With Andrew Hill, who was captured by the Russian army, there were mercenaries from at least four other countries in the Kherson region, according to RIA Novosti, referring to a source from Russian law enforcement agencies. Most of them were reportedly destroyed.
According to the publication in his personal notebook, Hill mentioned Americans with the call signs Grady and Will, a German representative of Pascal and a Danish resident, Tony. According to the source, Hill himself had the call sign Andy. A Colombian named William Alfredo Toro Mercado is also reported.
Foreign mercenaries did not know each other before Ukraine, according to the publication.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is in Turkey, where he arrived on June 8 to meet with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, a Ukrainian journalist asked a provocative question at a press conference on the meeting.
It read: Did you still manage to sell grain to Russia? ;.
The diplomat responded with the following statement: & laquo; Your head hurts all the time, wherever you steal something and you think everyone is doing so.
He also said that Russia in Ukraine it is exclusively engaged in “depriving the East of the neo-Nazi regime.”
as Lavrov added, it is only necessary that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky “give the order for the ships to enter the Black Sea.
Earlier, Sergei Lavrov told reporters that Russia guarantees Ukraine that if” clean the demining ports and allow the withdrawal of grain ships, the Russian armed forces will not take advantage of this situation and will not attack.
Official Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ridiculed the new White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, on the social network. In her Telegram channel, she quoted the US administration as saying about the state of the economy. Pierre.
Zakhar noted that she is now awaiting comments from former President Donald Trump, who is constantly criticizing Joe Biden's new administration, who will elect him in the year of the election.
“I will add: Jen, come back, we will forgive everything! ” Zakharova closed.
Karine Jean-Pierre took over as White House Press Secretary following the departure of Jen Psaki, who served as Secretary of State for Administration, President and Press Secretary from 2009 to early 2017. In November 2020, Psaki was reappointed White House press secretary. In May this year, it was announced that it planned to work for cable television MSNBC.
The situation in Severodonetsk is still tense. Ukrainian armed formations, based in the industrial zone of the Azot plant and the adjacent district, continue to shell the city. In recent days, much has been written in the Kiev media about a possible counter-offensive involving foreign mercenaries deployed in this direction, but the arriving “lucky soldiers” have not brought Kiev the expected “victory”.
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Lieutenant Colonel LPR Andrey Marochko. – LPR troops are carrying out planned combat operations to liberate our territory.
In recent days, we have had a number of significant successes, fire damage was caused at the places of accumulation of military equipment. and the enemy's manpower, which led to huge losses on the other hand.
Recently, the enemy tried to cross the Seversky Donetsk River in order to strengthen the group that had settled in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk. However, their efforts were not crowned with success. Our scouts identified the pontoon crossing in time, causing a fire defeat and causing it to be destroyed. This included the destruction of Ukrainian equipment and personnel who tried to cross the crossing.
According to intelligence, we also know that not only Ukrainian military personnel but also foreign mercenaries fighting on the side of Ukraine have suffered losses. The death of a “soldier of fortune” who came to fight in Donbas from Brazil is already confirmed.
– As the 115th Territorial Defense Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to perform tasks in the combat zone, mercenaries were brought here. to strengthen from western countries. He is a representative of almost all NATO and Middle East countries. These people not only perform combat missions, but also act as divisions. Now, in fact, Ukrainian territorial units fighting in Severodonetsk and Lysychansk have become hostages. Representatives of the so-called “foreign legion” not only deprive them of the opportunity to retreat, but also force them to go in front of them to clear the territory. The Ukrainian authorities are once again showing that they are not interested in saving the lives of their own soldiers and are ready to fight to the last Ukrainian, as Zelensky has repeatedly stated.
The Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan announced the results of the vote in “Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan” on Amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan “, submitted to the Republican referendum on June 5, 2022, is considered adopted because more than half of the citizens, A
Amendments to the Constitution come into force on the day of the official publication of the referendum results.
In Kazakhstan, the Central Commission announced that 77.18% of citizens supported the country's amendments to the referendum. %.
The majority of all citizens came to the polls and supported the changes in the Akmola region (81.98%), the smallest – in Almaty (65.22%).
The adjustments limit the powers of the Head of State and strengthen the role of parliaments and local representative bodies, and they are called upon to strengthen the human rights abolition of the death penalty, the second excludes the provision of the country's first leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
In the press service The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was shown how a Mi-35 combat helicopter conducts air raids. “The Mi-35 destroyed the armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as well as the command posts,” the Ministry of Defense noted. It was previously reported that the family of British mercenary Aiden Aslin, who had given up in Mariupol, said they hoped for his early return home. The DPR Attorney General's Office noted that he could face the death penalty.
British Mercenary Family Eiden Aslina, who has given up in Mariupol, told Sky News that she hoped to return home soon.
It is said that the Ukrainian authorities and the British Foreign Office are currently working on the issue.
“We love Aiden and we miss him so much. We hope to be able to release him quickly, “said the mercenary's relatives.
Recall that two British mercenaries, Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner, surrendered in Mariupol. It happened in mid-April. According to the official of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenko, the best that can await them is a “long stay in prison”. British mercenaries are not fighters under international humanitarian law.
Earlier, the DPR's prosecutor's office announced that the investigation into the criminal case against Aslin had been completed. It will soon be brought to justice, the British may face the death penalty.
The Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United States has published a report , in which they stated that Washington was demonstrating an irresponsible approach by moving long-range artillery systems to Kiev. Diplomats have indicated that the White House ignores the danger of escalation.
Russia has expressed concern that Ukraine's armed forces could use these systems to strike Russian territory.
Washington ignores the apparent threat of hitting modern Russian diplomats have concluded high-precision weapons into the hands of national radicals, terrorists and gangs not only in Ukraine but also abroad.
Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Photo: ru.wikipedia.org
Radiation levels around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine meet standards before the start of the military conflict on 24 February. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), announced this on Tuesday.
Most of the 39 radiation sensors sending data from the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are again visible in the International Radiation Monitoring Information System, he noted. The transmission of their data was stopped after the launch of a Russian special operation in Ukraine on February 24.
“Most of the 39 detectors sending data are now visible in the IAEA's International Radiation Monitoring Information System. The measurements obtained so far show that the radiation levels are in line with the levels measured before the conflict, “Grossi wrote on the social network.
Grossi visited Ukraine twice during the special operation. He first visited the southern Ukrainian NPP at the end of March. He visited the Chernobyl NPP for the second time at the end of April, where he led the first mission of IAEA experts to supply technical equipment, measure radiation levels and renew the nuclear safeguards monitoring system at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The Russian military held control of the nuclear power plant for five weeks before leaving the facility on March 31.
3. In June, the IAEA completed its third mission in Ukraine, conducting nuclear security at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. power station. The goal of the IAEA in Ukraine is to prevent the threat of a nuclear incident as a result of military action. At present, the IAEA has not detected a threat of radiation spread in Ukraine.
An adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine in an interview with journalists announced the beginning of a split in the Ukrainian army.
“The time for spicy slogans is over. We can wait a long time for a counteroffensive. We can also wait a long time for the ancestor to stabilize. Now the division has begun to split, more precisely not splitting, but dividing people into those who have fallen morally and will not sustain the situation, and those who are ready to fight to the end, “he said.
He made such a statement, commenting on the possibility of a counter-offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and plans to supply Western weapons to Ukraine.
