The Security Service detained two collaborators who cooperated with the Russian occupiers in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions at the beginning of a full-scale invasion of the aggressor state. Malefactors face up to 12 years in prison.
Russia is forcibly imposing its education system and anti-Ukrainian propaganda on the occupied territories of Ukraine, violating international laws and depriving Ukrainian children of their right to education.
Due to Russian shelling, Kherson was left without electricity, and power engineers are carrying out emergency recovery work.
In the Kherson region, during a night attack by Russian troops, 2 Shahed drones and an X-59 missile were destroyed. over the past day, the enemy fired at 26 settlements, hitting the territory of a shopping center and an elevator, killing a person and wounding 3 more.
The Russians attacked the Odessa region with a ballistic missile from the occupied Crimea. In addition, during the day, the air defense of the south of Ukraine destroyed the Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone in Mykolaiv region and The Lancet strike drone in Kherson region.
On June 19, Russian troops attacked the Dnipro District of Kherson, injuring two people, a 31-year-old man and a 52-year-old man, who were hospitalized with concussions, explosive injuries and shrapnel wounds.
An explosion occurred in Kherson. The city and regional authorities did not comment on the explosion.
Eight valuable archaeological sites in Kyiv, including the St. Cyril's Monastery complex, the Smorodyn archaeological complex, and a Trypillian settlement, were included in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine to preserve and research Ukraine's cultural heritage.
Russia is building a new railroad from Rostov to Crimea via the occupied territories, but construction has not yet reached Crimea itself, and the existing railroad connection to Crimea is damaged and problematic to use due to Ukrainian shelling.
Collaborators have doubled the price of medicines in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson region, and even at inflated prices it is impossible to find the necessary medicines.
A 67-year-old woman was injured when Russian occupants shelled the village of Olhivka in Kherson region, causing a fire in a residential building.
Russian troops shelled residential areas of Kherson, damaging houses, a hospital and wounding a 44-year-old woman.
Russian forces shelled a hospital in the Kherson region with Grad multiple rocket launchers, damaging ambulances and buildings but causing no casualties among staff or patients, and shelled numerous settlements across the region, wounding two people and destroying a drone.
A 7-year-old boy was hospitalized after a mine detonated in his hands in the village of Rodychi, Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian air defense forces shoot down 19 of 21 Russian drones during a night attack.
The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church, including Patriarch Kirill, is tasked with convincing the world religious community that it is Ukraine, not Russia, that violates the principles of religious freedom, despite Russia's bloody crimes against freedom of conscience and destruction of religious monuments in Ukraine.
Russia fired a cruise missile at Odesa region at night, causing no casualties or damage.
In the Kherson region, Russian forces shelled residential areas, damaging buildings and infrastructure, killing two civilians.
Russian troops attacked the central district of Kherson, killing at least one person.
Russian troops are attacking Kherson from the occupied left bank, explosions are heard in the city, said the head of the Kherson MVA Mrochko.
A passenger bus in the Kherson region was attacked, temporarily suspending transportation on the Kherson-Kizomys route until about June 20.
Occupants shelled residential areas in Kherson region, damaging 7 private houses, a gas pipeline and a private car, injuring 2 people.
The Russian dictator's latest ultimatums demanding that Ukraine withdraw its troops from its territories and refuse to join NATO were not taken seriously by the participants of the Global Peace Summit.
Enemy troops shelled residential areas and a gas pipeline in Kherson region, damaging 3 private houses and a gas pipeline, but causing no casualties.
Russia is dissatisfied with the West's reaction to Putin's statements about the terms of peace talks with Ukraine, calling it "unconstructive" and hoping for a more "substantive and promising" discussion next time.
Scholz accused Putin of trying to undermine support for Ukraine among European countries by pretending to be open to peace talks.
President Zelenskyy said that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin must be put in his place by all possible means: strengthening Ukraine, imposing powerful sanctions, and politically isolating him and his society.
President Zelenskyy criticized Putin's call to lift sanctions against Russia as demonstrating his inadequacy, saying that the world imposed sanctions because of Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories and killing of people, and that sanctions can only be lifted when Russia withdraws from the occupied territories.
One person was killed and another wounded in Kherson region as a result of russian strikes on 18 settlements, including the city of Kherson.
Over the weekend, it will rain in most regions of Ukraine, with severe thunderstorms expected in many areas, while the west will remain dry with comfortable temperatures.