The head of the Luhansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik also expects the complete encirclement of Lisichansk in the next two or three days
Chemical plant “Nitrogen” in Severodonetsk
Luhansk People’s Militia continues fighting for the industrial zone of the chemical plant “Azot” in Severodonetsk and in the near future this territory will be taken under control, the head of the Luhansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“Today, the Luhansk People’s Militia continues fighting for the industrial zone of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk. According to the reports that I receive, we hope that the industrial zone will be liberated in the near future,” he said.
The beekeeper also said that in the next two or three days the ring around Lisichansk, where Ukrainian forces remain, will be completely closed.
“I don’t want to reveal any secrets of the military, but I hope Lisichansk will be cleared of Ukrainian nationalists very soon,” he said.
The official representative of the People’s Militia of the LPR, Andriy Marochko, said that the Ukrainian military are surrendering en masse in the area of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, among them mostly privates and “not a single officer”. According to him, the Ukrainian command retreated on the eve of the encirclement.
“Now, across the entire front line in this area, both locally and en masse, surrender is taking place. This also applies to the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk grouping, this also applies to the Gorsko-Zolotovskaya grouping,” Marochko said in the program “Time will tell” on the “First Channel”.
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Russian troops and LPR forces took control of Severodonetsk (since 2014 it has been the regional center of the Luhansk region of Ukraine instead of Lugansk) at the end of May, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov reported. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the residential quarters of the city “have been liberated”, but the Ukrainian military remain in industrial zones, including on the territory of the largest chemical plant in Ukraine “Nitrogen”.
Lysychansk is located southwest of Severodonetsk and remains the last major city within the borders of the Luhansk region of Ukraine that is not under the control of the LPR. The republic’s ambassador to Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, said earlier that the People’s Militia took control of the only road from Seversk, which is controlled by Kiev, to Lisichansk, cutting off 5-7 thousand Ukrainian military from supplies.
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A signalman of the Pacific Fleet, Sergei Cherny-Kaminsky, who died during a special operation in Ukraine, was buried in Lipetsk, the mayor of the city, Yevgenia Uvarkina, said on her VKontakte page.
“Lipetsk said goodbye to Sergei Cherny-Kaminsky, a hero who died the death of the brave in battle with nationalists during a special military operation in Ukraine,” Uvarkina wrote.
Cherny-Kaminsky was born in the Khabarovsk Territory and began his military career in 2009. He served in the communications and Radio engineering support company of the Pacific Fleet as the head of the radio marker station.
For the courage and bravery shown during the special operation, Cherny-Kaminsky was presented with a state award, Uvarkina said.
The funeral of the serviceman took place in Lipetsk, because his parents live there. Cherny-Kaminsky has two sons left.
Russia has been conducting a special military operation in Ukraine since February 24. The Defense Ministry has twice reported Russian losses: March 2 and 25. According to the latest data from the Ministry, 1,351 servicemen were killed during the operation, and another 3,825 were wounded.
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Information about servicemen killed in Ukraine is periodically reported by the authorities of Russian regions.
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According to Borrel, there is no talk of blocking Kaliningrad, Brussels wants to prevent circumvention of restrictive measures
Kaliningrad, Russia
Lithuania, having imposed a ban on land transit between Kaliningrad and the rest of Russia, acted in accordance with EU sanctions, there is no talk of a blockade of Kaliningrad, said the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrel.
According to him, the European External Relations Service will revise the directives on sanctions measures: “To clarify that we do not want to block traffic between Kaliningrad and Russia, but only to prevent circumvention of sanctions” (quoted by Il Fatto Quotidiano).
Borrel stated that “there is no blocking, but there are checks on some goods that need to be carried out meaningfully.”
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, for his part, said that the European Commission (EC) will explain how to apply restrictions on the transit of sanctioned goods. “I will be with the President of the European Commission.”..”gt;, I will see the project and I think that the explanation will be published in the very near future,” Delfi quotes him.
Since June 18, Lithuanian railways have stopped transit deliveries to the Kaliningrad region, as well as the export from it of a large list of goods that fall under EU sanctions. These are products made of iron, steel and some other metals, fertilizers, wood, wood products, glass containers, cement, etc. The full list of products consists of 66 pages. Vilnius has not ruled out that it may expand. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis explained that the country is implementing the European sanctions that came into force on June 17, this is done after consultations with the EC.
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Kaliningrad Governor Anton Alikhanov accused Lithuania and the EU of violating international obligations and said that consequences await the neighboring country. The Russian Foreign Ministry protested and promised a “practical” rather than a diplomatic response. The Kremlin said that Russia is considering various options for measures; the secretary of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, threatened that they would have a serious impact on the population of Lithuania.
Borrel has previously come out in support of Lithuania, stressing that the country acts according to the instructions received from the European Commission: “There are import and export restrictions for certain goods. Including a ban on transit through the territory of the EU. Lithuania does nothing else but apply the instructions of the European Commission.”
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BRazilia, Russia, India, China and South Africa have called for reform of the world’s most important institutions. They consider the WTO reform “long overdue”
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The BRICS countries support the reform of the UN Security Council and the World Trade Organization, the joint declaration on the results of the summit of the international association, held under the chairmanship of China, says.
According to the declaration, the BRICS countries are committed to preserving the central role of the UN in the international system. At the same time, BRICS confirms its readiness to “breathe new life into the discussions on the reform of the UN Security Council”.
China and Russia (permanent members of the UN Security Council), as follows from the declaration, confirm the desire of Brazil, India and South Africa to play a more prominent role in the UN.
In addition, countries are calling for changes in the work of the World Trade Organization.
“We will work constructively to implement the long overdue WTO reform to build an open world economy that supports trade and development, preserves the central role of the WTO in establishing global trade rules and governance, supporting inclusive development and promoting the rights and interests of all members, including developing and least developed countries.”,— the document also says.
At the same time, the BRICS countries called on the members of the World Trade Organization to “avoid unilateral and protectionist measures contrary to the spirit and rules of the WTO.”
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The UN Security Council consists of five permanent and ten non-permanent members. The five main countries of the Security Council, which have the right of veto, were formed following the results of the Second World War. It included the USA, the USSR (then the Russian successor), Great Britain, France and China. The decisions of the Security Council on all issues are considered adopted if the votes of nine participating countries are cast for them, including the concurring votes of the five permanent members.
Various world leaders have repeatedly called for UN reform. In the fall of 2021, the UN Security Council system was criticized by Turkish President Recep Erdogan: “We argue that the fate of humanity cannot and should not be thrown at the mercy of a handful of countries that won the Second World War.” Russia supports the discussion of the work of the UN Security Council, but insists on the need to preserve the veto power of the permanent members.
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MTaiwan’s Foreign Ministry reports that dozens of Chinese military aircraft enter the air defense zone for the second time in a week. Biden said earlier that Beijing is “playing with fire,” and the PRC promised any measures to prevent Taiwan from separating from the country
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On Thursday, June 23, 22 aircraft of the People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA) entered the air defense zone of Taiwan, the island’s Defense Ministry reports.
They approached the island:
two anti-submarine aircraft A-8;
two long-range radar detection and control aircraft KJ-500;
Y-8 electronic reconnaissance aircraft;
ten J-16 fighters;
five JH-7 fighter-bombers;
two H-6 strategic bombers.
Two days earlier, on June 21, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry reported that at least 29 Chinese military aircraft entered the air defense zone.
Taiwan is located about 150km from the coast of China. In 1949, the territory declared secession from the country, but Beijing did not recognize this decision and considers the island one of the provinces of the People’s Republic of China. The Russian authorities, like the United States, support the principle of one China. The United States does not have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but Washington has been selling weapons to Taipei under the 1979 law on relations. At the same time, the United States maintains official relations with China.
At the end of May, US President Joe Biden said that Beijing was “playing with fire by flying close [to Taiwan] and undertaking all these maneuvers.” Although Washington adheres to the “one China policy”, this does not mean that “China has the right to use force to seize Taiwan”, he stressed and announced the readiness of the United States to defend the island in accordance with its obligations if China decides to seize it.
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In response, the Chinese Foreign Ministry protested and called Taiwan “an integral part of the territory of China”. Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said that the Chinese army will take any measures to prevent the separation of Taiwan from the country.
On June 14, Chinese President Xi Jinping authorized the use of the army for non-military operations, in order to protect China’s sovereignty, the interests of the country’s development and stability. Global Times, citing a military expert, wrote that this would allow the military to provide assistance in natural disasters, humanitarian and peacekeeping operations. However, Radio Free Asia admitted that in this way Beijing could be preparing for an invasion of Taiwan under the guise of a “special operation” that is not classified as a war.
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The armed forces of the LPR have taken the cities of Gorskoye and Zolotoye into blockade. This was stated by the Ambassador of the Republic Rodion Miroshnik on the air of the TV channel “Russia 24”.
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According to Miroshnik, there are about 2 thousand Ukrainian servicemen in these cities, who, according to the ambassador, send signals of readiness to surrender.
Gorskoye and Zolotoye are located in the Severodonetsk district of the Luhansk region.
At the end of May, the Defense Ministry said that Russian troops had managed to establish control over the entire territory of Severodonetsk, except for the “Severodonetsk Nitrogen” plant. At that time, there were about 300-400 Ukrainian military and about 500 civilians in bomb shelters on the territory of “Azot”.
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On June 21, Miroshnik reported that about two dozen civilians had left the factory.
At the request of Roskomnadzor, RBC provides data on the details of the military operation in Ukraine based on information from Russian official sources.
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MEPs voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution on granting Ukraine and Moldova the status of candidates for EU membership as soon as possible. The message is published on the parliament’s website.
“With 529 votes in favor, 45 against and 14 abstentions, the parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution calling on the heads of state who will hold the summit today and tomorrow to grant the status of candidates for EU membership to Ukraine and Moldova without delay,” the statement says.
The parliamentarians also called for Georgia to be given the status of an EU candidate promptly, but noted that this should happen after the necessary reforms.
The statement of the European Parliament noted that there should not be an accelerated procedure for joining the EU. All candidate countries must meet the necessary membership criteria.
Ukraine applied to join the European Union a few days after the start of the Russian military operation. After her, the authorities of Georgia and Moldova did it. Kiev has repeatedly called for granting the republic membership under an accelerated procedure, but this procedure was disputed by some members of the association.
On June 17, the European Commission recommended granting Ukraine the status of a candidate to the European Union. As the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, noted, the country “clearly showed the desire and determination to comply with European values and standards.” The chairman of the commission pointed out that Kiev has adopted tough laws against oligarchs and fulfilled 70% of the recommendations of the European Union on reforms regarding minority rights.
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The final decision on Ukraine’s membership in the EU, according to Bloomberg, will be announced at the summit of community leaders on June 23–24. The publication noted that all leaders agree to grant Ukraine such a status.
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The Council of the military-civil administration of the Zaporozhye region previously proposed to eliminate the border between Russia and the southern regions of Ukraine. Council member Vladimir Rogov compared it to the Berlin Wall
Raising the issue of abolishing the border between Russia and the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine (administratively, the Zaporozhye region does not border with Russia) is not entirely correct, said the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, the correspondent of RBC.
“Apparently, this is not a completely correct statement of the question. There is no talk about this yet,” the Kremlin representative said.
The Zaporozhye region borders with the Kherson region in the west, with the Dnipropetrovsk region in the north and with the Donetsk People’s Republic in the east, in the south it is washed by the Sea of Azov.
Earlier, a member of the main council of the military-civil administration of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov, called for the elimination of borders between the southern regions of Ukraine and Russia. He noted that the majority of the population of the Ukrainian south has relatives from Russia, and compared the border with the Berlin Wall.
In March, the Ministry of Defense announced the taking of control of a part of the Zaporozhye region from the regional center of Zaporozhye. Energodar, Vasilevka, Melitopol, Berdyansk and other settlements are under the control of Russian forces. The military commandant’s office operates there and the ruble has been put into circulation, and Russian television broadcasts and the issuance of Russian passports have begun in Melitopol.
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On June 8, Rogov announced that a referendum on joining Russia in the Zaporozhye region would be held this year. The preparation will take several months, and the wording of the questions for the plebiscite will be presented in the near future. «The overwhelming number of residents of our area want <...> to become part of greater Russia»,— he claims.
The preparation for the referendum in early June was also mentioned by the head of the military-civil administration of Melitopol Galina Danilchenko.
Peskov, answering a question about referendums on the entry of Ukrainian regions, said that such decisions should be made by the local population. He also stated that it is necessary to ensure safe conditions for the voting, which are not present now with the continuation of the APU strikes.
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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is in the Moscow region, he and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will go to the village of Zavidovo, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, RBC correspondent reports.
“Putin is talking informally with him today in Zavidovo,” he said.
The press secretary of the Russian president clarified that Lukashenko will stay in Zavidovo for two days, on June 23 and 24. According to the results of the meeting, there are no plans to communicate with the press.
At the same time, these days Putin will take part in the XIV BRICS summit via videoconference, Peskov added.
Since the beginning of the year, this is the sixth meeting of the heads of state, noted earlier, announcing it, the Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov.
Prior to that, the presidents met in Sochi in May, at the Bocharov Ruchey residence; this was their second meeting in one week, the first took place within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization summit. The Russian president then noted:the frequency of negotiations is related to the fact that “circumstances require a serious, deep conversation”.
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In April, Putin and Lukashenko visited the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region together, the rest of the meetings were held in March and February. The presidents have spoken by phone at least eight times since the beginning of the year.
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Rincendiary messages, fake lists and pressure on the ground In Congress testified about the attempts of the Trump team to influence the election, the Committee investigating the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 concluded that the 45th US President Donald Trump tried to falsify the election results and challenge Joe Biden’s victory
Storming of the U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021
Why is Congress investigating the events of January 6
In early June, public hearings began in the United States on the case of the storming of the Capitol and the accompanying riots on January 6, 2021, which resulted from the defeat of Donald Trump in the presidential election.
The Special Congressional Committee to Investigate these events was formed for the most part from Democrats— members of the House of Representatives and began its work in July last year. His intention was to prove that the actions of the 45th US president directly influenced the events of January 6. The committee is now presenting conclusions to whichHe came over the past year, having studied more than 140 thousand pages of various documents and interviewed more than a thousand witnesses. In total, at least six public hearings were scheduled for June, the fourth in a row took place on June 21. The committee’s final report is due to be published in September, less than a month before the midterm congressional elections.
If the first hearing, held in early June, was mostly devoted to the reconstruction of the storming of the Capitol, the subsequent ones focused on the behavior of Trump and his entourage both on January 6 and in the 2020 elections, when it became obvious that the Republican was inferior to Joe Biden and would not be re-elected for a second term. At the hearing, evidence was presented that Trump first tried to falsify the election results, and then to achieve the cancellation of recognition of their results.
What became known about Trump’s actions during the storming of the Capitol
The committee concluded that Trump not only provoked riots at the Capitol and its seizure with his statements about election fraud by Democrats, but also led a crowd of his supporters on January 6, using Twitter for this. During the first day of the hearing, a video was shown in which a protester reads Trump’s message into a megaphone, in which he accuses his vice President Mike Pence of unwillingness to cancel the election results at a congressional meeting held at that time, where he was supposed to beBiden’s victory has been confirmed. The committee also presented testimony from representatives of the White House, which spoke about Trump’s unwillingness to prevent an attack on the Capitol. One of the witnesses said that the American president knew that the protesters had built a gallows for Pence, which the demonstrators had built near the building, and approved the idea. “Maybe our supporters have the right idea about this. Mike Pence deserved it,” Trump said, according to the testimony of one of the witnesses.
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The committee also presented evidence that some Republicans who were in the Capitol during the assault called Trump and asked him to stop what was happening. Among them was the party’s official representative in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCartney. However, the person who called for the help of the National Guard and gave her the order to suppress the riots was not Trump, but Pence. Chairman of the Joint CommitteeThe Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milli, claimed that he had several telephone conversations with the Vice president and that he “gave very clear, direct and unambiguous orders”. According to him, Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows told Millie that he should claim to be receiving orders from Trump in order to create the appearance that the situation is under control.
How Trump tried to falsify the election results
Evidence was also presented at the hearing that Trump’s staff had developed a two-tier plan that allowed the incumbent president to win or cancel the election result. The president’s entourage and he personally put pressure on officials when counting votes in wavering states. In particular, the heads of election commissions from the Republican Party in Arizona and Georgia were asked to find the missing votes in favor of Trump or annul the results. According to the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives , RustyBowers, Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani called him and convinced him that the annulment was necessary, since “fake votes” of stateless migrants or deceased people were cast for Biden. Giuliani called on Bowers to create a committee to investigate information about fraud in order to create an alternative list of electors loyal to Trump. However, Giuliani could not provide any evidence of fraud. Trump also called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger with a request to “find” 11 thousand votes.
The creation of alternative lists of candidates for the Electoral College was the second part of the plan. They were necessary in order to guarantee the presence of “loyal” people in the college and ensure the victory of the Republicans. Such an initiative was put forward by Trump’s lawyer and adviser John Eastman, who called the head of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, and asked for help. Eastman also tried to convince Pence that he could unilaterally reject the votescertified electors in some states. Despite the fact that Trump’s headquarters knew about the illegality of this scheme, his supporters continued to adhere to the plan and tried to give Pence a list of alternative electors from the states of Michigan and Wisconsin even on January 6. Republican Senator Ron Johnson’s correspondence with Pence’s aide was presented at the hearing, in which the senator asked if the vice president was ready to accept an alternative list.
How Trump’s inner circle and his family behaved
The Committee, among other things, found out whether those close to Trump believed in his statements about election fraud and in his victory in the presidential race. The US Attorney General in 2019–2020, William Barr, rejected the ex-president’s accusations that the Democrats stole his victory from him, and called the allegations of falsification nonsense. Trump’s daughter Ivanka took the side of the Attorney General. “I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he was saying,” she said on the video shown at the hearing. According to her, Barrhe repeatedly tried to explain to Trump that he was wrong. Barr himself stated that the Justice Department had not found any evidence of Trump’s allegations, and therefore he asked the president to drop the allegations of election fraud, since he “does not want to be part of it.”
“This is not a congressional investigation, but a terrible situation and a waste of time” is how Trump himself commented on the information presented at the hearing on June 17.
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