War in Ukraine: situation in Sloviansk worsens - 8,000 people remain in Severodonetsk
Created: 07/07/2022 05:02
By: Nail Akkoyun, Lucas Maier
In eastern Ukraine, Russia is engaged in fierce fighting with Ukrainian troops.
Sloviansk could soon fall.
The news ticker on Wednesday, July 6th.
Battles in Donetsk:
Russia records further territorial gains in the Ukraine war.
Slowjansk probably the next target:
Ukraine calls for evacuation.
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 the city of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region, up to 8,000 people will probably stay behind, even if the conditions worsen dramatically, as Oleksandr Striuk, head of the Severodonetsk military administration, reports.
According to the CNN
report, people would have to do without water, electricity or gas supplies .
The Russian occupiers are indeed looking for personnel for the restoration, but there are almost no skilled workers left in the city.
According to Striuk, work is also being done to enable schools to run from September 1st, for which the Ministry of Education would be reorganized.
Ukraine War: 8,000 people remain in Severodonetsk.
(Archive image) © IMAGO/Stanislav Krasilnikov
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The Dnipropetrovsk region is in the south-west of the Kharkov region.
This was fired upon by Russia, as reported by the
Kyiv Independent
, citing Mykola Lukaschuk, the region's chairman.
The attack would have hit a building with agricultural equipment, it is said.
Three people were injured in the attack, one seriously.
Firefighters are still fighting the fire in the building.
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The shelling of health facilities is a violation of applicable martial law. Nevertheless, many of these facilities have already been destroyed in the Ukraine war.
As announced by the Minister of Health of Ukraine Viktor Liashko, 120 health facilities were completely destroyed and 817 others damaged by the Russian armed forces.
The damage amounts to a total of 1.2 billion dollars, as the
Kyiv Independent
writes.
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Ukraine War: Hospitals and pharmacies still under fire.
(Archive image) © Madeleine Kelly/dpa
Destruction in the health sector of Ukraine:
Destroyed:
120 health facilities, 43 pharmacies and 85 ambulances.
Damaged:
817 health facilities were damaged.
Deceased:
14 healthcare workers.
Cost:
$1.2 billion.
Source: Health Minister Viktor Liashko according to kyivindependent.com
At least 14 medical workers have died since February 24, 2022.
85 ambulances and 43 pharmacies were also completely destroyed.
The information has not yet been independently verified.
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+++ 8.45 p.m .:
The number of refugees from Ukraine continues to increase.
Almost a quarter of the population has now fled, according to the
Kyiv Independent
newspaper .
The United Nations refugee organization speaks of 8.79 million refugees (as of July 6).
This number has been measured since the beginning of the all-out war of aggression by Russia, on April 24, 2022.
+++ 19.35: Is
Russia spreading false reports about the destruction of western military equipment?
Last Wednesday (June 29), Russia claimed to have destroyed two US HIMARS artillery systems.
Ukraine now disagrees, accusing Russia of propaganda,
CNN
reports.
The Russian Ministry released a video of the alleged destruction.
According to the experts from
CNN
, they do not recognize any HIMARS artillery systems in it.
An independent examination of the two positions is not yet available.
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The population of the city of Slowjansk in eastern Ukraine is asked by the authorities to flee.
"Since the fighting began, 17 residents have died and 67 have been injured," Mayor Wadym Liach said on Wednesday (July 6), according to
AFP
.
An evacuation of the city is already in full swing, it is said.
According to Liach, 23,000 people are said to still be in the city of 100,000 souls.
AFP journalists report rocket hits on the market square and surrounding streets.
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.: It only lasted one day, the travel restriction in Ukraine.
A wave of criticism caused the military to buckle.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was among the critics.
The regulation stipulated that conscripts must obtain permission before leaving the registration location, as the
dpa
writes.
The rule that men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country remains in place.
Update from Wednesday, July 6, 4:15 p.m.:
According to the military administration of Sloviansk, the city will become the target of a major Russian offensive.
“They will probably attack.
That's probably why the strikes have become more frequent," administration chief Vadym Liakh told a
CNN
reporter.
"I think that once the enemy is able to conduct offensive operations, they will start destroying the infrastructure and the city itself."
Moscow's army is currently being held up at the Siwerskyi Donets river.
Liakh further said that numerous fortifications were built near Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, which allowed Ukrainian troops to "hold back the enemy for four months".
The problem now, however, is that "the civilian population is unfortunately coming under fire more and more frequently".
Ukraine War: Russia pushes further into Donetsk Oblast
First report:
Kiev/Moscow – The situation in the Donetsk Oblast is getting worse and worse.
As the US news
channel CNN
reports, Ukrainian officials have now asked the remaining residents of the region to evacuate the area and go to safety.
"Russia has turned the entire Donetsk region into a trouble spot where it is dangerous for civilians to be present," the head of the Donetsk region's military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said after a rocket attack on the city of Toretsk on Wednesday (July 6). ).
"I am calling on everyone to evacuate.
An evacuation saves lives,” he added.
Ukraine war: Evacuations in Donetsk already in progress
According to CNN
, Ukraine
still controls around 45 percent of the Donetsk region, but after taking Lysychansk in the neighboring Luhansk region, Russian forces are now pushing ever further towards Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
As a result, more and more Ukrainians are being forced to leave their homes.
“Those who saw what happened in Severodonetsk or Lysychansk left the city a long time ago.
Now about 23,000 residents of Sloviansk [out of around 100,000] remained in the city,” said Vadym Liakh, head of the Sloviansk military-civilian administration.
“The number of people who want to leave the city has increased.
We are working on evacuation in two directions: to Lviv, Dnipro or Rivne.” (nak)
