War in Ukraine. Ukrainian aviation destroyed the base and command post of Russian drone operators

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13:22 | Ukrainian aviation destroyed the base and command post of Russian drone operators

Ukrainian military aviation in the direction of Kherson managed to destroy the location of the Russian drone operators and the headquarters of the officers, Militarnij reports, publishing a video of the attack.

The Ukrainian Air Force used a precision-guided bomb to deliver the strike.

“Militarny” writes that Ukrainian soldiers discovered a Russian command post and base. With the help of aerial reconnaissance, the movement of the enemy transporting food was recorded. This indicated that the Russians had been using this house for a long time.

“The Russian occupiers used a large private house with a basement for their own purposes to resist the Ukrainian defenders,” the journalists noted.

Unmanned aerial vehicles and kamikaze drones were used to carry out the combat mission, but the basement remained intact, allowing the Russians to continue using it. So, in order to destroy the command post, Ukrainian soldiers decided to use a controlled bomb.

The house was completely destroyed by an airstrike. Judging by the footage, the basement where the personnel of the Russian Armed Forces were located was also destroyed.

13:00 | Romania found possible drone fragments near Ukrainian border

Romania said on Friday it had found possible drone debris near its border with war-torn Ukraine.

Fragments of drones were also found earlier in the territory of this NATO member after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and intensive bombing of its Danube port infrastructure.

The parts were found late Thursday on an island in the Danube River in Breila County, about 20 km from the border with Ukraine.

“Fragments of what appears to be an aircraft (drone) were found on a plot of agricultural land on the island of Breila,” the ministry said in a statement.

There were no reports of casualties. The Romanians added that the incident was under investigation.

12:26 p.m Ukraine is ready for peace talks with Russia, but only with one condition

Kyiv is ready to start a diplomatic process between summits to discuss Ukraine’s peace plan, the country’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says.

“We said that at the first summit, all the states that support these principles (laid out in Zelensky’s “peace formula” – ed.) will gather, they will choose the point on which they want to work. <...> Then, between the first and second summits, communication with Russia will be able to take place according to the rules approved by the participants,” Kuleba said in an interview with the Indian television channel NDTV, according to The Moscow Times.

V. Zelenskis presented his “peace formula” for the first time in 2022. at the G20 summit in November. His peace plan consists of 10 points. One of them includes the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine and a return to the 1991 agreement. borders, including the return of Crimea and Donbass.

At that time, Moscow set the condition for the end of the war that it would actually be recognized with about 20 percent. Territories of Ukraine.

12:01 | Ukraine recovered the remains of another 121 killed defenders

After implementing the repatriation measures, the remains of 121 more fallen soldiers were returned to Ukraine.

As Ukrinform writes, this was reported on Friday on the Telegram channel by the Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

12 of these defenders were killed in the Luhansk region, 107 in the Donetsk region, and two in the Zaporizhia region.

11:23 | V. Zelenskiy calls on the Speaker of the US House of Representatives to help provide military support to Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi pressed US House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday to help provide critical military support to Kyiv amid intensified Russian attacks in Ukraine.

For the past few months, Ukraine has been forced to defend itself. It is short of ammunition and personnel, and Washington has still not provided the promised $60 billion since last year due to divisions in the US Congress. aid package worth 55.34 billion euros.

“I informed President Johnson about the situation on the battlefield, specifically about the sharp increase in Russian terror from the air,” said V. Zelenskiy, who spoke with M. Johnson by phone.

“In this situation, it is vitally important to quickly pass the US aid to Ukraine in Congress [paketą]”, V. Zelenskis said. His words are quoted in a summary of the conversation published on the Telegram platform.

10:55 | During the night Russian missile attack in Ukraine, 6 civilians were injured and three thermal power plants were damaged

A large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukrainian cities injured 6 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk region on Friday night, the region’s governor said.

Serhijus Lysak stated on the Telegram platform that a five-year-old girl is among the injured.

Three thermal power plants were also damaged during the overnight attack.

“The occupiers attacked three DTEK thermal power plants. The equipment was badly damaged. After the attack, engineers immediately began to remove the effects,” the DTEK energy supplier said in a statement.

10:27 | Polish Prime Minister D. Tusk: a new era of war has begun

According to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started a new era of war in Europe.

“I know it sounds overwhelming, especially to the younger generation, but we have to get used to the fact that a new era has begun: pre-war. I am not exaggerating, it is becoming clearer every day, D. Tusk told the German newspaper “Die Welt” and the media of European partners. – I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept of the past. It’s real, it started more than two years ago.”

10:05 | Ukrainian forces announced that they destroyed 58 Russian drones and 26 missiles overnight

The Ukrainian Air Force announced on Friday that it had destroyed 58 attack drones and 26 missiles of various types launched by the Russians overnight.

In their statement on the Telegram social network, the Russians launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine overnight Friday, targeting the energy and heating sectors, using a total of 60 Shahed attack drones and 39 missiles of various types.

According to the report, the Air Force managed to destroy 84 of the 99 targets: 58 drones, 17 Ch-101/Ch-555 cruise missiles, five Ch-59 cruise missiles and four Iskander-K cruise missiles.

09:03 | A massive Russian attack in Ukraine on Friday forced Poland to raise its fighter jets

On Friday night, explosions occurred in the Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of Ukraine during a large-scale rocket attack, according to the Ukrainian publications “Suspilne” and “Ukrinform”.

On Friday night, the Russian military attacked Ukraine with drones and cruise missiles in several directions.

In turn, on Friday night, the operational command of the Polish Armed Forces summoned its and allied aircraft due to the Russian missile attack on the territory of Ukraine. This was reported by the Polish army on the X social network.

The Polish military has warned its citizens that Polish and allied aircraft are flying in Polish airspace, which could cause noise in the southeastern part of the country.

“Tonight there is an intensive activity of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, related to missile strikes on targets located on the territory of Ukraine. All necessary procedures have been initiated to ensure the safety of Polish airspace,” the Polish military said.

08:13 | German experts: international law allows the deployment of ground troops in Ukraine

According to the research service of the lower house of the German parliament (Bundestag), the deployment of troops of a NATO country in Ukraine would not automatically make all other NATO members parties to the conflict. It is true that this state would itself become a party to the conflict, as can be seen from the yet-to-be-published report of parliamentary experts.

“If a NATO state acts unilaterally, instead of participating in a previously decided NATO operation and outside NATO’s military command structures, neither NATO as a whole nor other NATO partner states become parties to the conflict,” reads the document, which dpa has seen.

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07:33 | The Netherlands is sending Patriot air defense systems to Lithuania: “We must be ready”

The Netherlands has decided to deploy Patriot air defense systems in Lithuania for several weeks this summer. This decision was made after the Russian missile that attacked Ukraine violated Polish airspace.

07:00 | Russian missiles severely damaged two thermal power plants in Ukraine

Less than a week ago, Russian missile attacks severely damaged two thermal power plants in western Ukraine. “The power plant units are destroyed in different ways: from completely to more than 50 percent,” said Dmytro Sakharuk, head of the energy company DTEK, as quoted by Ukrainian media on Thursday. This is the Burštyn power plant in the Ivano-Frankivsk region and Ladyšinov in Vinycia. Their total electricity production capacity reached 4,200 megawatts.

The repair of the power plants will last several months and will hardly be possible without international assistance. “Perhaps one or two units will be able to start operating earlier, but in total it will take 6, 12, 24 or more months,” noted D. Sacharuk. The basic equipment alone will cost more than 185 million. euros.