[Korrespondent] 20:44 Zelensky announced that he had held an off-site meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander at the Rivne NPP in order to assess any possible threats to the plant on the spot. The meeting participants, in particular, heard reports on the operational situation on the Belarusian border and possible actions of the enemy, as well as on the strengthening of the Northern Direction and the protection of the nuclear power plant.
19:51 Russians at the front are actively using mobile crematoria to hide losses and not pay compensation to relatives, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. One of these crematoria is now operating 24/7 on the territory of the Berdyansk port. Currently, about 50 bodies of dead Russian servicemen are subject to cremation, which were recently taken from the areas of combat operations to the local morgue. Cremation is carried out without identification and registration of the dead.
18:25 Spain supports Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO - the corresponding declaration was signed by Zelensky and Pedro Sanchez.
17:16 The enemy attacked the front-line communities of the Zaporozhye region: one person was killed during the shelling of Malaya Tokmachka, two people were injured in Preobrazhenka, said the head of the OVA Yuriy Malashko.
16:37 There is still no schedule for training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16, Zelensky said at a press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez: "We agreed, we pressed that we have a coalition of countries ready to start training for Ukrainian pilots. Training schedule there are no missions. I think that some partners are dragging it out. Why they do this, I don't know."
16:14 The Russians fired on Balakleya of the Izyumsky district of the Kharkiv region from Tornado multiple launch rocket systems, four people were injured, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said.
15:58 Spain will soon transfer four additional Leopard tanks, armored personnel carriers and a mobile field hospital to Ukraine, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.
14:59 Zelensky said in an interview with Spanish journalists that the losses of the Russian army are many times greater than those of Ukraine. According to him, now it is impossible to estimate the losses among the civilian population, since about 30% of the territory of Ukraine is occupied.
14:30 Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez, during a speech in the Verkhovna Rada, announced a new assistance package for Ukraine for 55 million euros.
13:57 Zelensky said in an interview with Spanish journalists that the Russians could remotely detonate the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant after the transfer of the station to Ukraine: “They are looking for a format and a moment. We know for sure that the moment was considered as one of the plans, that later, when the station was transferred to Ukraine, remotely detonate for release. When we get the station, the IAEA should check everything clearly and in detail, well, warn Russia that we know about your possible plans, and they are dangerous for the world."
Zelensky believes that Russia is planning such a move to freeze the war and strengthen its army, and then continue military operations.
13:19 The speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuri Ignat, admits that Russia may accumulate missiles for "some insidious intentions." According to him, Russia is not now inflicting mass strikes and is probably stockpiling missiles: “Obviously, the enemy is accumulating something, stockpiling something for some more insidious intentions. One can only guess what is in their heads after the events that took place in RF".
12:17 The Russians fired at the residential areas of Kherson, one of the shells hit the house - two children of nine and 15 years old were injured, the OVA reported.
12:05 Zelensky imposed new sanctions against more than 190 individuals and 291 legal entities, mainly Russians, their factories and companies, as well as the Georgian airline Georgian Airways, which resumed flights to the Russian Federation, and its owner Tamaz Gaiashvili.
10:46 The law signed by Zelensky "On amendments to certain laws of Ukraine on certain issues related to military service during martial law" greatly simplifies the procedure for the implementation of decisions of the military medical commission for wounded servicemen. Now, in order to apply for leave for health reasons or dismissal from the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military personnel do not need to return to the military unit. They are sent to the Territorial recruitment and social support center, where the necessary documents can be obtained from the military unit in electronic form.
10:29 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrived in Kiev , a meeting with Zelensky is planned.
09:58 Lukashenka said that he received calls from other countries with warnings not to accept Wagner mercenaries in Belarus. According to him, the mercenaries have not yet arrived in Belarus, but instructors from PMC Wagner are waiting in Minsk. Lukashenka called it a "boon" for the army of the Republic of Belarus, because "these are the most prepared people." At the same time, he claims that there are no more prisoners in the ranks of the Wagnerites: "All the military personnel who were there, convicted, they have already died, unfortunately." In addition, the released convicts did not leave the territory of Russia.
Lukashenka also said that Wagner PMCs are “people who fought all over the world for a normal civilization,” and therefore “the West hates them to the core.”
09:35 In the south of Ukraine, the Russians, after a certain pause, again stepped up attacks with guided bombs and attack drones of the Lancet type, Natalia Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said. She also said that the enemy had not yet restored their defensive lines on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region: “They can’t return to their positions everywhere. The geography of mines, which they knew, has changed. clearance and then return."
08:47 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were killed (two in Sergeevka and one in Nikolaevka), ten more were injured. Five people were wounded in the Kherson region (one of them is a child), in the Kharkiv region - one, according to the IVA.
08:36 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 1.
- personnel - about 228,870 (+530) people liquidated,
- tanks - 4042 (+1),
- armored combat vehicles - 7868 (+5),
- artillery systems - 4162 (+35),
- MLRS - 632 (+2),
- air defense systems - 389 (+0),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 308 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 3545 (+26),
- cruise missiles - 1261 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 6794 (+9),
- special equipment - 580 (+11).
07:20 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky and Maryinsky directions, there are heavy battles. During the day, there were 22 combat clashes, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
According to the General Staff, about 50 ethnic Dagestan servicemen from the Caspian flotilla refused to participate in hostilities in the area of the settlement of Dorozhnyanka, Zaporozhye region, and their weapons were disabled. Meanwhile, in the village of Topolovka, Kherson region, the Russian military command is resettling its servicemen in private houses where the civilian population lives.
04:43 During a secret visit to Ukraine by CIA Director William Burns in early June, the Ukrainian military leadership assured him that closer to autumn, the Armed Forces of Ukraine “could recapture a significant territory”, move artillery and missile systems to the border with Crimea, move further east of Ukraine, and then start negotiations with Moscow, writes The Washington Post, citing sources. "Russia will only negotiate when it feels threatened," a senior Ukrainian official told Burns.
03:46 Ukrainian defenders in the war with Russia eliminated 21,000 Wagner PMC mercenaries and wounded 80,000, Zelensky said in an interview with El Mundo: "The Wagnerites had two categories - professional mercenaries and those mobilized from prisons, their cannon fodder. Our troops killed 21,000 80,000 of them were wounded... The good news is that we have destroyed the most motivated part of the Russian forces."
00:37 The decision to transfer ATACMS to Ukraine should be made by Biden, but he has not yet made it, said Mark Milli, head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Also, according to him, there is no decision on the supply of DPICM cluster shells to Kyiv.
00:10 The war in Ukraine can be endless, Pope Francis said after his peace envoy completed his visits to Kiev and Moscow: "The tragic reality of this war, which seems to have no end, requires all common creative efforts to invent and pave the way for peace."