Timeline: day 99 of Ukraine's defense against russia's aggression
Today is June 2. russia's military attack on Ukraine has been going on for 99 days. We're reporting on the current news. The article will be updated.
What about today?
Key points
After seeing the Kremlin's hysteria about the US HIMARS missile systems provided to us, we were given what we needed. NATO has said it's not intimidated by russia's threats to retaliate against the United States, and the alliance doesn't see the possibility. Ukraine, in turn, has promised not to use American missiles to strike at russia, but not at russian troops on our territory. After all, Crimea and Donetsk region with Luhansk region is Ukraine, so as occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions are Ukraine. Therefore, using the latest powerful weapons, the Ukrainian army will violate no agreements with the White House.
The United Kingdom also spoke about missile systems for Ukraine. It intends to transfer MLRS M270 to Ukraine. The M270 system as an MLRS can hit targets at a distance of up to 70 kilometers. It first requires permission from the United States as a producer country. Johnson has held talks with Biden on the issue, and Ukraine can look forward to a "green light" from the United States.
This photo is a visual demonstration of where HIMARS MLRS M30/M31 missiles with a range of up to 70 km can strike from the front line. M30/M31 missiles can also hit Zmiinyi Island, 50 km from the nearest Ukrainian city.
While weapons from the allies overcome the difficult path to Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are beating the enemy with what's available. Ukrainian defenders of the Joint Forces repulsed thirteen attacks by the invaders in one day. In the East, the Armed Forces soldiers destroyed:
- two tanks;
- six artillery systems;
- eight armored combat vehicles;
- four enemy cars.
- and shot down seven Orlan-10 drones.
In the last 24 hours, the Ukrainian military in the south of Ukraine destroyed:
- 21 ruscists;
- one anti-aircraft and one self-propelled artillery unit;
- four T-72 tanks;
- four armored and three motor vehicles;
- three UAVs;
- three munitions points;
- two high-speed landing craft hid by the occupiers in the Dnieper-Buh estuary.
Moreover, the Ministry of Defense confirms that our soldiers managed to liberate several settlements in the Kherson region. "Thanks to the active and decisive actions of the Ukrainian forces, we managed to de-occupy several settlements," said Defense Ministry spokesperson Oleksandr Motuzyanyk on a telethon. However, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense didn't name the number of settlements that the Armed Forces liberated from the occupiers and didn't give details. "We have success, but time will pass, and we will be able to talk about it more," he added.
Earlier, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Hennadii Lahuta, reported the liberation of more than 20 settlements.
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The United Kingdom is asking the United States to sign a plan within weeks to send advanced M270 missile systems to Ukraine, which could hit targets at a distance of about 80 kilometers. Politico reports, citing sources. The United States has to approve the move through export regulations, and the Biden administration will almost certainly do so, Politico said.
On June 1, Biden signed an order for a new military assistance package to Ukraine, which includes HIMARS multiple rocket launchers with a range of several hundred kilometers. The White House had delayed making the decision, fearing that Ukraine would use such weapons to strike russian territory. Ukrainian authorities have long requested the supply of long-range multiple rocket launchers.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has signed a contract with Slovakia to supply eight Zuzana 2 self-propelled howitzers.
News from partners
The Sierra Leone Post Office has issued a series of stamps dedicated to Ukrainian pilot Oleksandr Oksanchenko. The Colonel Oksanchenko series tells the story of one of the best Ukrainian aces, who died during the defense of Kyiv on February 25, 2022, in an air battle, distracting an enemy jet. For this feat, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
After months of silence, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally expressed solidarity with Ukraine. Merkel called the war barbaric and said, "My solidarity is with Ukraine." Germany is a very slow country; we already understand that.
CNN reports that the Biden administration is working to deliver containers for the temporary grain storage to Ukraine. It could be a temporary measure mitigating the effects of the growing food crisis caused by russia's months-long blockade of Ukrainian ports. It is estimated that storage containers, including bags and boxes, could help save some of the more than 20 million tonnes of grain locked up in Ukrainian warehouses. Then, according to a spokesman for the Biden administration, packaged grain can be loaded into trains and trucks when overland corridors are established.
In its new strategic concept, NATO will declare russia a significant threat. The US Permanent Representative to NATO Julianne Smith stated this. According to her, the document will also mention russia's close cooperation with China. It is planned that the new concept may be adopted at the Alliance's summit in Madrid in late June.
Sanctions on the aggressor!
The gas embargo will not be in the seventh anti-russian sanctions package of the European Union. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, expressed this opinion. "Some countries that are critically dependent on russian gas still need to find certain technology solutions," the minister said.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister added that when he heard from some partners about the impossibility of a gas embargo against russia, he asked them how they planned to make the green transition. "The official policy of the European Union is to strategically abandon any gas, not just russian. They are all silent here because they understand that it's just hypocrisy and a feeble argument on their part," he added.
Taiwanese authorities have banned the export of chips clocked at more than 25 MHz and lithographic equipment used to make such chips to russia and Belarus, the Taiwanese newspaper Digitimes reported, citing the country's Ministry of Trade.
Life considering hostilities
Ukraine won the match against Scotland with a score of 3:1. Goals were scored by Andrii Yarmolenko, Roman Yaremchuk and Artem Dovbyk. Now our team has reached the playoff finals for the World Cup.
Kyiv and the region
Kyiv has begun reconstruction of residential buildings damaged by russian shelling and allocated almost UAH 600 million from the capital's budget for the rebuilding. The government also allocated UAH 200 million from the state budget. The authorities scheduled to complete by mid-autumn for citizens to return to their homes by the heating season.
Almost 390 buildings need renovation, including more than 220 residential buildings. The rest are social infrastructure objects: medical institutions, kindergartens, schools, social protection institutions, and administrative facilities.
Donetsk and Luhansk regions
At night, there were mass reports on the russian Internet about the "arrangement of fire positions of the National Battalions" in the Donetsk region. The russians are preparing for another shelling of educational institutions in the Donetsk region. Namely, a mechanical engineering college, secondary schools №10 and №16 in Kramatorsk, and a machine-building lyceum in Sloviansk.
Mariupol mayor's adviser Petro Andriushchenko reported about it.
The russians damaged a warehouse with methanol at Sievierodonetsk's Azot plant, and hit a hospital in Lysychansk, the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhii Haidai said. Another 52 houses were damaged. As of June 1, 16 houses were damaged in Hirske, 15 in Lysychansk, 9 in Vrubivka, 6 in Sievierodonetsk, 4 in Novodruzhesk and 2 in Mykolaivka.
In Sievierodonetsk, the enemy continues to carry out an assault. With the support of mortars, they carried out an unsuccessful assault in the direction of Bobrove and Ustynivka.
Kharkiv region
On the night of June 2, russian troops shelled Kharkiv and the region. One of the shells hit the school, killing a woman. The head of the regional administration, Oleh Sinehubov, announced it. According to him, the school in Saltivka was damaged. As a result of hitting the house, one woman died, and another was injured. Eight civilians were wounded in the Kharkiv region during the past 24hrs.
Fires caused by enemy shelling occurred in the Zolochiv community of Bohodukhiv district, Chuhuiv district, and two city districts of Kharkiv. Private houses, outbuildings, one school, and industrial buildings were damaged.
Thus, due to the shelling of the private sector in Kluhino-Bashkyrivka, Chuhuiv district, an enemy shell hit a residential building. As a result of the shelling, two men were injured, the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in the Kharkiv region says.
Sumy region
The russians are dropping improvised explosive devices from drones in the Sumy region. Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy military regional administration, announced it. The improvised explosive device consists of a detonator, a plastid, and a pile of bullets for air guns. "The probable radius of the damage is 30-50 meters. I remind you again: do not touch unfamiliar objects and do not try to neutralize them yourself," the head of the region concluded.
At night, the enemy fired three missiles at the Sumy region. The Sumy military regional administration head, Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, also reported. "Around midnight, during an air raid, a russian enemy plane fired three missiles at the Sumy district, Krasnopil community. One house was destroyed due to a direct hit by a missile. Several more houses were damaged, major damage to households." According to Zhyvytskyi, at least three people were injured.
Dnipropetrovsk region
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, Reznichenko, said that the ruscists struck the Zelenodolsk and Apostolove communities several times again this night.
Zaporizhzhia region
russian aggressors abduct men en masse in the temporarily occupied territories and demand ransom. The SBU-intercepted conversations of the occupiers evidence this. The amount for "return to normal life" depends on the state of the family and ranges from 10 to 30 thousand US dollars.
Kherson region
"We have insider information; the occupiers take out about 700 trucks of agricultural products to Crimea every day; the convoy can wait at checkpoints. They take everything that the Kherson region, the agricultural region, produces. Everything is taken to the territory of temporarily occupied Crimea. People from Crimea buy products from Kherson farmers for almost nothing. Farmers go for it to somehow survive on their own and for labor collectives and settlements in the region to survive. The Kherson region is robbed," Hennadii Lahuta, the head of the region, says.
In the occupied settlements, ruscists organized new provocations in disguise. Disguised in the Ukrainian army uniform, they go to the homes of residents of villages in the Kherson region and ask where the current position of the russians is. Those who confidently begin to report, thinking that it helps the Ukrainian troops, are grabbed and taken away in an unknown direction.
On June 1, it became known that the occupying authorities broke into the premises of the passport service in Kherson. russians invite Kherson residents to obtain russian citizenship, and they have a schedule without breaks and days off.
Odesa region
The South operational command reports that the number of ships carrying cruise missiles in the Black Sea has increased to 3, and no landing ships are observed.
West of Ukraine
At night, the russian federation hit the Lviv region with cruise missiles. As a result of a missile strike in the Lviv region, five people were injured. The military administration reports that the russians have previously hit the transport infrastructure, but it is not the Beskidy railway tunnel. However, trains are delayed. The Ukrzaliznytsia railway company says there is no danger for passengers and trains, the consequences of the damage are being eliminated. The railway company provided free hot meals for people at some stations.
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