© Reuters. An employee from the war crimes prosecutor’s office suffers damage from an overnight shelling of a Kharkiv Housing and Community College building as Russia’s assault on Ukraine continues in Kharkiv, Ukraine, June 21, 2022. REUTERS / Leah Milli
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At least three people have been killed and dozens of residential buildings damaged in the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, the local governor said, after reports of several explosions. in this city.
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* Lysychansk, Ukraine’s last major fortress in the strategic Luhansk province, could fall, Zelenskiy adviser Oleksiy Arestovych admitted as the fighting intensified.
* Rodion Miroshnik, ambassador to Russia of the pro-Moscow Luhansk People’s Republic, said, “Lysychansk is already under control” but “still has not been liberated.”
* Far from fighting in the east, Russia said it attacked army headquarters in Mykolaiv near the Black Sea port of Odesa, where the mayor reported powerful explosions.
* Belarusian President Lukashenko said Ukraine tried to attack military facilities on Belarusian territory last week, but all of its missiles were intercepted.
* Reuters was unable to independently verify battlefield accounts.
DIPLOMACY AND ECONOMY
* German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Russia may continue to stop gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline beyond the planned maintenance shutdown this month.
* The United States is sending Ukraine two NASAMS surface-to-air missile systems, four additional anti-aircraft radars and up to 150,000 rounds of 155mm artillery shells as part of its latest weapons package for Ukraine.
* A large number of companies, executives and investors that underpin Russia’s defense sector have yet to be affected by Western sanctions, a Reuters examination shows.
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* “The Russian tactic right now is to just bombard any building that we can locate. When they destroy it, they move on to the next building,” a Russian soldier said. told Reuters as he and his teammates rested in Konstyantynivka, west of Lysychansk.
