A video captured the moment when a Ukrainian special forces sniper shot and allegedly killed a group of Russian soldiers.
It is not clear where exactly in Ukraine they were filmed the images, but they were obtained from the Command of the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, along with a statement that read: “He waited for the enemy to gather in a heap, then suddenly fired.”
“We show you a video of the actual work of a sniper from the Ukrainian SSO. These unique images were taken by our soldiers in one of the areas where the Special Operations Forces work”.
Here the pictures of the sniper:
“The video shows that the Russian soldiers, unaware that the next few seconds would be the last, moved freely through the unprotected area. The Russians themselves came out to receive the bullets fired on time and accurately by the Ukrainian SSO sniper”, they added.
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February in what the Kremlin calls a “military operation special”. The 24 of June marks the day 127 of the invasion.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that between the 20 February and 30 in June, Russia had lost about 40,600 effective, 1, 600 tanks, 3,726 armored fighting vehicles, 790 artillery units, 300 multiple launch rocket systems, 104 air defense systems, 217 fighter planes. , 185 helicopters, 641 drones, 143 cruise missiles, 14 warships, 2,602 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, and 61 special equipment units.
NATO leaders have called Russia “the most significant and direct threat to the security and stability of allies”, and have announced a new “strategic concept” in response to the current invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin. NATO plans to increase its rapid reaction forces from 40, soldiers to more than 246,000 soldiers.
President Joe Biden announced that the United States will increase its military forces throughout Europe.
NATO it also formally invited Sweden and Finland to become members of the alliance. The move comes after Turkey agreed to support Finnish and Swedish NATO membership.
Turkey had initially opposed the countries’ offers to join the military alliance, accusing both of harboring Kurdish militants.
But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson at the NATO summit in Madrid and the three countries reached an agreement.
President Biden congratulated the three countries and said: “Congratulations to Finland, Sweden and Turkey for signing a trilateral memorandum, a crucial step towards a NATO invitation to Finland and Sweden, which will strengthen our Alliance and it will strengthen our collective security, and a great way to start the Summit”.
But President Putin said: “If Finland and Sweden want to, they can join. That’s up to them. They can join whatever they want”.
He added: “If military contingents and military infrastructure were deployed there, we would be obliged to respond symmetrically and pose the same threats to those territories where threats have been presented to us.”
The Russian missile attack on a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, has been described by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as one of the “most brazen terrorist acts in European history ”. It is said that more than 1, people were inside the building when it was hit by the missiles. Eighteen people have so far been confirmed dead.
In reaction to reports of the mall attack crowded, Putin stated: “Our army does not attack any civilian infrastructure sites. We have all the ability to know what is located and where”.
Russia claimed on Tuesday that it had hit a nearby weapons depot and that the explosion set the shopping center on fire.
Ukraine has said it completed the largest prisoner exchange with Russia since the start of the war, with 144 of his liberated soldiers. They include 61 soldiers who defended the steel mill of Azovstal in Mariupol.
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