1 event recorded (1 confirmed), and 3 statements counted apart.
The Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro was destroyed, flooding about 600 square km of Kherson oblast and forcing evacuations on both banks; Ukraine's interior minister later put the death toll in Ukrainian-held areas at 31. [1][2] Responsibility for the dam is disputed: Zelenskyy blamed Russian forces, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it deliberate sabotage by Ukraine. Russian missiles killed 12 people in Kryvyi Rih, at least nine at a restaurant in Kramatorsk, and three, including two children, in Kyiv, according to local officials. [1][2][3] A UN report listed Russian forces for killing and maiming children in Ukraine, verifying 477 children killed in 2022, and WHO recorded attacks on health care in Izium and Chuhuiv. [1][2][3] Analysts said Ukraine's summer counteroffensive had begun in Zaporizhzhia and southern Donetsk, and Ukraine said it had retaken Blahodatne and Makarivka, which Russia's defence ministry disputed. [1][2] Wagner forces seized military sites in Rostov-on-Don and drove towards Moscow before a halt brokered by Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko, and Putin called the rebellion betrayal and treason. [1] An African leaders' peace mission visited Kyiv during a missile attack that Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said showed Russia wanted more war, and EU ambassadors agreed an 11th sanctions package aimed at circumvention. [1][3]
Said
Zelenskyy blamed Russian terrorists for destroying the Kakhovka dam; adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Russia did it in a panic to slow Ukraine's counteroffensive.
Government of Ukraine
6 Jun · to a mixed audience
Reported by Al Jazeera
Unresolvable
Site
Power plant · Ukraine
A fixed site in this day's records.
Said: 3 statements, not counted as events
Ministry of Defence of Russia: Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian forces repelled all Ukrainian attacks in a large-scale offensive and killed 3,175 Ukrainian soldiers in three days.
Government of Ukraine: Zelenskyy blamed Russian terrorists for destroying the Kakhovka dam; adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Russia did it in a panic to slow Ukraine's counteroffensive.
Government of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected the accusations and called the dam's destruction deliberate sabotage by Ukraine ordered from Kyiv, aimed partly at depriving Crimea of water.