Live – War in Ukraine: Ukrainian forces withdraw from Severodonetsk

Ukraine announced on Friday that it had seized “the largest” artifacts in its history, before its works were allegedly stolen from museums on the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia and ended up in the hands of private collectors.

Ukrainian police have found more than 6,000 antiques, including swords, knives, helmets, amber and coins, state prosecutor Irina Venedikova told a news conference.

The value of the collection is estimated at “several million dollars,” he added.

For the event, the Ukrainian Attorney’s Office invited journalists to the Ukrainian Historical Museum in Q to describe the operation and send some of the seized items.

According to the Advocate General, the Bronze Age and medieval works were found in an office in the Ukrainian capital “far from the conditions for storing such items”.

Emmanuel Macron arrives in Brussels this Friday for the EU summit.

During the press conference, the President praised “great European progress since January. Above all, we have lifted sanctions at an unimaginable pace because Russia has decided to launch a war in Ukraine.”

“This conflict has confirmed our growing need for European sovereignty. This war has accelerated the agenda and we have had to make massive decisions.”

According to our colleagues LCIFrench troops did not steal two Caesar rifles that France had delivered to Kyiv by France this Friday.

Over the course of a few days, the rumor spread on social media that two Caesar guns had been intercepted by Vladimir Putin’s army. The Russian news agency Toss even sent a “thank you” to Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.

Speaking of “completely unsubstantiated rumor” and “manipulation of information” the French formally denied this theft of high-order artillery.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky called for a rally in Glastonbury, England, on Friday to ask for their support in the face of the Russian invasion, which is preventing Ukrainians from “enjoying freedom and this wonderful summer”.

After the cancellation of two editions due to Kovit-19, about 200,000 people are expected to attend the prestigious festival organized this weekend in the southwest of the UK.

“We in Ukraine also want to enjoy freedom and this wonderful summer as before. But we can not do this because a terrible event happened: Russia has stolen our peace,” the president said. Screened before the Liberties band’s concert.

In recent days, Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, have resumed. Ivgeny Lutchenko, who lives in Kharkiv, talks about the situation on BFMTV’s antenna this Thursday.

“Since this week, the silence has been very relative. Every day at 11pm, there are bombings over the city. Yesterday, there were stronger bombings than usual,” he testified.

“The environment sounds like a psychological thriller. There are two parallel worlds. Life starts again because there are open shops, but the city is empty because of the bombing in the evening.”

According to Kiev Freedom Ukrainian military figures take into account that 34,530 Russian soldiers have lost their lives since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine on February 24.

In four months, Vladimir Putin’s army lost more than 1,500 tanks and 216 fighter jets. A total of 3,637 protected and armed vehicles, including 183 helicopters and 14 boats, were attacked.

The number of Ukrainians coming to Poland this week is higher than the income, which reversed the trend seen for more than a month, Polish border guards learned on Friday. Thus, on Thursday, June 23, 27,500 people arrived from Ukraine in Poland, and 24,400 crossed the border in a different direction, border guards pointed out on Twitter.

On Wednesday, June 22, they recorded 26,300 entries and 23,500 exits, while both Monday and Tuesday figures were practically the same, but the number of entries was slightly higher than the exit.

This trend has been confirmed by the Ukrainian border guardsOn Thursday, June 23, 45,000 people fled Ukraine via the western border, including more than 25,000 on the Polish border, against 40,000 entries, including 37,000 Ukrainian citizens.

EU candidate status for Ukraine and Moldova was officially recognized on Thursday. “This is a historic, symbolic moment and Russia’s occupation of our continent is necessary for Europe at a time of war.

“I believe it would have been a mistake if Europe had left a vacuum and created a disappointment now. We must now be clear that this process is lengthy,” he stressed, adding that “there will be no priority treatment”.

“It takes ten years, according to preliminary estimates, for Ukraine to clear landmines,” he said. Oleksandr Khorunzhyy said this Friday, Press secretary of state for emergency services, said the estimates were “optimistic because we do not know what’s going on in active war zones.” He recalled that there were still World War II mines in Ukraine.

The demining work of the current war is underway. More than 62,000 hectares in the country have been cleared to date, with more than 45,000 explosives neutralized, according to a press release.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky on Friday welcomed the White House’s $ 450 million announcement of “new military aid.”

“This support”, which includes the distribution of additional Himars rocket launchers – a mobile system fitted with light shields – “is now more important than ever,” he rated on Twitter.

The Kremlin on Friday described the “internal affair in Europe” as the decision of twenty-seven people to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova amid Russian aggression in its Ukrainian neighborhood.

“This is an internal European affair,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that “all of these processes will not cause further problems for Russia and (…) will be” important “for Moscow in relations with these countries (…) with Russia.”

An official of the occupation administration established by Russia was killed in an attack this Friday in Russian-controlled Kersan, south of Ukraine, while this type of attack is on the rise, officials said.

“It was a targeted attack on an employee of the civil and military administration, which killed him,” the administration told the Russian company Das.

The victim, Dmitry Savluchenko, was in charge of sports and youth in the Kerson region. He was killed when the car exploded.

The regional governor announced on Friday that Ukrainian forces had been ordered to withdraw from the eastern city of Severdonetsk, where heavy fighting with Russian forces has taken place.

“The Ukrainian armed forces must leave Severdonetsk. They have received orders,” the governor of Lugansk, where this strategic area is located, announced in a telegram Sergei Kaitoyl.

“It doesn’t make sense to be in a position that has been shelled out continuously for months,” he added.

“All the essential infrastructure has been destroyed. 90% of the city is damaged and 80% of the houses have to be destroyed,” he said.

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced that Vladimir Putin’s annual program “Direct Line” will be postponed.

A spokesman for the Russian president justified that “there are many more important events for the president,” according to Toss, a state-owned company quoted by the panel. R.P.K..

So the show has seemed a bit unfocused in recent episodes, however;

Candidates for members of the Western Balkans, who have been banned from the EU for years, expressed their “dissatisfaction” on Thursday and denounced the EU’s “lack of credibility”. Twenty-seven after the summit.

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