“The Russian military destroyed with high-precision Kalibr long-range missiles … a large stockpile of anti-tank missile systems, man-portable air defense systems and howitzers supplied to the kyiv regime by the United States and European countries,” he said. a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry.
For its part, the regional governor of Ternopil, to which Chortkiv belongs, Volodimir Trush, said that last night “Chortkiv was hit by four missiles, all fired from the Black Sea,” reported the AFP news agency.
At a press conference, he stated that “there were 22 wounded”including “seven women and a 12-year-old boy”.
According to Trush, “a military facility was partially destroyed” in the attack, and “homes were damaged.”
Meanwhile, in the east, Luhansk regional governor Sergei Gaidai said the situation in Severodonetsk is extremely “difficult” after Russian troops destroyed a second bridge and launched heavy bombardment against the third and final one, AFP reported.
The official described the situation as “difficult”, and stated that the destruction of the bridges seeks to isolate the city.
He also assured that the situation is very complicated in Toshkivka, in the suburbs of Severodonetsk, but assured that the Ukrainian forces were able to stop the Russian advance near Popasna, located south of that city, the British newspaper The Guardian reported.
Barely yesterday, the governor had said that most of Severodonetsk was under the control of Russian forces.
In that town in eastern Ukraine, which became the epicenter of the fighting, the pro-Russian separatists said yesterday that there were around 400 combatants and 500 Ukrainian civilians sheltered in a chemical plant and that they began an evacuation.
“The civilians held at the Azot plant begin to leave, they are leaving through an entry point outside the control of the Ukrainian military. The civilians are received by the allied forces and escorted to a safe place,” he said in his Twitter account. Telegram Rodion Miroshnik, the Moscow representative of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, recognized by the Kremlin but not by the rest of the international community
Miroshnik, who had previously claimed that “life and proper treatment” would be guaranteed to the Ukrainian troops if they “release the hostages” and “surrender unconditionally”, recounted that the “remnants of the Ukrainian forces control several buildings”. at the plant, quoted by the Sputnik agency.
The taking of Severodonetsk is important for Moscow because it would open the way to another great city, Kramatorsk.key to conquering the entire Donbass basin, a region that is mostly pro-Russian and partially controlled by separatists since 2014.
In parallel, the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, located in a territory in southern Ukraine seized by Russian troops, reestablished connection with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The connection was severed on May 30 when the Russians blocked Ukrainian mobile operator Vodafone in Energodar at the site of the plant, with whom the UN body has a “data transmission” contract, Energoatom said in a release.
“Thanks to the joint efforts of Energoatom and Vodafone, the connection between the nuclear monitoring servers of the plant and the IAEA was restored on Friday, June 10,” Ukrainian operator Energoatom added in a statement published last night by Telegram.
Since the end of May, “all data from this period had been stored on secure servers and was transferred to the IAEA immediately upon reestablishment of connection,” the statement said.
Russian soldiers took control in early March of this plant located in the town of Energodar, in southern Ukraine.
At the diplomatic level, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, promised yesterday in kyiv that the bloc will deliver a clear signal at the end of the week about Ukraine’s request to join the European Union (EU), AFP reported.
Von der Leyen stressed that the former Soviet republic has made progress “in strengthening the rule of law, but it still needs to implement reforms to fight corruption.”
Despite some reservations from EU members, the bid is expected to be approved at the bloc’s next summit on June 23-24.
As regards military realignments, the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, assured today that the next summit of the Atlantic Alliance to be held at the end of the month in Madrid does not imply a “deadline” for specifying the incorporation of Sweden and Finland.
Likewise, Stoltenberg described as “legitimate” the misgivings of Ankara, which is the only dissenting voice: “It must be admitted that Turkey faces the threat of terrorism more than any other NATO ally,” Stoltenberg said from Finland, where met with the president, Sauli Niinisto, reported the Europa Press agency.
Turkey is demanding that Stockholm and Helsinki lift the embargo on defense industry products and extradite people associated with terrorists, including suspected participants in the attempted military coup in Turkey in 2016.
“We live in a more dangerous world where Russia is trying to reshape the world order and establish zones of influence. This was one of the reasons why Finland and Sweden decided to join NATO. On the other hand, Turkey has always supported NATO’s open-door policy,” Stoltenberg added.
Finland and Sweden submitted their bid for NATO membership on May 18, leaving behind decades of military non-alignment in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
In terms of the sanctions on Russia and their consequences, some responses were seen in Moscow as the former fast food restaurants of the McDonald’s group reopened their doors in the Russian capital today.
The premises reopened under the name “Vkusno i Tochka” (Delicious and period) after the American giant left the country in the framework of the exodus of international business from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
With a new logo to replace the well-known golden arches, they opened 15 restaurants, including in the center of Moscow, such as the one in Pushkin Square, where the first McDonald’s restaurant was installed in 1990, during the Soviet Union.
The new owner of the restaurant chain, Alexander Govor, 62, assured that the 51,000 former McDonald’s employees across Russia will keep their jobs.
Another 50 stores will open tomorrow, about 200 at the end of June and then they will open 50 to 100 restaurants per week until they reach a thousand, if the best forecasts come true.
Source: Ambito
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