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The Ukrainian counteroffensive in the country’s south is “gathering momentum”, according to British defence and intelligence officials.Kyiv said it had also retaken some small settlements on the Kherson region’s northern edge. Ukrainian planes struck five Russian strongholds around Kherson and another nearby city on Thursday, its military claimed. Ukraine has stepped up its campaign to retake Russian-controlled regions in the south by trying to bomb and isolate Russian troops in hard-to-resupply areas.It is 8am in Kyiv and here is where things stand. We will bring you more details as they unfold. Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv has reported been hit this morning by Russian shelling, local officials say. I’m Samantha Lock and I will be bringing you all the latest developments for the next short while. Hello and welcome back to the Guardian’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine. It also said that Wagner’s forces are highly unlikely to be sufficient to make a significant difference in the trajectory of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This new level of integration further undermines the Russian authorities’ long-standing policy of denying links between PMCs and the Russian state.” This is a significant change from the previous employment of the group since 2015, when it typically undertook missions distinct from overt, large-scale regular Russian military activity.
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Wagner has likely been allocated responsibility for specific sectors of the front line, in a similar manner to normal army units. Since March, Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group has operated in eastern Ukraine in coordination with the Russian military.
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Russian private military firm Wagner has likely been allocated responsibility for specific sectors of the front line in eastern Ukraine, possibly as Russia is facing a major shortage of combat infantry, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update this morning. 06.06 Russia's Wagner allocated responsibility for sectors of front line, UK says “What will Novaya Gazeta do? Prepare for the courts, defend our case, in which we are sure, prepare a new issue of the NO magazine, restart the website and the new studio Novaya,” it said in a statement. The media outlet said it would fight for its rights in court. “Is it politics? What is not politics now?’ “Why are the lawsuits filed four months after the warnings were issued, what has changed?” the outlet asked. The newspaper said it did not know why such a request had been made now. “Roskomnadzor asked the court to declare the print media outlet Novaya Gazeta’s licence invalid due to the editorial office not providing its editorial statute within the timeframe established by the law on media,” the agency told Russian news outlet RBC. On Thursday, Novaya Gazeta said Roskomnadzor went to court demanding that the media licence of the newspaper’s website be cancelled. The announcement was made after the newspaper received two warnings over alleged violations from the state communications watchdog.
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“Russia’s censorship agency Roskomnadzor has demanded that Novaya Gazeta’s certificate of registration be declared invalid,” the publication said in a statement on Thursday. Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s last remaining independent news outlets, is under threat after the country’s media watchdog demanded that its website and print edition be stripped of its licence. 06.30 Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta to be stripped of licence under court order Russia’s mission to the OSCE called the report “unfounded propaganda.” In April, an OSCE mission said it had found evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russia in Ukraine. This is the third time the Moscow Mechanism has been invoked since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. The OSCE is an organisation of 57 countries that includes former Cold War foes the United States and Russia as well as various countries in Europe, Central Asia and North America. The expert mission will release its report to the public in September, he said. The review, triggered by the invocation of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s “Moscow Mechanism,” is in response to recent actions by Russia to restrict freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and reports of torture of those held in detention in Russia, Price said in a statement. The United States and 37 other countries are establishing an expert mission to review the human rights situation in Russia, US state department spokesperson Ned Price said on Thursday. 06.44 Expert mission to review human rights in Russia