Ukraine-Russia battle dwell: Key village Robotyne liberated as Kyiv claims 5 Moscow jets hit by drones

Yevgeny Prigozhin smiled as a crowd of adoring followers surrounded his black SUV on June 24 in Russia’s southern metropolis of Rostov-on-Don and cheered him on.

“You rock!” followers shouted whereas taking selfies with the chief of the Wagner mercenary group, who was sitting within the car after dusk. “You’re a lion! Hang in there!”

Prigozhin and his masked, camouflage-clad fighters have been leaving town after a daylong mutiny in opposition to the nation’s navy management. President Vladimir Putin decried it as “treason” and vowed punishment, however then lower a deal to not prosecute Prigozhin. Beyond that, his destiny regarded unsure.

Three folks have been killed in an in a single day Russian missile strike on Ukraine, and a fourth was killed in shelling on Monday morning, Ukrainian officers mentioned.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko mentioned the three folks killed in a single day have been staff at an industrial facility that was hit within the central Poltava area. Five others have been wounded and one other particular person was unaccounted for.

Presidential chief of workers Andriy Yermak described the power as a vegetable oil manufacturing facility within the Myrhorod district of Poltava area, and posted photographs displaying the plant in flames. Klymenko mentioned the fireplace had later been extinguished.

“The people were working the night shift,” Yermak mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.

A 63-year-old lady was additionally confirmed to have been killed in shelling of the village of Sadove within the Kherson area on Monday morning.

Ukrainian authorities have launched an investigation after a midair collision between two warplanes within the west of the nation killed three pilots.

Ukraine’s air pressure spokesman Yuri Ihnat advised Ukrainian tv on Sunday it wasn’t instantly clear how lengthy the probe would take.

According to the air pressure’s Telegram web page, two L-39 coaching navy plane collided on Friday throughout a fight mission over Ukraine’s western Zhytomyr area. Three pilots have been killed, together with Andriy Pilshchykov, a well known pilot with the nickname “Juice” who was an outspoken advocate for Ukraine getting F-16 fighter jets.

This is the second Russian officers confirmed the dying of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a aircraft crash in Moscow.

The movie centers around a violinist from Belgium arriving to Kyiv to perform. It is February 2022, and his trip is upended as Russia starts bombing Ukraine. The artist survives a series of “inhuman crimes and bloody provocations by Ukrainian nationalists,” and he is ready to tell the world “what it was really like.”

“The Witness” — a state-sponsored drama that premiered in Russia on Aug. 17 — is the first feature film about the 18-month-old invasion. The first feature film about the 18-month invasion of Ukraine to hit movie theaters nationwide, it depicts Ukrainian troops as violent neo-Nazis who torture and kill their own people. One wears a T-shirt with Hitler on it. The film also has the main character’s younger son questioning: “Isn’t Ukraine Russia?”

It’s the narrative the Kremlin has been selling because the first days of the battle — all packaged up in a movement image.

The thunder of mortar hearth echoes within the distance as 5-year outdated David approaches his mom with an harmless request: Can he play with the baseball bat a relative gave him as a present?

Valeria Pototska rolls her eyes and tells her son no for the umpteenth time. It’s a toy for giant children, she scolds. The boy, who doesn’t a lot as flinch when the weapons not removed from their city in northeast Ukraine shoot off extra rounds, pouts and peddles away on his bicycle.

Other neighborhood kids frolic in a playground in Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, seemingly resistant to the battle unfolding 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away.

A Russian assault in a single day has left two folks lifeless and two lacking in Ukraine’s central Poltava area, native authorities have mentioned.

Governor Dmytro Lunin wrote on Telegram: “As a result of the hostile attack, two people were killed, two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, and the whereabouts of two more people are currently unknown.”

Mr Lunin mentioned the assault focused an industrial facility, however didn’t present any additional particulars.

Separately, the Ukrainian navy mentioned that Russia had launched 4 missiles from the Black Sea in a single day, with two of those shot down whereas one other missile assault focused the Kryvyi Rih area.

Local authorities mentioned a number of personal homes have been broken, however they didn’t report casualties.

In the 40-second clip, the Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in contrast Russia’s trajectory within the battle to a aircraft that may “fall apart in the air”.

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Western hopes for Ukraine’s counteroffensive to attain a dramatic breakthrough have been considerably pared again, with US officers now reportedly forecasting that Kyiv will fall wanting its key intention of severing Russia’s land bridge with occupied Crimea.

One of the numerous challenges confounding Kyiv’s efforts to redraw the frontline is the thousands and thousands of mines Russia has laid of their path, to the extent that Ukraine is now being described as probably the most closely mined nation on the planet.

“What we are seeing is an industrial level of mine-laying, particularly anti-tank mines,” mentioned Paul McCann, of the Halo Trust, the world’s largest humanitarian landmine clearance organisation. “Nothing like it [has been] seen in Europe since the Second World War.”

Russia mentioned it shot down a Ukrainian drone flying in the direction of Moscow within the early hours of Monday in an incident that when once more briefly disrupted flights over the capital.

Authorities have reported greater than a dozen tried drone assaults on Moscow throughout the previous month, a variety of which have pressured short-term airport closures.

The drones seem like probing Moscow’s air defences from totally different angles, with Monday’s introduced down within the Lyubertsy area to the southeast of the capital, in line with the defence ministry.

State aviation company Rosaviatsia mentioned three airports quickly restricted flights however later returned to regular operation.

Moscow reported the primary drone assaults on the capital in early May, when two have been fired on the Kremlin with out inflicting harm. Since then they’ve turn into a frequent incidence.

Most have been intercepted by Russian air defences, however a number of have hit buildings in a enterprise district of the capital.