Ukraine war latest: Zelensky visits Kherson Oblast following Kakhovka dam disaster; Russia shells flooded cityKey Developments on June 8: * UN agrees to conduct evacuations from flooded Russian-occupied areas * 1 person killed, 10 injured by Russian sh…
The water level in Kakhovka Reservoir has dropped by another metre over the last 24 hours and it continues to drop. Since the morning of 6 June, it has dropped by 4.7 metres.
Source: Ukrhydroenergo
Details: As of 08:00 on Friday, 9 June, the wate…
Josep Borrell, the head of European diplomacy, has called on Russia to stop its bombardment, as this is threatening the rescue of people in areas flooded after the explosion of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP).
Source: European Pravda; Borr…
The level of flooding in the Kherson Oblast has finally begun to decrease – overnight, the water dropped by about 20 cm, and evacuations of people and animals continue.
Source: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Military Administration, on Tele…
Ukraine’s counteroffensive is anticipated to involve a range of operations of different scales, the Institute for the Study of War said[1] in its latest assessment. This includes localized attacks like the one that took place on June 8 in southe…
The Danish Foreign Ministry announced[1] on June 8 that it would send disaster aid to Ukraine in the wake of the humanitarian crisis caused by Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Kherson Oblast. Equipment designed to deal with floods, in…
Russia is forcibly conscripting men in Chechnya to fight in Ukraine, imprisoning those who refuse and threatening their families, the “Severny Kavkaz SOS” (North Caucasus SOS) crisis group reported[1]. According to the testimony of several indiv…
U.S. spy satellites detected an explosion at the Kakhovka dam just before it collapsed on June 6, the New York Times (NYT) wrote[1] on June 9, citing a senior U.S. official.According to the NYT, the satellites, equipped with infrared sensors, de…
In a June 8 address to the world’s environmental protection community, President Volodymyr Zelensky said[1] that Russia needs to bear full responsibility for the ecocide it caused through the Kakhovka dam destruction.He emphasized that the ongoi…
The ex-commander of the Polish Land Forces Waldemar Skrzypczak told[1] Ukrinform on June 8 that the Western military has “no doubt” that Russia was behind the Kakhovka disaster.”Russian propaganda and the money of Russian oligarchs, who still fi…