Meanwhile in the real world:
* Ukraine is losing territories and troops daily. Russia is reporting about capturing new towns and villages almost every day. The number of POWs is enormous.
* Ukraine has hit a beach in Sevastopol killing and injuring hundreds, including many kids.
* Global corporations like Coca-Cola are returning to Russia (who would have thought?).
The Russian occupiers slowly moved deeper into the territory of Ukraine, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces had acute problems with weapons and ammunition due to the fact that the United States suspended military assistance to Ukraine for more than six months due to internal squabbles in connection with the upcoming US presidential elections. At the same time, Russia received enough drones from Iran and several million ammunition from North Korea, and Ukraine was unable to receive even half of the one million ammunition promised by the West. But now the situation at the front has already changed and parity in ammunition has been restored. In some cases, the occupiers have already howled because the Ukrainian Armed Forces are now putting up a worthy rebuff. Thus, the Russian offensive in the Kharkov direction since May 10 has not only stalled, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have successfully counterattacked and liberated the occupied territories, and the battle for the border city of Volchansk has turned into an unsuccessful attempt by the Russians to liberate part of the occupiers who were surrounded at the Volchansk Aggregate Plant.
As for the incident with four dead and about 150 wounded civilians relaxing on the beach of Sevastopol on June 23, this occurred as a result of the work of Russian air defense, and not a targeted shelling of the territory of this beach. One of the missiles, aimed at a military airfield, was shot down over the beach.
So, half an hour later, the Russian head of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, reported in his Telegram channel that the repulsion of the missile attack had ended: “According to preliminary information, 5 air targets were destroyed in the sky above the water area. But fragments of the downed targets fell in the coastal zone.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense also admitted that civilian casualties occurred as a result of the work of Russian air defense. “During the repulsion of a terrorist attack by air defense forces on duty, four American ATACMS missiles were shot down. Another missile, as a result of the impact of air defense systems, deviated from the flight path at the final stage and detonated the warhead in the air over the city territory,” the department said.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2024/06/23/7462166/https://ru.krymr.com/a/sevastopol-uchkuevka-pvo-smert-plyag/33006880.htmlVideos and photos show Russian troops placing military equipment near civilian targets in Crimea. In this case, Russian air defense systems were located on a hill just two kilometers from the beach. There were no means of warning about the air raid, nor any shelters. But the Russian authorities are encouraging the tourist season to Crimea from all over Russia, despite the fact that the occupied Crimean peninsula has already turned into a war zone. The civilian population is accustomed to the fact that Ukraine uses high-precision weapons to destroy only Russian military targets - airfields, air defense systems, command posts and ammunition depots, and therefore do not pay much attention to missile attacks and drone attacks. But the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot in any way influence the situation of Russian air defense operations over beaches and other concentrations of civilians.
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