Monday, June 5

Russia’s war against Ukraine

First Lady Olena Zelenska delivers a speech during the opening of the monument commemorating the Ukrainian children killed by Russia’s war in Kharkiv on June 4. (Olena Zelenska/Telegram)

Russia claims to block Ukrainian offensive in South Donetsk direction.

Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive in the Donetsk region on the morning of June 4, according to a Telegram update.

Minister: Only half of bomb shelters in Kyiv ready to receive people. After more than 15 months of Russia’s war against Ukraine, only half of the 1,078 bomb shelters in Kyiv checked by a government commission are ready for use, Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin reported on June 4.

Ukraine’s first lady: ‘A threat to our children is a threat to all children’. On June 4, Ukraine commemorates the children killed by Russia’s war. The latest victim is a 2-year-old girl killed by a missile attack on June 3.

Anti-Kremlin militia plans to give Russian prisoners to Kyiv. The anti-Kremlin militia said it plans to give Russian soldiers allegedly captured during a cross-border raid to the Ukrainian authorities in a video published on Telegram on June 4.

Zelensky: Russia manages to bypass sanctions, uses other countries to ‘continue terror’. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on June 4 during his video address that Russia manages to bypass international sanctions and benefit from Western technology by using a network of intermediaries.

Official: Up to 20 Ukrainian men arrested every day for illegally crossing border. Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s State Border Guard, reported on June 4 that border guards detain up to 20 men trying to go abroad illegally every day.

Danilov: Ukraine lost 7.5 times fewer troops than Russia in Bakhmut. Ukraine’s losses in the Battle of Bakhmut were lower than Russia’s by a factor of 7.5, National Security and Defense Council chief Oleksiy Danilov told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

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Anti-Kremlin militia claims to have yet another incursion in Belgorod Oblast, seeks meeting with local governor. Governor of Russia’s Belgorod Oblast Vyacheslav Gladkov claimed on June 4 that he was ready to meet the Russian anti-Kremlin militia behind the latest incursion in Belgorod Oblast.

Russian proxy in Crimea said occupiers destroyed 9 drones overnight. Russian-installed head of occupied Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, claimed that the occupiers brought down nine hostile drones on the night of June 4.

Air Force: Russian cruise missiles hit operational airfield near Kropyvnytskyi. Two Russian missiles struck an active Ukrainian airfield near Kropyvnytskyi in Kirovohrad Oblast on June 4, according to Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat.

Governor: Russian forces strike with tanks, helicopters in Kharkiv Oblast. Russian forces attacked multiple settlements in Kharkiv Oblast on June 4, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.

Update: Ukraine downed 6 out of 8 Shahed drones overnight. Ukrainian forces downed six out of eight Iranian-made Shahed drones, as well as four out of six Kh-101 cruise missiles launched by Russia at Ukraine overnight on June 4, the General Staff reported, citing updated information.

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Ukraine war latest: Zelensky says Ukraine ready for counteroffensive; Russian attack near Dnipro kills 2-year-old

A two-year-old girl was found dead under the rubble of an apartment building in the town of Pidhorodne, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, that was hit by a Russian missile attack on June 3, according to local Governor Serhii Lysak.

Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Serhii Lysak/Telegram

Clinic guard arrested over locked bomb shelter that led to civilian deaths in Kyiv

On June 3, the Kyiv Holosiivskyi District Court arrested a 62-year-old night guard of a local clinic, Vadym Moshkin, for failing to open the clinic’s bomb shelter in time during a Russian missile attack, leading to the deaths of three people.

Photo: Oleksii Arunian/Graty

Human cost of war

Russian attacks kill 2 civilians, injure 3 in Kharkiv Oblast.

Two women, aged 62 and 74, were killed on June 4 as a result of Russian shelling of the city of Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast, the regional prosecutor’s office reported.

Russia shells 9 communities in Sumy Oblast, injures 2 civilians. The Russian army shelled nine communities in Sumy Oblast on June 4, firing 104 rounds from various types of weapons, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported on Telegram.

General Staff: Russia has lost 209,940 troops in Ukraine. According to the report, Russia has also lost 3,837 tanks, 7,512 armored fighting vehicles, 6,305 vehicles and fuel tanks, 3,555 artillery systems, 1,132 cruise missiles, 583 multiple launch rocket systems, 344 air defense systems, 313 airplanes, 298 helicopters, 3,175 drones, and 18 boats.

International response

Estonian PM: NATO threatens Russia’s imperialism, not its security. Speaking to the media from a security conference in Singapore, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that Russia’s narrative that NATO had a role to play in its invasion of Ukraine sees a great deal of play in Asia and must be refuted.

UK Defense Ministry: ‘Paranoid’ Russian officials crack down on blue and yellow colors in public. Russia is sporadically cracking down on people wearing blue and yellow, interpreting it as symbolism in support of Ukraine, according to the U.K. Defense Ministry’s June 4 intelligence update.

Parliament speaker meets with Azovstal defenders in Turkey. Chairman of the Ukrainian parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk went to Turkey and met with Azovstal defenders who have been freed from Russian capture and are now under the protection of the Turkish government, the press service of Verkhovna Rada reported on June 4.

Media: Latvia transfers 66 vehicles confiscated from drunk drivers to Ukraine.

Latvian authorities have already transferred 66 confiscated cars to Ukraine, according to the State Insurance Agency data reported in media outlet Delfi on June 4.

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