Cover image: In this photograph released by Ukraine’s Presidential Press Service on June 8, 2023, President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a meeting with city authorities during his visit to Kherson, following flooding from the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. HANDOUT / AFP
- “The fighting is very tough in the Donetsk region,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily address on Thursday evening. “However, we are getting results and I am grateful to those who achieve them. Well done in Bakhmout. Step by step “continued the Ukrainian president.
- At the United Nations, Ukraine and its allies condemn the “attacks” during the evacuations linked to the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. kyiv accuses the Russian army of hitting Kherson as thousands of civilians are evacuated from flooded areas. According to the Ukrainian authorities, one person was killed and eighteen injured, including members of the emergency services, in Russian strikes on Kherson and the surrounding area.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson on Thursday. According to the Ukrainian state emergency services, 2,339 people were evacuated, including 120 children. Emergency services explained that on the Ukrainian side of the river, “32 villages and 3,625 houses” had been flooded. On the Russian side, 5,000 people, “including 178 children and 62 people with reduced mobility” were evacuated, according to the occupation authorities.
- The water from the dam continues to cool the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, assures the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Ukrainian operator of the dam destroyed on Tuesday had previously estimated that the water could no longer ensure the cooling of the reactors. Rafael Grossi, director general of the IAEA, is expected on the scene next week.
- The explosion, Monday in Ukraine, of an ammonia pipelinea key component of nitrogen fertilizers, risks having a ” negative impact “ on the future of the cereal agreement, crucial for the world food supply, warned Thursday the Kremlin.
- Russia claims to have countered a Ukrainian offensive in the Zaporizhia region. “The enemy is stopped and retreats with heavy losses”Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday.
- Sweden announced on Thursday that it had completed the training of Ukrainian soldiers to the use of the fifty CV90 light tanks donated by Stockholm to kyiv, and claimed that they were “ready for the front”.
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