Enemy fires 644 projectiles at Kherson region, civilian killed
On June 25, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 95 times, having fired 644 projectiles.
26 June 2023
On June 25, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 95 times, having fired 644 projectiles.
The Ukrainian State Emergency Service has completed emergency and rescue works in a high-rise residential building in Ukraine’s capital city, which was hit by the fragments of the downed Russian missile on the night of June 24, 2023.
Russian troops are focusing the main efforts on the Lyman, Bakhmut and Marinka directions. Thirty-six military clashes have been recorded there in the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin have had a phone conversation to discuss the recent events in Russia, as well as Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
The longer Russian aggression lasts, the more degradation it causes in Russia itself.
Andriy Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Committee on Defense, believes that there is no reason to blacklist Wagner Group, which participated in the mutiny effort launched by their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The Wagner Group’s mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin and rapid drive towards Moscow have exposed severe weaknesses in the Kremlin and will likely substantially damage Putin’s government and the Russian war effort in Ukraine.
25 June 2023
In the Tavria direction, Russian troops have lost about three companies in killed and injured over the past day.
In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have advanced from 600 to 1,000 meters on the southern and northern flanks around the Donetsk region’s Bakhmut.
In the Kherson region, Russian troops have shelled Antonivka and Burhunka. Civilians were reported injured.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces engaged three Russian artillery units in firing positions, a command and control post, and an ammunition depot within a day.
The enemy is drawing all possible types of troops into the operational zone of Ukraine’s Eastern Group of Forces, including paratroopers and a number of PMCs.
Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov of Ukraine believes that the year 2023 will be a game changer and that Ukraine must win the war with Russia.
Against the background of a mutiny attempt in Russia, Poland does not rule out the possibility of an escalation of tensions on the border with Belarus.
The Commander of Ukraine’s Joint Forces, Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev, said the situation in the northern operational zone remains stable and under control.
Russian troops placed military hardware carrying explosives outside four out of six available power units at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant they had captured in the spring of 2022.
Almost 5,000 Russian soldiers were killed in action on Ukraine’s battlefields over the past week, while Ukrainian forces also say they destroyed 187 Russian artillery units.
The Chonhar bridge is closed to passenger vehicles, so people have to drive along a very bad road to get to the checkpoint Armiansk, while on the border between Russia and Latvia, people are required to undergo filtration that takes about four days.
In the temporarily captured part of Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian occupiers tear up Ukrainian documents at checkpoints and impose Russian citizenship.
In the Tavria direction, the Ukrainian forces have achieved partial success in offensive actions and improved their tactical positions in the defense in the past 24 hours.
On June 25, the Russian forces again attacked the border area of Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
Former British Army chief of general staff, General Lord Richard Dannatt has said that Ukraine should beware of a possible attack on Kyiv by the Wagner PMC mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who left for Belarus after the mutiny attempt.
A prisoner of war from the 269th separate rifle battalion, 42-year-old Oleksandr Golovko from Horlivka spoke about the poor provision of the Russian occupation army.
The Russian invasion forces used a chemical weapon against the Ukrainian Army position in the Marinka direction.
The Russian invasion forces continue their reconnoitering, collecting data to use in preparing future missile attacks on Ukraine.
Four Russian warships remain on combat duty in the Black Sea, including a Kalibr cruise missile carrier.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner Group, who staged a revolt against the Kremlin regime, may be physically eliminated in Belarus, where he fled after recalling his military convoys heading toward Moscow.
The Ukrainian military is using the experiences from the first two weeks of their latest counteroffensive to refine tactics and is making confident progress in all key areas.
Two more bodies of victims were recovered from the rubble in the apartment block that had been hit by the fragments of the downed Russian missile.
A man, 44, has been killed in Russia’s shelling of a 5-storey apartment block in the city of Kherson. A woman was trapped under the rubble.