Video shows Ukraine tank brigade attacking Russian soldiers

Images from Ukraine’s military purportedly show a tank brigade moving Russian military vehicles and soldiers into trenches on the frontline in eastern Ukraine.

The footage was obtained on Wednesday from the 30th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which said they were “expelling racists from Ukrainian soil.”

The footage was also relayed by the Strategic Communications Department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Zenger News contacted Russian and Ukrainian officials for comment, but had not received a response at the time of writing.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what the Kremlin is calling a “special military operation”. Thursday is the 120th day of the attack.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that between 24 February and 23 June, Russia had approximately 34,430 personnel, 1,504 tanks, 3,632 armored fighting vehicles, 756 artillery units, 240 multiple launch rocket systems, 99 air defense systems, 216 warplanes. had lost it. , 183 helicopters, 620 drones, 137 cruise missiles, 14 warships, 2,548 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, and 60 units of specialized equipment.

The Ukrainian military has said it has launched airstrikes on the landlocked island, also known as Snake Island, causing “significant losses” to Russia’s military in an operation it says is underway. .

Russia conducts anti-ship missile exercises in the Baltic Sea amid rising tensions nato Member of the latter country, Lithuania, blocked the transit of certain goods in the Russian Exclave of Kaliningrad.

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s press secretary Maria Zakharova has said that Moscow’s response to the ban on the transit of goods sanctioned by Lithuania The European UnionTo Kaliningrad would be not only diplomatic but also practical.

But Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has accused Russia of lying about the blockade, saying people are still able to travel between Russia and Kaliningrad and that the blockade only affected one percent of goods.

The Ukrainian military has stated that they are successfully thwarting new Russian attempts to advance into the Kharkiv region of north-eastern Ukraine, but Russian forces have captured several settlements near Lischansk and Severodonetsk, with about 568 civilians. In the U.S. they are believed to still be sheltered at the Azot chemical plant in Severodnetsk. ,

The city of Lisichansk, located in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, is now said to be under siege by Russian and pro-Russian forces.

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reunification of Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk has urged the local people of the Kherson region to evacuate to help Ukrainian forces in “de-occupied” the area.

British intelligence has claimed that the pro-Russian and so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) may have lost around 55 percent of its core forces.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it is a “historic week” as Kyiv awaits Brussels’ decision about its EU candidate status, with the EU expected to approve the application at a summit in Brussels on Thursday .

This comes after the European Parliament passed a resolution on 8 June which recommended that The European Union Give Ukraine candidate status for EU membership, with 438 members of the European Parliament voting in favor of the proposal, 65 voting against and 94 abstaining.

Zelensky, speaking to the African Union on Monday, also accused Russia of holding Africa “hostage” over grain and fertilizer shortages.

The head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, has warned that Russia could cut gas supplies to Europe this winter. Several European countries have received less Russian gas than expected in the past few weeks, with European imports of natural gas from Russia falling from about 40 percent to 20 percent before the war broke out.

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