More on that ammunition depot story in Russian-controlled territory.
Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the Odesa military administration, said on Sunday Ukrainian forces destroyed a “very significant” ammunition depot near the Russian-occupied port city of Henichesk in the southern region of Kherson.
“Our armed forces dealt a good blow in the morning – and a very loud one – in the village of Rykove, Henichesk district, in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region,” Bratchuk said in a morning video message on Sunday. “There was a very significant ammunition depot. It was destroyed.”
Reuters could not independently verify the information. And there was no immediate comment from Russia on the alleged attack.
Ukrainian media posted videos showing a vast plume of smoke rising far on the horizon with sounds of blasts and burning projectiles flying into the sky.
Rykove is located on a railway line about 20km from Henichesk, a port city along the Sea of Azov in southern Ukraine, which has been occupied by Kremlin forces since the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Reuters is reporting that Ukrainian forces have taken control of the settlement of Piatykhatky on the Zaporizhzhia battle front, according to a Russian-installed official.
Ukraine’s armed forces are claiming that they killed an estimated 650 Russian soldiers on Saturday, according to an update from its general staff.
It brings Kyiv’s estimated death toll for Russian troops since Moscow’s invasion last year to 219,820. Their figures could not be verified and are subject to updates.
Five civilians were killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine over the last 24 hours and eight injured, including two children, according to a summary of regional authority updates by the Kyiv Independent.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces also said that 7 Russian tanks and 23 armoured vehicles were destroyed yesterday.
Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko has been speaking to Sophy Ridge on Sky News about the impact of the counter-offensive and efforts to rebuild the country.
Speaking ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference, which starts in London on Wednesday, she said that daily and nightly shelling continued to cause havoc and “massive destruction to the critical infrastructure needed for the country to run.”
Vasylenko said rebuilding roads was “the biggest challenge right now”, adding that there are around 25,000 kms of road that need to be rebuilt “right now for communities to continue to function properly.
She also reminded viewers of the situation for Ukrainian children spending Father’s Day separated from dads. “As the UK and the world celebrates Father’s Day, in Ukraine and millions of children are separated from their fathers, who are either fighting on the frontline or the Ukrainian children are outside in countries like the UK seeking refuge while their fathers remain ready for battle in Ukraine,” she said.
Vasylenko said that the counter-offensive was effecting everyone in the country, even those far from the front line. “It’s intense. Every time that Ukraine gets an upper hand in the war zone… [Russia] launches missiles and drones on the peaceful cities in the Western Ukraine and especially on Kyiv the capital. So the whole country is in a very tense situation right now because whether you are fighting and living in the combat zones, or you are living in Kyiv, or you are living in western Ukraine, you are still countering Russia’s aggression.”
Julian Borger is reporting from Georgia, where the situation in Ukraine is being watched closely.
Around the Georgian village of Khurvaleti, Russia’s occupation can creep forward a few yards at a time, often in the middle of the night. It often starts with a line ploughed across a field. Then a green sign will materialise, warning people not to cross. Then the concertina wire appears.
Khurvaleti is at the southern edge of South Ossetia, a breakaway region occupied by Russian troops since a five-day war with Georgia in 2008, in what proved to be a dress rehearsal for Ukraine. Now on the defensive after Putin’s botched Ukraine invasion, Moscow has shifted troops and equipment from Ossetia.
There are few soldiers to be seen in the two military bases built in the hills on either side of Khurvaleti. But Georgians fear that if Russia were to prevail in Ukraine, Putin’s forces will be back to take another bite out of Georgia, most likely with the intention of swallowing the country whole.
For now, the line marking the extent of Russian occupation is watched by EU monitors who patrol in dark blue Toyotas, looking for new signs of “borderisation”, their word for the steady hardening of boundaries.
“Usually it starts with soft borderisation: ditches, ribbons on trees that show demarcation between the two different sites,” said Klaas Maes, a spokesperson for the monitoring mission. “Then it goes on to hard borderisation, where the ditches become fences, the fences become barbed wire, and then barbed wires are then fortified with extra watchtowers.”
You can read his full piece here.
The death toll from flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam has risen to 16 in Ukraine and 29 in territories controlled by Russia, according to briefings by Kyiv and Moscow.
Flood water poured across a huge area of southern-Ukraine and Russian-occupied areas when the the dam was breached on 6 June.
More from Reuters here:
More than 3,600 people have been evacuated from the flooded areas in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, while 31 people were still missing and some 1,300 houses remained flooded, Ukraine’s interior ministry said on its Telegram channel late on Saturday.Andrei Alekseyenko, chairman of the Russian-installed administration in the Moscow-occupied parts of the Kherson region, said on the Telegram messaging app the death toll had risen to 29 people.
Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up the Soviet-era dam, under Russian control since early days of its invasion in 2022.
A team of international legal experts assisting Ukraine’s prosecutors in their investigation said in preliminary findings on Friday it was “highly likely” the collapse in Ukraine’s Kherson region was caused by explosives planted by Russians.
More on that ammunition depot story in Russian-controlled territory.
Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the Odesa military administration, said on Sunday Ukrainian forces destroyed a “very significant” ammunition depot near the Russian-occupied port city of Henichesk in the southern region of Kherson.
“Our armed forces dealt a good blow in the morning – and a very loud one – in the village of Rykove, Henichesk district, in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region,” Bratchuk said in a morning video message on Sunday. “There was a very significant ammunition depot. It was destroyed.”
Reuters could not independently verify the information. And there was no immediate comment from Russia on the alleged attack.
Ukrainian media posted videos showing a vast plume of smoke rising far on the horizon with sounds of blasts and burning projectiles flying into the sky.
Rykove is located on a railway line about 20km from Henichesk, a port city along the Sea of Azov in southern Ukraine, which has been occupied by Kremlin forces since the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Uk Ministry of Defence says heavy fighting is continuing to be focused in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, western Donetsk Oblast, and around Bakhmut.
It says both sides are suffering high casualties, with Russian losses likely the highest since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in March.
Meanwhile, BBC Russia and the Mediazona news outlet continues to collect data about the casualties sustained by the Russian military in Ukraine.
Since their latest update on 4 June, 1,058 names have been added to the list of casualties. The bi-weekly total is lower than it was during active fighting for Bakhmut, but they are still collating names from that period.
By 16 June, they had verified the deaths of 251 Russian officers ranked Lieutenant Colonel or above.
Most of those killed in action come from the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, Bashkiria, Buryatia, and the Volgograd regions.
The outlets note the real death toll is much higher and the number of soldiers missing in action or captured is not known.
Welcome back to our continuing coverage of the war in Ukraine, I’m Christine Kearney bringing you the latest news.
Ukrainian forces have destroyed an ammunition depot near the Russian-occupied port city of Henichesk in the southern region of Kherson, Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for the Odesa military administration, said on Sunday.
“There was a very significant ammunition depot. It was destroyed,” Bratchuk said in a morning video message on Sunday.
More details to come, in other key developments:
Vladimir Putin on Saturday gave African leaders pushing for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow a list of reasons why he believed many of their peace proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissed by Kyiv. The African leaders were seeking agreement on a series of “confidence building measures”, telling the Russian president it was time to negotiate an end to fighting, which they said was harming the entire world.
After presentations from the Comoran, Senegalese and South African presidents, Putin challenged the assumptions of the plan. He reiterated his position that Ukraine and its western allies started the conflict and said Russia had never refused talks with the Ukrainian side, but these had been blocked by Kyiv. Moscow says any peace must allow for “new realities”, meaning its declared but globally unrecognised annexation of five Ukrainian provinces, four of which it only partially controls – a red line for Kyiv.
South Africa’s president told Putin that the fighting had to stop. “This war must be settled … through negotiations and through diplomatic means,” said Cyril Ramaphosa after talks in the suburbs of St Petersburg.
Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, confirmed troops were “engaged in active moves” to advance the counteroffensive in the south. Ukrainian forces around Bakhmut, captured by Russia last month, were trying to push Russian forces out from the outskirts of the devastated city. Russia did not officially acknowledge Ukrainian advances and said it inflicted heavy losses on Kyiv’s forces in the previous 24 hours.
Two people died after a Russian missile strike on a village in the Kharkiv region in the north-east of Ukraine, said the regional governor, Oleh Synehubov. Synehubov said on Telegram that Russian forces shelled the village of Huryiv Kozachok. An anti-tank guided missile hit a car driving towards the village, which is near the border with Russia.
Jens Stoltenberg was expected to be asked to remain as Nato secretary general for another year, a Reuters source said. Stoltenberg’s term has been prolonged three times and he is due to step down in September after nine years. The Norwegian had broad support and continued to be an effective leader, said the source, who requested anonymity. The chances of Stoltenberg being asked to stay on have increased as Nato’s summit in Vilnius has neared, with allies fearing any show of disunity during Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, visited a military factory in western Siberia and stressed the need “to maintain the increased production of tanks”, the defence ministry said. Agence France-Presse reported that Shoigu said this was necessary “to satisfy the needs of Russian forces carrying out the special military operation” in Ukraine.
Moscow said troops destroyed three drones targeting an oil refinery in the southern border region of Bryansk. The regional governor, Alexander Bogomaz, said: “Russian air defence systems repelled an overnight attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on the Druzhba oil refinery in the district of Novozybkov. Thanks to the professionalism of our military … three aerial drones were destroyed.”
Vladimir Putin confirmed Russia had deployed its first tranche of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. He said nuclear weapons would only be used in the event of a threat to the existence of the Russian state. Speaking at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, the Russian president also said there was a “serious danger” that the Nato military alliance could be pulled further into the Ukraine war.
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