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.
In Kherson region, Russian troops shelled residential areas, damaging 9 private houses, a cultural institution and a private car, killing one person, and the air defense forces destroyed one Shahed-131/136 drone during a night raid.
Russian troops shelled residential areas and critical infrastructure in many settlements in the Kherson region, hitting gas pipeline, outbuilding, hangar and agricultural machinery, but there were no civilian casualties.
In May alone, the Russian military fired more than 26,000 shells at the Kherson region. Since the beginning of a full-scale war, almost 29 thousand civilian objects have been damaged or destroyed in the region
Russian troops shelled several settlements in the Kherson region, damaging residential buildings, critical infrastructure, educational institutions and wounding one person.
The enemy struck a residential area of Kherson, causing a fire in a residential building, which was quickly extinguished by rescuers.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 1,600 medical facilities have been damaged by enemy attacks.
Explosions were reported in the center of Kherson, Ukraine, and residents were urged to seek shelter immediately.
A 102-year-old woman was wounded as a result of the shelling of a residential building by the Russian army in the Dnipro District of Kherson and was hospitalized.
As a result of enemy strikes on the Kherson region, 2 people were injured and private homes were damaged.
In the Kherson region, as a result of Russian shelling, 1 person was killed and 4 others were injured.
The Russians continue to forcibly deport Ukrainians from the occupied Kherson region, evicting them from their homes and replacing them with Russian military personnel, while increasing the number of roadblocks to control and move the population.
The Russian military attacked an ambulance with explosives dropped from a drone in the Kherson region, wounding the driver and a 50-year-old civilian.
According to the investigation, on June 8, at about 12:40, the enemy covered the village of Belozerka, Kherson region, with fire. Two civilians were injured in various degrees of severity, they were hospitalized.
As a result of Russian shelling in the village of Dudchany, Berislavsky district, Kherson region, a 60-year-old woman was killed.
In the Kherson region, the Russian army shelled 15 settlements, damaging a critical infrastructure facility, a high-rise building and seven private houses, injuring one person.
In the Kherson region, 7 settlements were left without electricity due to the attack of a Russian drone on a transformer substation in the Belozersk community.
A Russian-controlled court in the occupied Crimea has ordered Ukraine to pay more than 3 trillion rubles in compensation for the energy blockade of Crimea since 2015.
About 300 mobile shelters have been built in the Kherson region and 4 underground medical institutions are being built - a hospital, a maternity hospital, a Blood Donation Center and an infectious diseases hospital.
An eight-year-old boy was rescued from Russian occupation in the Kherson region and returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine.
More than 240 thousand internally displaced Ukrainians decided to live in the Odessa region, increasing its population to more than 2. 5 million people.
Over the past day, several settlements in the Kherson region, including the city of Kherson, were subjected to enemy shelling and airstrikes, as a result of which residential buildings, a hypermarket, garages and cars were damaged, 4 people were injured, and 3 Drones were shot down by air defense forces.
In 2023, according to the quota system of the occupation regime, Russian exporters exported at least 34,000 tons of grain worth 6. 2 million euros from the occupied Kherson region of Ukraine.
Russian Colonel-General Oleg Makarevich, Commander of the Dnipro group of forces, ordered the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station on June 5-6, 2023, which led to the destruction of critical infrastructure, loss of life, flooding of settlements, interruptions in water supply and threats to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
Russian occupiers in the Kherson region are preparing "bailiffs" to apply their repressive measures. Recruitment starts in June and immediately “students” will go to practice.