Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important things in the war in Ukraine on July 5. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for more than a year.
15:39 The Minister of Justice Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (JV) emphasized to the Ambassador of Ukraine to Latvia Anatoly Kucevol during the meeting the constant support for the restoration of the rule of law in Ukraine, the LETA agency was informed by the Ministry of Justice.
The minister met with the ambassador to discuss the current situation in the country affected by the war caused by Russia and Latvia’s future involvement in strengthening the rule of law in Ukraine.
During the meeting, Lībiņa-Egnere confirmed Latvia’s firm support for Ukraine, stating that together with other European Union (EU) countries, they are looking for the most appropriate and suitable solutions to help the country win its independence and strengthen democracy.
15:12 The Ukrainian army confirmed strikes on bridges in the Chongar region with Storm Shadow missiles. Their operating range is 250 kilometers.
14:05 In the direction of Taurida, the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed more than two companies of the Russian army.
Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of the operational strategic group “Tavria” of the troops, said that Ukrainian artillery units completed 1,541 fire missions during the day.
12:50. The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP), which is under the control of Russian forces, is currently operating in normal mode, Yevhen Yevtushenko, head of the Nikopol regional administration, announced on Wednesday.
“At the moment, the Zaporizhia NPP is operating normally. No significant movement of occupying forces and equipment has been registered,” writes Yevtushenko on his Telegram channel. Nikopol is located on the right bank of the Dnieper River, and Zaporizhzhia NPP is on the opposite bank.
On Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock, the water level in the Zaporizhzhya NPP cooling pond has not changed and is currently 16.56 meters. Zaporizhzhya NPP power units have not been operating since September 2012.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in a nightly video call on Tuesday that, according to Ukrainian intelligence services, Russia had “installed objects similar to explosives” at the Zaporizhzhia NPP.
12:10. The current pace of operations by Ukrainian forces does not indicate that the situation has reached a stalemate and that Ukraine cannot regain most of its territories, according to experts from the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
11:38. NATO countries are intensively discussing various issues before the summit in Vilnius, Lithuanian President Gitans Nausėda announced, adding that NATO will make major commitments to Ukraine, but Kyiv will not get everything it hoped for.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has previously expressed hope that an agreement will be reached at the Vilnius summit on inviting Ukraine to join NATO after the war is over. Zelensky’s administration has said that the President of Ukraine will not go to Vilnius if there is no clear assurance that Ukraine will get what it expects.
“I feel that we will still manage to find wording that will not disappoint Ukrainians and will say more than usual,” Nauseda said in an interview with the BNS news agency.
10:20. The current pace of operations by Ukrainian forces does not indicate that the situation has reached a stalemate and that Ukraine cannot regain most of its territories, according to experts from the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The institute recalls that Ukrainian forces carried out slow and gradual campaigns to block Russian forces’ concentration areas in the Kherson region, and conducted limited ground attacks on the right bank of the Dnieper River from August to November 2022, until they finally forced the Russians to withdraw from the right bank in mid-November. At the same time, ISW noted that the Russian winter-spring offensive ended after a little more than a month without making progress along the border of Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
09:12. The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached 231,700 soldiers by Wednesday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army.
According to the data of the general staff, 670 invaders were destroyed during the day.
08:00. In the war with Ukraine, the Russian army has lost almost half of its combat capabilities since the full-scale invasion, and tank losses have reached about 2,500 units, the commander of the British armed forces, Tony Radakin, has announced.
Russia has lost almost half of its army’s combat capabilities. It fired ten million artillery rounds last year, but at best it can produce one million rounds a year. It lost 2,500 tanks, but at best can produce 200 new tanks a year, Radakin said in a statement. According to the commander, the high density of Russian minefields, the lack of air cover for Ukrainian forces and the incomplete provision of Kyiv with the military equipment it requires complicates the counterattack campaign.
At the same time, Radakin added that it is not fair to associate the Ukrainian offensive with a specific time frame, because the counterattack is a set of actions.
07:00. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a phone call on Tuesday that Moscow is planning dangerous provocations at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP) occupied by Russian troops.
“I warned Emmanuel Macron that the occupation troops are preparing dangerous provocations at the Zaporizhzhia power station,” Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel. “We agreed together with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to control the situation as much as possible,” he added.
In a nightly video call, Zelensky said that according to Ukrainian intelligence services, Russia had “planted objects similar to explosives” at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. “Maybe to simulate an attack on a power plant. Maybe they have another scenario. But in any case, the world sees it,” said the Ukrainian president.
00:10. Zelensky will visit Bulgaria. The details of the Ukrainian president’s visit have not yet been specified, but it is likely to take place on Thursday. Due to security reasons, the time of Zelensky’s visit is kept secret, reports pravda.com.ua.
2023-07-05 12:40:18
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