War

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Serhiy Shaptala discussed military cooperation and training of soldiers with his Lithuanian colleague, Major General Mindaugas Steponavičius. According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported this on Telegram. “Shaptala held a meeting with Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Lithuania, Major General Mindaugas Steponavičius," the report says. According to the General Staff, the parties discussed the security situation around Ukraine and key issues of current Ukrainian-Lithuanian military cooperation, in particular in the sectors of military education, collective…

Spain will soon supply Ukraine with an additional four Leopard tanks, armored personnel carriers and a mobile field hospital. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said this at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Saturday, July 1, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. "Spain will soon deliver new military hardware to help [Ukraine] in the war, including four Leopard tanks and armored personnel carriers. We will also supply a mobile field hospital with surgical equipment. This element should bolster Ukraine's ability to provide assistance to wounded military personnel and civilians near the front line," Sanchez said.…

During the day, Ukrainian service members destroyed six enemy manpower clusters, three ammunition depots, 24 artillery systems on firing positions, and an electronic warfare station. This is stated in the evening report by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published on Facebook. Read also: War update: Heavy fighting in east, enemy trying to stop Ukraine’s advance in south "During the day, Ukraine’s Air Force launched 10 strikes on enemy manpower clusters and another one on an anti-aircraft missile system. During the day, missile and artillery units struck six areas of concentration of enemy manpower, weapons and military…

During a meeting with a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Pope Francis recalled the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine and emphasized the necessity of joint efforts to find ways to peace. This is reported by Vatican News, Ukrinform reports. "The tragic reality of this war, which seems to have no end, requires all of us to make joint creative efforts to imagine and implement ways to peace, to a just and stable peace," the pontiff said. The Pope noted that the meeting with the delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which arrived in Rome for the celebrations of…

Russian invaders have destroyed all vegetation on the reserved island of Dzharylhach off the coast of the temporarily occupied region of Kherson. Serhii Danylov, deputy director of the Center for Middle East Studies, reported this on Facebook, according to Ukrinform. "The occupiers completely burned Dzharylgach," Danilov wrote. In the comments to the post, he clarified that "all the vegetation, all the trees from the lighthouse to the west burned down." The day before, on June 29, the press service of the Skadovsk City Council reported that at night, a fire was seen over the eastern part of Dzharylgach, which could…

The head of the joint press center of the Operational Command South, Natalia Humeniuk, has said that there are signs that Russia is likely preparing new missile strikes. "The enemy is intensifying unmanned reconnaissance along the front line, trying to get into the rear regions, which indicates probable preparations for the next missile strikes. We have seen weak activity for the past two days. This means that the enemy in a certain way reformatted its efforts, studied the possibilities, looked for tactics that would be as effective as possible," Humeniuk told Radio Svoboda. Read also: Russian troops shell residential areas…

In the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region and in the city of Melitopol, explosions were heard in places where enemy equipment was concentrated. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said this on the air of the national telethon "United News", Ukrinform reports. "Yesterday was extremely tense for the occupants both in the territory of the temporarily occupied Melitopol and in the Zaporizhzhia region. It all started at about midnight when more than 5 explosions took place in Melitopol, then continued at 10 am and ended with explosions at about 20:00," said Fedorov. Read also: Ukrainian troops advance 1.5 km in…

At night, Russians fired a rocket on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia. Yuriy Malashko, the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, reported this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "At night, the enemy attacked the outskirts of the regional center with a rocket attack, aviation and twice with MLRS, and also carried out 67 artillery strikes on Orikhove, Huliaypole, Zaliznychne, Levadne, Olhove, Luhivske, Bilohirya, Mala Tokmachka, Poltavka, Malynivka, Novodarivka, Chervone, Charivne, Rivnopil, Zherebianky and Pyatikhatky," the statement said. During the day, Russian troops fired 71 times at 18 localities in the Zaporizhzhia region. Read also: Russian missile hits pizzeria in Kramatorsk: 3…

At night, the Russian military shelled the Chervonohryhorivka community of the Nikopol district. Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. "The invaders fired heavy artillery at the territory of the Chervonohryhorivka community of the Nikopol district," Lukashuk wrote. There were no casualties. Read also: Russians shell Nikopol district twice today In other communities of the region, the night was calm. As reported, on Tuesday, a fire broke out in a private house as a result of artillery shelling of Nikopol. A total of 7 residential buildings and 6 outbuildings were damaged.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 227,780 Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to June 29, 2023, including 680 invaders in the past day alone. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in a post on Facebook, according to Ukrinform. The Ukrainian defenders have also destroyed 4,038 enemy tanks (+2 in the past day), 7,857 armored combat vehicles (+10), 4,116 artillery systems (+27), 627 multiple launch rocket systems, 388 air defense systems (+1), 315 aircraft (+1), 308 helicopters, 3,513 unmanned aerial vehicles (+14), 1,261 cruise missiles, 18 warships/cutters, 6,780 motor vehicles (+6), and…