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The duel in the skies above Crimea pitted 1990s-era US weapons against Russian air defense platform Kremlin calls “the best in the world.

Ukraine Fires First HIMARS on Russia´s Kursk Region, Ukrainian Armed Forces used HIMARS systems to attack the Kursk region of Russia. As 
the AP reported on June 22, citing Ukraine’s First Deputy Defense Minister, a Lt. Gen. Has the US permission for Ukraine to strike at Russian territory disrupting Kremlin plans to use 90,000 Russian troops that had been marshaled for a new offensive in the Kharkiv region.
 
According to its sources, on Saturday, June 22, Ukraine fired two missiles from HIMARS at military facilities near Mirnyi in Suzhansky district and near Dovgi Bumi in Belovsky district. Both missiles were allegedly shot down, but the debris partially destroyed the FSB border guard building in Suzha. One FSB officer was injured and two cars were damaged, Astra reported. After the attack, residents said they lost electricity.

As AP reported on June 22, citing Ukraine’s First Deputy Defense Minister, Lt. Gen. Ivan Havryliuk, the US permission for Ukraine to strike at Russian territory disrupted Kremlin plans to use over 90,000 Russian troops that had been marshaled for a new offensive in the Kharkiv region.

AP says that deteriorating situation @front forced Washington to allow Kyiv to use Western-supplied artillery and missile systems to defend Kharkiv, striking at where Kremlin troops gather & conduct attacks.Ukrainian brigades fighting in the Kharkiv sector told AP, within hours of receiving US permission, HIMARS missile began shooting at targets in Russia. “HIMARS were not silent for whole day,” an artillery fire in Kharkiv region, recalling 1st hours, permission was granted to use rocket systems. “From 1st days, Ukrainian forces managed to destroy whole columns of troops along border waiting for the order to enter Ukraine.”

by Kyiv Post | June 25, 2024, 5:55 pm
ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Russia’s Shoigu and Gerasimov. Valery Gerasimov (L) and Sergei Shoigu ® pictured during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Tuesday that it had issued arrest warrants the day before for Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s former Russian defense minister, and Valery Gerasimov, Chief of Russia’s General Staff for alleged crimes committed during Russia’s war with Ukraine.

The warrants say that they were each allegedly responsible for directing attacks at civilian objects, a war crime; secondly the war crime of causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects; thirdly the crime against humanity of committing or allowing inhumane acts to be carried out.