Russia-Ukraine war latest: Ukraine says it has struck Russian ammunition depot near Kherson; dozens killed in Chasiv Yar strike
TheGuardian - Tom Ambrose (now); Martin Belam and Samantha Lock (earlier)Tue 12 Jul 2022 13.43 BST
Ukraine says it has struck a Russian ammunition depot near Kherson
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed their forces targeted a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine overnight, resulting in a massive explosion.
Ukrainian authorities confirmed a rocket strike targeted a depot in Nova Kakhovka; rescuers find the body of a nine-year-old under Chasiv Yar rubble.
The Ukrainian military’s southern command said a rocket strike targeted the depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka, about 35 miles east of the Black Sea port city of Kherson, which is also occupied by Russian forces.
The precision of the strike suggested Ukrainian forces used US-supplied multiple-launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, to hit the area, the Associated Press reported.
Ukraine indicated in recent days it might launch a counter-offensive to reclaim territory in the country’s south as Russia devotes resources to capturing all of the eastern Donbas regions.
Russia’s Tass news agency offered a different account of the blast in Nova Kakhovka, saying a mineral fertiliser storage facility exploded, and that a market, hospital and houses were damaged in the strike. Some of the ingredients in fertiliser can be used for ammunition.
A satellite photo taken Tuesday and analysed by the Associated Press showed significant damage. A massive crater stood precisely where a large warehouse-like structure once stood in the city,
- Updated at 12.56 BST
- 27m ago13.43
In case you missed it earlier on, Russia has claimed to have killed a significant number of foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine in the last three weeks, including 23 from Great Britain.
In its daily operational briefing, without presenting any evidence, the Russian ministry of defence says that the total number of mercenaries active in Ukraine is not the 20,000 it says Kyiv claimed but is about 2,700. It claims that in the last three weeks:
166 Polish militants were liquidated. Among the representatives of Georgia, 50 “soldiers of fortune” were destroyed, Great Britain lost another 23 mercenaries killed in Ukraine. Also, 21 Romanian and 15 Canadian militants were killed in three weeks.
- 1h ago12.42
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More on that huge explosion here …
At least seven people were reportedly killed by a Ukrainian missile strike on a large ammunition store in the town of Nova Kakhovka, in Russia-occupied Kherson.
The claims of fatalities were made by the Russian-installed administration in the town and could not be immediately verified, though footage on social media showed a large explosion lighting up the night, burning ammunition and towering smoke.
The explosion hit a warehouse close to a key railway line and a dam on the Dnipro River. Imaging from Nasa’s global fire tracking system FIRMS showed a number of secondary blazes in buildings around the initial blast site. Ukrainian strike on Russian-held town attributed to US-supplied missileRead more
- Updated at 12.56 BST
- 2h ago12.33
Ukraine says it has struck a Russian ammunition depot near Kherson
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed their forces targeted a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine overnight, resulting in a massive explosion.
The Ukrainian military’s southern command said a rocket strike targeted the depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka, about 35 miles east of the Black Sea port city of Kherson, which is also occupied by Russian forces.
The precision of the strike suggested Ukrainian forces used US-supplied multiple-launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, to hit the area, the Associated Press reported.
Ukraine indicated in recent days it might launch a counter-offensive to reclaim territory in the country’s south as Russia devotes resources to capturing all of the eastern Donbas regions.
Russia’s Tass news agency offered a different account of the blast in Nova Kakhovka, saying a mineral fertiliser storage facility exploded, and that a market, hospital and houses were damaged in the strike. Some of the ingredients in fertiliser can be used for ammunition.
A satellite photo taken Tuesday and analysed by the Associated Press showed significant damage. A massive crater stood precisely where a large warehouse-like structure once stood in the city,
- Updated at 12.56 BST
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The European Union has so far frozen €13.8bn (£11.7bn) worth of assets held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and entities sanctioned for Moscow’s war against Ukraine, the bloc’s top justice official said on Tuesday.
The official said the vast majority of that comes from five of the EU’s 27 member states only, calling on others to step up, Reuters reported.
The bloc currently has 98 entities and nearly 1,160 individuals blacklisted for Russia’s role in Ukraine.
“For the moment, we have frozen funds coming from oligarchs and other entities worth 13.8 billion euros, it’s quite huge,” EU justice commissioner Didier Reynders said.
“But a very large part, more than €12bn comes from five member states so we need to continue to convince others to do the same,” he told reporters on arriving to a meeting of the national justice ministers in the Czech capital Prague. He did not identify the five countries.
- Updated at 12.58 BST
- 3h ago11.37
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran next week, the Kremlin said, a day after the US warned that Tehran could provide Moscow with drones for its action in Ukraine.
During a trip to Tehran next Tuesday, Putin will attend a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Iran and Turkey, the so-called Astana format of meetings for Syria-related talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Putin’s visit to Iran will follow US President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia this week, where Iran’s nuclear programme and activities in the region will be a key subject of discussion, the Associated Press reported.
Peskov told reporters that on the visit to Tehran, Putin will also have a separate meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
In March, Erdoğan helped mediate talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives in Istanbul, Turkey. Peskov said there was no discussion about a new round of such negotiations.
- Updated at 12.59 BST
- 3h ago11.11
Summary of the day so far …
- The death toll from a Russian missile attack on a five-storey apartment building in the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine has risen to at least 34. Emergency crews worked to pull people from the rubble. Zelensky accused Moscow of deliberately targeting civilians in the attack which destroyed three buildings in a residential quarter. The latest victim, a nine-year-old child, was retrieved from the wreckage on Monday evening, Ukraine’s state emergency services said.
- At least 12 people have been injured by shelling in Mykolaiv, according to regional governor Vitaly Kim.
- Russia’s Tass news agency is reporting that “dozens of people were injured as a result of the strike of the armed forces of Ukraine at Novaya Kakhovka”. Novaya Kakhovka is on the Dnieper river in an area of Kherson occupied by pro-Russian forces in the south of Ukraine. A local official said, “there are casualties, a large number of injured, dozens of people were left homeless.”
- Russia has claimed to have killed a significant number of foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine in the last three weeks, including 23 from Great Britain. It also claims to have killed at least 180 servicemen in Ukraine’s 30th mechanised brigade in the last 24 hours and to have shot down seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
- An official at the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic says that the appeals over the death sentences of Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and Saaudun Brahim will be dealt with within a month. UK foreign secretary Liz Truss has said she “utterly condemns” the sentencing, stating “They are prisoners of war. This is a sham judgement with absolutely no legitimacy.”
That is it from me, Martin Belam, for now. I will be back later. Tom Ambrose will be here shortly to take you through the next few hours of coverage.
- 3h ago10.48
Russia claims to have killed 23 mercenaries from the UK in the last three weeks
Russia has claimed to have killed a significant number of foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine in the last three weeks, including 23 from Great Britain.
In its daily operational briefing, without presenting any evidence, the Russian ministry of defence says that the total number of mercenaries active in Ukraine is not the 20,000 it says Kyiv claimed but is about 2,700. It claims that in the last three weeks:
166 Polish militants were liquidated. Among the representatives of Georgia, 50 “soldiers of fortune” were destroyed, Great Britain lost another 23 mercenaries killed in Ukraine. Also, 21 Romanian and 15 Canadian militants were killed in three weeks.
Russia also claims to have killed at least 180 servicemen in Ukraine’s 30th mechanised brigade in the last 24 hours and to have shot down seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
The claims have not been independently verified.
- Updated at 10.50 BST
- 4h ago10.18
The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has issued its daily operational briefing. It says it controls 242 settlements in occupied territory in Ukraine. It claims Ukrainian armed forces shelled 11 of those settlements in the last 24 hours. It did not list any civilian casualties but claimed that three houses were damaged. None of the claims has been independently verified. Russia and Syria are the only UN member states to recognise the Donetsk People’s Republic as a legitimate authority.
- Updated at 10.19 BST
- 4h ago10.09
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has posted another series of images to Telegram, with a defiant message again labelling Russia as “a terrorist state”.
Russian terror has long crossed the line beyond which it became obvious to many in the civilised world that it is a matter of global security to punish Russia, a terrorist state, for everything it has done against Ukraine and the international legal order.
- 5h ago09.38
These are two of the latest images we have been sent from Mykolaiv, where regional governor Vitaly Kim said “so far there are 12 people wounded” after rockets from multiple rocket launchers hit the city.
- Updated at 10.20 BST
- 5h ago09.21
Reuters is citing the Russian news agency Interfax, which reports that an official in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has said decisions on the appeals of British and Moroccan fighters sentenced to death will be taken within a month.
Twenty-eight-year-old Aiden Aslin, from Newark, and 48-year-old Shaun Pinner, from Watford, along with Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim, were fighting with Ukrainian armed forces when captured.
Ukraine and western countries have said that the men are prisoners of war, entitled to protection under the Geneva conventions.
UK foreign secretary Liz Truss has said she “utterly condemns” the sentencing, stating “They are prisoners of war. This is a sham judgement with absolutely no legitimacy.”
All three have appealed their sentences.
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