War in Ukraine, day 65: Russia should start in Donbass, Ukraine announced the capture of an important village near Kharkov
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In Kyiv, the rubble of a residential building is cleared after the shelling, as a result of which a journalist died. The Russian army is beginning to operate in the Donbass, but Western experts predict that its resources may soon run out. Ukraine announced the arrest under the control of a strategically important village near Kharkov. The BBC continues to compile a list of names of the Russian military, whose death in Ukraine has been officially confirmed,
The main events of the 65th day of the war in Ukraine in our review.
Russian offensive in Donbass continues
The Russian offensive of Ukraine on production with the establishment of full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the creation of a land corridor in the Crimea continues, according to a summary of the Ukrainian General Staff. Russian forces continue shelling Ukrainian positions to prevent Ukrainian forces from regrouping.
The “new phase” of Russia’s expansion into the Donbass has been going on since the beginning of April, but so far the Russian army has advanced only a few kilometers in the Izyum region. According to the adviser to the head of the administration of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovich, Ukrainian military personnel have a significant weakening, but the Russian soldier, in his opinion, dies much more during these battles.
According to Mike Martin, a military expert from King’s College London, Russian troops in Donbass could run out of resources in two to four weeks. “In fact, the Russians will run out of troops, and the Ukrainians are already preparing to counterattack,” Martin said.
Ukraine announced the taking under control of the prices of the village near Kharkiv
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that Ukrainian special forces had regained control of the village of Ruska Lozova near Kharkiv. As stated in the message of the GUR on Facebook, “this is a very important settlement, which is located on the highway in Kharkov – Belgorod.”
Ukrainian intelligence claims that after the seizure of Russkaya Lozova, artillery shelling of Kharkov from the north side may stop, since it is from this Russian village that “objects and civilian houses in Kharkov were precisely destroyed.”
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, “during the operation, Ukrainian soldiers evacuated to a safe place more than 600 civilians from the village, where the Russian occupiers were holding them hostage.”
In times of war, the BBC cannot promptly check the data of the belligerents on the course of hostilities.
A journalist died in Kyiv
In Kyiv, they continued to dismantle the rubble at the site where Russian missiles exploded on Thursday. According to the Ukrainian authorities, at the moment when the UN Secretary General António Guterres came into the Ukrainian government, five rockets were fired at the city at once.
The blow came just an hour after a joint press conference between Guterres and President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which the UN chief was criticized by the Security Council for failing to prevent or stop this war. One rocket found forgotten hotels, resulting in the execution of the UN Secretary General.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the shelling and stated that the target of the strike was the building of the Artem plant.
However, BBC journalists at the scene confirmed that a residential building had come from the shelling. On Friday, under its rubble was the body of journalist Vera Girich – she worked for Radio Liberty (in Russia, it is included in the register of media that perform the functions of a “foreign agent”). “Faith is no more. An accurate Russian missile hit her house.
BBC journalists also managed to talk to others who miraculously survived. When the rocket hit 10 people were injured, four of them are in the hospital.
BBC compiles list of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine stated that 23,000 Russian soldiers died during the war. The Russian military department last reported losses on March 25: 1,351 servicemen were killed by his infection.
In the meantime, the BBC Russian Service found the initial data that confirmed the names of 1899 Russian soldiers who died during the hostilities in Ukraine.
19% of the dead is a senior officer in the rank from junior lieutenant to general (but this does not mean that every fifth person who died in the war with the Russians is an officer). About 20% of the dead served in the airborne troops.
Most of the dead come from depressed or semi-depressed regions of Russia. in total, losses are reported in Dagestan (less than 130 dead each) and Buryatia (at least 90 dead). The loss applies to all regions of Russia, with the exception of two (the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).
Ukrainian authorities: Russia acquired 1,900 cruise missiles during the war
During the war, “Putin’s team” launched 1,900 cruise missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, killing Ukrainian civilians, posted on twitter Advisor to the Deputy Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak.
“Mass killings by cruise missiles are the essence of the Russian world,” Podolyak said.
According to the UN, there were almost 3,000 civilians during the Russian incursions into Ukraine, including 205 children. Over 3,000 people were injured, including 303 children.
Despite the fact that only historical facts are exported during air, artillery and missile strikes.