- Mercenaries for the Russian Army: Ramzan Kadyrov sends four new battalions.
- Attack on mall: An air strike of Russia causes several deaths.
- All news about Ukraine war in our News-Ticker.
After the rocket attack on a shopping center, Russia is in the pillory internationally. Ramzan Kadyrov hatches new plans to advance the war.
+++ 7.30 p.m.: Russia has launched a missile attack on the city of Dnipro. According to Valentyn Retsnychenko, governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region, rescue workers are searching under the rubble for survivors. In addition, bitter fighting is taking place in eastern Ukraine over the route from Lysychansk to Bakhmut – it is considered an important supply route for Ukraine.
+++ 6.03 p.m.: The White House is losing faith that Ukraine can regain all lost territory. Even with new, heavy weapons, it can be difficult, officials told CNN. Biden is also becoming increasingly pessimistic.
+++ 5:01 p.m.: After the destruction of a shopping center in Ukraine, the Russian military has admitted to being responsible for the momentous air raid on the city of Kremenchuk. The attack was aimed at several halls in which weapons and ammunition delivered from Europe and the USA were stored, the Russian Defense Ministry said in Moscow on Tuesday.
The detonation of the ammunition then caused a fire in the nearby shopping center. While the ministry claimed the building was no longer in use, posts by local businesses on social media and online platforms suggest the opposite.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, the shopping center was fired upon and destroyed by a long-range Russian bomber with air-to-surface missiles. More than 20 people were killed and around 60 injured. According to the city administration, the management of the shopping center had ordered the air alarm to be ignored – which is why the building was not evacuated. Now it is completely in ruins – and given the official 36 missing person reports, the number of victims could continue to rise.
Ukraine War: Kadyrov sends four new battalions to war
+++ 15.58Uhr: Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader and a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is setting up four new military battalions “with an impressive number of personnel”, the news portal reports Newsweek. He wants to support the Russian troops during the Ukraine war. Kadyrov said in a telegram posting on Sunday that the four battalions would be deployed in the Chechen Republic “very soon”.
“The military contingent will consist only of Chechen men,” Kadyrov said, according to an English translation in the post. “They will replenish the composition of the troops of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.”
+++ 2.49 p.m.: According to information from the news portal Kiyv Independent, Russia is trying to advance towards the city of Sloviansk. Sloviansk is located in Donetsk Oblast and has around 100,000 inhabitants. Russian troops are also trying to storm the village of Vovchoarivka near Lysychansk (Luhansk region) and the area around the oil refinery, according to the General Staff.
Ukraine war: Russia would halt offensive ‘within a day’
+++ 1.35 p.m.: According to the Kremlin, Russia would end its offensive against Ukraine immediately if Kiev capitulated. “The Ukrainian side can stop everything before the end of today,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday. For this, “an order to the nationalist units”, “to the “Ukrainian soldiers to lay down their arms” is necessary. Kyiv must also meet all Russian conditions. “Then it would all be over in a day.”
+++ 11.46 a.m.: The Russian Defense Ministry has commented on the attack on a shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk during the Ukraine war for the first time. On its Telegram channel, the ministry said that the Russian “Aerospace Forces carried out an attack with high-precision airborne weapons on hangars with weapons and ammunition from the United States and European countries,” reports news channel CNN.
“As a result of the high-precision hit, western-made weapons and ammunition were hit, which were concentrated in the storage area for onward transport to the Ukrainian troop group in Donbass.” missing.
Ukraine calls for UN meeting over mall attack – death toll rises
+++ 10.34 a.m.: After the Russian rocket attack on a shopping center in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, the death toll rose to at least 18 on Tuesday, according to the regional administration. During the night, rescue service chief Serhij Kruk had spoken of 16 dead and 59 injured. The rescue workers are still on duty around the clock.
According to Ukrainian sources, the shopping center was hit by Russian missiles on Monday. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “more than 1,000 people” were in the shopping center at the time of the rocket fire.
War News: Ukraine calls for UN meeting over mall attack
+++ 09.36 a.m.: Ukrainian officials have requested a UN Security Council meeting for Tuesday to discuss the latest Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian soil, US news channel CNN reports. A rocket attack on a shopping center in Ukraine killed several people and injured dozens. The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacekeeping Affairs will brief the council at the meeting scheduled for 3 p.m. ET, a UN spokesman told CNN.
First report from Tuesday, June 28, 7:15 a.m.: Kyiv – Russia stands after Rocket attack on a shopping mall in eastern Ukraine with at least 18 fatalities in Ukraine war internationally in the pillory. The participants at the G7 summit in Elmau, Bavaria, spoke of a war crime and threatened the Kremlin boss Wladimir Putin with consequences.
In the shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk were, according to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Selenskyj more than 1000 people in the attack. After the rocket hit, the building was engulfed in flames and burned down except for the concrete pillars and metal structures. The number of confirmed deaths rose again on Monday evening (June 27), according to the state emergency services. Around 60 people were injured, half of them seriously, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said. She also reported more than 40 missing person reports.
Ukraine conflict: Zelenskyj calls Russia “largest terrorist organization in the world”
Zelenskyy described Russia after the attack as “the largest terrorist organization in the world”. Everyone in the world should know that “if you buy or transport Russian oil, have contacts with Russian banks or pay taxes or customs duties to the Russian state, it means giving money to terrorists,” said Zelenskyy.
Also the participants of G7 summit in Elmau, Bavaria condemn the attacks in Ukraine conflict: “Indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians are war crimes. Russian President Putin and those responsible will be held accountable for this.” US President Joe Biden tweeted: “Russia’s attack on civilians in a shopping center is cruel”. Great Britain Prime minister Boris Johnson Said on the sidelines of the G7 summit: “This appalling attack shows once again the level of cruelty and barbarism the Russian leader is capable of.”
Russia’s Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, described the attack as a “new Bucha-style Ukrainian provocation”. Moscow has the well-documented Killings of Ukrainian civilians in the Kiev suburb of Bucha by Russian troops always dismissed as an alleged staging. Regarding Kremenchuk, Polyansky claimed on Twitter without further explanation that there were “too many noticeable discrepancies”.
Ukraine war: explosions in the south – dead in attacks on Lysychansk and Kharkiv
Also in the south of Ukraine there should have been attacks. Explosions were reported in the city of Mykolaiv early on Tuesday morning (June 28), Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich wrote in the Telegram news service. Nothing is known about damage and casualties. He called on residents to go to safe places.
According to the authorities, eight people were killed in a queue in front of a tank truck with drinking water in the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk in a Russian missile attack. Another 21 were injured, wrote the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hajdaj, to the Telegram news service. According to Ukrainian regional commander Oleg Sinegubov, Russian shelling killed 5 civilians and wounded 22 others in the city of Kharkiv. Sinegubow wrote on Telegram that five children were among the injured. (hg/dpa)