Summary
It is nearly 8.30pm in Kyiv and here is where we stand on the day’s developments the Russia-Ukraine war:
- 200 Russian marines from the 810th naval infantry brigade refused to come back to fight in the southern regions of Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry Intelligence Directorate, The Kyiv Independent reports.
- The Odesa District State Administration has reported that Russian forces have conducted a missile strike that has hit a quarry. The authorities didn’t specify the location and the number of casualties is being clarified.
- Russia has moved some units from the Sloviansk direction in Donetsk, Oblast, to the southern Zaporizhzhia, Oblast, the Kyiv Independent reports. According to the report, Ukraine’s military said that Russian troops have had partial success near Avdiivka while Ukrainian forces pushed back Russian attempts to advance toward the Husarivka village in Kharkiv, Oblast.
- Six people were injured when a drone flew into the Russian headquarters of its Black Sea fleet. The Sevastopol mayor, Mikhail Razvozzhaev, said six people were injured in the blast.
- There was intense bombardment of the eastern town of Bakhmut, reports say. One person has reportedly been killed. It comes after the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s late-night address on Saturday in which he called for civilians to leave the frontline Donetsk region.
- The Ukrainian military said it had killed scores of Russian soldiers and destroyed two ammunition dumps in fighting in the Kherson region, the focus of Kyiv’s counter-offensive in the south and a key link in Moscow’s supply lines.
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Ukrainian officials have denounced a call by Russia’s embassy in Britain for fighters from the Azov regiment to face a “humiliating” execution, Agence France-Presse reported. Twitter said the embassy had violated its rules on “hateful conduct” but put a warning on the tweet rather than ban the post about the Azov, a Ukrainian battalion that retains some far-right affiliations.
That is it for today’s coverage of the war in Ukraine. I’m Gemma McSherry and earlier Emine Sinmaz and Joe Middleton were reporting.
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The Kyiv Independent reports that according to Ukraine’s Sea Ports Authority, the passage through the Danube’s Bystre Canal mouth is restricted after a motorboat collided with an explosive. No casualties have been reported due to the incident.
Ukraine resumed shipping through the Danube Delta in early July following the retreat of Russian forces from Snake Island near the delta in the Black Sea. “The crew were evacuated by a small boat of the Ukrainian sea guard” the report reads. The circumstances of the incident are yet to be clarified.
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