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Marochko added that several Ukrainian rockets reached their target, but the sky over Lugansk is controlled by reserve forces.

Ukraine "once again showed its terrorist nature" when it carried out a strike on facilities that protect civilians of the LPR, Marochko said.

"Yes, of course [we are waiting for this]," he told reporters when asked a related question.

The Syrian government expressed its readiness to recognize the LPR, Pasechnik said, adding that as soon as the relevant negotiations are held, the parties will begin to implement this project.

According to Pasechnik, the LPR is very grateful to the leadership and people of Syria for their readiness to recognize the republic.

On June 29, the Syrian foreign ministry said that the country decided to recognize the independence of the Donbas republics, including the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the LPR.

The Infodefensa noted that under the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez administration the supply of weapons to Ukraine was previously limited to defensive armament only.

The EU has already allocated four tranches of 500 million euros each for military assistance to Ukraine. The total amount of financing for the purchase of weapons amounted to 2 billion euros.

"For the moment, we have frozen, coming from oligarchs and other entities, 13.8 billion euros, so, it’s quite huge. But I would say that the large part, more than 12 billions, are coming from 5 member states. So, we need to continue to convince others to do the same, and so we have sent new letters to ask more information and to explain the best practices to do that. I’m hoping that in the next weeks we will see an increase in same process in all of member states," Reynders added.

"It is proposed to make an emphasis on creating the image of 'collective participation' of all European neighbors of Ukraine in the affairs of Kiev. For this, Warsaw is ready to go for more active cooperation on the Ukrainian issue with Hungary and Romania, thus hiding behind them to implement its own plans," the statement says.

Ukrainian military has deployed a kamikaze drone at a residential area in Energodar in the Zaporozhye Region, with a number of killed and injured is yet to be defined, a military-civilian administration spokesman told Sputnik on Tuesday.

"Around 2:20 p.m [11:20 GMT], the Security Service of Ukraine [SBU] used the kamikaze drone on the residential area in Energodar," the spokesman said.

He added that the SBU attempted to deploy one more kamikaze drone at the residential area.

The Kakhovka hydro-electric power station is operating as normal since Ukraine's missile strike carried out with US-supplied rocket launchers on Nova Kakhovka did not hit the plant, a source in the Kherson city administration told Sputnik on Tuesday.

"The hydro power plant is operating as normal, there are no damages as it is located far from [the point of impact]," a source said.

Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is not against Ukrainian people but against the Kiev regime, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

"The special military operation is not against Ukrainians. It is against the regime, and at the same time, very many Ukrainians really want to become citizens of the Russian Federation. Therefore, this decree is extremely important for a large number of people," Peskov told reporters.

The Kremlin spokesman also said that that resumption of talks between Kiev and Moscow is not even discussed right now.

The EU approved 1 billion euro loan to Ukraine on Tuesday, European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said.

"EU is stepping up its financial support to Ukraine: EU ministers just approved €1 billion loan #Ecofin. This is part of new exceptional macro-financial assistance package," Dombrovskis tweeted.