Ukrainian forces continue to set conditions for counteroffensive on Kherson - ISW
Ukrainian troops continue to set conditions for a counteroffensive on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.
07 July 2022
Ukrainian troops continue to set conditions for a counteroffensive on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.
In the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, Ukrainian rocket-artillery and aviation units attacked strongholds of Russian forces and their warehouses.
French Senator Alain Richard, who earlier served as Minister of Defense of France, advocated the transfer of missile defense systems to Ukraine.
For the first time since the beginning of the war, Russia has not claimed territorial gains in Ukraine.
06 July 2022
Finally, it is felt that the Western artillery – the weapons Ukraine received from its partners – started working very powerfully. Hence, the losses of Russian occupiers will only increase every week.
At least three civilians have been injured in the Pokrovske community, Synelnykove District, as Russians fired cluster munitions at Dnipropetrovsk Region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Russia does not yet feel the effects of international sanctions, is trying to circumvent the restrictions already imposed and does not even think about peace.
The Ukrainian military has repulsed the enemy assault in the Kharkiv direction and inflicted losses on Russian invaders and forced them to retreat in the Sloviansk and Bakhmut directions.
Russian invaders on July 6 fired a missile from a Su-35 fighter jet at the Odesa region. An air defense unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed the missile as it approached the city.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the invaders have completely destroyed 122 healthcare institutions, killed 14 health professionals and injured 48 more.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine revoked the effect of the procedure for the need to obtain permits to leave districts and regions for those liable for military service and sent it for revision.
Russian military depots were destroyed near a railway station in temporarily occupied city of Kherson, southern Ukraine.
The International Committee of the Red Cross distributed humanitarian aid in Mariupol, temporarily captured by the Russian invaders, for the second time.
The reconstruction of Mariupol, destroyed by the Russian aggressor, will cost more than 14 billion dollars and will take from seven to ten years.
Great Britain strongly condemns Russia's indiscriminate shelling of civilian infrastructure, including religious buildings.
Russians have failed to advance to the administrative borders of Luhansk region. as hostilities are still underway in two settlements.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has presented over 1,200 bulletproof vests to the National Guard of Ukraine.
A traitor who gave out to the invaders home addresses of the Ukrainian military servicemen and territorial defense fighters in the village of Vorzel near Kyiv was detained following an inquiry.
In Kherson region, temporarily held by Russian occupation forces, the relatives of those abducted by the invaders are forced to apply for a Russian passport, while a powerful propaganda machine is brainwashing the local population.
In Kharkiv, a security guard was killed in the university building, shelled by Russian invaders overnight Wednesday.
Yesterday, Russian troops extensively shelled Mykolaiv Region, leaving two civilians killed, military and civilian objects destroyed.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding the enemy back at the border between Luhansk Region and Donetsk Region, and preventing Russian invaders from cutting off the Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway running near Bilohorivka.
On July 5, 2022, two civilians were killed and seven injured in Russia’s massive shelling of Sloviansk, Donetsk Region.
Last night Russian occupiers struck Kharkiv’s Novobavarskyi District, Kyivskyi District and Osnovianskyi District from the territory of Russia, having destroyed a building of the higher educational institution.
Russia has already lost about 36,500 troops in Ukraine (+150 over the past day).
On June 26, 2022, in battles for the city of Lysychansk, Luhansk Region, the commander of the Volat battalion of the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, using the call sign Brest, was killed in combat.
A total of 346 children have been killed and over 645 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
In the Sloviansk direction, the enemy is trying to improve its combat tactics, engaging the areas near Krasnopillia and Bohorodychne with mortars, barrel and jet artillery. The Armed Forces repulsed the Russian assault and drove the invaders back near Dolyna. The invaders are continuing assault operations near Mazanivka, where firefights are ongoing.
Ukraine's partners should not be wary of transferring more heavy weapons to Ukraine because Russian weapons will be stopped only by more powerful arms, as proven by the case of Snake Island.
On the morning of Tuesday, July 5, the enemy rained heavy barrel artillery fire on the village of Velyka Kostromka in Dnipropetrovsk region.