Russian Armed Forces also targeted a thermal power plant belonging to DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, injuring three power engineers and severely damaging the plant's equipment
Kostin added that this incident serves as another proof of Russia's state policy of disregarding international law and universal morality
According to early reports, Russians struck the civilian infrastructure with a Kh-59 cruise missile. Thereby, civilians have been injured. The Poltava Oblast Prosecutor’s Office clarified that 22 people required medical attention
Ukrainian intelligence states that Russia is running a global effort to recruit foreign mercenaries in at least 21 nations, including several in Africa
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called another series of statements by Putin manipulative. According to the MFA of Ukraine, Russia's statements aimed at misleading the international community, undermining diplomatic efforts to achieve a just peace and shattering the unity of the world majority around the purposes and principles of the UN Charter
Ukrainian media movement called on the U.S. Congress and Senate to cease the pressure on Texty.org.ua and not exploit Ukrainian media for internal American political competition in the run-up to the upcoming elections in the USA
A day of mourning for those killed in a Russian attack will be declared in Kryvyi Rih on 14 June
The policy of destroying independent media deprives Crimean residents of access to information from independent journalists, creating a propaganda bubble
According to the HRMMU, the increase in civilian casualties was mainly due to attacks in Kharkiv region since 10 May related to a ground offensive launched by Russian armed forces from the Russian Federation into the Kharkiv region
Fatalities include three women aged 39, 68 and 86 and four men aged 52, 64, 41 and 28
Ukraine's Air Force reported that they have been observing a “carousel pattern” of Russian aircraft dropping bombs targeting the city of Kharkiv
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to world leaders who are still aside from the global efforts of the Global Peace Summit to join it. He called on them to show leadership in advancing real peace, not just a pause between strikes
After the strike, a video of the fire and a massive cloud of smoke from the Epicentr hypermarket in Kharkiv is being shared on social media
The Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office said that Russian forces had launched a series of strikes with S-300 and S-400 missiles on Kharkiv and the town of Liubotyn starting at 10:30
Amnesty International concluded, that Russia has had ten years to implement its policies designed to alter the ethnic makeup of and suppress non-Russian identities in Crimea
Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, stated that the Russian invaders targeted an area where civilians were relaxing. The police confirmed five fatalities, including a pregnant woman, with at least 28 injured
Russia has had ten years to implement its policies designed to alter the ethnic makeup of and suppress non-Russian identities in Crimea. Through population transfer and coercive policies targeting minorities, it has sought to dilute and remove Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identity from the peninsula
The International Court of Justice found that the way in which Russia had implemented its educational system in Crimea after 2014 with regard to school education in the Ukrainian language had violated its obligations under Articles 2(1)(a) and 5(v) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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