2023-07-03 10:15:18
The Ukrainian counter-offensive is progressing. Kiev’s armed forces have recaptured 37 km² from Russian forces in the east and south of the country in one week, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar said on Monday (July 3). In the south, “the liberated territories have increased by 28.4 km2”, bringing to 158 km² the total area recovered in this area since the launch of the counter-offensive in early June, she said. In the East, the Ukrainian gains reached only 9 km², according to the same source. Follow our live.
An international office to investigate the Russian invasion opens in The Hague. The International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA), is inaugurated on Monday in The Hague (Netherlands). It brings together prosecutors from Ukraine, the European Union, the United States and the International Criminal Court (ICC). This form of prosecution has the task of investigating and collecting evidence. It is envisaged as a first step before the establishment of a special tribunal to judge the most senior Russian officials for the outbreak of the war, requested by kyiv.
No new mobilization to replace Wagner’s soldiers. Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Defense Committee of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, ruled out on Monday the idea of a new mobilization to replace the members of the paramilitary group Wagner who are no longer fighting in Ukraine. “The President of the Russian Federation [Vladimir Poutine] clearly, understandably and specifically, said that there would be no further mobilization”he told the state agency Tass. “There is no need for mobilization today and in the near future.”
kyiv says it is fighting “hard fights” against Moscow, which is advancing in the East. A month after launching its counter-offensive, Ukraine admitted on Sunday that the situation was “difficile” and that Russian forces were advancing in four areas of the front line in the east of the country. However, Ukrainian forces assured that their troops were advancing in the south. “The enemy is advancing in the sectors of Avdiivka, Mariinka, Lyman”Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar wrote on Telegram. “It is also advancing in the Svatovoe sector.”
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