Bob Homans June 12
Ukraine – 6/12 Sitrep
Compiled by: Robert Homans
Twitter: @rhomansjr
June 12, 2022
Latest Denis
Russians appear to be succeeding in pushing back Ukrainians from the Russian border in front of Kharkiv. According to Denis, in the south Russia seems to be re-deploying troops from around Melitopol to Donbas, leaving southern Ukraine open to a Ukrainian counterattack that Denis expects to take place in late July or early August, once the long-promised heavy weapons arrive from the West in greater quantities.
6/12 Sitrep (my comments in bold face)
As a result of Ukrainian administrative decentralization five years ago small and micro rural communities have been amalgamated with larger villages and towns. Consequently counties, or as they were called in Soviet parlance, Raions, are shadow structures, and provinces - the Soviet Oblast, is on the way to extinction. Decentralization empowered communities to enact programs without central government approval because a significant portion of local taxes remained in communities under community control.
This change is important to keep in mind when we name locations, particularly small and micro rural communities that face the brunt of destructive Russian scorched earth tactics. The small and micro communities can be named individually in news reports or as part of the amalgamated communities. At times it is hard to tell from news reports and hard to pass on correct information without referring to soviet nomenclature of Raions and Oblasts. Further it has become fashionable to call Raions counties and Oblasts regions.
Ukraine’s political evolution also affects administrative nomenclature in other ways. The first was the adoption of a decommunization law five years ago. One aspect of this law was the requirement to remove place names assigned in recognition of communist heroes or events.
In most cases this was not problematic. For example, the city of Dnipropetrovsk, which prior to receiving this name was Ekaterinoslav, was named after a local communist Giorgiy Petrovskiy. The city name was a combination of the river, Dnipro, with the surname, Petrovskiy - Dnipropetrovsk. The larger administrative area - Oblast received the same name. However even in Soviet times most referred to the city as Dnipro and the region as Dnipropetrovsk. So changing the city name in the spirit of the decommunization law to Dnipro went very smoothly.
Renaming the region never occurred because there was no consensus as to a new name. But the people started calling the region Dnipro as well. The correct administrative name remains Dnipropetrovsk, but we will from now on call the Region, City and River - Dnipro.
Current events have unleashed another round of people driven, although not yet a formally enacted legal requirement of derussification of place names.
I raise these changes to attention because of negative responses of some to using at times in this newsletter communized, or Russified administrative nomenclature rather than a Ukrainized decommunized name which may not have public consensus. Given that all three varieties of administrative nomenclature exist in people’s minds, and are therefore used in reporting, I will stick with source attribution rather than correcting or changing. If this disturbs the reader then I suggest the reader hire an editor for this volunteer effort or stop complaining.
The other reason is to point out that incomplete decentralization enabled community resilience and resistance to the invasion. Resistance might have been greater and more effective if the decentralization process had been completed rather than blocked by President Zelenskyy. Upon coming to office, President Zelenskyy focused on centralization and appointment of loyalists, even to municipal positions, rather than respecting the people’s choice.
Decentralization has become a very significant factor motivating local communities to resist the Russian invasion. The officials whom Russia wants to replace, often by kidnapping and worse, are officials elected by residents of the community who control funds which, because of decentralization, are used at the discretion of local elected officials rather than being mandated by the Federal Government, giving residents an additional incentive to resist aRussian takeover.
An example of decentralization at work is Ivan Federov, the Mayor of Melitopol, a city in southern Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia. He was kidnapped by Russians and later released, because of protests by Melitopol residents. Although Federov is no longer physically in Melitopol, he still manages many of the affairs of the city remotely. This is a very good article about Melitopol and Mayor Federov, that appeared in a recent edition of the “New Yorker” Magazine. I mentioned Federov and the New Yorker article in an earlier email, so I’m repeating this for the benefit of new readers.
History and memory have a role in current politics regardless of how denigrated that role has become under factless leadership of politicians like Putin and Trump.
INTERNATIONAL
BBC News: Biden: Rising prices are a 'by-product' of aid to Ukraine. "And a by-product, and I was talking about it at the time we decided we were going to help Ukraine, I meant that it will also cost us dearly / It will cost Western countries dearly. It will cost NATO dearly. It will cost European countries and us dearly," Biden said at a reception of the Democratic National Committee.
● The President of the United States also spoke about why Americans must endure this. Putin wants not just to invade Ukraine, but to destroy Ukrainian culture, "because he believes that there is no independent Ukrainian culture." "And the idea that we could stand by and let that happen was just not possible," he concluded.
President Biden also recently remarked how he had tried to warn President Zelenskyy about the imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is true but then why, given the warning, did Biden also state that the U.S. would not begin to impose “crippling sanctions” on Russia, until Russia invaded? There was also the remark by Pres. Biden about knowing the extent of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, before imposing sanctions.
There has never been any explanation of why the Biden Administration, likely with the advice of American intelligence agencies and repeated by most of the pundits, wrongly concluded that Ukraine would surrender after 5 days and, therefore, let’s give Ukraine weapons that can only be used by small units, and/or partisans, that will operate on their own after the expected surrender.
By the time of the invasion, the United States had been training Ukrainian troops for 8 years. By making the assessment that Ukraine would surrender in 5 days, and therefore the U.S. shouldn’t give Ukraine the weapons they were asking for, the Biden Administration was tacitly admitting that it believed that the 8 years training was nearly worthless. Of course, that is not how events worked out. In my opinion the California National Guard, that supplied much of the training to Ukrainian servicemen and women, should be awarded the Presidential Unit Citation by President Biden himself.
STT: Finland refused to fulfill Ankara's condition for joining NATO. Helsinki refused to hand over to Turks whom Ankara accuses of links with terrorists. According to the decisions of the Finnish authorities, Turkey did not report specific crimes in which the men were found guilty. Membership in an organization is not a criminal offense under Finnish law.
Kim Jong Un publicly supported the actions of the Putin regime. He said, "Under your leadership, the Russian people, bravely overcoming all difficulties, achieve success in carrying out a just cause to protect the dignity, security and development rights of the country, to which the DPRK expresses its full support."
Espresso: Radek Sikorski, Polish MEP - Russia has violated the Budapest Memorandum and therefore the West can “gift” nuclear warheads to Ukraine so that it “can defend its independence.”
Regarding Radek Sikorski, at a time when he was Foreign Minister of Poland, on February 21st, 2014, Radek Sikorski was part of an EU observer team that attended negotiations between former Ukraine President Yanukovich and members of the “opposition,” on ending the Euromaidan protests. During the negotiation Yanukovich asked for, and received, permission to take a break, during which he took a 45-minute phone call from Russian Pres. Putin, where Putin almost certainly told Yanukovich of Russia’s plans to invade Crimea.
When negotiations were completed, whereby Yanukovich would stay in power, but the next Presidential election would be moved up, by one account Sikorski told one of the members of the Opposition something like, “if you (the opposition) don’t take this deal, you’ll all be dead within 24 hours.” The Opposition went down to Independence Square, where 50,000 protestors were honoring those who were murdered the day before, presented the deal where one young protestor, almost certainly speaking for the other 49,999, went up on the stage and said something like, “if Yanukovich doesn’t leave by 10AM tomorrow morning, we resume fighting.” Yanukovich beat the deadline by around 6 hours because he knew, if the EU observer team didn’t know, that Yanukovich no longer had any protection. The rest is history.
NATO Deputy Secretary General said Friday at a democratic summit in Copenhagen that he does not see an immediate military threat from Russia to Sweden and Finland and is confident that these countries will join the Alliance, despite Turkey's objections.
The former top manager of Gazprombank joined the Legion "Freedom of Russia". Igor Volobuev also called on all Russians who disagree with Putin's regime to join the fight.
Nikkei: Indian and Chinese importers are increasing the volume of oil purchases from the Russian Federation, which reduces the effectiveness of anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the West. As the Nikkei notes, the United States of America and the European Union are calling on China and India to refrain from buying oil from Russia, but cheap Russian resources "provide them with significant economic advantages against the backdrop of global energy price increases."
Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan: Japan will send 33 portable water treatment plants to Odesa in case of emergencies
Spiegel: The German authorities blocked Spain's plans to transfer Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine. Germany did not agree with the plans of the Spanish government to supply Ukraine with 40 old German-made Leopard 2 main battle tanks. If Berlin agreed, it would be the first time that a NATO member has supplied battle tanks to Ukraine.
Rossmedia: The Central Bank of the Russian Federation admitted that the oil embargo will lead to a weakening of the ruble and acceleration of inflation
The United States called for a boycott of the economic forum in St. Petersburg. A State Department spokesman said the US government will not participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in any form.
Russian media: Putin signed law on non-execution in Russia of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights issued after March 15
Estonian Prime Minister considers calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine to be premature. At the same time, she called for speeding up military support for Kyiv and the transfer of additional weapons.
Finnish news agency STT: Finland refuses to comply with Ankara's condition for joining NATO - to hand over to Türkiye people whom the Turkish government accuses of having links with terrorists.Social Media: Rallies in support of Ukraine in Cologne, Germany.
Polskie Radio: Polish President says he wants NATO to increase the number of US troops on the eastern flank amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
BBC: On Hard Talk an American journalist said to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN “We know that you lied even at the UN”.
Hurriyet: Ankara offered Moscow to hold talks between Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye and the UN on the creation of corridors for the export of grain from blocked Ukrainian ports. And it is waiting for a response from the Russian Federation to this initiative.
Time: American Admiral - The war in Ukraine is becoming a 'personal Vietnam' for Putin. Now Russia is in a worse situation than the United States then, because the population in Vietnam often welcomed the Americans, and in Ukraine they hate Russia.
● "Ukraine's partners are the richest countries in the world, so for them the support of Kyiv is not a big financial burden. All this is a prerequisite for the fact that for Putin this campaign will end in a shameful defeat - only faster than it was for the United States in Vietnam ",- said James Stavridis.
Georgian public broadcaster: The Georgian Prime Minister said that his country is waiting for a "fair decision" in response to the application for EU membership and urged to wait for the final answer from Brussels. "If the decision is unfair, I reserve the right to 'raise the curtain' and say everything."
Local Media: Near the settlement of Klintsy in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, a series of powerful explosions thundered in the morning. According to local media, "claps" were heard on the territory of a military unit. As a result of the fire, Russian military equipment was destroyed.
MMR: Polish truckers are preparing to block the network of gas stations due to high prices. The truckers are outraged by the increase in prices at gas stations. Today they intend to hold a protest action. The people intend to block the network of gas stations Orlen.
NV: Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany -Germany will donate Ukraine IRIS-T air defense systems. The IRIS-T air defense system will help cover Kyiv in the fall, and in 3-4 years it will protect other cities and important objects of Ukraine from missile attacks. According to him, the production of the system for Ukraine will be completed at the end of the summer, then it will undergo training, and the delivery of IRIS-T will take place in October.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Singapore: Singapore will donate life-saving equipment, land mine detectors, 2 fire engines, 9 ambulances and fire-fighting protective equipment to Ukraine.
NATIONAL
Vladimir Zelenskyi became the winner of the Boris Nemtsov Prize for Courage. The Boris Nemtsov Foundation annually awards a person for the defense of democratic values and human rights.
Ukraine Foreign Minister: Europe is afraid of Ukraine's candidacy for the EU. "They explained to us that it is impossible to give visa-free travel to Ukrainians and not give it to Russians at the same time. Gave, nothing. The free trade zone was supposed to pose a threat to European producers.
Sky News: Severodonetsk is the last outpost for Ukraine in the Luhansk region, - British military expert. For Ukraine, the city has a symbolic meaning, as it is the center of the free territory of the Luhansk region. Russia seeks to capture the city and create an environment to be able to defeat one of the most combat-ready groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Institute for the Study of War:
● Russian troops will continue their attacks on Slavyansk and Severodonetsk.
● Analysts believe the Kremlin has, at a minimum, admitted that it cannot quickly achieve its goals in Ukraine and continues to adjust its military objectives to address the initial shortcomings of the invasion of Ukraine.
Ternopil Regional Military Administration: The city of Chortkiv was hit by Russian rockets last night. Local authorities turned off natural gas while repairs continue to remove the consequences of the explosions.
Yesterday, Volodymyr Klitschko was inducted to the Boxing Hall of Fame. He could not go to the USA for the celebration, because he is in Kyiv. Klitschko recorded a video message for the participants of the ceremony.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called on the current chairman of the African Union, Maki Sall, to use leverage on Russia to convince it to stop hostilities against Ukraine.
President’s Office: The first Ukrainian center in the European Union for citizens forced to leave Ukraine because of the war was opened in Vilnius
Planet Labs image taken on June 10. Satellite recorded a new Russian air defense on Zmiinyi (Snake) Island.
Social Media: The Armed Forces of Ukraine received new Starlink satellite communications systems from Elon Musk.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
08:46 June 12
● The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the Russian offensive around the village of Vrubovka. Russian troops are conducting assault operations in the city of Severodonetsk, they have no success.
● The Russians also tried to launch an offensive in the direction of the settlement of Mykolaiivka. They received a strong rebuff and withdrew.
● The Ukrainian military also successfully repulsed the Russian assault in the Vasilyevka area. The troops of the Russian Federation suffered losses and retreated to their previously occupied positions.
● Over the past day, the losses of the Russian army amounted to 10 tanks, 16 armored combat vehicles, 7 UAVs, more than 10 vehicles and up to 150 manpower.
18:51 June 11
● In the Siversk direction, the Russian army continues mortar attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces in the border areas. In addition, the Russian troops are shelling civilian infrastructure in the village of Myropilske, the Sumy region.
● In the Sloviansk direction, the Russian Federation carried out systematic shelling. Ukrainian troops successfully repulsed the Russian assault in the areas of Brazhkivka, Dolyna and Virnopillia. The Russians have withdrawn. With the support of mortars, artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, the Russian Federation is trying to gain a foothold in Bohorodychne, the fighting continues.
● The Russian Federation continues to suffer significant losses. In order to organize medical support for the actions of a group of Russian troops in the Slobozhansk direction, the forces of the 442nd military clinical hospital from the city of St. Petersburg are additionally deploying a field hospital in the village of Shebekino, the Belgorod Region.
Company Social Accounts: The connection between the servers of the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP for the control of nuclear material and the IAEA has been resumed. The connection was lost on May 30, when the Russian occupation authorities turned off Vodafone in Energodar. The International Atomic Energy Agency has a data transmission contract with this mobile operator.
The New York Times: Citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official, writes that this week Ukrainian partisan scouts launched artillery strikes on two Russian bases in the temporarily occupied Kherson region. As a result, dozens of Russian soldiers were killed, including two generals.
Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense: Russia has not abandoned the plan for the complete capture of Ukraine. According to it, just now the main efforts of the Russian Federation are concentrated in the south and east of the country.
● Russia uses 103 battalion-tactical groups on the territory of Ukraine, which are directly involved in hostilities. About 40 more armored personnel carriers are in reserve and can be used against the Armed Forces of Ukraine
● It is also reported that the Russians have a plan for 120 days of war, and further adjustment of this plan will depend on how much the Russian Federation will succeed or, on the contrary, suffer defeat in eastern Ukraine.
"Ukraine+Taiwan Forum" platform: Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epiphanius held an online meeting with Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. During it, the Taiwanese minister announced that his country would allocate $1.2 million in financial assistance to restore Ukrainian churches destroyed by the Russian army.
Ministry of Health: The Rolls-Royce company, which specializes in the production of luxury cars, handed over two heavy-duty generators to Ukraine.
● Russia continues to block the supply of medicines, including vital ones, from the territories controlled by Ukraine to the temporarily occupied ones. Therefore, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have become virtually hostages of Russian medical terrorism.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Spoke with the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry. The next deliveries of heavy weapons to Ukraine and the seventh package of EU sanctions against Russia were discussed.
Center for Combating Disinformation: Currently, cholera outbreaks have not been registered in any locality of Ukraine, so any information about cases of cholera is fake.
British Ambassador to Ukraine: "Ukraine is defending its sovereign territory and it is up to the Ukrainians to decide when they think is the right time to end the war and how they want to do it. We in the UK have no right to tell Ukraine what they should or shouldn't do, to stop this war".
In the so-called 'Donetsk People's Republic', a trial is being prepared for a citizen of South Korea who fought on the side of Ukraine,"- reports the so-called 'Foreign Minister of the DPR' Natalya Nikonorova.
State Security Service Intercepted Conversations:
14:27 June 11: Instead of the honors, the Russians leave the bodies of their dead in the open. In order not to shock their compatriots, they bury the dead in closed coffins. "They are in piles. Not in refrigerators, nowhere. Right on the street they lie like boards. There is a smell ... crazy," Russian soldiers tell each other.
10:23 June 12 ⚡️The Security services of Ukraine blocked the fraudulent scheme "Your relative is in captivity!".
In Zaporizhia, advisors who called the relatives and friends of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine held by Russians and offered their "help" in allegedly releasing them from captivity. The organizer of the scheme was recently released from prison in occupied Mariupol, and he also had an accomplice in Zaporizhia who was detained by Security services of Ukraine special forces.
Statement from Trap Aggressor: Alfa-Bank, co-owned by Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman, who is trying to obtain Ukrainian citizenship, has been financing the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation for many years. A group of Trap Aggressor analysts has collected facts demonstrating that Mikhail Fridman's Alfa-Bank in Russia was one of the puzzle pieces to support the military-industrial complex. Since February, Mikhail Fridman and his partners have been on the US, UK and EU sanctions lists.
President’s Office in response to statements by the US President. It makes no sense to blame a country that has been fighting the Russian Federation for more than 100 days,"- said adviser to the head of the President's Office. He added that Volodymyr Zelenskyi was aware of all possible scenarios for a Russian invasion.
State Security Service: A Russian agent was detained in Dnipro, who collected information about the location of mobile communication facilities and Ukrainian military units.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, arrived in Kyiv. Said that the conclusion of the European Commission on Ukraine's application for EU membership will be ready by the end of next week.
● Ukraine needs to further strengthen anti-corruption legislation. Indeed, they do. The same can be said of just about every other country needing to strengthen theirs. In some of my earlier emails I used to refer to Western interlocutors who continuously made this point, to keep Ukraine out of international institutions like the EU, as the “Greek Chorus.” I hope I’m wrong, but it seems as if the “Greek Chorus” is back.
SUMY
Regional Military Administration: On the afternoon of June 11, the Russians dropped explosives from an unmanned aerial vehicle into the territory of Velikopisarevskaya balka of the Sumy region, and then fired from artillery. "There is no damage or casualties," the head of the Administration said.
KHARKIV
Regional State Administration: Over the past day, the Shevchenkovskyi district of Kharkiv has been shelled. No one was injured.
● In the region, Russian troops fired at the Malolanilovskaya community, Chuguevskyi, Izyumskyi districts. As a result, fires broke out in private houses, non-residential premises and forest belts.
● In general, 4 wounded in the region per day: 3 in the Kharkiv region, 1 person was hospitalized in Balakliya.
● 3 civilians were killed: Chuguevskyi district -1, Zolochiv - 3 people.
LUHANSK
Regional Military Administration: After the capture of the city of Popasnaya in the Lugansk region, Russian troops forcibly took the townspeople to Pervomaisk. While there were no people, the Russians robbed their houses.
● About 30 more people were rescued from the Luhansk region, including three children.
● Russians are in artillery range of Pavlograd and Sinetsky near Severodonetsk; both came under massive shelling.
● In Lysychansk, two people were injured, one woman died.
● The Russians are mercilessly shelling Severodonetsk. The situation in Toshkovka is very difficult. The number of attacks cannot be counted, such is the density of attacks.
● In Severodonetsk, the Russians tried to hold a meeting in the house of chemists, there are dead and wounded.
● In Rubezhnoye, the Russian command post was destroyed.
● the Russian army has destroyed the second bridge between Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, and is heavily shelling the third one;
● the territory of "Azot" is constantly shelled, fights are going on in the surrounding streets;
● The Russians are approaching Vrubovka.
DONETSK
National Police: During June 11, the Russians killed 2 civilians of Donbas: in Netaylov and Staryі Karavan. Another 10 people were injured.
Czech Foreign Ministry: The death of the first volunteer from the Czech Republic, who fought on the side of Ukraine, has been confirmed. The soldier died in the Donetsk region.
You Tube: The video of the aftermath of the Russian shelling of the Luhansk region, that we have published and now many media outlets are distributing as an explosion at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk, is not true. This video was filmed back in 2014 in Donetsk.
Kramatorsk city council: The entire Donetsk region has left without electricity. There is no power supply at TP 330.
Social Media: As a result of shelling, a fire occured at the Gorlovka paper mill, and a high-pressure gas pipeline damaged.
● A powerful explosion occurred in Avdiivka, Donetsk region.
Mator of Mariupol. After the decision of the Russians to demolish multiple story residential buildings, the entrance of residents to their apartments, even if they are in the surviving part of the house, is limited. Personal belongings are not allowed to be taken away. During the analysis of rubble and demolition of houses, the territory of work is guarded by the occupiers.
● "The practice of duty of doctors for ambulances to the Ministry of Emergency Situations has been introduced. Mariupol residents say that dizziness and an acute reaction of the stomach, as a result of terrible finds under the rubble, has become a mass reaction of workers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the occupiers".
● The Russian occupation authorities have renamed Freedom Square in Mariupol into Lenin Square.
● Russian authorities are planning the construction of prefabricated sandwich board buildings similar to a shopping center. They plan to place people there, and a few hundred meters from the houses, the Russians are preparing a line of defense. Such an arrangement of fortifications makes it impossible for artillery strikes against the fortifications of the Russian troops.
ZAPORIZHIA
Social Media: Local residents report three explosions in occupied Berdyansk. Since 5 am, half of the city has no electricity and water. Berdyansk residents complain of low-frequency ringing in their ears.
● Russians continue stealing grain. Yesterday they confiscated 9 trucks of grain from a Melitopol Elevator. Before that, more than 15 trucks were taken out.
Telegraph: In Energodar, near the Zaporizhzhіa Nuclear Power Plant, partisans eliminated two Russian soldiers on patrol. "At night, a couple of orcs from the patrol finished their service in the occupier's army ahead of schedule, after their release they may be found, or maybe not," the pro-Ukrainian Energodarovites briefly reported.
President's Office: The expected offensive of Russian troops on Zaporizhia was thwarted by successful counter-offensive actions. Ours hit the group that was planning an offensive on Zaporizhia, and the Russian troops were forced to turn to the right and transfer troops towards Orekhov.
Regional Military Administration: The Russian military attacked the village of Malaya Tokmachka, Polohovsky district, Zaporizhia region. As a result of shelling by Russian troops, the village council burned down
DNIPRO
Zelenodolsk Mayor: "Another terrible night in the dark. One of our settlements, the village of Velikaya Kostromka, came under fire. Residential buildings were damaged, partially destroyed, gas and electricity lines were damaged, a person was injured."
KHERSON
Deputy Commander of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade: Among the main obstacles in the liberation of the occupied territories of Mykolaiv and Kherson regions are the lack of equipment, the difficult specifics of the landscape and lost time.
Kherson City Council: The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting a counteroffensive in the Kherson region in the directions of Kiselevka, Soldatskoye and Oleksandrivka.
In Kherson, the first Russian passports were issued, 23 people received the document, including the so-called "head of the administration of the Kherson region" Volodymyr Saldo, - said Saldo.
MYKOLAIV
Der Spiegel: German journalists became witnesses of artillery skirmishes in the Mykolaiv region, from which Ukraine often comes out victorious. The tactics of Ukrainian self-propelled guns is to quickly roll out into position, fire a salvo and retreat before being detected by drones. Thus, it is possible to save most of the technology.
Mykolaiv Regional Council: Over the past day, because of shelling by Russians in the Mykolaiv region, 8 people were injured. There are no children among the victims.
ODESA
Operational Command Pivden (South): The Russians have increased their fleet in the Black Sea by 2 large landing ships. Russian ships off the coast of Ukraine are ready to launch 40 cruise missiles at Ukrainian cities.
Regional Military Administration: On the Black Sea coast of the Odesa region, a Russian mine detonated, 20 meters from the coast.
● A man was killed by a mine during a vacation in the Odesa region
KYIV
The National Police: An accomplice of the Russian Federation, who, together with the Russian military, was engaged in looting was arrested. Law enforcers established that during the period of temporary occupation of the city of Irpine, together with armed Russian servicemen, the attacker entered the territory of private courtyards and stole the belongings of the owners.
Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.
SOURCES
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
https://euromaidanpress.com/
https://invite.viber.com/?g2=AQBD3wxTrZ6XUU7IdXeHUfjVCydekezQCCGuwYnT6qPd1r7n1aVbFIewa6ng6Lis