As part of your counter-offensive has the Ukrainian army according to its own information in the southern area Zaporizhia other “partial successes” achieved.
Troops are currently in newly reached positions south of Orikhiw, the staff said on Facebook on Friday.
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- Lavrov: Russia will emerge stronger from Wagner revolt
- Hungary plans to block further aid to Ukraine
- Ukrainians and Russians Use Prohibited Mines
- Ukraine receives more IMF financial assistance
Russian troops would also have been pushed back in other sections of the area.
in the east zone donetsk are Ukrainian advances despite heavy fighting near the destroyed city bachmut more success. The Ukrainian military did not provide any specific information about the liberated cities.
The information initially could not be independently verified.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, attacks by Russian troops continued Marjinka It is Avdiivka in the Donetsk region. Also, the Russian army is trying to expand its positions rozdolivka It is Bilohorivka at the border to Lugansk improve area. Artillery fire and Russian air force attacks continued along the front line.
According to its own statements, the Ukrainian army bombed the occupied port city in southern Ukraine on Thursday morning. Berdyansk. Army command claims to have hit a Russian officer’s team and a fuel depot, while Russian occupiers spoke of launching several “Storm Shadow” missiles. The town on the Sea of Azov is one of the declared thrusts of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Ukraine has been repelling a Russian invasion with Western help for more than 16 months. A long-awaited counter-offensive began about three weeks ago, during which the occupied areas will be liberated. So far at least, sometimes very high expectations have yet to be met.
Lavrov: Russia will emerge stronger from Wagner revolt
Russia, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov Emerge stronger from the uprising of the Wagner mercenaries.
“Russia has always overcome all difficulties,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow on Friday. “It will be the same this time,” he added. The country is becoming “increasingly stronger” by overcoming challenges.
the one of Yevgeny Prigozhin On Friday and Saturday of last week, the Wagner group led by the Wagner group took control of several military sites in southern Russia. Prigozhin announced a march on Moscow. After mediation by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin finally stopped the uprising on Saturday night.
The agreement provided for Prigozhin to go into exile in Belarus. No penalties were imposed on the insurgents, who said Russian intelligence services had abandoned investigations into them. Western observers saw this as a sign of the Kremlin’s weakness.
Hungary plans to block further aid to Ukraine
Hungary rejects the EU Commission’s plan to provide more financial aid to Ukraine.
It is “completely ridiculous and absurd” that Hungary contributes more money when it receives no funding from the EU recovery fund, says prime minister Victor Orban on the sidelines of the EU summit in Brussels for the state broadcaster. There is little chance that EU member states will agree to the Commission’s financial plans. He expects a “long discussion”.
Like Poland, Hungary faces accusations that its nationalist governments are violating principles of democracy and the rule of law with their policies. The EU Commission is therefore blocking the distribution of funds from the reconstruction fund to the two EU members.
Ukrainians and Russians Use Prohibited Mines
According to the human rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW), both the Ukrainian and Russian armed forces are using banned anti-personnel mines.
The organization asked the Kiev government on Friday in Washington to refrain from this practice, as previously assured, to investigate the use of mines and hold those responsible accountable.
The government must make clear that it has a duty to protect civilians, said Steve Goose of Human Rights Watch.
According to the organization, it presented its findings to the Ukrainian government in May. So far, however, she has received no response. The Ukrainian embassy in Washington initially did not respond to a request from the Portal news agency.
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In 2005, Ukraine ratified an international treaty banning antipersonnel mines. It also stipulates the destruction of stockpiles of this type of weapon. Russia has not yet acceded to the treaty.
The HRW report condemned the use of mines by Russian troops as a “violation of international human rights”. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, Human Rights Watch has published four reports documenting Russian use of antipersonnel mines.
Ukraine receives more IMF financial assistance
Ukraine wins another financial injection in International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF Executive Board completed an initial review of Ukraine’s $15.6 billion loan program, authorizing Kiev to draw $890 million.
Ukrainian authorities have made “great progress” in meeting reform commitments under “difficult conditions”, meeting quantitative performance criteria in April and structural benchmarks in June, the IMF said.
With approval now granted, Ukraine has received about $3.6 billion from the program launched on March 31.