Ukrainian troops were able to achieve a partial success near the embattled city of Lyssychansk. A supermarket is on fire. The news ticker about the war.
- Zelenskyj on the G7 summit: In the run-up to the meeting, the Ukrainian President called for powerful air defense for his country.
- 7000-8000 are civilians escaped from Sieverodonetsk: Russian soldiers occupy houses of Ukrainians.
- Rocket hits supermarket in Kremenchuk: Over 1000 people were in the building – “impossible to imagine the number of victims”
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Update from June 27, 4:36 p.m.: A supermarket in Kremenchuk was hit by a Russian missile. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 1,000 people were in the supermarket at the time of the impact, according to the Ukrainian medium Kyiv Independent reported: “The supermarket is on fire, firefighters are trying to put out the fire, it is impossible to imagine the number of victims,” Zelenskyy wrote.
According to the medium, 20 people were injured and two killed: “We know of 20 wounded. It has already been confirmed that two people have died. Rescue operations continue,” wrote Ukrainian official Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
⚡️ Zelensky: ‘Russia strikes shopping center in Kremenchuk, while over a thousand people inside.’
“The mall is on fire, firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire, the number of victims is impossible to imagine,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Volodymyr Zelensky/Telegram pic.twitter.com/Pb8IGeAevD
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 27, 2022
NATO wants to increase the contingent of intervention forces to more than 300,000
Update from June 27, 1:18 p.m.: NATO wants to increase the number of its rapid reaction forces to more than 300,000. This was announced by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday before the summit of the 30 member states in Madrid. So far, the NATO intervention force NRF has comprised around 40,000 soldiers.
The new commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command, Bernd Schütt, has meanwhile called for effective deterrence for Russia.
Update from June 27, 1:04 p.m.: Between 7,000 and 8,000 civilians have left the Russian-held city of Sieverodonetsk. Russian soldiers are occupying the houses of local residents, according to Sieverodonetsk mayor Oleksandr Striuk. According to the Ukrainian medium Kyiv Independent Struik explained: Russia “places soldiers and their officers in the houses of Ukrainians, so they run the city as they want”. Meanwhile, US experts reckon that the capture of Sievjerodonetsk could turn into a Pyrrhic victory for Russia.
In the course of the G7 summit there were rocket attacks on Kyiv for the first time
Update from June 27th, 11:15 am: At the start of the G7 summit, there was a rocket attack on Kyiv for the first time in weeks on the night of June 26. Among other things, a residential complex was hit. After the Russian attack, people lay under the rubble.
At the G7 summit in Elmau on Monday (June 27), Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will also speak. In the run-up, more military support from the West was demanded, above all a powerful air defense system.
The Russian army has managed to capture the city of Sieverodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. The fighting for the city of Lyssychansk continued, in the end the Ukrainian soldiers were able to push back their enemies.
Ukraine reports success – encirclement of Lysychansk prevented
Update from June 27, 8:40 a.m.: The Ukrainian military apparently managed to push back Russian forces near the city of Lysychansk. Thus, an encirclement of the Ukrainian troops in the strategically important city could be avoided for the time being. “Near Verkhnyokamyanka, the defense forces inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and forced them to retreat,” the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Monday. Verkhnyokamyanka is west of Lysychansk on the last remaining supply road.
As the General Staff further reports, Lysychansk continued to be the target of heavy air and artillery attacks. Russian units are already on the outskirts of the city in the south. Several suburbs have also come under fire. Several thousand Ukrainian soldiers are said to be stationed in the city. However, the information cannot be independently verified.
Selenskyj at the G7 summit: President calls for “powerful air defense” in advance
Update from June 27, 6:41 a.m: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is meeting with the heads of state and government of the G7 this Monday. He is likely to demand more weapons from the West again. “We need powerful air defense – modern, fully effective,” he said in his daily video speech on Monday night. On Saturday alone, 62 Russian rockets hit his country. Meanwhile, the city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine remains fiercely contested.
Any delay in arms deliveries to Ukraine is an invitation to Russia to strike further, Zelensky said. The G7 countries, which include Germany, the US, Canada, the UK, France, Italy and Japan, together had so much potential “to stop Russian aggression against Ukraine and Europe,” Zelenskyy said. “There are already some agreements. The partners have to move faster.”
Ukraine War: Rocket attack near Odessa
Update from June 27, 6:05 am: There was another heavy rocket attack on Monday night. Six people were injured in the Odessa region in southern Ukraine. The missile was fired by a Russian Tu-22 strategic bomber, the Ukrainian Defense Command South said on Monday.
- Battles for the city of Lysychansk
- Zelenskyj’s appeal to Belarus: Don’t get drawn into the war
- Another oil rig attacked in the Black Sea
Battles for the city of Lysychansk
After Russian troops captured the city of Sievjerodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, fighting for the city of Lysychansk continued. The enemy, with the support of artillery, is increasingly trying to block the strategically important city from the south, the Ukrainian general staff said on Sunday evening. Civil and military infrastructure were also hit. This could not be verified independently. According to Ukrainian information, there was also fighting on Snake Island in the Black Sea, which was conquered by Russia. Details were not initially available.
Zelenskyj’s appeal to Belarus: Don’t get drawn into the war
Zelenskyj called on the people of neighboring Belarus not to get involved in the Russian war of aggression. “The Kremlin has already decided everything for you,” he said on Sunday with a view of Moscow. “But you are not slaves and cannon fodder. You must not die.” On Saturday, Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko met with Russian President Vladimir Putin again. The Kremlin chief announced the delivery of Iskander-M missile systems to Belarus, which can also be equipped with nuclear warheads.
Another oil rig attacked in the Black Sea
A gas production platform has again been attacked in the Black Sea. This was announced by representatives of the Crimean peninsula, which was incorporated by Russia, on Sunday evening, as reported by the Russian state agency TASS. They blamed Ukraine for the attack. That couldn’t be checked. There were no injuries, it said. It was unclear whether a fire broke out. Three oil rigs in the Black Sea were attacked with rockets on Monday. The originally Ukrainian facilities were occupied in March 2014 as part of the annexation of Crimea.
Shelling at dawn: Kyiv Mayor Klitschko names number of injured
First report from June 26, 2022
Kyiv – Three weeks was reasonably calm. But on the last weekend in June, Putin’s troops again fired on the Ukrainian capital. A residential complex near the city center was hit in the Ukraine war and fire broke out, AFP journalists report.
The emergency services are on duty, two buildings are being evacuated, Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv, wrote in Telegram. So far, two injured people have been taken to the hospital, he later said during a site visit. There were still “people under the rubble”.
War in Ukraine: kindergarten and residential building in Kyiv under fire
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko wrote on Telegram that another rocket had hit the site of a kindergarten, and that a total of 14 rockets had been fired in and around Kyiv in the morning hours.
G7 summit in Elmau: Volodymyr Zelenskyj wants to get involved
Kyiv has rarely been the target of Russian attacks in recent weeks, most recently in early June. The Ukraine war is the focus of the G7 summit in Elmau. Before the start, Great Britain, the USA, Japan and Canada already announced a ban on gold imports from Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to speak via video in Elmau.
Ukraine war: Zelenskyj addresses the world via video
Ukraine war: Zelenskyj addresses the world via video
Vladimir Putin and Belarus: According to Kyiv, the head of the Kremlin is planning “fellow fighters”
The Ukrainian secret service accused the Russian government under Vladimir Putin of deliberately firing from Belarus and thus “drawing the neighboring country into the war in Ukraine as a comrade-in-arms”. Keyword Putin’s nuclear weapons arsenal: On June 25, the head of the Kremlin also assured the Belarusian head of state Alexander Lukashenko that he would be supplied with nuclear-capable missile systems.
Ukraine war: Putin troops with offensive in Donbass
On the ground, Russian troops in the Ukraine war continue to concentrate on eastern Ukraine. Moscow’s troops and pro-Russian separatists now control almost the entire Luhansk region. The capture of Sjewjerodonzek is considered a strategically important step. All of the information could not initially be checked independently. (AFP/dpa/frs)
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