Advance near Bakhmut and fatal car crash involving teenagers: highlights of the day
Defense forces advanced on the flanks around Bakhmut, three teenagers died in an accident in Kirovohrad Oblast and spy chief Kyrylo Budanov said that Russia's plan to blow up the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has already been drafted and approved. We have collected the main news for the day.
Movement on the flanks around Bakhmut
Over the course of the day, the Ukrainian Defense Forces advanced between 600 and 1,000 meters on the northern and southern flanks around Bakhmut, said Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesman for the Eastern Military Group. He noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces "hold the initiative, continue assault operations, and push the enemy back."
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that a Russian subversive and reconnaissance group made an unsuccessful attempt to cross the state border of Ukraine in Sumy Oblast yesterday. The saboteurs suffered losses and retreated.
Fatal car accident involving teenagers
On June 25, three 17-year-old girls died in a road accident in Kirovohrad Oblast. Four more were hospitalized.
According to the State Bureau of Investigation, the car was driven by a law enforcement officer with signs of intoxication. He was driving teenagers from a graduation celebration and put seven graduates in the car, violating safety rules.
New details of failed mutiny
The Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has estimated that during the attempted uprising, the Wagner PMC militants destroyed seven units of Russian aviation on the territory of Russia. These are one warplane, two combat helicopters, and four Mi-8 transport helicopters. Russian propagandists write that 13 to 20 Russian pilots were killed.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Yevgeny Prigozhin's coup attempt "shows the real cracks" within Russia and may not be "the last act." At the same time, Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani believes that the Russian front and government are now weaker, and the myth of the unity of Putin's Russia is over.
The Institute for the Study of War believes that self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is likely to try to use his "mediation" to "de-escalate" the Wagner rebellion attempt, for example, to delay the formalization of the Union State of Russia and Belarus or to prevent Russia from using Belarusian troops in Ukraine.
At the same time, the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Serhiy Nayev, said that Ukraine had not recorded a build-up of Russian troops in the northern direction after the departure of the owner of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to Belarus. The situation remains stable.
The plan to blow up Zaporizhzhya NPP has been "approved"
The head of Ukraine's military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that Russia has already completed preparations for a terrorist attack at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and placed explosives near four of the six reactors.
"[The plan for a terrorist attack on ZNPP] is fully drafted and approved. Technical means could be used to speed up the catastrophe... The situation has never been as serious as it is now," Budanov said.
Other news
- Death toll from the missile strike in Kyiv has risen as two more bodies were found under the rubble.
- Germany will transfer 45 more Gepard units to Ukraine by the end of the year.
- In Odesa Oblast, a tractor driver hit a child walking on the roadside with a bucket. The girl died as a result.
- Relatives of the boys killed in Berdyansk are being interrogated and searched by the occupiers, human rights activists say.
- Russians are trying to return to the positions they held before the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant explosion, spokesperson Natalia Humeniuk says.
- The Ukrainian Embassy criticized the Israeli government for its pro-Russian stance. Tel Aviv will summon the Ukrainian ambassador.
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