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Poland has sent weapons worth nearly $2 billion to Ukraine, including more than 240 tanks and about 100 armored personnel carriers. “We sent tanks from Poland to Ukraine: almost two combat tank groups. There are more than 240 tanks that the Ukrainian army can service. We have sent almost a hundred armored personnel carriers," President of Poland Andrzej Duda told the Bild German newspaper in an interview, Ukrinform reports. He added that Warsaw had also supplied Kyiv with small arms, ammunition, military equipment. "In total, we have sent weapons worth nearly $2 billion to Ukraine," Duda said. He also called…

The Russian military is considering a way to "demine" captured Mariupol by forcing captured Ukrainians to walk across minefields. The Security Service of Ukraine issued the relevant report on Telegram following a study of an intercepted call. To this end, Russian invaders even came up with a new term: "natural demining." The SBU became aware of these terrible intentions of the Russian military from intercepted phone calls. "It seems that the issue was being discussed: to help you or the city of Mariupol with natural demining, or to send to the trenches those captured in Melitopol," a Russian FSB operative,…

If the Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine defending Sivierodonetsk receive long-range artillery from the country’s Western partners, it will silence the Russians, while special operations forces will quickly clear the city of invasion troops. Head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai shared his opinion on Facebook. "The Russians stick to primitive tactics: heavy artillery shelling, followed by attempted breakthroughs. The same thing happened in previously destroyed Rubizhne and Popasna. The enemy is heavily bombarding the industrial area, which we control. If we get Western long-range weapons quickly then an artillery duel begins, the ‘Soviets’ will lose to the West,…

A total of 263 children have been killed and 488 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started. The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Over 751 children in Ukraine have been affected by the Russian armed aggression. As of June 9, 2022, the number of those killed remained unchanged (263 children). The number of those injured increased to 488,” the report states. These data are not final, as they are being investigated within the areas of hostilities, temporarily occupied and liberated areas. Currently, most casualties were recorded in Donetsk…

Russian troops shell industrial facilities and residential neighborhoods in Luhansk region. “The enemies continue making unsuccessful attempts to find weak spots in the defense of Sievierodonetsk, while firing on residential neighborhoods and industrial facilities in Luhansk region. On the evening of June 8, they twice hit the Azot association in Sievierodonetsk. At least two workshops at different ends of the chemical plant were damaged. One of them is an ammonia production workshop,” Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhiy Haidai posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. At least four residents of the region were killed. One of them is a…

In Sievierodonetsk direction, Russian troops fired mortars, artillery, and multiple rocket launchers on the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy continues making futile attempts to find weak spots in the defense of Sievierodonetsk. This is stated in the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook. In Volyn and Polissya directions, the enemy did not take active action. The situation has not changed significantly. In Siversky direction, the enemy continues to guard the Ukrainian-Russian border and fire mortars on civilian infrastructure in the border areas of Chernihiv and Sumy regions. In Kharkiv direction, the…

Over the past day, the strike aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated at least ten enemy armored personnel vehicles and about two dozen invaders. "On June 8, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched missile and bomb strikes on the occupying forces. At least ten armored personnel vehicles and about two dozen ruscists were eliminated," the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook. Moreover, the Air Force units downed two Orlan-10 UAVs, and seven more UAVs of this type were destroyed by the air defense units…

Ukrainian forces have repulsed seven enemy attacks and destroyed a significant number of military equipment in the area of the Joint Forces Operation in eastern Ukraine in the last 24 hours. The Joint Forces Task Force said this in a Facebook post, Ukrinform reports. "Along the entire line of defense, the enemy uses combat aircraft, multiple rocket launchers, large-caliber artillery, tanks, mortars of various systems, launching missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure, peaceful residential areas," the statement said. It added that Ukrainian defenders repelled seven enemy attacks on June 8, with fighting taking place at one location. In the…

Ripple effects from the war in Ukraine have generated a severe cost-of-living crisis which no country or community can escape, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. According to an Ukrinform correspondent in New York, he stated this on Wednesday at a press conference dedicated to the presentation of a report on the conflict’s impacts on food security, energy, and financing. Earlier, he said the war in Ukraine is inflaming a three-dimensional global crisis – food, energy and finance. The UN Secretary General said that countries must act now to save lives and livelihoods. "Three months into the Russian invasion of…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees presenting state awards to 285 Ukrainian heroes, participants in hostilities. Zelensky stated this in his address, Ukrinform reports. "I signed decrees on awarding our heroes. Some 285 participants of hostilities were given state awards, 68 of them posthumously. Eternal memory to all who gave their lives for Ukraine! Eternal glory to our heroes who are defending our state! Glory to Ukraine," he said.