War in Ukraine Live News

20/06/2022

⚡️ The commander of the Azov unit formation, Rodion Kudryashov, said that in the Zaporizhzhia direction, the Defense Forces are moving from defense to offensive

“We are advancing the front line and pushing the enemy back as much as possible. The front line flattens out and becomes like a positional war. In the coming weeks, the commanders plan to defeat the enemy. Initiative groups will provoke the enemy, identify firing points and suppress them,” he added.

20/06/2022

⚡️ Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked drilling rigs of Chornomorneftegaz, Governor of the annexed Crimea Aksyonov said

Therefore, then Russia will not be able to produce gas in the Ukrainian Black Sea.

Recall that in 2014 the Russian Federation seized drilling platforms 100 km from Odesa and 150 km from Crimea.

The invaders also used them to monitor the surface situation with the help of electronic intelligence.

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📣 The military expert spoke about the intricacies of the liberation of Kherson

According to Oleh Zhdanov, during the offensive in the south, Ukrainian fighters will have to cross the Dnipro in the Kherson region. The expert is convinced that even if the Antonivsky bridge is blown up, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will find a way to get to the other side and clear the entire area from the invaders.

20/06/2022

❗️ In an interview with the Govorit Moskva radio station, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Konstantin Zatulin tacitly threatened Kazakhstan with a Russian invasion according to the Ukrainian scenario

Zatulin said that there are areas in Kazakhstan "with a predominantly Russian population" that, in his opinion, have a "weak relation" to what is called Kazakhstan.

“Everywhere, including in relation to Ukraine, we say: if we have friendship, cooperation, partnership, then no territorial issues are raised. And if not, then everything is possible. As is the case with Ukraine,” Zatulin said.

The Russian-Kazakh conflict, caused by President Tokayev's refusal to recognize the L/DPR gangs, continues to gain momentum.

20/06/2022

⚡️ Hillary Clinton has announced that she will not run for president in 2024

20/06/2022

🇲🇩 Moldovan President Maia Sandu has signed into law an anti-disinformation and propaganda law that bans the broadcasting of Russian news, news programs and war films in Moldova

20/06/2022

⚡️ Successful counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region force the Russian Federation to send reinforcements there, – Institute for the Study of War

The invaders are preparing to attack Sloviansk from the southeast of Izyum and west of Lyman.

The enemy is strengthening the defense in the southern direction in connection with the recent counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the border of the Kherson-Mykolaiv region.

Artillery of the Russian Federation in combination with small infantry is not enough for an offensive within Sievierodonetsk.

20/06/2022

⚡️ Kazakhstan blocked 1,700 wagons of Russian coal on its territory in response to Russia blocking the export of Kazakh oil

It must be assumed that the second part of the Russian-Kazakh discussion, which began at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, is now underway.

20/06/2022

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The total estimated losses of the Russian army for today.

20/06/2022

📌 Massive food shortages began in countries: salami disappeared in Japan, bottled beer in Germany, popcorn in the USA.

Due to the lack of lettuce in Australia, the KFC restaurant chain decided to add cabbage to local burgers.

The deficit was influenced by several factors at once: the weather, the coronavirus pandemic and the geopolitical situation due to the situation in Ukraine.

20/06/2022

🔺 Ukraine’s Death Workers: ‘If You Take It All Close to Heart, You Go Mad’ – The NYT

For many Ukrainians facing Russia’s invasion, there is hope the daily battles can be won: A soldier may beat back his enemies. A rescuer might miraculously pull a survivor from rubble. A doctor could save a life.

But in one line of work, also deeply affected by this war, grief seems like the only sure end: the handling of the dead.

From gravediggers to embalmers, funeral directors to coroners, these workers carry deep psychic wounds of war — and have few others who can relate to them.

“Nowadays, I feel numb,” said Antoniy, a morgue worker in Lviv, Ukraine. “Even when someone is telling me a joke that I know is funny, I can’t laugh. My emotions are too numbed.”

20/06/2022

🔇 No more sad Russian songs

The Verkhovna Rada banned Russian music in the Ukrainian media and public space. Parliament also banned the import of books from Russia, Belarus, and the occupied territories.

20/06/2022

📍 AFP has published a map of hostilities in Ukraine

The de-occupied territories are highlighted in yellow, the territory shaded in yellow in the occupied territory is the area of operations of the Ukrainian partisan movement. The red color indicates the places of battles, the pale pink – the zones of attacks or Russian operations.

20/06/2022

📈 Europe imports more South African coal as Russian ban looms – Reuters

EU countries imported coal from South Africa in the first five months of this year by 40% more than in 2021 as a whole. As of the end of May this year, the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) in South Africa has delivered 3,240,752 tons of coal to European countries, representing 15% of total exports. Last year this share was 4%.

This year, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Germany, and Ukraine received coal from RBCT. Some of them began to be imported from Richards Bay only after February 24th.

20/06/2022

The invaders stole 15,000 tons of sunflower and 10,000 tons of grain from the granaries of the Luhansk region, said the head of the regional military administration Serhiy Haidai

According to him, the Russian occupation authorities are offering farmers 8,000 rubles per ton of grain for the future sowing season, and Ukraine paid twice as much – 8.6 thousand UAH.

“In fact, producers will be paid only 30% of the cost of grain, and even in rubles! Specialists understand that it is impossible to carry out a sowing campaign for the 2023 harvest with these funds,” Haidai said.

20/06/2022

📈 President Macron's coalition won a majority in the French parliament

In second place is Mélenchon's left-wing New People's Ecological and Social Union, and in third is Marine Le Pen's National Union.

20/06/2022

Fenix Insight creates playing cards for Ukrainians that teach them to distinguish between types of mines and shells

There are 60 cards in the deck, and each of them has a text in Ukrainian and English about explosives.

20/06/2022

🍔 "The government of Ukraine is cooperating with the leadership of the McDonald's fast food chain to reopen restaurants in Ukraine in the near future," Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

“A few weeks ago, we established contact with the Ukrainian office, and then with the headquarters of McDonald’s in the United States. We also raised this issue in official contacts with the US government, because McDonald's is one of the most famous American brands. The process is underway," he said.

20/06/2022

❗️ The New York Times identified over 2,000 munitions used in Ukraine since the start of the war and concluded that most of them were unguided

In total, the journalists of the publication studied more than a thousand photographs of ammunition taken in Ukraine, as well as other visual evidence provided by Ukrainian officials and the military.

The newspaper believes that 210 identified munitions are prohibited by international treaties. Almost all of them are related to cluster munitions, as well as their submunitions, which can threaten people for decades after the end of the war.

More than 330 more munitions, according to the publication, were used against civilian objects or near them.

The NYT notes that the data provided is incomplete, as it is difficult to obtain all the information in wartime.

20/06/2022

⚡️ Today, the EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore arrived in Bucha and Irpin

“I saw the mass graves of the victims of the Russian war of aggression, talked to a local priest who knew them, and visited a bombed-out shopping center. War crimes and those who committed them must be held accountable,” he said, seeing in the suburbs of Kyiv.

20/06/2022

📌 Putin apparently took offense at the President of Kazakhstan Tokayev for not recognizing the "LDNR" and imposed restrictions on the shipment of Kazakh oil, which was exported to Europe through Novorossiysk

The reason was the discovery in the port of Novorossiysk of 50 potentially dangerous munitions from the Second World War, which must be neutralized (well, yes, what a timely coincidence).

20/06/2022

⚡️ Denys Shmyhal named 6 advantages that will give Ukraine the status of an EU candidate:

▪️ Legal consolidation of the European future of Ukraine

▪️ Complete complex transformation of all areas

▪️ Access to EU programs and initiatives

▪️ Increasing the attractiveness of the country for investors

▪️ Availability of financial assistance in the form of grants, investments or technical assistance

▪️ Accumulating funds to rebuild Ukraine today would mean investing in the well-being of a potential future EU member