2023-06-11 15:07:00
Troops released video on Sunday showing the raising of the Ukrainian flag on top of a half-ruined building in Blahodatne village. Prisoners were also taken, it said. For the time being, there was no official statement from the Russian official side.
The Russian army has been claiming for days that it is repelling the Ukrainian offensive. However, Russian military bloggers close to the Kremlin also reported that Blahodatne had been abandoned because Moscow’s fighters feared encirclement there. Accordingly, the village of Neskutschne was also taken. The village of Lobkove in the Zaporizhia region is said to have been liberated from Russian occupation.
The Ukrainian Air Force also reported on Sunday that six drones were shot down once more in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions on the border with Russia. Russian regions also reported renewed shelling from the Ukrainian side. According to the authorities, two drones struck in the Kaluga region. Nothing was initially known regarding injuries or major damage.
After the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in the war zone in southern Ukraine in the Kherson region, the search for missing persons continued on Sunday. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that 32 villages with 3,784 houses were still flooded on the right bank of the Dnipro River controlled by Kiev. The authorities had announced the previous evening that 29 people were missing.
After the dam breaks, the water drops
1,400 emergency services are involved in eliminating the consequences of the flood following the dam ruptured, it said. The evacuation of villages also continued on the Russian-occupied side of the bank. Thousands of people were evacuated to safety on both sides of the river in the contested area.
However, the Ukrainian authorities reported falling water levels. The water drains into the Black Sea. The operator of the destroyed Kachowka power plant announced that the water level in the reservoir is also continuing to fall. He was therefore 9.35 meters, which was more than seven meters less than on Tuesday. The dam broke on Tuesday night. Ukraine accuses Russian troops of having mined and blown up the dam and power plant. Russia, on the other hand, claims that Ukrainian troops fired rocket launchers at the dam. Dozens of towns were flooded. Experts speak of a serious environmental disaster. So far there is talk of a total of 13 deaths on both sides of the area in which hostilities continued.
Ukraine has been defending itself for more than 15 months once morest the Russian war of aggression that began on February 24, 2022. The country, equipped with Western weapons, wants to take back the areas occupied by Russia as part of a counter-offensive. In addition, Kiev had recently confirmed broad offensive actions and attacks by its troops. However, there was still no clear confirmation that the major offensive announced months ago had begun. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukraine’s offensive had already begun.
According to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his country is launching “counter-offensives” on the front once morest Russian troops. “Counter-offensive and defensive actions” are taking place, but he will not give “any details,” Zelensky said in Kiev on Saturday. He left open whether it was the long-awaited large-scale offensive by Ukraine.
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