Kiev forces stepped up their counteroffensive as Russian troops opened fire on rescuers and survivors of the Dnieper dam disaster. Zelenskyi went to the flooded areas and promised reconstruction.
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10:07
Powerful explosions in Kharkiv
Loud explosions could be heard on the outskirts of Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine this morning, reports Rbc-Ukraine, citing local Telegram channels. The police in the region of the same name are asking residents to seek shelter in air raid shelters.
09:48
Drone crashes in Russian city of Voronezh, 2 injured
A drone crashed in Voronezh, a major city in south-west Russia not far from the Ukrainian border, injuring two people. The governor reported it Alexander Gusev on his Telegram channel, quoted by Ria Novosti.
Photos posted on social media show a multi-story building was damaged. “According to preliminary information, an unmanned aerial vehicle crashed on Belinsky Street in Voronezh. The special services are deployed on the ground,” Gusev wrote.
09:46
Moscow: More than 22,000 residential buildings were flooded in Kherson
The number of residential buildings flooded due to the failure of the Kakhovka Dam in the Kherson region has risen to almost 22,300. Tass reported, citing the emergency services. “According to the latest data, almost 22,300 residential buildings in 17 settlements were flooded. The water level in Nowa Kachowka dropped by 2 meters, up to 10 meters,” a rescue service source explained, adding that the shelters were home to 1,117 people, including 110 children and 35 disabled people.
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09:45
Possible power outages after the attack on the Kachowka power plant
Ukraine’s largest private electric utility, Dtek, does not rule out possible power outages in the country after the attack on the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power station: the company’s CEO announced: Dmitri Zaharukas reported by Rbc-Ukraine.
Zakharuk explained that electricity production at Ukrainian power plants has increased, so consumers across the country should not experience blackouts, but did not rule out the possibility in the evening hours.
“Electricity production is enough to meet consumer demand, but the situation in the power system remains difficult and there may be power shortages in the evening due to the limited number of power plants in operation,” he said.
09:41
Ukrainian Secret Service: “Eavesdropping proves Russians hit dam”
Ukrainian intelligence has intercepted and released the audio of a phone conversation between Russian officials, in which they say they were the ones who blew up the Kakhovka Dam, not the Ukrainians. RBC-Ukraine reports about it. “It wasn’t them (the Ukrainians) who hit the dam. There is our sabotage group. They wanted to scare people with this dam. It didn’t go according to plan, but more than they expected,” says the Russian military officer intercepted, describing the aftermath of the explosion.
09:24
New meeting between Putin and Lukashenko in Russia
There’s a new meeting today, brother Wladimir Putin And Alexander Lukashenko in Russia, the Kremlin spokesman expectedDmitry Peskov. Lukashenko had previously awaited the meeting, saying he would offer the Russian president a State of the Union development plan between Moscow and Minsk to make the union immune to external pressures. The last meeting between Putin and Lukashenko took place only on May 25, on the sidelines of the Eurasian Economic Council summit in Moscow.
(Portal) 09:23
Kiev, the water level at the Zaporizhia power plant is stable
“The water level in the cooling pool of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is stable,” writes the Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom on Telegram.
“Although the Russian occupation has undermined the Kakhovka Dam, the situation remains stable and under control,” the statement said. “On June 9 at 08:00 (7:00 in Italy), the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir near Nikopol was 11.74 meters, and in the cooling reservoir of the Zaporizhia NPP – 16.66 meters, which was enough to water level needs of the plant”, Energoatom specifies.
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08:59
Kiev, the attack on the Kakhovka plant will be catastrophic for Moscow
The consequences of the attack on the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power station will be terrible for Ukraine but catastrophic for the Russians, said the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine: Oleksiy Danilovin an interview on national radio, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda.
“Believe me, the consequences for our country will be terrible, but for the Russians they will be just catastrophic.”
Because they will be responsible for all of this. And the people in the Kremlin who gave the order to demolish the dam will be responsible for it,” he said, reiterating that such decisions “are made only in the Kremlin and only by Putin.”
08:55
Russian bloggers, Kiev seizes positions in Zaporizhia
According to Russian military bloggers, the Ukrainian army, in heavy night-time fighting, managed to capture positions in the Zaporizhia region occupied by three Kremlin regiments. The fiercest fighting began at three in the morning near Novodanilovka, Gray Zone reports on Telegram, reporting that Kiev troops occupied the positions of the outposts of the 291st Rifle Regiment, 70th Regiment and 42nd Rifle Division of Russia’s Southern Military District.
08:44
Zelenskyy: “Russians are bombing evacuation points”
“They continue to bomb Kherson and the region’s communities, which have already been overrun by terrorists. They are also bombing the evacuation points, a manifestation of evil that perhaps no terrorist in the world except Russians has ever done,” the Ukrainian president writes on Telegram Volodymyr Zelenskyy refers to the Russian armed forces.
(afp) 08:40
Kiev, one civilian killed and others injured in raid in Russia
One civilian was killed and three others injured in six-hour Russian raids last night, the Interior Ministry in Kyiv said, adding that four buildings were also destroyed by the debris caused by the launched missiles. Photos of the action of firefighters in residential buildings of Zviahel in the Zhytomyr region have been published. According to the governor, two Russian cruise missiles hit a civilian target in the Cherkassy region, injuring eight other people. Ukrainian forces have announced the shooting down of four of the six cruise missiles and ten of the 16 drones fired by the Russians during the night.
08:09
Zelenskyy claims results in Donetsk, but fighting also breaks out in Zaporizhia
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Claims “results” for the Kyiv Armed Forces in the “heavy fighting” taking place in the Donetsk region and the east of the country.
But fighting is also raging in the Zaporizhia region, where Ukrainian forces are attempting to seize territory heading south towards the city of Orikhiv, military bloggers report. They are basing this on Kiev’s plan to regain control of the entrance to the Sea of Azov and to split the Russian forces into two separate groups.
In the video message he recorded on the train after visiting the areas affected by the flooding after the Kachowka dam explosion, he emphasizes that “there are results”.
“I am grateful to everyone who made this possible. Well done Bakhmut. Step by step,” added Zelenskyy and spoke of high combat zones without giving any further details for the time being.
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08:06
Moscow, 3 injured by Kiev bombs in Belgorod Oblast
Three people were injured in a Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s Belgorod region tonight, local authorities said, according to Moscow media.
The governor on his Telegram channel Vyacheslav Gladkov He explained that a multi-storey building and several private houses were damaged in the Razumnoye settlement.
Lightning strikes by anti-Putin rebels. And Moscow is ordering the Russians to evacuate their homes in Belgorod
by our correspondent Brunella Giovara June 05, 2023
08:04
Greta Thumberg, Russia is responsible for the ecocide
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg He demanded that Russia be held accountable for the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam, which he described as ecocide.
“This ecocide is the continuation of Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine and another atrocity that has left the world speechless. Russia must be held accountable for its crimes,” Greta wrote on her Twitter account.
This ecocide as a continuation of Russia’s unprovoked large-scale invasion of Ukraine is another atrocity that has left the world speechless. Our eyes are once again on Russia, which must be held accountable for its crimes. https://t.co/GDWrJnMkmb
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) June 8, 2023
08:00
The counter-offensive in the Zaporizhia area continues
The Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Zaporizhia area continues. For the second time in a row, Ukrainian troops are attempting to advance south of the city of Orikhiv. This was reported by the BBC, citing a senior Ukrainian defense official, who said Russia was in a period of “active defence”. According to the British broadcaster, Ukraine is trying to regain access to the Sea of Azov to eliminate a land bridge to Crimea.
07:58
Kiev claims four cruise missiles and ten drones were shot down in Russia
Ukrainian forces claim to have shot down four of the six cruise missiles launched last night and ten of the 16 Russian drones. The missiles, which passed through the Ukrainian barriers, hit a civilian target in the south of the country.
07:56
Kiev, 43 firefights in the Donetsk region
More than 40 firefights between Ukrainian and Russian forces have taken place in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours, the General Staff of the Kyiv Army said in its daily report on the conflict, Ukrinform reported.
“The enemy continues to concentrate its main efforts on the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka directions, fierce fighting continues. In the past 24 hours, there have been 43 clashes in these frontline areas,” the report said.
06:45
Kiev: Zhytomyr Oblast attacked, one dead and one wounded
The Russian military carried out a rocket attack on the Zviahel municipality in Zhytomyr region of northern Ukraine, killing one person and injuring several others. This was announced by the Ukrinform agency this morning, citing local authorities.
05:15
British and Swedish fighter jets intercept Russian military aircraft
British RAF’s Eurofighter Typhoon and Swedish Air Force’s Gripen have intercepted a Russian Air Force Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft and a Su-27 fighter near NATO and Swedish airspace. The RAF said that “the Russian aircraft did not meet international standards but were in international airspace and flying professionally”.
04:13
Two billion more aid is arriving for Kiev from the USA
The Pentagon is expected to announce a new $2 billion military aid package to Ukraine in the next few hours. This was reported by the Bloomberg agency.
Ukrainian rabbi under Russian fire in Kherson
02:16
Activists: Moscow is recruiting men in Chechnya
Russia is forcibly recruiting men from Chechnya to fight in Ukraine, jailing those who refuse and threatening their families, according to activists from the North Caucasus Sos (NC Sos) crisis group, quoted by local media.
01:29
Russian Orthodox Church: Ukrainian prisoners transferred to Hungary
The Russian Orthodox Church announced through its press service that it handed over a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war to Hungary. According to local media, the transfer took place at Budapest’s request and with the “blessing” of Patriarch Kirill.
01:02
Air warnings in almost all of Ukraine
Airborne warnings have been sounding in Kiev and several regions of Ukraine since midnight. Shortly thereafter, air alerts were sounded in almost the entire Ukraine and air defenses against the impending rocket attacks were put into operation.
00:56
US condemns violence against evacuations from Kherson
The United States condemns all forms of violence against those who helped evacuate people after a dam blast in Ukraine and against those seeking help. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in an interview with CNN.
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