Russia-Ukraine war live updates for Tuesday, June 27, 2023

A Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority stated Ukraine should be prepared to solely export grain by means of its Danube River ports since Russia is efficiently obstructing Black Sea deliveries, Reuters reported.

Russia has actually not yet chosen if it will extend the regards to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a United Nations- backed offer that resumed 3 secret Ukrainian ports for international grain exports.

“With the Russia effectively blocking the operation of the grain corridor, we need to be ready to receive almost the entire export volume of the new harvest through the Danube ports,” Dmytro Barinov, the sea ports authority’s deputy head, stated on Facebook, according toReuters

— Melodie Warner

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stated Tuesday that the kingdom was pleased with the success of the de-escalation in Russia.

The remarks were made throughout a telephone call Tuesday with President Vladimir Putin, the Saudi state news company reported.

— Karen Gilchrist

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday thanked Russia’s army and security services for avoiding what he referred to as a civil war when confronted with an armed mutiny over the weekend.

Speaking inside the Kremlin, Putin informed around 2,500 members of the military, security forces, and the National Guard that they had actually protected their “motherland” versus mayhem.

“You have defended the constitutional order, the lives, security and freedom of our citizens. You have saved our Motherland from upheaval. In fact, you have stopped a civil war,” Putin stated.

“In this difficult situation, you have acted precisely and harmoniously, you have proved by your deeds your loyalty to the Russian people and the military oath. You have shown your responsibility for the fate of our Motherland and its future,” he included.

The Kremlin stated earlier Tuesday it did not concur with evaluations that the weekend’s escalation led by the Wagner mercenary group had actually shaken Putin’s two-decade hang on power.

Putin likewise informed those put together on the Kremlin’s Cathedral Square that an undefined variety of Russian military pilots had actually been eliminated when attempting to stop the advance of the mutineers

“In the confrontation with the insurgents our comrades-in-arms, the aviators died,” stated Putin.

“They did not falter and carried out their orders and their military duty with honor,” he included, asking for a minute’s silence for the dead pilots.

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, whose elimination Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had actually required, was likewise present on the square.

— Karen Gilchrist

A Russian rocket strike hit a cluster of structures in Kremenchuk in main Ukraine, precisely one year on from a lethal attack on a shopping center in the city, Ukrainian authorities stated.

Dmytro Lunin, guv of the Poltava area that consists of Kremenchuk, stated a dacha, or home, cooperative had actually been struck.

No casualties were at first reported and Russia did not right away talk about the attack.

It comes a year after a Russian rocket strike on the Amstor mall in Kremenchuk on June 27, 2022, which eliminated a minimum of 20.

“The enemy attacked Poltava region. Just like a year ago on this day, with X-22 missiles,” Lunin composed on the Telegram messaging app.

— Karen Gilchrist

South Africa’s Foreign Minister stated Tuesday that African leaders stay dedicated to their efforts to broker a peace offer in between Moscow and Kyiv, in spite of the tried mutiny in Russia over the weekend.

Naledi Pandor informed press reporters that the African peace objective was set to continue with more talks over the coming weeks.

It follows South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and other African leaders went to Russia and Ukraine as part of a peace objective this month.

— Karen Gilchrist

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Tuesday that Kyiv was looking for a “political invitation” for the nation to sign up with NATO, when leaders of the military alliance satisfy for a top next month.

“There is every reason for a political invitation for Ukraine to join the Alliance,” Zelenskyy composed on the Telegram messaging app.

— Karen Gilchrist

Hungary’s foreign minister stated Tuesday that crucial management in Moscow have actually ensured him that they are “managing the situation” in Russia following a tried mutiny by Wagner mercenary forces on Saturday.

Péter Szijj ártó stated he had actually spoken over the weekend to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov.

“I’ve been in touch with Foreign Minister Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister Mantarov, who have assured me at that time that they are managing the situation,” he informed CNBC’s Sam Vadas at the World Economic Forum’s yearly conference in Tianjin, China.

“Whatever happens in Russia, especially when it comes to the internal security situation, it does definitely have an impact on the security of the region — or can have a serious impact on the security of the region,” he stated.

Szijj ártó included that he had actually been in touch with associates in Belarus, who had actually notified him ahead of time of the offer to exile Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin to Minsk.

“Whatever brings closer to peace we support it, whatever brings closer to a threat of escalation we do not support,” he included.

— Karen Gilchrist

A U.N. tracking objective in Ukraine stated Tuesday that Russian forces had actually apprehended more than 800 civilians and performed 77 given that its major intrusion in February 2022.

The report likewise exposed that Ukraine had actually arbitrarily apprehended civilians on a much smaller sized scale, in offense of worldwide law.

— Elliot Smith

A personal service jet connected to Wagner Group manager Yevgeny Prigozhin landed in Belarus on Tuesday, information from flight-tracking site Flightradar24 revealed.

The Embraer Legacy 600 airplane, registration number RA-02795, matches the recognition codes of the jet coming from Prigozhin, according to the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). It landed early on Tuesday early morning near Minsk, having actually removed fromSt Petersburg soon after 1 a.m. regional time (5 p.m. ET Monday), though it is not yet understood who was on board.

Under the offer brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko over the weekend, which brought a stop to Wagner’s disobedience versus Moscow, Prigozhin has actually been efficiently banished toBelarus His specific location have actually been unidentified given that the uprising.

— Elliot Smith

Russia’s FSB (Federal Security Service) has actually closed its criminal case versus armed rebels associated with the stopped working Wagner Group mutiny over the weekend, state-owned news companies reported Tuesday mentioning the FSB’s Center of Special Operations.

“In the course of the investigation of a criminal case initiated by the investigative department of the FSB of the Russian Federation on June 23 under Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the fact of an armed rebellion, it was established that on June 24 its participants stopped actions directly aimed at committing a crime,” the security service stated, according to Russian news company RIA Novosti.

“Taking into account this and other circumstances relevant to the investigation, on June 27, the investigating authority issued a decision to close the criminal case.”

Wagner Group fighters on Saturday caught a military head office in the southern city of Rostov- on-Don prior to advancing towards Moscow.

However, the personal mercenary group’s march was stopped when Prigozhin supposedly cut an offer with the Kremlin, brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

RIA likewise reported on Tuesday that Wagner is preparing to turn over its heavy weapons to the Russian defense ministry.

— Elliot Smith

Ukrainian flying force have actually made little advances east from the town of Krasnohorivka, near Donetsk city, according to the British Ministry of Defence.

“This is one of the first instances since Russia’s February 2022 invasion that Ukrainian forces have highly likely recaptured an area of territory occupied by Russia since 2014,” the MoD stated in an upgrade Tuesday.

“Recent multiple concurrent Ukrainian assaults throughout the Donbas have likely overstretched Donetsk People’s Republic and Chechen forces operating in this area.”

U.K. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace informed Parliament on Monday that as part of its summer season counteroffensive, Ukraine had actually currently regained roughly 300 square kilometers, which he stated was “more than Russia seized in its whole winter offensive.”

— Elliot Smith

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday applauded Ukrainian forces for advancing “in all directions,” after he invested the day going to and dispersing awards to soldiers on the frontline in parts of eastern and southern Ukraine.

“Today, our warriors have advanced in all directions, and it is a happy day,” the president stated in a nighttime video address, according to a translation.

— Elliot Smith

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday commemorated fighter pilots eliminated throughout the Wagner Group’s aborted mutiny over the weekend.

In a telecasted address, Putin’s very first public remarks given that Saturday’s armed disobedience, he thanked Russian people, police and security services for their unity and applauded the fallen pilots for their “courage and self-sacrifice.”

This was Putin’s very first recommendation of the pilots’ deaths after Wagner forces downed Russian airplane throughout the 24- hour revolt, however there is no main info yet on the number of airplanes were shot down and the number of Russian pilots passed away.

— Elliot Smith

Russian President Vladimir Putin has actually provided his very first telecasted address given that Wagner Group mercenaries prompted a stopped working mutiny versus Russian military leaders over the weekend.

Putin called the disobedience “criminal activity to split and weaken the country, which is now confronting a colossal external threat,” suggesting the worldwide action to Putin’s prohibited intrusion of Ukraine.

The Russian president stated the organizers of the armed insurrection would be “brought to justice,” yet he did not discuss Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin by name.

He likewise used evident clemency to the numerous Wagner mercenaries who took part in the armed march from the southern city of Rostov to about 200 miles outside Moscow.

The speech did little to clarify what follows for the Wagner Group or for the Russian military, which was unprepared for the speed and ease with which the rebel convoy took a trip through the nation on significant highways.

In his speech, Putin insisted his soldiers would have squashed the disobedience if it had actually continued any even more.

— Christina Wilkie