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On July 9, Ukraine tried to hit targets in the Crimea, Kaluga and Rostov regions with S-200 converted into strike missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Two missiles were shot down by air defense, two more were rejected by electronic warfare. One of the missiles “was aimed at the Crimean bridge, the second flew at a military airfield in the Rostov region,” said Viktor Afzalov, head of the main headquarters of the Aerospace Forces.
Also, the defense department reported that since the beginning of the SVO, “11,675 foreign mercenaries from 84 states have officially arrived in Ukraine to participate in hostilities on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” As of June 30, 4,845 of them have been confirmed killed in action. In total, 2029 foreigners continue to be in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the recruitment of mercenaries has been launched in Argentina, Brazil, Iraq, Afghanistan, as well as in US-controlled areas of Syria. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation explains this by high losses of personnel, as well as “a multiple drop in interest to die for the Kiev regime in Poland, Great Britain and other European countries.”
The return of residents to the city of Shebekino and the villages of Novaya Tavolzhanka and Arkhangelskoye has been postponed, Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov said at an operational meeting. “We need to clearly understand the operational situation and not allow the slightest risk to the life and health of people. If the situation is calm, we will return to the return of residents to Shebekino from temporary accommodation centers in a week,” the governor said.
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, NATO has agreed on plans to respond to an alleged Russian attack by breaking the Turkish blockade, Archyde.com reported, citing three diplomats.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that at the summit starting tomorrow in Vilnius, Kyiv will be offered a program of practical support to move closer to joining the alliance. “NATO countries are discussing a package of proposals for Ukraine that will remove the need to implement an action plan for NATO membership, these proposals also include the creation of a Ukraine-NATO Council,” he said. At the same time, Stoltenberg specified that the country would be able to join the military bloc only following the end of the conflict.
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Russia finds out why Türkiye violated the agreements on the “Azov”
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner commanders in the Kremlin on June 29, press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “The President had such a meeting. He invited 35 people to it – all the commanders of the detachments and the management of the company, including Prigozhin himself, ”Peskov explained, commenting on the publication of the Liberation publication regarding such a contact.
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According to the Kremlin speaker, the meeting lasted three hours. He did not disclose the details of the communication, but said that “the president gave an assessment of the company’s actions at the front during the NVO, and also gave his assessment of the events of June 24.” In addition, Putin “listened to the explanations of the Wagner commanders and offered them further options for employment and further combat use.”
At the same time, “the commanders themselves presented their version of what happened, they emphasized that they were staunch supporters and soldiers of the head of state and the supreme commander in chief, and also said that they were ready to continue to fight for the Motherland,” Peskov said.
He also stated that the Kremlin is considering the return of Azov leaders from Turkey to Ukraine (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation) as a breach of agreement. “And we will discuss this with the Turkish side, as we, in fact, have already begun to do,” said the presidential press secretary.
He noted that “unlike a number of countries of the so-called collective West, Turkey maintains a dialogue with us and, moreover, maintains it at the highest level.” “We will use these channels of dialogue to clarify our position and take this situation into account in the following agreements in various areas,” Peskov added.
In addition, he commented on the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. According to a Kremlin spokesman, the Kiev regime is trying to put pressure on the countries of the alliance to show solidarity. At the same time, Ukraine’s entry into the North Atlantic bloc will have a negative impact on European security. “You know the absolutely understandable and consistent position of the Russian Federation that Ukraine’s membership in NATO will have very, very negative consequences for the entire already dilapidated security architecture in Europe and will be an absolute danger and threat to our country, which will require us to have a fairly understandable and firm reaction,” Peskov stressed.
APU once more tried to attack in three directions
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take offensive actions in the Donetsk, Krasnolimansk and YuzhnoDonetsk directions.
In the Donetsk direction, the forces of the “Southern” group of troops repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Nevelskoye, Vodyanoye and Kleshcheevka (DPR). The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 275 people, a tank and four vehicles. An ammunition depot of the 24th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the city of Toretsk (DPR).
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In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the “Center” group of troops, air strikes and artillery defeated the manpower and equipment of the 21st, 63rd and 67th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Yampolovka, Torsky (DPR) and Kuzmino (LPR). Enemy attacks near Chervona Dibrova and Karmazinovka (LPR) were repulsed. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day amounted to 85 military personnel, four armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, and the Akatsiya self-propelled gun mount.
In the Yuzhno-Donets direction, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the Vostok group of forces repelled attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Rivnopol (DPR) and Rabotino (Zaporozhye region). Near the Priyutnoye, the activity of the DRG was stopped. In the Zaporizhia direction, the accumulation of manpower and equipment of the 106th territorial defense brigade near Lugovskoe (Zaporozhye region) was defeated. Enemy losses in two directions amounted to 150 people, five armored combat vehicles, two cars, two D-20 howitzers.
In the Kupyansk direction, the “Western” group of troops hit the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Lyman the First, Pershotravnevy and Sinkovka (Kharkiv region). Enemy attacks were repelled and the activities of the DRG in the Novoselovsky area (LPR) were suppressed.
The RF Armed Forces hit 63 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 89 districts in a day. Near Orekhov (Zaporozhye region), the command post of the 47th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit. Near Nikolaev and Kramatorsk, ammunition depots of the Ukrainian united group of troops “Kherson” and the 56th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed. Air defense intercepted five guided missiles of the S-200 anti-aircraft missile system fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroyed 8 UAVs.
There was no large-scale offensive by Ukraine, since in case of failure, Russian troops were able to occupy even more territories, businessman Elon Musk said on social networks. In his opinion, whichever side went on the offensive once morest fortified defensive positions, it would “lose many more soldiers.” What’s more, Russia outnumbers Ukraine by a 4:1 ratio, so it “would win a war of attrition even if the losses were equal,” Musk said.
Delivery of F-16 to Kyiv is hampered by “skeptics”
The European Union supports the supply of ammunition to Kiev for self-defense, Nabila Masrali, a representative of the EU foreign service, said at a press conference in Brussels on Monday, commenting on the US decision to supply Kiev with cluster munitions. “We are aware of the announcement of the supply of cluster munitions as part of a new US aid package to Ukraine. This is a question between the countries supplying ammunition and Ukraine. But in general, we support the provision of ammunition to Ukraine for self-defense,” she said.
The scientific services of the Bundestag see no reason to believe that the supply of weapons to Ukraine makes Germany and other NATO countries a party to the conflict on the territory of this country, German media report, citing the answer of parliamentary experts to a relevant request from Bundestag deputy from the opposition Left Party Sevim Dagdelen. According to their conclusion, “the system of international law still does not contain clear legal grounds that would allow NATO countries to regard support for Ukraine as a form of participation in the conflict.” At the same time, experts admit that there are no clear criteria in international law for determining the participation of a country in a conflict.
Germany intends to announce at the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius regarding new arms supplies to Kyiv. “As for the Taurus, there is nothing new to report,” a source in the German government told reporters. At the same time, according to him, a “very significant” package of weapons will be announced in Vilnius.
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Many Western countries are skeptical regarding the transfer of aircraft to Kyiv, in particular, F-16 fighters, said Yuriy Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “I’ll tell you that not yesterday, not the day before yesterday, not six months or even a year ago, negotiations began, very difficult negotiations. You know that there are many supporters, but there are also many skeptics regarding the provision of aircraft to Ukraine, in particular in the West, ”he said, adding that progress on the issue of providing aircraft is not going as fast as Kiev would like.
In Ukraine, the construction of a plant for the production of Turkish Bayraktar drones has begun, said Alexander Kamyshin, Minister for Strategic Industries of the country. “The plant began to be built in practice, and not just in a memorandum. This is exactly the large plant Bayraktar, which was agreed upon several years ago, then there were stops, scandals. Today, this plant is starting to be built, we have moved to real steps,” he said.
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