In his video address on the occasion of the 100 Days of War with russia, Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed that Ukrainians are currently fighting for three words: peace, victory, Ukraine.
"Exactly one hundred days ago, we all woke up to a different reality. In 2014, russia came to us with one word. This word is war. On February 24, russia added another word, making the phrase: full-scale war," Zelenskyy said. What else the President said - in our news.
Amin Awad, UN Assistant Secretary-General and the UN Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine, believes that "there are and there will be no winners in this war."
"Rather, we have witnessed 100 days of what was lost - lives, homes, jobs and the future. We have witnessed the destruction of cities and towns, villages and towns," Awad said. He added that the United Nations continues to provide humanitarian support to the victims of russia's war and seeks a peaceful solution to the conflict.
The European Union condemns russia's actions aimed at forcible secession from Ukraine of the temporarily occupied regions and will never recognize attempts to integrate them into russia's territory, says the declaration of the High Representative of the EU on behalf of all 27 EU countries, published on the website of the European Council.
The Ukrainian armed forces forced russian troops to withdraw from two settlements in the Severodonetsk direction.
According to Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, Ukrainian troops thwarted attempts by the russian occupiers to seize the villages of Metolkino and Belogorivka.
The head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Gaidai, said that the Ukrainian military had recaptured 20% of the territory of Severodonetsk from the russian occupiers. Currently, the invaders control only about half of the city.
The russian military shelled Mykolaiv killing one person. The occupiers did not conduct active offensive operations in the south of Ukraine.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informs about the unsuccessful offensive of the occupiers in the direction of Bakhmut, Soledar and Lysychansk. Ukraine's heroic confrontation with the Russian military invasion has been going on for a hundred days.
About the operational situation in other areas - in our news.
The sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia has entered into force.
It includes a partial oil embargo and the disconnection of several Russian banks from the SWIFT system.
During the 100 days of full-scale war, almost 2.7 million people entered Ukraine. On June 2, 33,000 Ukrainians arrived in the country.
According to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, since February 24, border guards have cleared more than 8.3 million people who have crossed the border in both directions. Almost 5.2 million left the country, and nearly 2.7 million entered.
The Central Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense reports that the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is in a critical situation with regard to ensuring stable and safe operation of the station. There are almost no spare parts and consumables.
The occupiers are studying the possibility of connecting the station to the russian power system. However, for technical reasons, this is not yet possible.
Ukraine opened dozens of criminal cases on sexual crimes committed by the russian military. National Police investigators entered information about 16 facts into the Common Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, and three servicemen were informed of their suspect status.
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Kateryna Pavlichenko reminded that these crimes have no statute of limitations. Therefore, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies will do everything to bring criminals to justice.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched a "100 Days of War" media project.
The project, presented on the ministry's official website, will be updated daily - photos and videos about the events of the war will be added to it. "This is a chronology of difficult events, an attempt to demonstrate how communicators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and our fellow journalists see, feel and experience the war. This is an attempt to demonstrate and remember how difficult the days of resistance to russian aggression were," noted in the press service of the department.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs stressed that anyone can join the project. To do this, send materials to the e-mail: [email protected].
During the 100 days of the war, the occupiers destroyed or damaged more than 300 cultural monuments, almost half of which are churches of various denominations.
According to the Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko, the agency keeps records of cultural monuments that were damaged or destroyed during the war. These data are verified on the website of the ministry and the actual losses are calculated.
In the last three months, about 600 new communities from the Moscow Patriarchate have joined the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Defender of Mariupol Dmytro Kozatsky ("Orest") received a special award from the prestigious Polish Grand Press Photo 2022.
According to the head of the Grand Press Foundation Veronika Mirowska, everyone believes that "Orest" "will receive this diploma in person during the competition next year." "We will wait for him, alive and well," Mirovska said.
Ukrainian athletes have won 619 medals since the beginning of the full-scale war, said Minister of Youth and Sports Vadym Gutzayt.
We hope that our main achievements are ahead, and there will be more and more good news.
The complete picture of today is on our website.
Hold on and bring Victory closer!