Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukrainian fighter pilots learning to fly F-16 jets as Kyiv claims progress in counteroffensive | Ukraine

June 15, 2023June 16, 2023 Stan

Ukrainian fighter pilots are being trained to fly F-16 jets, Nato’s secretary general has revealed

Daniel Boffey

Ukrainian fighter pilots are being trained to fly F-16 jets, Nato’s secretary general has revealed, as Kyiv claimed further incremental progress in its counteroffensive against Russian forces in the east and south of Ukraine.

Nato allies have yet to agree on delivering the so-called fourth-generation US fighters to Ukraine, but Jens Stoltenberg said that the training of Ukrainian personnel was under way.

As he arrived at a meeting of defence ministers in Brussels, the former prime minister of Norway said:

The fact that training has started provides us with the option to also decide to deliver the planes and then the pilots will be ready to fly them.

As recently as February the US president, Joe Biden, declined Ukrainian requests for the lightweight fighter aircraft. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, is understood to have subsequently given firm commitments that the planes would be used only to target Russian forces within Ukraine.

It will still take months to train Ukraine’s pilots, who will have previously flown mainly in Soviet-standard aircraft. Ukraine does not yet even have runways suitable for F-16s should Nato allies agree to provide the hardware.

Russian military bloggers have claimed as many as 100 Russian troops gathered for a motivational speech near Ukraine’s eastern frontline may have been killed in a strike by a US-made Himars rocket system earlier this week, although Ukrainian officials declined to comment.

Beyond the provision of fighter jet training, it has been announced in Brussels that the US, UK, the Netherlands and Denmark were sending “high priority” air defence equipment including hundreds of missiles to Ukraine and that the delivery would be completed within weeks.

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One of the missiles was destroyed by air defences, the rest hit industrial facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where Kryvyi Rih is located.","elementId":"81ab4c62-4af9-491f-8da5-304f112051e5"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"It’s the second time that Kryvyi Rih – Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s home city – has been targeted by Russian airstrikes this week.","elementId":"a1239574-2618-4b70-85c9-d0896d3506e0"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"On Tuesday morning, at least 12 people were killed and many more were wounded after a <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/13/ukraine-three-killed-and-dozens-injured-in-russian-strike-on-kryvyi-rih\">missile struck an apartment block and a food warehouse in the city</a>.","elementId":"7507fc77-fe6f-4c5f-9f6c-f12817730ca3"}],"attributes":{"pinned":false,"keyEvent":true,"summary":false},"blockCreatedOn":1686803971000,"blockCreatedOnDisplay":"00.39 EDT","blockLastUpdated":1686810387000,"blockLastUpdatedDisplay":"02.26 EDT","blockFirstPublished":1686804136000,"blockFirstPublishedDisplay":"00.42 EDT","blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone":"00.42","title":"Kryvyi Rih hit by Russian strikes overnight","contributors":[],"primaryDateLine":"Thu 15 Jun 2023 13.21 EDT","secondaryDateLine":"First published on Thu 15 Jun 2023 00.39 EDT"},{"id":"648a63d38f087e69df9c57a9","elements":[{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the war in <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Ukraine</a>, my name is Jonathan Yerushalmy.","elementId":"3cba47a5-98d6-491c-bd20-c02d5fbc8998"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"The central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has been hit by Russian airstrikes for the second time this week. Cruise missiles struck two industrial enterprises, the region’s governor said. A 38-year-old man was injured in the attacks.","elementId":"e934a57d-ef7a-4d1d-b3d0-2ea62c999340"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"Elsewhere, Ukraine’s port city of Odesa was targeted by Russian airstrikes for the second day in a row. Users on Ukrainian social media reported hearing explosions and Ukraine’s southern military command said that Russia was attacking “with unmanned aerial vehicles” and there was also “a threat of a missile attack.”","elementId":"32a5dd3f-76de-440a-9dc8-18075e6dd6eb"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"More on that shortly, first here’s are the other key developments from the last 24 hours:","elementId":"2452d59c-b6cd-4e3b-b4b2-77f78a6c90f9"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<ul>\n <li>Ukraine is taking significant casualties and making slow progress towards the Russian main line of defence, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/russian-missile-attack-on-odesa-kills-three-people-working-in-warehouse-ukraine\">western officials have admitted</a> in one of the west’s first assessments of the Ukrainian counteroffensive launched on 4 June. “This is incredibly difficult,” the official said. “They are going against a well-prepared line that the Russians have had months to prepare.”</li>\n <li>Ukraine reported incremental advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces on Wednesday, in what the Ukrainian deputy defence minister <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/14/russia-ukraine-war-live-odesa-missile-strike-deaths-un-nuclear-chief-zaporizhzhia-visit?page=with:block-6489972f8f080a25fe315509#block-6489972f8f080a25fe315509\">described as “extremely fierce” fighting</a>. In the past day, Ukrainian troops had advanced 200-500 metres in various areas near the largely devastated eastern city of Bakhmut, and 300-350 metres in the direction of the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Hanna Maliar said.</li>\n <li>Jens Stoltenberg, Nato’s secretary general, has said alliance members must ensure Ukraine keeps getting enough arms to pursue its counteroffensive against Russia. “It is still early days and we do not know if this will be a turning point,” he said.</li>\n <li>UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/14/russia-ukraine-war-live-odesa-missile-strike-deaths-un-nuclear-chief-zaporizhzhia-visit?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-64897af48f0834349c1d61c6#block-64897af48f0834349c1d61c6\">delayed a trip to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station on Wednesday</a> for security reasons, as heavy fighting raged in southern Ukraine. Russian news agencies quoted a senior official in Russia’s nuclear industry as saying Grossi was likely to visit the plant on Thursday.</li>\n <li>The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has appeared to side with his top military commanders in calling for Russia’s “volunteer detachments” fighting in Ukraine <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/vladimir-putin-sides-with-military-chiefs-placing-wagner-under-direct-control\">to be placed under the direct control of the defence ministry</a>. The order from Moscow had been seen as an attempt to rein in the Wagner mercenary group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, by incorporating them into the army.</li>\n <li>Western microchips and other components coming largely via China are being used to manufacture Russian cruise and ballistic missiles that are being launched at Ukraine, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/ukraine-urges-g7-to-clamp-down-after-western-parts-found-in-russian-missiles\">Kyiv has said in a presentation prepared for G7 members</a> this week. The document calls for the world’s leading economies to further tighten export controls.</li>\n <li>The Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov said on Wednesday that one of his senior commanders was alive and well, dismissing reports that he had been killed or wounded in Ukraine. Adam Delimkhanov heads the Chechen division of the Russian national guard and is also a member of Russia’s parliament. He is widely seen as Chechnya’s second most senior official after Kadyrov himself.</li>\n <li>A former campaign leader for the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison on Wednesday for “creating an extremist organisation”, Reuters reported, citing the rights group OVD-Info. Navalny supporters reacted with outrage to the sentence against Liliya Chanysheva.</li>\n</ul>","elementId":"08f65650-5686-4e33-b2ed-375309e3ba0e"}],"attributes":{"pinned":false,"keyEvent":true,"summary":false},"blockCreatedOn":1686803971000,"blockCreatedOnDisplay":"00.39 EDT","blockLastUpdated":1686803967000,"blockLastUpdatedDisplay":"00.39 EDT","blockFirstPublished":1686803971000,"blockFirstPublishedDisplay":"00.39 EDT","blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone":"00.39","title":"Welcome and summary","contributors":[],"primaryDateLine":"Thu 15 Jun 2023 13.21 EDT","secondaryDateLine":"First published on Thu 15 Jun 2023 00.39 EDT"}],"filterKeyEvents":false,"format":{"display":0,"theme":0,"design":10},"id":"key-events-carousel-mobile"}">

Key events

A group of UN experts said on Thursday they had written to Moscow raising concerns about the use of torture by Russian military forces on Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war.

The UN experts said the torture included electric shocks, hoodings and mock executions and had been carried out to extract intelligence, force confessions or in response to alleged support for Ukraine’s forces, Reuters reports.

The UN special rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, said the alleged victims included civilians and prisoners of war. She said she had written to Moscow about this.

A spokesperson for Russia’s diplomatic mission in Geneva did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Moscow has previously denied torturing or mistreating prisoners of war and says it does not deliberately target civilians in Ukraine.

While torture allegations have previously been levelled against both sides in the 15-month conflict, the team of UN independent experts said Russian forces’ methods may be “state-endorsed”.

The consistency and methods of alleged torture suggested “a level of coordination, planning and organisation, as well as the direct authorisation, deliberate policy or official tolerance from superior authorities,” according to Edwards.

She said:

Obeying a superior order or policy direction cannot be invoked as justification for torture, and any individual involved should be promptly investigated and prosecuted by independent authorities.

Russia’s economy shrank by a revised 1.8% year on year in the first quarter of 2023, data from the Rosstat federal statistics service showed on Thursday, after growth of 3% in the same period of last year.

Russia’s economy defied early expectations of a double-digit collapse in 2022 but still contracted 2.1% after the west imposed sanctions in response to Moscow dispatching troops to Ukraine in February.

Rosstat had previously forecast a 1.9% decline in the first quarter, Reuters reports.

African leaders could propose a series of “confidence-building measures” during their initial efforts to mediate in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, according to a draft framework document seen by Reuters on Thursday.

Those measures could include a Russian troop pullback, removal of tactical nuclear weapons from Belarus, suspension of an international criminal court arrest warrant targeting Vladimir Putin, and sanctions relief.

A cessation of hostilities agreement could follow and would need to be accompanied by negotiations between Russia and the west, the document states.

Republican and Democratic members of the US Congress introduced legislation on Thursday that would make it easier for Ukraine to fund its fight against Russian invaders by using seized and frozen Russian assets.

The US Congress has approved more than $100bn in military, humanitarian and economic aid for Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022. While leaders of both parties insist US support for the Kyiv government remains strong, some members of Congress have questioned how long that level of aid can continue amid calls to clamp down on government spending.

The bill’s sponsors said their intention was to ensure Moscow pays for damage caused by the invasion, not US taxpayers.

Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate foreign relations committee and a sponsor of the bill, said:

Over a year into Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, more than $300bn in Russian sovereign assets remain frozen globally. Given Russia’s brutality and continued war crimes against the Ukrainian people, it is only right that Russian government funds in the United States be seized and repurposed to help Ukraine rebuild its country.

Among other things, the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity (Repo) for Ukrainians Act introduced in the Senate and House of Representatives would give the US president the authority to confiscate Russian assets frozen in the US and transfer them to help Ukraine.

It also would bar the release of funds to sanctioned Russian entities until Russia withdraws from Ukraine and agrees to provide compensation for harm caused by the war.

The bill’s other Republican sponsors include representatives Michael McCaul, chair of the House foreign affairs committee, and Joe Wilson, Thomas Kean and Brian Fitzpatrick.

Democratic sponsors include Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and representative Marcy Kaptur, a co-chair of the congressional Ukraine caucus, as well as representatives Steve Cohen and Mike Quigley.

Vladimir Putin and the Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, pledged to deepen their two countries’ “strategic partnership” during a three-day state visit by Tebboune as the Kremlin seeks to pivot Russia towards Asia and Africa.

The two leaders signed a declaration on “deep strategic partnership”, among other agreements.

Putin said:

We are really happy to receive our friend, the president of Algeria, Mr Tebboune, in the Kremlin. Algeria is a key partner for us in the Arab world and in Africa. We will be glad to see you in St Petersburg. Relations with Algeria are of particular importance for our country.

Tebboune said western pressure on Algeria would not have any impact, and both men stressed the Soviet Union’s robust support for Algeria during and after its fight for independence from France. Tebboune said:

Foreign countries may put pressure on us today but this will never affect our ties. Our ties never changed. Algeria has always supported Russia.

Tebboune saidRussia had been providing his country with weapons to help it “maintain our independence in these difficult circumstances”.

The Russian foreign ministry tweeted that Vladimir Putin held talks with the president of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, during a state visit to Russia.

Putin reportedly said there was “tangible potential for further development” between the two nations.

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that it had summoned a Canadian diplomat in Moscow in protest over the confiscation of an Antonov plane in Toronto, and warned that Russian-Canadian relations were on the “verge of being severed”.

Canada on Saturday ordered the seizure of a Russian-registered Antonov-124 cargo plane at Toronto’s airport, its first such asset seizure aimed at putting pressure on Moscow over the Ukraine invasion, Reuters reports.

Russia told Brian Ebel, the deputy head of Canada’s embassy in Moscow, that it viewed the plane seizure as “cynical theft”, according to a statement from the foreign ministry.

In a statement, the Russian ministry said:

[Canada’s’] Russophobic policy will entail the most serious repercussions for Russian-Canadian relations, which are on the verge of being severed through the fault of the Trudeau administration.

The Canadian foreign ministry did not have an immediate comment.

Canada announced the aircraft seizure while the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, was in Kyiv on Saturday, where he announced $500m (£392m) in military aid for Ukraine.

A Russian anti-war activist has died in a detention centre in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don where he had alleged he was being mistreated, his lawyer said today.

Anatoly Berezikov’s lawyer Irina Gak said in a video posted on Facebook that the body of her client, who had been due to be released on Thursday, had been taken to a morgue on Wednesday.

A video filmed on Wednesday showed Gak standing outside the detention centre where 40-year-old Berezikov had been held as an ambulance that she said was there to collect his body drove in, Reuters reports.

These claims have not been independently verified.

In the video, Gak said Berezikov had complained of beatings and of being given electric shocks and had told her he feared for his life.

According to Gak, Berezikov was arrested after he posted leaflets around the city advertising a Ukrainian government project called I Want to Live, which helps Russian soldiers voluntarily surrender.

Rostov-on-Don is the capital of a region adjoining Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine.

According to OVD-Info, a human rights monitoring group, nearly 20,000 people have been detained for protesting against Russia’s war in Ukraine since the start of the invasion. They claim criminal cases have been launched against more than 580 people.

The Polish deputy prime minister, Mariusz Błaszczak, reaffirmed his support for Ukraine, saying he had “no doubts” that Vladimir Putin’s true intentions were to “go further” after conquering Ukraine.

Deputy Prime Minister @mblaszczak: We support Ukraine 🇺🇦 as we do not want to let Russia go further after conquering Ukraine. There is no doubt that these are Russia’s true intentions, Putin’s true intentions.

— Poland MOD 🇵🇱 (@Poland_MOD) June 15, 2023

The president of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, said on Thursday that Russians living abroad in western countries should be closely monitored by security services, given Moscow’s “aggressive war” in Ukraine.

The Czech leader and former chair of the Nato military committee said he was sympathetic to Russians outside the country finding it hard to cope with the invasion but in the context of a war, security measures should be more stringent.

He told the Prague-based, US-financed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

When there is an ongoing war, the security measures related to Russian nationals should be stricter than in normal times.

All Russians living in western countries should be monitored much more than in the past because they are citizens of a nation that leads an aggressive war,” Pavel said.

That’s simply the cost of war.

He said the situation was similar to the second world war when more than 100,000 Japanese descendants based in the US were under “a strict monitoring regime as well” as they were placed in local internment camps.

Pavel also said he expected the July Nato summit in Vilnius to voice clear support for Kyiv’s membership of the alliance.

He said:

I strongly believe that all the leaders will understand that having Ukraine onboard – both in Nato and EU – is probably the only guarantee [of] how to ensure stability in this region, how to make both Nato and EU stronger, and how to keep Russia and its aggressive policies at bay.

I see a number of countries agreeing on a long-term plan of support to Ukraine that will not be based on one-off contributions but on a carefully planned long-term procedure.

In Brussels, the US secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin, says the Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting has concluded and it remains “laser-focused” on meeting Ukraine’s ground-based air-defence system needs.

He added:

That’s especially important since Russia has ruthlessly ramped up its missile and drone attacks over the past month against Ukraine’s cities.

We have just wrapped up our 13th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. It once again demonstrated the unity and the resolve that has characterized this group ever since I convened our very first meeting. pic.twitter.com/TTKOojCOdB

— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) June 15, 2023

Today we received briefings from Ukraine, as well as briefings on future training plans and efforts to maintain and sustain the equipment that we’ve already provided and to ensure that Ukraine can do so for future equipment as well.

— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) June 15, 2023

We also heard from our friends from Germany and Poland on their work on sustaining Ukraine’s new Leopard tanks. Our colleagues from the Netherlands and Denmark shared the progress that they’ve made on plans to train Ukrainian pilots on fourth-generation fighter aircraft,…

— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) June 15, 2023

We remain laser-focused on meeting Ukraine’s urgent needs for ground-based air-defense systems. And that’s especially important since Russia has ruthlessly ramped up its missile and drone attacks over the past month against Ukraine’s cities.

— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) June 15, 2023

Zelenskiy’s former spokesperson has shared this video of Kyiv graduates waltzing in the subway during an air raid alert:

UN nuclear watchdog says ‘number of measures’ taken to stabilise Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said a “number of measures” have been taken to stabilise the situation at Europe’s largest atomic power plant.

Rafael Grossi said inspectors would stay at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russia (see also this earlier post), but that signing a document on security on the site was “unrealistic” while the two sides were still fighting.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief visited the plant, in southern Ukraine, today after meeting Volodymyr Zelenskiy to discuss concerns about the site.

Rafeel Grossi travels to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Photograph: IAEA/Reuters

Volodymyr Zelensky speaking with Rafael Grossi and colleagues in Kyiv on Tuesday. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Russia’s deputy finance minister, Alexei Sazanov, has said the country is approaching the tax ceiling for commodity industries.

He cited what he called weak global demand for its products, reports Interfax news agency.

The US, UK, Netherlands and Denmark to send hundreds of missiles to Ukraine

The US, UK, Netherlands and Denmark have announced they will partner to send defence equipment – including hundreds of missiles – to Ukraine.

A joint statement released by the British government said delivery of the equipment had already begun and should be completed “within several weeks”.

As many as 100 Russian troops gathered for motivational speech may have been killed

Peter Beaumont

As many as 100 Russian troops gathered for a motivational speech near Ukraine’s eastern frontline may have been killed in a strike earlier this week, prompting fury among Russian military bloggers.

While the details remain unclear and unconfirmed, a number of Russian Telegram channels have been discussing the attack, which they say took place near Kreminna, an eastern town in the Luhansk region where there has been heavy fighting.

The alleged incident took place as soldiers were gathered and made to wait for two hours for a speech from a divisional commander, identified by some as Sukhrab Akhmedov, of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army, an already controversial figure who had been blamed for the deaths of large numbers of his troops in a botched offensive last year.

According to the Russian military blogger Rybar, the soldiers who were due to be deployed on an offensive had been told to muster for a speech.

The tragic incident occurred near Kreminna, in one of the divisions that was about to go on the offensive.

For two hours, people stood in a crowd in one place and waited for the division commander to deliver a motivational speech. But instead, Himars and enemy artillery spoke.

Rybar added there “were fewer casualties in several days of fighting in the south Donetsk direction than from the criminal stupidity of the division commander”.

Other military bloggers quickly weighed in. “If by the middle of the second year of the war there are commanders who take the columns to the front, make the personnel form a big heap and then wait for the enemy’s artillery to hit them, then such commanders should be shot in front of the columns, even if they are colonels or generals,” said one.

“We are at war with our own stupidity and negligence,” said another.

The strike was given additional credence by the US thinktank the Institute for the Study of War, which included it in its daily updated on the conflict:

ISW has observed both of the 20th CAA’s divisions, the 144th and 3rd Motorized Rifle Ddivisions, operating in the Kreminna area for the past several months and could not confirm which division was struck by the Ukrainian forces.

One milblogger[military blogger] suggested that the reported Ukrainian HIMARSimars strike killed around 100 Russian personnel and wounded another 100, although ISW has not observed any visual confirmation of the strike or its aftermath.[9]

The outrage is reminiscent of previous instances of notable irresponsible Russian military actions resulting in dramatic losses, particularly the 31 December 2022, Ukrainian strike on a large Russian force concentration in Makiivka, Donetsk oblast.

MEPs have called on Nato allies to honour their commitment to Ukraine by inviting the country to join the defence alliance and support opening EU accession negotiations this year, a press release from the European parliament says.

There were 425 votes in favour of the resolution and 38 against, with 42 abstentions. The release says:

MEPs stress that they expect that the “accession process will start after the war is over and be finalised as soon as possible”.

Until full membership is achieved, the EU and its member states, together with Nato allies and like-minded partners, must work closely with Ukraine to develop a temporary framework for security guarantees, MEPs say, which is to be implemented immediately after the war.

Parliament emphasises that Ukraine’s integration in both Nato and the EU would enhance regional and global security and strengthen the bonds between Ukraine and the Euro-Atlantic community.

MEPs condemned “in the strongest possible terms Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam” on 6 June, which they said had caused extensive flooding and created an environmental disaster as well as ecocide in Ukraine.

All those responsible for war crimes, including the destruction of the dam, would be held accountable in line with international law, they added.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Switzerland to allow the re-export of weapons to Ukraine, saying the move would be vital in combatting the Russian invasion.

In a video message shown in the Swiss parliament, he said:

I know there is a discussion in Switzerland about the exportation of war material to protect and defend Ukraine. That would be vital

We need weapons so we can restore peace in Ukraine.

Switzerland has a longstanding policy of barring any country that buys Swiss arms from re-exporting them to the parties in a conflict. The country also imposed a specific Swiss embargo on munitions going to either Russia or Ukraine in November last year, Reuters reports.

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