TE24 International Desk:
Fighting intensified in and around the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as Russian troops sought to maintain gains on many battlefields while NATO insisted on significant joining for Finland and Sweden.
According to the mayor of Moscow, the number of Moscow troops has been increased by occupying several Donbass cities in recent weeks, and the next major target has been pushed further west into the Sloviansk city. I attacked with bombs.
Several days after a similarly deadly bombing, a Russian attack on a central market killed at least two and injured seven. Ground-based AFP reporters have seen rockets hit several streets adjacent to the city square as firefighters battled the resulting blaze in a town where about 100,000 people lived before the war. I did.
Donetsk Oblast Governor Pablo Kirirenko, along with Sloviansk, has accused Russia of “deliberately attacking where civilians gather”.
“This is pure and general terrorism,” he said in a telegram.
Inside Moscow, the Pentagon said Russian troops also claimed they had attacked the northeastern city of Kharkiv with “perfect” weapons in the past 24 hours, killing 150 Ukrainian soldiers. Rockets and artillery hit several other areas, Kiu said.
Russia, meanwhile, says it is investigating the torture of Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine and recently released in exchange for prisoners. – “Timely” – In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and the foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland have begun the process of joining the two countries to expand the military alliance to 32 members, after which I “historically” praised him on Tuesday.
“The accession of Finland and Sweden will contribute not only to our own security, but also to the joint security of the alliance,” said Pekka Havisto of Finland, after signing the protocol, which has begun the necessary ratification process. Harvestist Dr.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, Sweden and Finland renounced decades of military non-alignment and joined NATO.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov welcomed Tuesday’s “timely (and) correct” move, adding on Twitter: Now that in the fifth month of the war, Kiev’s allies in Lugano, Switzerland, pledged to support Ukraine on Tuesday, which is expected to recover. A time consuming and expensive procedure.
Recognizing that rebuilding a war-torn country could cost at least $ 750 billion, officials from nearly 40 countries agreed in two days of talks on the need for reform to promote transparency and fight corruption.
– “Full alert” –
Meanwhile, UN Judge Michelle Bachelet has criticized the “meaningless war” and called for an end to civilian suffering being “unbearable”. Until July 3,
More than 10,000 civilian casualties have been recorded in Ukraine, including 335 children out of 4,889 deaths, Bachelet said. He added that the actual number is probably.
After intense resistance from Ukraine, Russia abandoned its original goal of occupying Kyiv and focused on gaining control of the eastern Donbass region.
Donbass originally consisted of Lugansk, which was almost entirely occupied by Russian troops, and Donetsk in the southwest, and now wants to occupy completely.
Ukrainian troops are “taking steps” to restore the front and rear transport infrastructure by Russian troops in Lugansk, amid signs that Moscow is constantly trying to consolidate supply lines for propaganda. Said.
The fall of Lysichansik on Sunday, a week after the withdrawal from the neighboring city of Severodonetsk, also allowed Ukrainian troops to advance on Donetsk’s Kramtorsk and Sloviansk.
On Tuesday, they made their first approach to the small town of Sivarsk, between Lisichansk and Sloviansk, after days of bombing. According to AFP reporters, two Ukrainian Red Cross minibuses were going there to voluntarily evacuate civilians.
“Fierce fighting is raging in the suburbs of the Lugansk region near Lisichansk,” Lugansk Governor Sergei Guide said in a telegram.
“Acquisitions recall equipment in Donetsk region.” In the Kherson region, owned by Moscow, to its southwest
, Russian troops use helicopters and various cannons to try to thwart Ukraine’s counter-attack. Fighting intensified after the Kremlin established authorities
Kherson announced that officials from the FSB, a powerful Russian security agency, controlled the local government.
The town of Kherson, near Crimea, which is connected to Moscow, was the first major city among Russian troops in February and has since experienced so-called russification campaigns.
A spokesman for Ukraine’s defense ministry said Tuesday that Russian troops outside the Donbass region were “trying to detain our troops to prevent them from going to the battlefield.”
“It simply came to our notice then. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a video at an annual forum hosted by The Economist magazine on Tuesday, predicting that Russia’s ally Belarus would not be involved in the war.
However, he warned that “provocation” by his northern neighbor was likely to continue. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko accuses Ukrainian troops of launching
