Timeline: Week 17 of Russia’s struggle in Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine struggle Information

Right here, Al Jazeera seems on the main occasions that marked the seventeenth week of the struggle in Ukraine:

June 15

Russian forces assault Ukraine’s easternmost free metropolis of Severdonetsk from a number of instructions, as Ukrainian defenders battle to take again town centre.

Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group reportedly threaten to chop off the Severdonetsk floor traces of provide after they take over the settlement of Vrubivke, throwing Ukrainian defences again to Vasylivka, Yakovlivka and Berestove – settlements inside 10km (6.2 miles) of the vital Bakhmut-Lysychansk freeway.

Satellite tv for pc imagery seems to indicate Russia is bolstering defences on Snake Island within the Black Sea, a place it makes use of to implement the naval blockade towards Ukraine.

Satellite tv for pc Picture – Snake Island -(14/6/22)

A number of Russian air protection, gasoline vans, radar techniques and in addition a management centre now on the island.

🔵 – Revetments/Dug in areas, Camo netting
🔴 – Automobiles – A.D, Radar, Gasoline, and so on
⚪️ – Helicopter crash web site – Early Could 2022 pic.twitter.com/exk5xirlL4

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Ukraine’s basic workers says it destroyed the Russian tug boat Vasily Beh because it was ferrying ammunition to the island.

After a two-day assembly with the Contact Group on Defence of Ukraine and NATO in Brussels, Ukraine’s Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov stresses that his nation wants weapons deliveries with a purpose to attain pre-invasion borders.

Russia cuts gasoline deliveries to Europe by way of the Nordstream 1 pipeline to 40 % of capability, which is able to seemingly lead to a cumulative drop of 16 billion cubic metres by the top of the yr.

A day earlier, Russia had minimize supply to 60 % of capability after Siemens bowed to Canadian sanctions and mentioned it could be unable to ship overhauled tools to gasoline large Gazprom. Russia has additionally instructed Italy’s ENI it’s going to scale back gasoline deliveries by way of a unique pipeline by 15 %. It has shut off gasoline deliveries altogether to Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France and the Netherlands. Germany and Italy are two of Europe’s largest importers of Russian gasoline. The most recent cuts additionally have an effect on Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

June 16

Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi says Russia is attacking the Donbas from 9 instructions concurrently.

The commander of Ukraine’s southern forces, Andriy Kovalchuk, requires longer-range artillery. “We want long-range artillery that may exceed 30km … with such weapons, every little thing will likely be rather more environment friendly and quicker.”

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg calls the struggle in Ukraine a “game-changer” and “the best menace to our safety in a long time”. Stoltenberg says the upcoming NATO summit in Madrid (June 28-30) will handle the necessity for greater defence budgets, extra forward-deployed fight formations and a brand new Strategic Idea addressing challenges from Russia and, for the primary time, China.

The United Nations’ Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights data 4,481 confirmed civilian deaths on account of Russia’s invasion. Ukraine believes the actual quantity to be within the tens of hundreds.

June 17

Russian forces shell settlements south of Lysychansk and Severdonetsk in an ongoing effort to encircle and isolate them, however are unable to grab management of the logistics lifeline to the dual cities.

Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai says 538 civilians are holed up within the Azot chemical plant, together with 38 kids, together with defenders, whose quantity is estimated at 2,500. Evacuating civilians is unattainable, Haidai says.

On the southern entrance, Ukrainian aviation bombs Russian positions 45km (28 miles) southeast of the road of contact in Kherson metropolis and Bersylav.

A Russian warship twice violates Danish territorial waters within the Baltic Sea.

“A deeply irresponsible, gross and utterly unacceptable Russian provocation,” tweets Danish Overseas Minister Jeppe Kofod.

“We should settle for that the Baltic Sea is changing into a high-tension space,” Danish Defence Minister Morten Bodskov says.

Denmark has provided anti-tank launchers and Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Ukraine.

Addressing the St Petersburg Worldwide Financial Discussion board, Russian President Vladimir Putin says US-led sanctions towards Russia will fail. “If some ‘insurgent’ state can’t be suppressed or pacified, they attempt to isolate that state, or ‘cancel’ it, to make use of their trendy time period. That is the character of the present spherical of Russophobia within the West, and the insane sanctions towards Russia. They’re loopy and, I’d say, inconsiderate. They’re unprecedented within the variety of them or the tempo the West churns them out at.”

“The financial blitzkrieg towards Russia was doomed to fail from the start.”

The European Fee recommends Ukraine be granted candidate standing to affix the European Union, saying: “Ukraine total is properly superior in reaching the soundness of establishments guaranteeing democracy, the rule of regulation, human rights and respect for and safety of minorities.”

The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania provide their full help to Ukraine’s candidacy throughout a go to to Kyiv.

America publicizes a brand new $1bn package deal of armaments for Ukraine, bringing the entire provides to $6.3bn.

In an handle to the Western Balkans, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s defence is of vital significance to Europe.

June 18

Russia makes marginal advances within the jap and southern Severdonetsk suburbs of Metolkine and Syrotyne, however is repulsed.

Russian forces make an try on Nyrkove, a settlement 5km (3 miles) from the Bakhmut-Lysychansk freeway that’s the Ukrainian predominant line of provide.

Lithuania bans the transit by way of its territory of products to the enclave of Kaliningrad which can be topic to EU sanctions, infuriating Russia.

June 19

Russia claims to have captured the settlement of Metolkine close to Severdonetsk and continues to throw monumental assets into capturing the Bakhmut-Lysychansk freeway, bombing Ukrainian positions to the east of it with artillery, air raids and missiles.

Zelenskyy visits front-line troops on the southern entrance of the Kherson area. “We is not going to give away the south to anybody, we are going to return every little thing that’s ours and the ocean will likely be Ukrainian and protected,” he says.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson requires extra weaponry to be despatched to Ukraine quick in an article in The Sunday Occasions. NATO’s Stoltenberg warns: “We should put together for the truth that it might take years. We should not let up in supporting Ukraine.”

Ukraine’s navy intelligence says Russia nonetheless refuses to confess the deaths of 26 out of 27 sailors allegedly killed on board the Moskva to their households. Ukraine sank the Moskva on April 14.

June 20

Ukraine reviews heavy combating in Severdonetsk’s industrial district, the place it says it nonetheless controls 30 % of town comprising the Azot chemical plant. Ukraine confirms Russian forces’ seize of the village of Metolkine, an jap suburb of Severdonetsk.

Russian forces are additionally making an attempt to method town of Lysychansk from the south to isolate it and Severdonetsk. Russian efforts to take two villages south of Lysychansk, Myrna Dolyna and Bila Hora, are repulsed.

Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar says Ukrainian forces have come very near the Russian border within the means of reclaiming the northern Kharkiv area.

Ukraine creates a web site with the profiles of a whole bunch of alleged Russian struggle criminals, known as The Ebook of Executioners. It says it’s investigating as many as 1,700 particular person Russian servicemen for potential struggle crimes.

Deputy premier Iryna Vereshchuk says 1.2 million Ukrainians have been deported to Russia, together with 240,000 kids.

The variety of civilians allegedly executed by Russian forces within the Kyiv area reaches 1,332.

June 21

Combating continues in Severdonetsk, the place Ukrainian forces declare to have recaptured the southern suburb of Sirotyne.

Russian forces take the villages of Toshkivka, Ustinivka, Myrna Dolyna, Pidlisne and probably Bila Hora, all on the western financial institution of the Seversky Donets River and inside 10km (6 miles) of Lysychansk. The Russian advance varieties a spar thrusting west and threatening encirclement of the Lysychansk-Severdonetsk entrance.

Russian forces are additionally profitable additional south, seizing Mykolaivka and Vrubivka, each subsequent to the Bakhmut-Lysychansk freeway, one of many predominant provide routes for Ukrainian troops in Lysychansk-Severdonetsk. Ukrainians nonetheless have a provide route by way of Siversk, additional north.

On the southern entrance, Russian forces might have taken again the jap financial institution of the Inhulets River, which had fashioned a Ukrainian bridgehead.

Zelenskyy says if Ukraine doesn’t resist Russia, different former Soviet republics might come underneath menace of occupation.