The battle on the Eastern Front continues without significant changes. Meanwhile, Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin in Moscow put the Ukraine war on a level with the Great Northern War under Tsar Peter I – and spoke of a return operation of Russian soil. What happened today in the Ukraine war.
military situation
According to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops suffered significant losses in the battle for Sievjerodonetsk. “The Russians have significantly more casualties than the Ukrainians,” Luhansk Governor Serhiy Hajday said on Facebook. The ratio is “one to ten”. He gave no information on Ukrainian losses. The Russian army has withdrawn the remains of units from the republic of Buryatia in Russia’s Far East. “They die like flies,” said Hajdaj. The information is not independently verifiable.
The situation at the front was “without any significant changes,” Zelenskyj said in a video message on Thursday. The strategically important town of Sievarodonetsk and its neighboring city of Lysychansk, as well as other cities in the Donbass that Russian attackers currently consider key targets in the east of the country, could defend themselves effectively.
Ukraine has sharply criticized a trial of three foreign fighters in its armed forces. The Supreme Court of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic had sentenced two Britons and a Moroccan to death as mercenaries. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko said that foreigners in the Ukrainian army are regular soldiers and should be treated as such. They had the rights of prisoners of war. The process put propaganda above law and morality. The three men can still appeal.
Political voices and developments
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has placed the war he has ordered against Ukraine on the same level as the Great Northern War under Russia’s Tsar Peter I and has spoken of a return campaign for Russian soil. Peter didn’t conquer the area around today’s metropolis of St. Petersburg from the Swedes, but rather won it back. According to the Interfax agency, Putin drew parallels to the war against Ukraine. June 9th is the 350th birthday of Peter the Great, who was the first Russian tsar to call himself Emperor.
Ukraine has not yet received any information from Germany as to when the weapons recently promised by the federal government for defensive combat against Russia will be delivered. So far there is no clarity as to when the Mars multiple rocket launchers from Bundeswehr stocks will be handed over, said the ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, the “Tagesspiegel” (Online). “We expect the traffic light to fulfill this promise expeditiously because our troops need this weapon system most urgently to protect Ukrainian civilians from barbaric attacks by Russia.”
Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) traveled to Ukraine on Thursday for a two-day visit. Özdemir will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Solskyj in Kyiv on Friday, the Rheinische Post reported. The minister told the newspaper that his visit was about the recognition of Ukrainian farmers. “They do superhuman things by defending their country and at the same time ensuring that Ukraine and the world are supplied with food.” Özdemir also said he wanted to show solidarity with the Ukrainians in general.
Because Belarus supports the Russian war of aggression, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has terminated the city partnership with the Belarusian metropolis Minsk, which has existed since 1997, as Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced. The former boxing world champion emphasized that rockets were flying from Belarus to Ukrainian towns and villages, and Russian troops had also marched in from there.
Representatives of nine Eastern European NATO countries meet in Bucharest. The Russian attack on Ukraine is the main topic. At a meeting in Luxembourg, EU interior ministers also want to discuss how to deal with refugees from Ukraine. At a “democracy summit” in Copenhagen, the focus should be on the defense of Ukraine, among other things. On the first day of his trip to the Balkans, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) will visit Serbia, Kosovo and Greece. The new president of the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan in Central Asia, Serdar Berdymuhammedov, is visiting Russia at Putin’s invitation.
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