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Diahuebs 28 Juli 2022

Pakistan uses boats, helicopters to evacuate flood victims

roads and about 4,000 homes
in Baluchistan province, ac- It said the military had set up
cording to the National Di- medical camps in deluged ar-
saster Management Author- eas, where the World Health
ity. Organization this week
launched an anti-cholera vac-
It said 337 people have died in cination campaign to prevent
rain-related incidents across the spread of the water-borne
impoverished Pakistan. disease.

Akram Bugti, a rescue offi- Cholera has caused 28 deaths
cial, said hundreds of people and sickened thousands of
were stranded just in Las- people in Baluchistan in re-
bella, a district in Baluchistan cent months.
province, after floodwater in-
undated several villages. The disease is endemic and
seasonal in Pakistan, where
He said the Baluchistan gov- many people don’t have ac-
ernment is providing food, cess to clean drinking water.
tents and other essential items Health officials said the anti-
to flood-affected people. cholera vaccination campaign
began on July 25 and will
In a statement, Pakistan’s continue until Friday.
military said the previous
(AP) — Rescuers backed marooned people from 104 people. day that troops were assisting The monsoon season runs
by troops used boats and the country’s southwest, local authorities in Baluch- from July through Septem-
helicopters Wednesday where floods triggered by Since June 14, the down- istan to evacuate people from ber in Pakistan.
to evacuate hundreds of monsoon rains have killed pours have damaged bridges, flood-affected areas.

US rocket system enables Ukraine to pummel key supply bridge

(AP) — Ukrainian troops used Nataliya Gumenyuk, told Ukrainian a morale-boosting victory for the that the “occupiers should learn how
American-supplied precision TV that “surgical strikes” were car- Ukrainians. to swim across” the Dnieper or “leave
rocket launchers to knock out a ried out on the bridge. Kherson while it is still possible.”
strategic bridge used by Russia Ukrainian presidential adviser “There may not be a third warning,”
to supply its forces in southern The HIMARS has greater range, Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter he tweeted.
Ukraine’s occupied Kherson re- much more precision and a faster
gion, officials said Wednesday. rate of fire than the Soviet-designed
Smerch, Uragan and Tornado rocket
Ukraine also claimed to have de- launchers used by both Russia and
stroyed an enemy ammunition de- Ukraine. The weapons were among
pot, artillery pieces and other military the billions of dollars in Western
equipment in the region, killing 51 military aid that has helped Ukraine
members of the Russian army. There fight off the Russians since the Feb.
was no immediate confirmation from 24 invasion.
the Russian side.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel-
The Antonivskyi Bridge over the enskyy claimed that Russia has lost
Dnieper River was attacked late Tues- nearly 40,000 soldiers in the war and
day, according to Kirill Stremousov, that tens of thousands more were
deputy head of the Moscow-appoint- wounded. His claim could not be
ed administration for the Kherson independently verified. The Rus-
region. The bridge was left standing, sian military last reported its losses in
but holes in its deck prevented vehi- March, when it said 1,351 troops had
cles from crossing the 1.4-kilometer been killed.
(0.9-mile) span, he said.
Turkey’s defense minister said prepa-
After previous Ukrainian attacks rations were underway for the re-
damaged the bridge last week, it was sumption of grain shipments from
closed to trucks, but it had remained Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. Russia and
open for passenger vehicles until the Ukraine signed agreements last week
latest strike. to free up millions of tons of grain
trapped by the fighting, potentially
Russian forces in recent days have easing the global food crisis.
intensified their shelling of cities and
villages in eastern Ukraine while also At least two civilians were killed and
stepping up airstrikes in the south. At three wounded when Russian forces
the same time, the Kremlin’s troops shelled a hotel in the eastern city of
are facing mounting counterattacks Bakhmut, Ukrainian emergency au-
from the Ukrainians in the Kherson thorities said. Bakhmut has been a
region, which was captured by Mos- focus of the Russian offensive in the
cow early in the war. region.

Ukrainian forces used U.S.-supplied While halting traffic across the
HIMARS multiple rocket launchers Dnieper River bridge makes only
to target the bridge, Stremousov said. a slight dent in the overall Russian
A Ukrainian military spokesperson, military operation, the attack was