“By decision of the General Staff, Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny and General Nayev were instructed to strengthen the northern leadership in order to ensure peace.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, June 30, ordered the security of the border with Belarus to be strengthened , given the arrival of fighters from the Wagner paramilitary group in this Moscow-allied country after a failed uprising in Russia. Follow our live.
News sites linked to Wagner’s boss blocked. News portals of the Patriot media group, which is close to the head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigoyine, were blocked by the Russian Telekom police officer. Their web addresses appear in the Restricted Access register of Roskomnadzor, a government agency responsible for blocking illegal and extremist content, media and other resources banned by the authorities.
Russia ‘stronger’ after Wagner’s failed uprising. The uprising of the paramilitary group that has shaken Russian power will make Russia “stronger”, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov assured. “Russia has always come out of all the difficulties stronger and stronger (…) That will be the case this time too. We already have the feeling that this process has started,” he said at a press conference in Moscow.
The head of the Ukrainian army calls for more funds. In an interview published by the Washington Post, the Ukrainian army’s commander-in-chief Valery Zalouzhny estimates that the Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive is being limited by a lack of armament, especially combat aircraft. “It’s getting on my nerves,” he says of Westerners who complain that Kiev is slow to move against the Russians, even though he wishes they would deliver weapons more quickly. In order to be able to compete with the Russian Air Force, Ukraine needs the promised F-16 fighter jets as soon as possible, emphasizes the colonel general.