The order to blow up the dam at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was given in russian. Like all other orders issued by the occupiers since 2014.
The language whose day the United Nations celebrates today.
The russians have caused an environmental disaster — about 80 settlements may be flooded, and there are reports of animals dying in the local zoo. The Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is completely destroyed. It is impossible to restore it.
Earlier, Zelenskyy had already appealed to the world and warned about the danger of the occupiers blowing up hydroelectric power plants. He called on members of the European Council to send an international observation mission to the station. But this did not happen.
Now people from Kherson Oblast, who have already survived the occupation and daily shelling, are forced to leave their homes again.
14-year-old Pavlo, who was in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk Oblast, has been returned to Ukraine, reported the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories.
In April 2023, Anastasia appealed to the Ministry of Reintegration with a request to help return her 14-year-old brother Pavlo from the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Oblast.
The girl had moved from Lysychansk to Dnipro some time ago. Her brother remained in the temporarily occupied territories. Recently, the boy became an orphan and was placed in an orphanage in Luhansk.
The Russian forces continue to focus their main efforts on attempts to fully occupy Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. Over the past day, June 7, 30 combat engagements took place, reported the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Over the past day, the Russians launched 5 missile and 48 air strikes, fired 70 times from multiple launch rocket systems. Civilians were injured and infrastructure was destroyed.
Over the past day, the aviation of the defense forces carried out 23 strikes on the clusters of personnel and 4 strikes on enemy anti-aircraft missile systems. The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 4 enemy reconnaissance drones yesterday.
The Ukrainian military did not enter Russia's Belgorod Oblast during the operation of Russian volunteers, reported the New York Times with reference to a senior Ukrainian official.
According to him, the Ukrainian military played a supporting role in the operation: they defended Ukraine's border in case of a Russian counterattack. At the same time, no Ukrainian soldiers entered Russian territory.
On May 23, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that they had allegedly crushed and pushed back the volunteers into Ukrainian territory. According to Moscow, they allegedly lost more than 70 of their fighters, four armored personnel carriers and five off-road vehicles.
The Supreme Court of Ukraine has convened a plenary session in connection with the corruption case involving the head of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev, according to a broadcast of an extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Court Plenum on May 16.
Supreme Court Plenum sec Dmytro Luspenyk read out the court's statement that the institution assumes full responsibility "for the events taking place in connection with the alleged corruption of its individual representatives," and that the judges are "shocked by these events."
The Supreme Court judges noted that they cooperate with the investigation and act on the principle of self-purification.
The State Bureau of Investigation has pressed treason charges against one of the leaders of the 501st Separate Marine Brigade, whose actions caused 277 soldiers to be taken prisoner during the defense of Mariupol, reported the State Bureau of Investigation.
Since the end of February 2022, the military of this brigade had been defending Mariupol. In April of the same year, Russian propagandists spread information that the marines of the 501st Brigade had allegedly voluntarily surrendered in the besieged city.
According to the investigation, the head of the logistics service of the 501st Brigade betrayed his oath and sided with the enemy.
Investigators note that the 277th brigade received an order to relocate, but in fact, they were transferred to the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast.
In the early hours of May 16, an air raid alert was declared in all regions of Ukraine. A series of explosions occurred in the capital at around 3:00 a.m. Debris fell in several districts of the capital, including the territory of the zoo. There are victims.
At 03:25 a.m., Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote that several explosions had occurred in the Solomyanskyi district of the city. And in the Shevchenkivskyi district, missile fragments fell on the ground of the zoo.
The Kyiv City Military Administration later clarified that air defense was operating in the capital. According to preliminary information, debris fell in the Obolonskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Solomianskyi, and Darnytskyi districts of the Ukrainian capital.