2023-06-17 13:26:30
According to the governor, two people were killed in a Russian rocket attack on a village near the border in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkov. Oleh Synyehubov first spoke on Telegram on Saturday of four dead people who came under Russian fire in their car near the village of Huriv Kozachok. The governor now announced that there were two volunteers – a 42-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman.
The Ukrainian military liberated many villages and towns in Kharkiv during its autumn offensive. Since then, however, the Russian military has repeatedly bombed the area and destroyed important infrastructure. A number of residents were injured or killed.
According to the Russian regional authorities, the Russian oil pipeline Druzhba in the border area with Ukraine was attacked with drones. On Saturday night, the air defense shot down three drones that were flying towards a pumping station near the city of Novozybkov, the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomas, said on Telegram. He blamed the Ukrainian army for it. The information might not be checked independently. Ukraine did not comment.
Russia has been waging a war of aggression once morest Ukraine for almost 16 months. In the past few weeks in particular, attacks on Russian territory have increased, although the casualties and damage are disproportionate to the consequences of the war in Ukraine. Moscow always blames Kiev for the shelling in the border area. In fact, however, volunteer battalions of Russian nationalists who support Ukraine are often behind them.
According to British intelligence services, Russia has gained an advantage in the airspace over southern Ukraine. This emerges from the latest daily report on the Ukraine war by the Ministry of Defense in London on Saturday. The Russians are currently superior in the “constant competition of measures and countermeasures” in combat helicopters in particular, which might use long-range missiles once morest targets on the ground.
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has demanded more tanks for the aggressive war once morest Ukraine from its own defense industry. When visiting a company in Omsk, Siberia, Shoigu demanded “strict compliance with the schedule for implementing the state defense order,” according to his ministry on Saturday. At the same time, he warned that production capacities for tanks and heavy flamethrower systems should be expanded.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Russia on Saturday following heading a peacekeeping mission by African leaders in Kiev. The President has arrived in St. Petersburg, said the South African Presidential Office in the online service Twitter. There, Ramaphosa will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin “to seek a path to peace following the 16-month conflict between Ukraine and Russia.”
The Kremlin attaches conditions to the accreditation of journalists working for Western media. The state news agency TASS quoted Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that the decision on admission to large forums in Russia would depend on the “behaviour” of Western media. The International Economic Forum is currently taking place in St. Petersburg. Journalists from countries Russia describes as unfriendly were denied accreditation. According to the published programme, Austria’s ex-Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl is the most important European guest at the forum alongside the incumbent Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.
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