Video - Russian Units Control Key Road to Kharkov Region, Choking Off Ukrainian Supplies

A motorized rifle unit commander clarified that his troops were tasked with inflicting defeat on Ukraine’s military in the designated area using all available firepower.

Motor rifle units from Russia’s Western Military District retain relentless fire control over the Kupyansk-Novoselovskoye route in the Kharkov Region, a video released from the Ukraine combat zone shows.

The Ministry of Defense published a video of the destruction of the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during an attempted large-scale offensive in the Yuzhnodonets direction

The Russian crew of the "Hyacinth" gun destroyed a Ukrainian self-propelled gun in the Zaporozhye direction, which repeatedly fired at civilians

The motorized units employ artillery and heavy machine gunfire at the enemy's slightest attempt to move along the route or breach Russia's combat formations. As a result, the Ukrainian military is unable to use the road for troop rotation or to provide units with ammo or provisions, and is forced to seek out alternative, less convenient routes

Russia's Vostok Grouping of Troops Repels Ukrainian Attack in Southern Donetsk Sector

The leading units of Russia's Vostok grouping of troops stopped another Ukrainian offensive attempt in the southern Donetsk sector, destroying 17 tanks, manpower and enemy drones, grouping spokesman Oleg Chekhov said.

"In the southern Donetsk sector, leading units of the Vostok grouping stopped an enemy attempt to go on the offensive. With the support of artillery and aircraft, 13 tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, six armored vehicles in the area of Privolnoye and Neskuchnoye, one tank and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Novodarovka area were destroyed," Chekhov said.

He said three tanks, three armored vehicles and five pickup trucks were destroyed in the Olgovskoye area.

Air defense systems destroyed Ukrainian drones, Chekhov said.

Special operation, June 5th. Main :

▪️On the morning of June 4, the Ukrainian army launched an offensive in 5 sectors of the front in the South Donetsk direction, but could not break through the Russian defenses - by the morning of June 5, the enemy was driven back to their original positions, the Ministry of Defense reported

▪️Ukrainian troops sought to break through the Russian defenses in the most vulnerable, in their opinion, sector of the front, but did not achieve their tasks, the Russian military department noted

▪️The calculations of the "Solntsepeka" of the Russian Central Military District effectively carry out the tasks of destroying the enemy in the Krasnolimansk direction, RIA Novosti was told in the RF Ministry of Defense

▪️Ukrainian troops fired more than 70 rockets from Grad on Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Belgorod region on Monday morning, the head of the Shebekinsky urban district said

▪️The Russian Armed Forces and border guards thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian terrorists to enter the Belgorod region, 10 militants were eliminated, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

▪️The news about the death of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Budanov, spreads in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Center for Counteracting Disinformation claims that it is untrue

▪️Kyiv received enough weapons for a counteroffensive, Reuters reports with reference to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba

▪️The head of the Bishops' Conference of Italy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, will visit Kyiv as a papal envoy to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, the Press Service of the Holy See reported

▪️After returning from Ukraine, Zuppi may come to Russia to meet with officials, the chairman of the World Union of Old Believers told RIA Novosti, Peskov said that Putin has no plans to meet with the papal envoy yet

▪️The situation on the flanks of Artemovsk is “very difficult”, but controlled, the city is under constant shelling, Pushilin said

▪️The United States is monitoring the attacks of Kyiv inside Russia, does not exclude the risk of an escalation of the conflict because of them, said the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Milli

▪️ The situation with bomb shelters in Kyiv is critical, half of the tested shelters are not ready, said the Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine

The Russian military in the Zaporozhye region destroyed the equipment of the Ukrainian troops with precise strikes of kamikaze drones

Destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. What is known so far:

▪️The upper part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was destroyed as a result of a series of strikes by Ukrainian troops, the head of Nova Kakhovka said.

Kakhovka flooding

▪️The water level continues to rise to 10 meters in Nova Kakhovka, up to 8 in Dnipro and up to 5.3 in Korsunk, it will last about 72 hours.

▪️14 settlements, where 22 thousand people live, fall into the zone of possible flooding, the head of the government of the Kherson region said.

▪️Eight settlements in the territory controlled by Kyiv are flooded due to an emergency at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the first evacuation train from Kherson will leave at noon.

▪️At the moment, there is no threat to the ZNPP security, the staff is in control of the situation, Rosatom noted.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine said that up to 80 settlements are at risk of flooding, measures are being taken to evacuate people.