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President Volodymyr Zelensky promises to do his best to guarantee people a basis for life even after the disaster caused by the Russian invaders blowing up the Kakhovka HPP. He noted this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "Any terrorist counts on only a few forms of results for himself: the suffering of people, the intimidation of people, and the ruins that terror leaves behind. This is exactly how Russia acts in this case. We will do everything to guarantee people a basis for life even after this disaster," the head of state emphasized. Read also: Russians moving combat-ready units from Kherson…

Ukraine’s Armed Forces have deoccupied the village of Blahodatne, pushing Russian invaders back. The Oleksa Dovbush 68th Separate Hunting Brigade reported the advance on Facebook, Ukrinform saw. "The glorious soldiers from the Oleksa Dovbush 68th Separate Hunting Brigade, in a joint effort with the neighboring units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, liberated the settlement of Blahodatne. The invaders resisted to the last, but could not cope with the onslaught of the unstoppable wolverines!" the report reads.

Russian troops launched two attacks on the main ammonia pipeline in the Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, on June 10. There is no ammonia leak and no threat to people. Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, said this in a post on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. "Over the past day, the enemy continued shelling the settlements of the Kharkiv, Kupiansk, Chuhuiv and Bohodukhiv districts of the region," he said. According to Syniehubov, at around 01:50, Russian invaders attacked a civilian enterprise in the Bohodukhiv district using three Shahed UAVs. A fire broke out. He noted that yesterday the…

The Russian military exerts moral pressure on people on the east bank of the Dnipro River, setting up checkpoints along the flood line and making them receive Russian passports to save themselves from the water. Nataliia Humeniuk, head of the joint coordination press center of Ukraine's southern defense forces, said this on Ukrainian television, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. "They [the Russians] continue their incredible psychological, including moral, pressure on people, provoking them to get Russian passports, speculating that salvation is possible only for those who have a Russian passport. They even opened passport issuing points at checkpoints that they…

The Air Force of Ukraine launched 16 strikes on Russian manpower clusters, as well as two strikes targeting enemy anti-aircraft missile systems. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its morning update posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. "Also, our defenders destroyed 4 enemy reconnaissance UAVs of various types. In the past 24 hours, units of the missile forces and artillery hit 2 command post, 5 clusters of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 1 artillery unit in firing position and 4 more important objects of the enemy,” the report says. The Russian occupiers launched another attack…

After the Kakhovka dam blast, about 700,000 people do not have proper access to drinking water on both the Ukrainian-controlled and Russian-controlled sides of the river. UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said this in an interview with The Associated Press, Ukrinform reports. According to him, there is also the flooding of important agricultural land and a looming problem of providing cooling water for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, which had been supplied from the dam. He stressed that the ravages of flooding will almost inevitably lead to lower grain exports, higher food prices around the world,…

Soldiers of the Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi separate presidential brigade destroyed a Russian infantry fighting vehicle with the Ukrainian-made Stugna anti-tank missile system in the Bakhmut area. "Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian IFV-2 with the Ukrainian Stugna in the Bakhmut area. The 4th Mechanized Battalion of the Presidential Brigade is operating," the brigade wrote on Facebook, posting the relevant video. As reported by Ukrinform, since the full-scale war waged against Ukraine, Russia has already lost thousands of military equipment, including 3,909 tanks, 7,607 armored fighting vehicles, and 3,717 artillery systems. Photo: CB LUCH

Ukraine's military personnel in the United Kingdom are undergoing training to conduct positional and anti-ambush combat operations in a wooded area. The press service of the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said this in a Facebook post, according to Ukrinform. "Classes on conducting combat operations in a wooded area - military instructors of the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Sweden, as part of the multinational training operation INTERFLEX on basic military training of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Britain, conduct complex tactical classes on conducting positional and anti-ambush combat operations in a forest," the post…

A Ukrainian firefighter was killed in Kharkiv region by a Russian strike as he was putting out a fire at the site of the previous hit at the same site. This was announced on Facebook by the State Emergency Service office in Kharkiv region, reports Ukrinform. "Another crime against rescuers: during firefighting, repeated shelling ended the life of a firefighter in Kharkiv region. Mykhailo Piskun, a firefighter with the 12th State Fire and Rescue Unit of the Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region, was 29 years old," the statement said. Read also: Rescuers evacuate…

More than 3,000 people have been evacuated from the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions after Russian forces blew up the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in a daily video address, Ukrinform reports. "As of now, over 3,000 people have already been evacuated in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. But again, it is only a free territory under our control. In the occupied territory, it is only possible to help people in some areas – Russian terrorists are doing everything to make the victims of the disaster as many as possible. Russian shelling continues –…