EXTRAORDINARY ONLINE Successful counter-offensive of the Ukrainian army near Kharkov: They liberated several villages and broke the siege – Topky.sk

Live from Ukraine Destruction of a Russian tank in the Kharkiv region ONLINE 09:21 A member of the US Senate for the Republican Party, Rand Paul of Kentucky, has so far blocked approval of military and economic aid to Ukraine in the amount of $ 40 billion. The AP agency informs about it. The unanimous consent of the senators was required for the Senate negotiations on the aid package to continue. Forty-billion-dollar aid to Ukraine has the support of Democratic President Joe Biden and the leadership of both the Democratic and Republican parties. However, despite Paul’s move, the AP expects to approve an aid package for Ukraine, probably next week. 08:55 News from Thursday evening said that in the last day, Ukrainian defenders in the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to the staff, repulsed nine Russian attacks and destroyed eight tanks, six armored vehicles, five cars and one anti-aircraft gun. The Ukrainian air defense also shot down four Russian Orlan-10 drones. This data cannot be independently verified. The British Ministry of Defense, in its regular morning report on the situation in Ukraine, announced that Ukrainian forces were continuing a counterattack north of Kharkov, where they liberated several municipalities. As a result of the Russian army’s main focus on the Donbas, Russian troops in the north-east are vulnerable to “mobile and highly motivated Ukrainian counterattacks” and have been forced to withdraw. After the regrouping, they are likely to be re-deployed with the task of defending the main supply routes leading to the Izjum front. 08:40 Russian troops continue to attack Donbase and in the direction of Zaporozhye, in the northeast of the country they are trying to strengthen the protection of the border with Ukraine, the Ukrainian General Staff said today. The shelling of the Mariovol Azovstal steelworks also continues, where the attack can be expected to intensify in the near future due to the completed evacuation of civilians, the General Staff writes. According to a regular report from the Ukrainian army this morning, on the 79th day of the Russian invasion, the situation on the battlefield does not seem to have changed, the Russian-language server BBC wrote. “The Russians are attacking Donbas, defending and retreating near Kharkov, and shelling continues in other places,” the news server writes. 06:12 “As a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian city of Derhachi, two people were killed, four others were injured – two of them are doctors. All of these people were civilians,” Derhachi mayor Vyacheslav Zadorenko said on the Telegram platform. He added that the attack by Russian forces had damaged the building, which houses humanitarian aid authorities, city authorities and hospital facilities. “None of the cities that were shelled – not to mention the private homes that are destroyed every day – had nothing to do with military infrastructure,” Zadorenko said. Russian forces have destroyed 570 medical facilities in Ukraine, says Zelensky Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday night in a regular video to the nation that Russian forces had damaged 570 medical facilities since the start of the military offensive in Ukraine, completely destroying 101 hospitals. He called this action barbarism and stupidity. The AP agency informs about it. Zelensky also said that Russian forces had struck two schools during the shelling of the Chernihiv region in northern Ukraine. Sky News previously reported that the attack in the city of Novhorod-Siversky claimed three lives. “Of course, the Russian state is in such a state that any education only hinders it. But what can be achieved by destroying Ukrainian schools? All Russian commanders who issue such orders are simply sick, incurable,” Zelenskyj said. Russia’s strategic defeat in Ukraine is obvious after two and a half months of invasion, according to Zelenský, but Moscow does not have the courage to admit it. “They are cowards and they are trying to hide the truth behind missiles, airstrikes and artillery shelling,” Zelenskyj told the Russian invading forces. “Therefore, our task is to fight until we achieve our goals in this war: liberating our country, our people and ensuring our security,” the Ukrainian leader emphasized. Draghi calls for “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi called for a “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine at the end of his visit to the United States. Draghi addressed his proposal to members of the Atlantic Council, which also awarded him the award. The ANSA news agency reported on Thursday. The Atlantic Council is an American think-tank focused on international relations. Draghi said that after the end of the war that Russia had unleashed on its territory in February, Ukraine needed a recovery plan similar to that of Europe thanks to the United States after World War II. He added that “we must do everything for peace” and confirmed that Italy is ready to play its part. He also said that “the time has come for Europe – we must seize this opportunity”. The audience in Washington’s Anthem Theater applauded Ukraine and its President, Volodymyr Zelensky, who told the Italian media that he was grateful and happy to Draghi that Italy had supported EU sanctions against Russia. Draghi told a news conference in Washington after Tuesday’s talks with US President Joe Biden at the White House that we must “start asking ourselves how to build peace” in Ukraine after the conflict. However, Draghi stressed that this must be “the peace that Ukraine wants” and not the peace that will be forced on it, writes ANSA. In early May, Draghi called on the European Parliament’s plenary to rapidly review EU mechanisms to meet the unprecedented challenges posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising energy prices. He called his vision of a new form of the EU “pragmatic federalism”, which will involve joint decision-making for various sectors, including the economy, energy, defense and foreign policy. “If this requires starting a process to change EU agreements, we should do so,” Draghi told European lawmakers.