Pentagon reviewing proposals for new weapons capabilities for Ukraine
The U.S. Department of Defense is selecting the most effective means of strengthening Ukraine's defense capabilities from more than 1,000 proposals from U.S. arms manufacturers.
01 July 2022
The U.S. Department of Defense is selecting the most effective means of strengthening Ukraine's defense capabilities from more than 1,000 proposals from U.S. arms manufacturers.
Ukraine's Armed Forces destroyed 35 invaders, two modernized tanks and four other armored vehicles in southern Ukraine on June 30.
Zmiinyi (Snake) Island is a strategic point, and its liberation significantly changes the situation in the Black Sea.
At least ten people have been killed and dozens injured, including children, after a Russian missile strike on the Odesa region on the night of July 1.
30 June 2022
Russian troops have reached the outskirts of Lysychansk, but there is no street fighting in the city itself.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have repulsed enemy assault operations in the Kharkiv, Sloviansk and Bakhmut directions. In the Lysychansk direction, Russian invaders partially gained success.
Over the past week, the Ukrainian defense forces have liberated two settlements in the Kryvyi Rih and Kurakhove directions.
The Ukrainian military shot down Russia’s Ka-52 ‘Alligator’ helicopter over the Black Sea, when it was approaching Snake Island.
Ukrainian artillerymen have hit Russia’s ammunition depot on the eastern front using the Ukrainian-manufactured unmanned aircraft system, Valkyrja.
Fierce battles have been raging near Lysychansk Oil Refinery in recent days.
The rocket artillery of the 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces has destroyed a column of Russian motor vehicles with ammunition.
U.S. President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will provide a new package of security assistance to Ukraine worth $800 million in the coming days, which will include, in particular, new air defense systems, artillery systems, and ammunition.
Ukraine needs modern weapons to fight Russian aggression, and NATO will help it switch from Soviet-era equipment to modern weapons.
In Kherson region, the Russian military launched rocket strikes at the village of Novovorontsovka, damaging a farm and expensive agricultural machinery.
Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), called on the representatives of the so-called "LPR/DPR" to provide access to the places of detention of Ukrainian prisoners of war but has received no answer so far.
Russians struck an apartment block in Huliaypole town, Zaporizhzhia region.
Six civilians have been injured as the Russians fired cluster munitions at Slovyansk.
Russian invaders keep shelling border areas of Sumy, Chernihiv regions
The head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, called out Russia's claim of a "goodwill move" to withdraw its forces from the Ukrainian island of Zmiinyi (Snake Island), stressing that it was the Ukrainian Army that knocked the invaders out.
Guided cruise missiles that the Russian army has been launching at Ukrainian military and civilian infrastructure remain effective as they fly at low altitudes, invisible to the Ukrainian air defense system. Western powers should transfer F-15, F-16 fighter jets, or other Western interceptors to Ukraine to effectively counter enemy cruise missile strikes.
When withdrawing from Siverodonetsk, Luhansk region, Ukrainian defense forces have not lost a single soldier.
Czech specialists have developed and designed the Bivoj unmanned aerial vehicle, which will be available to the Ukrainian Army in the near future.
As the Ukrainian forces successfully completed another stage of the military operation, Russians hastily evacuated the remains of their garrison from Snake [Zmiinyi] Island.
Russian troops have opened fire on 10 settlements in Donetsk Region over the past day. Casualties among civilians were reported.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has found out that the Russian missile strikes on Kremenchuk-based Amstor Shopping Mall were launched from the air space of Kursk Region.
Russia’s air strikes on Lysychansk have destroyed a police department building and caused damage to the area of Lysychansk Oil Refinery.
Currently, a total of six civilians have been reported killed and six injured in Russia’s missile strike on an apartment block in the city of Mykolaiv, launched in the morning of June 29, 2022.
A total of 341 children have been killed and over 631 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
Russia has already lost about 35,600 troops in Ukraine (+150 over the past day).
Over the past day, June 29, Russian troops killed two civilians in Donetsk region.