russian invasion of Ukraine. Chronicle for July 4-5

6 July 2023

In the early hours of February 24, 2022, Russia launched rocket attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct full-scale invasion. APU repulse the enemy

- MFA of Ukraine Kuleba:

The schedule for training Ukrainian pilots and technical personnel on the F-16 is shifting.

Classes were supposed to start last month, but they didn't.

Kuleba admitted that he was previously sure that Ukraine would receive fighters "in the first months of next year", but, obviously, this will happen later.

- American bombs and rockets with messages of July 4 (US Independence Day) used by the Ukrainian Air Force.

JDAM, HARM, JDAM, Patriot and NASAMS.

- Head of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer:

Ukraine will not receive F-16 until the end of the counteroffensive.

Pilot training, technician training, logistics organization that can actually support these aircraft will not be available until the counteroffensive is over.

- Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Danilov:

Currently, the Ukrainian army is more focused on exhausting the Russian army than on moving forward.

- A 25-mm 2M-3 naval gun is installed on the truck of the Ukrainian Navy.

- A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet crashed during a training flight in the Kamchatka Territory, Russia.

- Advisor to the head of Rosenergoatom Karchaa:

On the night of July 5, Kyiv is going to attack the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant using high-precision weapons and kamikaze drones, including Tochka-U missiles. with a warhead stuffed with nuclear waste.

- Several explosions thundered in Donetsk after the strikes of the Ukrainian HIMARS

- Zelensky:

Now we have information from our intelligence that the Russian military has placed objects that look like explosives on the roofs of several power units of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

- The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has published instructions in case of an explosion at the Zaporozhye NPP.

- The deputies of the Lviv Regional Council began to be indignant, because they were all handed subpoenas today

In leather armchairs it is much more comfortable to sit like this.

- Russian mobile radiation laboratories travel around Energodar and Mariupol, — agency ATESH

Proof of Russia's preparation for a provocation at the ZNPP.

- What should be in the alarm case in case of an explosion at the ZNPP - infographics of the Ministry of Health

- The Russian military is leaving Energodar and its environs en masse, — Evocation info

Out of dozens of checkpoints in this area, only two remain: from Vasilyevka to Melitopol.

- The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly recognized Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, and PMC "Wagner" – terrorist organization

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vancouver adopted a final declaration, in which, in particular, it is said that the actions of the Wagner PMC on behalf of the Russian government can rightly be characterized as terrorist. This was announced by a member of the delegation of Ukraine, People's Deputy Evgenia Kravchuk.

According to her, the final declaration also notes that the OSCE member states must take measures against the "Wagnerites" and its affiliated and successor structures, including by declaring them a terrorist organization.

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- Russia shelled the city of Pervomaisky, Kharkov region. So far, 43 people are known to have been injured.

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- Dmitry Chernyshev about the counteroffensive

- Elena Milashina is talking with the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova

Milashina's fingers were broken when they demanded a code from her phone. According to preliminary data, they plan to take it to Vladikavkaz. A closed craniocerebral injury was diagnosed. It is already known that Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights, intervened in the case.

"Bruises all over the body, the head is shaved bald and all in greenery." In Chechnya, unknown persons attacked a journalist from Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov

Early in the morning the car of Nemov and Milashina was blocked by armed people on the way from the airport. They were brutally kicked, including in the face, threatened with murder, put a gun to their head, took away and smashed their equipment, — reports "Center Memorial".

When they were beaten, they were told: “You were warned. Get out of here and don't write anything.

Now they are in the hospital, there are no details about the injuries yet. Alexander Nemov speaks and moves with difficulty. Elena Milashina has broken fingers, she periodically loses consciousness. She has bruises all over her body, her head is shaved bald and covered in green hair. It is impossible to transport it in this state without special transport, colleagues report.

Milashina and Nemov flew to Grozny to sentence Zarema Musayeva, who was kidnapped by Chechen security forces in January 2022 from Nizhny Novgorod.

War criminal and propagandist «voenkor» Alexander Kotz writes:

- A court in Grozny sentenced Zarema Musaeva, mother of the Chechen opposition Yangulbaevs, to 5.5 years in prison in the case of violence against a police officer. The woman was found guilty of fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and the use of violence against a representative of the authorities (Article 318 of the Criminal Code)

- Rocket attacks on a cafe in Kramatorsk with civilians – it's not terrorism. Attacks on the military base – this is terrorism. The level of cynicism is off scale.

- Italy's central bank froze around 2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) of Russian oligarchs' assets after invading Ukraine last year.

Assets seized in Italy include bank accounts, luxury villas, yachts and cars.

- Bloomberg:

Russia is preparing to send even more prisoners and Kadyrovites to the war in Ukraine in order to “fill in the gaps” formed after the withdrawal of Wagner PMC units.

- Financial Times:

Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a meeting with Putin in March of this year, convinced him not to use nuclear weapons.

- Ukrainian forces hit the Russian ammunition depot with MLRS in Makeyevka.

- Minister of Defense of Ukraine Reznikov:

Chinese Special Representative Li Hui did not believe that the Ukrainian air defense system "Patriot" was able to intercept the Russian gipersonic missile "Dagger".

Chinese diplomat, who visited Kyiv in May, left "without seeing evidence."

- Minister of Defense of Ukraine Reznikov:

Russian electronic warfare systems effectively suppress Western GPS-guided missiles.

The Allies immediately received information about this from Ukraine and came up with measures to counter Russian countermeasures.

This is a technology war.

- Russian military sources report that Russian troops have withdrawn from Klishchevka in Donetsk.

Bakhmut is now under fire control of the Ukrainian army.

- Commander of the British Armed Forces, Admiral Tony Radakin:

The Russian army has lost half of its combat capability.

Russia has lost 2500 tanks and at best can produce 200 tanks a year.

- Oleksandr Syrsky, Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine:

The counteroffensive goes according to plan. The command assures that Bakhmut will be released, and Russian losses are 8-10 times higher than Ukrainian ones.

- The FSB poster was placed at the US Embassy in Moscow:

«Welcome to our peaceful country. With best wishes, FSB"

- Western satellites see every Russian line of defense and every trench and report it to Ukraine for strikes.

The Russian Telegram channel shared these satellite images.

“After all, they have the most powerful constellation of satellites in the world,” — he adds.

Newsweek:

The CIA controls significant volumes of US military aid to Ukraine, which are kept secret.

CIA officers are constantly in Ukraine, but their activities are strictly regulated, and their number is limited.

Their tasks include work with weapons, communication with the Ukrainian special services, control that "the situation does not go beyond certain limits."

The CIA seeks to distance itself from anything that suggests a direct attack on the Russian Federation — this restriction was personally set by US President Biden.

The CIA is working not only to help Ukraine, mainly by passing intelligence, but also trying to find out the real plans of Zelensky and Putin.

- The British Ministry of Defense announces that it will start training Ukrainian fighter pilots in August, up to 20 Ukrainian pilots will take part in the classes.

- US Navy:

Iran tried to seize two oil tankers off the Strait of Hormuz and opened fire.

Excellent allies of the Russians, what else to say

- Ukraine has announced that it expects the delivery of Turkish 155-mm Fırtına T-155 tracked howitzers.

- Ukrainian Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov:

It is thanks to the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 UAV that our military has the opportunity to effectively conduct aerial reconnaissance, timely expose enemy actions and simultaneously hit its targets.

At the beginning of the war, this was especially important in the conditions of the rapid advance of the Russian occupation troops through the territory of Ukraine.

- Hamam, bar and beauty salon: photo from Putin's armored train

The train cost at least 6.8 billion rubles.

- Ukrainian military train with French-made 155-mm self-propelled howitzers CAESAR in Denmark.

In total, about 100 soldiers, drivers and mechanics were trained.

- Prigozhin had a picture with severed heads in his mansion.

- NPR: The US is expected to announce tomorrow that it will send cluster munitions to Ukraine.

- 4:19: 4:20:

By the way, the propagandist reports that Bakhmut is under the fire control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the Russians were driven out of Kleshcheevka.

- In Germany, they began to arrest the cars of Russians, on which they enter the country, — Russian media

Even a car with Russian license plates, in which a Russian has already entered Germany, can be arrested, that is, the car can be taken from the parking lot. The country said that any import of a car with Russian numbers would be regarded as grounds for his arrest.

- Elena Milashina was examined in a Moscow clinic

Diagnosis: closed craniocerebral injury, multiple fractures of the bones of the hands (up to 14), multiple bruises of soft tissues. Consciousness is clear, the state is stable.

Photo: Anna Artemyeva / Novaya Gazeta

- In Dagestan, the activist Ulker Gashimova was charged with a "terrorist" crime. article because of anti-war publications in social networks.

Edition "Caucasus. Realities" citing a source, the girl is under arrest in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Makhachkala.

In early May, Gashimova was detained at the Sheremetyevo airport; when trying to fly to Serbia. As follows from the court ruling, during the check at the airport it turned out that Gashimova was a member of groups in instant messengers "aimed at discrediting the Russian Federation and supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine." The security forces searched her mother's house, and the girl herself was placed under administrative arrest for 10 days for allegedly disobeying police officers. Later, another protocol was drawn up against her under the article on disobedience, and an additional 15 days of arrest were appointed.

In June, the girl returned to Dagestan, where she was again detained and arrested. All this time, the reason for the detention was unknown. Today it turned out that she was charged with "terrorist" article because of anti-war publications in social networks.

- The Central Bank of the Russian Federation: the liquid assets of the National Wealth Fund decreased from $145 billion to $78 billion over the year. The Russian budget deficit in 2023 is projected to be about 7 trillion rubles. This is more than the liquid balances of the NWF. That is, the pool will still have money for the war, but social obligations will be put under the knife

- News of Belarus - Eduard Babariko, the son of Viktor Babariko, was sentenced to 8 years in prison. There is no information on his father yet.

- The Russians announced the creation of three volunteer formations as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the Ural Battalion, the Black Bridge Battalion and the Svobodnaya Ingria Platoon