War in Ukraine. Latest information on June 9 [papildināts 21:24]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on June 9. For the fourth month in a row, Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion.

22:56. Russian troops have withdrawn Buryat units from Severodonetsk, Ukraine, because they have not been able to withstand the fighting with Ukrainian defenders, said Serhiy Haiday, head of the Luhansk region’s military administration.

21:24. Lithuanian Post has started selling stamps with the image of “Bayraktar”. The post office recommends sending letters to Sholc and Makron with the stamp on the envelope. In Lithuania, the people raised almost 6 million euros to buy Bayraktar and put it at the disposal of the Ukrainian army.

20:18. In Ukraine, the penalty for food has become a commodity deficit, reports pravda.com.ua. Ukraine imported 100% of the food fine. Due to the war, deliveries have started to be delayed, causing shortages of this goods in some Ukrainian cities.

19:28. In addition to military assistance, the West must support Ukraine’s grain exports and bring it closer to Europe by granting it EU candidate status as soon as possible, Latvian Minister of Defense Artis Pabriks (AP) said at a meeting of Nordic defense ministers.

18:36. On Thursday, the Lithuanian Seimas passed a resolution promising to support Ukraine until its victory in the war with Russia and the full restoration of territorial unity. The document calls for the principle that the war can only be ended under conditions acceptable to Ukraine. The resolution calls for the issue of lifting sanctions on Russia and Belarus not to be lifted as long as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine and withdraws its occupying forces.

17:49. Two Britons and a Moroccan who fought on the Ukrainian side have been sentenced to death in Donetsk, controlled by pro-Russian militants. They are all soldiers of the Ukrainian army who signed a contract for service in the armed forces before the Russian invasion. Pinners and Aslins have been living in Ukraine since 2018. Relatives of the convicts have repeatedly said that they have not had a normal defense, but the “lawyers” offered to them have done nothing.

16.42. Poland has handed over nearly two billion dollars worth of armaments to Ukraine, including more than 240 tanks and 100 armored personnel carriers, Polish President Andrzej Duda said. “We sent almost two tank battle groups from Poland to Ukraine. There are more than 240 tanks that the Ukrainian army can service. We sent about 100 armored personnel carriers,” Duda told the German newspaper Bild.

15.25. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called for Russia to be excluded from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

“There can be no discussion about extending Russia’s membership in the FAO,” Zelensky told a video call to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) meeting in Paris.

14.34. The Ukrainian army is losing up to 100 soldiers on front lines every day, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Thursday. Up to 500 soldiers a day are injured in heavy fighting, the minister said. “The situation on the front lines is serious. Up to 100 of our soldiers are killed and up to 500 are injured every day. The Kremlin continues to put pressure on the masses, stumbles, faces strong resistance and suffers huge losses,” the minister said.

12.46. Russia’s plan is currently to maximize food price inflation, according to Jānis Sārts, head of NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence Stratcom. According to him, Russia’s plan is now to maximize food price inflation and the unavailability of certain foods, including grain, in order to create a risk of famine in North Africa and the Middle East.

10.33. Russian troops have 20 times more artillery and 40 times more ammunition than the Ukrainian army, according to Western intelligence. The British newspaper The Independent reports that the Ukrainian army is suffering heavy losses as Russian troops are much better armed, citing an intelligence report, and acknowledges that the latest figures point to a gloomy front.

10.05. Western sanctions on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are undermining the country’s 15 years of economic progress and 30 years of integration with the West, according to an analysis by the International Finance Institute (IIF).

However, IIF economists warn that the impact is changing as more sanctions are imposed on Russia, and Moscow could respond with a backlash, especially in the energy sector.

09.51. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 31,700 soldiers by Thursday morning, the Ukrainian Army General Staff reports.

Since the start of the repeated invasion on February 24, the Russians have lost 1,398 tanks, 3,438 armored personnel carriers, 711 cannons, 213 multi-barrel jet launchers, 96 anti-aircraft guns, 212 airplanes, 178 helicopters, 562 unmanned aerial vehicles, 13 autopilots and 125 missiles. and 53 specialized equipment units.

The amount of Russia’s losses is being clarified, as the acquisition of information is being hampered by hostilities.

09.00. Russian troops continue to attack Ukrainian army positions in Severodonetsk, while trying to bypass Ukrainian positions in the area to avoid forcing the Siverskijdonec River, according to the US Institute of War Studies (ISW). The Russians are continuing operations in the Sviatohirsk district and west of Lima to join forces in the south-east of Izjum and head for Slovjansk, the think tank said.

08.01. Polish President Andrzej Duda has criticized German Chancellor Olaf Sholc and French President Emanuel Macron for continuing his dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “I am surprised by all these talks with Putin between Chancellor Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron.”

07.33. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that the fight for Severodonetsk could become decisive for the fate of Donbass.

07.10. In the last week, there has been a tendency for more of its citizens to return to Ukraine than to leave the country, Ruslan Muzichuk, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Guard, told television.

01.00. Russian troops fired on combat aircraft in the Kryvyi Rih district of the Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine on Wednesday, and two civilians, a man and a woman, were injured in the shooting, Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Kryvyi Rih military administration, said.

00.10. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: The fate of Donbass is decided in Severodonetsk.

00.05. Ukraine has received the first billion dollars from the promised 40 billion dollars from the US, reports pravda.com.ua.

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