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[Korrespondent] 21:56 Budanov predicts that the situation at the front will remain difficult for at least another month. “The good news is that there won’t be any ‘Armageddon’. The bad news is that the situation is quite complicated. It will remain like this for at least a month, and it won’t get any easier,” the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate said in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Budanov also focused on the importance of cutting off Russians in Crimea from resupplying supplies. According to him, ATACMS are capable of destroying the Crimean Bridge, the only question is their quantity: “The only question is their quantity, but, in principle, these missiles will allow us to complete such a mission.”
21:11 The National Association of Defense Industry Enterprises of Ukraine (NAUDI) announced that it has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Romanian business association of military equipment manufacturers PATROMIL. NAUDI stated that the document opens a new stage in the issue of cooperation between Ukrainian and Romanian defense companies. In particular, we are talking about joint maintenance of equipment and production of ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:09 Russian troops attacked the private sector of Selidovo, Donetsk region - five people were wounded, among them two children aged ten and 13, the prosecutor's office reported. At least 30 residential buildings were damaged.
20:57 The recent agreement by Western countries on strikes on Russian territory near the border made it possible to destroy part of the Russian potential, “but only part,” Zelensky said in an evening video message. He emphasized that to stop the terror of the Russian Federation, “Russian military aviation must be destroyed where it exists, by all effective means.” According to the president, targeting Russian airfields is also “completely fair.”
“We need more range, we need appropriate weapons for the Ukrainians... Range now is a question not only of what we can achieve on the battlefield, but also of when the war will end,” the head of state added. He also announced that the next weeks of June and the first half of July “should be no less productive for Ukraine than May and the first half of June.”
20:28 Near the village of Shlyakhovo, Kherson region, the Russians dropped explosives from a drone on a tractor driver, he was wounded, the prosecutor’s office reported. The Russian military also attacked a utility company in the Stanislavskaya community with a UAV, injuring two workers.
18:13 Russian troops captured Novoaleksandrovka, Donetsk region, reports the Deep State analytical project. According to military experts, the Russians are currently establishing a foothold on the western outskirts of the village, located northwest of Ocheretino and in the direction of the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway. According to the public, the path to the highway is now blocked only by the village of Vozdvizhenka.
17:20 As a result of today's Russian strikes with guided bombs on Kharkov, 11 people have already been injured and one has died, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. In the Shevchenko district, an educational institution and apartment buildings were damaged; in Kholodnogorsk, two houses were destroyed; in the Kiev district, an industrial zone was hit.
17:06 On Monday, June 24, all oblenergos will apply hourly shutdown schedules during the day from 00:00 to 24:00, Ukrenergo reported. From 19:00 to 23:00 there will be more restrictions.
17:01 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Sevastopol with American ATACMS missiles equipped with cluster warheads. Moscow claims that four missiles were shot down, another one, as a result of the impact of air defense systems at the final stage, deviated from the flight path and detonated the warhead in the air over the city territory. According to the Russian Ministry of Health, three people were killed and 124 were injured as a result of the shelling. Among the victims were 27 children. The Russian Ministry of Defense clarifies that people were injured as a result of falling fragments of cluster submunitions.
Local residents write on social networks that the alarm was not even sounded on the beach so as not to scare tourists, and there were no shelters. The Crimean Wind telegram channel clarifies that people were injured in the area of Uchkuevka beach in Sevastopol as a result of Russian air defense, and the sirens were turned on after explosions were heard at military facilities. According to the public information, the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile system fired at Ukrainian missiles from the northern side of the city.
16:37 Russian troops struck civilian targets in the Shevchenko and Kholodnogorsk districts of Kharkov - one person was killed, ten were injured, among them two teenagers aged 15 and 16, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Half of Kharkov's consumers were left without electricity.
14:54 The Russians shelled populated areas of the Kharkov region - four people were wounded, the prosecutor's office reported. In particular, one person was injured as a result of an airstrike in the village. Glushkovka, Kupyansky district, another one - as a result of enemy shelling. Losovka, Chuguevsky district, and two in the village. Liman Chuguevsky district. Also on June 22, the Russian army shelled the village. Lesnoye Malodanilovskaya community - eco-park buildings were damaged, animals died.
13:36 In the morning, the Russians shelled populated areas of the Donetsk region, five people were wounded, the prosecutor’s office reported. In particular, the enemy struck an apartment building in Toretsk, one person was wounded. One more person was injured as a result of shelling in the town of Zaliznoye and three as a result of shelling of the private sector in the town of Kurakhovo with cluster munitions.
11:41 On June 20, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit Borisovka in the Belgorod region with HIMARS, three Russian servicemen were injured, the opposition Russian publication Astra reports, citing sources.
10:45 On Sunday, June 23, all oblenergos will apply hourly shutdown schedules from 11:00 to 23:00, and not from 19:00, as previously assumed, Ukrenergo reported. The reason is the difficult situation in the energy system after massive Russian attacks on energy facilities.
09:43 In Russia, the head of the fifth service of the FSB, Sergei Beseda, was fired, his place was taken by Alexei Komkov, write Important Stories. The fifth service specialized in collecting information within Russia and in the countries of the former USSR. The publication notes that Putin, when deciding on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, was also based on data from this service. The Russian authorities were confident that they would not meet resistance.
09:35 In the Donetsk region on June 22, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Toretsk. Four more people in the region were injured, said the head of the OVA, Vadim Filashkin.
09:32 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, five people were injured as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. A high-rise building and six private houses, cultural institutions, an enterprise, and a post office were damaged.
09:28 In the Kiev region, two people were injured as a result of a night rocket attack, said the head of the OBA Ruslan Kravchenko. In one of the settlements, as a result of falling debris, six high-rise buildings and more than 20 private houses, gas station buildings, pharmacies, businesses, and an administrative building were damaged.
09:17 In the Zaporozhye region, a power engineer, wounded the day before as a result of a Russian missile attack on an energy facility in the Zaporozhye region, died in a hospital, said the head of the OBA Ivan Fedorov.
09:02 In the Osnovyansky district of Kharkov, as a result of yesterday’s Russian strike by the KAB on a five-story residential building, two people were killed, 52 were injured, including three children and one policeman, said Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the OVA. He clarified that this is not final data, since people continue to seek medical help. According to the State Emergency Service, two people were killed and 53 were injured. In addition, in the Kholodnogorsk district of the city, an enterprise building was damaged as a result of shelling, one person was killed and four were injured.
In the village One person was injured as a result of Russian shelling in Glushkovka, Kupyansky district. In the village In Melovoe, Izyum district, one person was killed and five were injured. In the village The Russians attacked the estuary of the Chuguevsky district on the Kharkov-Volchansk highway with an FPV drone, two people were injured.
08:51 Defense forces successfully hit the command post of a motorized rifle regiment located in the village of Nekhoteevka, Belgorod region, the General Staff reported.
07:46 At night, the Russians attacked with three sea-based Caliber cruise missiles from the Azov Sea, two missiles were shot down in the Kiev region, the Air Force reported.
07:20 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 23. At the same time, the department clarified that the total figure for enemy losses in cruise missiles is presented taking into account the clarification for the previous period, losses for the previous day are reported as usual:
- personnel - about 534,360 (+1270) people,
- tanks - 8019 (+10),
- armored combat vehicles - 15,398 (+15),
- artillery systems - 14,195 (+61),
- MLRS - 1108 (+2),
- air defense systems - 863 (+2),
- aircraft - 359 (+0),
- helicopters - 326 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 11 355 (+50),
- cruise missiles - 2321 (+13),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 19,248 (+44),
- special equipment - 2377 (+8).
04:43 The Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the destruction of the “martyrdom” warehouse and related infrastructure in the Krasnodar Territory on the night of June 21. In particular, new satellite images confirm the destruction of storage and preparation sites for Shahed-136/Geran-2, training buildings, control and communication posts for crews of these UAVs. In addition to the weapons, qualified instructors who trained personnel to service Shahed launches and cadets who were trained to carry out strikes on Ukrainian territory using Iranian drones were destroyed.