Ukraine bombs strategically important bridge - Russia is massing troops near Cherson
Created: 2022-07-27Updated: 2022-07-27 10:10 p.m
By: Franziska Schwarz
Moscow announces the acquisition of Ukraine's largest coal-fired power plant.
Kyiv reports territorial gains in the south.
News ticker on military events in the Ukraine war.
Russia
is apparently assembling troops in the
Cherson
region : Ukraine is planning a counter-offensive.
Russian attack
on house and hotel in
Bachmut
: Apparently at least two dead, four injured.
Ukraine
reports
territorial gains
: village allegedly "cleansed by Russian occupying forces"
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Update from July 27, 10:01 p.m .:
Russia is apparently increasingly assembling its troops in the Cherson region.
This is what the Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said, the Ukrainian newspaper
Kyiv Independent
reported on Wednesday.
Russia apparently concentrating troops in Kherson region - Ukraine-News
Most of Kherson Oblast has been occupied by Russia since early March.
A very strong movement of Russian troops towards Cherson has now begun, Oleksiy Danilov said
on Wednesday, according to the
Kyiv Independent .
"They are withdrawing additional forces." However, the politician stated that Ukrainian forces are determined to continue the counter-offensive to liberate southern Ukraine.
It was previously known that the Ukrainian army had bombed a strategically important bridge in Kherson on Wednesday, which the Russian army used as a supply route.
Russian attack on house and hotel in Bakhmut causes deaths in Ukraine war
Update from July 27, 3:36 p.m .:
On Tuesday, Russian forces apparently attacked a hotel and a residential building in the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast.
This was reported by the Kyiv Independent
newspaper
on Tuesday afternoon, citing the state emergency service.
At least two people died in the attack and four were injured.
The information could not be independently verified.
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The Ukrainian military is apparently launching a counter-offensive in occupied Cherson
Update from July 27, 12:03 p.m
.: Counter-offensive in occupied Cherson (southern Ukraine): The Ukrainian military bombed a strategically important bridge.
As evidence, it published a corresponding video.
Kirill Stremusov, deputy head of the Kherson regional administration appointed by Russia, confirmed the attack.
The attack will affect the outcome of the fighting "in no way," he said in a video message.
The Russian army had used the Antonivka Bridge as an important supply route to Kherson.
"The occupiers should learn how to swim across the Dnipro River," Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak tweeted about the latest developments.
Picture taken on July 19: the port of Kherson, capital of the Kherson region © STRINGER
Ukraine-News: Wagner Group to target power plant in eastern Ukraine
Update from July 27, 11:41 a.m
.: Mercenaries from the “Wagner Group” loyal to Moscow have probably made “tactical advances” around the Wuhlehirsk power plant in the Donbass.
This was reported by the British Ministry of Defense in its regular Ukraine War Update.
According to officially unconfirmed reports, the Wagner group is involved with the government around Kremlin chief Putin.
She is said to have fought in Syria, the Central African Republic and earlier in Ukraine.
General staff in the Ukraine war: Putin's troops apparently shoot down their own helicopters
Update from July 27, 9:51 a.m
.: "Own goal" for the Russian troops: They accidentally shot down one of their own helicopters.
The incident happened in the Kherson region, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.
This is reported by the
Kyiv Independent
.
The information could not initially be independently verified.
The Russian military allegedly shot down one of their own helicopters during the Ukraine war (symbol image).
© SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP
Ukraine reports territorial gains: village allegedly "cleansed by Russian occupying forces"
Update from July 27, 8:23 a.m .:
According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces were able to achieve territorial successes in the Cherson region.
The troops had succeeded in recapturing the towns of Andrijwka and Losowe.
"Andriyivka has been liberated and finally cleared of the Russian occupying forces," a spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces said on Tuesday evening.
The conquests are part of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the south of the country.
The information cannot be independently verified.
Kiev's declared goal is to recapture strategically important points along the Black Sea.
Russian troops seize Ukraine's largest coal-fired power plant
Update from July 26, 8:11 p.m
.: In the Donetsk region (eastern Ukraine), Russian troops say they have taken control of Ukraine’s largest coal-fired power plant near Svitlodarsk.
Media of the Donetsk separatists already reported the capture.
Pictures should prove the presence of Russian mercenaries of the so-called Wagner group in front of the administration building.
According to other reports, however, the fighting around the power plant site, which has been going on since the end of May, is continuing.
The information cannot be verified independently.
The Ukrainian General Staff made no further mention of the power plant in its July 26 evening situation report.
Instead, the military leadership only reported fighting for the western Semyhirya.
In the morning report there was still talk of air raids on Ukrainian positions on the power plant site.
Killed civilians in the Ukraine war: Military governor reports on Telegram
Update July 26, 4:03 p.m
.: Russia has launched missile attacks on an “International Legion” base with foreign fighters.
Several dozen foreigners were killed near Kostyantynivka (Donetsk region), most of them Poles.
This was announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The information cannot be independently verified.
The International Legion fighting in the Ukrainian army only provides isolated information on its own losses and does not provide any information on the composition of the volunteer unit, which also includes Germans.
First report from July 26
: Kramatorsk/Donetsk – The UN has officially registered more than 5,200 civilian deaths across Ukraine since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The number is constantly increasing.
More civilians have died in the fighting in the Donetsk region.
Killed civilians in the Ukraine war: Military governor reports on Telegram
Three people were killed and eight injured in the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donetsk region, military governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Telegram.
The dead were in the following towns:
Krasnohorivka
Marjinka
Soledar
"There is not a single settlement in Donetsk region that is not being shelled and that is safe or relatively safe," Kyrylenko later said on TV.
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UN census of civilian casualties: Higher number in separatist areas
The numbers of civilian casualties in the two parts of Donetsk differ greatly.
In the Ukrainian-controlled part, the authorities put them at 642.
There were also 1,600 injured.
In the separatist part, on the other hand, almost 760 civilians were killed and more than 2,400 injured.
The information provided by both sides cannot be independently verified.
(dpa/AFP/frs)
