Ukrainian drones carry out strikes against more than 60 targets in Crimea. Russian drone and missile attacks on Odesa and Kryvyi Rih kill four people, injure two dozen others. Ukraine will get 3.2 billion euros at this week’s recovery conference in Gdańsk as the first installment of EU’s 90 billion euro support loan.
Ukraine drones carry out strikes against more than 60 targets in Crimea
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces carried out strikes against more than 60 targets in Crimea and across other occupied territories overnight on Tuesday, Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, Major Robert Brovdi who goes by the call sign Magyar said in a post to social media.
“The night of June 23 in Crimea was fiery. Birds of the Unmanned Systems Forces stirred things up throughout the enemy’s operational depth. Middle-range strikes hit more than 60 sensitive enemy targets,” Brovdi said.
He said among the targets that were hit were three missile-carrying ships, four air defense systems, an oil depot in Kerch, gas distribution station, power substation, supply convoys and fuel trucks.
Ukrainian strikes hit three Orion reconnaissance and strike drones that carry glide bombs and small cruise missiles in Kerch. They also hit oil tanks at the Komysh-Burun thermal power plant in Kerch.
Other targets in Crimea include the Pantsir-S1 air defense system near Baherove, an S-300 missile launcher, a ZU-23 anti-aircraft gun near Kurortne and a Nebo-U radar system near Kerch.
The West Crimean power substation near Karyerne and the Simferopol gas distribution station in Trudove were also hit.
Brovdi said that various units of the Unmanned Systems Forces had also hit a drone pilot training ground of Russia’s 4th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade near Debaltseve in Donetsk region, tankers with fuel and lubricants in Horlivka, Donetsk region, supply trucks in Crimea and in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said on social media Tuesday they had destroyed a railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal in Crimea.
“We’re sorry but here’s a breaking news story. The railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal in Crimea no longer exists,” the Special Operations Forces said.
Eyewitness accounts described hearing around 20 explosions in the bridge area overnight.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on June 18 that the Ukrainian military struck a railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal. Russia used the bridge for military transportation and logistical support of the occupying forces.
The facility is the most important bridge between Kerch and Dzhankoy. If it halts operation, the movement of cargo and passenger trains will be fully paralyzed, Telegram channel Crimean Wind (Krymskyi Veter).
Russian drone and missile attacks on Odesa and Kryvyi Rih kill four people, injure two dozen others
A Russian ballistic missile attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday morning killed three people and injured 26 others, head of the city’s defense council, Oleksandr Vilkul said on Telegram.
Critical infrastructure facilities, an industrial site, a high-speed tram stop, eight private homes, two educational and cultural facilities, a gas station and cars sustained damage, he added.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia had launched 135 drones of various types toward Ukraine overnight on Tuesday. There were jet-powered drones, Gerbera and Italmas unmanned aerial systems and Parodiya decoy drones.
Ukraine’s air defenses shot down or otherwise neutralized 118 drones in the north, south and east of the country.
Thirteen attack drones hit target in 11 locations. Drone debris fell in three other sites, the Air Force added.
A 26-year-old woman was killed and a 39-year-old man was injured in a Russian drone attack on Odesa on Tuesday afternoon, head of the regional military administration Oleh Kiper said. The incident took place at the beach where drone debris hit the woman in the neck, local media said.
Ukraine to get 3.2 billion euros at recovery conference in Gdańsk as first installment of EU’s 90 billion euro loan
Ukraine will get 3.2 billion euros at this week’s Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, Poland, as the first installment of EU’s 90 billion euro support loan, Ukrainian news site European Pravda said on Monday, citing European officials speaking on condition of anonymity.
“The disbursement of the first 3.2 billion euro tranche was planned to coincide with the recovery conference that will take place in Gdańsk on June 25 and 26,” one of the officials told European Pravda in comments translated into Ukrainian.
The decision to send the first installment of the loan to Ukraine was made last week, he added.
Ukraine is also supposed to get 5.9 billion euros aimed at buttressing its army by the end of June, the official said.