Cover photo: Ukrainian soldiers during a combat operation at the front near Kreminna, Luhansk region, Ukraine, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Roman Chop / AP
- Russian forces killed three people and injured at least ten others according to preliminary data from the Southern Command of Ukraine, during a drone attack on Odessa Oblast in the early hours of Saturday. According to the report, all the drones were destroyed by Ukrainian forces.
- According to several observers, there are increasing signs of the start of a Ukrainian counter-offensive. including the American analysis center Institute for the Study of War, which, however, makes it clear that it does not expect “a single major operation” but a series of different coordinated actions, as is currently the case.
- Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the Ukrainian counter-offensive ” [avait] Begin “. “Whether the offensive [ukrainienne] Stuck or not, in any case it can be said that all attempts at counter-offensive were made [ukrainienne] Previous attempts have failed. “But the attack potential of the troops of the Kiev regime remains,” said the Russian president, according to the TASS news agency.
- In Ukraine, “the situation remains tense along the entire front line.” The epicenter is in the east, This was announced by Hanna Maliar, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine, via telegram. “The enemy continues to focus their forces towards Lyman, Bakhmout, Avdiivka and Marinka,” she added, citing the names of cities where fighting has been raging for months.
- According to local Russian authorities, eight people died in the floods in the occupied part of the Kherson region. “A total of 22,273 houses in 17 towns were flooded. According to forecasts, the water surge may continue for another ten days,” Vladimir Saldo, the head of the Kherson administration, told Telegram. For its part, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said at least five people were killed and 13 were missing as a result of the floods. A total of 48 towns were flooded, including 14 in areas under Russian occupation, and 2,412 people were evacuated on the Ukrainian side, he said in the Telegram.
- Russia will begin stationing nuclear warheads in Belarus Vladimir Putin said on Friday, seemingly contradicting his ally Alexander Lukashenko, who announced in May that this broadcast had already started.
- French President Emmanuel Macron, Polish President Andrzej Duda and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will coordinate military aid and security guarantees to be granted to Ukraine during a working lunch Monday at the Elysee Palace as part of the Weimar Triangle, the Elysee Palace announced on Friday.
- The US on Friday announced a new tranche of military aid to Ukraine.mostly anti-aircraft equipment and ammunition, worth around $2 billion.
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