⚡ Following the Ukraine Government request, Ukrainian troops have officially withdrawn from MONUSCO Peacekeeping mission, reports the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO).
The Force commander Lt Gen Marcos De Sá Affonso Da Costa has appreciated their 10 years of immense contribution for the cause of serving the people of the DRC.
⚡️ General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: In 24 hours, the Russian troops carried out three missiles and eleven air strikes, and fired more than 40 shells with MRL at objects in the territory of Ukraine. The infrastructure of more than 20 settlements was damaged.
⚡️ General Staff: In the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region, in particular in the Bilobodskyi district, new recruitment to the so-called "units of the Interior Ministry" has been announced.
After significant losses in the battles, most of the staff escaped or deserted to the territory of Russia.
Russia has launched several thousand long-range missiles against Ukraine since 24 February 2022.
However, in the last seven days, Russia has increased its targeting of civilian infrastructure even where it probably perceives no immediate military effect.
This category of mission has included strikes against the electricity grid, and a dam on the Inhulets River at Kryvyi Rih.
⚡️Explosions were heard in Mykolaiv, the Donetsk region, Nikopol, Zaporizhzhia, – subscribers report. We are waiting for official information.
⚡️Documented data on the destruction of granaries by the Russians in Ukraine will be considered by the US government and international organizations as potential war crimes with the aim of holding the Russian Federation accountable and imposing new sanctions.
This was said Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale Humanitarian Laboratory, one of the leaders of the Conflict Observatory project to collect data on crimes of the Russians.
⚡️Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Over the past 24 hours, the Russians have launched 6 missile and 28 airstrikes, carried out more than 90 rounds of anti-aircraft fire at military and civilian targets in Ukraine.
In the temporarily occupied Kherson region, information is received regarding the mass eviction of residents from their private homes in Pryozerne and Tryfonivka.
Servicemen of the Russian army force the local population to participate in the fortification equipment of the positions under threats of death In the area of Chonhar settlement.
⚡️ Brigadier General Christian Freding, head of the special staff for Ukraine in the Bundeswehr, gave an interview in which he evaluated the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv direction.
He noted that the deceptive maneuver to announce an offensive in the south, and at the same time launch an offensive in the north, paid off.
He also appreciated the tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which identified weak points in the enemy's defense and delivered the main blow there, taking the initiative and starting not just an offensive, but also the pursuit of the occupiers.
⚡️Evening address of Volodymyr Zelenskyi: "Today in Izium, the Kharkiv region, exhumation work continued at the site of the found mass burial. Body examinations are being conducted. New evidence of torture that was applied to the people buried there was received.
More than 10 torture chambers have already been found in the liberated areas of Kharkiv region in various cities and towns. As the occupiers fled, they also dropped the devices for abuse.
Even at the regular Kozachai Lopan railway station, they found a room for torture, found tools for electric torture. It's just a train station! Torture was a widespread practice in the occupied territory."