The Russian occupiers suffer heavy losses on the battlefield. So, in Melitopol, the Russians equipped a children's sanatorium for a military hospital. Now more than 200 occupiers are being treated there with wounds of varying degrees of severity.

This was reported on June 1 by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Also, Russian terrorists, ignoring the laws of international humanitarian law, placed a base of Russian servicemen with military equipment on the territory of the Melitopol Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

In total, during the day on June 1, the occupiers inflicted 12 missile strikes using 10 ballistic and cruise missiles of the Iskander type on Kyiv (destroyed by our defenders) and 2 S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles on Kharkiv. In addition, the Russians inflicted 36 air strikes and carried out about 10 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and settlements.

Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population, including children. A children's clinic, residential apartment buildings, private houses and other civilian infrastructure were also damaged.

The likelihood of missile and air strikes throughout Ukraine remains high.

The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to fully occupy Luhansk and Donetsk regions. During the day, units of the defense forces repelled 19 enemy attacks.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the operational situation remains stable, no signs of the formation of offensive groups have been detected.

In the Siversky and Slobozhansky directions, the enemy continues to maintain a military presence in the border areas with Ukraine. He carried out mortar and artillery shelling of the settlements of Berylivka, Mistky and Tymonovychi of Chernihiv region, Atynske, Pavlivka, Pysarivka, Uhroidy, Krasnopillia, Slavhorod of Sumy region, as well as Udy, Kozacha Lopan, Hoptivka, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Bugruvatka, Vovchansk, Mala Vovcha, Varvarivka, Budarky, Chuhunovka in Kharkiv region.

In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations west of Masyutivka, Kharkiv region, during the day. He conducted air strikes in the areas of Vilshan, Kotliarovka, Krokhmalne in Kharkiv region and Serhiivka in Luhansk region. Artillery and mortar attacks of the enemy hit Fyholivka, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Masiutivka, Lyman Pervyi, Kyslivka, Berestovo in Kharkiv region, and Novoselivske in Luhansk region.

In the Lyman direction, during the day, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the area of Bilohorivka, Luhansk region and Disputed Donetsk region. Inflicted air strikes in the areas of Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region and Yampolivka, Siversk, Spirne in the Donetsk region. Artillery shelling targeted the settlements of Nevske, Bilohorivka in Luhansk region and Novosadove, Torske, Spirne, Mykolaivka in Donetsk region.

In the Bakhmut direction, during the day, the enemy launched air strikes in the areas of Khromovo and Bila Hora in Donetsk region. Kramatorsk, Vasiukivka, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Novomarkovo, Hryhorivka, Chasiv Yar, Ivanivske, Predtechyne, Bila Hora, Dyliivka, Zalizne and New York of Donetsk region suffered from enemy artillery shelling.

In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive actions, but inflicted air strikes in the areas of Avdiivka and Vodiane, Donetsk region, and shelled the settlements of Avdiivka, Vodiane, Pervomaiske, Karlivka, Donetsk region.

In the Maryinka direction, our defenders repulsed all enemy attacks near the city of Marinka. There, the enemy launched an air strike, artillery shelling hit Heorhiivka, Marinka, Pobeda and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk region.

In the Shakhtarsk sector, the enemy launched air strikes near Vuhledar, Prechystivka and Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk region. He shelled the settlements of Vuhledar, Prechystivka and Novoukrainka.

In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the enemy continues to conduct defensive actions. He conducted air strikes in the areas of Robotine in Zaporizhia region and Beryslav, Kozatske, Odradokamianka in Kherson region. Shelled the settlements of Illinka, Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Zelene Pole in Donetsk region; Malynivka, Huliaipole, Zaliznychne, Huliaipilske, Bilogirya, Mala Tokmachka and Novoandriivka of Zaporizhia region; Zmiivka, Vesele, Ivanivka, Ingulets, Antonivka, Zelenivka, Dniprovske, Kizomis of Kherson region and the city of Kherson.

In turn, Ukrainian aviation during the day inflicted 9 strikes on areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment, as well as 2 on enemy anti-aircraft missile systems.

During the day, units of rocket troops and artillery hit 1 control point, 1 anti-aircraft missile system, 5 artillery units in a firing position, 9 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment of the enemy.

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