⚡️A pair of 🇺🇦Ukrainian Mi-8 attack-transport helicopters strike 🇷🇺Russian positions with unguided S-8 missiles at low altitudes pic.twitter.com/XM1PU9fFyF
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) 30 juin 2023
A pair of Ukrainian Mi-8 attack-transport helicopters strike Russian positions with unguided S-8 missiles at low altitudes
6/ It's likely that the Russian army is exploiting this apparent loophole in the rules to replenish its heavy losses in Ukraine. As losses mount, it'll probably seek to exploit every opportunity it can to find fresh manpower from sources that were previously forbidden. /end
About 500 conscripts are said to have been deployed to the front out of roughly 1,000 convicted servicemen, known as shtrafniks, serving in penal battalions. Shtrafbats were last used during World War II, when thousands were assigned to them under Stalin's Order No. 227.
2/ A Russian Defence Ministry source has told SOTA that conscripts who have been sent to penal battalions (shtrafbats) for committing criminal offences, and whose term of conscription has not yet come to an end, are being sent to fight in Ukraine.
1/ Russian law forbids conscripts being sent to fight abroad. However, the Russian army seems to have found a loophole: it's reportedly sending hundreds of conscripts to fight in Ukraine as part of punishment battalions, in a revival of a Stalin-era practice.
On the night of June 30, the Russians attacked Ukraine with Shahed drones, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. The occupiers attacked military and infrastructure facilities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Defense forces destroyed 10 of the 13 attack drones.
Russian helicopters leave the airport in temporarily occupied Berdyansk after the morning attack. It is not yet known if any helicopters were damaged/destroyed
The Russians are reducing their presence at #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reports. The Russian representatives of #Rosatom have already left, and Ukrainian employees of the plant who signed contracts with Rosatom are being advised
Operational information as of 06:00 on 30.06.2023 regarding the Russian invasion… https://
youtu.be/PYJ07ehBz5Y through @YouTube
The number of military patrols on the territory of the #ZNPP itself and in Energodar is also gradually decreasing. The remaining station staff were instructed to “blame Ukraine in case of any emergency situations”.
