Ukraine Russia war news: Twelve Putin officers killed in Kherson strike, Kyiv
Extensive damage in Ukraine as Sloviansk hit by Russian shelling
Twelve senior Russian officers have been killed in a Ukrainian strike on a strategically key airport near Kherson, Oleksiy Arestovych, a controversial aide to Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed.
The airport has repeatedly been targeted by Kyiv since Vladimir Putin’s forces seized it at the outset of the war, with the latest strike claimed to have been carried out using HIMARS rockets supplied by the United States.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials have declared nine more people dead as rescuers clear the rubble left by a Russian strike on a five-storey apartment block in the Donetsk town of Chasiv Yar.
The death toll now sits at 24, while nine people have been rescued from the building’s ruins, emergency services said.
A further three people were also said to have been killed and 31 wounded in Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv in what officials alleged was Russian multiple rocket launcher fire at civilian areas. Moscow claimed to have struck deployment points for Ukrainian troops and foreign fighters.
Public support for Ukrainian refugees already waning in UK, poll shows
Public support for Ukrainian refugees is already waning in Britain, polling suggests, as the war continues to rage.
Polling by YouGov shows that in March, three-quarters of people supported resettling Ukrainians in the UK and 42 per cent thought the figure should be in the tens of thousands “at least”.
But the figures have now dropped to 71 per cent of people supporting resettlement, with 29 per cent wanting to see tens of thousands of refugees welcomed.
Public support for Ukrainian refugees already waning in UK, poll shows
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Joe Middleton12 July 2022 02:20
Russia claims credit for Elena Rybakina’s Wimbledon title
The Russian Tennis Federation was quick to claim Elena Rybakina as “our product” on her run to the women’s title at Wimbledon.
They then praised her training program in the country after she won the Venus Rosewater Dish as Wimbledon champion while representing Kazakhstan.
“It’s the Russian school, after all. She played here with us for a long time, and then in Kazakhstan,” Russian Tennis Federation president Shamil Tarpishchev told sports website Championat on Saturday after Rybakina beat Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 on Centre Court.
Russia claims credit for Elena Rybakina’s Wimbledon title
The president of the Russian Tennis Federation was quick to claim Elena Rybakina as “our product” on her run to the women’s title at Wimbledon
Joe Middleton12 July 2022 01:20
ICYMI: Russian missile strikes residential area in central Kharkiv
Russian missile strikes residential area in central Kharkiv
Joe Middleton12 July 2022 00:20
The only way out: the volunteers rescuing Ukrainians from hell on the frontline
To escape the worst hit areas of the war, the most vulnerable Ukrainians are reliant on volunteers using buses to ferry people to safety. Bel Trew joined one such convoy in Donbas.
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