2023-07-10 07:24:13
The Ukrainian army reported further progress in the counter-offensive once morest the invading Russian forces. According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian armed forces are “moving forward”. At least four civilians were killed and eleven others injured in a Russian bombing raid on the town of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhia region, which is close to the front. There is apparently already a medical supply crisis in Russia.
Since the counteroffensive began last month, Ukrainian forces have so far recaptured 169 square kilometers on the southern front and 24 square kilometers around the eastern city of Bakhmut, the military said. The Ukrainian offensive has made slow progress recently in view of the massive defensive positions of the Russian army. According to President Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian armed forces took the initiative in the fighting in the south-east of their country. “We’re making progress, we’re not stuck,” Zelenskyj told US TV station ABC. Heavy fighting was raging in two areas in the south-east, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maljar said on Telegram. “We are in the process of consolidating our gains in these areas,” she wrote.
According to British secret services, the high number of casualties in the war of aggression once morest Ukraine is affecting medical care in Russia. “The influx of military casualties is likely to have affected the normal delivery of some Russian civilian medical services, particularly in regions bordering Ukraine,” the Defense Ministry said in London on Monday. “Probably specialized military hospitals are reserved for officer injuries.” With an average of 400 casualties per day since the start of the war on February 24, 2022, there is a supply crisis in the care of injured Russian soldiers.
The British ministry quoted the head of combat medicine training at the Kalashnikov defense company as saying that up to 50 percent of those killed might have been saved with appropriate first aid. The fact that the injured are only evacuated slowly and bandages are used improperly is “one of the main causes of preventable deaths and amputations,” it said, citing media reports.
A residential area in Orikhiv in southern Ukraine was hit by a guided aerial bomb during the distribution of humanitarian aid, the head of the military administration of the Zaporizhia region, Yuriy Malashko, said on his Telegram channel on Monday. Three women between the ages of 43 and 47 and a 47-year-old man were killed on the spot. In total, Russian troops carried out 36 attacks on 10 towns in the region. The settlements were mostly fired at with rockets and artillery.
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Senzow says he was injured at the front. “That was yesterday. It’s better today,” Senzow commented on Sunday evening on Facebook on a video he published showing him injured on the battlefield. Lying on the ground, he reported a splinter injury. He was taken to the hospital with other wounded comrades, he said.
Born in Crimea, the Ukrainian was arrested there in 2014 following the Russian annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula. Internationally, he was considered a political prisoner. In 2019 he was released as part of a prisoner exchange. After the start of the Russian war of aggression once morest Ukraine, Sentsov volunteered in Kiev. Most recently he fought in the Zaporizhia region, where he was promoted to second lieutenant.
Meanwhile, the US has admitted to war crimes with the White House decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine, according to the Russian embassy in Washington. “We have closely followed statements by White House national security spokesman John Kirby regarding the supply of cluster munitions to Ukraine. He has effectively admitted that the United States committed war crimes in the Ukraine conflict,” the embassy said late Sunday evening (local time) via Telegram.
Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of having already used cluster munitions. Ukraine promised last week that the ammunition that the US plans to ship to Kiev will not be used in Russia.
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