The Ukrainian army has regained possession of the locality of Storojove, in the Donetsk region, assured, Monday June 12 on Facebook (in Ukrainian)the 35th Marine Brigade. “The national flag flies again” in the village, welcomed the Deputy Minister of Defense, Hanna Malyar. On Sunday, Ukraine announced the reconquest of three other neighboring villages. These territorial gains are modest, but they are the first by the Ukrainian general staff since the beginning of the “counter-offensive actions” mentioned on Saturday by President Volodymyr Zelensky, apart from the few hundred meters taken up on the outskirts of Bakhmout. Follow our live.
The water level of the Kakhovka dam in question. Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) want access to the site where the water level of the Kakhovka dam reservoir, used to cool the reactors of the Zaporijzhya nuclear power plant, is measured. And this, in order to “clarify the reason for the significant discrepancy observed between various measurements”.
At least six dead in the floods. The Ukrainian authorities have revised upwards their toll of human losses caused by the floods after the destruction of a dam, with six dead and 35 people missing in the areas under their control.
Three dead among evacuated civilians. Three people were killed and at least 23 others injured in Russian fire on civilians evacuated from flooded areas after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, local authorities said on Sunday.