Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov warned the US against “the risk of further escalation due to the supply of American weapons to Ukrainian forces” during a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin.
This was reported by the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, quoted by the Interfax agency, emphasizing that the initiative was taken by the American side. During the conversation, “other issues” were also discussed, the ministry added.
Intent, the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) occupied by Russian forces has announced that an attack by Kiev forces destroyed the radiation control station of the ZNPP itself.
Tass reports it. “The radiation control station in Velikaya Znamenka was completely destroyed following a Ukrainian artillery strike,” read a Znpp message posted on Telegram.
Velikaya Znamenka station is located approximately 27 km west of the Zaporizhzhia power station.
At least 551 children have been killed in Ukraine by Russian forces since the invasion began and over 1,401 were injured: the country’s prosecutor’s office announced this on Telegram, as reported by Ukrinform.
“More than 1,952 children in Ukraine have suffered as a result of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation – reads the message -. As of the morning of June 26, 2024, according to official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 551 children were killed and more than 1,401 received injuries of varying degrees of severity.”
Most of the children (547) were killed or injured in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
The Russiawrites the Institute for the Study of War, has probably raised another combined arms army to deploy in Ukraine.
The US study center recalls that last Sunday the spokesperson of the Ukrainian Kharkiv Group of Forces, Colonel Yuriy Povkh, stated that the Russian armed forces intend to transfer elements of the 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army in the direction of Kharkiv . According to Povkh, the Russians transferred units from the Kherson region and other unspecified directions to the Kharkiv direction. Furthermore, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Forces Group Khortytsia, Lieutenant Colonel Nazar Voloshyn, reported yesterday that Russian forces intend to transfer elements of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade (Pacific Fleet) and the 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army in the direction of Kharkiv to compensate for the heavy losses suffered on the battlefield.
The ISW recently noted that the Russian Armed Forces transferred elements of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade from the west and southwest of the city of Donetsk to the direction of Kharkiv.
The Russian armed forces “are currently undergoing large-scale reforms, including the creation of new combined arms army-level formations, and references by Ukrainian sources to a ’51st Army’ may be an early indicator that Russia has formed another combined arms army to deploy in Ukraine,” the ISW report reads.
Meanwhile, a “statement by High Representative Josep Borrell supported by 26 member states”, and not a statement by the EU 27, states that “the EU condemns the Russian decision to ban a certain number of European media outlets in Russia as totally unfounded and politically motivated”. EU external action spokesperson Peter Stano said this in the Commission’s daily briefing. From what we learn from a European official, Hungary is the country that failed to support a unanimous declaration of 27.
ANSA Agency Russia blocks the websites of Rai, La7, Repubblica and Stampa – News – Ansa.it Russia has blocked access on its territory to the websites of several European media, including the Italian Rai, La7, La Repubblica and La Stampa, in response to similar measures adopted by the EU against the Russian Ria Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. (ANSA) “The EU condemns the completely unfounded decision by the Russian authorities to block access to more than eighty European media outlets in Russia,” the High Representative’s statement said. “This decision further limits access to free and independent information and expands the already severe media censorship in Russia. The banned European media outlets work according to journalistic principles and standards. They provide factual information, including to the Russian public, including about Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. In contrast, Russian disinformation and propaganda outlets, against which the EU has introduced restrictive measures, do not represent free and independent media. Their broadcasting activities in the EU have been suspended because these broadcasters are under the control of the Russian authorities and are instrumental in supporting the war of aggression against Ukraine. Respect for freedom of expression and the media is a core value for the EU,” Borrell concluded in the statement. “It will continue to support the availability of factual information also for the Russian public.”
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