Russia ‘urgent strongly’ in the direction of Donetsk, says president, as officers verify a number of japanese areas are captured.
- Ukrainian officers say Russian forces have captured a number of settlements close to Lysychansk and Severodonetsk, within the japanese Luhansk area.
- The southern metropolis of Mykolaiv has been hit by seven Russian missiles, based on the area’s governor, Vitaliy Kim.
- Russian deputy international minister Sergei Ryabkov says Moscow’s precedence is to stop nuclear struggle, Russian media reported.
- Russian forces pounded Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, Kharkiv, on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing no less than 15 civilians, based on Governor Oleh Synyehubov.
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30 minutes in the past (13:22 GMT)
‘Marshall Plan’ wanted to rebuild Ukraine: Scholz
Ukraine wants large monetary assist to rebuild after the devastation wrought by Russia’s invasion, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated Wednesday, saying the reconstruction could be a “activity for generations”.
Citing the US initiative to assist western Europe rebuild after World Warfare II, Scholz stated he had invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to take part within the G7 summit beginning this Sunday, to “agree on what such a ‘Marshall Plan for Ukraine’ would appear to be”.
Throughout his go to to the war-scarred Ukrainian city of Irpin final week, Scholz stated he had seen a degree of devastation that “jogged my memory of photos of Germany after the Second World Warfare”.
2 hours in the past (12:21 GMT)
One killed in Mykolaiv: Mayor
A Russian missile assault killed no less than one particular person and broken buildings together with a faculty within the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Mykolaiv, the native mayor stated.
The assaults brought about a number of fires, broken a lot of residential and enterprise buildings and left smoke hanging over the port metropolis, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych stated.
“I hold saying it’s nonetheless harmful within the metropolis. Earlier than, individuals have been going out in droves however they exit much less now,” he stated on nationwide tv.
Earlier within the day, regional governor Vitaliy Kim stated that seven missiles had hit the town.
2 hours in the past (11:49 GMT)
Russia could minimize off fuel completely, Europe wants to organize: IEA
Russia could minimize off fuel to Europe completely because it seeks to bolster its political leverage amid the Ukraine disaster, the pinnacle of the Worldwide Vitality Company stated on Wednesday, including that Europe wanted to organize now.
“Contemplating this latest behaviour, I wouldn’t rule out Russia persevering with to search out completely different points right here and there and persevering with to search out excuses to additional cut back fuel deliveries to Europe and perhaps even minimize it off utterly,” IEA government director Fatih Birol stated in a press release despatched to Reuters. “That is the rationale Europe wants contingency plans”.
2 hours in the past (11:31 GMT)
4 killed in Russia ammunition depot explosion
Citing emergency companies, TASS information company reported that 4 individuals have been killed after a shell detonated at an ammunition depot in Russia’s Vladimir area.
3 hours in the past (11:08 GMT)
Moscow accuses Berlin of ‘Russophobic hysteria’
Russia’s international ministry has accused Germany of anti-Russian sentiment in a press release on the anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi troops in 1941.
“Russophobic hysteria is systematically fuelled by nearly each day public assaults towards our nation by members of the German authorities,” the ministry stated, including that authorities in Berlin undermine the method of “historic reconciliation” between Russians and Germans after World Warfare II.
3 hours in the past (10:38 GMT)
Russia says it's exchanging official alerts with US on American fighters in Ukraine
Russia and america have been exchanging official alerts on the problem of American fighters in Ukraine, RIA information company reported, quoting Russian Deputy Overseas Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
Interfax cited him as saying that Moscow didn't see Washington’s readiness to cope with the problem significantly.
4 hours in the past (10:00 GMT)
Lavrov to participate in G20 ministerial assembly
Russian international minister Sergey Lavrov will journey to Indonesia to participate in a gathering of the G20 international ministers on July 7 and eight.
He may have a number of bilateral talks on the sidelines of the assembly, which is preparatory to this 12 months’s G20 summit, international ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated at a press briefing in Moscow.
Particularly, Lavrov will meet together with his Chinese language, South African, Brazilian, and Mexican counterparts and the management of attending worldwide organisations, she stated.
4 hours in the past (09:59 GMT)
Kremlin: EU sanctions that prompted Lithuania transit ban ‘unacceptable’
The Kremlin stated the EU sanctions that led Lithuania to impose a ban on the transit of some items from mainland Russia to its exclave of Kaliningrad have been “completely unacceptable”, and that Moscow was engaged on retaliatory measures.
Chatting with reporters on a convention name, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Moscow had but to determine when it will impose countermeasures.
4 hours in the past (09:36 GMT)
Russia, Turkey conform to extra consultations on grain exports from Ukraine
Russia’s defence ministry says Russian and Turkish delegations have agreed to proceed consultations on secure vessel departures and grain exports from Ukrainian ports.
Ukraine is without doubt one of the high wheat suppliers globally, however its grain shipments have stalled and tonnes of grain has been trapped in silos since Russia despatched troops into the nation. Moscow denies accountability for the meals disaster and blames Western sanctions for the scarcity.
5 hours in the past (09:11 GMT)
Seven missiles hit Mykolaiv: Governor
Seven Russian missiles have hit Mykolaiv, Governor Vitaliy Kim stated. He didn't present additional particulars on casualties or damages.
5 hours in the past (08:48 GMT)
Moscow: Response to Lithuania’s transit ban received’t be solely diplomatic
Moscow’s response to Lithuania’s ban on the transit of products sanctioned by the EU to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad can be sensible, not simply diplomatic, Russia’s international ministry spokeswoman stated.
“One of many foremost questions has been about whether or not the response could be solely diplomatic. The reply: No,” Maria Zakharova stated at her weekly briefing. “The response won't be diplomatic however sensible.”
Zakharova wouldn't elaborate on the character of the sensible measures Russia deliberate to take towards Lithuania.
6 hours in the past (08:01 GMT)
Hearth at Russian oil plant erupts after Ukrainian drone flight: TASS
A hearth broke out at Russia’s Novoshakhtinsk refinery within the Rostov area after two Ukrainian drones have been noticed over the plant, TASS cited an unidentified supply within the native authority as saying.
“One in all them made an impression, crashing right into a warmth switch unit, after which the blaze began. The second flew away,” the supply informed TASS.
The native emergency service stated the blaze has been put out, Interfax information company reported.
6 hours in the past (07:46 GMT)
Russian OSCE’s members denied British visas to attend subsequent session
Members of the Russian delegation to the Group for Safety and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have been denied British visas to attend the following session, Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy head of Russian higher home’s worldwide affairs committee.
7 hours in the past (06:54 GMT)
Russian troops received’t push by the Luhansk area any time quickly: Governor
Luhansk’s governor says Russian forces won't get by the area any time quickly.
Ukraine’s deputy defence minister Anna Malyar stated on Monday that Russia had plans for its troops to succeed in the executive borders of the Luhansk area by June 26.
Luhansk is like “bone within the throat” for Russia’s troops, Governor Serhiy Haidai stated on tv, including that it will be inconceivable for them to succeed in the area’s administrative borders in 4 days.
8 hours in the past (06:11 GMT)
Ukraine journalist, soldier ‘coldly executed’: Press group
A Ukrainian photojournalist and a soldier accompanying him after they have been killed within the first weeks of Russia’s invasion seem to have been “coldly executed”, Reporters With out Borders stated, after an investigation into their deaths.
The press freedom group stated it went again to the spot the place the our bodies of Maks Levin and serviceman Oleksiy Chernyshov have been discovered April 1 in woods north of the capital, Kyiv. It counted 14 bullet holes within the burned hulk of their automotive nonetheless on the scene.
The group stated disused Russian positions, one among them nonetheless booby-trapped, have been discovered shut by. Additionally discovered have been the stays of meals rations, cigarette packets and different litter seemingly left by Russian troopers. A jerrycan for petrol was additionally discovered near the place Chernyshov’s burned physique had been recovered, it stated.
A Ukrainian staff with metallic detectors uncovered a bullet buried within the soil the place Levin’s physique had lain, it stated. The group stated that discovering suggests “he was in all probability killed with one, maybe two bullets fired at shut vary when he was already on the bottom”.
Maks has coated the occasions on the Maidan and Russia's aggression towards Ukraine since 2014. His pictures mirror the heroism and steadfastness of Ukrainian defenders. pic.twitter.com/tuxUeVlb0t
— Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine – Ukrainian Parliament (@ua_parliament) June 21, 2022
8 hours in the past (05:28 GMT)
Russia getting ready to deploy giant variety of reserves to the Donbas: UK
Russia is very probably getting ready to deploy numerous reserves to the entrance traces of the Donbas, the UK’s defence ministry has stated, as heavy shelling continues within the east, across the Severodonetsk space.
Though Moscow hasn’t launched its army casualty numbers, the self-declared Donetsk Folks’s Republic (DPR) publishes such figures for the DPR forces, the UK stated.
“As of 16 June, the DPR acknowledged 2128 army personnel killed in motion, and 8897 wounded, for the reason that begin of 2022,” which is equal to round 55 per cent of its unique drive, the ministry stated, including this highlighted the extraordinary attrition numbers of Russia’s forces.
“It's extremely probably that DPR forces are outfitted with outdated weapons and gear. On each side, the power to generate and deploy reserve models to the entrance is probably going changing into more and more important to the end result of the struggle,” the ministry stated.
Newest Defence Intelligence replace on the scenario in Ukraine – 22 June 2022
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— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) June 22, 2022
9 hours in the past (05:08 GMT)
Russia’s envoy to US says his workplace wasn’t contacted about captured Individuals
Russia’s ambassador to america, Anatoly Antonov, says his workplace hasn’t obtained any requests from Washington in regards to the two Individuals captured in Ukraine, Moscow’s state TASS information company studies.
Antonov’s feedback got here after US State Division spokesman Ned Value stated that Washington had been in contact with Russian authorities in regards to the two US residents, who have been reportedly being held within the self-proclaimed Donetsk Folks’s Republic.
“The embassy didn't contact us. I don't verify the receipt of any such contact from the Individuals,” Antonov stated, based on TASS.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had earlier stated that demise sentences for the 2 males couldn't be dominated out.
9 hours in the past (04:36 GMT)
Indonesia president to push for peace with Ukraine, Russia visits: Minister
Indonesian President Joko Widodo will go to each Ukraine and Russia subsequent week to fulfill his counterparts and push for a peaceable decision to the persevering with battle, his international minister has stated.
Retno Marsudi confirmed throughout a information convention the intention of Jokowi, because the Indonesian president is understood, to go to Kyiv along with Moscow, which had been reported in Indonesian and Russian state media.
Retno didn't elaborate on what Jokowi, as president of the G20 this 12 months, would talk about with the 2 leaders.
11 hours in the past (03:07 GMT)
Swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk wins bronze in world championships
Elite Ukrainian swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk received the bronze within the males’s 800-metre freestyle race on the swimming world championships on Tuesday in Budapest, Hungary.
He stated his medal proved “that Ukrainians will battle to the top, it doesn’t matter what the scenario”.
Romanchuk, whose father is preventing within the fierce battles within the east of Ukraine, stated it was onerous for him to concentrate on swimming.
“Particularly at first after I moved to Germany to hitch the group. It was onerous as a result of mentally you might be within the struggle and you might be sleeping simply three or 4 hours since you are all the time studying the information,” Romanchuk stated. “It was so onerous at first, however then you definately perceive that each one you are able to do is to swim, to coach, to characterize your nation.”
11 hours in the past (02:48 GMT)
Luxembourg’s PM visits Kyiv
The prime minister of Luxembourg visited Kyiv on Tuesday and toured the close by cities of Bucha and Borodyanka, telling Ukraine: “Luxembourg stands by your facet.”
“No phrases to explain the unimaginable human tragedy of Bucha. You'll be able to rely on Luxembourg to assist the investigations of nationwide and worldwide actors into these struggle crimes, and to make sure that these answerable for these atrocities are recognized, prosecuted and punished,” Xavier Bettel stated on Twitter.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Bettel was a “nice buddy of our state” and that Luxembourg’s help to Ukraine made up 15 p.c of its defence price range.
“Each the greatness and the the Aristocracy of the state are instantly felt,” Zelenskyy stated of Bettel’s go to and Luxembourg’s assist. “I'm grateful to him for his honest understanding of our individuals and for Luxembourg’s readiness to participate within the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.”
4 months after the beginning of the struggle, I'm right here immediately to point out Luxembourg's assist for Ukraine. My message to you, President @ZelenskyyUa, and to the Ukrainian individuals, right here in Ukraine and to all these searching for refuge on this planet, could be very clear: Luxembourg stands by your facet. pic.twitter.com/iCwISlyZMP
— Xavier Bettel (@Xavier_Bettel) June 21, 2022
12 hours in the past (02:22 GMT)
Russia on Wednesday to mark anniversary of Germany’s WW2 invasion of USSR
Russia on Wednesday marks the anniversary of the day Nazi Germany’s forces invaded the Soviet Union in World Warfare Two, with President Vladimir Putin on account of lay flowers to honour the lifeless.
Germany’s shock assault, beneath Operation Barbarossa, was launched on June 22, 1941. The “Day of Remembrance and Sorrow” can also be commemorated in Ukraine and Belarus, then a part of the Soviet Union, because the assaults focused the cities of Kyiv, Moscow and Brest (previously Brest Fortress). However it's unclear whether or not Ukraine will commemorate today because it has up to now.
To mark the anniversary, the Russian defence ministry launched paperwork courting again to the beginning of the struggle purporting to point out Germany supposed to say the Soviet military was bombing church buildings and cemeteries to justify its invasion.
“Simply as these days, in 1941, the Nazis ready provocations upfront to discredit our state,” Russia’s defence ministry stated.
⚔️On the morning of June 22, 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣1️⃣, Yury #Levitan, dubbed the📣 ‘voice of the struggle’, made the radio announcement that Nazi Germany forces had attacked the borders of the #USSR. The Nice Patriotic Warfare started #OTD 8⃣1⃣ years in the past. pic.twitter.com/zTWSg9XNT5
— Russian Embassy in USA 🇷🇺 (@RusEmbUSA) June 21, 2022
12 hours in the past (01:54 GMT)
Former US commander predicts Ukraine to ship ‘knockout blow’ to Russia
A former commander of US floor forces in Europe has described the battles in Ukraine’s east and southeast as a “heavyweight boxing match” wherein “there has not but been a knockout blow”.
Severodonetsk, Popasna, Dibrivne (close to Izyum), Rubizhne and Zaporizhia “have all seen this punch-counterpunch motion,” retired Lieutenant Basic, Mark Hertling, wrote on Twitter.
“It’s a heavyweight boxing match. In 2 months of preventing, there has not but been a knockout blow. It should come, as RU forces turn out to be extra depleted,” he stated.
Sievierodonetsk, Popasna, Dibrivne (close to Izyum), Rubizhne, Zaporizhzyha have all seen this punch-counterpunch motion.
It is a heavyweight boxing match. In 2 months of preventing, there has not but been a knockout blow.
It should come, as RU forces turn out to be extra depleted. 14/
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) June 21, 2022
12 hours in the past (01:28 GMT)
Moscow legislator dealing with 10 years for opposing Russia’s Ukraine actions
A court docket within the Russian capital has prolonged the arrest of a municipal legislator charged with discrediting the nation’s army after his criticism of Russia’s army motion in Ukraine.
Moscow’s Meshchansky District Courtroom ordered Alexei Gorinov to be stored in custody pending his trial. Gorinov, a municipal council member of Moscow’s Krasnoselsky District, has remained in jail since he was arrested in April after talking out towards Russia’s invasion throughout the council’s session in March.
Addressing the court docket on Tuesday, Gorinov rejected the fees and insisted that he was merely expressing his political opinions, noting that “what I stated was my private opinion and perception”.
He could face a superb or a jail time period of as much as 10 years if convicted.
13 hours in the past (01:16 GMT)
Italy’s FM quits social gathering he says undermines Ukraine assist
Italy’s Overseas Minister Luigi Di Maio has stated he was leaving the 5-Star Motion to kind a brand new parliamentary group backing the federal government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
Di Maio’s transfer comes after he accused 5-Star chief and former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of undermining authorities efforts to assist Ukraine and weakening Rome’s standing inside the European Union.
“At this time’s is a tough resolution I by no means imagined I must take … however immediately me and many different colleagues and mates are leaving the 5-Star Motion,” Di Maio, himself a former 5-Star chief, informed a information convention on Tuesday.
13 hours in the past (01:06 GMT)
Russia solely exists by attacking others: Kyiv adviser
Russia is expansionist and exists solely by attacking different states, Zelenskyy’s adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has stated.
“It assaults in varied methods, utilizing its vitality assets, its army, migration, utilizing meals as a weapon. Ukraine can by no means signal a cope with Russia on this context,” Podolyak informed Al Jazeera in an interview.
After being requested about ceding land to Russia to stop additional demise and destruction, Podolyak stated: “any give up of Ukrainian territory would imply the struggle would proceed with larger depth and even larger scale”.
“We need to end this struggle the precise manner and meaning liberating our territories in full and reestablishing our sovereignty inside internationally recognised borders.”
13 hours in the past (00:53 GMT)
Russian forces seize front-line Donbas village: Ukrainian official
Russian forces have pushed deeper into the Donbas area, with Ukrainian officers asserting the autumn of a front-line village close to the strategically necessary cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.
Roman Vlasenko, head of the Severodonetsk district army administration, stated on Tuesday that the settlement of Toshkivka is now “managed completely by the Russians”.
Toshkivka had a pre-war inhabitants of about 5,000 individuals and is roughly 25km (16 miles) south of Severodonetsk in japanese Ukraine’s Luhansk area.
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14 hours in the past (00:01 GMT)
Hearth tears by gasworks in Kharkiv area after missile raid
A big fireplace remained uncontrolled at a fuel processing manufacturing facility on Tuesday within the Izyum district in japanese Ukraine, after it was hit by a number of Russian missile assaults final week.
Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synehubov confirmed on Saturday that Russian assaults had focused the ability.
On the Telegram messaging app, he stated that another buildings had additionally been broken.
On Tuesday, the hearth was nonetheless blazing and a big plume of smoke may very well be seen from a distance.
14 hours in the past (23:51 GMT)
Ukraine’s defenders maintain positions at Azot plant: Governor
Russia laid down a curtain of fireside in Luhansk Tuesday, the place pockets of resistance are denying Moscow full army management of the area.
“At this time all the things that may burn is on fireplace,” Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk area, informed The Related Press information company.
Within the metropolis of Severodonetsk, Ukrainian defenders held on to the Azot chemical plant within the industrial outskirts. He stated Russian forces have been turning the world “into ruins”.
“It's a sheer disaster,” Haidai informed the AP in written feedback in regards to the plant. “Our positions are being fired at from howitzers, a number of rocket launchers, large-caliber artillery, missile strikes.”
Haidai stated on tv that 568 civilians have been sheltering on the plant, together with 38 kids. Moscow controls roughly 95 p.c of the Luhansk area.
14 hours in the past (23:39 GMT)
Luhansk ‘hardest space proper now’: Zelenskyy
The Luhansk area, the place preventing is raging in the important thing metropolis of Severodonetsk and surrounding areas, is “the hardest space proper now”, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated.
“With the assistance of tactical strikes, the Ukrainian military is strengthening its defence within the Luhansk area, which is de facto the hardest space proper now,” Zelenskyy stated in his nighttime deal with, including Russians have been additionally placing “critical strain” on Donetsk.
“Within the Kharkiv area there may be brutal and cynical Russian artillery shelling. It won't give something to the occupiers, however the Russian military is deaf to any rationality. It merely destroys, merely kills – on this manner it exhibits its command that it isn't standing nonetheless,” Zelenskyy added.
A minimum of 15 killed in Kharkiv area: Governor
A minimum of 15 civilians have been killed within the Kharkiv area by Russian shelling on Tuesday, the regional governor has stated.
5 individuals have been killed within the metropolis of Kharkiv itself and 11 wounded, Oleh Synehubov stated on Telegram, including that among the many lifeless was an eight-year-old woman.
One other six individuals died in Chuhuiv some 40km (25 miles) southeast of Kharkiv and three had died in Zolochiv, 40km (25 miles) to the northwest of the town, he stated.
Russian forces have been making an attempt to strategy Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, which skilled intense shelling earlier within the struggle, and switch it right into a “frontline metropolis,” a Ukrainian inside ministry official stated earlier this month. Native police accused Russia of utilizing Uragan a number of rocket launchers.
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