[Korrespondent] 23:20 OSINT investigator Benjamin Pittet determined the approximate location of the hit on the Arabat Spit - this is the headquarters of the Russian troops Dnepr, where Putin allegedly came in April.
22:47 Iran provides Russia with a constant stream of weapons and ammunition that are used to kill civilians in Ukraine, said British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley.
21:54 The Russians again fired at Kherson during the evacuation activities - three people were injured, including one minor, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
21:15 Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives, representing the Democratic and Republican parties, announced the introduction of a resolution calling for the Biden administration to transfer long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine. The co-author of the resolution, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, Republican Michael McCole said that if the United States does not provide Ukraine with all the necessary weapons, it will help prolong the war.
21:06 Lukashenka was ready in December 2022 to give the order to start the invasion of Ukraine, but he could not persuade the army, Valery Sakhashchik, a member of Tikhanovskaya's cabinet and the founder of the Belarusian airborne assault group as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told Espresso. According to him, the soldiers began to ask a large number of questions to the command: they say, why should they go to Ukraine, why did the Ukrainian people suddenly become an enemy.
The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus tried to intimidate the military, but nothing came of it, Sakhashchik noted: “The KGB almost in full force spent almost a week in the troops, blackmailed, frightened, talked with the military - it didn’t work. They reported to the top leadership that the Belarusian army was not ready for conducting hostilities in Ukraine, so the order was not issued."
20:57 Approximately 1 billion euros are needed for the restoration of the Kakhovskaya HPP, and about the same amount for related work, Shmyhal said. The prime minister added that the authorities had already agreed with the World Bank on an early assessment of damage and needs after the disaster.
20:24 The UN stated that it has been present in Ukraine "since the beginning of the conflict" and provides humanitarian assistance to the victims, but does not engage in "physical rescue" of people. The UN said in a statement that the organization had received neither permission nor security guarantees from Russian forces for personnel and people to carry out the evacuation.
The UN noted that they donated food for 18,000 people, more than 100,000 bottles of water, cash for 5,000 victims, thousands of hygiene kits, and also provided mobile medical and psychosocial support.
20:08 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he had held a meeting of the Headquarters, the main focus was on the situation on the front line: "Attention is focused on all areas where our actions are needed and where the enemy can suffer certain defeats. Our defense actions, active actions, our achievements on the front line. We discussed in detail the supply and distribution of ammunition, the strengthening of our artillery and air defense."
19:59 32 countries have joined the lawsuit of Ukraine against Russia in the UN court on the convention on genocide. By the votes of 14 judges of the International Court of Justice against one, 26 EU member states (except Hungary), as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Liechtenstein and the United Kingdom joined the Ukrainian claim at the stage of preliminary hearings.
19:56 Undermining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by the Russians led to a real disaster. However, the construction of a hydroelectric power station in the 1950s was also called a disaster. Therefore, now there are different opinions about whether it is worth restoring the station and its reservoir. For more details, see the material The Future of the Kakhovskaya HPP .
19:48 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, thanked for the humanitarian assistance to eliminate the consequences of the Russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovka dam, discussed the continuation of cooperation in the field of security, in particular, the training of Ukrainian pilots and the strengthening of Ukraine's air shield.
19:45 Putin said that the Ukrainian offensive has begun, this is allegedly indicated by "the use of strategic reserves." He claims that all counteroffensive attempts made by Kiev failed, "but the offensive potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is still preserved." The head of the Kremlin also admitted that Russia still lacks modern weapons, but "the defense industry is developing rapidly," and all the tasks assigned to it will be completed.
19:39 In the territories flooded as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by Russians, various diseases can occur, primarily associated with limited access to clean water: hepatitis A, salmonellosis, shigellosis, acute intestinal infections, botulism. The Ministry of Health also admits the possibility of an outbreak of cholera. Under the threat - Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson regions and Crimea. Read more in the material How to protect yourself .
19:22 In Arapovka, Lugansk region, about 90 Russian servicemen deserted and left their combat positions without permission, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
19:15 American spy satellites recorded explosions before the collapse of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam, writes The New York Times, citing sources. Satellites equipped with infrared sensors have registered thermal signals indicating a massive explosion. Experts believe that a deliberate explosion inside the dam is the most likely cause of its collapse. American intelligence believes that Russia is behind the destruction of the dam. However, they still do not have enough evidence to unequivocally state this.
18:51 The Belgian government will allocate 32.4 million euros for the purchase of ammunition for Ukraine, said Defense Minister Ludwin Dedonder. The 105 mm munitions in question will be purchased from the Belgian industry and will be delivered "as quickly as possible". This purchase is part of the 14th military aid package provided by Belgium to Ukraine. The total amount of assistance reached 92 million euros.
18:28 Iran provides Russia with equipment for the construction of a plant for the production of Shahed kamikaze drones, said John Kirby, coordinator of the US National Security Council at the White House. According to him, the plant can be put into operation before the end of next year, it is planned to build it on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan. In return, Russia is offering Iran unprecedented defense cooperation, including missiles, electronics and air defense, Kirby added.
"This is a full-scale defense partnership that harms Ukraine, Iran's neighbors and the international community. We continue to use all tools to expose and stop these activities, including through public awareness, and we are ready to do even more," he added.
18:17 The Pentagon announced the provision of another $2.1 billion military aid package to Ukraine. It will include, in particular, critical air defense systems and ammunition:
- additional ammunition for Patriot air defense systems;
- HAWK air defense systems and missiles for them;
- 105 mm and 203 mm artillery shells;
- Puma unmanned aerial systems;
- ammunition for laser-guided missile systems;
- training, maintenance and support.
17:39 The SBU arrested the Ukrainian assets of the deputy head of the Belgorod Regional Duma of the Russian Federation, the owner of the Agro-Belogorye group of companies, Vladimir Zotov, for more than 180 million hryvnias. First of all, we are talking about the assets of the agricultural holding controlled by Zotov, which is located on the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions. In Russia, Zotov, in particular, launched an information campaign, during which he widely publicized the provision of food "humanitarian aid" to the Russian military at the front on behalf of his enterprises.
17:10 In the Kiev region, all entertainment events must end no later than 21:00 - this decision was made by the operational headquarters of the OVA. At the same time, the curfew continues to operate from 00:00 to 5:00 - for this period, all entertainment establishments, without exception, must stop their work. Compliance checks in the region will be carried out regularly with the involvement of police officers.
16:46 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi announced the launch of a program of assistance to Ukraine in connection with the spill of the Kakhovka reservoir. In particular, the agency, through the use of nuclear techniques, will determine the impact of flooding on drinking water, human health, soil and water management, and assess the integrity of critical infrastructure.
16:43 Estonia has banned Patriarch Kirill from entering the country.
16:41 As of 14:00, the level of the Kakhovka reservoir in the Nikopol area is 11.45 meters. Hydroelectric power plants are operating at a reduced capacity to reduce the consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, Ukrhydroenergo reported.
16:38 Borrell is sure that Russia is behind the blowing up of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station: "The dam was not bombed. It was destroyed by explosives installed at the locations of the turbines. This territory is under Russian control. I was not there to find out who did it. But everything points to the fact that if this happened in the territory under the control of Russia, it is hard to believe that it could be anyone else."
16:32 In Kursk, a drone fell near the oil depot, there is no damage or destruction, Governor Roman Starovoit said. In Belgorod, a drone fell on an office building and caught fire, there were no injuries, the roof and two cars were damaged, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
16:26 Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, announced a "bavovna" on the Arabat Spit. Russian media reported, citing emergency services, that the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck, allegedly with Storm Shadow missiles, allegedly at a "children's recreation center" on the Arabat Spit in the Genichesk district.
15:57 Kiev was not informed about the negotiations between the Hungarian and Russian sides on the transfer of Ukrainian prisoners of war, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said. According to him, because of this, Hungary's Charge d'Affaires was invited to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry today for a substantive discussion.
Ukraine asks to provide detailed information about its citizens and immediately provide access to them for the Ukrainian consul to get acquainted with their state of health and provide consular assistance. During the meeting, they especially noted the need to coordinate interaction on such sensitive issues as the release of prisoners of war.
15:29 The reason for the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is not yet clear, Jeremy Lawrence, spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: “The circumstances that led to the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station are still too unclear to qualify this incident as a war crime. There needs to be an independent investigation."
15:25 The Russians are shelling Kherson again, hitting the coastal areas, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
14:46 Putin said at a meeting with Lukashenka in Sochi that the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus will begin immediately after the completion of the preparation of facilities for them on July 7-8.
14:38 Over the past day, Ukrainian troops have advanced 1.2 km in some areas in the Bakhmut area, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Serhiy Cherevaty. According to him, the Defense Forces have been storming the positions of the Russians for several days. The regular Russian units that enter Bakhmut instead of the Wagnerites do not know the area well and are not well coordinated, which plays into the hands of the Ukrainian troops.
14:32 The Russians fired on a hospital in Hulyaipole, Zaporozhye region: it is known about two dead hospital workers, two more people were injured, the President's Office reported.
14:25 In the Bakhmut direction, the Russians are drawing up reserves and trying to hold their positions. They make attempts to attack, but to no avail. Currently, the Defense Forces are actively fighting in several sectors of the Bakhmut direction, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. In the Zaporozhye direction, according to her, the enemy is defending, positional battles are going on.
Malyar also said that Russian troops are equipping defensive lines with the help of "dragon's teeth" on the outskirts of the Crimea, in the depths of the occupied territory, at a certain distance to the current line of combat. In particular, there is information about their installation in the Perekop direction. According to Malyar, this indicates that the military leadership of the Russian Federation is considering the possibility of retreating to distant borders, in particular, deep into the Crimea. "And the Russian servicemen who are on the line of combat confrontation and behind whose backs they are equipping defensive lines are probably in danger of death," she added.
14:08 The Russian Orthodox Church announced the day before that with its participation, Russia handed over to Hungary a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war from Transcarpathia. The transfer of prisoners of war allegedly took place at the request of Budapest.
Today, Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Shemien confirmed this information. According to him, we are talking about 11 Ukrainian soldiers of Hungarian origin. The Ukrainian side has not yet given official comments, but the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Andrei Yusov, said that intelligence is checking the information.
13:40 Russia used a new tactic of rocket fire this night, Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat said. According to him, the missiles were programmed in such a way that they "wound circles around cities." The goal is to disperse the attention of air defense, to identify its weak points. Shahed drones are used to deplete ammunition, probing for weaknesses in the air defense system.
Ignat said that Russia is trying to confuse Ukrainian air defense by launching missiles in one direction, then changing it, and then turning it back to where they originally flew.
Also, the speaker of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that this night the Russian Federation again used a nuclear carrier, but without a warhead, the Kh-55 missile. Probably, such "dummy" should have forced Ukraine to spend air defense missiles and ammunition, or the goal was to test the ability of Ukrainian air defense to shoot down such missiles, Ignat said.
13:36 In the Kherson region, as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, 48 settlements were flooded, 34 of them (3625 houses) - in the territory controlled by Ukraine, 14 - in the temporarily occupied, said Interior Minister Igor Klimenko. 2412 people were evacuated. Four people were killed, 11 were injured as a result of shelling during evacuation activities. 13 people are listed as missing.
In the Nikolaev area 23 settlements are flooded, 825 people are evacuated, one person was lost.
13:28 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that after a drone hit a residential building in Voronezh, a case of a terrorist attack was opened. According to the investigation, "acting in the interests of the military-political leadership of Ukraine carried out an attack using a UAV equipped with an explosive device."
13:03 During the night attack, two gas production facilities and power lines in the Zhytomyr region were damaged, and there was also a hit in one of the facilities of the GTS Operator in the Zaporozhye region, the Ministry of Energy reported.
12:51 The Supreme Court of the Netherlands, after almost nine years of legal battles, decided to return the "Scythian gold" to Ukraine. The court completely rejected the cassation appeal of the "Crimean museums" and upheld the decision of the appeal, which satisfied the claims of Ukraine.
12:36 In Kiev, it is planned to equip about 3,000 shelters with an automated opening system so that access to them during an air raid is guaranteed. Also, the city authorities plan to purchase and install about 200 modular reinforced concrete rapid deployment shelters as additional ones, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
The city council decided to allocate an additional 750 million hryvnias for the repair and arrangement of shelters this year. An unscheduled inventory of the existing basements and basements will also be carried out in order to supplement the fund of protective structures with them, where it is technically possible.
12:28 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, spoke about the catastrophic consequences of Russia's undermining the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the situation at the front and the next intensification of Russian missile terror against Ukraine. The parties discussed further support from Japan in the field of security, the restoration of Ukraine, steps to implement the Ukrainian peace formula and preparations for the Global Peace Summit.
12:11 In the occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region, a "people's militia" was created, whose members will patrol the settlements together with the "police" and the "commandant's office", said the "acting governor" Evgeny Balitsky.
11:50 Sweden will allow NATO to station troops on its territory before officially joining the Alliance. The government said the decision sends a clear message to Russia and strengthens the country's defenses.
11:34 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said that all Crimean reservoirs are filled with water, there is a reserve for 500 days. According to him, the catastrophe at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station allegedly will not affect the supply of drinking water to the peninsula.
11:21 The Russians launched a missile attack on the outskirts of Kharkov, previously, from the S-300 complex. People were not injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
11:13 Reznikov believes that a "zone of possible agreement" with Russia could emerge if the Kremlin reconsiders its publicly stated invasion goals. "The interest of the Russians was voiced in the so-called SVO - this is" denazification "," demilitarization "," deNATOization ". That is, in fact, to wipe the Ukrainian nation off the face of the earth, because supposedly from their point of view we do not exist ... If the interest of the Russians has changed, then the zone of possible agreement becomes clear, and if not... let them leave first."
10:52 China for the first time supplied Russia with military equipment for the war, Bild military observer Julian Repke reports. He came to this conclusion after a video published by Kadyrov, in which he shows Chinese armored vehicles from Shaanxi Baoji Special Vehicles Manufacturing, which entered the Akhmat battalion. Kadyrov drove himself behind the wheel and said that combat vehicles would be used in Ukraine.
It is not yet clear whether a formal agreement has been signed between Moscow and Beijing, but without the approval of the Chinese Communist Party, this could not happen, so this is hardly a private purchase, the observer adds.
10:44 In Voronezh, a drone fell, an apartment building was damaged, two people were injured, Governor Alexander Gusev said.
10:41 The water level in the cooling pond of the Zaporozhye NPP remains stable at 16.66 meters, despite the drop in the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir. This is quite enough to meet the needs of the station, said Energoatom. The company recalled that ZNPP power units have not been operating since September 2022, and therefore there is no active evaporation of water from the cooling pond.
10:37 The SBU intercepted the conversation of the Russians, confirming that the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was undermined by a Russian sabotage group. In particular, one of them says that they wanted to scare the Ukrainian side by blowing up the dam, but “it didn’t go according to plan, but more than they planned.”
10:19 The night attack by the Russians with missiles and drones was stretched out in time, and the trajectory of the missiles indicated that the enemy was trying to deplete both the population of Ukraine and air defense, said Natalia Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden.
09:44 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in Maksimilianovka), seven more were injured. In the Kherson region, two people died and 17 were injured, according to the IVA.
09:42 At night, the Russians attacked the infrastructure facilities of the Bogodukhovsky district of the Kharkiv region with Shahed-type drones. Fires broke out, one person was injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. In addition, during the day the enemy fired on the city of Volchansk, Chuguevsky district, two people were injured.
09:40 Not a single NATO country has expressed its desire to send its military to Ukraine, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said. According to her, such an issue was not even discussed: “All states provide this or that assistance to Ukraine. But not a single country has declared its desire to intervene in this war, send its military to it, I have not heard of such plans.”
09:38 Russia has prepared another informational special operation to discredit Ukraine and its military-political leadership, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. Within its framework, a series of provocative materials have been prepared, which should shift the responsibility for undermining the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station to Ukraine and create the preconditions for a political crisis. Comments from fake accounts will be placed under each article, allegedly on behalf of Ukrainian and foreign readers. The budget of the Russian project is about 6 million dollars with the possibility of further increase.
09:26 Scholz, Macron and Duda will hold a meeting in Paris on Monday, June 12, where they will discuss Ukraine's aspirations for NATO membership and security guarantees ahead of the Alliance's summit in July, Politico writes, citing French officials.
09:22 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a limited but significant offensive in the Zaporozhye direction on the night of June 8: Russian troops defended themselves and restored their initial positions. According to analysts, the Ukrainian counter-offensive will consist of many activities of various sizes, so the latest attacks do not reflect the full potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukraine has formed 12 brigades for the counter-offensive - according to ISW, this is only part of a large reserve of forces, so damage to Western equipment should not be considered as a measure of the remaining effective combat capability of Ukrainian forces. At the same time, analysts note that the troops of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation deployed in this area are of a higher quality grouping than in other sectors of the front.
09:14 The water level in the Kakhovka reservoir continues to decline and at 8:00 is 11.74 meters in the Nikopol area, Ukrhydroenergo reported. During the day, the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir dropped by another meter, and on the morning of June 6 it fell by 4.7 meters.
More than half of the station building is under water. The earth insert between the lock and the station is also under water and continues to collapse. Hydroelectric power plants continue to accumulate water to the maximum in the upper reservoirs of the Dnieper. This is necessary in order to have a summer reserve for ecological passes after the end of the operation of the Kakhovka reservoir.
09:03 In the Kherson region, the level of flooding is decreasing - in the morning on the Right Bank, the water is at around 5.38 meters, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. 3624 houses were flooded in 32 settlements. 2352 people and about 550 animals were evacuated.
08:52 The State Emergency Service specified that as a result of the fall of rocket fragments in the Zhytomyr region, four houses were destroyed, 30 were damaged, one person died and three were injured.
08:37 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 9.
- personnel - about 213,770 (+1010) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3901 (+10),
- armored combat vehicles - 7600 (+24),
- artillery systems - 3702 (+34),
- MLRS - 599 (+4),
- air defense systems - 359 (+4),
- aircraft - 314 (+0),
- helicopters - 299 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 3247 (+13),
- cruise missiles - 1171 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 6410 (+26),
- special equipment - 502 (+2).
08:10 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions, there are heavy battles. Over the past day, 43 combat clashes took place in these sectors of the front, the General Staff reported in the morning report .
In the southwestern part of Donetsk, the location of the Akhmat unit was noted. They are engaged in the robbery of the civilian population and shoot staged videos of the fighting. On Tuesday, June 6, as a result of a strike by the Defense Forces on the militant concentration area in the training camp, the enemy's losses amounted to 56 people dead, sanitary losses are being specified.
In Crimea, in particular in Simferopol, there is a tendency for local media to hush up the fact of the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the consequences of this disaster. The local occupation authorities fear a possible panic among the population.
07:58 In the Zhytomyr region during a night attack, according to preliminary data, one missile was shot down by air defense forces. As a result of the fall of debris in the city of Zvyagel, one residential building was destroyed and 12 were damaged, one person died, three were injured, said Vitaly Bunechko, head of the OVA.
07:36 At night, the Russians attacked Ukraine with Iranian Shahed-136/131 drones and X-101/X-55 air-launched cruise missiles, aimed at military installations and critical infrastructure facilities. During the attack, up to 16 strike UAVs and six air-launched cruise missiles were launched. Of these, ten strike drones and four cruise missiles, as well as four reconnaissance UAVs, were destroyed by air defense forces, the Air Force command said.
Launches of "shaheeds" were carried out from the south, cruise missiles - from the region of the Caspian Sea, from four Tu-95ms strategic bombers.
Also the day before, at about 20:00, the enemy launched strikes from the Black Sea with two Caliber missiles at one of the civilian facilities in the Cherkasy region.
06:33 The Pentagon intends to announce on Friday, June 9, the provision of a long-term military assistance package to Ukraine, including air defense systems, writes Bloomberg, citing its own sources. The total cost of the new package is $2 billion. The funds will be allocated, in particular, for the purchase of launchers and Hawk missiles, as well as GEM-T and PAC-3 missiles for Patriot air defense systems.
01:25 The next meeting in the Ramstein format, the 13th in a row, will be held on June 15 in Brussels, said Pentagon Speaker Patrick Ryder. At it, the parties will discuss the creation of a coalition of combat aircraft "heavenly shield of Ukraine."
00:41 Zelensky, in an evening video message, accused the ICRC of inaction in overcoming the consequences of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station: "There is the presence of international organizations on our free territory, concrete assistance. In particular, this is the Ukrainian Red Cross and many others. And it is obvious that the absence of some international organizations in the disaster zone right now in the occupied territory - the same International Red Cross - the lack of their assistance to our people in the occupied territory for such organizations, it seems to me that this is wrong and is simply self-destruction.
The President stressed that the Russians are trying to further aggravate the situation that they have caused with their ecocide - they deliberately continue to shell Kherson and the flooded communities of the region, they even shell evacuation points. In addition, the occupiers completely abandoned people on the left-bank part of the Kherson region, where the catastrophe has only been expanding for the second day. "And this is also an absolutely conscious choice of the Russian leadership. There are no those in the world now who would not see that Russia is led by non-humans. Non-humans, who personally are the biggest disaster on the planet today," Zelensky stressed.