Russian forces have captured two cities close to the embattled cities of Lysychansk and Syevyerodonetsk within the Luhansk area, Ukraine’s army stated on June 21.
The captured cities — Pidlisne and Myrna Dolyna — are within the course of Toshkivka-Pidlisne, the Basic Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated in its night report.
The Ukrainian command additionally stated Russian forces have had “partial success” within the space of Horske and within the course of Bila Hor, whereas Ukrainian troopers efficiently repulsed an assault within the course of Vysokiy.
Ukraine confirmed earlier that Russia had taken the frontline village of Toshkivka.
Russian forces have triggered “catastrophic” harm as they proceed to bombard Lysychansk and its twin metropolis of Syevyerodonetsk in japanese Ukraine, the place the state of affairs has turn out to be “extraordinarily troublesome,” Ukrainian officers stated earlier.
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Ukrainian defenders held on to the Azot chemical plant within the metropolis. About 500 civilians are sheltering on the plant, and the Luhansk area’s army governor Serhiy Hayday stated in an interview with the Related Press that Russian forces have been turning the world “into ruins.”
The Ukrainian command additionally stated the its forces repulsed a reconnaissance try in and round Metyolkine, which Ukraine on June 20 confirmed had been captured by the Russians.
The pinnacle of the Kharkiv regional state administration, Oleh Synegubov, stated no less than 15 civilians have been killed within the area by Russian shelling on June 21.
Six died in and round Kharkiv and one other six in Chuhuiv, some 40 kilometers southeast of Kharkiv, Synegubov stated. Three died in Zolochiv, 40 kilometers to the northwest of town.
The Ukrainian command stories Russian shelling of settlements in Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Avdiyivka, Novopavlovsk, and Zaporizhzhya.
Russian troops are regrouping and consolidating models within the Donetsk area. The Ukrainian command stated that is “because of important losses.” The declare couldn’t be independently verified.
Whereas Russia has been concentrating its firepower on the Donbas, superior Western weapons methods donated to Ukraine have begun to make their mark elsewhere on the entrance line, British army intelligence stated in its day by day bulletin on June 21.
Ukrainian forces final week claimed their first profitable use of Harpoon anti-ship missiles, the British Protection Ministry stated on Twitter.
“The goal of the assault was nearly actually the Russian naval tug Spasatel Vasily Bekh, which was delivering weapons and personnel to Snake Island within the northwestern Black Sea,” it stated, including that Ukraine had largely neutralized Russia’s skill to determine management within the northwestern Black Sea.
The Russian Protection Ministry stated its missiles had struck an airfield close to the Ukrainian port of Odesa in response to a Ukrainian assault on gasoline manufacturing platforms within the Black Sea, Russian information companies reported. The assault was aimed toward destroying hangars through which drones have been saved, TASS reported, quoting the ministry.
Ukraine stated an assault it launched on June 20 took purpose at an oil-drilling platform that it stated was being utilized by Russian troops as a army set up.
The assault was the primary such strike towards offshore vitality infrastructure since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for Odesa’s regional army administration, instructed a web-based briefing that Russia had organized small garrisons and saved tools on the rig.
Russia on June 20 accused Ukraine of firing on a Black Sea oil drilling platform off the Crimean Peninsula, leaving three individuals injured and one other seven lacking.
Olga Kovitidi, a lawmaker in annexed Crimea’s Russia-installed authorities, later stated two different platforms had additionally been hit.
At the very least one strike was confirmed by Bratchuk, who stated such platforms have been “authorized army targets.”
Bratchuk additionally stated Ukrainian forces had “dealt a major blow to the Russian garrison” on Snake Island, a Black Sea territory taken by Moscow at first of its offensive.
However he acknowledged that Russia’s Black Sea fleet nonetheless dominated the world.
