Time.news – Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky has defined the fighting in Donbas with the Russian army as “very fierce”, which he accuses of wanting to destroy all the cities of the eastern Ukrainian region.
“The very fierce fighting continues in Donbas. I repeat these names every day: Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Bajmut, Sloviansk, many, many others,” Zelenzky said in his usual evening point on the war day.
The leader spoke of the “ruin of once happy cities” and the “craters left by the explosions: this is all that Russia can give to its neighbors, to Europe and to the world”. He added that Ukrainian troops are doing everything possible to stop the offensive of the occupiers and reiterated the demand for heavy weapons and modern artillery to the countries that support Kiev.
The governor of the Lugansk region (one of the two regions of Donbass), Serhi Haidai, announced that the Ukrainian army has destroyed a base of the Russian private group Wagner in the occupied city of Kadyivka; he added that only one mercenary survived but did not specify the number of dead.
The Ukrainian air force carried out new attacks on Russian positions in Kherson, the region that fell to the Moscow forces in the early stages of the invasion. This was reported by the Ukrainian general staff.
Ukrainian military intelligence believes that Russia can continue the war for yet another year at its current pace. “The leaders of the Kremlin will probably try to freeze the war for a while to persuade the West to lift the sanctions, but then the aggression will continue”, he wrote via Telegram. “Russia’s economic resources will allow Moscow to continue the war at its current pace for another year.”
11:14Moscow: two Mig-29s and a Sukhoi Su-25 shot down
In the past 24 hours, Russian air defense systems have shot down two Mig-29s and a Sukhoi Su-25 of the Ukrainian air force, according to the Russian defense ministry.
The Mig-29s were shot down in the Mykolaiv region and the Su-25 in the Kharkiv region, said the spokesman of the ministry, Igor Konashenkov.
10:48Von der Leyen returns to Kiev: “Point on EU membership”
“It is nice to be back in Kiev. With President Volodymyr Zelensky I will take stock of the joint work needed for reconstruction and the progress made by Ukraine on its European path”. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen writes in a tweet, attaching the photo of her arrival in the Ukrainian capital.
10:30Moscow: “A foreign mercenary base in Kharkiv destroyed”
High-precision Russian missiles destroyed a “foreign mercenary base” in the Kharkiv region. This was announced by the Russian Defense Ministry.
10:21Zelensky: “We will prevail in this war”
“We will certainly prevail in this war”: said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking via video link at the Shangri-La Dialogue summit, taking place in Singapore.
09:36Kiev: the toll of children killed rises, +24 in Mariupol
The toll of the children killed by the Russian bombing in Mariupol, now conquered by the troops of Moscow, rises. According to reports from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General on Telegram, “it emerged that another 24 children lost their lives in Mariupol as a result of the indiscriminate bombing of the Russian army”.
In all, more than 287 children have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24 and more than 492 were injured, according to the same prosecutor. “These numbers are not definitive”, the prosecutor further specified, explaining that investigations are underway both in the territories where the fighting is taking place and in the occupied and liberated ones.
08:08London: “Russia lacks missiles, use those sixties”
“It is likely that since April Russian bombers have dropped dozens of Kh-22 air-to-surface missiles (NATO code name AS-4 Kitchen), dating back to the 1960s”: British intelligence states in its update on the war in Ukraine, specifying that “these 5.5-ton missiles were designed to destroy aircraft carriers with nuclear warheads”. These weapons, “when used with a conventional warhead in a ground attack, are very inaccurate and can therefore cause significant collateral damage and civilian casualties,” the bulletin reads. “Russia – the British 007 concluded – is probably resorting to these ineffective weapons because it has a shortage of more modern and precise missiles”.
07:53Intelligence Gb: the Russians are not making progress in Severodonetsk
“As of June 10, Russian forces around Severodonetsk have made no progress in the southern quadrant of the city. Street-to-street fighting is underway and both sides are likely to have a high number of deaths and injuries”: so British intelligence in his update on the war in Ukraine. “Russia is amassing weapons with artillery and air force in an attempt to overwhelm the Ukrainian forces,” added her Majesty’s 007s.
05:23Biden: “Zelensky didn’t listen to me about the impending invasion”
US President Joe Biden said Volodimir Zelenski “did not want to listen to” Washington’s warnings before Russia invaded his country. “Many people thought I was exaggerating. But I knew we had information that was about to happen: Putin was about to cross the border, there was no doubt,” he explained during an initiative in Los Angeles to raise funds for the Democratic Party.
03:04Moscow, a thousand civilians in the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk
There are “about a thousand civilians” hiding, along with Ukrainian soldiers, in the bunkers of the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk. This was stated to Rossiya-24 by a Chechen military adviser, Apti Alaudinov, according to whom the Russian forces now control 20% of the industrial area of the administrative center of Lugansk.
01:51Zelensky: “Fierce fighting in the Donbass”
Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky described the fighting in Donbas with the Russian army as “very fierce”, which he accuses of wanting to destroy all the cities of the eastern Ukrainian region.
“The very fierce fighting continues in Donbas. I repeat these names every day: Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Bajmut, Sloviansk, many, many others,” Zelenzky said in his usual evening point on the war day.
The leader spoke of the “ruin of once happy cities” and the “craters left by the explosions: this is all that Russia can give to its neighbors, to Europe and to the world”. He added that Ukrainian troops are doing everything possible to stop the offensive of the occupiers and reiterated the demand for heavy weapons and modern artillery to the countries that support Kiev.
01:03Mariupol Mayor: “Buildings with bodies inside demolished”
Russian forces in Mariupol demolished 1,300 residential buildings without removing hundreds of corpses left under the rubble. This was reported by the mayor of the Ukrainian city Vadym Boychenko on the Telegram channel of the Municipality of him. “At first – he explains – the occupants involved the residents of Mariupol in the dismantling of the buildings but, when they realized the actual number of bodies that were found, they immediately removed them”.
“The real number of corpses under the rubble of destroyed houses is frightening – writes Boychenko. Between 50 and 100 people were killed in almost all destroyed buildings and 1,300 buildings were demolished”. According to the mayor, at least 22,000 inhabitants were killed during the first three months of the war. “Unfortunately, the real number of people killed could be much higher than reported”, according to Boychenk.