103rd day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Very important information

Russian forces are trying to capture the Chevrolet Donetsk region in the Luhansk region. Fighting is taking place in the eastern part of the city – said civil servants of the Ukrainian army.

In a message on Facebook describing the situation on the front, the staff promised Ukrainian troops “maintain control of the Severodonetsk.” They also did not allow the Russians to take over the Baghmud-Severodonetsk route. In addition, they pushed the Russian storm towards the village of Voronovi, southeast of Siverodonetsk.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Severodonetsk, Oleksandr Striuk, promised Ukraine has enough strength to repel Russian attacks on the city. He added that neither side had backed down.

A spokesman for Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, Oleksandr Modusyanik, acknowledged that Russia had not yet provided troops or equipment to seize control of the largest city in the Luhansk region by the Ukrainian side.

Russia has repatriated to Ukraine the bodies of dozens of soldiers who died while guarding the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol. Their remains are currently being identified in Kiev – Former Commander of the Regiment Azov Maxim Sorin, quoted by the Andhra Agency.

On Saturday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Reconstruction of Occupied Territories confirmed on June 2 that the bodies of fallen soldiers from Ukraine and Russia had been transferred to the Zaforizhia region in the south of the country. The parties agreed to exchange the body “in formula 160 to 160”. – Reported by the Ministry.

At least two trucks with the bodies of soldiers who died in Mariupol were transferred to a military hospital in Kiev for identification, according to the brother of one of Azov’s fighters who died at the Azovstale factory. Debris was excavated from the rubble of the factory last week. Some of the bodies were badly charred – The spokesperson of the Andhra Agency said.

Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, quoted by Interfax-Ukraine Officials from the Directorate General of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR) are working on the transfer of prisoners of war from “Azovstal”.

Kiev is concerned about Russia’s possible agreement with Turkey on exports of Ukrainian grains and other agricultural products, citing sources familiar with the course of the talks, Bloomberg said.

Ankara and Moscow have concluded an initial agreement on the possibility of resuming exports of Ukrainian agricultural products by sea from Odessa. The Turkish side proposes to remove water from the mines of the Black Sea near Odessa and then provide escort for ships carrying Ukrainian goods.

Russia has also demanded that merchant ships be allowed to test.

Bloomberg writes that Kyiv did not agree to this condition and was generally skeptical of the proposal to restart exports thanks to the agreement between Russia and Turkey.

Currently, 75 million tons may not leave Ukrainian ports in the fall, Volodymyr Zelensky told a news conference.

The Ukrainian president added that he was discussing with Great Britain and Turkey the idea of ​​a third country’s naval guarantee for Ukrainian grain exports across the Russian-controlled Black Sea.

However, the strongest guarantee of the safe flow of grain will be Ukrainian weapons – He told reporters.

“Russian troops have re-opened fire on border towns in the Sumi region of northern Ukraine, attacking them with mortars and drones. However, there is good news, however, that the enemy have attacked their own territory and destroyed many facilities in Diotkino,” he said. Head of Regional Authorities, Dmytro Zywycki.

“The Russians confirm that in Diodkino (located on the border with Ukraine – the author’s note). Private houses, a railway and a factory were damaged“- The governor reported in a telegram.

One person was killed and another wounded in a Russian shelling attack on the village of Derkase in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine. – Rescuers said.

The Emergency Situations Service (DSNS) announced the target of the attack in Dergacze “Important Infrastructure Facility” – Interfox-Ukraine company reported. “The building was demolished,” the DSNS news service in the Kharkiv region reported.

In turn, at least one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling on Mykoliv residential areas in southern Ukraine. “Initially, it was known about the injured civilian and one death“- said Hannah Jamasjieva, chairwoman of the Mikholev Oblast Council.

“The Russians have been firing indiscriminately on the city since morning, attacking residential buildings in various parts of the city where there are no military facilities,” the official said.

Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Oleksandr Tkachenko said on Monday that 32 journalists had died since the start of Russia’s full – scale war with Ukraine. June 6 is celebrated as Press Day in Ukraine.

“This year, Press Day is a bitter taste, the fourth month of a full-scale war, and we have lost 32 journalists. We lost most of them in the eight-year war“- Tkachenko said.

Among the journalists killed during the war were not only Ukrainians but also foreigners. Last Monday, French reporter Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, an employee of the BFM television news station, was killed in a Russian shelling attack.

Journalists die doing their job in front and in fighting cities. The dead included journalists killed in the shelling. In April, a Ukrainian reporter for Radio Svoboda Vera Hiriks was killed in a rocket attack on a flat. On March 24, Russian independent journalist Oksana Paulin was killed in a Russian rocket attack in Kiev.

Among the 32 journalists killed were those who served in the military and died during the war.