The main thing at the moment

  • Ukraine has declared 10 repulsed Russian attacks in the Donbass.

  • Russia handed over 160 bodies of fallen defenders of Mariupol to Ukraine.

    They were not exchanged for the bodies of killed Russian soldiers.

  • The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the risks of repeated invasion of Russian troops from Belarusian territory are minimal.

  • President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited the front in Donbass.

  • Putin signed a decree to pay 5 million rubles to the families of Russian servicemen killed in Ukraine.

  • In the Kherson region, according to the Ukrainian General Staff, the Russians mined the banks of the Ingulets River.

  • In the Donetsk region due to the Russian offensive burned All Saints Hermitage in the Svyatogorsk Lavra, the largest wooden church in Ukraine.

Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.

What happens on June 6 and 7

Fierce fighting in Severodonetsk

The American Institute for Military Research (ISW) said analysts do not have a unanimous assessment of control in Severodonetsk, but they agree that the city is engaged in fierce fighting.

The Ukrainian Navy pushed the Russian fleet 100 km off the Ukrainian coast

ISW, citing the Ukrainian Navy, reports that Ukraine has managed to push Russia's Black Sea Fleet more than 100 km to reduce Russia's pressure on Ukraine's southern ports.

Ukraine has declared 10 repulsed Russian attacks in the Donbass

The Joint Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass reported that during the day in the Donetsk and Luhansk areas, the Ukrainian military repulsed ten attacks by the Russian army, and fighting continues in two places.

"One tank, three artillery systems, two armored combat vehicles, one car and two ammunition depots were destroyed by the combined forces over the past 24 hours.

The Russian side does not report any losses in equipment.

According to the headquarters, on June 6, the Russian military fired on more than 20 settlements in the Donbass, killing two civilians and injuring 12.

Zelensky visited the front in the Donbass

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited command posts and advanced positions of Ukrainian troops in the Bakhmut region of Donetsk region and Lisichansk, Luhansk region, where the fiercest fighting with the Russian army has taken place in recent weeks.

The Russians are building pontoon-rail crossings in the Slobozhansky direction

The summary of the Ukrainian General Staff says that in the Slobozhansky direction “the enemy continues to fire on units of the defense forces with artillery, jet systems, mortars and tanks.

In order to support the offensive, the enemy is intensively rebuilding the transport infrastructure and building pontoon-rail crossings across rivers in the temporarily occupied territories. "

According to the General Staff, there are no significant changes on the part of Belarus.

Russian weapons remain in position along the border.

Fighting continues in the Donbass

One of the hotspots in the Russian war in the Donbass was Bakhmut: here Russian troops advanced into previously controlled by Kiev areas of the so-called Svetlodar arc and approached the city.

Ukrainian troops repel attacks by Russian troops and try to gain control of the dominant heights for possible maneuvers.

What is happening in Russia

Putin signs decree to pay families five million rubles to families of soldiers killed in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to pay five million rubles each to the families of members of the National Guard and the FSB border service who died in the war in Ukraine and during the fighting in Syria.

According to the decree, relatives of Russian "volunteers" killed in Ukraine and Syria will receive the same amount.

Russia last reported its losses in the war with Ukraine on March 25, claiming 1,351 dead and 3,825 wounded.

The Ukrainian General Staff estimates the loss of more than 31,000 Russian soldiers.

Belarus' participation in the war

Belarus has allowed Russia to use its territory to attack Ukraine from the north;

Russians use Belarusian airfields for flights and Belarusian sites for rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities.

At the same time, Belarusians are fighting on the side of Ukraine in various formations.

A battalion named after Kastus Kalinouski has been created, which is now being reorganized into a regiment.

Since the beginning of the war, 61 missiles have been launched from the territory of Belarus in Ukraine, - the General Staff of Ukraine

"There were 1,211 aircraft departures from Belarus - more than 20% of the total - and 61 launches of Iskander cruise missiles to destroy critical infrastructure of Ukraine," said General Staff spokesman Alexei Gromov.

Lukashenko has established a new operational military command in Belarus - the south

This step is motivated by the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine.

Until now, Belarus had two operational commands - the northern and northwestern.

Ukrainian General Staff: Point-U and Tornado complexes deployed in Belarus

Two missile divisions of the Tochka-U tactical missile system and the Tornado multiple rocket launcher division have been deployed at separate ranges in Belarus, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in an evening report on May 20.

The threat of rocket bombings and artillery shelling from the territory of Belarus has not yet disappeared.

How the world reacts

Sweden will hand over weapons to Ukraine

Sweden will provide Ukraine with anti-infantry sniper rifles AG 90 and ammunition, as well as an additional 5,000 Swedish anti-tank guns AT4, according to Army Recognition.

Sweden also intends to contribute 60 million Swedish kronor ($ 6.14 million) to a fund set up by NATO to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Earlier, Sweden transferred about 48 million euros to a special account of the National Bank of Ukraine for the Armed Forces and is going to contribute an additional 55 million euros to this fund.

The European Union has approved the sixth package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus for attacking Ukraine

The embargo on Russian oil will not be complete, but will cover over 90% of supplies.

Patriarch Kirill was removed from the sanctions list at the request of Hungary.

As part of sanctions, the EU is disconnecting the Belarusian bank from SWIFT.

Hewlett Packard and Karmstrup are leaving Belarus and Russia for the war against Ukraine

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has stated that it is finally leaving Belarus and Russia due to the war in Ukraine.

Also leaving the market of the two countries is the Danish company Karmstrup, which specializes in smart metering of water and electricity.

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Taiwan has banned the export of chips and chips to Russia and Belarus

The Ministry of Economy of Taiwan has prepared a list of strategic high-tech goods that are banned from export to Russia and Belarus.

Belarus is included in the list because it can help Russia import such goods.

Russia's war against Ukraine

  • At 5 am on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbas at the request of the DNR and LNR groups.

    On February 21, during a televised address to the Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

    On February 22, the Federation Council ratified the decision.

  • All the days of the war are shelling Ukrainian cities with missiles, flying aircraft.

    Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

    Representatives of the Lukashenko regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to Russian invaders.

  • On February 27, the International Legion of Territorial Defense was established in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were encouraged to join.

    Belarusians also entered there.

    During the two and a half months of the war, six Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed at the front: Alexei "Tour" Skobla, Ilya "Litvin" Hrenov, Dmitry "Terror" Apanasovich, Dmitry "Hans" Rubashevsky, Konstantin "Phoenix" Phoenix "Dubaila" .

  • On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

    It included people who worked in the conflict in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Contrary to Putin's claims of attacks exclusively on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

    The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs against civilians.

  • The number of refugees from Ukraine exceeded 5.5 million people.

  • On April 1, Lithuania became the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas.

    Latvia and Estonia followed suit.

    Germany has promised to completely suspend the use of Russian oil by the end of 2022.

  • On April 2, after the liberation of the city of Bucha near Kiev, photojournalists published dozens of photos showing hundreds of the dead, victims of massacres committed by Russian troops.

    Many are buried in natural mass graves.

    The Russian occupation and Borodyanka brought great destruction.

    A number of rapes, including infants, are also known.

  • In April, the number of missile attacks on Ukraine and air strikes from Belarus decreased, and Russian troops began to leave Belarus.

  • Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 26 media representatives have been killed - 19 journalists and 7 other workers.

  • In May, the Ukrainians launched a counteroffensive in the Slobozhanshchina region, pushing the invaders to their borders.

  • On May 9, the President of the United States signed the Land League Act.

    This law restores the program of the Second World War, which will accelerate the supply of weapons to Ukraine and increase the amount of such assistance.

  • On the night of May 17, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar confirmed the start of an operation to rescue Ukrainian servicemen trapped in the territory of "Azovstal".

    According to her, 53 seriously injured people were evacuated from there to the medical institution of occupied Novoazovsk.

    Another 211 people were taken to Alenivka along the humanitarian corridor.

    Russia's Defense Ministry says nearly 1,000 Ukrainian fighters at the plant "surrendered" as of May 18.

    The International Committee of the Red Cross has officially registered these fighters as prisoners of war.

  • Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.