More than 10,000 Ukrainian troops have allegedly been eliminated in these Russian attacks. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the record losses by Ukraine were suffered in just the last 5 days. Battle blows for Ukraine have helped Russia advance its position on the ground.
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my along the entire front line and continue to disrupt the plans of Russian occupiers to advance deep into the territory of Ukraine.
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Air Force Daily Report
On the night of June 7, 2024, the enemy attacked the critical infrastructure of Ukraine from strategic aviation - Tu-95MS bombers from the airspace of the Saratov region and "Shahed-131/136" type UAVs from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Yeisk, Kursk regions - Russian Federation and Cape Chauda - Crimea.
A total of 5 Kh-101/Kh-555 air-based cruise missiles and 53 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs were used.
The air attack was repelled by mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, fighter aircraft, units of anti-aircraft missile forces and electronic warfare units of the Air Force.
As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 48 attack UAVs and 5 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles were shot down in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Khmelnytskyi regions.
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The Khortytsia operational-strategic group
(Responsible for the northeastern part of Ukraine. )
Kharkiv axis: The Russian aggressor did not carry out active offensive actions, the situation is under control.
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Kupyansk axis: Russian forces conducted 3 attacks in the vicinity of Petropavlivka and Druzhelyubivka
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Lyman axis: The Russians made 11 assaults in the vicinity of Nevske, Terny and Serebryanskyy Forest
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Siversk axis: Russia tried unsuccessfully to breach Ukrainian defences 5 times in the vicinity of Bilohorivka and Verkhnokamianske , The situation is under control.
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Kramatorsk axis: Russia was limited to 5 attacks in the vicinity of Kalynika, Ivanivske and Klischiivka. The situation is tense, ongoing fight in the area of Kalynivka
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The Tavria operational-strategic group
(Responsible for the central-eastern and southeastern part of Ukraine.)
Pokrovsk axis: Again yesterday, the greatest activity was in this area, where Russia conducted 28 attacks against Ukrainian positions in the vicinity of Novooleksandrivka, Prohes, Sokil, Yevhenivka, Novopokrovske, Novaselivka Persha, Yasnobrodivka and Karlivka. At the moment 6 attacks are still ongoing, Ukrainian defenders are taking measures to stabilize the situation and prevent the enemy from advancing.
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Kurakhove axis: Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions 5 times unsuccessfully in the vicinity of Krasnohorivka and Paraskoviivka. The situation is under control.
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Vremika axis: Russian forces attempted unsuccessfully to assault Ukrainian positions 9 times over the day in the vicinity of Novodarivka, Staromaiorske and Urozhaine.
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Orikhiv axis: The situation has not changed significantly.
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The Odesa operational-strategic group
(Responsible for Kherson, Qırım, (also known as Crimea) and the Black Sea.)
Prydniprovsk axis: The situation has not changed significantly.
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The Ukrainian Navy has conducted exercises in the Black Sea.
"Landing operations, manoeuvring and the landing of personnel on an unequipped coast are the main elements of the exercises that have recently taken place in a certain area of the Black Sea." the Ukrainian Navy press service stated.
It is reported that an amphibious assault group moved from one coast to the other, manoeuvring and avoiding enemy fire, while avoiding potentially dangerous areas.
The boats and their crews practised regrouping, complex manoeuvring techniques, and joint operations at sea. In the final stage, the marines landed on an unequipped coastline to complete the task.
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TEMPORARILY OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Nothing to report.
THE HOME FRONT
Ukraine charges Russian general with ordering Kakhovka dam blast
Ukraine has accused a Russian general of ordering the catastrophic blast at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam last June, according to a report from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on 6 June 2024.
The SBU stated that General Oleg Makarevich, commander of the Dnepr group of Russian forces, gave the order to blow up the Kakhovka dam on the night of June 5-6, 2023.
“As a result of this crime, critical infrastructure facilities were completely destroyed, leading to the death of at least 35 people, the flooding of 46 settlements in Kherson Oblast, and the partial flooding of 20 settlements in Mykolaiv Oblast,” the report said.
It added that the dam’s destruction partially disrupted water supply to Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts, as well as Russian-occupied Crimea. “In particular, it created a threat to the technical maintenance of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, by disrupting the functioning of the plant’s cooling system,” the SBU emphasized.
Based on the evidence gathered by the SBU and the Prosecutor General’s Office, Makarevich has been charged under Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons).
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RUSSIAN WORLD
Putin warns Russia could provide weapons to strike West
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow could arm countries with a view to attacking Western targets. BBC News reports.
Mr Putin made the statement while criticising the West's delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine. Several countries including the United States have given Ukraine the green light to strike targets inside Russia. Such action could lead to “very serious problems", Mr Putin told foreign reporters.
"If someone thinks it is possible to supply such weapons to a war zone to attack our territory and create problems for us, why don't we have the right to supply weapons of the same class to regions of the world where there will be strikes on sensitive facilities of those countries?" the Russian president said.
"That is, the response can be asymmetric. We will think about it." He did not specify which countries Moscow could supply weapons to.
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ISW: Putin’s slip reveals Russian casualties, force generation challenge
US think tank The Institute for Study of War in its June 6 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment stated that Putin inadvertently indicated on June 5 that Russian forces may be suffering roughly 20,000 monthly casualties in Ukraine, which, if accurate, would be roughly equal to or just below the number of new personnel that Russia reportedly generates per month.
Putin inadvertently suggested that roughly 5,000 Russian personnel are killed in action in Ukraine each month, which further suggests that roughly 15,000 Russian personnel are wounded in action, assuming a standard three-to-one wounded-to-killed casualty ratio.
ISW cannot confirm Putin's suggested casualty rate and his apparent inadvertent admission does not serve as a clear claim about Russian casualties in Ukraine. Putin's suggested figure does align somewhat with the lower end of Ukrainian reporting about Russian casualty rates, however. Ukrainian Ground Forces Commander Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavlyuk stated on May 2 that Russian forces suffer about 25,000 to 30,000 killed and wounded personnel per month.
Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Deputy Chief Major General Vadym Skibitskyi reported on January 15, 2024, that Russia recruits around 30,000 personnel per month.
Ruslan Pukhov, the head of the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies and a member of a Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) civilian advisory board, similarly claimed in mid-April 2024 that current Russian crypto-mobilisation efforts are generating roughly 30,000 new personnel each month.
Russian officials are reportedly concerned about decreasing recruitment rates ahead of the expected Russian Summer 2024 offensive effort, and it is unclear if the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has maintained the roughly 30,000 recruitment rate it reportedly had in January and April of 2024.
NEWS WORLDWIDE
Zelenskyy: It's important that our battle is remembered as victorious 80 years from now
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during his speech at the French National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, has thanked foreign partners for their support and urged them to ensure that the ongoing struggle in Ukraine is spoken of in the future in the same way as the victorious Allied landings in Normandy. Ukrainska Pravda reports.
Zelenskyy drew parallels between World War II, specifically the Allied landing in Normandy as its turning point, and Russia's war against Ukraine, the outcome of which will determine Europe's future, as he put it.
Zelenskyy emphasised that today's free Europe is the result of bravery of those who chose to fight during World War II and did not let Nazi Germany prevail.
"Victories in those battles brought Europe back to humanity. Without those battles won, there would be nothing; there would be no Ukraine, no France, none of the free nations... (But) the Europe everyone knows in the period after World War II is not something that will last forever by itself." Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy drew parallels with the ongoing war of Russia against Ukraine. Zelenskyy reiterated that, in fact, Russia is trying to exert influence all over the world "wherever it can reach and where it does not encounter resistance," such as in Syria and the Sahel region of Africa. He also noted that Russia resorts to blackmail to ensure that it is feared and not duly opposed.
"This battle is a crossroads... Can Putin win this battle? No. Because we do not have the right to lose. Does this war have the right to fade away at the current lines? No, because there are no lines for evil – whether it's 80 years ago or now. If someone tries to draw temporary lines, it will only give a pause before a new war. Just like when evil unfolded aggression against its neighbours in the 1930s."
"Can we win this battle? Absolutely, yes. We can. Ukraine, and therefore Europe. Europe, and therefore France. I am as sure of this as France, which believed in freedom even when D-Day had not yet happened," emphasised the President of Ukraine.
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Biden apologises to Zelenskyy for monthslong congressional holdup to weapons that let Russia gain
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly apologised to Ukraine for a monthslong congressional holdup in American military assistance that let Russia make gains on the battlefield. AP reports
The apology came as Biden met in Paris with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who appealed for bipartisan U.S. support going forward “like it was during World War II.”
A day earlier, the two had attended ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, where Biden had drawn common cause between the allied forces that helped free Europe from Nazi Germany and today’s effort to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and Zelenskyy had been greeted with a rapt ovation.
“I apologise for those weeks of not knowing what’s going to happen in terms of funding,” Biden said, referring to the six-month holdup by conservative Republicans in Congress to a $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine. Still, the Democratic president insisted that the American people were standing by Ukraine for the long haul. “We’re still in. Completely. Thoroughly,” he said.
The apology — and Zelenskyy’s plea for rock-solid support akin to the allied coalition in WWII — served as a reminder that for all of Biden’s talk of an unflagging U.S commitment to Ukraine, recalcitrance among congressional Republicans and an isolationist strain in American politics have exposed its fragility. And, although unremarked upon, the spectre of Donald Trump’s candidacy loomed over the discussion, as the Republican former president and the presumptive nominee has spoken positively of Russian President Vladimir Putin and sparked Ukrainian concerns that he would call for it to cede territory to end the conflict.
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Human rights groups urge ICC to investigate leading Russian propagandists for hate crimes
Leading human rights organisations have submitted a filing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) concerning hate crimes committed by five prominent Russian propagandists against Ukrainians.
This is the first filing to an international court seeking to bring Russian propagandists to responsibility for their role in Russia’s invasion.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), and Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) sent the submission alleging responsibility of former president and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, host of the television channel “Rossiya-1” Vladimir Solovyov, editor-in-chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan, head of the state media group “Rossiya Segodnya” Dmitry Kiselyov, and radio and television host Sergey Mardan, for inciting hatred towards Ukrainians.
According to the submission, the hostile statements by Medvedev, Solovyov, Simonyan, Kiselyov, and Mardan constitute persecution, a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute, and justify Gromov’s responsibility for ordering or permitting such actions under Articles 25 or 28 of the Rome Statute.
“The hate rhetoric played a crucial role in Russia’s criminal campaign in Ukraine,” said Ilia Nuzov, head of FIDH’s International Justice Desk. “Our organisations believe that in the context of crimes against humanity, hate speech is a separate offence that requires greater attention from the International Criminal Court. Our communication contains sufficient evidence to warrant further investigation of these actions and, ultimately, the need to issue arrest warrants for these individuals.” the submission stated
The groups analysed over 2,000 video fragments containing statements made by the aforementioned individuals between 24 February 2022, and 24 February 2024, identifying over 300 instances of hate speech amounting to the crime against humanity of persecution.
