19:07
President Lukashenko accuses kyiv of firing missiles at Belarus
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed his army shot down missiles fired from Ukraine at Belarus, amid speculation of Minsk’s growing involvement in the conflict between kyiv and Moscow.
“We are provoked. I have to tell you that about three days ago, maybe more, there was an attempt from Ukraine to hit military targets in Belarus. Praise be to God, our Pantsir anti-aircraft systems intercepted all missiles fired by Ukrainian forces,” he said, quoted by state news agency Belta.
18:39
Teachers from occupied Ukraine invited to follow Russian curriculum
Moscow has asked Ukrainian teachers in the occupied territories to sign a document certifying their willingness to switch to teaching the Russian school curriculum. According The Guardian, the new local authorities give them until July 21 to do so. If they give up, they risk being evicted from their homes.
But if they sign, they risk being charged by the Ukrainian authorities, who consider teaching the Russian curriculum a form of collaboration with the enemy.
18:18
Ukrainian army ‘cleans up’ Serpents’ Island
In a patriotic tweet, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense indicates that it “cleans up Russian garbage on Serpent’s Island “, fiercely disputed. And that it will be the same for “all Ukrainian territory” occupied.
17:29
Strikes near Odessa: an open investigation
After rocket attacks on residential areas near Odessa killing at least 21 people, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova called it a war crime. Investigators are trying to find the trajectory of the projectiles and identify those who precisely are at the origin of the bombardment, according to The mirror.
16:32
Kremenchuk shopping center: 21 dead, confirms the mayor
15:51
Lyssychansk “is not surrounded”, according to the Ukrainian army
“Fighting is raging around Lyssychansk. Fortunately, the city is not surrounded and it is under the control of the Ukrainian army”, according to Ruslan Mouzychuk, spokesman for the National Guard of Ukraine, denying information given earlier by an army representative. Lugansk separatist.
15:38
French defense industry ‘ready’ to ramp up production
French defense companies are “ready” to ramp up production, as the government wants, according to Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu. But one of the difficulties is to find personnel, he admitted during a visit to the equipment manufacturer Aresia, which started in 2020 near Valenciennes (North) the production of high-power bombs for aviation, weighing up to 1 ton, previously imported from the United States.
“To save several months or even several years (…), it is a multiplicity of small decisions that must be taken at various levels, within the companies of the sector but also of the State, he underlined . He asks the players in the sector to make proposals in order to draw up a “plan” in this direction, “which will come together with the military programming law ». More details in our article.
14:59
British government reaction
We mentioned it earlier, two Britons, accused by pro-Russians of being mercenaries and of having fought alongside the Ukrainians, face the death penalty in the Donetsk region. A spokesman for the British Foreign Office reacts. “We condemn the exploitation of civilians and prisoners of war for political purposes and we have communicated this to Russia. We are in constant contact with Ukraine on these two cases and fully support Ukraine in its efforts to release them”.
14:17
New form of resistance
As reported by several media, including CNN, citing US officials, several assassination attempts against pro-Russian officials have taken place in the occupied areas in the south of the country, particularly in the city of Kherson.
13:54
“The need” for the 7th sanctions package
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says he spoke with EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell about the current situation. “We both agree on the need for the adoption of the 7th package of European sanctions and we are working on it”, he assures.
13:37
Lysychansk surrounded
Pro-Russian separatists say they have surrounded the city of Lysychansk, Russian news agencies report. A symbolic advance, since Lyssytchanks is strategic for the Russians: it is the last major city in the Luhansk region which is still in Ukrainian hands. “Today the Luhansk People’s Militia (the separatist army) and the Russian armed forces occupied the last strategic heights, which allows us to affirm that the locality of Lysytchansk is completely surrounded”, indicates, in detail, a representative of the separatist army of Lugansk, Andrei Marotchko, quoted by Russian news agency TASS.
13:15
Resilience plan: details of the eligibility criteria for companies exposed to the consequences of the war
Announced on March 16, it was not validated by the European Commission until June 30. Companies will be able to submit their requests for emergency “gas and electricity” aid from July 4. To be eligible, they must have made gas and electricity purchases amounting to at least 3% of their turnover in 2021 and have suffered a doubling of the price of gas per eligible period, from March to May 2022 by a part, from June to August 2022 on the other hand, compared to the average price over the year 2021.
The amount of aid depends on the level of operating losses.
12:50
“The world is not tired of supporting Ukraine”
On Twitter, Mykhaïlo Podoliak, Ukrainian adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismantles the idea of “Ukrainian fatigue”. “The world is not tired of supporting Ukraine. The world is tired of Russian gas blackmail, artificial crises, inflation, political assassinations, chemical weapons, terror and constant outright lies. Tired of complexes Putin’s staff,” he said.
12:35
The Russians control about 1,500 km² of Ukrainian territory
As noted The world, The Ukraine War Map account, which maps military movements and Russian advances in Ukraine since the start of the conflict, calculated on Friday that at the end of June, Moscow controlled about 1,500 km² of Ukrainian territory, or 19 .2% of the country.
12:13
Ukrainian arms stocks destroyed, Moscow says
As reported by the Guardian, the Russian Ministry of Defense claims to have destroyed five command posts of the Ukrainian army in the Donbass and the Mykolaiv region. Three arms warehouses were also reportedly hit in Zaporizhia. The information is, for the time being, not confirmed.
11:58
Russian ship seized in Greece leaves
A Russian tanker carrying Iranian oil, which had been seized in Greece in mid-April under European sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine, is currently heading for the port of Piraeus, say the Greek maritime authorities. Greek authorities had announced several weeks ago that the ship and its crew would be released.
11:40
Meeting in Lviv about Belarus
On Telegram, the mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovy, announces that he organized a meeting with the civil and military leaders of the Lviv region about the “unpredictable” situation on the border between Ukraine and Belarus. “The situation is changing, so our defense strategies must also change,” he said. Last week, kyiv has accused Russia of wanting to draw its Belarusian ally into the conflict by assuring that Russian missiles had been fired from Belarus at a Ukrainian village.
10:50
Two Britons accused by Russians of being mercenaries
According to The Guardian, which reports comments from a Russian news agency, two Britons detained by pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine are accused of being “mercenaries” fighting with the Ukrainians. They are also charged with “terrorism” and “taking power by force”. For these facts, they theoretically incur the death penalty.
10:16
“Deliberate terror” of Russia
In his daily night video, the Ukrainian president accuses Russia of having committed “a conscious and deliberate act of terror”, with the strike that hit the Belgorod-Dniester district, in the Odessa region, on the night of Thursday to Friday and killed more than 20 people, including a child. It is not, according to him, “a few errors or an accidental missile strike”. “No one was hiding a weapon or military equipment” in the affected apartments, he insists, repeating that it was civilians who lived there. In this video, Volodymyr Zelensky also thanks the United States “and Joe Biden for the new support announced” this Friday.
09:26
Explosions in Mykolaiv
On Telegram, the mayor of the city of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevich, announces that powerful explosions were heard in this commune located between Odessa and Kherson. For the time being, their origin has not yet been specified, but the elected representative asks the inhabitants to stay safe.
09:04
Day of mourning in the Odessa region
08:38
Details of the strikes in Odessa
Moreover, in this same report, the intelligence services of the British Ministry of Defense explain that the missiles which hit Odessa on the night of June 30 to July 1 – and caused more than 20 deaths – seem to be KH-22 so-called “kitchen missiles” which are “not very precise” and “not suitable for precision strikes”.
08:16
Russian troops advancing around Lysytchansk
According to the British Ministry of Defense daily report, Russian troops continue their slow advance around Lysychansk, while Ukrainian forces “probably continue to block the Russians in the south-eastern outskirts” of the district.
07:46
Learning international law
In kyiv, the Swiss NGO “Appel de Genève” transmits the rudiments of international law to foreign fighters who have come to help the Ukrainians. And in particular to the Georgian National Legion, whose fighters complete the training by signing a document to commit themselves to respecting the learned rules.
07:28
Civilians killed in Sloviansk
On Telegram, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the military administration of Donetsk, assures this Saturday morning that Russian forces have killed four civilians in Sloviansk in the past 24 hours. He also specifies that it is “impossible to establish the exact number of victims in Mariupol”.