Cover photo: Debris and a crater caused by a Russian missile at Kramatorsk in the eastern Donetsk region. June 19, 2023. GENYA SAVILOV / AFP
- A SAMP/T surface-to-air defense system has been delivered to Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday, June 19. The SAMP/T Mamba is the first European medium-range missile defense system. It is designed to help Ukraine repel attacks from Russian drones, missiles and planes. Paris had announced the delivery of this equivalent of the American Patriot at the beginning of February.
- In his speech on Sunday evening, the Ukrainian President reminded Moscow of his own responsibility. “Russia will lose the occupied territories. There isn’t and there won’t be [d’autres options que] “Our “dismissal” measures,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Our troops are advancing, post by post, step by step, we are advancing. »
- Kakhovka Dam: The UN accuses Russia of blocking aid for disaster victims. Russia was accused by the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine on Sunday of obstructing the delivery of aid to victims of the dam destruction in areas under its control in southern Ukraine.
- The official flood fees have been revised upwards. The floods caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam killed 16 people in Ukraine, according to officials in Kiev, while Russia, for its part, reports 29 dead in the areas it controls.
- Ukrainian forces destroyed a “significant” ammunition depot near the port city of Henicheskoccupied by Russia, in the Kherson region, Sergey Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odessa military administration, reported on Sunday.
- According to reports, Ukrainian forces have taken control of Piatykhatky. “The enemy’s offensive wave has borne fruit despite the colossal losses,” Vladimir Rogov, a Russian occupation official in the Zaporizhia region, said on Sunday. For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had repelled an attack on Pyatychatky. It is impossible to immediately independently verify this information.
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