“Our border guards suppressed the attack with return fire”: AFU fired at the Krupets checkpoint in the Kursk region

On the morning of June 15, Ukrainian armed formations fired at the Krupets checkpoint in the Kursk region, said the governor of the region, Roman Starovoit.

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Today at 07:30, the Ukrainian enemy fired at the Krupets checkpoint in the Rylsky district.

There were no casualties and no damage, our border guards suppressed the attack with return fire, ”he wrote in his Telegram channel.

The day before, the village of Zaimishche in the Bryansk region was shelled.

According to preliminary data, the blow was delivered by a Tochka-U missile.

Six people were injured as a result of the shelling.

A criminal case has been initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Art.

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"a", "e", "g" part 2 of Art.

105 of the Criminal Code of Russia (attempted murder of two or more persons, committed in a generally dangerous way, by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).

"Painful" losses of Ukraine

Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have suffered "painful" losses in the Donbass and Kharkiv region, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

“The most brutal battles are in Severodonetsk and in all cities and communities nearby, as before.

Unfortunately, there are losses, and they are painful,” he said.

Along with this, Zelensky assured that Ukraine would not shell Russian territory, having received weapons from the West with a range of more than 100 km: “We are not interested in shelling civilians.”

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The grouping of Ukrainian troops on the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk can be up to 2.5 thousand people, about a quarter of them are foreign mercenaries, said Vitaly Kiselyov, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the Luhansk People's Republic.

He admitted that there could be up to 1,200 civilians there.

“They have been forcibly kept there for a long time.

Taking into account the fact that there is no water, no food, no medicines, there are about 127 children among them," TASS quoted him as saying.

At the same time, the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko, during the stream "Letuchka" announced the opening of a humanitarian corridor on June 15 for the exit of civilians from the Azot plant.

“The most important event today on the territory of the LPR is the green corridor from the industrial zone of the Azot enterprise towards the settlement of Svatovo.

This green corridor is open from 08:00 to 22:00,” he said.

Statement by the Russian Ambassador to the United States 

The position of the Pentagon on the possibility of expanding the supply of long-range systems to Ukraine is aimed at further escalation, said Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov, commenting on the Pentagon's statement about its intention to transfer HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

“One can only be horrified by the likely consequences of the use of HIMARS MLRS by the Nazis in attacks on cities and other civilian targets.

We call on the United States to stop condoning the genocide of the Russian-speaking population, as well as play off two fraternal peoples, ”the diplomat said.

At the same time, he said, the West does not notice the massacre of nationalists over the inhabitants of Donetsk with the help of Western artillery.

“In the course of many days of shelling of the capital of the DPR, civilians are dying, shells hit the maternity hospital, the city market and sleeping areas.

There are not even close concentrations of Russian military forces and assets there,” the diplomat said.

On June 13, Donetsk was subjected to heavy shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

80 rockets from the Grad were fired at the city.

The shelling killed at least seven people.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate the incident.

Kherson region

Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region, said that the number of people wishing to obtain Russian passports is growing every day in the region.

“More and more people wish to obtain citizenship of the Russian Federation.

Residents of the Kherson region today are en masse in queues to submit documents for obtaining Russian citizenship just because Russia can protect, Russia can feed and socially provide a person in a country in which a person is the highest social value of the state, ”RIA quoted him as saying. News.

He noted that more than 10,000 applications for Russian citizenship have already been received.

On May 25, Vladimir Putin simplified the process of obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.