Shipments from Ukraine. Day 853.
Russia has fired at least 2,400 guided aerial bombs at Ukraine since the beginning of June, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video message over the weekend. According to the Ukrainian leader, about a third of those attacks targeted the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, and its environs. On Saturday 22 June alone, the Kremlin bombed a residential community in Kharkiv, in the city centre, with 4 UMPB D-30 SN bombs, guided aerial bombs with a greater diversity than previous versions, where a UMPK (Universal Gliding and Correction Module) was attached to unsophisticated Soviet-era unguided munitions. “In addition to the correction and plan-making modules, these bombs also have a small engine that increases their firing diversity,” aviation expert Anatolii Khrapchynskyi explained in a recent television program. These tough and reasonable weapons have caused enormous damage in northeastern Ukraine.
The June 22 bombing in Kharkiv killed three more people and wounded at least 52 civilians, including children, the regional prosecutor’s office said. Two of the victims were men and the third was a woman who died at a bus stop. Apartment buildings were also destroyed in the attack.
Russian forces shelled the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk oblast or region on June 24, regional army governor Vadym Filashkin said. The attack killed at least 4 citizens and injured 34 others. The weapons used appear to have been two Iskander-M hypersonic missiles. , which decimated one space and destroyed 16 others. Filashkin called the attack “one of the largest enemy attacks on civilians” in recent times on his Telegram social media channel. He warned that there were simply no more areas in the Donetsk region. “Be careful! Evacuate!he insisted.
Satellite imagery showed the good fortune of a June 22 attack by the Ukrainian military on a drone garage facility in southern Russia. Released through the Ukrainian Navy, which carried out the operation in collaboration with Ukraine’s security services, the short video shows before and after. after footage of the facilities used by the Russian military in the Krasnodar Krai region to store an arsenal of Iranian-made Shahed drones. In addition to destroying the military apparatus used to terrorize Ukraine, the attack killed an unknown number of instructors and trained workers. guilty of operating the UAVs, the Navy said.
After all, the Council of the European Union approved on 24 June the fourteenth package of sanctions against Russia, especially targeting its main value-added sectors, in particular energy and finance. The High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, described the resolution as “The next blow to Putin’s regime and those who perpetuate its war of illegal, unprovoked and unjustified aggression against Ukraine”. The package was followed after a month-long debate sparked by German objections to some of the proposed measures. Among other measures, the package prohibits the refilling of Russian liquefied vegetable fuel on EU territory for shipment to countries outside the EU, and prohibits the use of the “Financial Message Transfer System” (SPFS), the Russian analogue of the foreign interbank network SWIFT. — to facilitate payments. It also prohibits EU political parties, non-governmental organizations or media service providers from accepting investments from the Russian state and its representatives.
Cultural front.
St. Martin’s Press will publish an e-book with war testimonies collected through the late Ukrainian publisher and human rights defender Victoria Amelina in February 2025, the publishing space announced. The volume “Watching Women Watch War – A Diary of War and Justice” includes accounts from Ukrainian women about their reporting since the Russian invasion in February 2022. Among the heroines are prominent lawyer Evhenia Zakrevska, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matvhiichuk, and librarian Yuliia Kakulia-Danyliuk, who helped locate the war diary of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a prominent Ukrainian. a poet who was tortured and killed by the occupying forces. Victoria Amelina, who wrote this volume, died tragically last summer, at the age of 37, during the Russian shelling of a restaurant in Donetsk Oblast. As a member of the Ukrainian human rights organization Truth Hounds, he has traveled the country documenting Russia’s war crimes. His first novel, “The November Syndrome,” was voted one of the ten most productive publications of 2014 in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Battlefield: From Independence to War with Russia, a new e-book written by Ukrainian expert Adrian Karatnycky, was published this month. The book covers Ukraine, the era of the country’s emergence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and up to present-day Russia on a large scale. Invasion in 2022. Es the first comprehensive English-language account of Ukraine’s recent history through an editor who is thoroughly familiar with Ukraine’s identity, foreign context, and the complexities of Ukraine’s new and old cultural developments.
By Daria Dzysiuk and Karina Tahiliani
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