Day 135 ๐ The size of mass graves in the ๐ท๐บ-occupied village of Stary Krym near #Mariupol has doubled compared to the beginning of May, as the occupiers began to dismantle the rubble of multi-story buildings damaged & destroyed by the ๐ท๐บ army. More โฌ๏ธsharethetruths.org/2022/07/08/warโฆ
There may be up to a hundred dead local residents in each of the destroyed multi-story residential houses in #Mariupol. Most often, the bodies are taken to the Stary Krym, where the closest to Mariupol is a cemetery with places of mass burials.
๐ท๐บ forces Ukrainians, who want to leave the occupied territories & to escape the shelling through the territory of #Crimea, to sign falsified documents about alleged โcrimesโ of the Ukrainian Armed Force, says @T_Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of ๐บ๐ฆ in Crimea.
Shelters with fleeing Ukrainians on the territory of the occupied #Crimea are quite strictly guarded to avoid contacts between Ukrainians from the mainland of ๐บ๐ฆ & the local population of occupied Crimea. This is envisaged to limit peninsula residents' access to information.
Up to 71 mln people from the poorest countries in the world are projected to be facing severe poverty as a result of ๐ท๐บ war in ๐บ๐ฆ, according to the UNDP report. Those already in poverty and near-poverty will be hit hardest due to their higher energy and food budget share.
@amnesty released an investigation on war crimes committed by the ๐ท๐บ army in Serviivka, Odesa region. The strikes, most likely by anti-ship missiles, hit the town shortly before 1 am on July 1, injuring at least 35 people. 5 people remain in critical condition in intensive care.
During the day, as a result of ๐ท๐บ shelling, nine people were injured in the #Kharkiv region: five in Kharkiv, two in Chuguyiv district, and two in Tsirkuny. Four people died, three of them in Kharkiv, one in Tsirkuny ๐
The @Europarl_EN approved the provision of โฌ1 billion in macro-financial aid for ๐บ๐ฆ. The Parliament agreed to a Commission proposal to provide #Kyiv with an additional loan on highly favorable terms. Meanwhile, @EU_Commission is blocking a โฌ1.5 billion loan to Ukraine.
On 6 July, #Tรผrkiye released the ๐ท๐บ ship โZhibek Zholy,โ detained in the port of Karasu, regardless of ๐บ๐ฆ appeal. The ship was carrying stolen Ukrainian grain. Ukraine called it an โunacceptable situation and summoned Turkeyโs ambassador.โ
#Poland is trying to solve logistical problems in order to make it possible to quickly transport grain intended for African and Asian countries from ๐บ๐ฆ. Also, Poland is considering the possibility of creating a grain terminal with a storage area of about 100,000 tons.
@ZelenskyyUa called on the worldโs largest independent oil trader, the Dutch company #Vitol, to stop supplying ๐ท๐บ oil & thereby stop financing the mass murder of innocent Ukrainians. Since Feb 24, Vitol has chartered shipments of 38+ mln barrels of oil from ๐ท๐บ ports (โ$3.21 bln)
๐บ๐ฆ community in #Canada is urging Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau to refuse to compromise the countryโs sanctions against ๐ท๐บ in order to return a turbine that Moscow says is critical for supplying natural gas to Germany ๐
At the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, more than 500 ๐ท๐บ soldiers who seized the facility in March recently have deployed heavy artillery batteries and laid anti-personnel mines along the shores of the reservoir whose water cools its six reactors ๐
The ๐บ๐ฆ army holds the city of Energodar dotted on the opposite shore, some three miles away, but sees no easy way to attack the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, given the inherent danger of artillery battles around active nuclear reactors ๐คทโโ๏ธ
๐ท๐บ occupants removed all valuable exhibits from the museums in #Mariupol, incl. original paintings by Arkhip Kuindzhi & Ivan Aivazovsky. The Local History & Art Museums were left without collections, which are the region's cultural heritage. Their buildings were destroyed ๐
@UA_Institute, together with the online education studio @EdEra_ua, launched a free online course, โCrimea: History and People.โ The course is available in English. You can join by the link โฌ๏ธ udemy.com/course/crimea-โฆ
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Day 136 ๐ At least 18 Russian Federation's filtration camps are operating along the border with Ukraine. Preparations for the filtration camps have started already before the full-scale invasion ๐ To know more, please read today's brief and the thread. sharethetruths.org/2022/07/09/warโฆ
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk calls on residents of the occupied districts of #Kherson & #Zaporizhzhia regions to evacuate by all possible means because when the de-occupation starts, armed battles will intensify, incl. the offensive from the ๐บ๐ฆ side.
Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov named three possible scenarios for the end of the war with Russia, including the collapse of the Russian Federation, the victory of Ukraine on the battlefield, and another alleged โgoodwill gesture of the Russian Federationโ ๐
Day 134 ๐ Russians burn wheat fields with phosphorus bombs in the Polohy community, #Zaporihzhzhia region. While the harvest is approaching, this looks like a deliberate shelling. More on the current situation in Ukraine is in our brief by the link โฌ๏ธ sharethetruths.org/2022/07/07/warโฆ
The Governor of the #Luhansk region underlined that not all of the region is occupied, as ๐บ๐ฆ still controls some of the territories. In the #Donetsk region, due to the ๐ท๐บ shelling, 35 objects were damaged, and 7 civilians were killed (including a child), 2 people were wounded.
In the morning, ๐ท๐บ forces attacked one of the districts of the #Odesa region with two rockets. Two agricultural warehouses were hit, and 35 tons of grain were destroyed. Over the night, the occupiers also attacked a boarding school in #Kharkiv.
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 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
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