1:59 p.m .: According to their own statements, the Russian armed forces have inflicted heavy losses on the Ukrainian military with heavy artillery, air and rocket attacks. The latest airstrikes have cost the Ukrainians up to 1,000 soldiers and more than 100 military vehicles and weapon systems, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday. This information could not be verified independently.
Among other things, 43 soldiers were killed and 170 injured in Chasiv Yar in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Konashenkov said. Ukraine reported an airstrike on a residential building in the small town on Saturday. According to Ukrainian sources, 48 dead civilians have now been recovered from the rubble.
The Russian army spokesman also reported on the renewed use of the sea-based Kalibr missiles. The guided missiles with a range of several hundred kilometers were fired at a factory for high-voltage systems in Zaporizhia and destroyed several rocket launchers in the hangars there.
1:20 p.m .: According to the information agency of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense “ArmyInform”, fighter jets from the Russian Air Force tried to bomb the snake island of Zmiiny – and instead hit the sea. That explains the Ukrainian task force “South”. According to the report, two bombs from the Su-27 fighter jets fell into the sea near the island.
11:32 a.m .: According to the authorities, at least two people were killed in a Russian rocket attack in the center of the western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. Another six people were injured, said police chief Ihor Klymenko on Facebook on Thursday. Three rockets are said to have hit an office center. A fire then broke out and hit about 50 parked cars.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted immediately: “What is this if not an open act of terrorism?” he wrote in the news service Telegram. Russia kills civilians every day and uses missiles to attack civilian targets where there are no soldiers. “Beasts. murder state. Terrorist state,” Zelenskyy wrote. Since invading Ukraine at the end of February, Russia has repeatedly emphasized that it will only attack military targets in the neighboring country – even if the many civilian casualties are now obvious.
The southern Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv was also fired at again during the night with rockets. Of the nine rockets, about one hotel and at least one school were hit. Authorities said one person was injured. In the meantime, in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region, the clean-up work in Chasiv Yar has ended, where a residential building was destroyed last Saturday. According to the authorities, a total of 48 bodies have been recovered since then.
10.20 a.m .: In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian soldiers cornered the Russian occupiers. Since then they have not been able to carry out their offensive. The desperation is growing – this can also be proven by phone calls that the Ukrainian secret service intercepted and shared on Telegram.
“We have been sitting in this village for a month! We can’t move normally on offense. The Ukrainians are attacking and attacking our unit, they don’t allow us to move,” the Russian occupier tells his friend.
The Russian soldiers recognize the level of training and efficiency of the Ukrainians. That’s why no one is ready to go on the offensive anymore. “Our people are all panicking… Nobody wants to go on the offensive. The equipment was blown up, the mortars were blown up – all that shit, they weren’t left with anyone. Here’s the offensive.” The information could not be independently verified.
Thursday, July 14, 3:23 a.m.: In the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, the separatists supported by the Russian army have claimed territory in the small town of Soledar. Separatist representative Vitaly Kiselev spoke to the Russian state-run TASS on Wednesday about “good news”. Russian troops entered the city limits of Soledar and forced the Ukrainian army to retreat. Kiselyov said he was expecting a conquest within the next two days.
The military chief of the small town, Serhiy Hoshko, has contradicted the account. “There was an attempt by the Russian army to enter Yakovlivka, which Ukrainian soldiers successfully repulsed,” he told Ukrainian public television. Three houses were destroyed in the village northeast of Soledar. Four houses were also destroyed in the nearby village of Bachmutske, southeast of Soledar. Rosdoliwka to the north had also been shelled.
7:32 p.m .: Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, according to the US State Department, up to 1.6 million people from Ukraine may have been brought to Russia against their will.
“Estimates from various sources, including the Russian government, indicate that Russian authorities interrogated, detained and forcibly deported from their homes to Russia – often in remote regions in the Far East,” the ministry said in Washington on Wednesday.
The US called on Russia to immediately end “systematic ‘filtration’ measures and forced deportations” in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine. These constituted a serious violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilians in Time of War and a war crime.
Russia must release prisoners and give Ukrainians who were forced to leave their country the opportunity to return to their homeland. The Ukrainian site often reports of people being taken to Russia against their will, many of them children.
2.30 p.m .: According to information from Kyiv, at least five civilians were killed in the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv. In the district of Vitovka, east of the region’s capital Mykolayiv, there had been Russian artillery fire, the deputy chief of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, told the Telegram news service on Wednesday. In addition, 28 rocket hits were registered in various settlements. A hospital and residential buildings were damaged. The information could not be independently verified.
The Russian side confirmed the shelling of Mykolaiv and spoke of attacks on two Ukrainian army command posts. More than 350 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, said Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov in Moscow. That too could not be checked. In addition, on the 140th day of the war, the Russian army reported shelling of an ammunition dump and military vehicles in the Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions.
11.12 a.m .: The Ukrainian armed forces have fired numerous rockets in the east of the country against the pro-Russian separatist stronghold of Luhansk. Separatist representative Andrei Marochko said in his blog on the Telegram news channel that there had been massive shelling from the US-supplied Himar-type multiple rocket launcher. Late on Tuesday evening, fire was fired from the village of Artemivsk in the Donetsk region at Luhansk. Several missiles would have hit their targets.
The Ukrainian side also reported on the use of the multiple rocket launcher. The head of the Ukrainian military administration for the Luhansk region Serhiy Hayday said that the enemy’s military depots were being destroyed. In the industrial zone of Luhansk it was not at all quiet on Wednesday night, he said. However, the Russian occupiers would continue to attack from all sides – with air force and artillery. The big cities of the Donetsk region are particularly threatened.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces also released a video showing the use of the Himars system. Russian media had reported heavy explosions and a major fire near the city of Luhansk on Wednesday night. According to the pro-Russian separatist authorities, the situation is tense, but the air defense has it under control. Accordingly, Ukraine also fired three Tochka-U rockets. There were no reports of deaths.
The US system of Himar threatens the security of the “Luhansk People’s Republic,” the head of the region recognized by Russia as a state, Leonid Pasechnik, told the Moscow state news agency Tass. “Luckily they don’t have many such weapons, so there’s no need to panic at all,” he said.
There were also reports of rocket and artillery fire from the Ukrainian side in the part of the contested Donetsk region controlled by pro-Russian separatists. According to information from Wednesday morning, three people died within 24 hours and twelve others were injured. Authorities there reported destruction of homes and other civilian infrastructure.
5:37 a.m .: According to its own statements, Ukraine has struck a sensitive blow against a Russian ammunition depot in the Cherson region. According to adviser to the regional head of the Kherson military administration, Sergei Khlan, the Russians lost a lot of ammunition and fuel in the attack in Nova Kakhovka. Khlan said 1,000 tons of ammunition and 50 fuel vehicles were destroyed. There were also dead soldiers.
The head of the regional police department added: “It was a remarkable day. The Russians began to place their warehouses farther from the front line, thinking they would be safe there. But this was not the case at all.”
Russia tried to prevent the Ukrainian missile attack on the depot. However, the Russian fighter jets were not successful, according to the Ukrainian operations command “South”.
Wednesday, July 13, 2:21 a.m.: In eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region have lifted a moratorium on the death penalty. Separatist leader Denis Puschilin signed a corresponding decree on Tuesday, the Russian state news agency Tass reported. Last month, the separatists sentenced to death three foreigners in the ranks of the Ukrainian army as mercenaries, two Britons and a Moroccan.
The three men are currently awaiting a decision in the appeals process. According to the separatists, the verdicts are expected to be handed down later this month. If the decision of the first instance is not overturned or the accused are exchanged, they face the risk of being shot. According to media reports, other foreigners are being held by the separatists. Two Americans were also presented as prisoners on Russian television.
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