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09 June 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine COVID-22 and noted that weapons and sanctions are a vaccine against it.
In Donetsk Region, Russian troops have opened fire on 14 settlements over the past day. Casualties among civilians were reported.
Since the full-scale war started, Russia has used about 2,600 different missiles against Ukraine, mainly firing at civilian objects.
Russia has already lost about 31,700 troops in Ukraine (+200 over the past day).
On June 8, 2022, two civilians were killed and four injured in Russia’s shelling of Kharkiv’s Novobavarskyi District. A local café, shop and school caught fire.
A total of 263 children have been killed and 488 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
The artillerymen from the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed Russia’s armored personnel carrier (APC), two tanks and 15 troops, when they were about to launch an offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Russian troops shell industrial facilities and residential neighborhoods in Luhansk region.
The enemy struck Kryvyi Rih district in Dnipropetrovsk region.
In Sievierodonetsk direction, Russian troops fired mortars, artillery, and multiple rocket launchers on the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy continues making futile attempts to find weak spots in the defense of Sievierodonetsk.
Over the past day, the strike aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated at least ten enemy armored personnel vehicles and about two dozen invaders.
The United States follows the situation in eastern Ukraine and is ready to continue providing necessary equipment and tools to Ukraine to be able to resist Russian advances.
In the southern direction, the Ukrainian military eliminated 30 Russian invaders, six units of equipment, and three ammunition depots over the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian forces have repulsed seven enemy attacks and destroyed a significant number of military equipment in the area of the Joint Forces Operation in eastern Ukraine in the last 24 hours.
08 June 2022
Ripple effects from the war in Ukraine have generated a severe cost-of-living crisis which no country or community can escape, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.
The battle for Sievierodonetsk is one of the most difficult since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the fate of Donbas is being decided there.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees presenting state awards to 285 Ukrainian heroes, participants in hostilities.
All foreign nationals fighting against Russian invaders on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are seen as combatants, being entitled to the relevant rights.
Against the background of the illegal expropriation by Russian invasion forces of Ukrainian wheat, vegetables, other food products and agricultural machinery from Kherson region and other regions of Ukraine, the “Appeal of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian Emigration” which is kept in the Ukrainian Intelligence Service archive has been brought to light.
The United States should find opportunities to provide fighter jets, air defenses, as well as other necessary weaponry to repulse Russian invasion.
At the front line in Zaporizhzhia Region, Ukraine and Russia have exchanged the bodies of the fallen soldiers under the ’50 for 50’ formula.
The village of Yahidne, Chernihiv Region, has become synonymous with hell on earth. Hell was made there by Russian invaders, when they seized the village and herded local residents together into a school basement.
Russian troops have destroyed a building of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service in Sumy Region.
In the Southern direction, the situation on the battlefield is remaining tense. Artillery and air duels continue.
Russian invaders launched an airstrike on the town of Bakhmut in Donetsk region. A local school was completely destroyed, casualties have been reported.
Over the past day, the Russians continued firing artillery and MLRS on Kharkiv city and the region. Five people were killed and 12 more were injured.
The Russian troops fired on seven populated localities of Donetsk region over the past day.
The signing of a defense contract between Ukraine and Poland will strengthen the capabilities of the Ukrainian army.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have already killed about 31,500 Russian soldiers between February 24 and June 8, including 140 on June 7.
Two teenagers have been returned from Ukraine's temporarily occupied territories to government-controlled areas.