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Ukrainian volunteer Yaroslav Zhuk, who was abducted last year by the Russian military in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, is being tortured in a pre-trial detention center in Russia’s Rostov. Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, posted this on Telegram. He noted that the hearing of the case against the abducted resident of Melitopol has begun in the Southern Military District Court in Rostov-on-Don. "A citizen of Ukraine stated that he was tortured by the employees of pre-trial detention center No.1. Yaroslav wrote about this in a statement in which he asks to prosecute the employees of this detention…

The Russian military fired at a school in Oleshky, on the temporarily captured territory of Kherson region, where people gathered after their homes had been flooded. Oleshky Mayor in exile Yevhen Ryshchuk reported this on Telegram, Ukrinform saw. "The orcs have just fired at the building of School 2, where people from the flooded houses were gathering," the report says. Read also: Water level rises in Mykolaiv region, 3,000 ha of forests flooded As Ukrinform reported earlier, on the night of June 6, the Russian occupation forces blew up the Kakhovka HPP dam, which caused a major flood downstream of…

A 53-year-old man was killed in the village of Vasylivka, Mykolaiv region, as a result of flooding caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. The chief of police of Mykolaiv region Serhii Shaikhet wrote this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "Due to the blowing up of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant by the occupiers, the territories of Snihurivka, Shyroke and Horokhivske communities in Mykolaiv region are flooded. At the moment, we have one victim - a 53-year-old man from the village of Vasylivka, who refused to be evacuated yesterday," the statement said. Shaikhet emphasized that local police are…

As a result of Russia’s full-scale armed aggression, 486 children have been killed in Ukraine. “As of the morning of June 8, 2023, more than 1,495 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to the official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 486 children were killed and more than 1,009 received injuries of various degrees of severity,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office wrote on Telegram. It is noted that these figures are not final, as work is underway in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated…

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,…

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…