Putin: 'In Ukraine we have not yet started in earnest'

2022-07-07T17:54:20.113Z

Johnson to Zelensky: 'You are a hero'. Him: 'We will miss you'. Eight civilians died in Mariupol, they had been forced to mine. A Russian ship with grain, after leaving Turkey, landed in its territorial waters, Kiev summons the Turkish ambassador (ANSA)

"Everyone must know that in principle we have not yet started anything serious in Ukraine.

At the same time, we do not even refuse to hold peace talks. But those who refuse must know that the further we move forward, the more difficult it will be for them to negotiate with. we".

This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a meeting with the leaders of the State Duma, as reported by Interfax.

"Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. What to say, that they try. We have heard many times that the West wants to fight us to the last Ukrainian. It is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it seems that everything goes into this. direction, "Putin added.

Eight Ukrainian civilians employed by Russian units to clear the rubble of a bombed metallurgical plant in Mariupol were blown up by a mine.

"The occupiers are using local civilians as specialists in the disposal of explosive devices," the advisor to the exiled mayor Petro Andriushchenko wrote on social networks.

The Kiyv Independent reports it.

Outgoing British Prime Minister

Boris Johnson

once again called

Volodymyr Zelensky

on the day of his resignation as Tory leader, to reiterate that Ukraine will continue to enjoy "unyielding bipartisan support" from the UK against the Russian invasion even after its exit from the scene.

Johnson then responded to Zelensky's thanks by thanking him in turn and adding: "You are a hero, everyone loves you."

From Kiev, the Ukrainian leader then made it known that he was "saddened" by Johnson's resignation, which he praised several times as an example of support among all Western leaders.

Russian freighter Zhibek Zholy, accused by Kiev of having been loaded with stolen Ukrainian grain, entered Russian territorial waters

after leaving the Turkish coast where he had been anchored for six days, a senior Turkish official said.

"She entered Russian territorial waters, but she didn't go near a port," he said.

The Turkish ambassador to Kiev, Yagmur Ahmet Guldere, was summoned by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry after the Russian ship Zhibek Zholy, accused of carrying stolen grain from Ukraine, left the Turkish port of Karasu.

This was announced by various Turkish media.

"Due to the unacceptable situation that has developed, the Turkish ambassador to Kiev has been summoned", reads a statement from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, as reported by Interfax, in which it is denounced that "ignoring the appeal by of Ukraine, the boat was released on the evening of July 6 "by the Turkish authorities.

Russian cruise missiles hit and destroyed agricultural hangars with tons of grain in the Odessa region overnight.

This was reported by the Southern Operational Command of the Ukrainian Army, reported by Ukrinform.

The Russian Defense Ministry said it killed Ukrainian soldiers who were trying to raise the flag of Ukraine on the recently reconquered Snake Island overnight, the Guardian reports.

On the night of July 7 - the ministry said - Kiev attempted to symbolically deliver the flag to the island.

Around 5 in the morning, several Ukrainian soldiers landed and took pictures with the flag.

The Russian Aerospace Forces plane immediately launched a high-precision missile attack on the island and some soldiers were killed.

The Ukrainian operational command confirmed the missile attack on the island, speaking of damage to the dock, but without any reference to casualties among its soldiers.

At least one civilian was killed and many others were injured in a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, an administrative center in eastern Ukraine: AFP journalists reported on the spot.

The blast left a large crater in a courtyard between a hotel and residential buildings.

One person died and four others were injured, including a child, in an attack launched yesterday against the Ukrainian port city of Skadovsk (south), in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Mayor Oleksandr Yakovliev said. according to reports from the Kyiv Independent.

Russia has strengthened its fleet in the Black Sea

, which now consists of five missile-equipped ships, two submarines and an amphibious assault ship, the southern operational command of the Ukrainian army has announced, according to reports from Kyiv. Independent.

Seven people died and two others were injured in the last 24 hours following Russian bombing in the Donetsk region,

the head of the regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said, according to Ukrinform.

The dead were reported in Toretsk (3), Avdiivka (2), Kodem (one) and Siversk (one).

"It is currently impossible to determine the exact number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha," Kyrylenko commented.

Brazilian model goes to fight in Ukraine and dies in a Russian attack

"For the first time in 133 days of war, the Russian army has not claimed advances on the ground in Ukraine in support of the assessment that the Russian forces have largely initiated an operational pause": he writes in his latest report the American Institute for the study of war (Isw).

The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed territorial conquests every day since the war began, the report reads, but it has not claimed any new territory or movement of ground forces since it completed the encirclement of Lysychansk on 3 July.

However, Russian forces still conducted limited and unsuccessful ground assaults on all axes on 6 July.

These attempts are consistent with a Russian operational pause, which does not imply the complete cessation of active hostilities.

"The weapons that Ukraine has received from its Western partners work in a very powerful way. Consequently, the losses of the Russian occupiers will only increase from week to week": these are the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the usual evening message reported. by Ukrinform.

"Today in Kharkiv, the Pedagogical University was destroyed by a Russian missile, the main building, the classrooms, the university museum, the scientific library. This characterizes the Russian invasion with 100% accuracy. When it comes to definition of barbarism, this attack is the most suitable. Only an enemy of civilization and humanity can do such things: hit a university with missiles, a pedagogical university, "said the president.

"Today the

public opinion has become aware of the fact that in the south of our country, in the occupied areas, access to social networks, messengers and YouTube has been closed.

The Russian forces have blocked any possibility for the people to know the truth about what is happening and our potential, which we are gradually increasing.

Ukrainian forces are currently advancing in several tactical directions, in particular in the south - in the Kherson region, in the Zaporizhzhia region.

We will not give up our land - the entire sovereign territory of Ukraine will be Ukrainian.