Russia Ukraine war latest: Putin losing ‘staggering’ 900 soldiers a day, Kyiv declares

Russia is losing a “staggering” 900 soldiers a day, Ukrainian authorities have actually declared, advising the West to greenlight shipment of fighter jets for its counteroffensive at a Nato conference today.

Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, showed the long-awaited counteroffensive was advancing, reporting that Ukrainian forces had actually reclaimed 7 towns opening 90sqkm of land in the recently alone.

However, she said the advance was difficult as Russian forces had exceptional air assistance and were showering their soldiers with extreme weapons fire.

The brand-new United States military help package for Ukraine presses the United States deeper into the “abyss” of the dispute, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov alerted today.

“The United States is getting deeper and deeper into the abyss of the Ukrainian crisis,” Mr Antonov was priced estimate as stating in a post on the embassy’s Telegram channel.

“Apparently, the strategists from the United States somehow do not understand that no amount of weapons, whatever involvement of mercenaries, will be able to turn the tide in the course of (Russia’s) special military operation.”

The package worth $325m (£257m), that includes munitions for air defence systems, ammo and automobiles, comes as Ukraine is forming its long-expected counteroffensive.

In the previous week, Ukrainian forces lost some tanks and armoured automobiles offered by Western allies while making little territorial gains.

UK businesses continuing to run in Russia are “complicit in the war crimes” dedicated versus the Ukrainian individuals, MPs have actually heard.

Labour previous minister Sir Chris Bryant informed the Commons about the Russian federal government presenting a brand-new law in 2015, needing all businesses, consisting of foreign ones, running in the Russian Federation to “assist in the war in Ukraine”.

Sir Chris advised the Government to make it “absolutely clear” that all British businesses needs to “completely and utterly desist from business in Russia immediately”.

Foreign Office minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said there has actually been a “positive attitude” from British businesses and a “willingness to take financial pain immediately in order to step away” from Russian markets and activity.

The Rhondda MP said: “The Russian government introduced a new law last year which requires all businesses, including foreign businesses that have any footprint in the Russian Federation, to assist in the war in Ukraine.

“That means any British businesses who are still doing business now in Russia are complicit in the war crimes that Russia is perpetrating against the Ukrainian people.

“Would the minister now make it absolutely clear that all British businesses should completely and utterly desist from business in Russia immediately?”

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg informed President Joe Biden at an Oval Office conference on Tuesday that Ukrainians are “making progress” with their counteroffensive, which might reinforce their position when there’s a chance to reach a diplomatic end to the war with Russia.

“The support that we are providing together for Ukraine is now making a difference on the battlefield as we speak,” Stoltenberg said. “Because the offensive has launched, and the Ukrainians are making progress, making advances.”

He included, “It’s still early days, but what we do know is that the more land that Ukrainians are able to liberate, the stronger hand they will have at the negotiating table.”

Biden said NATO has actually grown more merged throughout the Ukraine war and “we’re going to be building on that momentum” when the alliance holds its yearly top in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11 and 12.

Ukraine has actually commemorated the very first territorial gains of its long-trailed counteroffensive versus the attacking Russian forces.

Unverified pictures and video appearing on Sunday and on Monday early morning revealed Ukrainian soldiers holding their nation’s blue and yellow flag up in victory in the eastern towns of Storozheve, Blahodatne, Neskuchne and Makarivka in Donetsk, recommending they had actually been regained from inhabiting opponent soldiers.

Ukraine’s deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar published among the images from Storozheve and thanked the 35th Separate Brigade of Marines for liberating it.

The biggest nuclear reactor in Europe deals with “a relatively dangerous situation” after a dam burst in Ukraine and Kyiv introduces a counteroffensive to retake ground inhabited by Russia, the head of the United Nations nuclear guard dog said Tuesday.

Rafael Moreno Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke with reporters in Kyiv right before leaving on a journey to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor. That plant has actually been consistently in the crossfire considering that Russia released its war on Ukraine in February 2022 and took the center soon after.

Grossi said he had actually satisfied Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to go over the scenario impacting the plant, which grew more severe after the Kakhovka Dam burst recently. The dam, even more down the Dnieper River, assisted keep water in a tank that cools the plant’s reactors. Ukraine has actually said Russia exploded the dam, something rejected by Moscow, though experts state the flood most likely interfered with Kyiv’s counteroffensive strategies.

France said on Tuesday a Russia-connected false information campaign had actually fabricated its foreign ministry website, targeted other federal government sites and took over numerous French media as part of wider efforts to smear Ukraine and its Western allies.

Western countries have actually consistently implicated Russian operatives of utilizing social networks and the web to spread out incorrect or deceptive info to weaken them, promote Russia or effort to sway popular opinion in their nations versus support Ukraine in its battle versus Russia’s intrusion.

France has actually in specific called out Russian activities in Africa, stating that Moscow-connected stars have actually attempted to challenge Paris in West Africa, saturating routine media and social networks.

That has actually triggered France to launch multi-faceted action to reverse an anti-French story that has actually harmed its impact and interests, consisting of with a unit partially committed to finding and handling destructive material.

“This campaign is notably based on creating fake internet pages to hack into the identity of national media and government websites, as well as by creating fake accounts on social media networks,” foreign minister Catherine Colonna said in a declaration – in what was the very first time Paris has actually openly called out Russian-connected activities on French soil.

A domain near to the foreign ministry’s name, a practice referred to as typosquatting, was utilized and identified on May 29. While most of the material was the very same, one post was published recommending the French federal government was preparing to enforce a tax to raise funds for military help to Ukraine versus Russia’s intrusion, French authorities said.

Russia is losing a “staggering” 900 soldiers a day, Ukrainian authorities have actually declared, advising the West to greenlight shipment of fighter jets for its counteroffensive at a Nato conference today.

On Tuesday, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, showed the long-awaited counteroffensive was advancing, reporting that Ukrainian forces had actually reclaimed 7 towns opening 90sqkm of land in the recently alone.

However, she said the advance was difficult as Russian forces had exceptional air assistance and were showering their soldiers with extreme weapons fire.

Yuriy Sak, an essential consultant to the defence ministry, informed The Independent that while Kyiv was causing “heavy” losses on Moscow’s forces, they urgently required the shipment of fighter jets to maintain the momentum. Mr Sak said that they hoped the choice would be pressed through at a conference of Nato defence ministers due to happen Thursday in Brussels.