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Ukraine
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced a 40-day “influence operation” on Russia. The purpose of this operation is to encourage the Kremlin to end the war. The operation must be carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine; The Ukrainian leader did not reveal other details.
Zelensky held a meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Security Service, Yevgeny Khamara, during which he heard a report “on our plan to impose long-term and medium-term sanctions and the results of the Alpha Special Operations Center on the front.” According to the President, the Security Service of Ukraine “has the highest rates of protection of Ukrainian positions on the front thanks to the use of drones of various types,” and the Alpha Center is “the leader in the results of defeating personnel and equipment” of Russian forces.
The State Security Service is one of the departments that uses drones to strike industrial and oil facilities in Russian regions. Against the backdrop of such attacks on refineries and oil depots, the fuel crisis began in the country. Authorities in more than 20 regions of the Russian Federation have imposed restrictions on the sale of fuel.
Russia is called upon to return to peace negotiations not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe. Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that Russia is ready to negotiate with Ukraine, but on the basis that he has already put forward, and if Zelensky wants to meet him personally, let him come to Moscow. These demands are unacceptable for Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian media sources, the military pressure on Russia is supported by US President Donald Trump. Since the beginning of his second presidential term, Washington has been trying to mediate negotiations between Moscow and Kiev to reach peace.
According to the RBC-Ukraine interviewer, Trump believes that it is Ukrainian military pressure that is leading Russia to make “real diplomacy” possible at all. The Kiev Independent’s source claimed that Trump had privately urged Zelensky to act “more boldly” against Russia and “didn’t think Putin would do anything without pressure.”
Russia and the territories it annexed
On the night of June 26, Ukraine launched a new large-scale attack on Russia’s regions. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that air defense intercepted and destroyed 660 Ukrainian drones overnight. This is the largest night attack on the Russian interior in terms of the number of drones used. Notes “an agency”.
In the Tula region, the chemical plant was targeted again “nitrogen” In the city Novomoskovsk. The factory’s website indicates that Azot is the largest local producer of ammonia and nitrogen fertilizers. Nitric acid is used in the production of explosives. Judging by Photos and videos According to eyewitnesses, smoke was rising from the direction of the factory.
father Data According to Astra, the Novomoskovsk power plant, which provides heat and hot water to 60% of the city’s residential sector and social facilities, was also bombed. A fire broke out there.
Tula Region Governor Dmitry Mileyev reported that 157 drones were shot down in the region overnight. According to him, there is damage to an industrial enterprise in Novomoskovsk. In the Shekinsky district, a private residential building was damaged and a woman was injured. The regional authorities began “environmental monitoring”. According to the governor, the indicators are normal.
In the attachment Sevastopol Against the backdrop of Ukrainian attacks on bridges, fuel tanks, and trucks loaded with other foodstuffs, as well as interruptions (1, 2) in energy supplies, some shops and markets were closed, public transportation stopped, and communications were cut off. About the residents of this city He said “an agency”.
The previous day, a “temporary energy supply restriction regime” was introduced throughout the annexed Crimea. This happened shortly after Ukraine attacked the main electrical station in Sevastopol with drones.
One of the newspaper’s interviewers said: “This is the second day that the power has been cut off.” “Yesterday this did not happen at all, and today it happened partially, and not in all areas.” Another complained that the light in the city went out for a day, and half of the shops and markets stopped working.
According to him, the problem is exacerbated by the shortage of gasoline at gas stations – sellers simply cannot go to work. He added: “We are living under siege.” One city resident added that due to the shortage of gasoline in Sevastopol, “all small businesses and all deliveries have stopped.”
Evidence from Sevastopol residents on food prices varies. One said potato prices had nearly tripled, and another said prices in the city had risen “but not seriously.” A resident of Balaklava (part of Sevastopol) reported that store shelves in his area were empty: “There are no products at all. At least drink some alcohol.”
Against the background of the fuel, logistics and energy crisis, representatives of the tourism and restaurant industries of Crimea he asked Support from local authorities appointed by the Russian Federation. Businessmen say that hotel and restaurant revenues decreased by about half last June compared to last year, and the hotel occupancy rate fell to 80%.
Meanwhile, huge queues of cars lined up on the Crimean Bridge, which connects mainland Russia and the annexed Crimean Peninsula. Moreover, cars that They try The number of vehicles leaving Crimea for Russia is seven times greater (1,850 vehicles as of 12:00 Moscow time) than vehicles traveling to the peninsula (250).
War in pictures. Crimea was annexed during the fuel and energy crisis
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
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Tatiana. In this section, you often read letters from those who suffer a lot and those who prevent others from suffering or say how to suffer rightly or who have the right to suffer. You can understand all of them.
I try to remember that in the hospital there can be at the same time a person who no longer has a life, who, even if he gets out, will still be very disabled, and someone who simply broke his arm. The first hurts, the second hurts. If the second’s pain is not comparable to the pain of the first (and all his relatives), this does not mean that he is not healthy, and he must pretend that he is not in pain.
All of us, Ukrainians and Russians, have been exploited and dehydrated by the forefathers who were in power, from whom God still will not take us. But when people who seem to be on the same side of the barricades start fighting among themselves, comparing their younger ones to suffer more and their tragedy to be more tragic – then there is certainly no hope for any triumph of justice.
No to war. Glory to Ukraine.