"The Russian army fired on Kherson's rescuers who were removing the silt. The bombing killed one rescuer and injured seven others. Six are in serious condition," the head of Ukraine's presidential office Andry Yermak wrote on Telegram.
Russian forces hit the cities of Kurakhove and Avdiyivka - both in the Donetsk region - with artillery, tanks and two rockets, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported on Telegram, as reported by Ukrinform. "In the direction of Donetsk, the enemy bombarded Kurakhove with artillery in the morning. Avdiyivka was hit with two rockets, artillery and tanks," Kyrylenko wrote.
Ukraine, counteroffensive near the city of Bakhmut
The Ukrainian armed forces killed 19,1 Russian soldiers on Monday, June 010, a toll that brings the total of Moscow's forces eliminated in the country since the beginning of the invasion to 221,460: the General Staff of the Kiev army announced in its daily update of the situation at the front, as Ukrinform reports. The General Staff report also indicates that since the beginning of the war Russia has lost 314 fighters, 306 helicopters and 3,393 drones. Kiev's forces say they also destroyed 3,997 Russian tanks, 3,888 artillery systems, 614 multiple-launch rocket systems, 372 air defense systems, 1,214 cruise missiles and 18 ships.
The Ukrainian armed forces continue to advance in the Zaporizhzhia region to the south-southeast, in the direction of Melitopol and Berdyansk, where the selected ground forces have liberated other locations, while they encounter very strong resistance in the east, in the Donbass, where the Russians have concentrated their forces: this is the state of the art in the morning of the 482nd day of war according to the bulletin of the Ukrainian Joint Staff posted on Facebook and taken up by Ukrainian media, including Ukrainska Pravda. In the southern direction, we read, in the last 24 hours "in Novodarovka, Priyutnoye, Makarovka, Rivnopol, Novodanilovka and Robotino the Ukrainian military had partial success and settled". In this direction, it is specified, "not a single position has been lost". "The General Staff noted that the Russians continue to focus their main efforts on the lines of Limansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Maryinsk, all in Donbass: "Heavy battles continue there, there were 45 military clashes in one day," it reads. Finally, in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, the Russians "launched an air strike on the village of Kislovka, not far from Kupyansk, and on the village of Budarki and also hit several settlements with artillery and mortar shells, say the Ukrainian military, without mentioning civilian casualties.