Day 120 ๐ โIt is the only country where people got shot because they wrapped themselves in a European flag. ๐บ๐ฆ has gone through hell and high water for one simple reason: and thatโs their desire to join the EU,โ โ @vonderleyen said. More in our brief โฌ๏ธ
@vonderleyen EU leaders will decide today whether to grant Ukraine candidate status, following a positive recommendation from the European Commission last Friday ๐ Ukraineโs president, @ZelenskyyUa, said he had spoken to 11 EU leaders on Wednesday about Ukraineโs candidacy.
@vonderleyen After the Russian army invaded Ukraine, the #Czech government decided to suspend the issuance of visas to citizens of the Russian Federation and later to Belarus, except for humanitarian causes, till March 2023 ๐คทโโ๏ธ
@vonderleyen The EU has created the EU Sanctions Whistleblower Tool that is aimed at collecting first-hand information to help uncover cases of sanctions violations, including evasion and circumvention. Available by the link: eusanctions.integrityline.com/frontpage ๐
@vonderleyen 7 people, incl. 2 children, were injured by ๐ท๐บ shelling in the #Kharkiv region. According to the Head of Kharkiv Regional Administration Oleh Syniehubov, Russians shelled the village of Pechenihy on the night and morning of June 23. The attack destroyed multiple houses, he said.
๐ท๐บ intensifies airstrikes in #Donbas. On June 22, ๐ท๐บ airforce hit several settlements near the city of #Sievierodonetsk, #Luhansk region. They also carried out several airstrikes on 7 villages near the city of Bakhmut, #Donetsk region. ๐ท๐บ troops killed 4 civilians and wounded 5.
In general, Ukraine controls nearly 45% of # the Donetsk region. Russia and its proxies currently hold the remaining 55%, including the destroyed cities of #Mariupol and #Volnovakha ๐
๐ท๐บ shelled residential areas of the Dnipropetrovsk region with cluster munitions. ๐ท๐บ troops attacked Kryvyi Rih District overnight on June 23 damaging residential buildings. 2 civilians were injured after handling unexploded ammunition. ๐ท๐บ launches 7 missiles on Mykolaiv ๐
Residents & workers at the NPP in Enerhodar, #Zaporizhzhia region, are being abducted by ๐ท๐บ occupiers. โWhereabouts of some unknown. The rest are in very difficult conditions: they are being tortured with electric shock, bullied physically and morally,โ said mayor Dmytro Orlov.
In the #Kyiv morgue, the #Azov patronage service began inspecting the bodies handed over as part of the exchange yesterday. On June 21, Ukraine returned the bodies of 35 ๐บ๐ฆ defenders of #Azovstal in #Mariupol, AzovAngels Patronage Service reported.
The court in the #Poltava region sentenced ๐ท๐บ proxies to 15 years in prison. The 9 militants from the ๐ท๐บ-occupied areas of the #Donetsk region were captured during hostilities in the #Kharkiv region, according to Artem Dekhtyarenko, a spokesman for the Security Service of Ukraine
A British sentenced to death by a ๐ท๐บ proxy court for fighting in ๐บ๐ฆ has been told the execution will be carried out. Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were sentenced by a court that is not internationally recognized, in the so-called Donetsk Peopleโs Republic (DPR).
@Microsoft published a new intelligence report. It represents research conducted by Microsoftโs threat intelligence and data science teams to sharpen our understanding of the threat landscape in the ongoing war in ๐บ๐ฆ. Available here: query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binโฆ
After #BILD reporter Paul Ronzheimer, together with photographer Giorgos Moutafis & Vadim Moissenko, wanted to leave #Lysytschansk, which was almost encircled by the ๐ท๐บ army, the team was shot at midday on a street. There were several explosions. The reporters are not injured.
๐ท๐บ state media & proxy information operations are working on painting Western support for ๐บ๐ฆ as the reason the war is dragging on so long and the reason there is a growing food crisis. Never mind the fact the conflict & grain export problems exist because Putin chose to invade ๐บ๐ฆ
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Day 121 ๐ Today marks exactly four months since the beginning of Russiaโs war against Ukraine. Four months of struggle by the people of Ukraine. Four months of unprecedented solidarity. Read more about the current situation in Ukraine in the update โฌ๏ธ
EU government leaders holding a 2-day summit in Brussels approved a recommendation from the @EU_Commission to grant candidate status to Ukraine & Moldova ๐ The landmark decision immediately delivered a tremendous morale boost in both countries and was cheered widely there.
Ukrainians took to the streets twice, in 2004 & 2014, to force the government to root out corruption & come closer to the EU. 8 years ago, ๐บ๐ฆ calling for closer relations with the EU during the Revolution of Dignity were shot & killed by police from the pro-Moscow administration
Day 119 ๐ Russian occupational authorities proposed introducing the death penalty, the mayor of occupied Melitopol said. BTW, he was abducted at the beginning of the war but later exchanged. More on the situation in Ukraine is in today's brief: sharethetruths.org/2022/06/22/warโฆ
As a result of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 592 ๐บ๐ฆ children have been injured, the Prosecutor Generalโs Office said on June 22. The figures are expected to be higher since they do not include casualties in areas where hostilities are ongoing ๐
Decisive battles are taking place on the territory of the #Sievierodonetsk and #Lysychansk agglomerations, and the ๐ท๐บ leadership demands that its troops reach the administrative borders of the #Luhansk region by June 26, โ says Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar.
Day 99. Over a month after ๐ท๐บ soldiers were pushed from the area, people in villages north of Kyiv say they are still finding their neighbors buried in shallow graves. Officials say more than 300 people are still missing from that region. Read more ๐ฝ
Explosions were reported in #Mykolaiv & #Odesa. Other ๐ท๐บ missiles hit a railway in western Ukraine near the border with Slovakia. The ๐ท๐บ forces continue shelling the #Sumy region from the territory of ๐ท๐บ and have been dropping improvised explosive devices from drones there.
Occasional shelling of #Kharkiv city & region continues, resulting 6 people injured. ๐ท๐บ forces shelled #Donetsk region 11 times from tanks, artillery, mortars, MLRS โHurricaneโ, MLRS โTornado.โ 4 civilians were killed, and 7 were injured. 20 infrastructure facilities were damaged
Day 98. June 1 is the Children's Day. But ๐ท๐บ continues to kill and injure ๐บ๐ฆ children. Due to official data, over 689 children were affected by the war in Ukraine, at least 243 of them died.
Read more about the situation in Ukraine in the today's brief.
The ๐ท๐บ army launched an airstrike on #Severodonetsk, #Luhansk region, hitting a cistern with nitric acid at a chemical plant, even though most of the city is under control of ๐ท๐บ troops ๐คทโโ๏ธ Currently, 90% of the infrastructure is damaged, while 60% cannot be repaired.
The self-proclaimed authority of #Kherson, Kyrylo Stremousov, has announced that the region will join the ๐ท๐บ banking system. Meanwhile, Kherson has been without internet and mobile connection for two days. Russian authorities blame Ukraine, while Ukraine denies the accusations.
Day 97. The ๐ท๐บ military shelled an officially approved armored evacuation vehicle in the #Luhansk region, killing a French journalist. Heavy shelling in the #Donetsk region damaged a branch of the ammonia pipeline. Read more in today's brief ๐ฒ
@DefenceHQ indicates ๐ท๐บ capture of #Lyman supports its operational main effort, which likely remains the encirclement of #Severodonetsk and the closure of the pocket around ๐บ๐ฆ forces in #Luhansk region ๐ Military goal of ๐ท๐บ is to take control of the Luhansk and #Donetsk regions.
@DefenceHQ Residents of the village of Vysokopillya in the #Kherson region are forced to survive without drugs and food, suffering from torture and repression. Another village bordering the #Dnipropetrovsk region is left without electricity, gas and drinking water as a result of ๐ท๐บ shelling
Days 95-96. Due to the war, 35% of the ๐บ๐ฆ economy does not operate. According to various estimates, from 30% to 50% of the economy has been lost as of today ๐ To know more about Ukraine's current situation, please read our fresh update ๐ฝ
#Sumy and #Chernihiv regions remain the target for the ๐ท๐บ army. On Sunday, ๐ท๐บ forces fired 10 times at border areas there from the territory of Russia. Over the weekend, ๐ท๐บ aircraft bombed a church and a kindergarten in the Sumy region.
115 miners of #Toretsk have been stuck underground because of the blackout. ๐ท๐บ forces have destroyed all of the critical infrastructure in the ๐บ๐ฆ city of #Severodonetsk. The #Slovyansk heat power station has stopped operating. Shelling of the #Kharkiv region continues.