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16 June 2023
2 events recorded (1 confirmed), and 1 statement counted apart.
June 2023 in brief
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
Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said the missile attack on Kyiv during the African leaders' visit was timed to it and showed Russia wanted more war, not peace.
Government of Ukraine
16 Jun · to a foreign audience
Reported by Al Jazeera
Confirmed
Reported
Said: 1 statement, not counted as events
Said
Government of Ukraine: Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said the missile attack on Kyiv during the African leaders' visit was timed to it and showed Russia wanted more war, not peace.