"Eaten"?

Britons see problems in Russia - but Putin spokesman gives gloomy answer to end of war

Created: 06/28/2022, 14:53

By: Florian Naumann, Felix Durach, Fabian Müller

After the attack on a shopping center, 36 people are still missing.

According to the Kremlin, there is no deadline for an end to the war.

The news ticker on the Ukraine war.

• Putin spokesman

  sees no deadline for an

  end to the Ukraine war

  : Peskov claims Ukraine can end Russia's attack at any time.

• Russia

  denies

  direct attack

  on

  shopping center

  : The Kremlin spoke of a high-precision air strike on an adjacent ammunition depot in Ukraine.

  So far 18 civilians have died.

• 7,000-8,000 civilians have

  fled Seyerodonetsk

  as Russian soldiers occupy Ukrainian homes.

• This news ticker on the military situation in Ukraine is continuously updated.

Update from June 28, 2:31 p.m .:

According to its own statements, Ukraine has again received the bodies of fallen soldiers from its own ranks from Russia.

"Ukraine has recovered the bodies of 46 heroic defenders for their dignified burial," the Kyiv Ministry of Reintegration said on Tuesday.

21 of the bodies belonged to defenders of the Azovstal steelworks from Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, which had been taken by Russian troops.

The handover took place in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia.

Whether and how many dead were handed over to the Russian side was not reported.

A Russian confirmation was initially not available.

The day before, representatives of the breakaway Donetsk region announced that they had found a total of 172 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers on the territory of Azovstal.

The Ukrainian side also announced that there had been an exchange of prisoners.

Accordingly, 16 Ukrainian soldiers returned, including two officers

Ukraine war: Putin spokesman gives gloomy answer to war's end

Update from June 28, 2:17 p.m .:

According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Russia has not set a deadline for ending the war of aggression against Ukraine: When asked by a journalist whether there was an approximate time frame for the According to the Interfax agency, he replied: "No."

According to participants at the G7 summit in Bavaria, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said he hoped the invasion would end this year.

He referred to the harshness of winter, which made fighting more difficult.

In this context, Peskov stated that Ukraine could “end everything before the end of the day”.

To do this, Russia's conditions would have to be met.

"An order must be issued to the nationalist units and the Ukrainian military to lay down their arms," ​​said the Kremlin spokesman.

Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, is traveling abroad for the first time since the invasion he decided on.

Ukraine war: Russia's army "emaciated"?

– British experts give update

Update from June 28, 1:55 p.m .:

According to British intelligence experts, Russia’s invasion troops in Ukraine are clearly marked by their heavy losses.

"Russia's armed forces are becoming increasingly emaciated," said the British Defense Ministry's daily situation report on the Ukraine war on Tuesday.

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For example, the main components of six different Russian armies were used in the fierce fighting for the city of Sievjerodonetsk.

With the taking of the city, Moscow only achieved a short-term goal, the British secret service continued in the report.

The Russian military leadership is currently accepting "a level of reduced combat effectiveness that will probably prove unsustainable," the British experts summed up.

British intelligence reports that Russian troops in Ukraine are "increasingly exhausted".

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Ukraine-News: Russia denies direct attack on shopping center

Update from June 28, 10:59 a.m .:

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the destroyed shopping center in Kremchuck was not hit by a rocket.

The fire is said to have started from "the detonation of stored ammunition for Western weapons," the

reports, citing the Russian situation report.

According to the report, the Russian military carried out a "high-precision air strike" on hangars in Kremechuk on Monday.

These are said to have served as ammunition stores.

As a result of the air strike, the fire caused by the ammunition explosion also spread to a nearby shopping center.

However, the Russian Ministry of Defense did not provide any evidence for this account.

The representations cannot be independently verified.

In the past, Moscow has repeatedly denied attacking civilian targets as part of the Ukraine war.

According to Russian information, the rocket attacks on Kyiv at the weekend only hit civilian targets because the Ukrainian troops wanted to intercept them.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted on Tuesday morning that the missile attacks were "terrorist attacks" and called for the delivery of additional missile defense systems.

The forces are still looking for 36 missing people after a rocket attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk.

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Ukraine-News: After rocket attack on shopping center: 36 people still missing under the rubble

Update from June 28, 10:20 a.m .:

The forces in eastern Ukraine are still looking for 36 missing people after the rocket attack on a shopping center.

This was confirmed by the governor of Poltava region Dmytro Lunin in the Telegram news service.

Hundreds of emergency services are currently on site and would try to rescue the missing from the rubble.

A picture released by Lunin shows a crane lifting a heavy metal plate.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian armed forces are coming under further pressure near the strategically important city of Lysychansk.

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian troops stormed the settlement of Vovchoyarivka southwest of the city.

Lysychank is the last major city in Donbass region under Ukrainian control.

Several thousand Ukrainian soldiers are said to be stationed there.

Russian troops continue to attempt to seize the last remaining access road to Lysychank in order to encircle Ukrainian forces in the city.

The "enemy" is also not giving up hope and is relying on artillery attacks to capture the road, according to the Ukrainian side.

The information cannot currently be independently verified.

Ukraine war: 18 dead in rocket attack on shopping center - more than 60 people injured

Update from June 28, 7.45 a.m

.: After the rocket attack on a shopping center in eastern Ukraine, the number of dead has risen to at least 18.

The rescue and clean-up work in the city of Kremenchuk continued during the night.

Around 60 people were injured in the attack on Monday.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office also reported on Monday more than 40 missing persons reports.

"The occupiers fired rockets at a shopping center where more than a thousand civilians were staying," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, X-22 air-to-surface missiles were used in the attack.

These were fired by Tu-22 long-range bombers from the Russian region of Kursk, it said.

Update from June 27, 10:25 p.m .:

According to the authorities, eight people were killed in a queue in front of a tanker truck with drinking water in the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk in a Russian rocket attack.

Another 21 were injured, the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hajday, wrote to the Telegram news service on Monday.

Lysychank is the last major city in the region still under Ukrainian control after the Russian military seized neighboring Seyerodonetsk.

According to Ukrainian regional commander Oleg Sinegubov, Russian shelling killed 5 civilians and wounded 22 others in the city of Kharkiv.

Sinegubow wrote on Telegram that five children were among the injured.

Update from June 27, 9:26 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, at least 13 people died in the Russian rocket attack on the shopping center in Kremenchuk.

The governor of the Poltava region, Dmytro Lunin, said in the evening that he did not assume that this would be the final number of the opera.

In addition, at least 40 injuries have been counted so far.

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Rocket hits Ukraine department store with 1,000 people: at least 13 dead, video shows flame inferno

Update from June 27, 7:13 p.m.:

According to official information, after a rocket attack on a shopping center in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, the number of dead has risen to at least ten.

In addition, around 40 people were injured, some seriously, said the governor of the Poltava region, Dmytro Lunin, on Monday evening.

The extinguishing and rescue work continued.

There was initially no reaction from the Russian side.

The rocket hit the building in the afternoon, in which, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, more than a thousand civilians are said to have stayed.

At first there had been talk of at least two deaths.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, X-22 air-to-surface missiles were used in the attack.

These were fired by Tu-22 long-range bombers from the Russian region of Kursk, it said.

Russian rocket hits Ukraine department store with around 1,000 people: video shows flame inferno

Update from June 27, 4:36 p.m .:

A supermarket in Kremenchuk was hit by a Russian missile.

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 1,000 people were in the supermarket at the time of the blast, as reported by the Ukrainian media

: "The supermarket is on fire, firefighters are trying to put out the fire, it is impossible to imagine the number of victims," ​​wrote Zelenskyj.

According to the medium, 20 people were injured and two killed: "We know of 20 wounded.

It has already been confirmed that two people have died.

Rescue operations continue,” wrote Ukrainian official Kyrylo Tymoshenko.

NATO wants to increase the contingent of intervention forces to more than 300,000

Update from June 27, 1:18 p.m .:

NATO wants to increase the number of its rapid response forces to more than 300,000.

This was announced by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday before the summit of the 30 member states in Madrid.

So far, the NATO intervention force NRF has comprised around 40,000 soldiers.

The new commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command, Bernd Schütt, has meanwhile called for effective deterrence for Russia.

Update from June 27, 1:04 p.m .:

Between 7,000 and 8,000 civilians have left the Russian-occupied city of Sievjerodonetsk.

Russian soldiers are occupying the houses of local residents, according to Sieverodonetsk mayor Oleksandr Striuk.

According to the Ukrainian media

, Struik explained: Russia “places soldiers and their officers in the houses of Ukrainians, so they run the city as they want”.

Meanwhile, US experts reckon that the capture of Sievjerodonetsk could turn into a Pyrrhic victory for Russia.

In the course of the G7 summit there were rocket attacks on Kyiv for the first time

Update from June 27, 11:15 a.m .:

At the start of the G7 summit, there was a rocket attack on Kiev for the first time in weeks on the night of June 26, including a residential complex.

After the Russian attack, people lay under the rubble.

At the G7 summit in Elmau on Monday (June 27), Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will also speak.

In the run-up, more military support from the West was demanded, above all a powerful air defense system.

The Russian army has managed to capture the city of Sieverodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.

The fighting for the city of Lyssychansk continued, in the end the Ukrainian soldiers were able to push back their enemies.

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.”

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.

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".

War in Ukraine: kindergarten and residential building in Kyiv under fire

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.

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.

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's 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.