A Russian airstrike destroyed a UAV control center and a Starlink communication station on the right bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson Region on Saturday, a spokesman for the region’s emergency services told reporters.
"Near Nikolskoye, a UAV control center, a Starlink station and 25 Ukrainian servicemen were eliminated in a Su-34 airstrike on the command post of the 222nd separate battalion of the Ukrainian armed forces," he said.
He said that thanks to cohesion of Battlegroup Dnepr units, three M777 155 mm howitzers were destroyed in the past day.
Ukraine’s military suffers over 600 casualties in battles in past day – Russia’s top brass
The Ukrainian military lost over 600 troops in battles in the zone of the special military operation in the past day, according to the data released by Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday.
The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 315 troops in the Donetsk area, 210 in the south Donetsk and Zaporozhye areas, 70 in the Krasny Liman area and 20 in the Kupyansk area, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported.
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▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine made attempts to attack in the Donetsk, Krasnolimansk and YuzhnoDonetsk directions
▪️In the Krasnoliman direction, the losses of Ukrainian troops per day amounted to more than 70 servicemen, in Donetsk - up to 315, in Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye - up to 210, the Russian Defense Ministry said
▪️Putin spoke by phone with the President of South Africa, the leaders discussed, among other things, the African Peace Initiative on Ukraine. Its consideration will be continued in connection with the Russia-Africa summit at the end of July.
▪️Putin told the President of South Africa that the obligations to remove obstacles to the export of Russian food and fertilizers have not been fulfilled
▪️An air defense system worked over Belgorod, 2 air targets were shot down on approach to the city, preliminary, there were no victims, the governor said
▪️Not a single ship with Russian fertilizers was sent during the entire period of the Black Sea initiative, the UN coordinating center said
▪️The poorest countries received only 10% of the corn and 40% of the wheat sent in the grain deal, the center said
▪️The FSB announced the prevention of the preparation by the Ukrainian special services of an assassination attempt on Simonyan and Sobchak. Later, a court in Moscow arrested the defendants in the case.
▪️The British Ministry of Defense reported that at the moment, as part of Operation Interflex, 18,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained on the territory of the kingdom.
Russia-Ukraine conflict ‘at a stalemate’ – Pentagon official
Fighting in Ukraine has reached “a bit of a stalemate,” US Defense Intelligence Agency Chief of Staff John Kirchhofer told a conference in Washington on Thursday. His assessment of Ukraine’s chances is considerably gloomier than that of other Biden administration officials.
“Certainly we are at a bit of a stalemate,” Kirchhofer said, according to Bloomberg. “One of the things that the Russian leadership believes is that they can outlast the support of the West.”
Ukrainian forces have been bogged down in a counteroffensive against Russian defenses from Kherson to Donetsk since early June, and have failed to make any significant territorial gains against the Russians. The offensive has cost Ukraine 26,000 men and more than 3,000 pieces of military hardware, according to the latest figures from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
However, Kirchhofer warned that no one weapon system will change Kiev’s fortunes. Neither US-supplied HIMARS rocket artillery and cluster bombs, nor British Storm Shadow cruise missiles, have thus far tilted the battlefield situation in Ukraine’s favor, he pointed out.
“None of these, unfortunately, are the holy grail that Ukrainians looking for that will allow them to break through,” he said.
While recent media reports suggest that Kiev’s American and European backers are frustrated with the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Washington officials have publicly insisted that all is well. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said last month that Ukrainian forces were “advancing steadily,” but that progress would be slow and “very bloody.”
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told CNN last month that heavy Ukrainian casualties are “to be expected,” but that Zelensky will continue to receive “the support he needs not just from the United States, but from 50 other partners.”
US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have both repeatedly rejected the idea of Ukraine entering into peace talks with Russia. Both insist that Ukraine will decide when to sit down to negotiate, and neither have spoken on whether this position will change if Kiev’s counteroffensive continues to fail.
Russia maintains that Western arms deliveries will only serve to prolong the conflict, without altering its eventual outcome.
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