At least four dead and 34 injured after Russian strike in Donetsk…

Armed attacks on Sunday against Orthodox churches and at least one synagogue in Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus, left 20 dead and 46 injured, according to a new report published Monday by the authorities in this region. “The terrorist attack carried out yesterday in the Republic in Makhachkala and Derbent left 46 injured, including civilians and members of the law enforcement agencies. Unfortunately, 20 people were killed,” said the Ministry of Health of this predominantly Muslim region.

In the southern region of Kherson, a 40-year-old man was killed by shelling in the town of Stepanivka, according to kyiv. In the northeast, two people died after a “car hit an anti-tank mine,” according to Kharkiv Governor Oleg Synegoubov.

On Monday, Russian diplomacy summoned the American ambassador, Lynne Tracy, to Moscow to warn her that Russia was planning “retaliatory measures”, estimating that “the United States, which is waging a hybrid war against Russia, is become part of the conflict” in Ukraine. “The ambassador was told that such actions by Washington, (…) authorizing strikes inside Russian territory, would not go unpunished. Retaliatory measures will follow,” insisted the ministry.

The Kremlin on Monday threatened the United States with reprisals, accusing them of “killing Russian children” the day after a Ukrainian strike in Crimea carried out according to Moscow using American missiles, a new escalation between the two rivals around Ukraine.

Moscow says long-range ATACMS missile strikes, like Sunday’s in Russian-annexed Ukrainian Crimea, cannot be carried out by Ukraine alone because they require U.S. intelligence specialists, technology and data. According to the Russian military, five ATACMS missiles were fired by Ukrainian forces on Sunday and four were reportedly destroyed in flight near Sevastopol, a port city hosting the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Four people were killed and 34 others injured in Ukraine on Monday in a Russian attack on the town of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region, according to local authorities. “At least four people were killed and 34 injured, such is the provisional toll of the attack on Pokrovsk at 2:15 p.m.,” regional governor Vadym Filachkine said on Telegram, adding that “two children aged 12 and 13” are among the injured

“The use of chemical weapons or chemical riot control agents as a means of warfare constitutes a violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their destruction (Ciac),” recalled the Ukrainian army.

The CIAC effectively prohibits the use of tear gas as a “means of war,” but allows it for maintaining law and order.

The Ukrainian General Staff said in a statement on Facebook that it had “documented 715 cases of use of munitions containing dangerous chemical compounds by the Russians” for the month of May, “271 cases more than in April.” “215” Ukrainian soldiers visited “medical institutions” last month and showed “symptoms of chemical damage of varying severity,” it is also stated.

Russia has intensified its attacks using tear gas diverted from its original use, the Ukrainian army said on Monday, which recorded 715 attacks of this type in the month of May alone. The modus operandi would be the dropping by drone of “K-51 and RG-VO grenades”, normally used by law enforcement to disperse riots, according to the same source.

The Kremlin on Monday threatened the United States with “consequences”, the day after a Ukrainian strike in Crimea, carried out according to Moscow using an American missile, and accused the West of “killing Russian children”. “It is obvious that the participation of the United States in the fighting, its direct participation, which leads to the death of Russian citizens, must have consequences,” Dmitri Peskov, the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, insisted to the press. , calling on journalists to ask in Europe and the United States “why their governments are killing Russian children.”

Russian diplomacy announced that the American ambassador in Moscow had been summoned to be warned of upcoming “retaliatory measures”, after a strike the day before in Crimea, annexed by Russia, which would have been carried out by Ukraine with American missiles. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had informed diplomat Lynne Tracy that “the United States, which is waging a hybrid war against Russia, has become a party to the conflict” in Ukraine and that “retaliatory measures would be taken.” follow “.

The southern Ukrainian city of Odessa was attacked on Monday by cruise missiles, injuring three and causing a major fire covering “3,000 m2”, according to local authorities. “On the morning of June 24, the Russian occupiers attacked the Odessa region with two cruise missiles, apparently of the Iskander-K type,” the military air command of the Southern region said on Telegram.

Russian society is “consolidated” in the face of terrorism, the Kremlin assured Monday, the day after attacks in Dagestan which left 19 dead according to the authorities, President Vladimir Putin not having spoken on the subject. “Russia has changed, society has consolidated and such terrorist demonstrations are not supported by society, whether in Russia or in Dagestan,” said Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, when asked by the press to know if the Kremlin feared the return of an Islamist insurrection in the country, as in the 2000s in the wake of the second Chechen war.

The leader of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, visited the synagogue in Derbent, targeted by the attackers. In a video published by his services on social networks, we see him walking inside the building, traces of blood still being visible on the ground.

The chief rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar, denounced a “vile crime”, guided by the desire to “kill as many innocent people as possible”.

Russia announced on Monday the end of armed clashes in Dagestan, in the Caucasus, where attacks the previous evening against Orthodox churches and at least one synagogue left 19 dead, including 15 police officers and four civilians.

The “anti-terrorist” operation carried out in the region ended Monday morning and five attackers were “liquidated”, announced the Russian Anti-Terrorism Committee. “Their identity has been established.” However, it was not immediately clear whether other attackers had escaped. No information on their motivations or their identity has filtered out and the Kremlin has not yet reacted.

Nineteen people, including four civilians, were killed on Sunday in “terrorist” attacks in Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus, and five attackers were eliminated by law enforcement, the Russian Investigative Committee announced on Monday , in charge of investigations.

“According to preliminary data, 15 law enforcement officers were killed, as well as four civilians, including an Orthodox priest,” investigators said in a statement. During the anti-terrorist operation which ended Monday morning, “five people” were “liquidated.” Their identity has been established,” they added, without specifying whether the attackers were still at large or not.

The head of the Russian republic of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, said that the attacks in the cities of Makhachkala and Derbent were also prepared from abroad.

At least 15 police officers were killed in attacks on Sunday targeting Orthodox churches and a synagogue in Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus, regional leader Sergei Melikov said. “More than 15 police officers were victims of the terrorist act” in Dagestan, Melikov said in a video published overnight on Telegram. They “protected the civilian inhabitants (…) at the cost of their lives”, he underlined. The authorities’ initial toll reported eight police officers and a priest killed in the attacks.