War in Ukraine. Latest information on June 22 [papildināts 19:51]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on June 22. For the fourth month in a row, Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion.

22:35. For the second day in a row, columns of Russian technical units are leaving Mariupol, reports pravda.com.ua.

21:53. Ukrainian intelligence service is confident that Belarus is not going to invade Ukraine, reports pravda.com.ua.

19:51Ukraine needs huge financial assistance to rebuild the country ravaged by the Russian invasion, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, stressing that a new Marshall Plan will be needed. Speaking at the Bundestag, Scholz said he had invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to attend the G7 summit this month to “agree on what such a” Marshall Plan “for Ukraine might look like, citing the US support plan for post-war reconstruction in Western Europe as an example.

18:43. The Belarusian Ministry of Defense has announced mobilization exercises involving the Gomel region war commissaria on the Ukrainian border. The maneuvers started on Wednesday will continue until July 1, reports news3.

17:27. An assassination attempt on Yuri Turulov, head of the occupation administration of the village of Chornobayivka, has taken place in the Kherson region of Ukraine, said Serhiy Hlan, an adviser to the head of the Kherson district war administration. “The car was blown up, but the collaborator was not injured,” Hlanan said. According to the Russian propaganda organization RIA Novosti, Turulov was slightly injured. On Monday, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk called on the people of the Kherson region to leave the occupied territories to facilitate the counter-attack by the Ukrainian army.

16:15. “Reporters Without Borders believes that Ukrainian soldiers and photographer Max Levin and his friend, soldier Oleksiy Chernyshev, have been deliberately sentenced to death by Russian soldiers near Kiev, possibly after interrogation and torture, pravda.com.ua reports.

14:55. Russia could use provocations over transit restrictions in the Kaliningrad region, but Lithuania and NATO allies are following developments in the region and are ready to respond, Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvīds Anušausks said on Wednesday. “If the military is led, I’m sorry, you idiots can expect anything, of course, but we are realistic, we have allies, we see the big picture in the Baltic Sea, we know the measures we can use. So in this case, I am calm about our capabilities, “Anušauskas told reporters in the Lithuanian Seimas building on Wednesday, answering the question whether Russia’s threat of serious consequences for Lithuania is just empty words. “Of course, if the other party uses provocations that are possible, we will not be able to predict it,” said the Lithuanian Minister of Defense.

13.47. Russian forces fired seven rockets at the city of Mykolaiv, Vitaly Kim, head of the Mykolaiv region’s military administration, told Telegram.

13.04. The day before the European Council, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the Prime Minister of Latvia Krišjānis Kariņš (JV) regarding Latvia’s support in granting Ukraine the status of a candidate country for the European Union (EU). Zelensky notes on the microblogging site Twitter that this decision is important for Ukraine and for Europe as a whole.

12.37. Poland and Latvia must jointly continue political and diplomatic pressure on Russia and provide all possible support to Ukraine, says Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs (JV).

11.45. Russia is apparently preparing to try to relocate a large number of reserve units to the Donbass, according to the latest intelligence report from the British Ministry of Defense.

The gunfire continues in Donbass as Russia tries to surround the Severodonetsk district through Izjuma in the north and Popasni in the south, the statement said.

10.11. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 34,230 soldiers by Wednesday morning, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army reports.

Since the start of the repeated invasion on February 24, the Russians have lost 1,496 tanks, 3,614 armored personnel carriers, 752 cannons, 239 multi-barrel jet launchers, 99 anti-aircraft guns, 216 airplanes, 182 helicopters, 614 unmanned aerial vehicles, 134 autopilots, 137 hydrofoils. and 60 specialized equipment units.

09.14. Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom’s decision to cut natural gas supplies to Europe is an attack by Moscow, German Economy Minister Robert Habek said on Tuesday.

“Reducing the supply of natural gas through the Nord Stream pipeline is an attack on us, an economic attack on us,” Habes said.

07.09. The Ukrainian army has destroyed the Russian self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery “Pancir S1”, as well as the radar station and cars, by firing on Snake Island, the operational headquarters “South” reported on Wednesday.

06.29. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called on the European Union on Tuesday to take a seventh package of sanctions against Russia as soon as possible.

“Russia is under increasing pressure to continue the war and to pursue an aggressive, anti-European policy,” Zelensky said, adding that Ukraine urgently needed arms supplies.

05.43. More than 20 alleged saboteurs were arrested by Ukrainian Interior Ministry officials last week, and about 10 of them were detained in Kiev, Yevheny Yenin, the first deputy minister of the interior, said on television.

04.51. U.S. Attorney General Merik Garland announced during a visit to Ukraine on Tuesday that a group would be set up to investigate Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine, led by Eli Rosenbaum, who was called a “Nazi hunter.”

The group will be composed of experts in the investigation of human rights violations and war crimes.

03.41. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has destroyed 20-30% of Ukraine’s infrastructure, Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov told French newspaper Le Monde.

Roads, bridges, ports, railways and airports were destroyed during the war.

00.10. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that concessions to Putin will lead to nothing more than disaster, pravda.com.ua reports.

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