Ukraine War: Putin loses 57th colonel - dead in Russian rocket attacks on residential area
Created: 07/01/2022 09:46
By: Caroline Schäfer
A missile hits the port city of Odessa as Ukrainian troops retake Snake Island.
All news on Friday about the Ukraine war in the ticker.
Snake
Island : Ukraine can recapture the strategically important island in the Black Sea.
Russia's troops suffer setbacks.
Fighting in the Donbass
: The military situation in the embattled Lysychansk in the Luhansk region is coming to a head.
Russia advances in Ukraine war.
Editor
's note: You can read all the news about the Ukraine conflict in this news ticker.
Some of the information comes from warring factions and cannot be directly checked independently.
+++ 9.45 a.m .:
The Russian army has to accept numerous losses.
The situation report of the Ukrainian general staff states that 35,750 soldiers have been killed since the invasion began at the end of February.
There are also losses at management level.
According to a report by
The Independent
, the 57th colonel has already been killed.
This is apparently Pavel Kislyakov.
The 40-year-old was buried in Moscow on Thursday (June 30), according to the report.
Kislyakov was commander of the Russian paratroopers.
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+++ 09.00 a.m .:
The British Ministry of Defense reports, with reference to intelligence information, that Russian troops have taken the city of Pryvillia in the north of the Luhansk region.
It is a small town with only 7600 inhabitants.
From a strategic perspective, the local oil refinery is much more important.
According to estimates from Great Britain, there is currently heavy fighting around the site.
Prywillya is near the city of Lysychansk, which, according to the regional military administration, is threatened by Russian encirclement.
The city has been under siege for days, it was said several times.
The information provided by the British Ministry of Defense cannot be independently verified.
+++ 8.30 a.m .:
At least 17 people were killed in rocket attacks on the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky in the Odessa region.
The spokesman for the Odessa regional military administration, Serhiy Brachuk, said on Telegram that three shells fell in a housing estate.
Among other things, a leisure center was hit.
The situation on the ground is chaotic and the information cannot be checked independently.
A video published by the
Nexta
news portal shows the extent of the damage.
The residential area is like a rubble field.
Numerous firefighters are on duty in the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky.
(Screenshot) © Twitter / Nexta
+++ 7.30 a.m.:
At least 14 people were killed in a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa, according to Ukrainian sources.
The Ukrainian rescue services spoke of 14 dead and 30 injured on Friday.
Three children were among the injured.
The rescue work would continue, but they would be complicated by a fire.
The spokesman for the Odessa regional administration, Serhiy Brachuk, had previously said that the rocket hit a nine-story apartment building in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky area, about 80 kilometers south of the port city of Odessa.
The rocket was fired from a plane flying over the Black Sea.
According to Ukrainian sources, the residential building was partially destroyed by the attack.
The rescue workers had initially spoken of six dead and seven injured.
The death toll later rose to 10 and then 14.
First report from Friday, July 1, 6:30 a.m.:
Kiev – The situation in the east and south of Ukraine remains very serious.
While Russia is showing off its military superiority in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv can at least celebrate the recapture of Snake Island in the Black Sea.
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The withdrawal of Russian troops gives Ukraine a better position, emphasized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"Snake Island is a strategic point and that changes the situation in the Black Sea significantly," he said in his daily video address on Friday night (July 1).
Ukraine News: Snake Island recaptured – Russia's military currently restricted
Even if that does not guarantee security, the Russian military's freedom of action is significantly restricted.
According to Ukrainian military information, Snake Island allows control over parts of Ukraine's coast and shipping lanes.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities reported a rocket attack on the port city of Odessa.
As a result, at least ten people are said to have been killed.
The rocket hit a nine-story apartment building, said the head of the local military administration, Serhiy Brachuk.
Kyiv believes the missile was fired from a Russian military aircraft over the Black Sea.
Ukraine War: Lysychansk threatened by encirclement
Fighting is also continuing in eastern Ukraine.
In Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, the defenders say they are threatened with encirclement.
The refinery, located about seven kilometers west of the city, was fought over, the general staff said.
Russian forces were advancing on the city from the south, and fighting was also going on on the western and southern city limits.
The refinery has already been portrayed as completely conquered in the Russian media.
The former city of Lyssychansk is the last largest town in Luhansk that is not yet under Russian control.
In neighboring Donetsk, on the other hand, Russian advances near Sloviansk and Bakhmut were repulsed, the general staff said.
Along the front line, Ukrainian positions were continuously being shelled with artillery and bombarded from the air, it said.
"The superiority of the occupiers in terms of firepower is extremely noticeable," said Zelenskyj on the situation in the east.
Russia draws on its reserves for this.
(kas/dpa)
