2023-07-03 08:32:24
According to the Ukrainian military, the majority of Russian drones were intercepted over the south and east of the country during the night. 13 out of 17 Shahed drones were intercepted, the rest missed their target. According to Kiev, the Ukrainian armed forces made slight gains in terrain during their counter-offensive last week. The Russians meanwhile want to have foiled an attack on the Crimean chief they had appointed.
The air defense shot down 13 of the 17 drones launched by Russia on Monday night, the Ukrainian Air Force announced Monday morning on its Telegram channel. “The rest didn’t reach their goal.” According to Ukrainian information, the drones were again Shahed missiles of Iranian design. The information could not be independently confirmed at first. Moscow has been using the Shahed drones for months to shell the neighboring country. On the night of Sunday, for example, Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kiev and the southern Ukrainian city of Cherson with drones and cruise missiles. Several people were injured. To better defend against such attacks, Ukraine is asking the West to supply modern fighter jets.
According to government information, the Ukrainian armed forces made slight gains in terrain last week in their counter-offensive on the eastern and southern fronts and recaptured around 37 square kilometers. There is heavy fighting, especially in the east, said Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maljar on Telegram. In the east, Ukrainian troops advanced towards Bakhmut. The Russian army is attacking in the direction of Lyman, Avdiivka and Maryinka in the Donetsk region. Thanks to a better tactical position and a more favorable orientation of the front, the Ukrainian army has recaptured nine square kilometers in the east. In the south it is an area of 28.4 square kilometers. This means that Ukraine has recaptured a total of 158 square kilometers on this front.
According to Russia, it has foiled an assassination attempt on the head of the annexed Crimea, Sergei Axjonov, who was deployed by Moscow. According to the TASS news agency, the Russian domestic secret service FSB said it had arrested a Russian who had been hired and trained by Ukrainian secret services to kill Axyonov with a car bomb. Ukraine has not yet commented on this. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
The Russian rocket attack on a restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk last Tuesday claimed another fatality. Seriously injured writer Victoria Amelina has succumbed to her injuries. She died on Saturday in Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, the non-governmental organization PEN Ukraine said on Sunday on the online network Facebook. The 37-year-old author was with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers at the Ria Pizza restaurant, which was destroyed in the attack. According to the attending physician, she suffered “multiple skull fractures”. Her death brings the death toll from the attack to 13.
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