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The Russian forces struck Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region four times on Wednesday, June 7. Mykola Lukashuk, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "A drone attack was recorded in Myrove community. 2 private residential buildings, an outbuilding, 3 cars, a tractor were damaged," the post says. Artillery strikes on Nikopol damaged an educational institution, 2 private enterprises, 8 private residential buildings, 6 outbuildings, a low-pressure gas pipeline, and a power transmission line were damaged. Read also: Russians shell Nikopol district twice in the morning No casualties have been reported. As…

Ukraine’s Air Force launched 5 strikes on the areas of concentration of Russian troops, while missile units destroyed 2 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems and 1 radar station in the past 24 hours. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its evening update published on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. "Aircraft of the Defense Forces launched 15 strikes on enemy manpower clusters and 2 strikes on anti-aircraft missile systems. Our defenders destroyed 4 enemy reconnaissance UAVs,” the report says. Units of the missile forces and artillery hit 4 enemy command posts, 1 personnel cluster, 3 ammunition depots, 1…

In the area of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukrainian troops are gradually advancing as everything is going “according to plan.” This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Defense, Hanna Maliar, who spoke on the air of the national telethon, Ukrinform reports. "Our troops are advancing toward Bakhmut. It is not so easy because the Russians are bringing in their troops from the rear and trying to reinforce their units in the areas where our armed forces have gone on the offensive. Fierce battles are underway. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are gradually advancing," she said. Read also: Maliar: AFU’s offensive…

The Russian aggressors failed to evacuate the people from left-bank Kherson region, which they occupied, and they can also use the situation with the Kakhovka HPP dam explosion to displace people from the affected settlements to the territory of Russia. "The situation on the left bank is horrible... A large number of people found themselves in a situation where they could not leave. They stay on the roofs of flooded houses. The occupation authorities completely failed the evacuation," Yuriy Sobolevskyi, the First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council, told a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine—Ukrinform. In his opinion,…

Ukrainian Navy units eliminated 17 Russian invaders, six enemy tanks and two artillery systems on June 6. The Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in a post on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. "Last day, units of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated 17 invaders, 6 tanks, 2 artillery systems and 1 unit of automobile equipment," the report says. Read also: Ukraine’s Air Force launches over 20 strikes on enemy positions, destroys Su-25 The enemy’s final losses are being verified. As reported by Ukrinform, the Defense Forces of Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to…

In the settlements of the occupied Hola Prystan community of the Kherson region, water is coming, its level sometimes reaches 3.5 meters. Head of the Hola Prystan Regional Military Administration Svitlana Linnyk said this, Ukrinform reports. "In the settlements of the Hola Prystan community, water continues to come in and its level in some areas has reached 3.5 meters," Linnyk said. According to her, the villages of Kardashynka and Kokhany are completely flooded. Water also continues to arrive in Hola Prystan, the eastern part of which is already completely under water. In the central part of the city, the water…

More than 1,450 people have already been evacuated after the Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka HPP. Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, the spokesman for the State Emergency Service, said this on the air of the nationwide news telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “We have already evacuated more than 1,450 people. We also have deployed nine evacuation points, and currently people are still there and receiving psychological support - they are given water and food. We have a total of over 1,450 personnel and over 300 pieces of equipment. In particular, from the State Emergency Service - 772 people, 174 units of equipment…

In the temporarily occupied areas of Kherson region, Russian invaders do not even try to help people who suffered from the blast of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant (HPP). President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote this on Telegram and published photos from flooded Kherson region. “Russian terrorists have once again proved that they are a threat to everything living. The destruction of one of the largest water reservoirs in Ukraine is absolutely deliberate. At least 100 thousand people lived in these areas before the Russian invasion. At least tens of thousands are still there,” Zelensky noted. According to him, hundreds of thousands…

Under the pretext of the threat of intense shelling, the Russian FSB could take to Crimea the Ukrainian children from the newly occupied areas of Ukraine and regions bordering Russia. That’s according to Ukraine’s Ombudsperson Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrinform reports. Children would be placed in summer camps and recreational areas throughout the peninsula for the summer period to “create conditions for reducing risks from the expected Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Crimea direction” and to “discredit the Armed Forces and portray Ukraine as a ‘terrorist state.’ Meanwhile, pro-Russian narratives are already circulating in the media space, falsely claiming it was Ukraine that…

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War are currently not ready to make final assessments regarding those responsible for the destruction of the dam at the Kakhovka HPP. However, the balance of evidence, reasoning, and rhetoric suggests that the Russians deliberately damaged the dam. This is stated in the latest ISW report, seen by Ukrinform. ISW has yet to find clear evidence of what happened at the hydroelectric plant on June 6, and therefore cannot provide an independent assessment as to those responsible. White House spokesman John Kirby noted that the United States cannot say for sure at…