President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his interview for Financial Times said that leading Ukraine to a dead end regarding the russian invasion and de-occupation is unacceptable. We cannot live in a state of hostilities.
A great and fair victory in this war for Ukraine will be its independence – the return of our territories, territorial integrity, and inviolable sovereignty.
Zelenskyy called going back to the borders that we had complete control over as of 24 February a very serious temporary victory. The main word being "temporary", since full the-occupation of our territories is necessary. And first of all, there must be a victory on the battlefield.
President also commented on the words of France's leader Macron about "humiliating russia", saying he doesn't understand why we're talking about humiliation at all.
Ukraine is not being humiliated, it's being murdered. We will respond with the same tools, Zelenskyy emphasized.
According to the General Staff, as of 6 p.m. on 7 June, russian occupiers are preparing to attack Slovyansk, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are successfully repelling the assault on Komyshuvaha.
Equally unsuccessful were the enemy attempts to assault in the direction of Svitlodarsk and the Vuhlehirsk thermal power station. On the situation in other directions of the frontline – in our news story.
The fighters of the Joint Forces Task Force on 7 May repulsed 11 enemy attacks, the fighting is ongoing.
Occupiers shelled more than 16 settlements in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
"Along the entire defence line the enemy is using combat aviation, multiple rocket launchers, barrel large calibers artillery, tanks, and mortars of different systems fires missiles and bombs at civil infrastructure objects and civil residential areas," – the Joint Forces Task Force press service reports.
The russian army is moving part of its forces from the Zaporizhzhya region to the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhya Regional Military Administration head Oleksandr Staruh reports. Such actions may be a rotation since the enemy doesn't abandon the attempts to advance further.
Kharkiv came under fire again yesterday. One person was killed, and several more were wounded.
In Mykolaiv the situation is even more dangerous than it was two weeks ago, the head of the Regional Military Administration Vitaliy Kim noted. As a result of constant shellings in the city, more than 3 700 civil objects were damaged or destroyed and the numbers are growing daily.
During the full-scale russia's invasion of Ukraine's territory, more than 300 civilians have been killed in the Mykolaiv region.
Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security reported that Ukrainian troops received Pinzgauer armoured vehicles bought anonymously by a UAF serviceman with the call sign "Hora" ["Mountain" – tr.] and his companions. Two off-road vehicles are already at the service of the combat brigades of the Territorial defense Forces of the UAF, and six more have been sent to other forces.
In the Kherson region, occupiers hold around 600 people hostage, mostly journalists and civil activists, the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Tamila Tasheva reported.
According to her, it's about the civil activists who organized pro-Ukrainian protests in Kherson. The hostages are held in inhuman conditions and tortured.
At the meeting of Kherson school principals, the occupiers demanded to start the learning process on 1 September according to russian education curricula. Of around 60 school principals present only two agreed to this proposal.
The Security Service of Ukraine exposed a Kyiv citizen who created more than 20 pro-russian internet media that promoted the idea of "russian peace" and spread the misinformation about the UAF.
The enemy agent is reported on suspicion under part 3 of Article 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The article sanction provides up to 5 years of imprisonment with the possible confiscation of property as punishment.
The Ministry of Education amends the school curriculum, in particular, Lev Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" will be excluded from the foreign literature course.
Ukrainian defenders are not the only ones to shoot accurately. The Ukrainian bullseye shooting team won 9 medals at the World Cup stage in Baku, 2 of them being gold, 4 silver, and 3 bronze.
In the medal standings, our shooter ranked 4th, although they were the best in terms of the number of awards.
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Let's hold on and bring the Victory closer!