News and information from Ukraine

News from Ukraine. Day 856.

Dnipro. Russian missile kills one civilian, injures six Dnipro attacked in Ukraine June 28th. The missile hit a nine-storey residential building in central Dnipropetrovsk.

Donetsk region. Russia launched an attack on the town of Toretsk in the eastern Donetsk province, killing one person and injuring sevenRegional Governor Vadim Firashkin said on June 27. In the nearby town of Selidov, Moscow troops dropped an air raid bomb on a residential area, killing Some Seven apartment buildings and five private homes were burned. Six people were reported injured. In a Telegram social media post, Firashkin added: “Another turbulent day in Donetsk Oblast is another example of Russian brutality,” and urged the remaining residents to evacuate.

Kharkiv Oblast. On June 26, Russia used guided air-dropped bombs to attack the town of Delkhach in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast.Regional Governor Oleg Sinegubov saysPrivate homes were attacked in Derhachi, eight miles from Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. The explosion injured 10 civilians, including two boys aged 12 and 15 and a 17-year-old girl.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged 90 prisoners of war on June 25, Ukrainian President Zelensky confirmedThe releases include soldiers from the National Guard, regular military forces, homeland defense forces and border guards of Ukraine. They had defended the city of Mariupol and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and fought on the Kherson, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia fronts. “We remember all our compatriots who were captured by Russia. We will continue to work for the release of every one of them,” Zelensky said. This is the 53rd official prisoner exchange between the warring parties, mediated by the UAE.

Russia sends 10,000 new settlers to Ukrainian front lines Alexander Bastrykin saysThe head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, the U.S. equivalent of the FBI, said at a conference on June 27. The country has made military service a condition for citizenship, without having to meet language or five-year residency requirements. But in nationwide sweeps, authorities found 30,000 newly naturalized citizens who had not registered for military service, including 10,000 who had already mobilized. According to Bastrykin, the newly naturalized immigrants are digging trenches and building fortifications in Ukraine rather than engaging in combat, but casualties on the Russian front are soaring. Russia’s small territorial gains in Ukraine over the past few months have come at a high human cost, with an estimated 1,200 Russian soldiers dying every day in May. According to reports from British and other Western BroadCast Unitedligence agencies. This brings the total estimated Russian military casualties since the invasion of Ukraine to 500,000.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the Kremlin violated human rights and freedoms in Crimea and Sevastopol. Attaché to Ukraine Margarita Sokolenko says June 25. Sokolenko said the ruling sets a precedent for an international tribunal to hold Russia accountable for systematic violations in the Ukrainian territories it occupies. “This is an important step towards holding the aggressor accountable under international law,” Sokolenko said. Based on the evidence presented by Kyiv, the European Court of Human Rights, with this ruling, recognized the illegal detention of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars by the Russian occupation authorities, the ongoing forced naturalization of Ukrainian citizens in Crimea, the ongoing discrimination against Crimean Tatars, the violation of the rights of political prisoners and their ill-treatment. Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets pointed out The decision is the result of a decade of efforts since Kiev filed a complaint with Moscow in 2014. “This decision proves that the Russian Federation has lied about the observance of human rights in the occupied Crimea!” the Ombudsman added.

Denmark has pledged an additional €4.7 million ($5 billion) in grants to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, The Ukrainian Ministry of Energy announced on June 26. The funds will be used to repair and rebuild critical infrastructure in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv oblasts, frontline regions where tens of thousands of civilians remain. “Denmark became the first sponsor of the fund and contributed to the recovery of Ukraine’s energy sector as early as April 2022,” said Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko. “This funding is particularly necessary for frontline regions where energy facilities are subject to hostile attacks on a daily basis.” The Ukraine Energy Support Fund is an important tool for coordinating international assistance to keep Ukraine’s energy sector functioning. Since its establishment in spring 2022, countries such as Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom and Austria have contributed or pledged a total of €551 million ($590 million) to the fund.

Cultural front.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Announce June 25 Invite Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov to join them. Chernov won an Oscar this year for his documentary “20 Days in Mariupol”. Chernov, along with on-site photographer Yevhen Maloletka and producer Vasylisa Stepanenko, were among the few journalists left when Mariupol was besieged by Russian troops in February 2022, and they captured the horror unfolding on camera. If Chernov accepts the invitation to join the academy, he will have the right to participate in the selection of the winner of the Best Documentary Award.

The Royal Academy of Arts in the UK held a special exhibition on Ukraine, the theme of “In the eye of the storm,” on June 28 in London. The exhibition, which celebrates Ukrainian artists from the modernist period between 1900 and the 1930s, features 65 works by artists including Kazimir Malevich, Sonya Delaunay and Alexandra Exter. “The modernist movement in Ukraine unfolded against the backdrop of the collapse of the empire, the First World War, the struggle for independence and, ultimately, the creation of Soviet Ukraine,” the exhibition synopsis reads. “Despite this profound upheaval, it was a period of bold artistic experimentation and a real flowering of Ukrainian art, literature and theatre.” The exhibition runs until October 13.

Author: Daria Dzysiuk, Karina Tahiliani