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War in Ukraine: Secret service arrests Russian agents – Putin orders 17 wagons full of ammunition

2022-07-04T13:04:44.660Z


War in Ukraine: Secret service arrests Russian agents – Putin orders 17 wagons full of ammunition Created: 04/07/2022, 14:56 By: Tobias Utz, Tanja Banner, Marvin Ziegele, Christian Stör The situation in the Ukraine war is getting worse. Russia advances further east. The news ticker on Monday, July 4th. Agents arrested: Ukrainian secret service gives details Russian Advance: Focus on next targe


War in Ukraine: Secret service arrests Russian agents – Putin orders 17 wagons full of ammunition

Created: 04/07/2022, 14:56

By: Tobias Utz, Tanja Banner, Marvin Ziegele, Christian Stör

The situation in the Ukraine war is getting worse.

Russia advances further east.

The news ticker on Monday, July 4th.

  • Agents arrested:

    Ukrainian secret service gives details

  • Russian Advance:

    Focus on next target after taking Lysychansk

  • Russia takes city:

    Ukrainian army withdraws from Lysychansk

  • All of Luhansk under control:

    Russia reports capture of Lysychansk

  • 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.

+++ 2.45 p.m .:

Russian forces apparently attack the Cherson region with multiple rocket launchers at noon.

This is reported by the Kyiv Independent

news portal

, citing Ukrainian troops.

The information cannot be independently verified.

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News on the Ukraine war: secret service arrests Russian agents

+++ 2:00 p.m .:

The Ukrainian domestic secret service SBU has apparently arrested several Russian agents who are said to have revealed the locations of stationed Ukrainian troops.

In total, there should be three people, as the news portal

Kyiv Independent

reports.

The main task of the agents was to spy on combat positions and movements of the Ukrainian armed forces.

In addition, critical infrastructure was also located, the secret service reported, according to the report.

The information cannot be independently verified.

Members of the Russian Army in front of the "Z" symbol.

© Stanislav Krasilnikov / Imago Images

+++ 1:00 p.m .:

Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus, has once again emphasized his country’s ties to Russia.

At a celebration of the anniversary of Minsk's liberation, he said the two states share close ties.

Belarus is so closely linked to the Russian Federation "that we practically have a common army.

But you knew all that.

We will continue to be firmly united with fraternal Russia”.

Lukashenko added that he had supported Putin's actions against Ukraine "from day one".

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, assessed Lukashenko's statements as very dangerous.

"Lukashenko's statement about a joint army with Russia is especially dangerous for the Belarusian people," he said.

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News about the Ukraine war: Ukrainian secret service with prognosis for the end of the war

+++ 11.45 a.m .:

The head of the secret service in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, assumes that the war will end in 2023.

This is reported by the news portal

Nexta

.

Budanov stressed that he would see the end of the war as "reaching the 1991 borders."

Other scenarios would not be considered.

Budanov was referring to the independence vote in the early 1990s.

At that time, Ukraine broke away from the Soviet Union.

+++ 11.15 a.m .:

The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Iryna Wereshchuk, said on Monday that Russia had handed over hundreds of dead Ukrainians.

She told the Ukrainian state news agency

Ukrinform

.

"But that's definitely not enough, because we know there are many more bodies.

Russia does not want to show its citizens mass transports of corpses.

They know what kind of explosion this will lead to, so they do it almost secretly," Vereshchuk said.

The information you provide cannot be independently verified.

News about the Ukraine war: Pope wants to travel to Moscow and Kyiv

+++ 10.45 a.m .:

Pope Francis plans to travel to Moscow and Kiev.

Pope Francis told Reuters that there had already been contact between Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about a possible visit.

A few months ago, the Vatican asked for a possible trip to Moscow for the first time.

Moscow replied at the time that this was not the right time.

"I would like to

i.e.

Red.: to the Ukraine], and I wanted to go to Moscow first.” After his return from Canada at the end of July, a visit to the Ukraine is conceivable.

+++ 10:00 a.m .:

Russian troops are apparently currently transporting large quantities of ammunition from Crimea to the Cherson region.

This is reported by the Kyiv Independent

news portal

, citing the Ukrainian General Staff.

A total of 17 train wagons full of ammunition are said to be on the way.

According to the report, the delivery should arrive at the train station in Myrne.

However, the information cannot be independently verified.

Russian soldiers as part of a convoy.

(Archive photo) © Alexei Konovalov / Imago Images

+++ 9:00 a.m .:

On the night of Monday (July 4th), Russian troops apparently bombed a school in Kharkiv.

According to a report by the

Nexta

news portal , shells fell in the Shevchenkovsky district.

So far nothing is known about injuries.

The information cannot be independently verified.

News about the Ukraine war: After taking Lyssychansk, focus on next target

+++ 07.30 a.m .:

After taking the former city of Lyssychansk in eastern Ukraine, the Russian troops are advancing on the next target, the conurbation around Slovjansk.

"In the direction of Sloviansk, the Russians are trying to establish control over the towns of Bohorodychne, Dolyna and Masanivka," the Ukrainian general staff said in Kyiv on Monday.

The three towns are less than 20 kilometers north and northeast of Sloviansk, on the south bank of the Seversky Donets River.

According to this information, the Russian troops are also moving from the east towards the Siwerskyi Donets, which runs in an arc in the region.

There they tried to push back the Ukrainian forces to a new line of defense between Siwersk, Soledar and Bakhmut, the situation report said.

News in the Ukraine war: Zelenskyj does not see Lysychansk lost - will "come back"

+++ Update from Monday, July 4, 6:25 a.m .:

Although the Ukrainian army has withdrawn from the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk Oblast, it is not yet lost, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj.

"If the command of our army withdraws people from certain points of the front where the enemy has the greatest fire advantage - Lysychansk in particular - it means only one thing: that thanks to our tactics, thanks to the increased supply of modern weapons, we will come back," announced he on

After weeks of defensive fighting, the Ukrainian army announced on Sunday evening (July 3) that it was withdrawing from Lysychansk.

Monday is the 131st day of the war for Ukraine.



The Ukrainian army announced that it had avoided encirclement by withdrawing from Lysychansk.

"Russia has a great advantage in infantry and artillery," the military said in Kyiv.

The retreat was to protect the soldiers.

"We're taking everything back, we're rebuilding everything." Russia had previously reported that it had taken the city.

Lysychansk was the last major Ukrainian bastion in the Luhansk region.

It is hardly possible to independently check the information from the combat zones.

+++ 9:50 p.m .:

Russia accuses the West of preventing peace negotiations with Ukraine and thus prolonging the war.

"Now is the moment when Western countries are betting everything on continuing the war," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on state television.

Under US leadership, the West is allowing Ukrainians "not to think about, talk about, or discuss peace."

In doing so, Peskov was reacting to statements by Western politicians that they did not want to press Ukraine into negotiations.

At the moment there is apparently no need to calm the situation, the spokesman for President Vladimir Putin suspected.

Nevertheless, the moment for negotiations will come.

For peace, however, Ukraine must accept Russian demands, said Peskov.

Putin has named the recognition of the illegally annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea as Russian territory and the cession of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as war goals.

In addition, it is about the "denazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine and its renunciation of NATO membership.

Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podoliak responded by saying that Russia was aware of the conditions for negotiations: a ceasefire, troop withdrawal, the return of kidnapped citizens, the extradition of war criminals, as well as a reparations mechanism and recognition of Ukraine's sovereign rights.

"The time will come and we will put it on paper," Podoljak said on Twitter.

Ukraine War: Ukrainian army withdraws from Lysychansk

+++ 19.15:

Well then: The Ukrainian army announces its withdrawal from the embattled city of Lyssychansk in the east of the country.

"In order to protect the lives of the Ukrainian defenders, the decision was made to withdraw," the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had previously rejected Russia's statements about the complete capture of the city.

Ukraine War: At least six dead in Sloviansk attack

+++ 3.55 p.m .:

At least six people were killed in a Russian attack on Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine, according to authorities.

A spokeswoman for the Donetsk regional administration, to which Sloviansk belongs, said on Sunday (July 7) that 15 other people were injured.

Mayor Wadym Liach spoke of "many dead and injured".

The city in the Donbass subregion of Donetsk was fired at with multiple rocket launchers on Sunday, the mayor said in a video published on Facebook.

It was the most violent attacks "in a long time".

There are 15 fires.

According to Ukrainian media reports, among other things, a market was on fire.

The spokeswoman for the regional administration renewed the appeal to the people of Sloviansk to leave the city if possible.

Ukraine War: Lysychansk not under full Russian control

+++ 2.15 p.m .:

Ukraine has contradicted Russian information that the city of Lyssychansk in the east of the country had been conquered by Russia (see update from 12.00 p.m.).

The city is not under full Russian control, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv told the British broadcaster BBC.

However, the situation has been "very intense" for some time now, with Russian troops constantly attacking the city.

"For Ukrainians, the value of human life is the top priority," the spokesman said.

"Therefore, we could sometimes withdraw from certain areas in order to recapture them in the future." The ministry spokesman also says that Donbass is not lost even if Russia captures all of Luhansk.

There are other large cities there, especially in the Donetsk region, which are under Ukrainian control.

“These cities have been the target of heavy rocket attacks and artillery shelling in recent days.

But the fight for Donbass is not over yet.”

News about the Ukraine war: Russia reports taking Lyssychansk - all of Luhansk under control

+++ 12.00 p.m .:

According to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russia has taken the former city of Lyssychansk in eastern Ukraine.

According to a report by the Interfax agency, Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin that this means that they have complete control over the Luhansk region.

There was initially no confirmation from the Ukrainian side.

Lyssychansk had been heavily fought over for days (see update from 8 a.m.).

+++ 11:00 a.m .:

The city of Melitopol in southern Ukraine, occupied by Russian troops, was shaken by dozens of explosions on Sunday night.

More than 30 projectiles were fired at one of the four Russian military bases in the city, said the Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fyodorov, in a video address distributed on Telegram.

The base was thus put out of action.

The city's Russian military administration confirmed the attack on Melitopol in the morning.

+++ 9.30 a.m .:

According to the Ukrainian general staff, Russia has also launched attacks in the regions around Kharkiv and Sloviansk.

Russian attacks were repulsed in both directions.

Fighting continues in the direction of Bakhmut, an important transport hub in the Donetsk region.

The same applies to Spartak, a suburb of Donetsk that Russian troops are trying to storm.

In the south of Ukraine, the settlement of Ivanivka, which Ukrainian troops captured the day before in the Kherson region, was exposed to heavy Russian air raids.

In addition, the Mykolaiv region would be fired upon by rockets.

The information cannot be verified independently.

Update from Sunday, July 3, 6 a.m.:

According to the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, there were several explosions in the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border.

At least three people were killed, he said on Telegram.

Several houses are said to have been destroyed or damaged.

He also reported a fire in a residential building.

"The reasons for the incident are currently being investigated," writes Gladkow.

"The air defense system probably worked." In the past, the authorities in southern Russian regions have repeatedly reported incidents that they claim were attacks from Ukraine.

Ukraine war: Lukashenko accuses Ukraine of rocket attacks on Belarus

+++ 19.40:

Alexander Lukashenko, the ruler in Belarus, has accused Ukraine of rocket attacks on his country.

"About three days ago, maybe more, an attempt was made from Ukraine to attack military targets in Belarus," Lukashenko said, according to the state news agency Belta.

"Thank God our anti-aircraft systems intercepted all missiles fired by Ukrainian troops," he said.

Lukashenko's allegations come amid speculation that Belarus is becoming more involved in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

However, according to the Belta agency, Lukashenko emphasized that Belarus has no intention of fighting in Ukraine.

Lukashenko's information cannot be independently verified.

News about the Ukraine war: Russia is allegedly using cluster munitions

+++ 12.30 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, Russia is said to have used banned cluster munitions in rocket attacks on the city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine.

During the night of Saturday, civilian areas where there were no military installations were hit, Mayor Wadym Lyach reported on Telegram.

Four people were killed and seven people were injured.

Cluster munitions are rockets and bombs that burst in mid-air over the target, releasing many small explosive devices.

Their use is outlawed under international law.

Ukraine War: Attack on Odessa – “Targeted Russian Terror”

Update from Saturday, July 2, 6:00

a.m.: Ukraine has sharply condemned a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa that killed at least 21 people and injured 39 (see update from Friday, 6:42 p.m.).

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. 

First report from Friday, July 1, 2022, 6:15 a.m.:

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.

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 14. (marv/tu/cs/tab with AFP/dpa)

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2022-07-04

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