Russia: UK Ministry of Defence stands with Ukraine
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A fire broke out overnight in the north-western Ukrainian city of Enerhodar where Russian forces had set up their base.
In a video posted by Eastern European media channel NEXTA TV, a hotel is seen catching fire after being hit by the Ukrainian military.
The blow to Putin’s army came as the Ukrainian military said it had killed scores of Russian soldiers and destroyed two ammunition dumps in fighting in the Kherson region, the focus of Kyiv’s counter-offensive in the south and a key link in Moscow’s supply lines.
Rail traffic to Kherson over the Dnipro River had been cut, the military’s southern command said, potentially further isolating Russian forces west of the river from supplies in occupied Crimea and the east.
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Powerful UK rocket launchers to force Putin into humiliating retreat
Kyiv’s forces deployed a “game-changing” British rocket launcher even more powerful than the US’ much-lauded High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
Ukraine’s Armed Forces released a video online showing its forces deploying a British-supplied M270B1 multiple rocket launcher in Ukraine for the first time.
The rocket launcher was also accompanied by a British FV103 Spartan armoured personnel carrier during the missile launch.
In the video, Ukraine thanks its allies for their “unwavering” support and help in taking on the Russian enemy.
UA Weapons, which tracks Ukrainian military efforts, tweeted: “The first video of a British-supplied M270B1 multiple rocket launcher in action in Ukraine – also accompanied by a British FV103 Spartan armoured personnel carrier, which is apparently used as a command vehicle.”
UK says Russia looking to hold referendums in newly occupied areas of Ukraine
Russian-installed authorities in newly occupied territories in southern Ukraine are under pressure and possibly preparing to hold referendums on joining Russia later this year, Britain military said on Saturday.
“Local authorities are likely coercing the population into disclosing personal details in order to compose voting registers,” the Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update on Twitter.
Russia classifies these occupied areas as being under interim “civil-military administration”.
Ukraine has probably repelled small-scale Russian assaults from the long-established front line near Donetsk in the eastern region of Donbas, while in the Kherson area, Russia likely has established two pontoon bridges and a ferry system to compensate for nearby bridges damaged in recent strikes, the update said.
Ukraine says scores of Russians killed in Kherson fighting
Ukraine has used Western-supplied long-range missile systems to badly damage three bridges across the Dnipro in recent weeks, cutting off Kherson city and – in the assessment of British defence officials – leaving Russia’s 49th Army stationed on the west bank of the river highly vulnerable.
“As a result of fire establishing control over the main transport links in occupied territory, it has been established that traffic over the rail bridge crossing the Dnipro is not possible,” Ukraine’s southern command said in a statement.
It said more than 100 Russian soldiers and seven tanks had been destroyed in fighting on Friday in the Kherson region, the first major town captured by the Russians following their February 24 invasion.
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