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What happened in the past hours

Here are the highlights of the war at 12 noon on day 479 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine:

Ukraine calls for “long-range, high-precision weapons” to enhance the counterattack. Ukraine claims to have taken back the offensive lead in the war while Russia remains on the defensive. However, Kiev needs weapons with a longer range, up to 200 kilometers, to advance the progress of the ongoing military operation, Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Gavrilov claimed.

Russia claims to have repelled an attack on the Druzhba pipeline. Authorities in Russia’s Bryansk region, on the border with Ukraine, claimed to have repelled a drone attack on a pumping station for the Druzhba pipeline on Saturday.

Corpses and Russian loot: Kherson occupied after Nova Kakhovka recedes. The lowering of the flood waters caused by the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine on June 6 revealed the scale of the tragedy in the region occupied by Russian forces. As they bury the shipwrecked who appear in the flooded areas, the neighbors deplore the looting. “Many people have drowned and the morgues are full,” said a neighbor from a town in the Kherson region.

Ukrainian soldiers launch drone bombs: “I see you. I want to kill you.” The Thor unit, which is engaged in one of the fiercest counter-attack battles, in the Mala Tokmashka region, fights the invader with observation systems and attacks from a distance.

Durao Barroso: “The European Union is emerging from its geopolitical adolescence”. Former President of the European Commission (2004 to 2014) José Manuel Durao Barroso (Lisbon, 67 years old) believes that the EU has been proven to be “flexible” and that it is leaving “the period of geopolitical adolescence”. Conservative politician EL PAÍS was greeted on Friday at the IE University campus in Madrid, where he participated in the Concordia Europe 2023 summit.