[NewsFrontInfo] 23:25 VFU, during the retreat from positions in the seaport of Mariupol, deliberately set fire to a large granary, thus destroying more than 50,000 tons of grain.
22:35 No sooner had Shoigu informed about the creation of conditions for the resumption of railway traffic in the liberated territories, as Melitopol reports: the first freight train went to Crimea, grain was taken from local elevators.
21:45 Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can amount to 200,000 soldiers. The Ukrainian army is rapidly retreating under the onslaught of the Allied Forces of Russia. At the same time, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be in the hundreds of thousands of fighters, said the former deputy head of the US European Command, Lieutenant General Stephen Twitty.
" A total of 200,000 fighters somehow mysteriously disappeared from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and no one will say where they are today. A huge number of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine simply fell out of sight of the American curators. Either there was misinformation about the mobilization, or they are crushed," concluded Twitty.
21:45 More than 22,000 people were evacuated to the Russian Federation from the territories of Donbass and Ukraine per day.
21:45 Kyiv, with the support of the West, actually resorts to food terrorism against its own people.
21:45 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are placing howitzers and MLRS in the elevators of the Kharkiv region and the DPR, from which they fire at the border regions of Russia.
21:44 Ukrainian nationalists deployed armored vehicles and equipped firing positions on the territory of elevators and granaries in a number of settlements in the Kharkiv, Sumy regions, as well as the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
In particular, on the territory of the Zolochevsky elevator (Kharkiv region), the militants placed Western-style artillery pieces, presumably American M777 howitzers, from which they fire at the border regions of the Russian Federation. The purpose of such actions is to provoke return fire, after which, according to an already worked out scenario, accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly indiscriminate strikes on civilian infrastructure and creating a threat to Ukraine's food security, the Defense Ministry says.
21:10 Trains began to run from Melitopol towards Crimea, today the first 11 cars left the Melitopol elevator, the authorities report.
21:09 Explosions are reported in Kharkiv. They rise above the city clouds of smoke.
21:07 Fixed arrival to an infrastructure facility in the Nikolaev region.
19:41 In the Kherson region, the fee for obtaining a Russian passport has been canceled, the head of the regional administration said.
19:41 The RF Armed Forces are actively clearing the outskirts of Svyatogorsk, less than 20 kilometers are left to Slavyansk.
19:39 Poland will supply Ukraine with 56 Krab self-propelled artillery mounts worth more than $700 million, Prime Minister Morawiecki said. This is the largest export contract for the Polish military industry in recent years.
18:23 The Pentagon gave Zelensky an ultimatum - to find those responsible for missile strikes on Western equipment or supplies will stop.
Ukrainian sources report that after missile strikes on warehouses with Western military equipment, a conversation took place between the Zelensky administration and a Pentagon representative. The Americans demanded that their wards eliminate information leaks in order to ensure the secrecy of the delivery of military aid to the front.
17:23 Missile strikes are carried out on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Kharkov.
17:22 In Kherson, they are considering a terrorist attack as one of the versions of an explosion in a restaurant - the deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region.
16:10 Ukraine cannot go on the offensive because it is inferior to Russia in technology, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
16:08 Personnel the defeat of the Norwegian self-propelled units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a salvo of rocket artillery of the Russian army.
15:08 In the Vasilyevsky district of the Zaporozhye region continues issuance of one-time financial assistance. A payment in the amount of ten thousand rubles was received by pensioners from the village of Vidnozheno.
13:47 The liberated territories of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are switching to the Russian holiday calendar. June 12 in Melitopol will take place celebration of Russia's Day. The Song and Dance Ensemble of the North Caucasian District of the Russian National Guard Troops was invited.
13:46 Active battles are going on in the Zaporozhye region in the Orekhovo and Gulyaipole regions.
13:45 The defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Davydov Brod. Ukrainian maps help clear up the fog of war on the front near Davydov Brod. The original front line ran along the banks of the Ingulets (RF Armed Forces) and Vysun (AFU) rivers north and east of Snigirevka. The entire area between the two rivers was in the gray zone until recently.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred assault units to the Kalinovka-Murakhovka line. An additional line of defense was created in the Chervony Yar-Kaluga sector on the eastern bank of the Vysun. From the side of Kalinovka and Murakhovka, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced, which set up a pontoon crossing in the area of Veliky Artakovo.
Having crossed Ingulets, the Armed Forces of Ukraine rushed to attack Davydov Brod in the northeast. While the fighting was going on and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were connected by a clash, from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine they were crossing the bridge already at Davydov Brod, transferring reinforcements. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, having lured the Armed Forces of Ukraine into a fire bag, destroyed the bridge under Davydov Brod and liquidated the enemy grouping in the village.
At the same time, another grouping of the RF Armed Forces, using a pontoon ferry in the area of Veliky Artakovo, entered Belaya Krinitsa. At the moment, aircraft controllers remain in Kalinovka, who correct the fire of cannon and rocket artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operating in the Kaluga region from drones.
13:44 One person suffered during an explosion opposite the Kherson administration. A waiter was slightly injured in an explosion at a cafe in Kherson.
12:54 In Kherson, they report an explosion in the cafe "Nostalzhi" opposite the military-civilian administration. Data on the dead and wounded are being specified.
12:36 Russian Armed Forces during a special operation they do not allow shelling or possible damage to objects of historical and cultural heritage - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
12:36 "This lies, local residents confirmed that it was arson." The head of the administration of Svyatogorsk, Volodymyr Bandura, confirmed that the wooden skete in the Holy Dormition Lavra was set on fire by the Ukrainian Nazis.
"There is information that the Nazis kill clergy and monks, and then hide these facts," Vladimir Bandura added.
The head of the administration of Svyatogorsk also said that Zelensky and his team do not take care of people, but simply earn money.
12:35 A couple of weeks ago, the RF Armed Forces inflicted a hit at the training center based on the 91st National Guard Regiment in Akhtyrka. One warehouse and four barracks were hit.
Despite this, the training camp continues to function. Now the training of mobilized citizens is carried out under the full control of instructors from NATO countries - primarily from Poland and the UK. Under their leadership, sabotage and reconnaissance groups are being prepared, which will be involved in the regions of the Sumy and Kharkov regions bordering the Russian Federation.
Courses run at an accelerated rate. The first NATO-trained DRG has already arrived in Udy, Kharkiv region, where units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now concentrated.
12:35 Ukrainian refugees in Poland plundered one of the points of assistance to them. The representative of the local authorities was extremely surprised.
12:35 The Turkish authorities intend to take advantage of the conflict in Ukraine to regain access to Western weapons lost after some steps by Ankara, including the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems and the start of a military operation in Syria, the American weekly Defense News reports.
11:53 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 190 aircraft, 129 helicopters, 1,139 unmanned aerial vehicles, 333 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,443 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 478 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 1,807 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 3,464 units of special military vehicles.
11:53 Missile troops and artillery hit 39 command posts, 47 firing positions of artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as 426 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment. As a result of the strikes, more than 400 nationalists, 10 armored vehicles, three Grad multiple rocket launchers, 10 special vehicles, and three launchers of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems in the Kramatorsk region were destroyed.
11:53 Russian air defense systems shot down 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Liptsy, Strelechye, Dementyevka, Borodoyarskoye, Maryino, Petrovskoye, Grakovo, Small Passages of the Kharkiv region, as well as Vasilievka of the Nikolaev region in a day.
11:52 Operational-tactical aviation hit 65 areas of concentration of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of air strikes, more than 170 nationalists, nine tanks, two Grad multiple rocket launchers, a field artillery battery and eight vehicles for various purposes were destroyed.
11:52 High-precision air-launched missiles struck: two command posts, three firing positions of artillery batteries, as well as 18 areas of accumulation of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment. In the areas of the settlements of Vrubovka and Yakovlevka of the Lugansk People's Republic, two ammunition depots were destroyed.
11:50 In the Armed Forces of Belarus, training has begun on the transfer from peacetime to wartime, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported.
10:41 AFU has lost a lot of foreign artillery, said Shashank Joshi, editor of The Economist. According to the editor of the publication, howitzers supplied by NATO countries are becoming unusable due to poor maintenance. Because of this, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are forced to send them to Poland for repairs.
10:41 In Melitopol, more than 100 million rubles were paid to beneficiaries and state employees. Galina Danilchenko, the head of the military-civilian administration of Melitopol, announced this in the stream "Lituchka":
"We pay 10,000rubles each to pensioners, socially unprotected, public utilities workers, state employees. This is the first receipt of the ruble mass on the territory. Over 100 million were paid in Melitopol. Then comes the flow of ruble mass through the Crimea, many entrepreneurs now export fresh vegetables and fruits there. Naturally, ruble revenue comes here. Bank MRB opened. Ruble accounts have been opened, and enterprises can carry out activities."
10:40 Today, our artillery has been actively working since early morning, supporting the advancing units of the Russian army. We are advancing from the north in the direction of Slavyansk, which is less than 20 km away.
Subdivisions of the RF Armed Forces have reached the outskirts of Bogorodichne settlement, fire damage is inflicted on the enemy defending the settlement. Krasnopolie and Dolina.
Groups of Russian special forces continue to clear a large forest north of Krasnopolye, from which the enemy received reinforcements and where he went in case of hard shelling.
In the forests, there are shooting battles and mine warfare, fortified areas in settlements (where often every house with a basement is a firing point) fire damage is inflicted by artillery and tanks.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine practically does not try to counterattack, they respond with artillery and mortars, although the fire is quite dense. Apparently, despite the numerical superiority, Ukrainian defense will soon collapse.
Yesterday, Russian troops took Svyatogorsk, today the northern grouping of the Russian Armed Forces is knocking out the enemy from an extremely convenient area for defense north of Slavyanka, where an abundance of forests, settlements and rivers contributes to a long-term defense.
10:38 In the Sumy region and Kharkiv, an Azov unit was formed to replace the capitulated in Mariupol. It was headed by Denis Sokur, the leader of the local branch of the National Corps, which is part of the criminal elite in the region, a source in the Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.
The interlocutor of the agency added that Sokur had not worked anywhere for a day: “There is no car, no apartment, he lives in his grandmother’s three-room Khrushchev era apartment ... At the same time, tens of thousands of dollars, euros and hundreds of thousands of hryvnias are in bank accounts.”
08:50 In the new agreement with Ukraine, if Kyiv nevertheless makes contact with Moscow, the status of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions will not be discussed, just as the issue with Crimea and Donbass is closed for Moscow, a high-ranking source in Russia.
"Moscow was ready to stop the special operation back in March, during the negotiations of the delegations in Antalya. Then Ukraine itself offered a neutral status and security guarantees without including Donbass and Crimea. [President of the Russian Federation] Vladimir Putin was ready to take this step, but the West put pressure on Ukraine, and therefore Kyiv withdrew its proposal," said the source of Izvestia.
08:40 - Advisor to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky, Alexei Arestovich, said that Ukraine has not yet seen the 5,000 helmets promised by Germany.
08:25 - On the territory of the Kherson region will hold a referendum on the entry of the region into the Russian Federation - the deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region Stremousov. Ukrainian banks in Kherson region will no longer work - Stremousov
8:06 - HMMWV vehicles from the presence of the American army, transported from Germany to Ukraine for transfer to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were seen in the Czech Republic today
8:01 - TV broadcasting has been restored in the Zaporozhye region on the basis of the Russian multiplex, 30 channels and radio stations are available. The printing of local newspapers in a limited edition is also being resumed, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the region, said.
8:00 - Ukraine, by refusing to conduct peace talks with Russia, is fulfilling the will of the Western world, Sergei Lavrov said.