![]() Yesterday's attack on the Kerch Bridge linking Crimea with Russia killed a couple who were travelling with their daughter for a holiday in the occupied territory.ĭespite Crimea being subjected to repeated attacks, Russian and occupation officials have continued to promote the occupied area as a tourist destination, according to analysts. The MoD said this is an "added challenge for Russian commanders who are likely concerned about the vulnerability of their southwestern flank". In the southern Kherson region, the MoD said Ukraine maintains a small bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnipro River. It continued that Russia has likely started rationing artillery shells in this area "in an attempt to preserve its critical indirect fire capability". "In the south, Ukraine continues to attack on at least two axes, but is unlikely to have yet broken into Russia's primary defensive lines," the MoD said. The MoD said Russian forces in Bakhmut were "likely fragile but holding for now".Įlsewhere in the Donetsk region, Russian forces are attempting local assaults with "little success" - particularly around Avdiivka. The Donetsk city was captured by pro-Russian forces in May after a months-long battle. Meanwhile, Ukraine is making "significant effort" to try recapturing occupied Bakhmut. In the North East, Russian forces are trying to push west through the forests west of Kreminna. The British Ministry of Defence has provided an update on its latest intelligence, saying both sides have achieved "marginal advances" in different areas. ![]() On the ground in Ukraine, fighting has continued in multiple sectors of the front. While the EU pushed for strong words on the war, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said that "this summit ought not to become another unhelpful battleground for discourses on this matter, which has been and continues to be addressed in other, more relevant fora". Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said this: "Sometimes it's better to have no conclusions at all than to have language that doesn't mean anything." And I'm not here to rewrite history," Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said. "It would be a shame that we are not able to to say that there is Russian aggression in Ukraine. While the vast majority of EU nations have strongly condemned Russia, many Latin and Central American governments have taken a more neutral view.ĮU leaders at the summit appeared exasperated. Today marks the closing day of a summit between leaders from the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean - and while the talks were supposed to be a love-in, instead they have been hung up over the war in Ukraine.Īmbassadors worked through much of last night and into this morning to find even the blandest text to condemn Russia for its invasion in Ukraine, after some Central and South American nations voiced reservations. The FSB said a criminal case had been opened against the woman on charges punishable by up to ten years in prison. "We'll blow them to smithereens so that Russia withdraws its troops from (the eastern Ukrainian town of) Bakhmut," the unidentified person writes.Ī court ordered the suspect to be detained for two months, the RIA news agency reported. She also writes about organising explosions across Russia and says there are many hydroelectric power plants in the Yaroslavl region. ![]() ![]() In the messages, the woman agrees to supply the map coordinates of local railway lines, military recruitment offices and the hydroelectric plant. Russian news outlet Baza, which sometimes publishes material from the FSB, released a message exchange between the suspect and a purported Ukrainian coordinator. ![]() She is then shown being arrested in her office by masked FSB and police agents. Service has arrested a woman who it claims collected information on a "critical infrastructure facility" at the order of Ukraine's intelligence services.Ī surveillance video shared by Russian media appeared the show the suspect using her phone to film near a hydroelectric power plant in Russia's Yaroslavl region. ![]()
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