UKRAINE UPDATE: “Nobody is going to break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians.”

SUNDAY 3 JULY 2022

UKRAINE UPDATE

KYIV INDEPENDENT

• Russia has seized Lysychansk which brings them close to seizing the entire Donbas.
• Zelensky says that while the situation in Lysychansk is difficult, it has not fallen.
• Ukraine’s ambassador to Turkey maintains that Turkish customs has detained a Russian-flagged vessel carrying grain stolen from Ukraine.
• Russian attacks on Kharkiv.
• While Belarus is not a “direct participant” in the war it is providing logistical support to Russia.
• Russian forces attacking Kramatorsk
• Russian proxies have said that they will hold a referendum on annexing Kherson Oblast to Russia.  They are trying to legitimatize the occupation.
• The UK Defense Ministry states that the Kremlin is trying to find a pseudo-constitutional solution for the occupation and is prepared to rig the vote in order to show an acceptable result.
• Some 800,000 Ukrainians have lost homes in the war.
• Protests in Uzbekistan.
• Ukrainian forces launch air strikes on Russian-occupied Melitopol.
• The Russians are claiming a Ukrainian attack was made on Belgorod.
• Russian websites are full of claims that Ukraine is “overrun by far-right extremeists.”
• Ukraine announces that Russian missile was fired at a recreational center in Odesa.
• Voice of America maintains that nearly 16 million Ukrainians need humanitarian aid and protection.
• UN agencies say that millions of Ukrainians are facing a lack of basic necessities including food, water, and shelter.

EUROMAIDAN PRESS

• Ukraine destroys remnants of Russian garrison on Snake Island.
• Russian shelling of Sloviansk.
• Lukashenka has accused Ukraine of launching milliles at Belarus.
• Russian forces have destroyed the administrative buildings in Lysychansk.
• There are eight Ukrainian mayors in Russian captivity.  Usually, Russia kidnaps “mayors and village heads who refuse to collaborate.”
• Mariupol teachers are being sent to Russia for “certification.”  (Note: In Florida, De Santis is sending elementary school teachers for indoctrination.)