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Ukraine Invasion Day 845: Gazprom’s business with Europe has significantly decreased overall [1]

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Date: 2024-06-16  

The vast majority of the countries and international organizations that participated in the Ukraine-initiated Global Peace Summit in Switzerland on June 15-16 signed a joint communique on June 16 reaffirming support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The communique also reaffirmed support for Ukrainian operation and control over the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to ensure the safety of nuclear energy and installations, "free full, and safe" commercial navigation in the Black Sea to ensure global food security, the exchange of all prisoners of war (POWs), and the return of all "deported and unlawfully displaced Ukrainian children" and other unlawfully detained Ukrainian civilians. Over 80 countries and international organizations signed the communique, although Saudi Arabia, India, South Africa, Armenia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Brazil (which attended the summit as an "observer") were among the countries that did not endorse the communique.[2]

Russian forces continued offensive operations in northern Kharkiv Oblast near Hlyboke (north of Kharkiv City), Vovchansk, and Tykhe (both northeast of Kharkiv City) on June 15 and 16.[27] …. Ukrainian Kharkiv Group of Forces Spokesperson Yuriy Povkh stated that elements of the Russian 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade (6th Combined Arms Army [CAA], Leningrad Military District [LMD]) are unsuccessfully attacking in the Kharkiv direction and that the Russian military command is trying to withdraw degraded elements of the 25th Motorized Rifle Brigade (6th CAA, LMD) and 83rd Separate Guards Airborne (VDV) Brigade that have become combat-ineffective due to high losses.[29] A Russian source claimed that elements of the 83rd VDV Brigade were recently deployed from Russia's Belgorod Oblast to Kharkiv Oblast.[30] Elements of the Russian 128th Motorized Rifle Brigade (44th Army Corps [AC], LMD) and the "Aida" Group (Chechen "Akhmat" Spetsnaz) are reportedly operating near Vovchansk, and elements of the 11th Tank Regiment (18th Motorized Rifle Division, 11th AC, LMD) are reportedly operating near Hlyboke.[31]

Geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces advanced in part of the Aggregate Plant within Vovchansk on an unspecified date as Ukrainian and Russian sources continued to offer conflicting reports about the status of the Aggregate Plant on June 16. Geolocated footage of Ukrainian forces striking Russian positions in the Aggregate Plant published on June 15 indicates that Russian forces held positions in the northwestern part of the Aggregate Plant as of an unspecified date.[32] It is unclear if Russian forces maintain these positions as of the time of the writing of this publication. A Ukrainian source stated on June 16 that Russian forces entered the plant around the start of fighting within Vovchansk around May 13 and that Russian forces controlled the approaches to the Aggregate Plant from the north since May 20.[33] The Ukrainian source stated that Ukrainian forces established fire control of the approaches by at least June 1 but that Russian forces were able to reinforce the Russian grouping within the plant between June 6 and 14 in a limited capacity. The Ukrainian source noted that information about the situation around the plant is delayed. Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets stated that around 200 Russian soldiers, including dead and wounded, are currently isolated in the Aggregate Plant after Russian forces tried to cross the Vovcha River east of the plant on an unspecified date and entered the plant after coming under Ukrainian fire.[34]

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