Russia reported heavy fighting in three parts of the Ukrainian front on Sunday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi praised his troops for repelling an enemy offensive and said their counteroffensive was progressing well. A Russian-appointed official said Ukraine had recaptured a village in Zaporizhzhia, but this was denied by Russia’s Defense Ministry, which said it had repelled a Ukrainian offensive.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 481, LIVETEXT:

08:34Seven civilians, including a child, were injured overnight by Ukrainian shelling in the area of ​​the town of Valuyka in Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, local authorities said on Monday, Reuters reported.

Five high-rise buildings and four houses were damaged, one building caught fire, reported the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov.

And Roman Starovoit, the governor of the Kursk region, which is located north of Belgorod and also on the border with Ukraine, said that Ukrainian forces shelled two villages in the region. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties.

Reuters said it could not independently verify the information.

08:24ISW: Ukrainian troops may temporarily suspend counteroffensive / Kyiv’s troops continued their counteroffensive on Sunday in at least four areas of the front and made minor territorial gains, according to an assessment by the Institute for the Study of War. However, the head of the Intelligence Center of the Estonian Defense Forces, Colonel Margo Grosberg, believes that the Ukrainian army is taking a break to review the tactics of future operations.

07:50Several explosions rang out in the night from Sunday to Monday in Odesa port, reports The Kyiv Independent. According to the Ukrainian authorities, air defense was operating in the region.

07:10The pro-Russian administration said that Ukrainian troops captured the village of Petikhatky in the Zaporizhzhia region on Sunday, suffering heavy losses, dpa reports. The Russian Ministry of Defense denies the information.

A brief summary of recent events:

• The United Nations has accused Moscow of not allowing it to provide aid to Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine affected by the Kakhovka Dam breach, which flooded vast areas and left thousands homeless.
• According to reports from Kyiv and Moscow, the number of people killed in floods caused by the destruction of the dam in Ukraine has increased to 16 people, 31 people are still considered missing, 29 are in Russian-controlled territories. After the destruction of the dam on June 6, water spilled over a huge area of ​​southern Ukraine and territories occupied by Russia.
• Ukraine recaptured the village of Petikhatky in the south of the Zaporizhzhia region. It would be the second victory in the area since Kyiv’s counteroffensive began earlier this month. According to Reuters, a Russian official said that Ukrainian troops had captured the settlement and settled there while under fire from Russian artillery. If confirmed, this is Ukraine’s first victory in the village in almost a week and means a possible escalation of the offensive on the most direct route to Crimea.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily report that its forces had repelled a series of Ukrainian attacks on three sections of the 1,000-kilometer front line, and made no mention of Petitkhatki.
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, in a nightly video message, praised the Ukrainian troops for “very effective” repelling enemy attacks near Avdiyivka, one of the centers of hostilities in the east. battles, told national television that over the past two weeks, Ukrainian forces have advanced about a kilometer around the city.
• The EU is speeding up arms deliveries to Ukraine to support a counteroffensive against Russian troops, the head of EU industry, Thierry Breton, told the French newspaper Le Parisien. He said the EU would step up its efforts, pledging to deliver one million heavy weapons over the next year.
• Britain’s Ministry of Defense said heavy fighting continued to be concentrated in Zaporizhia Oblast, western Donetsk Oblast and around Bakhmut. British intelligence says both sides are suffering heavy casualties, with Moscow likely to suffer its heaviest since the height of the Battle of Bakhmut in March. The UK Ministry of Defense also says that Russian defense operations have been “relatively effective in the south”.
• Ukrainian troops destroyed an ammunition depot near the Russian-controlled port city of Henichesk in the south of Kherson region, the spokesman of the Odesa military administration said on Sunday.
• South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sought to present the African peacekeeping mission in Moscow and Kyiv in a positive light, writing on Twitter: “The African peace initiative has had an impact and its ultimate success will be measured by the goal of ending war.” The Kremlin said the plan would be “difficult to implement,” and Zelensky said allowing negotiations now would only mean “freezing the war.” on their peaceful initiative.

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