[Daily Mail, where America get its news] A 92-year-old scientist who created the first Soviet two-stage RDS-37 thermonuclear bomb has been found hanged in his apartment.
Grigory Klinishov was found dead at his central Moscow home, as Russian investigators said they were probing the death of the nonagenarian atomic expert.
Klinishov was reported to have died on June 17. Officials said a suicide note was found next to his body.
A top secret bomb designer, Klinishov won the Lenin Prize in 1962. He was most well known as one of the creators of the Soviet RDS-37 - a thermonuclear bomb first tested in 1955.
Klinishov's death follows a slew of suspicious deaths of oligarchs and high profile Russians, particularly those linked to business executives at Russian energy giant Gazprom.
Klinishov - whose photograph was never released by the Soviet authorities - was found by his daughter, 67.
The scientist was a creator of the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb RDS-37, tested on 22 November 1955 at Semipalatinsk training ground by dropping it from a Tu-16 bomber.
Born in 1930, the bomb designer developed several types of thermonuclear bomb charges for subsequent generations.
The Russian Investigative Committee said: 'A note was found next to the scientist, on whose neck injuries characteristic of hanging were found.
'The reasons for the suicide could be the severe illness of the scientist and the death of his wife.'
However a probe was underway pending a decision on whether to initiate a criminal case into his death, said the committee.
But Klinishov's suicide follows a string of mysterious deaths in recent years linked to high-profile Russians.
It comes just months after Andrey Botikov - one of the 18 scientists who worked on the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in 2020 - was found strangled to death with a belt in his Moscow home. Russia's investigative committee has launched a murder investigation following the death.
Most notable have been the successive suspicious deaths related to business executives at Russian energy giant Gazprom.
Novaya Gazeta Europe, a leading investigative news outlet, and Transparency International Russia, claimed that the high-profile Russian businessmen who have died in suspicious circumstances were linked to a multi-million dollar money-laundering scheme.
The day after the war in Ukraine started, Alexander Tyulyakov, deputy head of corporate security at Gazprom's United Settlement Centre, the energy giant's 'treasury' allegedly committed suicide.
Just two months later Vladislav Avayev, 51, a vice-president of Gazprombank and former Kremlin official, was found dead in Moscow, alongside the bodies of his wife Elena, 47, and daughter Maria, 13. They were discovered by his adult daughter, Anastasia.
Investigators rapidly concluded Avayev had killed them, before taking his own life.
However, this was strongly disputed at the time including by a former top Gazprombank official who claimed Avayev had access to the private accounts of elite clients, including Vladimir Putin's circle and possibly the president himself.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ukraine used a British-supplied Storm Shadow missile to hit a key bridge between Crimea and Russian-held parts of the Kherson region in Ukraine, pro-Moscow sources have claimed.
Vladimir Saldo, the Russia-appointed Kherson governor, said the Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles were likely to have been used for the attack, which damaged the road on the Chongar bridge. No casualties have been reported.
The strike comes just two days after the Kremlin warned that it would see the UK as 'full-fledged' participants in the war in Ukraine if the Storm Shadow missiles hit Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Images show a large hole in the bridge, revealing the water below, as well as rubble strewn across the road. The damaged bridge was still standing but the extent of the internal structural damage was not immediately clear.
Saldo vowed: 'There will soon be a very serious answer.' The governor described the attack as 'another senseless action ordered from London by the Kyiv regime.'
Crimea's governor, Sergey Aksyonov, said specialists were examining the site to determine when traffic over the bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian-held parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, could resume.
The crossing is the closest link from Crimea to Melitopol and is a key supply route for Vladimir Putin's forces to the disputed peninsula, and vice-versa.
Acting Moscow-appointed supremo of the invaded Kherson region Vladimir Saldo said: 'According to a preliminary assessment, British Storm Shadow missiles were used. The road surface on the bridges was damaged. There are no human casualties.'
Communication between Crimea and Kherson region continues to operate via a backup route, he said.
It comes two days after Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu warned the UK and US they would be seen as 'full-fledged' participants in the Ukraine war if Storm Shadow and HIMARS missiles are used to hit targets in Russia or Crimea.
Shoigu warned he will target 'decision-making centres' in Ukraine - implying he plans to order his military to target Volodymyr Zelensky and his government leaders in Kyiv.
[SANA.SY] Two drones were shoot down on Wednesday morning when they approached military warehouses on Moscow’s outskirts, without causing any damage or casualties, Moscow Governor Andrey Vorobyov said.
Sputnik quoted Vorobyov as saying on his account on telegram channel: "Two drones were shot down when approaching the warehouses of one of the military units as they were intercepted by the air defenses," noting that their debris were found at the scene.
Vorobyov added that the special services are operating in the scene, while the area has been cordoned off.
Kiev regime forces continue their attempts to target areas inside Russia using drones, while the Russian air defenses repel all these attempts.
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Ah. More drones that don't have the range to reach Moscow downed near Moscow.
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Text taken from the V Kontakte account of Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots:
I read loud statements that in the Kherson and Zaporozhye directions, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing, everything is allegedly not good for us - the soldiers leave their positions, giving the enemy a large territory. I contacted the familiar fighters who hold lines there.
I report.
In Golaya Pristan, where the 80th Arctic Brigade is stationed, the enemy did not even try to send the DRG today. The city is completely under our control.
In Tokmak, which is under the shield of the echeloned defense and the heroic fighters of the 42nd division, only the sounds of the exits of our artillery can be heard. The city, like the nearest village of Sadovoye, was not subjected to attacks by the assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - it was far from the LBS.
But in the area of Pyatikhatki, the hardest battles are going on, the village changed hands several times. In any case, a flexible line of defense was invented in order to concentrate and apply forces in the most convenient way. And advancing the enemy several hundred meters does not guarantee consolidation. The previous weeks of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine clearly showed this.
Fighters from the DPR burned a column of NATO armored vehicles and seized armored vehicles of the US special forces received by the Armed Forces of Ukraine 🔞
▪At the junction of the Zaporozhye region and the DPR, our soldiers repulse the attacks of the advancing enemy in stubborn battles.
▪4 Infantry Battalion. 383rd Mining Division destroyed significant forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine advancing on Novodonetskoye.
▪The footage shows the defeat of the advancing forces of the UAF militants on armored vehicles created for the US special forces near the village.
▪The entire area is littered with the corpses of Ukrainian Nazis, their destroyed and captured equipment.
▪The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to drive their soldiers to the slaughter in suicidal attacks at the junction of the Zaporozhye region and the DPR, during the battles the Ukrainian troops suffer very significant losses in armored vehicles and personnel.
▪Heavy fighting on the Vremevsky ledge continues.
More from the V Kontakte page of Tatyana Vasilyeva ‼As a result of today
it can be stated that there was a relative calm on the southern borders of the front with everyday artillery duels and mutual shelling of positions. At this time, an interesting situation is unfolding on the Lugansk front, and more precisely on the Liman and Kupyansk directions.
Quite unexpectedly for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian army went on the offensive and already has local successes. Thus, the RF Armed Forces continue to advance in the forest area northeast of Kupyansk, while the enemy retreats in a number of sectors. There is also news of the successful takeover of n.p. Sinkovki and access to the northern outskirts of the settlement. Petropavlovka. That is, there is already quite a bit to Kupyansk.
In the Limansky direction in the Kremennaya area, hostilities also resumed. The fighters of the RF Armed Forces successfully stormed several strongholds in the area of the Torsk ledge, managing to occupy two points and destroy one DRG of the 25th airborne brigade of the DShV of Ukraine.
At the same time, the enemy hastily transfers reserves in the direction of both settlements, trying to stop our advance. It is quite possible that even more intensification of hostilities with counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. So one Ukrainian column of equipment and infantry has already been destroyed in the Kramatorsk region.
PS: For clarity, maps from colleagues are attached. Maps are in Russian
At the cost of huge losses, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again occupied several houses in the village of Pyatikhatki. Sources from the field report that heavy artillery fire from both sides leaves no chance to gain a foothold further than the outskirts of the settlement, but the Kyiv authorities send group after group under large-caliber shells, regardless of losses. Our troops continue to be on the heights around Pyatikhatki, destroying the enemy that appears in the visibility zone.
Fierce fighting continues on the Orekhov-Rabotino direction. Sources of the "wargonzo" project report that the troops of the Kyiv regime do not spare high-precision weapons, and are trying to destroy our forward positions with the help of MLRS "HIMARS". But, like three weeks before, the front line remains unchanged. Our troops stand to the death. Moreover, this is not just a beautiful expression - not a single meter of land has been given up in Zaporozhye without a fight.
We continue to monitor developments in this sector of the front.
Since June 4, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched 263 attacks on the positions of Russian troops as part of the counteroffensive that has begun. All attacks were repulsed, but few people understand why the offensive of the Ukrainian army failed at its highest point.
WHAT IS THE SUROVIKIN LINE?
This is a defensive system, the first contour of which is dozens of fortified firing lines, including extensive minefields and engineering barriers. This line was built for almost eight months and goes into the depth of defense for several tens of kilometers. It relies on a developed transport and logistics network with hubs and rear bases. At the same time, short logistics routes allow the RF Armed Forces to quickly transfer reserves from one sector to another without compromising combat readiness at the front. Simply put, wherever it is required to strengthen fire capabilities, this can be organized without withdrawing troops from another sector of the front.
WHAT IS ITS FEATURE?
The network of defensive lines is “supported” by a powerful grouping of cannon and rocket artillery and airborne forces, as well as Ka-52 army aviation helicopters and attack aircraft with FAB-250/500 bombs equipped with planning and correction modules. In the event of a breakthrough of a group with APU equipment at one of the firing lines, aviation is able to support ground troops and act as a “carousel”: while helicopters are working on ground targets, attack aircraft and bombers go to the point of use of weapons, after hitting the target, helicopters again engage in battle, and then the situation repeats. At the same time, attacks on the rear of the advancing AFU grouping in Orekhovo and Velikaya Novosyolka show that there is practically nothing to cover the offensive of the APU - short-range and medium-range air defense systems are either withdrawn to the deep rear, or are used very limitedly on the front line.
WHAT IS "ELASTIC DEFENSE" AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
Judging by the dynamics of the offensive, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine probably relied on a quick breakthrough and turning the battle into a maneuverable one. For this, a series of strikes was planned throughout the LBS, including the main one and several distractions. These strikes were opposed by a combination of the tactics of the so-called elastic defense and artillery grouping, reinforced by means of observation and fire adjustment.
It is clearly seen that "on the ground" the RF Armed Forces are still operating with relatively small forces, and the maneuverable element in the mass (operational and tactical reserves) has not yet joined the battle. On the example of Pyatikhatki in Zaporozhye or Neskuchny in the South-Donetsk direction, it is clearly seen that Russian troops do not cling to every centimeter of the defensive line in the event of a breakthrough of individual groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, if necessary, retreat to a reserve position.
After the withdrawal, the enemy is covered by artillery at previously known coordinates, after which a counterattack follows and the position returns to the control of the defenders. Judging by the fact that two weeks after the start of the offensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to suffer losses from artillery, their reconnaissance and counter-battery capabilities are ineffective or insufficient.
WHAT IS THE RESULT?
For more than two weeks of the Ukrainian offensive, the advancement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is recorded exclusively in the gray zone - that is, in territories that were not previously determined as the main lines of defense. The Armed Forces of Ukraine fail to fully capture these areas - every attempt to gain a foothold and expand the bridgehead leads to artillery strikes and air raids, after which the Ukrainian troops have to retreat and regroup for a new strike.
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[LB] The enemy also attacked the Lviv, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhya, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions.
This night, Russian terrorists again resorted to a massive attack on the Kyiv region . It was attacked by drones in several waves. The air alert lasted more than four hours. According to operational information, as a result of the attack on the territory of one of the districts, non-residential buildings, several private buildings and an administrative building were damaged. In addition, as a result of falling debris, the burning of the grass litter was recorded. There are no victims or injured. Information about the damage is being updated, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In Lviv this morning, as a result of an enemy strike by drones, a critical infrastructure facility was damaged. A fire broke out on the roof of the building. There are no casualties.
In Sumyat night and in the morning, the Russians carried out 10 shelling of the border. 55 explosions were recorded. Myropil, Bilopol, Yunakiv, Esman, Seredino-Bud, Znob-Novgorod, Novoslobid communities came under fire. In advance - without consequences. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 16 shelling of the border.
A total of 101 explosions were recorded. The communities of Myropilsk, Khotynsk, Krasnopilsk, Bilopolsk, Yunakivsk, Shalyginsk, Novoslobidsk were attacked. The enemy fired mortars and artillery at Krasnopilsk. As a result of one of the artillery shells, a residential building was directly hit, two people were injured, including a child born in 2010. A residential building was damaged. A private house and a garage were damaged in the Myropil community. In Yunakivska, a residential building was hit, as a result of which one person died and one person was injured.
During the day, the Russians hit Chernihivska three times with mortars in the Novgorod-Siversky district. In one of the villages of the Semenivska community, a residential building and an outbuilding were destroyed by shelling. It passed without casualties.
In Zaporizhzhia, the occupiers launched 72 attacks on civilian objects and communications in 19 towns and villages. Rockets hit Zaporizhzhia and Rozumivka, aviation hit Orikhov and Preobrazhenka, drones attacked Magdalinivka, salvo rocket systems hit Gulyaipol, Levadny, Lobkovo, 65 artillery strikes hit Gulyaipol, Novodarivka, Zaliznychny, Novoandriivka, Malya Tokmachka, Novodanilivka and other frontline villages.
So far, 50 reports of destruction have been registered: apartments, houses, cars, administrative and commercial buildings. A 54-year-old man received mine-explosive injuries in Orichov. He was promptly taken to the hospital. Other data on the consequences are being clarified.
In Dnipropetrovsk at night, the aggressor opened fire on Myrivska community of Nikopol district. He was from heavy artillery. It passed without casualties. Rescuers are examining the area, establishing the consequences of the shelling. Yesterday, the occupiers hit Nikopol with heavy artillery. A 73-year-old man was injured. He was hospitalized in moderate condition. 16 private houses were damaged, two farm buildings were destroyed, and nine more were beaten. The gas pipeline and power line were also damaged.
In Luhansk yesterday, west of Dibrova, in the Kreminnaya area, the enemy launched attacks, but did not succeed. During the day, the enemy fired 115 rounds (512 shells).
In Kharkiv last night, the occupiers shelled a number of settlements, including Guryiv Kozachok, Kivsharivka, and Hlushkivka. The enemy struck Novoosynovo with a roughly guided aerial bomb. There were no casualties. As a result of shelling in Vovchansk, an apartment building, a private household was damaged, and a fire broke out.
The Russians also shelled Lyutivka and Ivashki with artillery. No casualties. In Izyum, during the burning of garbage in the yard, an explosive object detonated. A 52-year-old man was injured and hospitalized in a moderate condition. A 32-year-old man was blown up by an anti-personnel mine on the bank of the river in Oskol. Hospitalized with an injury.
In Donetsk, the occupiers carried out 23 shellings on 15 settlements. They beat in Rai-Olexandrivka, Lyman, Zalizny, Chasovoy Yar, Avdiivka, Velyka Novosilka, Kurtivka, Lastochkino, Stupochky, Chervony, Novobakhmutivka, Virolyubivka, Mykolaivka, Novy Komar, Toretsk. As a result of attacks in the region: five civilians were injured. Six residential buildings, two civilian cars, a gas station, a kindergarten, an official vehicle of the National Police Service, and a power line were damaged.
In Mykolaivska, forces and means of air defense destroyed three Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs at night. Yesterday, the enemy carried out artillery strikes on the coastal and port area of Ochakov. There are no casualties. Also yesterday, as a result of the shelling of the Kutsurub community, a wheat field was set on fire. No casualties.
During the day, the enemy fired 57 shells (275 shells) at Khersonska , including seven artillery shells (28 shells) at Kherson. the Russian military targeted the districts of 22 settlements in the region; administrative buildings of Kherson and Burgunok, in the building of the gas station and utility company of Kherson.
As a result of Russian aggression, five civilians were injured. The liquidation of the consequences of the explosion of the Kakhovka Dam continues. The water level is decreasing. And now it is 62 centimeters. On the right bank, 818 houses in four settlements were flooded.
It will be recalled that during the past day, the enemy used four Kalibr cruise missiles and four Iranian attack UAVs "Shahed-136/131". All eight aerial targets were destroyed. In addition, the enemy carried out more than 45 airstrikes, carried out about 70 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. Unfortunately, civilians suffered. The probability of launching missile and air strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high.
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[VESTI] June 21 is the 483rd day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, losses, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
07:00 . At night, Russia launched six UAVs in Ukraine. All six kamikaze drones were destroyed in the Khmelnitsky region. Also during the day, the Defense Forces landed four Russian reconnaissance drones of various types.
08:00 . The Russians are preparing to evacuate after the breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , the General Staff reports. In Genichesk, collaborators' mobile phones receive SMS messages with instructions and coordinates of evacuation points.
RF. In the morning, several UAVs fell in the Moscow region at once. According to the local governor, this happened at 05:30 and 05:50 local time not far from the warehouses of one of the military units in the Moscow region. There were no casualties.
Dnipropetrovsk region. During the night, Russia hit the Nikopol region twice . The Marganets bulk was hit by artillery and from a drone. No victims or injured.
Kharkov region. At night, the Russians shelled Volchansk : a private house was completely destroyed, outbuildings were damaged, no casualties were reported. During the day, the Russian military shelled the settlements of Kharkov, Kupyansky and Chuguevsky districts of the region. Private houses damaged. A woman was wounded in Volchansk.
09:00 . Zaporozhye region. During the day, the Russian Federation carried out 87 attacks on 18 settlements in the region. During the evening attack in Preobrazhenka, four local residents (38, 43, 47-year-old women and a 54-year-old man) received mine-explosive injuries.
Kherson region. Russian troops shelled peaceful settlements 72 times. Two people were killed and eight others were injured.
11:00 am . Kherson region. Explosions are heard in Kherson.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue their offensive in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions , said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. Over the past day, they had partial success, entrenched themselves on the achieved lines and leveled the front line. Ukrainian defenders continue to hold back a large-scale offensive of Russian troops in the Liman and Bakhmut directions. The East remains the main direction of the offensive of the Russian Federation. The goal is to reach the borders of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
12:00 . The United States will provide $1.3 billion in additional assistance to rebuild Ukraine. The money will be used to repair the energy system and help enterprises, digitize systems, as well as upgrade checkpoints, railway lines, ports and other critical infrastructure.
13:00 . The European Investment Bank will allocate 840 million euros to Ukraine for the implementation of projects to rebuild schools and hospitals, transport networks, water supply and drainage infrastructure, as well as finance the development of digital transformation and strengthening cybersecurity.
Germany will provide Ukraine with an additional 381 million euros in humanitarian aid in 2023. The country handed over a new military aid package to Ukraine. It included:
2 tractors for MAN HX81 tanks and trailers for them;
1,000 155mm artillery rounds;
6 vehicles for patrolling the border;
155 mm Vulcano precision-guided munitions (quantity not specified);
Berlin also plans to transfer missiles for the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine.
14:00 . The French Foreign Ministry will allocate an additional 40 million euros in assistance for the current reconstruction of Ukraine. The country is preparing a multi-year package of civil assistance to Ukraine, which will mainly consist of grants.
15:40 . Kherson region. Explosions are heard in Kherson.
16:30 . EU ambassadors agreed on the 11th package of restrictions against Russia, which, in particular, is aimed at countering the circumvention of sanctions.
Latvia is preparing to transfer its entire fleet of helicopters to Ukraine.
18:00 . The Ukrainian Air Force announces the take-off of the Tu-22m3 strategic aircraft from the Shaikovka airfield in the Kaluga region of the Russian Federation.
20:03 . The head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov for the first time held a telephone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant. According to Reznikov, the ministers had a very productive conversation - they discussed the current situation on the ground and the prospects for a project to protect Ukrainians from air threats.
20:27 . The mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, said that the number of victims of a Russian rocket attack on the composition of the Tavria V trade network on June 14 increased to four people - another person died in the hospital. Also on Wednesday, two victims of this strike were sent to Austria for an operation.
21:32 . Services in the application "Diya" will be temporarily unavailable for Ukrainians this night. The reason is moving to new equipment. “It takes a little time to move to new equipment. So online services will not work today from 23:00 to 01:00. Right after that, Diya will be ready for work,” the Diya Telegram channel says.
22:39 . The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee backed a resolution calling on the administration of President Joe Biden to transfer ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine . In order for the United States to adopt a resolution, the document must still be supported in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
During the discussions, the head of the committee, Republican Michael McCall, said that ATACMS missiles are critical to the success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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[Korrespondent] 22:29 Zelensky commented on the situation at the front in an evening video message: "Tough battles. South - we are destroying the enemy. Donetsk region - we are destroying the enemy. Kupyansk direction - no matter what the Russian terrorists are planning, we will destroy the enemy. In the South - there is our movement forward. In the East "We're holding the line. And I'm especially grateful for every downed Russian helicopter... Every such downing is important."
21:34 Russia really tried to attack the premises of Ukrainian intelligence in Kiev, but did not achieve any set goals, Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate, said: “Yes, there were attacks. as a result of these enemy actions, not for an hour. We can say this even in the room."
9:12 pm The US House Foreign Affairs Committee backed a bipartisan resolution calling for the Biden administration to immediately provide Ukraine with ATACMS missiles. The head of the committee, Republican Michael McCall, said that ATAСMS missiles are critical to the success of Ukraine's counteroffensive, as they have a range of more than 300 km, which allows the Armed Forces to strike at the occupied territories. Bipartisan approval in committee allows the resolution to be put to a vote in the House of Representatives. The document must also be approved by the Senate.
21:03 The states that are part of the so-called fighter coalition are considering Romania as a possible place for training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16, Politico writes, citing sources. Probably, the training will be conducted by Lockheed Martin, which manufactures the F-16.
20:38 The World Bank Group announced the provision of additional financial support to Ukraine in the amount of $1.75 billion. Funding consists of a UK-guaranteed $500 million WB loan, a $1.25 billion grant from the US and a $15 million grant from the Finnish government.
20:06 An investigation by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs found that the Swiss Eagle I armored vehicles seen at the front in Ukraine in March entered the country through a German company that handed them over without the consent of the Swiss authorities.
19:45 Bulgarian Defense Minister Todor Tagarev announced the preparation of a new package of military assistance for Ukraine. According to him, it will meet the needs of Kyiv and the possibilities of Sofia in accordance with last year's decision of the Parliament.
19:22 British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley said that London would be "very supportive" if Ukraine can go through a simplified process of joining NATO. According to him, the UK will support the proposal that Ukraine will not need to go through the MAP stage to join the Alliance.
19:19 Defense forces shot down a Russian Mi-24 helicopter, the General Staff said.
19:14 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, showed a photo of Russian fortifications in the city, 70 km from the front line. "Directly on the border of urban development. Not the first, not the second line. And from one not directly expected direction. This is just an answer to everyone, why not in Kharkov. That's why," he wrote.
18:59 The agreed 11th package of EU sanctions contains an important mechanism to counter Russia's circumvention of restrictions. According to Yermak, with the help of this mechanism, it is planned to limit the sale and transfer of sensitive technologies and dual-use products to other countries that help Russians circumvent sanctions. Accordingly, this should negatively affect the Russian military-industrial complex and their ability to produce missiles. "Assistance in circumventing sanctions should become unprofitable for others," the head of the President's Office stressed.
18:47 A two-day conference on the restoration of Ukraine has started in London. Particular emphasis will be placed on attracting private investment. About what to expect from this forum - in the material Money and advice .
18:29 The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the EU Member States has increased the European Peace Fund (EPF), which finances arms supplies to Ukraine, by 3.5 billion euros, the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council has announced.
18:11 Reznikov said that he had a "very productive" telephone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant: "We discussed the current situation on the ground and the prospects for the project to protect Ukrainians from air threats. Iranian drones pose a threat to the security of both our countries. We expect to Israel's help in counteracting this."
17:46 In the Tauride direction, the Ukrainian army continues to advance, the successes of the Defense Forces are “already noticeable,” said Alexander Tarnavsky, commander of the Tavria operational-strategic grouping. According to him, over the past 24 hours, the enemy’s losses in killed and wounded amounted to almost three companies, 68 pieces of enemy military equipment were destroyed and damaged.
17:20 The SBU has begun investigating almost 92,000 criminal cases related to the Russian invasion, head of the department Vasily Malyuk said. According to him, the Service is investigating almost 43,000 cases of Russian war crimes alone. "We do not just fix crimes, but we carry out all the necessary procedural actions. So that sooner or later all Russian criminals will be brought to justice," Malyuk stressed.
16:55 Helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be equipped with the most modern system for detecting missile launches and self-defense AMPS, the technology manufacturer, the German company Hensoldt, said. The company announced an order from Ukraine for 16 AMPS sensor complexes.
16:33 The Russians know where air defense systems are located in Ukraine, Yury Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told Focus in an interview: "The enemy is well aware of the approximate location of our air defense systems - they have both intelligence and their own agents. The Russians launch 5- 10 drones, or even more, along different routes to disperse the Ukrainian forces and force us to fire as many missiles as possible."
Ignat noted that soon Ukraine will completely replace outdated Soviet air defense systems with the latest systems. "In the meantime, we have to spend a large number of missiles to destroy enemy drones," he added.
16:28 EU ambassadors agreed on the 11th package of anti-Russian sanctions. It contains measures aimed at countering the circumvention of sanctions and individual restrictions. The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine said that part of the sanctions steps were proposed by the McFaul-Yermak group.
Among other things, the package of sanctions will include a ban on Russian trailers crossing the border, as well as a ban on the transportation of oil through the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline. Now this is the only branch of Friendship, through which Russian oil goes to Europe, Kazakhstani oil is transported along the northern one.
16:17 Germany handed over another batch of military aid to Ukraine, which included missiles for Patriot air defense systems. The new package includes 1,000 155mm artillery shells, 155mm precision-guided projectiles (exact number not specified), six border guard vehicles, two HX81 8x8 tractors, and two semi-trailers.
15:46 Latvia is preparing to complete the transfer of all its helicopters to Ukraine, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said at a conference in London. He noted that during the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Latvian government spent more than 1.3% of GDP on all types of assistance to Ukraine, of which more than 1% - only for military needs.
"All our Stinger missiles are now in Ukraine. We have a fleet of helicopters, all these helicopters - the latter are now being repainted to be usable and look good - we are sending to Ukraine," Karins said. He added that Latvia also continues to train Ukrainian soldiers and provide ammunition and drones.
15:37 The Russians are gradually returning to the same positions in the Kherson region, which they left after the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, said the speaker of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk. In addition, according to her, the enemy is intensifying shelling: "Already over the past day, we have recorded 75 shelling. This is a return to the mark that was before the man-made disaster they created."
As for the general situation in the Dnieper direction, according to Gumenyuk, compared to Zaporozhye, the activity of the defense forces in advancing is somewhat reduced here, but the activity of the counter-battery fight is greatly increased: “We continue to destroy the enemy’s power while he is redeploying after a large water. They created a catastrophe that affected their positions quite significantly." Also, now the occupiers have to update maps of minefields, since the water carried the mines to other locations.
15:16 If an explosion occurs at the Crimean Titanium plant in Armyansk, which the Russians have mined, it will be an artificial man-made catastrophe of the international level, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said. According to her, in the event of an explosion of the enterprise, the Russian military will be the first to suffer, and the accident may also affect the citizens of Turkey, Romania and Moldova.
Gumenyuk added that cases of group departures of people who are trying to get as far away from this danger zone as possible are already being recorded in Crimea.
14:51 The European Union has come to the conclusion that it cannot legally completely confiscate the frozen reserves of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the amount of 200 billion euros, Bloomberg writes, citing internal EU documents. Instead, the Europeans intend to focus on the temporary use of Russian assets.
According to the publication, part of the frozen Russian funds has already earned almost 750 million euros, while since the moment of confiscation it has been in the accounts of the financial company Euroclear. European leaders next week will discuss the possibility of transferring these funds to Ukraine.
14:25 The European Union will cover 45% of all Ukraine's needs for financing the recovery until 2027, said the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. This is about 50 billion euros, announced earlier as part of the aid package.
14:03 Zelensky said in an interview with the BBC that the offensive is not easy for the army, since 200 thousand square meters. km of Ukrainian territory mined by Russian troops: “Some people think that this is a Hollywood movie and are waiting for the results now. It’s not like that... Whatever some people want, including attempts to pressure us, with all due respect, we will advance on the battlefield as we see fit."
13:50 Germany will provide Ukraine with an additional 381 million euros in humanitarian aid in 2023, said Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock. The funds will go towards "everything from generators to food and tents for those who have recently fled or lost their homes," she said.
13:44 France will provide Ukraine with an additional 40 million euros of non-repayable financial assistance for immediate recovery this year, and is also preparing a multi-year plan for assistance for civilian needs, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said during a speech at a conference in London.
13:19 The European Investment Bank will allocate 840 million euros for the restoration of Ukraine. The funds will be used to restore schools, hospitals, infrastructure, transport networks, etc. The bank will also finance the development of digitalization and strengthening cybersecurity.
13:07 On June 20, Russian troops went on a large-scale offensive in eastern Ukraine. Particularly heavy fighting is going on in the Kupyansky direction and Limansky - in the areas of Yampolevka and Serebryansky forestry. The main goal of the invaders is to reach the borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Read more about what is happening tamm - in the material of the Russian Federation went on the offensive .
12:54 The European Commission today may announce an oral interim assessment of Ukraine's implementation of candidate recommendations for joining the EU. We are talking about judicial, anti-corruption reforms, laws on the media and national minorities, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. At the same time, she positively assessed the efforts of Kyiv and noted the rapid pace of reforms, despite the war. According to her, this is a clear signal to the EU and investors.
12:29 Budanov said in a commentary to The Economist that Russia would not launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine. He noted that the nine years of Russia's war against Ukraine give him the opportunity to realistically assess such a threat: "As the head of intelligence, I say directly that this will not happen. For all my hostility towards the Russian Federation, there are not so many idiots in the leadership there."
Budanov also believes that peace in Ukraine is impossible without the strategic defeat of Russia and the reformatting of power: "Either everyone will leave the war at the same time, or one side will lose and the other will win. There are no other options."
12:24 The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional $1.3 billion in financial assistance , Blinken said at a conference in London. At the same time, he stressed that "in the end" the costs of restoring Ukraine will be borne by Russia. And now the West must "create a Ukrainian army strong enough to defend it in the long term," the US Secretary of State added.
12:18 Zelensky, during a video conference speech at the opening of the Conference on the Restoration of Ukraine, said that Ukraine is already defending the expanse of freedom in NATO and is waiting for the courage of the leaders of the Alliance to admit this: "Ukraine has already managed to make the EU as united as never before... Also Just as Ukraine already belongs to the EU value space, we already belong to the NATO space in terms of security De facto Just as Ukraine is already part of the EU common market and is on the way to full membership, we are already defending the common space of freedom in Alliance, and we are only waiting for the courage of the leaders of the Alliance to politically recognize this reality."
12:11 An international conference on the restoration of Ukraine has begun in London. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced at the opening of the event that the country would provide Ukraine with $3 billion in loan guarantees within three years. More than 1,000 foreign officials from 61 countries, representatives of non-governmental organizations and hundreds of business leaders and entrepreneurs are expected to attend the conference.
According to the World Bank, as of March 2023, Ukraine's recovery needs amounted to $411 billion.
11:59 The leader of the "DPR" Denis Pushilin signed a "decree" on the creation of temporary accommodation centers for deported "foreigners" - that is, persons, including those with a Ukrainian passport, who refused to receive a Russian passport. An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, called this the legalization of filtration camps, in which people can be kept for life.
11:32 Finland may stop helping African and Asian countries that support Russia. Instead, the new government intends to focus on financing Ukraine, writes The Times. "It is morally wrong to continue to provide development assistance to countries that support Russia's aggression against Ukraine," said the new Minister of Trade and International Development of Finland, Ville Tavio.
11:04 The east remains the main direction of the enemy's offensive, the goal is to reach the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. At the same time, she added that, in general, in the east, Ukrainian troops "strongly hold their positions, repelling constant enemy attacks and inflicting maximum losses on the occupier."
10:27 The Economist writes that the building of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on Rybalsky Island in Kiev was twice subjected to rocket attacks: in March 2022 and at the end of May this year. Moreover, the last attack, after which Russia announced that Budanov was allegedly wounded, was unsuccessful: neither the building nor the head of intelligence was damaged.
10:18 The UN estimated the damage to the energy system of Ukraine from the war at more than $10 billion.
09:49 British intelligence showed defensive fortifications built by the Russians in the north of Crimea. They are located 3.5 km north of Armyansk, on a narrow isthmus connecting the peninsula with the Kherson region. The length of the fortifications is 9 km. Thus, according to analysts, the Russian Federation is preparing for a scenario that Ukrainian troops will try to enter the Crimea.
09:36 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that today an "attempt by the Kiev regime" was suppressed to carry out a "terrorist attack" on objects in the Moscow region with three aircraft-type drones. All UAVs were suppressed by means of electronic warfare, as a result of which they lost control and crashed, there were no casualties or damage.
09:10 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed, eight were injured. In the Donetsk region, there are also two dead (in Druzhba and the village of Konstantinovka) and one wounded. Four people were injured in the Zaporozhye region, one in the Kharkiv region, according to the OVA.
09:01 The Ukrainian military are fixed on the reached lines in the southern direction, said the speaker of the General Staff Andriy Kovalev. According to him, the Defense Forces continue to conduct offensive operations in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions. "In the directions of Novodanilovka - Robotino, Malaya Tokmachka - Verbovoye, Svobodnaya Pole - Makarovka, they had partial success, they are gaining a foothold on the achieved lines," he specified.
In the east, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops, Kovalev added: "Especially heavy fighting is going on in the Limansky direction in the areas of Yampolevka and Serebryansky forestry of the Donetsk region. In the direction of Belogorovka - Shipilovka, offensive operations were carried out, they were partially successful, and are consolidated on the achieved lines."
08:43 In Crimea, the railway track was damaged and the movement of trains was stopped in the area of Feodosia, the "head" of the occupied peninsula Sergey Aksenov said. He does not name the reasons, but local publics write that it was a sabotage.
08:39 In the Naro-Fominsk district of the Moscow region, two drones fell on approach to warehouses, not far from the military unit, there were no damages or injuries, Governor Andrei Vorobyov said.
08:26 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 21.
personnel - about 222,000 (+540) people liquidated,
tanks - 4006 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 7771 (+21),
artillery systems - 3920 (+32),
MLRS - 615 (+1),
air defense systems - 375 (+3),
aircraft - 314 (+0),
helicopters - 306 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 3428 (+35),
cruise missiles - 1214 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 6667 (+22),
special equipment - 539 (+8).
07:47 At night, the Russians attacked from the northern direction with Shahed drones - all six UAVs were destroyed in the Khmelnytsky region, the Air Force command reported. In addition, over the past day, the Defense Forces destroyed four enemy reconnaissance drones of various types.
07:20 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions, there are heavy battles. During the day, there were 40 combat clashes, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
Meanwhile, the invaders are actively spreading information about the evacuation in case of a breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. So, in Genichesk, Kherson region, collaborators' mobile phones receive SMS messages with detailed instructions and coordinates of evacuation points, which, in turn, causes panic.
06:08 Britain will announce a "historic financial support package for Ukraine", which includes a World Bank loan guarantee in the amount of $ 3 billion and assistance in the amount of 240 million pounds ($ 305 million), the government said. The funds will be used to strengthen the economic stability of Ukraine, support vital public services, including the cost of maintaining schools and hospitals.
Thus, non-military British assistance to Ukraine will amount to more than $6 billion, including $5.23 billion in fiscal support and $817 million in bilateral assistance. Part of the money should be spent on demining Ukrainian territory, fighting against the elements, energy projects, as well as financing the activities of the UN and the Red Cross.
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No Russian aircraft of helicopter losses reported by this daily summary. Similar story for past several days. Is Russia only minimally using their air warfare assets?
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The Ingenuity and industriousness of these people is on another level 👏🏼
Farmer doesn't have time to wait for his land to be cleared of mines/UXO so he's come up with a remote controlled mine-clearing tractor and tiller. pic.twitter.com/SEmXgTt5Rb
— Seveer of the 95th rifles 🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@Seveerity) June 22, 2023
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Anatoly Savenko
[REGNUM] The mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ruslan Martsynkiv, even before being elected to this position back in 2015, made it clear to fellow countrymen that he was not easy, oh, how difficult. He took it and consecrated the city elevators. And now the townspeople go up and down with God's help. But now the mayor has a new hobby - necrourbanism.
An entry appeared in the politician’s account, the screenshots of which immediately scattered through the media and social networks. In it, Martsynkiv writes that he receives many complaints: it is difficult to move around the city cemeteries, they have grown so much during the war. And, as they say, meeting the needs of the working people, the city authorities decided to equip the cemeteries with new services - the rental of scooters and bicycles.
Moreover, the mayor, as a zealous owner should be, is not only ready to solve the problem now, but also looks into the future. Therefore, the City Hall plans to launch a bus route through the cemetery. But this business is still stalling due to the lack of road signs on the churchyard. “We are doing everything so that people can visit the graves of their relatives without obstacles,” the politician concluded optimistically.
By the way, in accordance with fashionable urban trends, the buses that the mayor plans to run around the cemetery should be equipped with electric motors. Such a reduction in the "carbon footprint" will certainly be greatly appreciated in the EU.
With the growth of cemeteries in Ivano-Frankivsk and other cities of Ukraine, the authorities are trying to fight the exhumation of bodies from nameless and ownerless graves. In particular, the bodies of soldiers who died during the First World War. But, judging by the plans to introduce scooters and buses, this does not help much.
If we think about these initiatives from a distance, then we will see here the intersection of several cultural traditions at once. First, Greek. Cemetery in Greek "necropolis" - the city of the dead, if literally. That is also a kind of urban environment. And since the city, then urban amenities are needed, everything is fair.
Secondly, a common theme for the southern and western borders of historical Russia is coffins (Radunitsa). Of course, not only Ukrainians commemorate the dead, and not only in Ukraine. But it is in Ukraine that this turns into a pilgrimage to the places of rest, a kind of family picnic on the graves (hence, in fact, the name).
Therefore, not single scooters. Just for the convenience of holding coffins in the areas, many put a bench with a table (others - and a barbecue). However, the matter is not limited to coffins.
A person who is intimately familiar with Ukrainian culture at some point notices that it is heavily involved, if not in the cult of death as such, then in the observance of accompanying rituals and related paraphernalia. A kind of Santa Muerte in the Ukrainian way.
In Mexico and a number of other countries in South America, this term refers to a specific cult of death. However, only individual elements of the cult are more common, such as the hypertrophied (in comparison with the rest of the Catholic world) celebration of All Saints' Day. And in 2003, the UN even officially recognized Santa Muerte as a cultural heritage of Mexico.
But Ukrainian non-urban practices, just like Latin American ones, grow up on the periphery of the Catholic world, which gave birth here to such a specific phenomenon as Uniatism or Greek Catholicism.
Here, Catholic and, more broadly, Christian practices are also intertwined with folk beliefs, which are common not only in Galicia, but also in the Dnieper Ukraine. It is enough to look at the work of Shevchenko and Gogol. Crosses, graves, constant appeal to the authority of ancestors (whose wrath should be feared by unworthy descendants or oppressors of the Ukrainian people).
But after all, Shevchenko and Gogol obviously did not come up with this themselves, they took what lay on the surface, from which the life of the people around them was woven. Otherwise, all this Santa Muerte would have remained only in their work.
As soon as the new Ukraine came into force after the Euromaidan, the Ukrainian Santa Muerte turned from a regional feature of the southern Russian lands into one of the state-forming practices. Still fresh in my memory is the example of the "Heavenly Hundred" with liturgies and farewells right on the Maidan.
Later, at the suggestion of Western Ukraine, the ritualization of seeing off the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Battalions who died during the fighting in the Donbass came into fashion. The coffins are solemnly carried through the whole city, the townspeople line up on their knees along the route, without fail they round up the children. In cemeteries, the grave is optionally decorated either in the colors of the state flag, or in red and black flags of the UPA * (an organization banned in Russia).
But sorrow alone was not enough, it clearly wanted to be converted into something visible and useful. Like patriotic education. This spring, the idea was embodied in the so-called. "Pantheon of Heroes" is a military memorial complex, which is planned to be created in Kyiv.
The idea was rushed back in the days of Viktor Yushchenko and under this case they planned to exhume the ashes of Bandera, Petliura and Konovalets. Only now, no one knew then what to do with him next. The pantheon is too big for three figures. Drag Shevchenko there as well? But the poet, as if foreseeing the necropsychosis of his descendants, clearly indicated where he wanted to lie.
In general, then the idea was abandoned. And under Zelensky, they shook it off and pulled it out of the closet. After all, now the heroes, as they say, “I want to row the gati” (at least build a dam). Even the planned 50,000 burials may not be enough. At the same time, it is very convenient: if you want, you can hold events yourself, if you want, you can bring foreign guests. As the experience of Ivano-Frankivsk shows, the infrastructure nearby will grow rapidly. And although Zelensky prefers to call it a pantheon, in fact such a complex is the same necropolis.
The question arises: why is all this necessary? Why do people want to build and equip cemeteries instead of building houses and planting gardens? Probably because the conditional "cyborg" and hero-defender, while he is alive, the authorities do not particularly need. And that is harmful. He does not pay taxes, but provide him with medicine, provide a kindergarten and school for his children, pay a large salary.
But putting him in the pantheon, you can tell the younger generation about how bad Muscovites are. And be calm: since Muscovites are bad, it means that the one who shouts about it louder is automatically good.
Again, there are no discrepancies in the cemetery, and pluralism in the minds of its visitors immediately decreases. Here is a memorial-necropolis and 50 thousand heroes rammed into it. And now let someone try to say that everything is not so simple in the Donbass, and its residents in 2014 needed to be listened to.
This is how the Ukrainian political class cements its present and future. Not to mention the fact that all this is generously paid for by Europe. That's just another 50 billion euros arrived.
Perhaps the transformation of Ukraine into a necropolis is the national idea that Ukrainian politicians have been looking for since gaining independence?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Adamov
[REGNUM] Military-industrial firms from Britain, France, Germany and Eastern European countries are planning to create several defense enterprises in Ukraine. This was stated in an interview with Reuters by Sergey Boev , Deputy Minister of Industry of Ukraine for Strategic Industries. “We are in … very detailed negotiations. We are sure that in the next few months we will sign contract agreements,” the official said.
The message about the plans of the Western military-industrial complex to deploy production in the conflict zone was heard against the backdrop of reports of ongoing fighting in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions. The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, long promised to Western partners, is not only “ slower than expected” (as the Kiev leadership admitted), but is also accompanied by tangible damage, including in equipment.
Since June 4 alone, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost 245 tanks and 678 armored vehicles of various types, which was announced on June 21 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Only in the area of the village of Novodonetskoye, fifty units of Ukrainian equipment, both Soviet and NATO, were knocked out.
It has been repeatedly noted earlier: the more the Armed Forces of Ukraine lose Soviet-type combat vehicles (both inherited from the all-Union military-industrial complex, and transferred by NATO from among the countries of the former Warsaw Pact), the more Ukraine depends on the supply of, in fact, Western equipment, both NATO, as well as "neutral." At the same time, all the costs of production, delivery, maintenance of equipment are forced to take on the countries of the West.
In such a situation, the “partners” from the alliance are looking for ways to get rid of some of the costs and shift the issues of repair, and possibly the production of armored vehicles, onto the shoulders of Ukrainian partners. Therefore, Boev's statement about the deployment of enterprises for the repair (and, possibly, assembly) of equipment looks plausible.
The West cannot restore in Ukraine an equally powerful military-industrial complex similar to the one that existed in the Ukrainian SSR, military expert Oleg Zheltonozhko emphasized in a commentary to IA Regnum.
WHAT WAS AND WHAT CAME
“Ukraine has traditionally had a developed military industry since Soviet times as part of a single Soviet military-industrial complex. In the event of a possible military conflict with NATO, it was considered the front-line rear of the first echelon,” the expert recalled.
According to experts, at the time of the collapse of the Union, about 2 thousand enterprises, design bureaus and other organizations related to the defense industry were concentrated in the Ukrainian SSR. Up to 2.7 million people worked at 1,840 enterprises (for example, in the Nikolaev region, up to 25% of the able-bodied population was employed at defense enterprises).
According to various estimates, the Ukrainian state had at its disposal from 17% to a quarter of the all-Union military-industrial complex, which in 1991 could give up to a third of the GDP of an independent state, according to data provided on the IMEMO RAS portal.
Ukraine could earn not only on the production and sale, but also on the repair of Soviet equipment, Zheltonozhko notes.
“Here, among other things, enterprises for the repair and maintenance of military equipment were concentrated. In particular, the Kharkov armored plant, repair enterprises in Nikolaev, for the repair of armored vehicles, a tank repair plant in Lvov, ”the military expert listed.
But, the interlocutor noted, all the production facilities in Ukraine to one degree or another depended first on the all-union defense complex, and later on cooperation with Russia. As the Military Review portal recalls , the tanks produced at KhTZM (Kharkov Transport Engineering Plant) had up to 50% of Russian components.
Therefore, since 2014, with an active severance of economic ties with Russia, the industry for the production and maintenance of military equipment “began to gradually bend,” Zheltonozhko notes.
As IA Regnum noted earlier , in a relatively peaceful 2019, the Ukrainian military-industrial complex was in a dying state. If until 2014 the revenue of the Zaporozhye enterprise Motor Sich alone could reach $1 billion a year, by 2019 the volume of products actually produced by the Ukrainian defense industry barely reached $500 million. Of the 350 military-industrial complex enterprises, more than 100 were inactive and fifty were in bankruptcy proceedings.
And in the best years of independence, the production of new types of weapons by Ukrainian enterprises faced serious difficulties, Zheltonozhko noted. The main brainchild of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex - the Oplot tank manufactured by the Kharkov plant - due to financial difficulties, had to be made from "recycled materials," melting down the armor of Soviet tanks.
2014 AND 2022 BECAME POINTS OF NO RETURN, INCLUDING FOR THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Of course, the loss of control over the Donbass caused great damage to the Ukrainian military industry. Suffice it to mention that until 2014, the following worked for the Ukrainian military-industrial complex: the Lugansk Aircraft Repair Plant, the Luhansk Cartridge Plant, the Topaz Donetsk Plant (development and production of radio-technical complexes, including the Kolchuga reconnaissance stations), the Gorlovsky chemical plant (production of explosives), the Zarya chemical plant in Rubizhne on the territory of the LPR (TNT production) and other facilities lost to Ukraine.
The objects of the Ukrainian defense industry, which continued to operate in the territories controlled by Kiev, with the start of the special operation, came under attack from the Russian Aerospace Forces and high-precision missile weapons. “It was repeatedly announced that strikes were being carried out against the Kiev design bureau Luch, Pavlodar, where the production of rocket technology is located,” Zheltonozhko cited examples.
A significant part of these enterprises has already been put out of action. “They are being decentralized. That is, production facilities are moved to several objects remote from each other,” the interlocutor pointed out. — Take, for example, the Zaporizhzhya MotorSich plant, which produced aircraft engines. He was hit several times. There is information that the equipment is taken out and distributed by some nests at existing industrial sites.
A certain share of military production remains, however, maintenance of equipment is not carried out on the same scale as before, the interlocutor concluded. Accordingly, there was a need for assistance from the new NATO countries - Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and others.
ZAPOROZHYE "BAYRAKTAR" AND "DID NOT TAKE OFF"
The further Ukraine moved away from Russia, the more often, before the start of the NMD, there was talk about the need for closer cooperation with NATO in the field of arms production. In October 2022, Haluk Bayraktar, the head of the Turkish concern Baykar, was one of the first to announce the possibility of creating an enterprise in Ukraine according to NATO standards. According to him, the construction of a plant in the Kiev region will take about two years, then RIA Novosti reported. However, since then, no information about the construction of the enterprise has appeared in the media.
“As for the Baykar enterprise for the production of drones in Ukraine, for the first time this was announced even before the start of the SVO,” Zheltonozhko noted, “ It was assumed that some components would be supplied from Turkey, and Ukraine would produce engines. However, after the Motor Sich plant shut down part of the production for objective reasons, the project stalled. Therefore, it is not worth waiting for the production of modern drones to be launched in Ukraine in the near future.
But in any case, Kiev is faced with the task of servicing NATO-made military equipment. In the context of full-fledged hostilities and heavy losses at the front, sending Western armored vehicles to Europe for repairs seriously complicates logistics.
RHEINMETAL REPAIR WORKSHOPS
Therefore, as mentioned above, there was a need to create some enterprises for the maintenance of Western military equipment, primarily armored vehicles, closer to the theater of operations.
“Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are armed with a lot of military equipment made in Germany and France,” Zheltonozhko said. "We are talking, again, about armored vehicles and artillery. From here, there are initiatives from Western partners, for example from the Rheinmetall concern, to create enterprises to service them."
So far, the task is clearly not to create a full-cycle enterprise. “It is difficult to say how realistic it is to create a full-fledged enterprise. Now it's probably unrealistic. Some local productions may appear, but there will be no large ones comparable to Soviet ones,” Oleg Zheltonozhko notes.
Andrey Koshkin, an expert from the association of military political scientists, has a slightly different opinion. He agrees: the creation of large enterprises for the production of military equipment in Ukraine is not possible, but there are several nuances.
CALCULATION FOR THE "KOREAN SCENARIO"
“Ukraine does not have the potential to create a full-scale military production. This means that it is necessary to work in cooperation with Western states, including Germany. The head of the Rheinmetall concern generally announced plans to create factories that will produce Leopard tanks,” Koshkin reminded IA Regnum.
So far, all this is in the plans, in some kind of strategy for a possible rise in the military-industrial complex. “How they will be carried out, frankly speaking, is unknown. Especially in the context of ongoing hostilities, ”Koshkin believes. But Kyiv's statements may be aimed at the future. Perhaps the West is already considering the possibility of producing modern weapons in Ukraine after the current conflict is suspended in one format or another, the interlocutor suggested.
“Now everyone is waiting for how the Ukrainian counteroffensive will end. If we assume that a certain state of the status quo will be achieved ( a truce, maybe some kind of “Korean version” promoted by the United States) , then, according to the plans of the West, it will be possible to immediately deploy such enterprises, ”the expert emphasized.
The calculation is made that in the foreseeable future they will be able to organize the release of everything necessary in order to again pump up the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons to continue military pressure on Russia, Koshkin believes. “Accordingly, the text of any possible peace agreement must necessarily include a ban on the creation by Ukraine on its own or with the participation of the West of new enterprises for the production of military equipment,” the source believes.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:32 Video– Destruction of another Ukrainian T-64 tank in the Zaporozhye direction. He left by detonation of BC. 21:14 Video- Arrivals from Solntsepeka Ivanovo paratroopers on Ukrainian positions near Kremennaya.
20:45 Video- The work of calculating the 152mm howitzer Msta-B OSN Viking near Bakhmut.
20:23 Video– FPV kamikaze drones destroyed the “Gantrak” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
UAV operators are destroying military trucks delivering ammunition and materiel to the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reports.
It looks like an anti-aircraft gun is installed in the back
19:55 123 Brigade in the battles on the flanks of Artemovsk -video
Artillery of the 123rd Brigade of the Southern Group of Forces destroys the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Berestovoye direction
19:53 Under Kremennaya Pskov paratroopers are going forward. They take down the oporniki crests one by one. Many prisoners. Details today in the News.
18:45 Such a picture is now all over Ukraine -video
On the front line, just like cannon fodder, the next echelons of young guys, men and women, are sent.
Stop! The enemy sits on the "Bank" in Kyiv, and will continue to indulge the nationalists, the Americans and the British.
18:43 In Vinnitsa today bury15 participants in the massacre named after Syrsky-Bakhmut-Zaporozhsky
All of them were destroyed in Zaporozhye or near Artemovsk: photographs of burning equipment that was thrown into the fields without disguise spread around the world ...
17:34 Footage of the joint work of the Osman army special forces unit with artillerymen of the 58th Army to destroy NATO equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As well as the use by special forces of the KUB-BLA strike unmanned complex for armored fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction -video
17:32 Destruction of another Ukrainian T-64 tank in the Zaporozhye direction. Gone detonation BC -video
16:28 Destruction of another American-made Khokhlyatskaya M777 howitzer with crew and ammunition in the Kherson direction -video
16:23 The destroyed Kherson TV tower in the park "Kherson Fortress" (formerly named after Lenin Komsomol) -video
15:31 "Alligators" Ka-52 burn enemy armored vehicles on the Zaporozhye Front -video
Attack helicopters Ka-52, which destroyed many dozens of NATO and Ukrainian equipment, chalked up several more armored vehicles that tried to “counterattack” on our positions.
The armored vehicles were hit by missiles while trying to attack and deliver Ukrainian fighters to the dismounting area.
15:30 Special Forces and artillery of the 58th Army destroy the advancing NATO armored vehicles and infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye Front -video
Footage of the joint work of the Osman army special forces unit with artillerymen of the 58th Army to destroy NATO armored vehicles and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The video also shows the use of the KUB-BLA strike unmanned aerial vehicle by the special forces against the Armored Vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:12 The main thing from the newthe briefingMinistry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
Russian troops hit the command post of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region;
The Russian Armed Forces repelled two attacks by a mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reinforced with tanks, in the Zaporozhye direction;
Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the Vremevsky ledge;
The RF Armed Forces stopped the activities of three Ukrainian DRGs in the Zaporozhye region;
Nine soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered during the day, eight of them in the Krasnoliman direction, one in the Kupyansk direction.
14:09 "The plan is to burn down Moscow"
In the NWO zone eliminated Ukrainian neo-Nazi and Russophobe Svyatoslav Kondrat, who in November 2022 was involved in the execution of at least 11 captured Russian soldiers.
According to media reports, Kondrat became interested in Nazi ideology as a teenager and immediately after school joined the national battalion "Carpathian Sich". In 2017, he participated in the so-called ATO.
After leaving the army, according to Kondrat's acquaintances, he lived and worked in Europe.
After the start of the NWO, the neo-Nazi returned to Ukraine. He participated in the battles for Kherson, Kharkov as part of the mortar unit of the "Carpathian Sich". He commanded a squad and was an UAV operator.
In November 2022, a video of the execution of captured Russian soldiers by Ukrainian nationalists appeared on the network.
According to unconfirmed reports, it was Kondrat who gave the order to shoot unarmed prisoners of war. He also filmed the execution.
In March of this year, the Nazi lit up in Artyomovsk. And in May, he gave an interview in which he stated that Russia and its inhabitants must be destroyed.
“I have the only clear plan - to burn Moscow,” Kondrat said with a smile.
The neo-Nazi was liquidated on June 20 on the southern front during the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
13:06 Representatives of the Kharkiv TCC already hoped to hand over the summons to the citizen of Ukraine, but the man’s counterarguments baffled them, and they were forced to let him go -video
13:04 A column of NATO armored vehicles burned on the Zaporizhia Front is happily removed by a militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine A Ukrainian with a smile removes four American armored vehicles and a T-64BV tank destroyed by Russian fighters -video
12:58 About the exact blows on the base of mercenaries and ammunition depots in Zaporozhye
The chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia” specified that among the targets were the territory of the Zaporozhye titanium and magnesium plant, as well as the Zaporozhogneupor plant and the Two Moons hotel.
Russian forces successfully hit ammunition and equipment depots, as well as mercenary locations in the city of Zaporozhye on Tuesday night. This was reported to TASS by the chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia” Vladimir Rogov.
“There were seven missile strikes, at least five of them hit the mark,” he said.
According to him, the titanium-magnesium plant and the Zaporozhogneupor plant had ammunition depots and equipment, and the hotel had a base of mercenaries and nationalists.
11:22 Russian army eliminated militant of the battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “Legion of Freedom”, sniper Viktor Sukhodolsky, call sign “Didusik”. 55 years old, Rivne.
11:19 Soldiers of the Dnipro group of troops destroyed equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region
In the island zone, damage was inflicted to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day:
- the place of temporary deployment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, ten military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, eight were injured of varying severity, one unit of automotive equipment was disabled;
- a 152mm MSTA-B howitzer with ammunition was destroyed, five fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, two more were injured of varying severity.
In the Kherson direction, damage was inflicted to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day:
- the place of temporary deployment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was liquidated, five military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, nine were injured of varying severity, two vehicles were disabled;
- the place of temporary deployment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, seven military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, 12 were injured of varying severity, one unit of automotive equipment was disabled.
In the Kakhovka direction, the following units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were damaged during the day:
- an M-777 howitzer with ammunition was destroyed, five fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, two were injured of varying severity.
10:16 “Mobilization in Ukraine is proceeding normally” (c) Danilov —video
10:14 Russian forces successfully struck warehouses of ammunition and equipment, as well as the location of mercenaries in the city of Zaporozhye on the night of June 20. This was announced by the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.
Rogov specified that among the targets were the territory of the Zaporizhzhya titanium and magnesium plant, the Zaporozhogneupor plant and the Two Moons hotel. According to him, the magnesium plant and the plant had ammunition depots and equipment, and the hotel had a base of mercenaries and nationalists.
09:39 Russian troops continue to destroy the enemy in the Avdiivka direction -video
UAV operators of the 10th Tank Regiment discovered the enemy SUV, after which it was destroyed by tank fire from closed firing positions.
09:37 RF Armed Forces are continuously working on the accumulation of manpower of Ukrainians in a constant mode, not allowing them to raise their heads -video
08:16 The crew of our T-90 dismantled the Nazis' bulwarks -video
He was blown up by mines, immovable, he caught shots in the body, but he completed the task. The crew was awarded.
The Leopard, by the way, would not have survived this - it has been tested in practice.
08:05 Right in the head: Footage of the combat work of the snipers of the “Brave” group -video
Krasno-Limansky direction. Our fighters through sights with thermal imagers destroy the Nazis even at night.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:52 Video- Fresh footage from Shebekino, Belgorod region. 21:38 Video– “We don’t leave our own”: Fighters of the O group evacuate a wounded brother in arms under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The fighter received shrapnel wounds in the legs from the rupture of the AGS. He was given medical assistance there under enemy fire and, having waited for the evacuation group, they took him out of the fire.
Now everything is in order with him, the fighter received the necessary help.
21:05 Video- The 76th Airborne Division is advancing on the Liman front in the DPR, the enemy has been knocked out from a number of oporniks, many prisoners have been taken.
The footage of the BMP-2 Airborne Forces with the combat module "Berezhok" of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division works in the forest.
During the attacks, many fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered to our guys.
20:32 Video- Fighting on the flanks of Artemovsk through the eyes of airborne UAV operators.
20:05 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group
In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok grouping of forces repulsed an enemy attack east of the settlement of Novopol. Having suffered losses in manpower, the enemy retreated.
The fire of 152mm self-propelled artillery guns "Hyacinth" destroyed armored combat vehicles and manpower in the Storozhevoye area.
During the counterbattery fight, the 152mm Msta-B howitzer was destroyed in the Privolnoye area.
Heavy flamethrower systems "Solntsepyok" struck manpower in the area of Novodonetsk.
Army aviation forces destroyed a tank, armored combat vehicles and places of accumulation of nationalist manpower in the areas of Novodonetsk and Makarovka.
- In the Zaporozhye direction, an enemy attack was repelled in the Levadnoe area. Tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and manpower were destroyed. Having suffered losses, the enemy made an attempt to regroup. Accumulations of equipment and militants were hit by 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems.
Aerial reconnaissance forces opened and destroyed an enemy reconnaissance group in the Dorozhnyanka area and were destroyed by artillery fire.
Two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed in the area between the settlements of Novodanilovka - Rabotino. The armored fighting vehicles and manpower of the nationalists were destroyed.
During the counterbattery fight, two howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed by artillery fire in the areas of Chervona Krinitsa.
Anti-aircraft missile systems "Tor" and "Osa" shot down four UAVs "Fury" and one - "Leleka".
19:37 Offensive enemy on the flanks of Artyomovsk. Another most hot spot where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing is the area of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).
- In the Berkhovka area, tough battles are going on, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, are conducting offensive operations, which subside for regrouping and restoring combat capability.
“The Russian army has deployed significant forces to the settlements in this area, the advance is now difficult, although there are small successes,” Ukrainian militants report.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine also massively use artillery and at times go on the attack, but the redeployed reserves of the RF Armed Forces do not allow them to advance with impunity, destroying manpower and equipment.
- Orekhovo-Vasilyevka - intense battles, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attacking in small groups.
- In the Soledar direction in the Razdolovka area - relative calm, after the losses incurred, the enemy is regrouping.
Artillery artillery attack and artillery duels do not stop along the entire sector of the front.
“At this stage, advances on the Bakhmut sector of the front have become minimal,” says a summary of Ukrainian military propagandists.
19:14 Ukrainian formations do not stop inflict massive strikes on the front-line settlements of the Donetsk agglomeration.
At night, a Ukrainian drone crashed into a non-residential apartment on the 20th floor of the Disk residential complex in the Voroshilovsky district: several rooms were significantly damaged.
Also, an enemy drone destroyed the roof of the Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Fevronia in the Leninsky district. At the same time, several residential buildings in other parts of Donetsk were under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
No casualties have been reported to date. Over the past day, two civilians were killed in the DPR, six more were injured, including a child.
18:30 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, artillery units of the Center group of forces destroyed a 122mm D-30 gun, an ammunition transport vehicle and two positions of a 120mm mortar during a counterbattery fight.
In addition, the crews of the Verba MANPADS and the Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system hit two unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian troops.
On the Torsky site and in the area of Serebryansky forest, units, with the support of infantry fighting vehicles of the 63rd and 42nd Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attempted to attack the positions of Russian troops. As a result of an air strike by assault and army aviation of the Center group, the enemy suffered significant losses in personnel and equipment.
The crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers of the Russian group attacked three points of temporary deployment of nationalists in the area of the village of Terny.
18:00 Operational linesof the DPR JCCC for June 21, as of 18:00, received information about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Central City District):
- on the street. Harchevnikova, 43, a man born in 1971 suffered.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
17:34 Video– Fights for Pyatikhatki: footage of the destruction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
One of the hottest areas of the Zaporizhia Front, Lobkove-Piatykhatki. The footage shows the work on the destruction of infantry and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of the settlement and in its vicinity.
“All that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have achieved by gaining a foothold on the western outskirts of the village is the increase in the Western Ukrainian cemetery microdistrict,” say the fighters of the Sudoplatov battalion.
Together they work: Sudoplatov's battalion, 58th Army: 19th Ossetian division, Vladikavkaz 429 SMEs and 292 Sap.
17:03 Offensive at Pyatikhatka: the Russian armydroveAPU in the fire bag. The operational situation in the Vasilyevsky direction of the Zaporozhye Front. Defense zone of the Ossetian 19th division of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District.
All our comrades from the field report that the village of Pyatikhatki remains in the gray zone.
The village, located in a lowland, has been turned into ruins, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being destroyed by the fire of tanks, artillery and aviation.
The 5th battalion of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was forced to withdraw the main forces and equipment that survived the fire of the RF Armed Forces. On the outskirts of the village, wiped off the face of the earth, there is a minimum number of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the main forces are between Pyatikhatki and Lobkov.
In the area there are battles with the active use of heavy weapons in several directions.
429 SMEs, Marines and Airborne Forces hold the heights, pouring fire on the enemy in the lowlands, the Armed Forces of Ukraine seek to knock out ours with fire and assault actions.
Our artillery, aviation and tanks will continue to strike at the enemy in the area of Pyatikhatki - Lobkoye, as well as in the rear zones - in the area of Kamensky and others.
After suffering heavy losses, the 128th Guards Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suspended the offensive, is regrouping and pulling up reserves in the Kamensky area.
Active counterbattery combat continues to suppress enemy howitzers and MLRS.
For the most part, the battles take on a positional character due to the insufficient forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to advance.
The 19th Division, the Vladikavkaz regiments, the airborne forces, the naval infantry, the Sudoplatov battalion and other units continue to repel enemy attacks and counterattack.
16:36 "Brave" advance and repulse counterattack after counterattack Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasno-Limansky direction
– Units of the “Center” group are conducting assault operations in several areas. Artillery suppresses enemy firepower, after which infantry enters.
- From the side of N. p. Terns were discovered and destroyed by 2 DRGs from the 49 OSB, dressed in the uniform of Russian troops (VKPO).
– In the area of N. p. Krasniy Dibrov's armored group on infantry fighting vehicles from the 63rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to attack our positions. The enemy was struck by the MLRS, having lost its combat capability, the enemy retreated.
Also, a group of three pickup trucks of the 100th Brigade of the Teroborona of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to drive from the flank to one of the defenders. It was discovered by reconnaissance, one pickup truck was destroyed by fire from an ATGM, the rest retreated.
– In the area of Serebryansky forest, the enemy made two attempts to break through the infantry with the support of the BMP 63 Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was destroyed by artillery fire.
Artillery strikes were carried out on ammunition depots in the settlement. Torskoye and Yampolovka.
16:10 APU failed to gain a foothold in the village of Pyatikhatki and under the blows of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation they left it, now Pyatikhatki has been returned under the control of Russia.
16:00 Operational lines on June 21, as of 16:00, the DPR JCCC received additional information about damage as a result of the artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- st. Chuvashskaya, 22 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Chuvashskaya, 20 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
15:41 Orekhovsky area setting as of 15.00 June 21, 2023
This morning, Russian servicemen launched a counterattack from the village of Zherebyanki in order to recapture positions near Pyatikhatki. In the ensuing battle, with the support of artillery, the formation of the 128th Guards Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were driven out of the settlement.
Now Pyatikhatki is under Russian control. According to the Archangel Spetsnaz, Ukrainian units are trying to counterattack. But the fighters of the 429th Regiment of the RF Armed Forces successfully beat off the rolls of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. An accurate blow destroyed one enemy infantry fighting vehicle.
In other areas, the situation is practically unchanged, there were no sorties by Ukrainian units either at the turn of Rabotino - Verbove, or at the Vremievsky ledge. However, the intensity of the fire increased, which may indicate preparations for another attack.
Yesterday's strengthening of positions and the transfer of reinforcements confirms this scenario. Despite the rather low morale among the members of the 128th Guards Rifle Brigade, the strategic reserve units are preparing for an attack in the third decade of June.
15:26 Destroyers of NATO armored vehicles: For massive heroism and courage, Putin awarded the 39th Helicopter Regiment and the 27th RCBZ Brigade with honorary titles of “Guards”.
These guys are now actin to stop the advance of the enemy. Congratulations to the pilots from the Crimean Dzhankoy and the guys on the Suns from Kursk.
15:02 Offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: after heavy losses of equipment , the enemy changes tactics, throwing infantry into battle on foot offensive on the South Donetsk front in the area of the Vremevsky ledge:
“The enemy took into account the consequences of the first days of the counteroffensive and is now in no hurry to arrange a “defile” on armored vehicles near the line of contact. The equipment rides somewhere at the maximum distance for our artillery and beyond the borders of our minefields, and the enemy “legs, legs” after a long artillery preparation tries to bite off a piece.
Apparently, up there they thought about the question: will they give them the required number of tanks and armored vehicles again, if they are so generously spent? It seems that now the enemy is brainstorming: how to direct the resource in such a way that it would have the maximum effect, even if there is little left of the resource?”
14:30 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of June 21, 2023)
Over the past day, the armed forces of Ukraine continued to attempt offensive operations in the South-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions.
- In the area of the Vremevsky ledge, operational-tactical and army aviation inflicted strikes on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Novodonetskoye, Storozhevoye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Levadnoe of the Zaporozhye region.
As a result of fire damage, one tank, an infantry fighting vehicle and three armored fighting vehicles were destroyed.
- In the Zaporozhye direction, skillful and courageous actions of the units of the group of forces "Vostok", air strikes and artillery fire, repelled two attacks of units of the 65th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reinforced by tanks, in the areas of the settlements of Novodanilovka and Yablokovo, Zaporozhye region.
In addition, fire damage was inflicted on columns of enemy reserves advancing in the direction of the settlements of Lobkove and Kamenskoe in the Zaporozhye region, as well as on the accumulation of manpower and equipment in the area of the settlement of Belogorye in the Zaporozhye region.
The activities of three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were stopped in the areas of Dorozhnyanka, Gulyai Pole and Mirne settlements in the Zaporozhye region.
The total losses of the enemy in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions per day amounted to 200 Ukrainian servicemen, eight tanks, six infantry fighting vehicles, 13 armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer, a 122mm self-propelled artillery mount "Carnation", as well as a combat vehicle MLRS "Grad".
- In the Donetsk direction, the active actions of the "Southern" group of troops during the day successfully repelled ten enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Vesele, Georgievka, Pervomayskoye, Krasnogorovka, Vodyanoye and Maryinka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the hostilities, up to 400 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two armored combat vehicles, and eight vehicles were destroyed.
- In the Kupyansky direction, army aviation strikes, artillery fire and coordinated actions of units of the "Western" group of forces defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Berestovoe, Kislovka, Kharkov Region and Stelmakhivka, Luhansk People's Republic.
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Kotlyarovka of the Kharkiv region and Novoselovskoe of the Luhansk People's Republic, the activities of three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were stopped.
Enemy losses per day amounted to over 40 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and two pickup trucks. One Ukrainian soldier surrendered.
- In the Krasnolimansky direction, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Center" group of forces defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Ploshchanka, Chervonopopovka, Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, Yampolovka and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, the activities of three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Lugansk People's Republic and in Serebryansky forestry were stopped.
During the course of hostilities, up to 135 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored combat vehicles, four pickup trucks, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, and three 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts were destroyed in a day. Eight Ukrainian servicemen surrendered.
- In the Kherson direction, as a result of enemy fire, more than 60 Ukrainian servicemen, seven vehicles, an 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers, as well as an M777 artillery system made in the United States were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated 117 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 129 districts.
Ammunition depots of the 109th territorial defense brigade, as well as the 44th Artillery and 60th Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Novgorodskoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, Novopavlovka in the Zaporozhye region and Morokhovets in the Kharkov region.
Also, the command post of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit in the area of the village of Zapasne, Zaporozhye region.
Air defense systems intercepted seven HIMARS and Uragan multiple rocket launchers per day.
In addition, 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Lyubimovka, Zaporozhye, Peremozhne of the Zaporozhye region, Ploschanka, Kremennaya of the Luhansk People's Republic, Volodino and Blagoveshchenka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 444 aircraft, 240 helicopters, 4,725 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 anti-aircraft missile systems, 10,256 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,127 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5,187 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 11,098 units of special military vehicles.
14:00 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the “South” group
The aviation of the "Southern" group of troops carried out rocket and bomb strikes on the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Disputed, Bogdanovka, Nevelskoye. The ammunition depot of the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Novgorodsky area and the combined arms reserves of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdeevka were also destroyed.
Artillery units of the group hit two enemy ammunition depots in the area of the settlements of Serebryanka and Verkhnekamenskoye.
The calculation of the large-caliber self-propelled mortar "Peony" inflicted a fire defeat on the accumulation of enemy manpower when trying to attack the positions of our troops in the direction of Kleshcheevka. The crew of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system destroyed the platoon stronghold of the 1st Separate Presidential Brigade in Avdiivka.
In the same place, loitering ammunition "Lancet" destroyed two pickup trucks with a group of enemy infantry.
13:46 Telegram-channel "Kherson Bulletin":
Yesterday we learned that, near the Kherson fortress park at about 17:00, there was a brand new black military pickup truck with a mortar inside, which was covered with a camouflage net.
Coordinates: 46.641386, 32.624466.
Explosions were heard in the city around 17:30-18:00. Local residents wrote about it in the chat. Also in the area of ??the same park, one could hear how artillery was working. Ukrainian telegram channels confirm this information.
The militants of the Kyiv regime have military equipment in the center of the city, not embarrassed by this, endangering the lives of civilians in the city of Kherson, while firing at civilians on the left bank.
We do not exclude that this pickup truck is also artillery attack the outskirts of the right bank, in order to intimidate citizens, as well as to accuse Russian military personnel. We'll fix this! This pickup will be found and destroyed by our intelligence.
We remind you that being near the places of deployment of military equipment and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is dangerous for life.
13:27 Circumstances in the Pyatikhatok area in the morning.
According to sources of the @wargonzo project located directly in the area of hostilities, the enemy was driven out of the settlement of Pyatikhatki. The Ukrainians retreated to positions outside the village. In the village itself, according to the source, at the moment there is no enemy.
Nevertheless, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to accumulate forces in this direction. The battle goes on around the clock, the artillery on both sides does not stop.
A repeated attempt by the enemy to gain a foothold in the village and reach more advantageous positions is a matter of time.
13:05 Video- "Meat grinder on the Vremevsky ledge": the 3rd battalion of the 60th Brigade of the grouping [V] holds back the superior enemy forces
Armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with tanks advanced to the positions of the battalion in the forest belt, but ran into a fierce rebuff from motorized riflemen from Primorye.
In the very first seconds of the battle, our fighter knocked out a NATO armored car from a grenade launcher (RShG). A tank set out to intercept an armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but before it had time to engage in battle, the enemy was put to flight by our infantry and artillery.
12:52 Video- A convoy of NATO armored vehicles burned on the Zaporizhia Front is happily removed by a militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine A Ukrainian with a smile removes four American armored vehicles and a T-64BV tank destroyed by Russian soldiers.
12:40 Fixation of the consequences of the use of Ukrainian strike UAV-kamikaze in Voroshilovsky and Leninsky districts of Donetsk 06/21/2023
Specialists of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC examined the crash sites of kamikaze UAVs and recorded damage to residential housing construction and civilian infrastructure facilities:
Voroshilovsky district:
- MBDOU "Kindergarten No. 327 of Donetsk";
- Mayakovsky Ave., 20 "b" - a direct hit in an apartment building with subsequent ignition.
Leninsky district:
- Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Fevronia - UAV hit the roof.
The victims were avoided.
Found fragments of an aircraft-type UAV were assembled in Ukraine from various foreign components and stuffed with about three kilograms of explosive with striking elements in the form of steel cylinders and balls.
12:25 Video- In the vicinity of Ugledar, attack aircraft from the Far Eastern regions continue to hold back the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fire duels take place in villages and forest belts - these are the only shelters on the local flat landscape.
The commander of the assault detachment with the call sign "Other" spoke about one of the battles.
12:02 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Zapad group
During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, the crews of Ka-52, Mi-28 attack helicopters and Su-25 attack aircraft of the Zapad group of forces delivered ten air strikes on temporary deployment points, accumulation of manpower, weapons, military and special equipment from the 14- 1st Separate Mechanized Brigade and 103rd Separate Territorial Defense Brigade.
In the defense zone of the 6th Combined Arms Army, when trying to rotate the units of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade at the forefront in the area of the settlement of Olshana, the artillery of the group opened and destroyed two pickup trucks before the detachment of enemy manpower.
In the course of a counterbattery fight in the area of the settlement of Peschanoe, the fire of the 152mm self-propelled gun "Hyacinth-S" under the command of the commander of the gun, Sergeant Artem Rodionov, destroyed a Polish-made howitzer "Crab", and in the area of the settlement of Berestovoye, the calculation of the 152mm self-propelled gun "Msta-S" under the command of junior sergeant Kirill Komarov destroyed the enemy mortar crew.
The air defense grouping in the area of the settlement of Nikolaevka and Veliky Vyselok, the crews of the Tor air defense system, destroyed two reconnaissance UAVs Poseidon and Mira.
11:42 Video- One missile - one target
From the first day of the special military operation, Tor-M1 crews, on combat duty at the forefront, provide reliable air cover for our troops. They save the lives of personnel and the combat readiness of motorized rifle, tank and artillery units.
We are publishing footage of the combat work of the crew of the Tor-M1 anti-aircraft missile system of the Central Military District in the Krasnolimansky direction. With the help of modern radar equipment on board the complex, the crew confidently detects and destroys another enemy air object.
11:20 Circumstances on the Vremevsky site
Fighting continues in this area. Enemy activity was noted in the area of Rivnopol, Priyutny, Kremenchik, Harvest and Levadny. Army aviation and artillery strike at armored vehicles and concentrations of APU personnel. It is reported that during the counter-battery fight the enemy lost two howitzers. We are also informed that the fighters of the 5th Army managed to capture prisoners.
11:00 This morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a residential building in the center of Donetsk with the help of a UAV.
The explosion started a fire, which was extinguished by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
There were no casualties.
Consequences — of video.
10:46 A fierce battle is going on in Avdievka. All Donetsk “online” hears powerful firework on both sides.
Again there are arrivals in the capital of the DPR. The feeling is that the crests decided to return to the tactics of positional warfare with parallel active artillery attack of peaceful cities of Donbass.
And what about the "counterattack"?
The long-forgotten "music of Thunder" has returned - our long barrels are at work.
10:21 Zaporozhye direction:
During the night, the enemy is active - assault action did not undertake.
In the area of Orekhov, our unit opened up an accumulation of armored vehicles, destroyed by artillery, about six units. The EW installation was also destroyed.
At 0600 hrs, our units began assault operations in order to return Pyatikhatki and Lobkovoe.
Our artillery and aviation are working.
We expect the continuation of harassing actions on the Novodanilovka-Rabotino section, as well as possible actions on the Shcherbaki-Konovalovo, Novoandreevka-Nesteryanka section.
10:00 Enemy applied attack on Donetsk
A UAV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at one of the apartments of a residential building. The Ministry of Emergency Situations promptly responded to the incident, the residents were evacuated. As a result of the attack, no one was injured, the apartment was empty.
During the night, the Nazis fired 92 rounds into the city. The artillery attack was carried out from guns with a caliber of 155mm and MLRS in the Kirov, Kuibyshev, Petrovsky and Voroshilovsky regions. Shrapnel damaged the kindergarten building.
09:34 Summary on the morning of June 21, 2023
Last night, the Russian Armed Forces again attacked enemy rear areas. Explosions sounded in Khmelnitsky, Zhytomyr, Zaporozhye, Sumy, Kyiv regions.
Heavy fighting continues on the Vremievsky ledge of the South Donets Front. The enemy is attacking in the area of the settlement. Novodonetsk with the support of artillery, the battle distance is short, both sides use small arms. To the east in the area of ??N. p. Several armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in Levadnoye, our helicopters are working. For a day the enemy did not achieve success.
In the Ugledar direction, the enemy is also taking active actions, last night from the field they reported the incessant fire of our cannon and rocket artillery on the advancing enemy.
On the Zaporozhye Front, N. p. Pyatikhatki are almost completely destroyed, the village is located in the gray zone and has already changed hands several times. There are heavy battles, it is reported that only confirmed losses of the enemy amounted to 57 people.
On the northern flank of Artyomovsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also conducting unsuccessful offensive operations, trying to reach the logistics hubs.
Over the past 24 hours, information has been received from the sector of the front near Kremennaya about the resumption of enemy attacks.
The artillery attack of the Belgorod region and the DPR does not stop, compared in reports on the number of attacks inflicted by the enemy. Six civilians were wounded in the DPR, including a 10-year-old child.
09:31 Zaporozhye direction, June 21, 08:40 (p. Pyatikhatki)
Heavy fighting intensified.
Pyatikhatki almost completely destroyed. Artillery works from two sides.
The enemy tried to flank, but our ATGMs fried several enemy armored vehicles.
08:29 Russian units continue to provide assistance to the population affected by the terrorist act of the criminal Kyiv regime at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station -video
The servicemen of the units of the Russian group of troops "Dnepr" were among the first to come to the aid of the inhabitants of the left bank of the Kherson region after the missile strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station and the destruction of the dam of the reservoir, which led to the flooding of coastal settlements.
At present, units of the troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection of the group have begun disinfection of infrastructure facilities affected by flooding. The servicemen processed about 30 percent of the territories in the settlements of Novaya Kakhovka, Holaya Pristan and Alyoshki.
Disinfection is carried out using special automatic filling stations ARS-14KM using disinfectants that have shown high efficiency in preventing outbreaks of infections.
08:07 Frontline summary on the morning of 06/21/2023
In the Zaporizhia direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, attacked in the area of Zherebyanok and Rabotin. The RF Armed Forces held their positions. However, Ukrainian units are less than three kilometers from Rabotin.
The RF Armed Forces attacked Kamensky, Lobkovoy, Pyatikhatki, Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Ugoldar and Donetsk directions), Shcherbak, Novoandreevka, Malaya Tokmachka, Charovnoye, Zheleznodorozhny, Varvarovka, Gulyaipol, Krasnoy, Olgovsky and Temirovka.
On the Uglidar sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked in the area of Priyutny, Rivnopol and Staromayorsky. No success. The RF Armed Forces fired on Levadnoe, Zeleny Pole, Novopol, Novodarovka, Makarovka, Blagodatny, Neskuchnoye, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Zolotoy Niva, Ugledar and Vodyany.
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops attacked near Novomikhailovka and Pobeda after artillery strikes. On the last of the named sites there is an advance. Also, with the support of artillery, they conducted assault operations in Maryinka, near the city of Krasnogorovka and on the southwestern approaches to Avdiivka. The Armed Forces held their positions.
The RF Armed Forces shelled Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Bakhmut), Paraskovevka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Soledar), Georgievka, Nevelskoye, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Orlovka, Toretsk, Severny ( a settlement northwest of Gorlovka) and Druzhba. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in Donetsk and Gorlovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian troops conducted assault operations near Kleshcheevka and Yagodnoe. No promotion. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to counterattack in the Grigorovka area, and with the support of artillery - at Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and Disputed. No success. The Russian Armed Forces hit Belaya Gora, Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Donetsk), Ivanovsky, Chasov Yar, Kalinovka, Bogdanovka, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka, Verkhnekamensky and Seversk.
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[Regnum] The UN would like to see the continuation of both parts of the product deal (the Black Sea Initiative) and is discussing this issue with all parties, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the organization's secretary general, said on June 20.
“We are trying to ensure that both the memorandum of understanding and the Black Sea Grain Initiative continue to operate. And we are in contact to ensure that these deals continue,” he said during a briefing at the UN.
Earlier on June 20, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Vershinin said that Russia proceeds from the fact that on July 18 the grain deal will cease to operate. The promises given to Russia as part of the deal have not begun to be fulfilled, and therefore Moscow is acting taking into account the fact that the deal will not be extended, he explained.
The grain deal has lost all relevance for Russia, and therefore Moscow may withdraw from it, economist Mikhail Khazin said in an interview with a Regnum correspondent . The grain deal was important primarily for Turkey, and for Russia it was important that Recep Tayyip Erdogan retain the presidency, the expert noted.
The agreements on the export of products from Ukraine by sea were adopted in 2022 as part of the “Black Sea Initiative” and assumed a number of actions in the interests of Russia, including unblocking the ammonia pipeline and connecting Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT system. The promises were not fulfilled, but Russia agreed to renew the agreement, but the Kremlin and the Foreign Ministry noted that if the situation did not change, the deal would be terminated.
In June 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with African leaders, noted that Ukraine and the West are deceiving both Russia and other countries of the world on the issue of the “grain deal”. Only 3% of products exported from Ukraine along this corridor actually ended up in the poorest countries, the president recalled. In turn, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted in June 2023 that there was no point in extending the agreement, which does not work.
That certainly explains the Ukrainian losses.
[Regnum] Acting Governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo said that the actions of the Kiev army are controlled from the capital of Britain.
According to Saldo, on the radio station "Tavria", the Armed Forces of Ukraine are controlled from London, which aspires to world power and wants to revive the colonial system of the whole world again.
Under the control of Russia is 75% of the territory of the Kherson region, and part on the right bank of the Dnieper, including Kherson, remains under the temporary occupation of Kyiv.
As IA Regnum reported , Ukrainians are cannon fodder for the US and Britain , which is not a pity to use in a big game against Russia. This was announced on June 19 by the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin .
The actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may not lead to quick success, it is likely that the Ukrainian conflict will last for a long time , but the West must be ready to support Kiev for as long as it takes. This statement was made on June 16 by British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley .
Text taken from the Telegram channel of Aleksandr Kharchenko, posted at the Live Journal page of Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin [ColonelCassad] I have often said that our troops lack motivation. But then there was a counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian troops demonstrate miracles of resilience. In an attempt to rectify the situation, the Ukrainians even began to hit the trenches with "khimars", but the infantry still stands to death. Why did this happen, and what did the NATO advisers not take into account?
The Russian soldier fought heroically at all times, but gave his best only when he could answer a simple question - "why"? The "Kharkov regrouping" happened for the most part due to the fact that there were no more people left in the battalions, and they continued to be sent on the attack. Not only everyone could answer the question "why is all this necessary?"
Yes, we were slapped in the face, but we finally reconsidered the approach to this war and for the first time set clear tasks. Since October, the units have been standing and preparing to meet the enemy offensive. It became a little easier for a simple soldier to fight. He realized that he was burrowing in order to survive and keep Ukrainians out of Crimea.
The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was prepared by NATO generals. They compared forces and means, placed models on the map, but so far nothing has come of it. Why is that? Overseas strategists treat fighters on the battlefield like units in a computer game. The strategy was simple and clear... we saturate the troops with NATO equipment, distract them in Belgorod, hit the Kremlin and break through in Zaporozhye.
Seeing the attack of drones on the Kremlin, the Russian man went nuts. "These pi ... ry decided to shoot in Moscow!" After entering the Belgorod region, our soldiers rolled up their sleeves. "Right now we will show these invaders!" Well, when NATO equipment with fascist crosses left on the battlefield, the Russian peasant grabbed an RPG and began to ruthlessly burn foreign armored vehicles.
And all why? Yes, because for many decades we have been hammered into our heads that NATO hordes will come from the West and they will have to be met in order to protect our land. Agree that fighting against the Ukrainian army and NATO are two big differences. So now our fighters are clearly aware that they are fighting against the NATO proxy army, so that the "leopards" do not ride around Moscow. The narratives imbibed with mother's milk finally started to work, and we got motivation. Overseas generals do not understand this, they do not feel the regional peculiarities. But we also need to start working with motivation. After all, we still have to advance ... and for this we need to twist the ideological component a little more.
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[RBC] Moscow has intelligence that Kyiv plans to attack Russian territory with HIMARS and Storm Shadow, Shoigu claims. The use of Western weapons for these purposes will mean the participation of the United States and Britain in a military conflict.
Russia will launch immediate strikes against decision-making centers in Ukraine if the UAF attacks Russian territory - including Crimea - with HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
“The use of these missiles outside the zone of the special military operation will mean the full involvement of the United States and Great Britain in the conflict and will entail immediate strikes on decision-making centers on the territory of Ukraine,” Shoigu said in his opening speech at a meeting of the board of the ministry .
The head of the Ministry of Defense also said that Ukrainian troops continue to attempt an offensive in three directions: in Yuzhno-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk.
For this, elite formations trained in NATO countries and equipped with Western weapons are involved.
The ministry reported several times on the attack on Ukrainian decision-making centers, without specifying exactly which objects were attacked and where they are located. On May 30, the Ministry of Defense announced that in one of these centers, “terrorist acts were planned on the territory of Russia under the guidance of specialists from Western intelligence services.” The Kremlin said the response to one of these Russian strikes was a drone attack on Moscow in late May.
Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev also threatened to respond in the event of the use of Western weapons against Russian territories . He admitted that centers that “are not even on the territory of Kyiv” could fall under the blows.
The British Foreign Office believes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can attack "legitimate military targets" outside of Ukraine, as this is an element of Kiev's self-defense. The US White House said that they do not encourage Ukraine to strike at Russian territory. At the same time, the State Department notes that the Ukrainian side has the right "to independently decide how to defend its territory."
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[ColonelCassad] I have often said that our troops lack motivation. But then there was a counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian troops demonstrate miracles of resilience. In an attempt to rectify the situation, the Ukrainians even began to hit the trenches with "khimars", but the infantry still stands to death. Why did this happen, and what did the NATO advisers not take into account?
