurulev. According to him, if the blockade of Russian Kaliningrad leads to war, the British capital will be the first to suffer.
19:52 Europe is going through the biggest war since the Second World War, but faced with this without a person who could speak on behalf of the continent. The next seven days will see the EU summit in Brussels, the G7 meeting in Germany and the most important NATO summit in Madrid. Read more in the material Europe without a leader . 19:49 Full-time education in Ukrainian schools will begin on September 1, at universities - on August 15, with the exception of the first courses. Such a recommendation was given by the government, Shmyhal said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. In the front-line regions, training will continue online, throughout the rest of Ukraine - as usual. 19:35 The world is threatened by a catastrophe in 2023 due to the growing food shortage due to the war in Ukraine, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “Problems with access to food this year could lead to global food shortages next. No country would be insured against the social and economic consequences of such a catastrophe." 19:17 The United States is ready to support any possible diplomatic solutions to the war in Ukraine, Blinken said. At the same time, he stressed that Washington would continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine as much as needed. The US Secretary of State also announced the desire of the West to tighten sanctions against Russia in order to achieve an end to the war in Ukraine as soon as possible. 19:10 The EU has no doubt that the Kremlin has made Gazprom the main weapon in the energy war. The Europeans no longer believe in the "technical reasons" for the reduction in supplies and are preparing for a complete gas blockade by the Russian Federation. What is written about this in the international media - in the material Deprivation for the sake of Ukraine . 18:54 The Ukrainian military forced the enemy to withdraw from defensive positions in the Kherson region, repelled the assault in the Slavic and Severodonetsk directions, as well as near Maryinka. At the same time, the invaders seized the village of Nikolaevka in the Bakhmut direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. 18:31 The Armed Forces of Ukraine received an order to leave Severodonetsk, the Ukrainian military left the industrial zone on the night of June 24. The day before, Zaluzhny explained that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to conduct a mobile defense and occupy more advantageous lines and positions. The exit from Severodonetsk was expected long ago. More details - in the material of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are leaving Severodonetsk - what does this mean . 18:09 Macron said that European countries from "Iceland to Ukraine" will be invited to the European political community: countries of the European Economic Area, countries aspiring to the EU, countries that have left the EU, countries of the Eastern Partnership (former Soviet republics of Europe), but not Russia . 17:40 Scholz said that none of the leaders of the EU countries believes in Gazprom's version of the technical reasons for the reduction in gas supplies via Nord Stream. And the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that at the moment 12 EU countries are completely or partially disconnected from Russian gas. 17:38 The European Council, following a meeting in Brussels, decided to continue sanctions pressure on Russia and supply Ukraine with the necessary weapons, the final communiqué says. EU leaders condemned Russia's indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure and called on the Russian Federation to "immediately and without preconditions withdraw all its troops and military equipment from all of Ukraine's occupied territory within its internationally recognized borders." The document also says that Ukrainians, in particular, children who were forcibly taken to Russia, "should be immediately returned in a safe way." And Russia, Belarus and all those responsible for war crimes will be held accountable. The European Council also called on all countries, including candidate countries, to comply with EU sanctions. The European Council stresses that it remains committed to providing further military support to Kyiv "to help Ukraine exercise its inalienable right to self-defence against Russian aggression and to defend its territorial integrity and sovereignty." To this end, the European Council calls on the Council of the EU to "work quickly to further increase military support" to Ukraine. 17:24 The "LNR" stated that Gorskoye and Zolote are completely under the control of their forces, Lisichansk is "actually in a state of operational encirclement." 17:21 A batch of four HIMARS systems recently announced by Washington will be delivered to Ukraine by mid-July, CNN reports, citing a senior US Department of Defense official. The official also said that another platoon of Ukrainians is being trained to operate the systems. 17:13 At the EU summit in Brussels, the idea of creating a European political community was approved, the main goal of which is to enable states to become "part of the European family" without a candidacy procedure. At the same time, this community is not an alternative to EU enlargement. According to Macron, the first meeting in the format of the European Political Community will be held in the Czech Republic. 17:09 Ukraine is experiencing a shortage of artillery ammunition, primarily 122 mm and 152 mm shells, which make up the bulk of Ukrainian artillery, writes The Washington Post. The shortage has much to do with the fact that Russia has spent years targeting ammunition depots and suppliers in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. According to the publication, a "shadow war" is going on in the world market for a limited number of 152-mm shells. Many former Soviet republics that have ammunition stocks are reluctant to sell them to Ukraine because of their close ties to the Russian Federation, and some openly admitted that Russia threatened them with reprisal. 17:04 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, several thousand dolphins have died in the Black Sea. According to Ivan Rusev, head of the research department of the Tuzlovsky Limans Natural Park , powerful sonars and explosions destroy the delicate navigation system of animals, which is why dolphins "go blind" and die of starvation. 16:57 EU countries have decided to provide Ukraine with assistance in the amount of 9 billion euros , said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. 16:51 The Foreign Ministers of the G7 countries issued a joint statement in which, in particular, they called on Moscow to stop attacks and threats and unblock Ukrainian Black Sea ports for food exports. The statement also says that measures against the Russian Federation allow food and agricultural products from Russia to enter world markets. At the same time, Russia's war against Ukraine exacerbates food insecurity. The G7 ministers also welcomed the decision to grant Ukraine and Moldova the status of candidates for EU accession and promised to continue to provide Kyiv with support, including military support, as long as necessary. 16:45 Ukraine is preparing a "white list" of Russian artists, which will include Russians who supported Ukraine and condemned the Russian invasion, Deputy Minister of Culture Taras Shevchenko said. 16:40 Russia will try to draw Belarus into a military conflict with Ukraine through a series of provocations. According to the military intelligence of Ukraine, for this purpose, sabotage groups arrived in the city of Mozyr under the guise of civilians, which include personnel officers of the GRU of the Russian Federation and mercenaries of private military companies. The plans of the DRG include the organization of a series of terrorist attacks on the territory of Belarus - just as it was at the time when the war was fomented in Chechnya. Then the special services of the Russian Federation organized explosions in several houses in Ryazan, blaming the mythical "Chechen militants" for this. Now the Russian GRU plans to launch a series of artillery and missile strikes on the Mozyr oil refinery, civilian infrastructure and residential areas. During the shelling, residential buildings, hospitals and schools will additionally be blown up. This, according to the calculations of the Kremlin curators of the "special operation", should create a pretext for Lukashenka to participate in the war. Having this information, the officers of the army of the Republic of Belarus began the evacuation of their families from Mazyr, which was previously reported by the opposition Belarusian media. 16:33 Cases of kidnapping of relatives of the Ukrainian military in the occupied territories are becoming systemic. Databases of Ukrainian citizens fall into the hands of the occupiers when seizing administrative buildings or with the help of collaborators-traitors, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. To date, most of these cases are recorded in Zaporozhye, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. At the same time, both adult relatives (including women and the elderly) and children are kidnapped. Thus, recently it became known that the occupiers took hostage several children of another Ukrainian soldier. In the future, the Russians can contact the military and demand to arrive in the occupied territories in exchange for the safety of their relatives. 16:25 Participants of the G7 summit, which will be held on June 26-27, will discuss the possibility of a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told reporters in Berlin: "In particular, the question of whether it is possible to find a diplomatic solution, as well as preparation to a situation where there is no such possibility. 16:07 The General Staff does not comment on the information about the possible withdrawal of the Ukrainian military from Severodonetsk - now there is the hottest section of the front, said the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk: "Information about whether there are units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a certain area, including Severodonetsk, is closed. We are about this "We don't speak. I would very much like to ask everyone to focus on the information provided by the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine." 16:04 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock accused Russia of deliberately using hunger as a weapon of war and criticized Moscow for trying to shift the blame for rising food prices to others. At the same time, the minister stressed that the G7 will not allow global hunger. 15:45 In Ukraine, the demining of all territories will take at least ten years, the State Emergency Service reported. Now more than 60 thousand hectares of territories have already been cleared and 45 thousand dangerous items have been destroyed. Rescuers specified that ten years is without taking into account the territories in which active hostilities are now taking place. Thus, units of the State Emergency Service are still working on demining the territory of the state after the First and Second World Wars. 15:27 In Mariupol, the occupiers slightly softened the regime for leaving towards Zaporozhye through Berdyansk - they partially began to let private cars through, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. At the same time, he admitted that such a sudden passage of cars to Ukraine simultaneously with a partial withdrawal of the military contingent may once again indicate that the maneuvers were covered by evacuation measures. "However, do not neglect the opportunity. Evacuate while there is a window," Andryushchenko advised. He also said that there is a curfew in Mariupol: for children under 16 - from 21:00 to 5:00, for everyone else - from 23:00. Violation turns into arrest with the prospect of either labor service in the analysis of garbage, or sending to a filtration camp. 15:06 The Russian army has increased the number of air raids, continues to launch missile attacks on civilian infrastructure, said the speaker of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Oleksandr Motuzyanyk. He said that the occupiers were shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region with artillery so that they would not push them to the border with Russia. To this end, enemy DRGs also activated. However, the Russian army concentrated the maximum forces and means in the Luhansk region and the Donetsk region, and in the territory of other regions, the nature of the enemy’s actions can be described as diversionary maneuvers, Motuzyanyk specified, so that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would not transfer troops for reinforcements to hot spots. 14:57 Moldova, after receiving the status of a candidate member of the EU, will have to join the sanctions against Russia, the speaker of the country's parliament, Igor Grosu, said: "We will be in solidarity with the EU. This is required by our candidate status and our European aspirations." When asked about the possible reaction of Moscow, he replied that Moldova is determined to maintain normal relations with the Russian Federation, but at the same time it expects respect for its decision to move towards the EU. 14:21 At Kharkiv National University. Karazin removed the department of the Russian language, but added the department of Slavic philology, where Polish will be taught. 14:10 The SBU exposed the intelligence network of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, which was supposed to help the enemy seize Ukraine. In particular, it included People's Deputy Andriy Derkach, who, according to the investigation, oversaw the creation of private security companies in various areas in order to use these structures to quickly seize Ukraine. 14:08 Johnson warned against calls for a "bad peace" in Ukraine: "My message to colleagues in the G7 and NATO in particular ... Now is not the time to negotiate and encourage Ukrainians to agree to a bad peace, a peace for which they are offered to give up part of the territory in exchange for a ceasefire." According to the British prime minister, such a scenario would lead to catastrophic consequences - give Putin too much courage and cause additional economic damage to the world. "It's time to recognize that Ukrainians need help to change the dynamics in Donbas, in Severodonetsk, and then in the land bridge area in the south," he added. 13:54 Belgian Prime Minister Alexandre de Cros proposes that the EU buy energy resources collectively and introduce cap prices for gas. According to him, the European Commission should immediately take the initiative in this matter: "If we act on our own, we will not be able to get out." 13:52 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, said that an emergency evacuation from Nikolaev is not planned. He commented on the call of the mayor of the city, Alexander Senkevich, to evacuate: “The situation in Nikolaev is the same as the previous four weeks, no panic. Nothing has changed militarily, so filter the information. [Senkevich] recommends as usual: whoever has the opportunity, leave, we provide buses. Nothing has changed, on the contrary, we have success and we are developing it." 13:44 Lavrov said that the European Union and NATO are assembling a coalition for a war with the Russian Federation: "The European Union, together with NATO, is assembling such an already modern coalition to fight, and by and large, war with Russia. We will look at all this very carefully." 13:41 Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich called on the townspeople to evacuate to a safer territory: "The situation as a whole is very bad. We are shelled daily. In total, 111 people have died today. One of them is a child. We also injured 502 people, of they have six children. He cited such data as of June 21 in an interview with Radio Liberty. "I recommend everyone to leave the city. Everyone who wants to stay alive. It is not known when this will all end. Today, according to our estimates, out of 480 thousand inhabitants of Nikolaev who were before the war, about 230 thousand remained in the city," - the mayor explained. He also specified that they were shooting at Nikolaev from the Kherson region, so it was impossible to launch a siren in advance because of the small distance between the cities. 13:35 Granting the status of EU candidates to Ukraine and Moldova is an internal European affair, Peskov said: "Firstly, these are, of course, internal European affairs. It is very important for us that all these processes do not bring more problems to us and more problems in the relations of the mentioned countries with us. There are plenty of these problems anyway." Peskov also expressed regret that Moldova associates granting it the status of an EU candidate with an "anti-Russian course." 13:18 Melitopol partisans have announced a $10,000 reward for the head of a traitor, a local Gauleiter, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. He also said that the invaders are trying to force pensioners and entrepreneurs to obtain Russian passports. The former are frightened by the fact that without a passport they will not receive pensions, and entrepreneurs will allegedly have problems with banks. According to Fyodorov, at the checkpoints, the occupiers demand from local residents from 300 to 3,000 hryvnias in the form of a "pass" - they don't let anyone through for free. At the same time, Russians export more than 1,000 tons of wheat from Melitopol every day. 12:56 In the "LPR" since June 25, when determining prices, the "rate" is 1 hryvnia = 1.5 rubles. Until June 28, "non-cash conversion of hryvnia, collected from branches of foreign banks, at the rate of 1 hryvnia = 2 rubles" is carried out. 12:49 Putin does not take the peace talks with Ukraine seriously, Johnson said at the Commonwealth summit: "He wants to double down and make a new Grozny in Ukraine's big cities. I think it's a tragic mistake, but that's what he seems to be , does at the moment". 12:45 Russian troops fired two missiles at the Polytechnic sports complex on Alchevskikh Street tonight. According to the State Emergency Service, there was a fire on an area of about 200 square meters. m. There were no dead or wounded as a result of the shelling, the sports arena was destroyed. 12:37 Today, EU leaders plan to discuss various scenarios in the event of a complete halt in Russian gas supplies, Reuters writes. The EU is also going to accuse Russia of using gas as a weapon. 12:21 Ukrainian troops are still in Severodonetsk, it will take time to leave the city, the head of the Severodonetsk regional state administration Roman Vlasenko said in a comment to Radio Liberty. According to him, the Russian troops are advancing in all directions in the area of Severodonetsk and Lysichansk: they are storming Lisichansk and the Bakhmut-Lysichansk road. The occupiers use aircraft and Tochka-U missiles. 12:18 Spiegel writes that the German Ministry of Finance is considering the possibility of nationalizing part of Nord Stream 2, which can be used to connect eastern and southern Germany with a mobile LNG terminal in the Baltic Sea. 12:14 Advisor to the Prime Minister of Hungary, Balas Orban, said on the sidelines of the EU summit that the EU should stop expanding sanctions against Russia and work on ceasefire negotiations. According to him, the approach to anti-Russian measures needs to be changed, since so far they create more problems for the EU itself than for Russia. 12:11 In the Kharkiv region, three people were killed from shelling in a day, 13 more were injured, the IVA reported. Kyiv district and KhTZ in Kharkiv itself suffered damage, and Chuguevsky, Izyumsky, Bogodukhovsky and Kharkovsky districts were shelled in the region. 12:09 The Russian fleet has withdrawn six missile-carrying ships from Sevastopol, five of which are moving in a north-westerly direction, said Sergey Bratchuk, the speaker of the Odesa OVA. 12:07 Gorske, Lugansk region, has been captured by the enemy , Aleksey Babchenko, head of the military administration of the Mountain community, said on Espresso: "Today, the Mountain community is completely occupied, there are minor local battles in the vicinity, but the enemy has entered." According to Babchenko, the breakthrough was in the direction of Orekhovo-Toshkovka: "The invaders entered from two sides, one part went to the rear, namely the settlements of Mirnaya Dolina, Podlesnoye, Loskutovka, the other part moved in the direction of Gorsky and Zolote." 12:03 Europe must intensify efforts to reduce dependence on Russian energy imports, Scholz said in Brussels. According to him, this is why the EU not only imposed sanctions on Russian coal and oil, but also worked to transform its infrastructure so that it could import gas from other countries. At the same time, the chancellor acknowledged that the rejection of energy resources from the Russian Federation would be fraught with big problems. 11:48 Tankers of the sub-sanctioned Russian state company Sovcomflot continue to deliver oil to European ports, bypassing Western sanctions, investigators of the international platform OCCRP found out. According to them, the company hid the ownership of the vessels, registering them as the property of subsidiaries in Cyprus and the UAE, and sailing under the flags of Liberia. 11:37 Ukroboronprom and the Ukrainian Startup Fund (USF), together with the Cabinet of Ministers, are implementing a program of grant support for dual-purpose projects that will help increase the country's defense capability and rapid post-war recovery. The best projects to improve the defense capability of Ukraine will receive $35,000. 11:01 In the Nikolaev area during evening shelling of Novonikolayevka one person was lost, four more were injured, the mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich reported. Also, because of the rocket attack on Nikolaev, one person was injured. Three ground-based cruise missiles hit Nikolaev yesterday afternoon, explosions are also heard in the city this morning. 10:58 A military enlistment office was set on fire in Belgorod. According to the Russian telegram channel Baza, at night an unknown man threw two Molotov cocktails into one of the offices. As a result, the table caught fire, but they managed to extinguish it. 10:44 The Russian army launched an airstrike at the entrance to Lisichansk. The bridge is damaged, it is only possible to pass on it by cars, trucks will not pass into the city, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. 10:21 The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation received an order to block the Ukrainian ports of Odessa and Ochakov, an American official told CNN, citing recently declassified intelligence data. Intelligence also revealed signs that the Russians were mining the Black Sea and had previously mined the Dnieper. "We can confirm that, despite public statements by the Russian Federation that it does not carry out mining in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, in fact it is placing mines in the Black Sea near Ochakov," the official said. 10:19 Kuleba and Borrell made a joint statement on the occasion of granting Ukraine the status of an EU candidate country. They announced the immediate start of preparations for Ukraine's integration into European structures. "Russian armed aggression will not be able to deprive people in Europe of the right to live a normal and dignified life. Ukraine will win. Europe will win. <...> We will make a long journey together, which begins today. Right now, we are immediately starting to prepare for the integration of Ukraine into European structure and, ultimately, membership in the European Union," the diplomats said. Kuleba and Borrell stressed that Ukraine belongs to the common European family and, together with the European Union, stands for the defense of peace. 10:14 In Kherson, the car of one of the most famous local collaborators Dmitry Savluchenko was blown up, he died on the spot. This was announced by the adviser to the head of the Kherson military administration, Sergei Khlan, and the information is also confirmed by local "authorities" and Russian media. Savluchenko was a member of the youth organization New Rus, was a pro-Russian activist from the Sharia party, and after the occupation of Kherson, he headed the department of youth and sports in the "administration" of the occupiers. 10:09 Zelensky, Shmyhal and Stefanchuk appealed to Ukrainians on the occasion of Ukraine receiving the status of a candidate for EU membership. Zelensky said that now Ukraine is "not a bridge, not a pillow between the West and the Russian Federation, not a buffer between Europe and Asia, not a sphere of influence, not a gray zone, not a transit territory, not a border between orcs and elves. Ukraine is a future equal partner for at least 27 EU countries". The President stressed that he expects people's deputies to vote on laws related to European integration as a priority, since the status of a candidate already allows you to connect to various EU programs. In turn, Stefanuk said that the candidate's status is "recognition of our achievements in the development of a democratic society," and this recognition "will be heard in the bunker." According to him, "history won over geography." Shmyhal said that relations with the European Union have transformed from a simple neighborhood into a policy of expansion. At the same time, he mentioned "a high assessment of market transformations, thanks to which we have integrated into the EU economy in the energy, digital, customs, and transport sectors." 09:57 The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved a resolution calling on US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to include Russia in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. "It is necessary to recognize Russia as a sponsor of terrorism for all the crimes that it has already committed in Ukraine. Such recognition will strengthen the mechanism of sanctions against Russia," Yermak commented. 09:41 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, confirmed the loss of Nikolaevka, and also said that Lisichansk and Borovskoye were fired from aircraft, but the offensive in the areas of these settlements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was stopped. The Russian army is trying to establish control over Gorsky, there was also an attempt to attack in the Mirnaya Dolina area. 09:32 German Economy Minister Robert Habeck warned that in the event of shortages of Russian gas, some sectors of German industry may stop: “Companies will have to stop production, lay off workers, supply chains will collapse, people will get into debt to pay heating bills, people become poorer." At the same time, Khabek stressed that this is Putin's strategy: "This is the best breeding ground for populism, which is designed to undermine our liberal democracy from within." The minister promised the Germans assistance, but warned that it would be impossible to compensate for all the consequences. 09:14 The Russian army launched strikes from Hurricanes on two communities of the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnipropetrovsk region - Grechanopodovskaya and Shirokovskaya, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. 09:01 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of June 24. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Slavic and Bakhmut directions.
08:40 British intelligence writes about the use of retirees by Russia, now serving under contract in the Wagner group. In particular, we are talking about a Russian pilot who was detained in mid-June after his plane was shot down. He admitted that he made 1-2 sorties a day and struck at the military infrastructure of Ukraine. Intelligence believes that amid insufficient numbers of properly trained personnel and combat losses, Russia is trying to support an invasion of Ukraine with sufficient crews. The report that the Russian pilot was using commercial GPS devices rather than Russian military navigation equipment suggests that the Wagner aircraft are older Su-25 models and that the Russian Air Force is not providing them with modern avionics equipment, analysts say.
"The invaders almost destroyed Severodonetsk, the entire critical infrastructure was destroyed, 90% of the city was damaged, 80% of residential buildings will have to be demolished - they cannot be restored," Gaidai said. 07:56 Russian military aircraft Il-76 crashed in the fields near Ryazan in a field and caught fire. Russian media report that four people died and five were hospitalized. The plane flew to Belgorod. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has already announced a "hard landing" and that "the aircraft was partially destroyed." 07:45 Russian troops were attacking in the area of the settlement of Mirnaya Dolina. In the Borovskoye area, the Ukrainian military successfully stopped the enemy. They also defeated enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups and hit the Russians with aircraft, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . 07:00 In the coming weeks , the pace of the offensive of the Russian army will significantly decrease . Assault operations in Lysychansk will not provide Russia with a decisive advantage in the war, as well as the possible capture of Severodonetsk, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). According to analysts, the temporary loss of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk will not be a major turning point in the war. 03:37 Borrell warned of a difficult winter in the EU due to the reduction in Russian gas supplies: "In summer, gas is not a political weapon. But in winter it will be difficult." 02:49 The Russians fired at the territory of the Zaporozhye region from the MLRS, damaged infrastructure in the area of one of the settlements near the regional center, the OVA reported. 02:25 Zelensky intends to dismiss Ivan Bakanov from the head of the SBU due to a number of unsuccessful operations and losses in Kherson, Politico writes, citing sources. 01:18 The European Council published the conclusions of the meeting on granting Ukraine the status of a candidate member of the European Union. 01:11 "This is a victory. We have been waiting for 120 days. And 30 years," Zelensky reacted to the decision to grant Ukraine the status of an EU candidate. It was the fastest such decision in the history of the European Union. The decision was approved based on a recommendation from the European Commission provided on 17 June. Read more about him in the material Historical Day . 00:46 Macron called the EU decision on Ukraine and Moldova "a strong signal towards Russia in the current geopolitical context." | ||
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