"Forced to retreat": Ukraine reports success - encirclement of Lysychansk prevented

Created: 06/27/2022, 09:59 am

The Ukrainian armed forces were able to achieve a partial success near the embattled city of Lysychansk.

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Update from June 27, 8.40 a.m .:

The Ukrainian military has probably succeeded in pushing back Russian forces near the city of Lysychansk.

Thus, an encirclement of the Ukrainian troops in the strategically important city could be avoided for the time being.

"Near Verkhnyokamyanka, the defense forces inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and forced them to retreat," the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Monday.

Verkhnyokamyanka is west of Lysychansk on the last remaining supply road.

As the General Staff further reports, Lysychansk continued to be the target of heavy air and artillery attacks.

Russian units are already on the outskirts of the city in the south.

Several suburbs have also come under fire.

Several thousand Ukrainian soldiers are said to be stationed in the city.

However, the information cannot be independently verified.

The Ukrainian military has managed to prevent the city of Lysychansk from being encircled for the time being (archive photo).

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Selenskyj at the G7 summit: President calls for "powerful air defense" in advance

Update from June 27, 6:41 a.m

.: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj will consult with the G7 heads of state and government this Monday.

He is likely to demand more weapons from the West again.

"We need powerful air defense - modern, fully effective," he said in his daily video speech on Monday night.

On Saturday alone, 62 Russian rockets hit his country.

Meanwhile, the city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine remains fiercely contested.

Any delay in arms deliveries to Ukraine is an invitation to Russia to strike further, Zelensky said.

The G7 countries, which include Germany, the US, Canada, the UK, France, Italy and Japan, together had so much potential "to stop Russian aggression against Ukraine and Europe," Zelenskyy said.

“There are already some agreements.

The partners have to move faster.”

Ukraine War: Rocket attack near Odessa

Update from June 27, 6:05 a.m

.: There was another heavy rocket attack on Monday night.

Six people were injured in the Odessa region in southern Ukraine.

The missile was fired by a Russian Tu-22 strategic bomber, the Ukrainian Defense Command South said on Monday.

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Battles for the city of Lysychansk

After Russian troops captured the city of Sievjerodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, fighting for the city of Lysychansk continued.

The enemy, with the support of artillery, is increasingly trying to block the strategically important city from the south, the Ukrainian general staff said on Sunday evening.

Civil and military infrastructure were also hit.

This could not be independently verified.

According to Ukrainian information, there was also fighting on Snake Island in the Black Sea, which was conquered by Russia.

Details were not initially available.

Zelenskyj's appeal to Belarus: Don't get drawn into the war

Zelenskyy called on the people of neighboring Belarus not to get drawn into the Russian war of aggression.

"The Kremlin has already decided everything for you," he said on Sunday with a view of Moscow.

"But you are not slaves and cannon fodder.

You must not die.” On Saturday, Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko met with Russian President Vladimir Putin again.

The Kremlin chief announced the delivery of Iskander-M missile systems to Belarus, which can also be equipped with nuclear warheads.

Another oil rig attacked in the Black Sea

A gas production platform has again been attacked in the Black Sea.

This was announced by representatives of the Crimean peninsula, which was incorporated by Russia, on Sunday evening, as reported by the Russian state agency TASS.

They blamed Ukraine for the attack.

That couldn't be checked.

There were no injuries, it said.

It was unclear whether a fire broke out.

Three oil rigs in the Black Sea were attacked with rockets on Monday.

The originally Ukrainian facilities were occupied in March 2014 as part of the annexation of Crimea.

Shelling at dawn: Kyiv Mayor Klitschko names number of injured

First report from June 26, 2022

Kyiv - Three weeks was reasonably calm.

But on the last weekend in June, Putin's troops again fired on the Ukrainian capital.

A residential complex near the city center was hit in the Ukraine war and fire broke out, AFP journalists report.

The emergency services are on duty, two buildings are being evacuated, Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv, wrote in Telegram.

So far, two injured people have been taken to the hospital, he later said during a site visit.

There were still "people under the rubble".

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Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko wrote on Telegram that another rocket had hit the site of a kindergarten, and that a total of 14 rockets had been fired in and around Kyiv in the morning hours.

Photo from June 26: Soldiers secure evidence after an explosion in Kyiv.

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G7 summit in Elmau: Volodymyr Zelenskyj wants to get involved

Kyiv has rarely been the target of Russian attacks in recent weeks, most recently in early June.

The Ukraine war is the focus of the G7 summit in Elmau.

Before the start, Great Britain, the USA, Japan and Canada already announced a ban on gold imports from Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to speak via video in Elmau.

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Vladimir Putin and Belarus: According to Kyiv, the head of the Kremlin is planning “fellow fighters”

The Ukrainian secret service accused the Russian government under Vladimir Putin of deliberately firing from Belarus and thus "drawing the neighboring country into the war in Ukraine as a comrade-in-arms".

Keyword Putin's nuclear weapons arsenal: On June 25, the head of the Kremlin also assured the Belarusian head of state Alexander Lukashenko that he would be supplied with nuclear-capable missile systems.

Ukraine war: Putin troops with offensive in Donbass

On the ground, Russian troops in the Ukraine war continue to concentrate on eastern Ukraine.

Moscow troops and pro-Russian separatists now control almost the entire Luhansk region.

The capture of Sjewjerodonzek is considered a strategically important step.

All of the information could not initially be checked independently.