War in Ukraine. Latest information on June 16 [papildināts 10:14]

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.

10.14. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 32,950 soldiers by Thursday morning, the Ukrainian Army General Staff reports.

Since the beginning of the repeated invasion on February 24, the Russians have lost 1,449 tanks, 3,545 armored personnel carriers, 729 cannons, 233 multi-barrel jet launchers, 97 anti-aircraft guns, 213 airplanes, 179 helicopters, 591 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1394 autopilots, 129 hydrofoils. and 55 specialized vehicles.

09.43. Between 200 and 500 Ukrainian soldiers are killed every day in the battles in Donbass, said David Arraham, chairman of the Ukrainian parliamentary faction in the Sluha narodu party, who is leading the delegation in talks with Russia.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 60 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers were killed every day. According to Araham, this figure has risen significantly in the last two weeks.

08.37. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi traveled by train from Poland to the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Thursday, German and Italian media reported.

07.51. Russian troops in southern Ukraine are concentrating on defense operations in preparation for a possible counterattack by the Ukrainian army, according to the US Institute of War Studies (ISW).

The Ukrainian headquarters has said that a radio-electronic combat complex has been deployed in Melitopol, occupied by Russian troops, which will strengthen defense capabilities in Zaporizhia and help fight partisans.

ISW reports that Russian forces continue to face difficulties in implementing their programs in the occupied territories. Thus, on June 9 and 11, unknown Ukrainian partisans persecuted employees of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Mariupol.

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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