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09 June 2022
Russian invaders have gained partial success in the Sievierodonetsk direction, but fighting for the city itself is underway. Near Toshkivka, Ukrainian forces have successfully repulsed an enemy assault.
The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry says the so-called ‘judicial trial’ of foreign fighters, who served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, within the temporarily occupied territories is worthless.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree on the implementation of the decision by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) of June 9, 2022 to impose sanctions on a number of Russian high-rank officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič has visited Irpin town in Kyiv region which was destroyed by Russian invaders.
Despite the losses, the Russian armed forces continue to conduct grueling high-intensity hostilities on a wide front.
Garbage piles mount on Mariupol streets despite the occupiers' assurances that the city is being cleaned up.
In Kharkiv, the death toll of the enemy night shelling rose to three, the number of wounded – to five.
Poland has sent weapons worth nearly $2 billion to Ukraine, including more than 240 tanks and about 100 armored personnel carriers.
The bodies of another 58 Azovstal defenders were delivered to Kyiv.
The Russian military is considering a way to "demine" captured Mariupol by forcing captured Ukrainians to walk across minefields.
The only language Russia understands is that of force so Ukraine needs more weapons to defeat it.
If the Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine defending Sivierodonetsk receive long-range artillery from the country’s Western partners, it will silence the Russians, while special operations forces will quickly clear the city of invasion troops.
Krab self-propelled howitzers, supplied by Poland, have already been deployed and are being used on the front lines.
The situation at the front remains difficult, with Ukraine losing up to a hundred servicemen killed and up to 500 wounded every day.
Russia’s progress on the Izium axis had remained stalled since April, after Ukrainian forces made good use of the terrain to slow Russia’s advance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine COVID-22 and noted that weapons and sanctions are a vaccine against it.
In Donetsk Region, Russian troops have opened fire on 14 settlements over the past day. Casualties among civilians were reported.
Since the full-scale war started, Russia has used about 2,600 different missiles against Ukraine, mainly firing at civilian objects.
Russia has already lost about 31,700 troops in Ukraine (+200 over the past day).
On June 8, 2022, two civilians were killed and four injured in Russia’s shelling of Kharkiv’s Novobavarskyi District. A local café, shop and school caught fire.
A total of 263 children have been killed and 488 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
The artillerymen from the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed Russia’s armored personnel carrier (APC), two tanks and 15 troops, when they were about to launch an offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Russian troops shell industrial facilities and residential neighborhoods in Luhansk region.
The enemy struck Kryvyi Rih district in Dnipropetrovsk region.
In Sievierodonetsk direction, Russian troops fired mortars, artillery, and multiple rocket launchers on the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy continues making futile attempts to find weak spots in the defense of Sievierodonetsk.
Over the past day, the strike aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated at least ten enemy armored personnel vehicles and about two dozen invaders.
The United States follows the situation in eastern Ukraine and is ready to continue providing necessary equipment and tools to Ukraine to be able to resist Russian advances.
In the southern direction, the Ukrainian military eliminated 30 Russian invaders, six units of equipment, and three ammunition depots over the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian forces have repulsed seven enemy attacks and destroyed a significant number of military equipment in the area of the Joint Forces Operation in eastern Ukraine in the last 24 hours.
08 June 2022
Ripple effects from the war in Ukraine have generated a severe cost-of-living crisis which no country or community can escape, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.