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Six children were injured in Kharkiv after a bombardment by the Russians

Six children and an adult were injured, Thursday, in a bombardment by the Russian army in the city of Dergaci in the Kharkiv region, announced the regional governor, Oleg Sinegubov, reports ukrinform.net.

“Seven people were injured, including six children, as a result of an enemy attack with guided aerial bombs on the city of Dergaci”, Governor Oleg Sinegubov wrote on Telegram.

He states that two of the injured children have minor injuries to their limbs, and the other four are in a moderate condition.

“They were all hospitalized,” added the governor.

Also, Sinegubov specifies that a 75-year-old man received care on the spot, without being hospitalized.

Russian troops carried out an air attack on the city of Dergaci, Kharkiv region, on Thursday.

Switzerland invited over 160 countries to the peace conference in Ukraine

Heads of state and government from the G7 Group, the G20 Group, the European Union and BRICS have been invited to the meeting that will take place on June 15 and 16 near Lucerne, the Swiss government announced on Thursday. Russia has “publicly stated that it is not interested in participating in this first summit” and has not been offered a seat at the negotiating table.

Invitations were also addressed to the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe and the Vatican, as well as the Patriarch of Constantinople. A complete list of invitations has not been disclosed, reports Bloomberg.

Kiev, Russian forces break in near Avdiivka, heavy clashes. The Ukrainian defense has deployed its reserves

Russian forces managed to penetrate and gain a foothold in Ocheretini, in the area of ​​Avdiivka (Donetsk), the Ukrainian defense deployed reserves to stabilize the situation. The spokesman of the military command “Khortytsia” Nazar Volosin reported this on TV, quoted by Rbc-Ukraine. “The situation is such that the enemy managed to penetrate this settlement. One part, under the control of the enemy, is under our control. We are taking measures to expel them from there by controlling the situation”, said Volosin.

Macron resumes the topic of sending Western troops to Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated, in statements given to The Economist weekly, the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine, in the event that Russia manages to advance on the eastern front, and Kiev requests it.

“If the Russians were to cross the front, if there was a Ukrainian request, which is not the case today, we should legitimately raise the issue of sending troops,” Macron told the British weekly.

“To rule out the hypothesis a priori means not learning the lesson of the last two years”, the one in which NATO countries initially refused to send tanks and planes to Ukraine, then changed their minds, added the French president.

Kyiv: Russian drones launched from the Zaporozhye plant

The Russian military is launching kamikaze drones from the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, taking advantage of the fact that Ukrainian forces cannot return fire, Ukrainian defense intelligence spokesman Andri Cherniak said, explaining that Russian troops have equipped the launch site for drone ramps right next to . at the sixth reactor of the plant. Ukrainian intelligence services showed a video showing “a Russian FPV drone with the acronym UT4D.TT supplied to the Russian Ministry of Defense”. The drones, Cherniak said, flew over the nuclear power plant in the direction of Nikopol and Marganets.

Moscow, 12 Ukrainian drones intercepted in 5 Russian regions

Russian air defense intercepted and destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones in five Russian regions last night. The Russian Ministry of Defense made this known. “The Air Defense Forces on duty destroyed and intercepted 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including five over the Bryansk region, one over the Kursk region, one over the Belgorod region, two over the Rostov region and three over the Krasnodar Territory,” the ministry said. .

The town of Khasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine is charred. AP Video: Russia’s Scorched Earth Tactics

The city of Chasiv Yar, in the east of Ukraine, bombed for months by Russian forces, looks completely charred today, as shown in the footage taken with a drone and published by the Associated Press, quoted by UNIAN. The buildings are charred, only the golden dome of the church is intact, although the building was badly damaged. Total capture of the city would allow the Kremlin’s military “control of the hill from which to attack the backbone of the Ukrainian defenses.”

Russia responds to US accusations

The US accusations against Russia regarding the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine are “odious and baseless”, says the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoli Antonov, quoted by Tass, commenting on the latest package of sanctions announced by the US. “It’s as if Washington doesn’t understand that Russia and the Russians cannot be intimidated by their decisions,” he adds, accusing the US of “intimidating Russian partners” and “targeting national high-tech, transportation and manufacturing companies” with the goal of ” the elimination of “competition from the market”.

The US accuses Russia of using chemical weapons

The US State Department issued a memo accusing Russia of using a chemical agent, chloropicrin, against Ukrainian forces in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Moscow, Kiev drones against the energy infrastructure in Russia / In the Oryol region, reports the governor quoted by Tass

Energy infrastructures were damaged in the Russian region of Oryol, following an attack by Ukrainian drones: this was reported by the governor of the region, Andrei Klikov, quoted by Tass. “The Oryol region was again attacked by enemy drones. Energy infrastructure was damaged in Glazunovsky and Sverdlovsk districts, leaving several houses without electricity,” the governor wrote on Telegram.