War in Ukraine. Latest information on June 16 [papildināts 07:09]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on June 16. For the fourth month in a row, Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion.

07.19. In Ukraine, two Americans who fought with Ukrainian forces disappeared near Kharkiv last week, and there are fears that they have been taken prisoner by Russian forces, their relatives and comrades-in-arms said. Aladama’s 39-year-old Alexander John Robert Druke and 27-year-old Andy Tai Ngok Huin are U.S. Army veterans missing.

07.09. The Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) in the second half of this year will focus on tackling the European refugee crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and supporting Ukraine’s reconstruction, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in Prague on Wednesday.

“After this Russian aggression against Ukraine, the world is no longer what it used to be,” Fiala said two weeks before the start of the Czech EU presidency.

03.34. More than 40 countries are providing direct defense support to Ukraine, said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in connection with a new US arms and ammunition package for Ukraine.

02.56. The Russian army has concentrated its main forces in the north of the Luhansk region and is trying to attack in nine directions, said the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.

“There is a heavy struggle for the Luhansk region. The enemy has concentrated its main impact forces in the north of the region and is trying to attack in nine directions at once,” the statement said.

00.14. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Twitter on Wednesday that he had accepted invitations to the G7 and NATO summits in southern Germany and the Spanish capital, Madrid, this month.

Zelensky wrote on Twitter that he “gratefully accepted the invitation” from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who will host G7 leaders at Elmava Castle in Bavaria from June 26-28, and from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, whose alliance summit will take place from 29 to 30 June. June in Madrid.

00.05. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded 7 air military units, reports pravda.com.ua.

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