“The real victims will be the Ukrainians.” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen warned Ukraine against the use of cluster munitions on Sunday July 9. He reminded “painful experience” of his country, hit by American cluster bombs in the early 1970s. “It would be the greatest danger for Ukrainians for many years, even up to a hundred years, if cluster bombs were used in Russian-occupied areas on Ukrainian territory”, he tweeted. Follow our live.
Azov fighters back in Ukraine. These Ukrainian commanders were to remain in Turkey until the end of the conflict, thanks to an agreement between Moscow and kyiv. They were met at Istanbul airport by President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was on a visit to Turkey. Part of the Azov regiment, formed on the basis of the ultranationalist battalion of the same name, had been captured by Russian forces after the fall of Mariupol in May 2022.
Eight dead in a Russian bombardment. Eight people died and thirteen others were injured in a Russian bombardment on the town of Lyman, in eastern Ukraine, on Saturday on the 500th day of the war. No impact crater is visible, and according to soldiers interviewed, these are cluster bombs, the shrapnel of which killed and injured the victims.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive continues. Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister reported on July 7 that Ukrainian forces had advanced more than a kilometer on the southern flank of Bakhmout, quotes the institute for the study of war. Russian sources further claimed that Ukrainian forces conducted offensive operations in western Donetsk and western Zaporizhia oblasts.