The Ukrainian authorities denounced today a night attack with drones on the port city of Odessa, in which three civilians died and more than twenty citizens were injured.
"As a result of the air strikes, the remains of a drone fell on a block of flats and a fire broke out," the military command of the southern region of Ukraine said on its Facebook account, according to the Ukrinform portal.
Three civilians were killed in the flames and at least 26 people were wounded, according to that source. According to the military report, last night Russian troops launched 35 drones and eight missiles on different points in Ukraine.
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13:12
United Kingdom donates 18.6 million for the destruction of the dam
The Foreign Office of the United Kingdom announced on Saturday a new item of 16 million pounds (18.6 million euros) that will cover humanitarian aid for those affected by the destruction of the Ukrainian New Kakhovka dam.
The funds will help help help 32,000 people affected by the floods, including communities that have been forcibly displaced, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
The aid will be channelled through the Red Cross (10 million pounds or 11.6 million euros); the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (£5 million or €5.8 million) and the International Organization for Migration (£1 million or €1.17 million).
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12:45
Ukrainian women in Spain: "I'm sure I want to stay here"
Ukrainian women hosted by the Madrina Foundation in Spain have told this week how they are after more than a year of the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Julia came to Spain with her daughter when the war began leaving "all the men in her life" in Ukraine. "I was very close. I was very scared because I always heard bombers and sirens. It's very difficult. I couldn't sleep or walk peacefully. I was scared for my little girl," he confessed.
He also stressed, in statements to Europa Press that "now" he does not want to return to Ukraine because "like all mothers" he thinks about his daughter. "There is nothing in Ukraine. I feel very sorry for my daughter, but she can't study there, she doesn't have a school, only online. How can you study online with three years?. Here there is a very good school for her, that's why I'm sure I want to stay here," she said.
For Julia, the war "is being horrible." "All the people in Ukraine now are going to need a psychologist, because it's all very difficult. More than a year of war, it's horrible," said Julia.
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12:28
Scholz to speak "soon" with Putin
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced today his intention to talk again "soon" with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but recalled that the precondition for a negotiation must be that it is oriented towards a "just peace", which implies the withdrawal of Russian troops.
"It's okay to negotiate. The question is with whom and about what," Scholz replied, to a question asked during his speech at a discussion forum of the Congress of the German Evangelical Church, held in Nuremberg (southern Germany).
The German leader recalled there that he has already spoken on several occasions with Putin, including since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and that his intention is to do it again soon.
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12:07
Ukraine puts last Zaporizhia nuclear reactor on 'cold shutdown'
Ukraine's nuclear agency says it has put the last operational reactor at Europe's largest plant on "cold shutdown," a safety measure in the face of catastrophic flooding caused by the collapse of a nearby dam, as Russia's war in Ukraine moves into its 16th month.
Russian forces continued to attack the country with missiles and drones overnight, and Ukrainian authorities reported at least four deaths and damage to a military airfield.
Five of the six reactors at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces, were already in cold shutdown, a mechanism by which all control rods are introduced into the reactor core to slow down the nuclear fission reaction and the generation of heat and pressure.
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12:00
Trudeau visits Kiev by surprise in show of support
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Kiev on Saturday in a gesture of support as Ukraine prepares for a major counteroffensive against Russian forces and grapples with regular airstrikes.
Trudeau paid his respects at a memorial site in central Kiev to Ukrainian soldiers who died fighting pro-Russian forces since 2014.
NATO member Canada, which has one of the world's largest Ukrainian diasporas, has provided military and financial assistance to Ukraine during the large-scale invasion launched by Russia in February 2022.
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11:39
"It's a shock to have a house and after a while to have nothing," laments a Ukrainian from Kherson.
Alina Ruenkova is Ukrainian and has been living in Cáceres for a year with her two children after leaving the Kherson region. "All the people suffer, all the people cry, it is a shock to have a house and in the afternoon to have nothing," he lamented after the floods caused by the blowing of the Kakhovka dam on June 6.
From a distance he lives with astonishment, but also partly with resignation, events that have already caused the displacement of more than 7,000 people, a score of dead and residents trapped by the flooding of the Dnieper River.
"It was something that was expected," said Alina, one of the 24 people, 14 of them minors, from the region of Jersón – very punished by the destruction of the dam – who arrived in the province of Cáceres thanks to the solidarity of the Association of Extremaduran Volunteers for Ukraine.
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11:03
Ukraine carried out a night offensive in Zaporizhia for the third day
Russia said today that Ukrainian forces have carried out an offensive at night in the Zaporizhia region of southeastern Ukraine for the third consecutive day, according to the pro-Russian president of the "Together with Russia" movement in the province, Vladimir Rogov.
"The Zaporizhia front had a difficult but very productive night today. Our guys did a great job," he wrote on his Telegram channel, in which he assured that "for the third day", the Ukrainians carried out "active operations of an offensive nature at dawn".
He explained that after a "powerful" offensive with artillery and Grad multiple rocket launch systems, Ukrainian forces launched flares and "powerful illuminators" into the sky to reveal the positions of Russian troops.
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10:35
Pressure grows on Zaporizhia cooling pond dike
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned on Friday of the growing pressure on the dike protecting the water tank for cooling the Zaporizhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine.
After the blowing up of the Kakhovka dam, the massive leakage of water from the reservoir is causing pressure on the dam around the pond that supplies the plant with water to cool the reactors that have been stopped for months.
According to IAEA inspectors present at the site, the water level in the reservoir drops at a rate of about five centimeters per hour and reached 11.62 meters at 16.00 GMT, compared to almost 17 meters before the dam was blown up last Tuesday.
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10:11
Russia believes that the water of the Dnieper River will return to its normal course next Friday
The Russian hydroelectric company, RusHydro, estimates that the water of the Dnieper River will return to its normal course next Friday, at least in the lower part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, where the dam that collapsed last Tuesday and that has caused the displacement of almost 9,000 people in southern Ukraine was located.
"According to preliminary calculations by RusHydro, the Dnieper will enter its usual course below the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant on June 16," said Vladimir Baldo, Russia's acting governor of the Kherson region.
He explained that the water began to reduce in the lower reaches of the river occupied by Russian troops, that is, on the left bank of the Dnieper, so that in Oleshki and Hola Pristan, two of the most flooded localities, the level has dropped two and one meter, respectively, to three and four meters.
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9:55
Gran Bretaña ve avances mixtos en los recientes enfrentamientos entre Ucrania y Rusia
El gobierno británico describió el sábado un progreso mixto de las fuerzas ucranianas y rusas que luchan en el sur y el este de Ucrania en las últimas 48 horas.
"En algunas áreas, las fuerzas ucranianas probablemente han hecho un buen progreso y han penetrado la primera línea de las defensas rusas. En otras, el progreso ucraniano ha sido más lento", dijo el Ministerio de Defensa británico en un comunicado.
"El desempeño de Rusia ha sido mixto: es probable que algunas unidades estén realizando operaciones de defensa de maniobra creíbles, mientras que otras se han retirado en desorden, en medio de informes crecientes de bajas rusas mientras se retiran a través de sus propios campos de minas".
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9:33
Familias buscan comida y lugares secos tras ruptura de presa en Ucrania
El desastre en la región comenzó el martes, cuando la presa hidroeléctrica de Kajovka, a unos 80 kilómetros (50 millas) río arriba desde la localidad de Oleshky, se reventó y envío torrentes de agua por el río Dniéper. La localidad bajo ocupación rusa, frente a la ciudad de Jersón, tenía antes de la guerra 24.000 habitantes.
Las autoridades aseguran que se ha desalojado a más de 6.000 personas de docenas de ciudades, localidades y pueblos que se anegaron en ambas riberas del río. Pero la verdadera escala del desastre continúa sin conocerse en una región alguna vez habitada por miles de personas.
Según funcioanrios de ambos bandos, unas 20 personas han perdido la vida, aunque las cifras no pudieron ser verificadas de manera independiente. El alcalde ucraniano de Oleshky, Yevhen Ryshchuk, dijo que había cuerpos que flotaban en la superficie. Muchos sobrevivientes se quedaron sin casa y decenas de miles carecen de agua potable.
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9:00
Russia says it shot down two Ukrainian ballistic missiles over Crimean peninsula
Crimean leader Sergei Axionov said Russian air defense systems shot down two ballistic missiles launched by Ukraine on the annexed peninsula on Monday.
"In the morning, air defense forces shot down two Ukrainian Grom-2 ballistic missiles," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
He said there were no casualties or injuries as a result of the attack.
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8:50
Russian attack damages Ukrainian military airfield
Russia fired missiles and attack drones into Ukraine's central Poltava region overnight, inflicting "some damage to infrastructure and equipment" at Myrhorod military airfield, the regional governor said Saturday.
The attack that used ballistic and cruise missiles also damaged eight private residential homes and several vehicles, Governor Dmytro Lunin said in the Telegram messenger. No casualties were reported.
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8:30
Fight to save animals from flooding in Ukrainian city of Kherson
With a net in his hands and balancing on floating debris, a volunteer catches a frightened cat, stranded outside a flooded house in Kherson, southern Ukraine, after the destruction of a dam.
Three days after waterspouts held in the Kakhovka reservoir began pouring into this city, the Ukrainian authorities managed to evacuate more than 2,300 inhabitants from the areas under their control.
Volunteers also try to locate animals trapped by the water, whether cats, dogs or chickens.
"It's what differentiates us from the Russians. They only think about destroying, while Ukrainians think about saving lives," said Sergei Ludensky, 31, who claims to have saved more than a hundred animals in three days.
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8:11
Three killed in Russian drone strike in Odessa overnight
Three civilians were killed during a Russian drone strike in the Black Sea city of Odessa early Saturday after drone debris fell on an apartment block and sparked a fire, the Ukrainian military said.
Air defenses in the Odessa region shot down eight "Shahed" drones and two missiles in the latest in a series of overnight airstrikes on Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, a spokesman for the southern military command said.
Emergency services said 27 people, including three children, were injured, but the fire quickly went out and 12 people were rescued from the building.
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7:40
Nord Stream sabotage investigation finds clues inside Poland
German investigators are examining evidence suggesting a sabotage team used Poland as a base of operations to blow up Nord Stream pipelines built to transport Russian gas across the Baltic Sea, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
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7:18
Lula will talk with Von der Leyen about the war in Ukraine
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will receive on Monday in Brasilia the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a meeting in which he intends to address both the trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union (EU) and the war in Ukraine, among other issues.
At the meeting at the Planalto presidential palace, the topics discussed by both leaders in a telephone conversation last February will be deepened within the framework of the Brazilian Government's efforts to "resume" its relations with the European Union, the Presidency said Friday in a statement.
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7:00
Russia has received hundreds of Iranian drones to attack Ukraine
The White House says Russia appeared to be deepening its defense cooperation with Iran and had received hundreds of one-way attack drones it is using to strike Ukraine.
Citing newly declassified information, the White House said the drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), were built in Iran, sent across the Caspian Sea and then used by Russian forces against Ukraine.
"Russia has been using Iranian UAVs in recent weeks to attack Kiev and terrorize the Ukrainian population, and the military partnership between Russia and Iran appears to be deepening," White House spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.
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