(NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “particular navy operation” into neighboring Ukraine started on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the east. Ukrainian troops have supplied “stiff resistance,” based on U.S. officers.
The Russian navy has since launched a full-scale floor offensive in japanese Ukraine’s disputed Donbas area, capturing the strategic port metropolis of Mariupol and securing a coastal hall to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
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Jul 19, 2:28 PM EDT
Ukrainian first woman visits White Home
President Joe Biden and first woman Jill Biden greeted Ukrainian first woman Olena Zelenska on the White Home Tuesday afternoon.
Zelenska was offered with a bouquet of flowers in Ukrainian colours: yellow sunflowers, blue hydrangeas and white orchids.
Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., arrived with Zelenska.
Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff then held a bilateral assembly with the Ukrainian delegation. Jill Biden stated they will focus on psychological well being points for moms and youngsters who’ve “suffered such tragedy and the atrocities” in the course of the warfare.
Zelenska will handle Congress on Wednesday.
-ABC News’ John Parkinson
Jul 19, 8:25 AM EDT
US weapons assist stabilize frontline, Ukrainian official says
Ukrainian forces have “stabilized” the state of affairs alongside the frontline within the japanese and south-eastern areas of the nation, largely due to U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket launchers, the Ukrainian navy stated on Monday.
“We managed to stabilize the state of affairs. It’s complicated, intense, however fully managed,” Valery Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, stated.
An vital issue contributing to Ukraine’s retention of its defensive traces and positions is the well timed arrival of U.S. equipped M142 HIMARS — Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket System — rocket launchers, Zaluzhny added. These extremely exact and trendy weapons have been delivering “focused strikes” on Russian “management factors, ammunition and gasoline storage depots,” the highest commander added.
Ukrainian troops struck a Russian navy facility within the space of an asphalt plant within the japanese city of Nova Kakhovka on Monday, Ukrainian navy officers stated. Ukrainian forces additionally hit an administrative constructing and a hangar crammed with Russian gasoline tankers within the southern city of Beryslav, killing greater than 100 Russian troopers, the Ukrainian navy stated on Monday.
Russian forces shelled the city of Nikopol within the Dnipropetrovsk area about 40 occasions on Monday night time, native authorities stated. Explosions have been additionally reported within the Odesa area, injuring a number of civilians. Russian troops additionally fired cluster shells on the metropolis of Mykolaiv late on Monday.
Russia’s acknowledged quick goal is to grab the entire Donetsk area, the UK Ministry of Defence stated on Tuesday. Even when Russian troops make additional territorial good points, the tempo of their advance is more likely to be very gradual, the ministry added.
Russian items, severely under-manned, face a dilemma between deploying extra forces to the Donbas or defending towards Ukrainian counter-attacks within the Kherson space, the observers stated.
Jul 18, 4:20 PM EDT
Ukraine’s first woman to fulfill with Jill Biden
Ukrainian first woman Olena Zelenska will meet with first woman Jill Biden in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Biden’s workplace stated, in the future earlier than Zelenska addresses Congress.
Jul 18, 1:45 PM EDT
Ukraine’s first woman to deal with Congress on Wednesday
Ukrainian first woman Olena Zelenska will make remarks Wednesday earlier than members of Congress on Capitol Hill, Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced.
All members of the Home and Senate are invited to the occasion, which is ready for 11 a.m ET.
Jul 18, 8:56 AM EDT
Russia orders troops to get rid of Ukraine’s long-range missiles
Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited the East group of Russian forces concerned within the preventing in Ukraine and ordered his troops to get rid of the Ukrainian military’s long-range missiles and artillery ammunition it makes use of to shell targets within the Donbas area, the Russian Protection Ministry stated on Monday.
Shoigu instructed the group’s commander to offer precedence to the usage of precision-guided weapons to destroy Ukraine’s long-range missile and artillery property, the ministry added. Russia has accused Ukraine of utilizing its long-range weapons to shell residential neighborhoods in Donbas communities and set fireplace to wheat fields and grain storage services.
Ukrainian officers stated Russian missiles struck targets throughout a lot of japanese Ukraine on Sunday and early Monday.
Six folks have been killed within the city of Toretsk within the Donetsk area after Russian shelling, the state emergency service stated. Missiles additionally struck civilian infrastructure, together with a faculty within the Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa areas.
Russia additionally carried out 55 strikes on the Sumy area on Sunday. Round 60 projectiles landed in Nikopol, a dozen residential buildings have been broken and one aged lady was wounded, native officers stated.
The southern metropolis of Mykolaiv was subjected to an enormous missile strike within the early hours of Sunday as 10 missiles, presumably launched by an S-300 system, hit numerous elements of city.
Russian officers stated on Monday that no clear timeframes have been set for the warfare in Ukraine, and precedence ought to be given to its effectivity.
“We’ve got no doubts that the particular navy operation might be accomplished in spite of everything of its goals are attained. There aren’t any clear timeframes, what counts most is that this operation’s effectivity,” Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated as quoted by Russian media.
Officers from the self-proclaimed Donetsk Folks’s Republic claimed on Monday that DPR territory might be liberated from the Ukrainian navy this 12 months.
“The liberation of Donbas might be accomplished this 12 months,” Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the police division of the DPR, stated based on Russian media.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Yulia Drozd, and Max Uzol
Jul 17, 6:20 PM EDT
Variety of Ukrainian public officers accused of treason, collaborating with Russia: Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the previous head of the Safety Service of Ukraine, or SBU, in Crimea, who was dismissed to start with of the Russian invasion, has been notified he’s being charged with treason.
“Everybody who along with him was a part of a felony group that labored within the pursuits of the Russian Federation will even be held accountable,” Zelenskyy stated throughout his night handle Sunday. “It’s concerning the switch of secret data to the enemy and different information of cooperation with the Russian particular companies.”
Quite a few Ukrainian public officers have been notified they are going to be charged for treason and for collaborating with Russia.
-ABC News’ Christine Theodorou
Jul 17, 2:20 PM EDT
‘Evil can not win’: Priest breaks down at funeral for 4-year-old Ukrainian woman
A funeral service was held Sunday for a 4-year-old woman with Down syndrome who was amongst two dozen Ukrainian civilian’s killed final week in a Russian missile assault within the west-central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia.
Throughout the open-casket funeral for Liza Dmytrieva, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest broke down in tears as he informed the little woman’s father and different kin, “evil can not win,” based on The Related Press.
Liza was pushing a stroller in a park as she and her mom have been headed to a speech therapist appointment when the assault unfolded Thursday afternoon in Vinnytsia, a metropolis near the entrance traces in west-central Ukraine, officers stated.
The woman and 23 others Ukrainian civilians have been killed, together with two boys ages 7 and eight. At the least 200 different civilians, together with Liza’s mom, have been injured, officers stated.
“Look, my flower! Look how many individuals got here to you,” Liza’s grandmother, Larysa Dmytryshyna, stated, as she caressed the kid mendacity in an open casket crammed with teddy bears and flowers.
Orthodox priest Vitalii Holoskevych gave the eulogy at Liza’s funeral struggling via tears.
“I didn’t know Liza, however no individual can undergo this with calm as a result of each burial is grief for every of us,” Holoskevych stated. “We’re dropping our brothers and sisters.”
Jul 15, 10:01 AM EDT
Grandma of 4-year-old woman killed in missile strike: ‘I hate all of them’
The grandmother of a 4-year-old woman killed in Thursday’s Russian missile assault in Vinnytsia informed ABC News, “They took probably the most valuable [person] I had in my life.”
4-year-old Liza was amongst 23 folks, together with three kids, killed within the strike.
Liza’s grandmother, Larysa Dmytryshyna, referred to as her a “splendidly sunny little one.”
“She was probably the most great woman on the earth and it’s so painful that her mom can not even bury her,” she stated.
Requested how she feels about Russia, Dmytryshyna, replied, “I hate all of them.”
“We didn’t ask them to come back right here. They’ve precipitated a lot sorrow,” she stated of the Russians. “I might give my very own life to extinguish the whole nation.”
-ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge, Ibtissem Guenfoud and Natalya Kushnir
Jul 15, 9:04 AM EDT
Demand for synthetic limbs surges in Ukraine
One in all Ukraine’s main medical consultants on growing prosthetic limbs for amputees says there was a dramatic surge in demand for synthetic legs and arms since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Dr. Oleksandr Stetsenko informed ABC News that monetary assist or donations of prosthetic elements are wanted from overseas to fulfill the elevated demand.
Exterior assist, he stated, is significant so that folks have the prospect to proceed with their lives.
“With good prosthetics folks can come again to life once more,” Stetsenko informed ABC News.
There may be at present no official determine for the way many individuals in Ukraine have undergone surgical procedure to take away limbs due to accidents sustained from the warfare however Dr. Stetsenko estimates that round 500 folks have had limbs amputated because the finish of February with nearly all of these instances being troopers and round a fifth being civilians.
Whereas the variety of sufferers in Ukraine needing synthetic limbs has elevated, the home provide of parts to make prosthetic legs and arms has lowered.
That’s as a result of a 3rd of the businesses which have been beforehand producing parts in Ukraine are actually situated in territory which has just lately been occupied by Russian forces or in areas close to to the frontline, based on the Ukrainian Ministry of Well being.
A director on the well being ministry, Oleksandra Mashkevych, confirmed that Ukraine is now not ready “to cowl the entire demand regarding synthetic limbs.”
Mashkevych informed ABC News that kids who want synthetic limbs are despatched overseas to Europe or to the US and that round 20 kids in Ukraine are thought to have had limbs amputated because the begin of the warfare in February.
-ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge, Ibtissem Guenfoud, Natalya Kushnir and Kuba Kaminski
Jul 15, 6:49 AM EDT
Unprecedented rescue operation underway in Vinnytsia
At the least 18 individuals are nonetheless lacking after a lethal missile strike on downtown Vinnytsia in central Ukraine on Thursday, the Ukrainian Nationwide Police stated.
Three Russian Kalibr missiles launched from a submarine struck an workplace constructing and broken close by residential buildings in Vinnytsia, situated about 155 miles southwest of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Thursday morning.
At the least 23 folks — together with 3 kids — died within the assault, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service stated, and greater than a 100 have been wounded, some critically. The our bodies of two kids and 11 adults have been but to be recognized on Friday morning, native authorities stated.
The strike within the coronary heart of Vinnytsia is “a part of a scientific Russian marketing campaign of assaults on residential areas of cities in Ukraine”, the Institute for the Research of Battle stated.
The search continued on Friday morning for no less than 18 individuals who have been nonetheless lacking after the assault. The continued rescue operation has been unprecedented in its scale, native officers stated, with greater than 1,000 rescuers and 200 items of apparatus being concerned in clearing the rubble and trying to find these nonetheless lacking.
A number of dozen folks have been reportedly detained in Vinnytsia on Thursday for questioning underneath the suspicion of performing as native spotters or aimers on the bottom for the Russian strikes.
The japanese metropolis of Mykolaiv additionally reported 10 highly effective explosions on Friday morning. The town’s two largest universities have been hit within the assault, wounding no less than 4 folks, native authorities stated. Russia additionally struck a resort and a shopping center in Mykolaiv on Thursday.
Russian shelling additionally focused Kharkiv, one other japanese metropolis, on Thursday night time. Native officers claimed 2 colleges have been broken within the assault.
The European Union and the United Nations strongly condemned Russia for what the EU referred to as a “lengthy sequence of brutal assaults towards civilians.”
Russia’s missile strikes hit greater than 17,000 services of civilian infrastructure versus round 300 navy services because the begin of the warfare, Ukrainian officers stated on Thursday.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Yulia Drozd, Fidel Pavlenko and Yuriy Zaliznyak
Jul 14, 4:02 PM EDT
Russian missile strike kills no less than 23 in Vinnytsia
Russian missiles hit the center of the central Ukrainian metropolis of Vinnytsia on Thursday morning, killing no less than 23 folks and wounding dozens, based on Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
Three kids have been among the many lifeless, the company stated.
The missiles struck an workplace constructing and broken close by residential buildings in Vinnytsia, situated about 155 miles southwest of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The strike additionally ignited an enormous fireplace that engulfed 50 vehicles in an adjoining car parking zone, based on the Nationwide Police of Ukraine. Burned-out autos are peppered with holes from the missiles.
The State Emergency Service stated about 115 victims in Vinnytsia wanted medical consideration, with 64 folks hospitalized — together with 34 in extreme situation and 5 in vital.
Forty-two individuals are listed as lacking, the company stated.
Many Ukrainians moved to Vinnytsia, a metropolis southwest of Kyiv, to get away from the preventing in japanese Ukraine. Till now, Vinnytsia had been seen as a metropolis of relative security.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to as the assault “an open act of terrorism” on civilians.
“On daily basis Russia is destroying the civilian inhabitants, killing Ukrainian kids, directing missiles at civilian objects. The place there isn’t any navy (targets). What’s it if not an open act of terrorism?” Zelenskyy stated in an announcement by way of Telegram on Thursday.
Battle crimes investigators are on the scene learning missile fragments.
Russian missile strikes focused a number of different Ukrainian cities on Wednesday and early Thursday, together with Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Mykolaiv.
At the least 12 folks died within the Zaporizhia strike, which hit two industrial workshops on Wednesday, based on native authorities.
At the least 5 civilians have been killed and 30 others injured in Mykolaiv on Wednesday after Russian missiles destroyed a resort and a shopping center, the native mayor stated. The southern Ukrainian metropolis was shelled once more on Thursday morning, however no casualties have been instantly reported.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Fidel Pavlenko, Max Uzol, and Yulia Drozd
Jul 14, 1:49 PM EDT
At the least 18 Russian filtration camps alongside Russia-Ukraine border
Michael Carpenter, the U.S. ambassador to the Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe, is looking the forcible relocation of Ukrainians to Russian filtration camps is “a warfare crime.”
In an interview with ABC News Reside on Thursday, Carpenter stated the Russians are “making an attempt to remove Ukrainians who may need Ukrainian civic impulses, who’re patriots, who need to defend their nation.” Carpenter stated the Russians need to “erase Ukrainian id” and “the Ukrainian nation state, because the entity that governs folks’s lives in these areas.”
Carpenter stated there are no less than 18 filtration camps alongside the Russia-Ukraine border, including that it’s unimaginable to get a precise whole as a result of many are situated in Russia’s far east.
-ABC News’ Malka Abramoff
Jul 14, 12:04 PM EDT
Russian missile strike kills no less than 17 in Vinnytsia
Russian missiles hit the center of the central Ukrainian metropolis of Vinnytsia on Thursday morning, killing no less than 17 folks and wounding greater than 30 others, based on the Prosecutor Basic’s Workplace of Ukraine.
Two kids have been among the many lifeless, the prosecutor’s workplace stated.
The missiles struck an workplace constructing and broken close by residential buildings in Vinnytsia, situated about 155 miles southwest of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The strike additionally ignited an enormous fireplace that engulfed 50 vehicles in an adjoining car parking zone, based on the Nationwide Police of Ukraine. Burned-out autos are peppered with holes from the missiles.
The nationwide police stated about 90 victims in Vinnytsia sought medical consideration, and 50 of them are in severe situation.
Many Ukrainians moved to Vinnytsia, a metropolis southwest of Kyiv, to get away from the preventing in japanese Ukraine. Till now, Vinnytsia had been seen as a metropolis of relative security.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to as the assault “an open act of terrorism” on civilians.
“On daily basis Russia is destroying the civilian inhabitants, killing Ukrainian kids, directing missiles at civilian objects. The place there isn’t any navy (targets). What’s it if not an open act of terrorism?” Zelenskyy stated in an announcement by way of Telegram on Thursday.
Battle crimes investigators are on the scene learning missile fragments.
Russian missile strikes focused a number of different Ukrainian cities on Wednesday and early Thursday, together with Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Mykolaiv.
At the least 12 folks died within the Zaporizhia strike, which hit two industrial workshops on Wednesday, based on native authorities.
At the least 5 civilians have been killed and 30 others injured in Mykolaiv on Wednesday after Russian missiles destroyed a resort and a shopping center, the native mayor stated. The southern Ukrainian metropolis was shelled once more on Thursday morning, however no casualties have been instantly reported.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Fidel Pavlenko, Max Uzol, and Yulia Drozd
Jul 13, 6:30 PM EDT
State Division conscious of experiences on one other American detained by Russian proxies
The State Division stated Wednesday it’s conscious of unconfirmed experiences that one other American has been detained by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
The assertion follows a [report from the Guardian] () on 35-year-old Suedi Murekezi, who’s believed to have gone lacking in Ukraine in early June.
In accordance with the Guardian, Murekezi was in a position to make contact with a member of the family on July 7 and informed them he was being held in the identical jail as Alexander Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, two American veterans captured whereas volunteering for Ukrainian forces. Murekezi has lived in Ukraine since 2020 and was falsely accused of collaborating in pro-Ukraine protests, based on the report.
“We’ve got been involved with the Ukrainian and Russian authorities relating to U.S. residents who might have been captured by Russia’s forces or proxies whereas preventing in Ukraine,” a State Division spokesperson stated Wednesday. “We name on Russia to reside as much as its worldwide obligations to deal with all people captured preventing with Ukraine’s armed forces as prisoners of warfare.”
One other American — Grady Kurpasi — can be lacking in Ukraine. A household spokesperson stated the veteran was final seen preventing with Ukrainian forces in late April and is feared to have been both killed or captured.
-ABC News’ Shannon Crawford
Jul 13, 8:27 AM EDT
Shelling continues all through Donbas area
Shelling from each Russian and Ukrainian forces precipitated harm to the panorama and destroyed constructions all through the Donbas area on Tuesday and Wednesday, native officers stated.
Russian strikes reportedly focused the japanese city of Bakhmut, killing one individual and wounding 5 others, the native governor stated. Explosions have been heard in a number of close by cities too, with one missile falling close to a kindergarten.
Shelling additionally continued in Izyum, Mykolayiv and Kharkiv on Tuesday. Russian troops reportedly carried out unsuccessful assaults north of Slovyansk and the city of Siversk on Tuesday, regardless of repeated rhetoric of an “operational pause” that Russia allegedly maintains, the Institute for the Research of Battle stated in its newest report.
Russian forces proceed to bomb vital areas in preparation for future floor offensive, with air and artillery strikes reported alongside nearly all of the frontline, the consultants added.
Ukrainian forces on Tuesday responded to the Russian assaults and claimed to have destroyed six Russian navy services on occupied Ukrainian territories. Ukrainian officers claimed to have destroyed a number of ammunition depots, in addition to a bigger navy unit.
Russian media reported on Tuesday that Ukrainian troops launched a “huge assault” on an air protection unit within the Luhansk area.
Ukrainian navy officers additionally claimed to have killed no less than 30 Russian troops on Tuesday, together with destroying a howitzer and a a number of rocket launcher, amongst different weaponry.
However the U.Ok. Protection Ministry in its newest intelligence replace stated it nonetheless expects Russian forces to “deal with taking a number of small cities in the course of the coming weeks” within the Donbas area.
These cities are on the approaches to the bigger cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk that seemingly stay the principal goals for this part of the Russian navy operation, the ministry stated.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Max Uzol, Yulia Drozd and Yuriy Zaliznyak
Jul 12, 10:27 PM EDT
US transfers $1.7 billion in financial help to Ukrainian authorities
The USA transferred $1.7 billion to Ukraine’s authorities Tuesday, the Treasury Division introduced.
It’s the second tranche of cash the Treasury transferred to Ukraine’s authorities as a part of $7.5 billion permitted for this objective within the $40 billion Ukraine help bundle Congress handed and President Joe Biden signed into legislation in Might.
It’ll go, partly, to serving to Ukraine’s authorities present “important well being care companies” and well being care staff’ salaries, the Treasury Division stated.
The U.S. transferred the primary tranche, $1.3 billion, to Ukraine’s authorities two weeks in the past.
-ABC News Benjamin Gittleson
Jul 12, 1:59 AM EDT
Ukraine destroys Russian ammo depot in occupied Kherson area
Ukrainian forces hit and sure destroyed a Russian ammunition depot within the Russian-occupied city of Nova Kakhovka within the Kherson area on Monday night time, native officers stated.
The strike resulted in an enormous blast, movies of which quickly circulated on-line. In accordance with native experiences, greater than 40 vans crammed with gasoline have been destroyed. Russian media did not confirm the claims, saying as a substitute that pro-Russian forces had destroyed a sequence of saltpeter warehouses.
“Folks’s home windows are blown out, however they’re nonetheless comfortable … as a result of which means that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are shut,” Sergey Khlan, from the Kherson Regional Navy Administration, stated within the aftermath of the assault.
Monday’s strike marked no less than the fourth time Ukrainian forces destroyed ammunition depots in Nova Kakhovka, native media reported.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Tatiana Rymarenko, Max Uzol and Yulia Drozd
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