The reservoir's level of water is continuing to drop following Russia's destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant on June 6, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement published on its website.
"Russia has no business to be (in Ukraine) in the first place. This dam was under Russia’s control, and they bear responsibility for the destruction caused by this war," White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said during a briefing on June 7.
Building a new dam and hydroelectric station at the site of destroyed Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant will take at least five years and require at least $1 billion, head of Ukraine's state-owned energy company Ukrhydroenergo Ihor Syrota said on June 7.
A two-year-old girl was found dead in the rubble of a residential building that was hit by a Russian missile strike on the town Pidhorodne in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on June 3, regional Governor Serhii Lysak said in a post on Telegram on June 4.
Ukrainian air defenses destroyed all of the missiles and drones that Russia launched at Kyiv overnight on June 4, Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration reported on Telegram.
When the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic adopted the Declaration of Sovereignty in July 1990 to gain greater rights and freedoms within the Soviet Union, ridding the country of its nuclear weapons was one of its top priorities. Ukraine had just suffered enormously from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident in
Ukraine's military intelligence made plans to conduct covert attacks on Russian forces operating in Syria with the help of Kurds, leaked U.S. intelligence documents show, the Washington Post reported.
South Korea could provide more than humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine in the case "there is a situation the international community cannot condone," President Yoon Suk Yeol told Reuters in an interview published on April 19.
Two employees of one the largest electricity suppliers of Ukraine, Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo, were wounded on the morning of March 31 in the town of Orikhiv in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast as a result of a Russian attack, Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo said on Facebook.
Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States has just about as much trouble answering the question “how are you?” as many Ukrainians these days. “I usually tell people we are kicking, fighting, but to say that we are fine is hard,” Oksana Markarova told the Kyiv Independent during our first
Ukraine’s Orange Revolution was a series of protests, held mostly in Kyiv, that lasted from November 2004 to January 2005 as a response to election fraud. After reports that the results of the Nov. 21, 2004, presidential election run-off between ex-Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko and then Prime Minister Viktor
Despite being outgunned, outnumbered, and having a military budget smaller than that of city-state Singapore, Ukraine’s anti-tank weapons have presented serious resistance to Russia’s advances in the north and east.
They are open during curfew and will provide drinking water. A list of the locations can be found here.
Russian invading forces attacked a military unit in Kyiv overnight, but Ukraine's forces were able to successfully fight it off, according to the Land forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian invaders left their BTR armored vehicles and ammunition and burned other supplies. Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Herashchenko stated the troops either fled back to Russia or surrendered.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his speech that he will stay in the capital city of Kyiv and that his family is also in Ukraine. “The fate of our country depends on our military and people,” he said.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine the airport in Hostomel is now “completely under the control” of the Ukrainian military after heavy fighting on Feb. 24.
The Board of the National Bank of Poland has decided to provide the National Bank of Ukraine with $950 million in a currency swap, Ukraine’s NBU press service reported. "Relevant funds will increase Ukraine's international reserves. The National Bank of Ukraine is grateful to its colleagues for their support and trust," the NBU said.
