View of Lisichansk. File photoMOSCOW, July 1The allied forces went directly to the city of Lisichansk in the LPR, the Ukrainian armed formations are suffering heavy losses, more and more Ukrainian soldiers are leaving their positions, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports on Friday. The course of the operationAllied forces went directly to the city of Lisichansk in the Lugansk People's Republic, the Ukrainian army is here heavy losses, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday. According to the Ministry of Defense, Russian aircraft hit 32 command posts of the Ukrainian military, a radar station for detecting air targets in the Katranka region of the Odessa region, three ammunition depots in the Spornoye region of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as a live forces and military equipment in 297 districts. The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a high-precision weapon, a command post and five weapons depots of the Ukrainian forces in a day, the agency said in a summary. />Yesterday, 15:04InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of 07/01/2022InfographicViewIn addition, the ministry stressed that the number of deserters and those evading participation in hostilities is growing in the Ukrainian army.LPR and DPRThe shelling of Donetsk from Ukraine continues. Over the past day, Ukrainian troops opened fire on the territory of the DPR 67 times, firing 541 ammunition, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk were shelled. Representatives of the Donetsk Ombudsman reported on Friday that 51 security officials and 10 civilians were killed in the republic from June 24 to June 30, 207 security officials and 42 civilians were injured. stated that they were tortured in captivity. «They were tortured — with electric shocks, beatings and water torture,» she said.
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In the DPR, two more British mercenaries, Dylan Hilly and Andrew Hill, have been charged with the same articles as foreigners previously sentenced to death in Mariupol — two British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim, who pleaded guilty in the armed aggression of Ukraine aimed at seizing power in the DPR. In addition, according to local media, the case against the first group of captured Ukrainian militants from Azovstal in Mariupol is ready to be sent to court in the Donetsk People's Republic. Meanwhile, Donetsk began to extradite Russian passports, according to the message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic in the Telegram channel. There are also exchanges of prisoners of war. In particular, on Friday, more than 30 citizens of the LPR were released as a result of an exchange between Russia and Ukraine, RIA Novosti was informed by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Victoria Serdyukova. According to the People's Militia of the LPR, more than 10 thousand civilians remain in Lisichansk, where fights.
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Ukrainian forces are trying to inflict damage on industrial facilities outside the territory of the LPR, in particular, this is evidenced by the shelling of the city of Rovenka by Tochka-U, the purpose of which, as reported by RIA Novosti in the prosecutor's office of the republic, could probably be an oil depot. negotiations in the Kremlin, he said that he had conveyed a message from Vladimir Zelensky to Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Zelensky's message was not recorded in a written document. Brazilian Permanent Representative to the UN Ronaldo Costa Filho, who chairs the Security Council, said that the problem of food security in the context of Ukraine will be one of the topics of discussion at the UN Security Council in July, the exact date will depend on the progress of negotiations on this agenda. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed to allocate 1 billion euros to Ukraine from a new macro-financial support package announced in May.
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Zelensky, meanwhile, received Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in Ukraine, who promised to provide financial assistance to the Ukrainian side in the amount of about 10 billion euros. And ex-NATO Secretary General Andres von Rasmussen, as stated by the same Zelensky, agreed to head the advisory group on Ukraine together with the head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak. According to the press secretary of the US defense department, Todd Brissil, this assistance package includes: additional ammunition for the American HIMARS MLRS, two Norwegian NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems, up to 150,000 150-mm artillery shells, and four counter-battery radars.White House has repeatedly stressed that he considers a diplomatic settlement the only possible way to resolve the current conflict in Ukraine, while at the same time allocating new military assistance to Ukraine. At the same time, the day before, US President Joe Biden stressed that his country would provide Ukraine with support «for as long as it takes.» unpleasant truth after Putin's comment