[Korrespondent] 23:12 The Russians fired artillery at Ukrainsk, Donetsk region - it is known about three dead (two adults and one child) and three wounded children, the President's Office reported.
22:49 Zelensky said in an evening video message that international organizations such as the Red Cross should immediately join the rescue operation and help people in the occupied part of the Kherson region.
"The Ukrainian military and special services, as much as possible, despite the shelling, are saving people. But large-scale efforts are needed ... Every death there is a sentence to the existing international architecture, to international organizations that have forgotten how to save lives. If now there is no international organization in the zone this catastrophe - it means that it does not exist at all, it means that it is incapacitated. There are all relevant appeals from Ukraine, our government," the president emphasized.
22:34 The destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by the Russians not only led to a large-scale man-made disaster, but also affected the course of hostilities. Many experts attribute the bombing of the hydroelectric power plant to an attempt by Russia to disrupt or complicate the Ukrainian counteroffensive. About what are the real military consequences of the destruction of the hydroelectric power station - in the material New opportunities .
21:46 Zelensky said in an interview with Bild that the schedule for the start of the Ukrainian offensive has been approved: "We have approved the schedule for the start of the movement of our troops, decisions have been made."
21:42 Shmygal appealed to the leadership of the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international humanitarian organizations about the blowing up of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by Russian troops. He urged them to immediately intervene and take over the evacuation of people from the territories of the Kherson region occupied by the Russians.
“As a result of this terrible terrorist attack, dozens of settlements were flooded. The Ukrainian authorities organized the evacuation from the territory of the Kherson region controlled by us. However, on the left bank, under temporary occupation, people were abandoned by the Russians to their fate. Hundreds of houses literally disappeared under water. People are forced to leave their homes on their own , and those who can't are trapped in the elements," the Prime Minister stressed.
21:23 The occupied city of Oleshki, Kherson region, is 85% covered with water, there are victims due to flooding, head of the GVA Tatyana Gasanenko told Radio Liberty. According to her, it is impossible to evacuate from the city on her own - the occupation authorities do not let her out, instead they offer to leave only for the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. Some people continue to sit on rooftops.
Mayor Oleshek Yevgeny Ryshchuk told Suspilny that three people had been killed.
20:49 The Russians fired four rockets at Avdiivka, Donetsk region, one person was injured, Mayor Vitaliy Barabash said. According to him, 1,731 people remain in the city.
20:36 The peace mission of the presidents of several African countries to find ways to resolve the "Ukrainian crisis" will arrive in Kiev on June 16, said an employee of the non-profit organization Brazzaville Foundation, which facilitates the trip. After Kyiv, the African presidents will visit St. Petersburg.
20:30 Zelensky told Bild that he was shocked by the reaction of the UN and the Red Cross to the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. According to him, the largest international organizations either did not respond to the request for assistance, or it was in fact a refusal "in diplomatic formulations." "People and animals have died. From the roofs of flooded houses, people can see the drowned people passing by. It is very difficult to take people out of the occupied part of the Kherson region," the president said.
He also added that the blowing up of the hydroelectric power station "does not help us in the counteroffensive and does not facilitate it." At the same time, Zelensky specified that when the counteroffensive begins, "everyone will feel it."
19:42 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Macron, spoke about the current situation in the Kherson region, discussed the possibility of using international mechanisms to investigate the causes of the disaster at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. "We agreed to continue defense cooperation, in particular, to protect our skies. We expect the training of Ukrainian pilots to start as soon as possible. We discussed the formats of security guarantees for Ukraine, expectations from the NATO Vilnius summit and preparations for the Global Peace Summit," the president said.
19:14 Mortality in Mariupol from "natural causes" this week crossed the mark of 400 people - this is 2.6 times more than the peak of covid mortality, when 150 people died in a week. Moreover, then it was 150 people per 500 thousand of the population, now it is 400 per incomplete 100 thousand, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
18:38 After the Russians undermined the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the residents of the village of Kazachy Camps, without waiting for help from the occupying "authorities", tried to leave the partially flooded settlement on their own. However, the Russian servicemen, being in a state of intoxication, blocked all possible ways to leave the city and forbade evacuation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. Meanwhile, in the city of Golaya Pristan, the occupiers are driving out the owners of two-story houses and settling themselves in them. They set up firing positions on the roofs of these buildings.
18:20 Danilov denied the information that the counteroffensive had already begun: "The counteroffensive has not yet begun. All this is not true. When we start the counteroffensive, everyone will know about it, everyone will see it."
18:07 Concerns about a new chemical disaster in Ukraine are growing in the world. The day before, Russian troops shelled the world's largest ammonia pipeline Tolyatti-Odessa for the second time in two days. As a result of enemy strikes, the pipeline was depressurized and 134 tons of ammonia leaked. More details - in the material New terrorist act of the Russian Federation .
17:43 Germany donated eight Bandvagn BV206 all-terrain vehicles, two MAN HX81 tank tractors, 16 patrol vehicles, 14 Vector drones, three drone detection systems and 2,000 warheads for Gepard to Ukraine, the country's government said.
17:19 Putin and the President of South Africa discussed the African "peace initiative" on Ukraine, and agreed that the Russian President would receive a delegation of a number of African heads of state in the near future, the Kremlin said.
16:45 Ukraine appealed to the International Criminal Court in The Hague in connection with the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station , said adviser to the Prosecutor General Maxim Popov. According to him, Kyiv provided the ICC with primary information on the blowing up of the hydroelectric power station.
16:38 Due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, 29 settlements are flooded, of which 19 are in the territory controlled by Ukraine, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said. According to him, during the night the water in Kherson rose by a meter, it is expected that it will arrive before the end of the day. 1854 people were evacuated, most of them from the Kherson microdistrict Korabel.
16:33 The European Union has activated a civil protection mechanism to provide assistance to Ukraine in connection with the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station and is already sending the necessary equipment and machinery, the European Commission said. In particular, Germany will donate 5,000 water filters and 56 generators, Austria - 20 water containers and ten mud water pumps. In addition, Lithuania and Germany offered shelter equipment, including tents, beds and blankets.
16:02 Zelensky confirmed that he had a telephone conversation with Erdogan. In addition to the situation with the Kakhovskaya HPP, we discussed the return of illegally detained Ukrainians, in particular the Crimean Tatars, the extension and expansion of the grain initiative.
The office of the Turkish President also said that after talking with Zelensky, Erdogan spoke with Putin. They discussed the situation around the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, Erdogan stressed the importance of a comprehensive investigation, "so that there are no doubts."
15:57 Danilov said that Russian troops blew up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station on Putin's orders. This was done with the explosives that they planted back in September-October 2022. "The command for this terrorist act was given from the Kremlin, from Putin's office. Such instructions are not given at other levels. This is not the level of a battalion, division, this is not even the level of the situation related to Shoigu," the NSDC secretary is convinced.
According to him, the invaders blew up the dam because they expected a Ukrainian counteroffensive: “They are all waiting for our counteroffensive. Moreover, they raised the water level to the maximum. It was 18, 16 meters, they raised it more than 19 meters. create when blown up".
15:33 Erdogan had a telephone conversation with Zelensky, discussed the idea of creating an international commission to investigate the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the office of the Turkish President reported. Erdogan proposed to include representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the UN and third countries, including Turkey, in the commission.
15:15 Russian troops on the left bank of the Kherson region retreated 5-15 km from the Dnieper after the destruction of the dam, said the speaker of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk. She clarified that they began to withdraw troops a few days before the bombing: "Tracking the situation with the behavior of the enemy on the left bank, we can state that they are pulling back their units. They began their movement a few days before this terrorist attack."
14:48 The United States has enough funds to continue providing assistance to Ukraine until the end of the fiscal year, which ends in the fall, said the speaker of the National Security Council, John Kirby. He added that if the Biden administration needs additional funds, it will turn to Congress.
14:45 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in the Masyutovka area of the Kharkiv region, the "Ukrainian DRG" allegedly blew up the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline, and now ammonia residues are being bled off. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that it would take one to three months to repair the ammonia pipeline.
14:41 The Swiss Senate approved an amendment to the law that allows the re-export of weapons to Ukraine. But the lower house of parliament had previously voted against it, and now it will have to consider this issue again.
14:19 Due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, 20 thousand consumers of the Kherson region remain without electricity, and 129 transformer substations are flooded in Kherson, the Ministry of Energy reported. The pumping station of the Kherson CHPP was also flooded, but the main capacities of the combined heat and power plant remain outside the risk zone. Besides, in the Nikolaev area as a result of a flood two solar power stations are flooded.
13:47 The New York Times interviewed several explosives experts and engineers and concluded that an explosion from the inside is the most likely cause of the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
13:30 A massive fish kill has already begun in the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the President's Office reported.
13:26 3382 shelters have already been checked in Kiev, which is 73% of the total fund. The vast majority of shelters remain without free access, said Alexander Kamyshin, Minister for Strategic Industries. At the same time, 35% of the checked shelters are not suitable for operation, 65% are "technically suitable", however, the list of comments on them remains significant.
13:18 In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian troops switched from defense to offensive and advanced from 200 to 1100 meters in different areas in a day, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. According to her, the Russians in this direction went on the defensive, trying to hold their positions, pulling up reserves from the depths for protection. Wagnerites remain in the rear units, as of now, the regular army of the Russian Federation is conducting military operations, using air assault units.
Malyar explained that it was possible to keep the defense of the Bakhmut direction for so long and now it is possible to attack it, among other things, thanks to fortifications prepared in advance: "The whole area around is actually a fortified area. The fortification was prepared in advance by the forces of our troops and local military administrations. They were built thoroughly."
12:51 Evacuation on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region "completely failed by the occupiers", Ukraine will turn to international organizations, Zelensky said following a conference call, which considered, in particular, the situation with the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. The meeting also considered the interim results of the inspection of bomb shelters, "unfortunately, disappointing," the president added.
12:23 Ukraine is ready to consider applications for evacuation from the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, said Andrei Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate. According to him, active hostilities and internal riots in the Russian region continue, the fighters of the Legion of Freedom of Russia, the Russian Volunteer Corps and part of the local residents actually perform the function of armed self-defense.
"Support for the rebels among the local population is growing. This applies both to those who expressed a desire to take part in the armed struggle against Putin, and to local residents who ask for protection," Yusov noted and added that Ukraine "in due course" will consider the appeals on the evacuation of civilians, if any.
12:02 The Russians have been preparing to undermine the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station for a long time, and the involvement of the Russian Federation in this terrorist attack unconditionally proves a number of public information, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said: "Even if we look at the chronology of the reactions of propagandists, officials of the rashist regime regarding today's events, there you can see: at first nothing happens, then it happens, but partially, and then Ukraine is to blame, but the occupiers are very happy that the islands on which our defenders were supposedly based are flooded."
Yusov also drew attention to the chaotic reaction of Russian propaganda to the blowing up of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and emphasized that, given the engineering features of the structure, no one except the Russians had the physical ability and means to carry out such a large-scale explosion.
"Ukraine has informed publicly, as well as partners through other channels, that mining is being prepared and a possible explosion. This is not a spontaneous act, this is a terrorist attack that has been preparing for a very long time," he said. Yusov also added that the Security and Defense Forces were preparing for various options for actions by the Russians, including the blowing up of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
11:48 Sources of The Washington Post in the White House also confirm the information about the beginning of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, on Monday, June 5, attacks began on the south in several directions, which were probably quite successful. According to sources, Ukrainian units broke through heavily mined areas and advanced 5-10 km in some areas. US officials believe that the main goal of Ukrainian strikes is to cut the land corridor to Crimea. Ukraine also has successes near Bakhmut.
11:24 Maxar showed new satellite images of the Kherson region, which show the scale of destruction due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
10:50 At the bottom of the Kakhovskaya HPP, there could be many substances hazardous to health: chemicals, pathogens from cemeteries, toilets, garbage dumps can end up in wells and open water, warns the Ministry of Health. Also, in the next 3-5 days in Kherson and in the flooded areas of the Zaporozhye region, due to the rapid drop in the water level, there will be a pestilence of fish - it is strictly forbidden to eat it, since there is a risk of getting botulism.
The Ministry of Health urges residents of the affected territories to drink only bottled or imported water, and to take water for cooking and household needs only from trusted sources, which are not a river, a well and a pipeline with technical water. Fruits and vegetables should also be washed with clean water. In addition, it is necessary to refuse products flooded with water - even conservation. All products must be heat treated. Clothing that has been contaminated during flooding should not be worn without first washing and disinfecting.
10:43 As a result of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the supply of water to Crimea in the near future will become physically impossible, Danilov said: "The act that Russia has committed will soon exclude the possibility of supplying water to Crimea from the word" completely ". In the next three, five , ten years, until this dam is rebuilt, the supply of water to Crimea will simply be physically impossible."
10:32 The West is seeing signs of a Ukrainian counter-offensive, a senior NATO source told CNN. So, according to him, Ukraine in the past few days not only attacked in the south of the Donetsk region, but also carried out "several notable operations and reconnaissance in the southeastern region of the Zaporizhia region, between Kherson and the ZNPP."
Also, a “significant increase in hostilities” is noticeable in eastern Ukraine, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the help of ground attacks and artillery strikes, began to probe for weaknesses in the Russian defense.
09:48 The construction of a new station on the site of the destroyed Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station will take at least five years and about $ 1 billion, said the head of Ukrhydroenergo Ihor Syrota. According to him, after the de-occupation of Kakhovka, the company expects to build a temporary dam in a month and fill the Kakhovka reservoir. The explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station destroyed the irrigation system of the Kherson region, which covered about 500,000 hectares. It will be possible to restore this system only after the construction of the hydroelectric power station.
09:24 At night and in the morning, the Russians fired four times at the border of the Sumy region. In the Yunakov community, a Shahed-type UAV hit a fire in a private house, killing two people and injuring one, the IVA reported.
08:56 In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces continue to move forward on the flanks, the enemy is losing positions near Bakhmut, Syrsky said.
08:40 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed (in Torsk and Severny). In the Kherson region, one person died and another was injured, according to the IVA.
08:27 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 7. In particular, a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was destroyed yesterday.
- personnel - about 212,030 (+880) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3873 (+13),
- armored combat vehicles - 7560 (+17),
- artillery systems - 3640 (+37),
- MLRS - 594 (+4),
- air defense systems - 352 (+1),
- aircraft - 314 (+1),
- helicopters - 299 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 3219 (+7),
- cruise missiles - 1171 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 6349 (+17),
- special equipment - 492 (+3).
08:14 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to completely occupy the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Over the past day, there have been more than 30 combat clashes, the General Staff said in the morning summary. In particular, the Defense Forces repulsed all 13 enemy attacks in the Marinka area.
08:00 The "mayor" of the occupied Nova Kakhovka reported that, according to preliminary data, seven people were missing in the vicinity of the city after the explosion of the hydroelectric power station. According to him, the water level began to decline.
07:58 The intensity of flooding in the Kherson region is decreasing, but due to the significant destruction of the dam, water is still coming, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. According to his forecasts, the water level will increase by about a meter over the next 20 hours. This night, the Belozersk community began to be flooded, to which the water had not yet reached yesterday. As of morning, 1852 houses were flooded in the right-bank Kherson region. 1,457 people were evacuated, 1,286 of them from the Korabel microdistrict.
07:21 As a result of undermining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, bridges in the Snigirevsky district of the Nikolaev region were destroyed and flooded, the head of the Snigirevsky GVA Ivan Kukhta said. According to him, the bridge in the village of Elizavetovka was destroyed, and in the village of Galaganovka it was completely flooded. The community is evacuating residents of three houses.