During the day, Russian air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian control posts for unmanned aerial vehicles, shot down a Su-25 aircraft, seven drones, and also intercepted one Tochka-U ballistic missile and 21 Uragan multiple rocket launchers.

This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

“As a result of strikes by high-precision air-launched missiles, two command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an electronic warfare station in the Pyatikhatka area of ​​the Kharkiv region, a launcher of the Tochka-U operational-tactical missile system and a combat vehicle of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system in the Barvenkov area of ​​the Kharkiv region were destroyed. ", - said Konashenkov.

As a result of air strikes, over 280 nationalists, two ammunition depots, five tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, six field artillery pieces and 11 special vehicles were destroyed.

In addition, more than 200 nationalists, an electronic warfare station, three ammunition depots, six tanks and other armored combat vehicles, a Grad multiple rocket launcher, four field artillery guns, and 18 special vehicles were eliminated by rocket and artillery strikes.

Macron, Scholz and Draghi arrived in Kyiv

On the morning of June 16, the leaders of France, Germany and Italy arrived in Kyiv, the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica reported.

Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Mario Draghi reached the Ukrainian capital by train.

It took them 11 hours to do this.

In April, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv, he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "in solidarity."

Mercenaries on Azot

There are many foreign mercenaries at the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk.

This was reported by civilians who managed to leave the territory of the enterprise held by Ukrainian nationalists.

“A lot of mercenaries, a lot.

How many there were, I do not know, they kept apart from the rest.

We talked mostly with each other - in English and other foreign languages, ”said Anna, whose words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

The day before, the Russian Ministry of Defense provided a humanitarian corridor in a northern direction to the city of Svatovo of the LPR for the evacuation of civilians from the territory of the Azot plant, but the Kyiv authorities thwarted it.

As noted in the defense department, the Ukrainian side has demonstrated its indifference towards women, children and the elderly who are at the plant.

Daily losses of the APU

During the fighting in Donbass, up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are killed or injured every day.

Such data was provided by the head of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia to resolve the conflict, David Arakhamia, during a visit to Washington, Axios reports.

According to him, on average, from 200 to 500 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day die, and even more are injured.

At the same time, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milley, calculated that the losses of the Ukrainian army amount to about 100 people killed and up to 300 wounded per day.

At the same time, the statistics of military losses since the beginning of June have been repeatedly voiced by the Ukrainian side, but each time with different data.

Thus, Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian troops daily lose 60-100 people killed and 500 wounded in battles.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov spoke in a similar way.

In turn, adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak noted that on the day of the loss of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there are from 100 to 200 soldiers killed.

“The US is dragging out a bad period for Ukraine”

There is no dialogue on Ukraine between Russia and the United States of America, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

He also stressed that Russian-American relations "are in fact at zero point."

“There is no Russian-American dialogue as such,” the Kremlin spokesman said.

According to him, Washington's attempts to strangle Moscow with sanctions are failing, as even international experts say.

At the same time, the United States, by providing military assistance to Ukraine, only prolongs its troubles.

“The United States is prolonging this bad period for Ukraine, for the people of Ukraine,” he stated.

Against this backdrop, US envoy to NATO Julianne Smith said Kyiv's requests for weapons are coming in on a daily basis.

The situation led to the fact that "some countries gave everything they had," she stressed.

“We are receiving a flood of requests... we are trying, together with our allies, to determine which of them can respond, who is ready to provide what.

This is difficult and difficult, because, again, requests are changing rapidly, ”TASS quoted her as saying.

The United States is spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces

Representatives of the White House administration and biased pseudo-experts from non-governmental organizations are spreading fakes about the use of cluster munitions by the Russian armed forces against the civilian population of Kharkov, the Russian Embassy in the United States reported.

“In the current Russophobic atmosphere, the so-called human rights activists only serve the interests of the local ruling class,” the commentary says.

At the same time, the diplomats noted that the bombing of residential areas of Donetsk by Ukrainian nationalists with the help of Western weapons was completely ignored.

“The armed forces of the Russian Federation protect the civilian population of Donbass from the Nazis.

But the latter are just supported by the United States and a number of European states.

Moreover, the collective West openly promotes misanthropic ideas,” the diplomatic mission stressed.

The Russian Embassy also called unacceptable speculation about the creation of a "new Nuremberg Tribunal" against Russian military personnel allegedly committing crimes in Ukraine.