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08 June 2023
Individual NATO member states may deploy their troops on the ground in Ukraine if the summit in Vilnius fails to provide Kyiv with any clear prospects for membership in the Alliance.
In the Kherson region, the territory of the Lower Dnister National Nature Park was flooded as a result of the undermining of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam by Russian troops.
07 June 2023
The Russian forces shelled Ukrainsk in Donetsk region with artillery, killing three people and injuring three more.
The Russian forces launched missile attacks on Kharkiv region around 22:30.
In the Tavria direction, units of the missile troops and artillery of Ukraine’s Defense Forces completed 1,354 fire missions over the past day. The enemy lost almost three companies of soldiers, killed and wounded.
Russia has lost about 60,000 troops, killed and wounded, in the area around Bakhmut, advancing only 29 kilometers - that is for every 48 centimetres of ground Russia gained, one of its soldiers was killed or wounded.
The Russian forces struck Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region four times on Wednesday, June 7.
Ukraine’s Air Force launched 5 strikes on the areas of concentration of Russian troops, while missile units destroyed 2 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems and 1 radar station in the past 24 hours.
In the area of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukrainian troops are gradually advancing as everything is going “according to plan.”
Germany handed over to Ukraine another package of defense aid, which included Bandvagn 206 tracked all-terrain vehicles.
Twenty-one combat clashes took place on Ukrainian battlefields on Wednesday as the enemy continues to focus their main efforts on attempts to completely occupy Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
The state-run defense giant Ukroboronprom is developing capacities to manufacture 155-mm artillery projectiles, which is the standard for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Radio stations in the temporarily occupied Crimea, the appeal was aired by the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps, in which militias said they intended to cross into Crimea shortly.
A Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group tried to penetrate the territory of Ukraine’s Sumy region in the country’s northeast about two and a half months ago. It was completely destroyed by Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
The United States has provided nearly $38 billion worth of defense assistance to Ukraine so far to repel Russian aggression while some decisions on supplying certain types of weapons might take longer to make than Kyiv expects, including on DPICM.
The Russian aggressors failed to evacuate the people from left-bank Kherson region, which they occupied, and they can also use the situation with the Kakhovka HPP dam explosion to displace people from the affected settlements to the territory of Russia.
The creation of an offensive group in Belarus is not observed.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky shared a touching video about the rescue of animals affected by the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and thanked everyone involved in such important work.
The Russian military deliberately blew up the Kakhovka HPP on instructions from the Kremlin, says Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut direction has been ongoing for the third day.
Even in the face of humanitarian evacuation, Russian occupation forces continue to shell the right bank of the Kherson region.
Water surrounded the town of Oleshky in the Kherson region, captured by Russian troops, and people are fleeing on the roofs, with no one coming to help them.
Russia keeps 13 warships on combat duty in the Black Sea, with no missile carriers among them.
In the Bakhmut sector, Ukrainian troops have switched from the defense to offensive. They have advanced from 200 to 1,100 meters in various areas of this sector of the front in the past 24 hours.
In Beryslav district of Kherson region, a village cemetery is partially flooded, bridges and houses.
Ukrainian Navy units eliminated 17 Russian invaders, six enemy tanks and two artillery systems on June 6.
In the settlements of the occupied Hola Prystan community of the Kherson region, water is coming, its level sometimes reaches 3.5 meters.
More than 1,450 people have already been evacuated after the Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka HPP.
In the temporarily occupied areas of Kherson region, Russian invaders do not even try to help people who suffered from the blast of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant (HPP).
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War are currently not ready to make final assessments regarding those responsible for the destruction of the dam at the Kakhovka HPP. However, the balance of evidence, reasoning, and rhetoric suggests that the Russians deliberately damaged the dam.