Ukraine War: Ukrainian positions under heavy fire
Created: 07/02/2022 11:21 am
By: Tobias Utz, Marvin Ziegele, Christian Stör
The situation in the Ukraine war continues to deteriorate - militarily, diplomatically and humanitarianly: the news ticker on Saturday, July 2nd.
“Targeted Russian terror”:
Selenskyj raises serious allegations
Phosphorus bombs on Snake Island:
Ukraine blames Russia and Vladimir Putin
Russian missile attacks:
number of dead rises
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.
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In eastern and southern Ukraine, positions of the Ukrainian army along the entire front line have been shelled by Russian troops with artillery.
Dozens of locations in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Mykolayiv and Kherson Oblasts were listed in the Ukrainian General Staff report published on Facebook on Friday.
There were also isolated attacks by airplanes and helicopters, it said.
Ukrainian units repelled a Russian attack on a gelatine plant near the industrial city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region.
In a July 2 update, the General Staff reports that Russian forces have gone on the defensive in Sloviansk and are trying to repel Ukrainian advances near Kharkiv.
The reports cannot be independently verified.
A damaged apartment building in Serhiyivka, about 50 kilometers southwest of Odessa, after Russian missile attacks.
© Uncredited/Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP/dpa
Ukraine war: reports of detonations in Mykolaiv
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There are reports of detonations in the early morning from the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv.
“There are powerful explosions in the city!
Stay in the shelters!” Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich wrote on Telegram.
The cause is not yet known.
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Ukraine War: Attack on Odessa – “Targeted Russian Terror”
Update from Saturday, July 2nd, 6:00 a.m.:
Ukraine has sharply condemned a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa that left at least 21 dead and 39 injured.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyj spoke of "deliberate, targeted Russian terror".
Neither weapons nor military equipment were hidden in the house - "as Russian propagandists and officials always tell about such attacks," he said in a video message.
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At the same time, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Russia of a war against civilians in connection with the missile attack.
“I urge our partners to provide Ukraine with modern missile defense systems as soon as possible.
Help us save lives and put an end to this war," Kuleba said on Twitter.
Ukraine War: Russia apparently attacks Snake Island with phosphorus bombs
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Ukraine has accused the Russian army of having attacked the snake island in the Black Sea with phosphorus bombs.
Moscow's troops "twice carried out airstrikes with phosphorus bombs" on Friday evening, Ukrainian army chief Valeriy Zalushny wrote on Telegram.
Only on Thursday did the Russian army announce its withdrawal from the Ukrainian island, which it had previously occupied for four months.
News about the Ukraine war: number of dead after rocket attack increases
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After the Russian rocket attacks in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa, the number of dead has risen to 21, according to Ukrainian information.
At least one child, a 12-year-old boy, was among the dead, spokesman for the Odessa regional administration, Serhiy Brachuk, told Ukrainian television on Friday.
According to Ukrainian rescue workers, 39 people, including six children, were injured in the attacks in the village of Serhiyivka, around 80 kilometers south of the port city of Odessa.
According to Brachuk, the missiles were fired from fighter jets flying over the Black Sea.
The projectiles hit a residential building and a leisure center.
According to the rescue workers, 16 people died in the apartment building.
Five people were killed at the recreation center, including a child.
Moscow denied that the Russian army had targeted attacks on civilians in Ukraine.
The Russian armed forces "did not act against civilian targets" during their operations, assured Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
War in Ukraine: rockets are said to have hit a nine-storey skyscraper
First report from Friday, July 1, 2022:
According to Ukrainian information, at least 14 people were killed in a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa.
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 number of dead later rose to ten and then to 14. (marv/tu with AFP/dpa)