Ukraine-Russia conflict latest: Putin forces undergo 250 casualties in a day

Close to 250 of Vladimir Putin’s troopers have been killed or injured in southern Ukraine prior to now 24 hours, a Ukrainian army commander stated.

Ukraine’s authorities stated the casualties occurred on Saturday in Tavria, a village in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, simply 23km from the most important city of Tokmak, the place Ukrainian forces need to advance for a strategic territorial benefit.

“Over the last day, the enemy lost 248 people (84 dead, 163 wounded and one captured),” Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, who’s in-charge of the strategic and operational group of forces in Tavriia, stated in his Telegram channel on Sunday.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recommended British troopers coaching Ukrainian troops in Ukraine can be reputable targets for Russian forces, as would German factories producing Taurus missiles ought to they provide Kyiv.

In a put up on Telegram, Mr Medvedev first directed his ire in the direction of lately appointed British Defence Minister Grant Shapps, who stated London desires to deploy army instructors to Ukraine, along with coaching Ukrainian armed forces in Britain or different Western nations as at current.

“This will turn their instructors into a legal target for our armed forces. Understanding perfectly well that they will be ruthlessly destroyed. And not as mercenaries, but namely as British NATO specialists,” Mr Medvedev wrote on Telegram.

Russia is getting ready for “multiple further years” of preventing in Ukraine, Britain’s Ministry of Defence stated.

The MoD stated leaked paperwork present Russia’s defence spending is ready to extend to 30 per cent of total expenditure in 2024.

“These figures suggest that Russia is preparing for multiple further years of fighting in Ukraine”, it stated.

A 61-year-old man was killed by Russian shelling final evening in Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporizhzhia, in line with officers.

Yuriy Malashko, head of the area’s army administration, stated a 66-year-old lady was additionally injured within the shelling.

There had been additionally 16 experiences of residential buildings and infrastructure amenities being destroyed, the administration stated.

Ukraine’s air defence methods shot down 16 out of round 30 drones that Russia launched on Ukraine’s territory in a single day, Ukrainian Air Forces stated on Sunday.

It stated on Telegram messaging app that drones had been launched from the southern, southeastern and northern instructions.

Authorities stated the central Ukrainian Cherkasy area was below the assault.

“At evening, the enemy massively attacked our Cherkasy area with assault drones. Unfortunately, there have been hits on industrial infrastructure in (town of) Uman,” Cherkasy Governor Ihor Taburets stated on Telegram.

“As a end result, fires broke out in warehouses. In specific, the place grain was saved,” he stated, including that one particular person was injured.

The Ukrainian presidential workplace stated in an announcement that civilian infrastructure and warehouses had been additionally broken within the southern Mykolaiv area and jap Dnipropetrovsk area.

The experiences couldn’t be independently verified.

Voters in Slovakia forged ballots Saturday in an early parliamentary election that pits a populist former prime minister who campaigned on a pro-Russia and anti-American message towards a liberal, pro-West newcomer.

Depending on which ones prevails, the election might reverse the small jap European nation’s help for neighboring Ukraine within the conflict with Russia, threatening to interrupt a fragile unity within the European Union and NATO.

Former Prime MInister Robert Fico, 59, and his leftist Smer, or Direction, social gathering have vowed to withdraw Slovakia’s army help for Ukraine in Russia’s conflict, if his try to return to energy is profitable.

Poland will discover methods to deal with disagreements with Ukraine with out the recent variations impacting its army help, stated Nato’s secretary common Jens Stoltenberg.

The two neighbouring nations have encountered friction of their ties after Poland – that has been considered one of Ukraine’s fiercest allies by the course of Russian invasion – determined to increase a ban on Ukrainian grain imports.

Last week, Poland stated it might solely perform beforehand agreed arms deliveries to Ukraine and select to deal with rebuilding its personal weapons arsenal.

“I’m expecting and I’m confident that Ukraine and Poland will find a way to address those issues without that impacting in a negative way the military support to Ukraine,” Mr Stoltenberg stated in an interview in Copenhagen on Friday.

The announcement coincided with tensions peaking between the 2 neighbours after Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky stated some nations had been “feigning solidarity by indirectly supporting Russia” with a ban on grain imports.

The Russian president met Andrei Troshev, who is understood by his nom de guerre “Sedoi” or “grey hair“, along with deputy defence minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov on Thursday night, the Kremlin said in a statement.

“At the last meeting, we talked about you overseeing the formation of volunteer units that can carry out various tasks, first and foremost, of course, in the zone of the special military operation,” Mr Putin was quoted as saying to Mr Troshev. Special army operation is what Russia calls its invasion of Ukraine.

“You yourself have been fighting in such a unit for more than a year,” the president stated.

“You know what it is, how it is done, you know about the issues that need to be resolved in advance so that the combat work goes in the best and most successful way.”

The soccer affiliation of Ukraine has written to Uefa’s member nations urging them to boycott matches towards junior Russian groups.

England’s Football Association (the FA) had been among the many nationwide our bodies that had stated that they might not permit their sides to play Russia regardless of Uefa’s resolution.

And the Ukrainian footballing physique has now urged all members to do the identical.