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Latest war news: Ukraine says it is holding out in Donbas and inflicting 'significant casualties' on Russia

2022-07-06T13:00:05.535Z


Ukraine claims to be resisting Russian attacks in Donbas and inflicting significant casualties. Check here the latest news of the war.


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(CNN Spanish) --

Russia continues to attack and has committed "all its available reserves" in Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine, where tough battles are taking place with Ukrainian forces, which resist and say they are inflicting "significant casualties".

Meanwhile, civilians in eastern Ukraine are being urged to leave the Donbas region as fighting rages, and President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on the West for air defenses.

  • Russian forces claim to take control of Lysychansk, Ukraine's last holdout in the Luhansk region

See here the latest news of the war on July 6, 2022.

Ukraine says it is holding out in Donbas and inflicting 'significant casualties' on Russia

Ukraine says its military is putting up fierce resistance to Russian forces trying to advance into the eastern Donbas region, inflicting heavy losses on Moscow's armies.

"We contain the enemy on the border of the Luhansk region and the Donetsk region: the occupiers are suffering significant casualties, as they themselves admit," said the head of the military administration of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hayday.

"Every day, the Russians receive the order to continue advancing, but they don't always carry it out, because the personnel losses are very important."

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Ukrainian servicemen riding on top of an armored personnel carrier in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on July 5.

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"During the assault on Lysychansk alone, the enemy lost thousands of fighters and there are wounded. Yes, they have more forces and means, but the Ukrainian army is better prepared and motivated."

Russia's Defense Ministry does not regularly report the number of dead and wounded among its forces, and CNN was unable to independently verify Hayday's claims about Russian casualties.

However, independent analysts and observers, including some pro-Russian bloggers, have criticized Moscow's effort to capture the city of Lisichansk, saying it was too costly.

Ukraine needs arms support -

Hayday has called for more Western arms supplies to help balance the fighting.

"When there are more long-range weapons, it will even out the enemy's advantage in personnel," he said.

Russian forces now occupy most of the Luhansk region, barring pockets of resistance, and are pressing into the Donetsk cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

Resisting Russia's Advance -

Russian shelling targets Ukrainian military positions in Luhansk "near Lysychansk in the direction of Bakhmut," according to Ukraine's military General Staff.

In the neighboring Donetsk region, "the entire territory of the region" was targeted, including Sloviansk, in which six civilians were killed and 21 wounded, the General Staff added.

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Hayday said Russian attempts to push towards Donetsk and to cut off the Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway that runs through Bilohorivka were repulsed by Ukrainian forces.

"The enemy was forced to retreat under pressure from our fighters," Hayday said.

Zelensky calls for modern air defenses after Russian missile strikes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Western allies to provide his country with a modern and effective air defense system after Russia struck targets in the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine on Tuesday night. sounding air raid sirens across the country.

"The Russian army does not take any breaks. It has only one task - to take people's lives, to intimidate people, so that even a few days without air alarm already feel like part of the terror. And tonight, Kyiv and again almost all of Ukraine have heard the air alarm," Zelensky said in his late-night speech on Tuesday.

"Some of the missiles were shot down by our air defense forces. And we have not reduced and will not reduce for a single day our diplomatic activity to obtain modern anti-missile systems for Ukraine in sufficient quantity," he added.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a late-night speech from his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 5.

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"This is a maximum task for our state - to provide basic security to Ukrainians, basic protection against missile attacks already this year. But the fulfillment of this task depends not only on us, but also on understanding our needs. essential by our partners".

Missiles fired -

The head of the military administration of the Khmelnytskyi region, Serhii Hamalii, said that four missiles had been fired at the territory.

One of the shells was intercepted by the Ukrainian air defenses, and the remains fell in the Shepetiv district.

The remaining three fell on civilian infrastructure, Hamalii said.

"The target of the attacks was a water tower that supplies the community," he said Tuesday night.

"As a result of the explosions, one person was injured."

According to Zelensky, on Tuesday there were also Russian attacks in Sumy, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk.

Donetsk residents asked to evacuate due to fighting in eastern Ukraine

Ukrainian authorities have urged remaining residents of the Donetsk region to evacuate to safer areas, as Russian forces close in on eastern territories.

"Russia has turned the entire Donetsk region into a hot spot where it is dangerous for civilians to stay," said the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, commenting on a missile attack in Toretsk on Wednesday.

People walk through the damage to the central market in Sloviansk, Ukraine, on July 6.

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"I ask everyone to evacuate. Evacuating saves lives," he added.

Ukraine still controls 45% of Donetsk, but after taking Lysychansk in the neighboring Luhansk region, Russian forces are advancing towards Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

The new attacks have increased the pace of evacuations, but most people have already left the city, according to the head of the Sloviansk military-civilian administration, Vadym Liakh.

"Those who saw (what happened in Severodonetsk or Lysychansk) left a long time ago. Now there are about 23,000 Sloviansk residents (out of about 100,000) who remain in the city," Liakh said.

"The number of people willing to leave has increased. We are working on the evacuation in two directions: to Lviv, Dnipro or Rivne."

Due to the increased flow of passengers leaving Donetsk, the Ukrainian Railways said they would add additional cars to facilitate the movement of people.

Although some are resisting calls by authorities to evacuate, most people have already left the Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk region.

Only about 340,000 people remain — down from 1,670,000 before the war — according to Kyrylenko.

"It is difficult to persuade people to evacuate," Kyrylenko said on Friday, "we are working on it all the time. People are starting to leave more actively, as the shelling of civilian infrastructure is chaotic."

With information from Vasco Cotovio, Olga Voitovych, Kostan Nechyporenko, and Yulia Kesaieva.

Source: cnnespanol

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