“By decision of the General Staff, Commander-in-Chief Zalouzhny and General Nayev were ordered to strengthen the northern leadership in order to secure peace.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered, Friday, June 30, to strengthen the security of the border with Belarus in the face of the arrival, in this country allied with Moscow, of fighters from the paramilitary group Wagner after an abortive rebellion in Russia. Follow our live.
News sites linked to Wagner’s boss blocked. News portals belonging to the Patriot media group close to the head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigojine, have been blocked by the Russian telecoms policeman. Their internet addresses appear in the register “Restricted” of Roskomnadzor, a government agency responsible for blocking illegal and extremist content, as well as media and other resources banned by the authorities.
Russia “stronger” after Wagner’s failed rebellion. The revolt of the paramilitary group that has shaken Russian power will make Russia “stronger”assured his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov. “Russia has always emerged more solid, stronger, from all the difficulties (…) It will be the case again this time. We already feel that this process has begun”, he said at a press conference in Moscow.
The head of the Ukrainian army calls for more means. The Ukrainian army is limited in its counter-offensive by a lack of armament, in particular combat planes, estimates its commander-in-chief Valery Zalouzhny in an interview published by the Washington Post. “It annoys me”, he says about Westerners who complain about kyiv’s slow progress against the Russians, when he would like them to deliver weapons to them more quickly. To compete with Russian air power, Ukraine needs the promised F-16 fighter jets as soon as possible, insists the general-in-chief.