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Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has denied Russia's lies about a "dirty bomb" against the backdrop of new statements by the aggressor state's propaganda. This is stated in a post by the Foreign Minister on Twitter, Ukrinform reports. “Russian propaganda is at it again, trying to fabricate the “dirty bomb” story. I reiterate: Ukraine has never had, does not have, and has no plans to acquire “dirty bombs”. When Russia first dropped this hoax last year, we granted full access to the IAEA, which debunked this lie,”  Kuleba noted. Read also: Kuleba: Abrams tanks may appear on battlefield during current…

Russian troops struck Avdiivka in the morning, hitting the area of the Avdiivka Coke Plant. The head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "In the morning, the enemy attacked Avdiivka with an air strike, hitting the area of the coke plant," Kyrylenko wrote. According to him, artillery shelling of Krasnohorivka, Kostyantynivka and Zoryane of the Maryinka community was recorded in the Donetsk direction. In Kurakhivka, 22 houses were damaged. The night before, the invaders launched a rocket attack on Cherkasy community, damaging a gas station building. Read also: Russian army injures one…

The demilitarization of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant depends on the IAEA and the international community. Deputy Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Vadym Skibitskyi said this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, Ukrinform reports. "Much depends on the IAEA and its leadership, on the international community, which will still put pressure on the Kremlin to fulfill the basic conditions and secure not just the nuclear facility, but the entire region where the power plant is located," he said. According to Skibitskyi, the intelligence service does not rule out the possibility of either a planned attack or an incident leading…

Active hostilities will continue at the front in the near future, and an assessment of the Russian Federation's capabilities will be conducted in mid-summer. Deputy Chief of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine Vadym Skibitskyi said this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, Ukrinform reports. "Let's not predict for the whole year. I will say this: in the next 2-3 months there will be active hostilities. Both offensive and defensive because our strategic goal is the liberation of all our territories," Skibitskyi said. According to him, Russian troops will try to accomplish those tasks "to say whether they have finished their 'special…

On the night of June 23, 2023, the enemy attacked Ukraine from strategic aircraft. This time the attack targeted a military airfield in Khmelnytskyi region. "The air defense forces destroyed all 13 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, most of them in Khmelnytskyi region," the press service of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Telegram. In addition, a reconnaissance UAV of an unspecified type was downed. Read also: Enemy focusing its efforts on four directions, 30 engagements recorded in past day Missiles were launched from four Tu-95ms bombers from the Caspian Sea around midnight.

U.S. Abrams tanks may appear on the battlefield already during the current counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "There is hope [that Abrams tanks will participate in this counteroffensive], but I should say that we need to think not only from the perspective of the current counteroffensive. This is what I constantly emphasize when communicating with partners. You should not consider this counteroffensive to be the last and decisive one," Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba told Suspilne in an interview, Ukrinform reports. According to the minister, there will be as many counteroffensives as will be needed…

France gave Ukrainian prosecutors the equipment needed to investigate war crimes committed by the Russian Federation. As the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin met with Chargé d'Affaires of the French Republic to Ukraine Benjamin Rohrig and members of the French expert mission. Kostin emphasized that Ukraine highly values the support that France has provided since the first days of Russian aggression, in particular, in the field of restoration of justice. The Prosecutor General also thanked for the newly transferred equipment, necessary for the investigation into Russian war crimes. It is noted that France previously handed…

Ukraine provided international partners with full information about the situation around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and the actions of the Russian occupiers. "We held a briefing for our partner countries on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. There were representatives of the G7 and G20 countries, as well as representatives of international organizations. Here, in the Office. The Main Intelligence Directorate, the Office's team, our diplomats provided the available information. Our principle is simple: the world must know what the occupier is preparing. Everyone who knows must act," President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening…

In Tavria direction, the Ukrainian troops achieve success in some areas. "The active work of the defense forces is ongoing in Tavria direction. Our soldiers continue to move forward and achieve success in some areas," General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, the commander of the operational-strategic group of troops “Tavria”, posted on Telegram. According to him, missile and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine performed 1,212 fire missions in Tavria direction during the day. "Over the past day, the enemy lost more than three companies in killed and wounded. Twenty-one units of the enemy's military equipment were destroyed," Tarnavskyi added. In…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that the UN added the Russian Armed Forces to a global list of offenders for killing and maiming children and attacking schools and hospitals. Ukrinform reports this with reference to Reuters. Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian President's Office, also announced this on his Telegram. "The UN put Russia on the list of shame for killing children in Ukraine," he wrote. Yermak noted that according to UN data, Russia killed 136 children in Ukraine in 2022. The Russian army also maimed 518 children, carried out 480 attacks on schools and hospitals, and…