2023-06-11 09:09:00
According to Western experts, the Ukrainian armed forces have achieved local successes in their offensive against the Russian army in the Zaporizhia region in the south of the country. The US Institute for War Studies (ISW) in Washington announced that the gains are in the west of the Zaporizhia region and there in the southwest and southeast of the city of Orikhiv. According to Russian information, the attacks were repelled.
Overall, there are Ukrainian offensive actions on four sectors of the front, the ISW said. On the other hand, the Russian military announced that it had successfully repelled the attacks there and in the Donetsk region around the city of Bakhmut.
The Ukrainian Air Force also reported on Sunday that six drones were shot down again in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions on the border with Russia. On Saturday, the Ukrainian air defense announced that 2 cruise missiles and 20 drones had been shot down. Accordingly, Russia had fired 35 drones and 8 missiles at targets in Ukraine – at military and important infrastructure objects. In addition to Odessa, the Russian attacks were also aimed at targets in the Poltava region and in Kharkiv.
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 about injuries or major damage. In the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, which has been under fire for days, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced on Sunday that a freight train with 15 empty wagons had derailed. There were no injuries, and regional train services had to be temporarily suspended. The background was initially unclear. In Russia, rail partisans repeatedly commit acts of sabotage against railway facilities in order to stop military supplies.
Meanwhile, early Sunday morning, a drone went down near the village of Strelkovka in Russia’s Kaluga region as part of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022. “According to preliminary information, there are no injuries,” said the governor of the region, Vladislav Shapsha, on the short message service Telegram. The Kaluga region borders on the Moscow metropolitan area in the north.
Hours earlier, 15 wagons of an empty freight train derailed in the southern Russian region of Belgorod on the border with Ukraine. According to preliminary information, there were no injuries here either, as the local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov also reported on Telegram. There is currently no information on the cause.
In recent weeks there have been repeated explosions and attacks in the Belgorod region, for which the authorities blame Ukraine or pro-Ukrainian saboteurs. Ukraine has not yet claimed responsibility for attacks within Russia.
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. The Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior announced on Sunday that 32 villages with 3,784 houses were still flooded on the right side of the Dnipro bank controlled by Kiev. The authorities had announced the previous evening that 29 people were missing.
1,400 emergency services were involved in eliminating the consequences of the flood after the dam broke, 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. Accordingly, the high water level of the Dnipro in Cherson was 4.18 meters on Sunday morning, a good half a meter less than the previous day. 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 further development of the situation there is difficult to predict, it said.
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 against 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.
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