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BBC: Ukrainian attacks in the key southern Zaporizhzhia region are continuing, Russian officials and military bloggers say, reporting heavy fighting there. They say Ukrainian troops - backed by tanks, artillery and drones - are trying to advance south of the town of Orikhiv for the second night running.
ISW: Ukraine has conducted counteroffensive operations with differential outcomes in at least three sectors of the front as part of wider counteroffensive efforts that have been unfolding since Sunday, June 4.
Bloomberg: The Pentagon is set to announce as early as Friday a long-term arms package for Ukraine heavy on air defense munitions valued at more than $2 billion, according to administration officials.
The Guardian: Volodymyr Zelenskiy has shifted his line of criticism from the pace at which arms has been reaching his country to the slow international response to the humanitarian and ecological disaster caused by the breach of the Kakhovka dam.
WSJ: “They massacre and rape civilians. They exploit and loot natural resources, and they carry it off. Much of this, back to the Kremlin.” Inside the global expansion of the Russian private military company Wagner.
Bloomberg: A clutch of Russia’s top tycoons are reaping billions of dollars worth of dividends, getting payouts from their companies even in the face of sanctions over the war in Ukraine. The catch: there are few places to spend it.
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NBC News: Ukraine's military has launched its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russian forces, one senior officer and one soldier near the front lines told NBC News.
FT: Kyiv has committed German-made tanks into battle against Russian positions in south-eastern Ukraine, launching the first heavily armoured assaults of its long-anticipated counter-offensive.
WP: Ukraine launched its long-anticipated counteroffensive on Thursday, meant to contest Russia’s established front line after months of attritional stalemate across much of the battlefield.
CNN: Ukrainian forces have suffered losses in heavy equipment and soldiers as they met greater than expected resistance from Russian forces in their first attempt to breach Russian lines in the east of the country in recent days, two senior US officials tell CNN.
The Guardian: The cooling pond at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is in danger of collapse as a result of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and the draining of its reservoir, according to a French nuclear safety organisation.
ABC News: At least nine people were killed by the devastating flooding caused by destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region of Ukraine and nine injured during the shelling the Russians did during the evacuation , local authorities said.
The Guardian: Russian forces in control of a Ukrainian town on the occupied southern side of the Dnipro River near Kherson have been accused of preventing evacuation efforts after flooding caused by the Nova Kakhovka dam bursting.
AP News: Before-and-after images of the area downstream from a dam that collapsed Tuesday vividly show the extent of the devastation of a large, flooded swathe of southern Ukraine.
POLITICO: Russia unleashed a barrage of missiles on the Ukrainian-held parts of Kherson on Thursday, with eyewitnesses reporting casualties at a school where flood evacuees who fled the rising waters of the Dnipro River were sheltering.
AP News: Russian forces Thursday shelled a southern Ukrainian city inundated by flooding in a catastrophic dam collapse, forcing a suspension of some rescue efforts hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to the area to assess the damage.
AP News: Exclusive drone footage of the collapsed Ukrainian dam and surrounding villages under Russian occupation show the ruined structure falling into the flooded river and hundreds of submerged homes, greenhouses and even a church — and no sign of life.
Mediazona: The International Federation for Human Rights prepared a report about 50 repressive laws that were adopted in Russia in the last 5 years. Mediazona presents an interactive version of this report.
ABC News: Romania’s foreign ministry has informed Russia that it must reduce the number of its embassy positions in Bucharest by 51, bringing it in line with the size of Romania’s embassy staff in Moscow.
AFP: The Kremlin on Thursday said a blast on a key ammonia pipeline it has blamed on Ukraine would have a "negative" effect on talks to renew a Ukrainian grain export deal.
Meduza: With the Russian presidential election coming in 2024, Reporters Without Borders joins Russian independent media organisations and journalists in calling on Big Tech companies to establish a working group to prevent Russia's online informational shutdown.
worth mentioning
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